skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of Wolframs reply to why Wolfram is not open-source: https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...
As a user you’ve probably agreed to Ts&Cs that mandate arbitration and Crashplan reserves the right to “downsize” your backups at any time based on their sole judgment.
NTIA Data Show Shift to Streaming Video as Consumers Drop Pay-TV
Yes, I wrote pretty much exactly this in another reply in this thread. The main problem is that "thinner" costs a lot in terms of other features and functionality, and yet there is a whole class of users for whom "thinner" has no value whatsoever. That's me. Stop trying to make it thinner and pleasing us becomes easy.
Yeah, once AMD was desperate enough to kick the MBA CEOs to the curb and finally put an engineer in charge, things started working better. Imagine that.
Currency Input Masking with Cleave.js and Money Gem in Ruby on Rails
There’s also Q [0] and kdb+ [1] as another example.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B
Thank you but no, thank you. Too little, for too much, too late. In the best GoT tradition: NOT TODAY!
It's a hypothetical scenario (that turned out to be false), but it was a likely possibility that could be considered before acting to cancel the invitation.
Ignoring his terrible record and taking his argument at face value, I think he's right on some counts, but misses three important points:

* "The Elite" includes not just bankers and B-list actresses. It also includes most of Hollywood and many athletes, many media pundits, the Clintons, himself, and other politicians who make millions in "speaking engagements", book deals, etc., get cush healthcare and retirement, advocate and legislate wasteful policy, then lecture us on how evil we are for wanting to keep our hard-earned money to invest, share and spend as we see fit.

* Disagreeing with someone is not automatically racist or sexist. Sure, those evils exist today and should be confronted, but having nuanced, principled opposition to "Elite" talking points should not get you banned from social media or doxed. We throw around ___ist words and hyperbole way too much in an effort to bypass rational debate.

* A person having money or status is not a problem in itself. When those people start looking down their noses at me (a middle class libertarian), insinuating I am ___ist because I don't like a healthcare program they made, and creating a culture where people are maligned for their beliefs, it does begin to raise concerns.

I think much of the nationalism we see is a reaction to those points. He's correct in the broader problem, but shortsighted in his application.
Alright I got one:

So it's a chilly Thursday morning in Brno, and everybody's in line to buy meat. They're waiting and waiting, and the line's not moving at all.

Eventually a Party official comes out and says "Due to the conspiracy of wreckers, there isn't enough meat. All the Jews need to get off the line".

So the Jews all get off the line and go home, but still everyone's waiting and there's no meat. Hours pass, and eventually the Party official comes back: "I'm sorry to report that there's still not enough meat. Everyone who's not a Party member needs to get off the line."

So all the non-party members get off the line and go home. But still all the Party members are waiting and waiting, no meat. After another two hours waiting in the cold the official comes back and says, "We're sorry but there's no meat today. Everybody get off the line."

As they're walking away from the line, one of the people who was waiting turns to the other and says: "You see? The Jews always have it the best!"
Atari 2600 programming is 6502 too, you can play with it right in the browser: http://8bitworkshop.com/v3.3.0/?=&file=examples%2Fcomplexsce...
Looks like the author is from Taiwan, where the vernacular 'lady' is a common suffix for admins. Although it's good feedback for someone marketing to a non-Asian culture.
>>It certainly competes due to the fact of being free software, which is a strong requirement of my workflow.

The parent said it doesn't compete "in the breadth or depth of Mathematica" and you responded with "it does compete because it's free!"

Your response does not refute the parent's argument.
Please explain your use of the word "hypothetical". That might be where I am getting confused. Because the only way I'm interpreting that statement is "the USPS can't blame this law for their money problems because they haven't even made any payments"

At best, I might be able to twist the words to say "the USPS's money problems aren't real because they can't afford to pay their debt", which makes no sense.

The reality of the situation is the $5.7b they're required to pay every year is more than they can afford to pay, so they paid it until they reached $8b in debt and then stopped paying. None of that is hypothetical in any way.
Have one of the new 15" macbook pro with touch bar. My keyboard will never break simply because I never, ever use it. It's awful to type on, possibly the worst keyboard I've ever used. As is the track pad. I have a mouse plugged into it so I don't have to use the track pad. My MBP is basically a compact desktop machine and for that it is great. Fast and responsive.
Global sea-level rise, according to previous predictions, which are now certainly incorrect, could be twice as severe, according to our new predictions, which may also be incorrect.

