skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? One of the only things about Lisp and other functional languages that strive to be pure that trips me up is that I could not guess how to write a compiler for one, and especially with ample lazy evaluation I'm really not sure what the execution of a program would end up being in terms of the stream of instructions going through the CPU. When it comes to imperative coding, I at least have a fairly good idea, but with LISP I haven't the slightest idea. Does it create stack frames and do calls when recursing or does it simple 'emulate' it through maintaining its own stack? I could tell you what it's doing in terms of lambda calculus, or what it would be doing on the CPU if I had to write a Lisp 'emulator'... but what the actual Lisp runtime is doing, I've no idea!
Spotify playlist of all 20 CDs https://open.spotify.com/user/1168552961/playlist/7D4SVuRHKn...
"Hasn't made any of the payments" is the only way to read it when they're saying "it's hypothetical". Once the first payment is made, it's not hypothetical any more. It's real money. The USPS only stopped paying because they were more than $8b in debt and could no longer afford the $5.7b per year they needed to pay. Which goes to prove the point that Congress is intentionally taxing them out of business.

If I owe you money and I stop paying and my argument for stopping paying you is that I don't have any money left, do you claim that my money problems are hypothetical because I haven't paid it all? No. They're very real, highlighted by the fact that I can't pay the rest.
I'd like to see more companies introduce "time locks" into various big aspects of accounts.

Want to port a SIM? I'll put your request in now but it will wait for 5 business days before it happens, and at any point if you or someone claiming to be you calls up to stop it, we stop it, no questions asked.

Want to change 2 factor information for an account? We can put in the request now and it won't take effect for a week while we reach out to you using every communication method we know how to let you know it's happening and give you ample time to stop it if you discover it wasn't actually you that did it.

It seems like a fairly "low cost" way of upping the security quite a bit.

Also, not to make the OP feel worse, but Coinbase even offers a service like this called the "vault". The idea being that withdraws are time-locked for a specific amount of time, and there are multiple ways to stop it during that time lock, even if you got locked out of your account entirely.

And while we are doing PSAs, I'd like to give one piece of seemingly conflicting advice: make sure you have backups of your multi-factor authentication systems.

Sure, having your accounts taken over is awful, and it can happen to anyone, but something just as bad is losing your 2-factor systems and being locked out of accounts with no way to recover them.

Print out 2-factor backup codes, put them somewhere safe, maybe split them in 2 and put half of the codes in one place, and half in another. Think through possible problems. It really sucks to have your house flood, then find out that your phone with the 2-factor app on it was destroyed, and your backup codes ruined as well...
~24 hours is what it took for my replacement.
> > 2.3 billion people use Facebook

> A big scary number, but you haven't demonstrated the logical connection between "very popular" and "necessity".

Which is why I didn't stop writing after those 5 words.

> So what?

Have you ever considered that other people may know more about their own lives than you do?

> What's your point? Convenience is obviously desirable but it's not something society owes you.

It's a factor when considering what to do with Facebook.

> I don't want to wash the dishes, but I still do it because I prefer not to generate a trash-pile of disposable plates and utensil with every meal.

That means you need to wash the dishes. If we restrict "need" to things where you have no choice, all you need to do is breathe. I don't want to eat, but I still do it because I prefer not to starve.

> it's a legally recognized right

True, but not an argument.

> The argument that not all social networks contain all people does not demonstrate that Facebook is a monopoly.

Which is, as I wrote, irrelevant.
I watched this unfold on Twitter, and you're misrepresenting the situation.

The people removed from the conference have a history of disruption and harassment in the community. They were removed because of previous behavior that the organizer was not aware beforehand. He relied on the testimony of people he trust.

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> Being able to deal with people that make you very uncomfortable without creating a fuss is a fundamental requirement of adulthood

The only people who engaged in "creating a fuss" were the speaker and a third-party related to her. They decided to come forward and "out" themselves. Up to that point, everything had been handled in private. There was no need to involve other people such as the organizer's girlfriend or other speakers.

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> It is exactly the same behavior.

The organizer denied a speaking position and did so in private, without incurring any shame or denying participation in general.

The speaker and a third party started a campaign of doxxing, harassment and, as other commented put it: "public shaming using false allegations of stalking and harassment".

There's a world of difference between those two behaviors.
Large tech companies like Google push 2-factor auth to "increase" security, but this article shows that 2-factor auth with SMS verification opens up a huge security hole since the attacker can access your email if they can get your provider to port your SIM over to their device. Am I missing something and if not how did companies like Google not foresee this huge security hole?
Write better stories, TV shows, movies TOGETHER
A transition state towards communism. That's what the government officially called it. The country spent 74 years in that 'transition' state.

It had little in common with the socialist democracies of Europe, nothing in common with the communist proscriptions of Marx, and some in common with the much maligned state capitalism of today's China.
Not a big deal, it’s too big anyway, especially on the 15”
Agreed, the keyboard is awful. I just want a decent/good keyboard, an HDMI port, and just 1 USB A port, I'll definitely take 0.5mm thicker for those. Well, at least they kept the headphone jack...

32gb ram and an 8 core processor is awesome, but all the downsides have turned me away from getting the next gen unless they fix those things.
Programmers: Let's Study Source Code Classics
Volunteering is what got me into this business in the first place. As a youth that really didn't know where I was going, I volunteered at a community garden to stay busy, and the person running it was a software engineer. Volunteering is great if even just to expose one to new points of view, as it attracts all types.
I'm curious which applications made you come to this conclusion. I've heard a lot of Electron criticism, and most of it is very valid, but I think Slack, Spotify, and Atom very much fit into the macOS UI environment.
One thing that's interesting about this insight is that many games are moving away from this model, with regular updates and continued development. This doesn't invalidate your point, of course, but I also wonder how big of a mental shift this must be, because historically, when a game was done, it was done.
Spoken like someone who does not know Windows. If you buy a machine that comes with windows, and just use it off the