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
If your girlfriend is replicating your harddrive to determine what ring you're buying, maybe it's better if she finds out and you call off the wedding instead of going through with it.
Nice! Thanks so much for the supportive words. There have been a few times were I've considered "giving up" (putting this on the back-burner to take on contract work and pay the bills) but I've been fortunate with things like this HN thread. I'm also lucky to have a crazy supportive wife and family.
Sorry to sidetrack but being able to see a surgery would really exciting for me. Do you think it is possible to find a surgeon to allow you to watch a surgery? That would be pretty amazing.
Sorry, I should have said "I see no moral or ethical prohibition on naming names of people who [meet the criteria I described]"

Yes, OP had a good reason not to do so! and it made for an interesting essay.
I tried maybe 5 different kinds of mask until I found what worked. Interestingly, according to the supplier I get stuff from, the masks are all pretty much compatible between manufacturers so there is a lot of scope if mask discomfort is the problem.
It is really tiresome to see every single thing Apple introduces here... but when Lenovo introduced the X1 Extreme with the exact same CPU, where's the HN article? Why the fruit toy is so important?
I agree on that point. It definitely wouldn't fit for a lot of people, and licensing is extremely important. Point taken on developer tools as well. But some diversity doesn't hurt there. :)
Totally https://abc.xyz
I was just thinking about this myself, having recently had to spend exorbitant times waiting in line at both my local Sprint store and a Best Buy. It does seem like this is a problem that isn't specific to Home Depot (where I've had to wait in long lines as well); it's more a problem that seems to be metastasizing across all sorts of big retail.

My suspicion is that it has something to do with the jobs these companies offer being increasingly precarious, poorly trained and ill-paid. Corporate America has spent decades striving to get to a point where workers can be treated as interchangeable widgets, swapped around at will and just discarded when they wear out. Well, they got there, and now we discover that when you build an entire culture around treating people without respect they don't have a lot of respect for you or the job you're asking them to do either.

Workers in the old Soviet Union supposedly had a joke: "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." It's not hard to imagine someone working first-line customer support at a big box store saying the same thing.
From what I've read about Intel's corporate structure - don't hold your breath.
Isn’t that what Twitter is for?
Majority of Hacker-for-Hire Services Are Scams
Which Safari adblocker do you like? Is there one with a similar "freedom-ness" to uBlock Origin?
Why are you assuming we didn't?
Cofee Lake has no avx-512
Replace the battery.

I did it last year on my 2012 rMBpro after it have been complaining about servicing the battery for about a year, and while it wasn't a walk in the park, it all worked out great.

Tip: there are 2 ways to replace the battery.

One is by following the official iFixit etc instructions where you remove absolutely everything before you peel off the battery with acetone.

The other is by immediately peeling off the battery right away. In that case, you have to be careful that the acetone doesn't flow onto the speakers (because they'd melt.) That's the way I, and many other with me, did it. It still only took me about 1 hour to get everything back up and running.
> whatever day old bread you managed to beg from the local grocer

since they can still sell day old bread, and a lot of people buy it on purpose to save a few cents, this doesn't sound too bad?
OLED is the future of laptop displays (all displays really). I won't buy a new MacBook Pro until we get one. Until then I'm looking to get the new X1 Extreme.
Apple says the machines are 40% faster. But Intel has patched their ZombieLoad vulnerability this week which is a 40% perf hit. So these machines are going to be as fast as unpatched machines that we have today?!
The Silicon Photonics Key to Building Better Neural Networks
Very interesting. I'm somewhat tempted to go to a service just to see what it would be like.
Awesome! My wife and her family are crazy about your app. Her mom discovered an unknown half-sister through an Ancestry.com match. They used Marco Polo to get to know each other. My wife's mom also sends monthly printed photos via NanaGram.
Isn't he doing that himself every day on Twitter?
Also we've seen time and again big players being dominated by newcomers in the online communication space. There's no Myspace, or AOL, or Yahoo anymore and those companies would have be thought of as monopolies in their day.
To some extent, I think we could use some redrawing of the borders and reallocation of the states to better map to actual metro regions and group areas that have common interests together. It'd be a bit ticklish to get right, and leave everything functional, but there are some wicked schisms between areas of our historical states, and other places that are spliced up into multiple states that probably should be joined together.. It'll never happen, but it's a fun thought experiment.

I don't think things are going to get better on this front by themselves, as the economy seems to be centralizing more and more, such that even the second and third rate regional cities are hollowed out and population and money clusters ever tighter. It's already evident that the urban areas can throw their weight around and vote in pretty much whatever they want in a lot of places, and the rest of the state has to mobilize completely to defeat them. I'm from Maine originally, and it's been a constant battle lately to keep the Portland metro area from passing ballot initiatives that make sense in their little neck of the woods, but are insane when you get off the I-95 corridor.
You can actually do stuff in -40C, just wear a lot of clothes and don't expect your digital camera to last very long when you are trying to take picture of carved ice sculptures and ice bars, etc...

Honestly, the coldest winters I spent were in Southern China, even though it was 5 to 10C out, no indoor heating really sucks and will beat you down quickly.
TBH, I have always been heavily involved in organized sports. I have friends ask all the time how they can meet more people, etc. I always refer them to a recreational sand volleyball league or something like that. Never thought about volunteering as an option until now. Super cool!
Yes, but that happens everywhere. It's very easy for us to point fingers at a group labeled as "good" and point out their flaws, when in fact these flaws exist everywhere.

Much easier to call out a group that is "good" that they are "bad", when in fact the "bad-ness" gets spread equally around people whether or not they are in this "good" community.
This is a serious question that I had to make a throwaway to ask:

How does someone determine what the 'right' balance is of gender, race, etc, for their given event?
It seems like people often pick 50% female and 50% male, but why?
What if their field is 90% male to begin with? What if their field is 90% female to begin with?

It doesn't make sense for me to hire programmers and ensure they are 50% female just as it doesn't make sense for me to hire psychologists and ensure they're 50% male. If you want more females to be interested in software, why don't you encourage it when they're young, rather than trying to force your conference to over-represent them over the baseline.
I thought the same thing when I saw the title of this, but rolling your eyes at Glenn Gould playing Bach, Bob Marley, Nirvana or the Beatles? Come on! This is some of the most influential and culturally important music there is. This isn't just popular it's good. Of course it'd be more interesting if they chose Gamelan, late John Coltrane, Jordi Savall, Karlheinz Stockhausen or Merzbow, but seriously what else would you expect?
I hope you didn’t imply that I’m what’s wrong with the Apple developer ecosystem. Old is fine, as long as it is still accurate. I have spent more time than you could imagine digging through ancient cocoadev mailing list posts and WebKit Trac bugs in order to debug problems with my apps. There is nothing more frustrating than having the only available reference be out of date, and having to synthesize the gaps.
Distro shouldn't matter one bit. Just scan for hardware acceleration support and enable it if found. Plenty of other applications do this without any per-distro changes.
I've heard the same, and Ezra Klein recently had on an interesting guest, Will Wilkinson from the Niskanen Center, who discussed political sorting and population density in some detail.

https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/theezrakleinshow?selected=V...
A heavy dose of affirmative action. At least in the law field. From what I've been told anecdotally is that women and minorities are not held to the same standard as white men. They are accepted even if they are less productive and women are allowed to work fewer hours to deal with child rearing.
They keyboard on the '08-'12's noticeably better than in the '13-'15. Either is way better than the current version.
I don't understand how that's supposed to solve the problem that the conference scene feels hostile. To the extent that there are "two sides", sure, condemn bad people on both sides. But that's just making sure the shittiness is distributed evenly.

In other contexts, cancel culture is making everything terrible. This just sounds like more of that.

(By the way, I'm not allowed to post more than twice in 2 hour spans so I can't respond further)
Let's suppose the threat to such a laser weapons platform in orbit during conflict which you touch on in your last paragraph consists of 1+ missiles.

Could the targeting system of the platform not consist of some kind of movable/adjustable prism that could acquire a target not just straight down on Earth's surface but also in other directions?

Such a system (if feasible) could probably also cut down hugely on time needed for and the amount of repositioning the weapons platform has to do during operation (thinking about and writing this sentence made the image of Tony Starks basement particle accelerator appear in my head again).

Edit: the referenced scene of Iron Man 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBgUsKd0cuI&t=2m25s
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=power9-t...

In case you are curious to see benchmarks.
I depends what your interests are, but there's almost always a channel on one of many IRC networks for any topic. Channels might not always be huge, but a lot of subjects have 30+ people.

Non-/r/All subs on reddit can also be great. Through these you can usually find another message board, chat, etc with another community (often the same people and then some.)

Often when I'm looking for a community that is focused on a specific topic, I search a common, but specific question for that community.

People often say that IRC is dead, but its not -- and it doesn't have to be. Find a channel and get talking. When the next searcher stumbles into the channel, welcome them.. repeat. Before you know it your channel of five or ten is up to 30, then 50.

Ultimately, it takes a night of tumbling down a rabbit hole. I can confidently say that there will be at least one thriving community filled with people with your similar interests. It just takes some digging beyond a search engine alone.
I work on both a MacBook pro 15 with 32 gb and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 32gb everyday. Apple is still light years ahead. The inconsistent UI on a Windows machine is infuriating, but Office is unsurprisingly powerful for teams. 8-core? I'll happily take it. Windows is retarded. The lack of empathy in user experience adds up to countless wasted hours.
Exactly, I think I was editing to add that as you wrote this. Also, my guesstimate of 10 tourist murders/year may be way off. I'm guessing it's lower, certainly if only by cartel members, but not sure.
> Linux hasn't had issues with the major wifi chipsets in ages.

… except (ironically) if you use Linux on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. In this case there are severe issues with the wifi firmware making wifi completely unusable: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux#wi-fi
Looking for somewhere to volunteer in the Bay Area?

The Computer History Museum
The Exploratorium
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment
The Crucible

And those are just the ones where you can play with fire or old computers!
> I can't point to a single language that I would prefer for all of the different kinds of programs I've written.

I never liked the "pick the right tool for job" cliche in the context of programming languages. I'm curious if you can imagine a single programming language which you /would/ prefer for all of the different kinds of programs you've written. Not that it does exist, but could it?

Other than size, weight, power, and price limitations, I don't pick different computers for different problems. I mean I could live with one ISA for pretty much everything, including GPUs. I'm sure different people would pick different answers (one of your points), but after looking at a lot of languages over the years (including some of yours), I can't come up with two features I want which are inherently in conflict and necessitate being different languages.

I don't think it has to be a superset of all languages monstrosity either. And for the sake of argument, let's say this is just for one-person development. There's too much politics in trying to decide what features you /don't/ want your coworkers to abuse. :-)
I don't think anyone is arguing that the market for health care is functioning well. The question is - why is it broken?

Prior to consumer protection laws, you would take your car in to an auto mechanic, they'd "fix it", and then they'd charge you whatever they felt like. Now we have laws requiring written estimates in advance. How about we start with that?
My understanding is that due to the 8th ammendment, it's very unusual to refuse bail outright, and when it is, it's generally done on the basis of arguments that forfeiture of bail money would not be coercive to the defendant.

Additionally, measures are often taken to prevent the defendant violating their bail conditions (electronic monitoring, forfeiture of passports, etc).
While I do agree there are differences between urban and rural voters, this analysis is still ignorant of quite a bit of subtlety due to the simplistic red vs blue framing. The article does try to address this slightly, but they fail to explain the fact that rural Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary and urban voters for Hillary. This two axis red vs blue kind of thinking puts a large amount of rural America in this theoretical "center". This misunderstanding is what results in centrist Democrats in these places not getting votes. The answer isn't shifting the "center" further right or distancing from AOC.
When I was in college, I listened to a speaker talking about the history of blues in the United States and as an aside gospel music, etc. One thing he talked about I thought was interesting was the history or purpose of religion in African American culture. He said, at least historically, church wasn't just about worship. It was like an all day event. People would go to church and then afterwards, there would be a picnic or gathering of the church goers. It was a community event. As neither an African American, nor someone who's family was particularly social at church, I never experienced that and was caught completely by surprise in the fact that much more revolved around church than going for an hour and being bored.
I'm in SoCal. Similar wait times for HMO.
Do you have benchmarks that show anything like this? Or are you referring to the firmware bug that was fixed shortly after release, last year?
More Android than ChromeOS, but the source is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/q...
Yup Indeed. Both sides (EU) and Mexico are pretty safe for the average person though.
I have a question related to this that someone expert in Bitcoin could answer.

Could the victim monitor where the bitcoin (we assume) went to using the public blockchain record? Then, trace it every step of the way (and in whatever chunks it divides into) until it reaches the account of a publicly identifiable entity? At that point, there might be legal recourse in recouping stolen goods (at least, this is how it works in the UK with stolen physical goods.. even if someone "legitimately" buys them, they can be reclaimed).
That depends on somehow not having the extra supply on the high luxury end being soaked up by foreign investment parking their money in real estate.
7th International Scientific Conference “Space Technologies: Present and Future”
> Not to mention the cringe worthy Bono/Jobs relationship:

The more interesting relationship, IMO, was the Joan Baez/Jobs relationship.
Look, I'm the last person to make excuses for the Catholic Church (I'm guessing that's what you were referring to), but the sins of the Catholic Church, which is a specific instance of a religion, do not tar religion as a whole. That's not how logic works. You have to show that A) sexual abuse of children is common in a significant portion of religious organizations, and B) that it's actually due to the religious part of the term 'religious organization' and not the organization part of the term. And I think you'd have a hell of a time making that case, since there are plenty of other organizations that also have issues with sexual abuse of children. Namely, any organization in which adults have regular, privileged access to children. For instance, US Gymnastics, Boy Scouts, Penn State Football, etc.

And religions are not the only human affinity groups responsible for other atrocities. Ethnicities have lead to genocide on several occasions. And so have political ideologies.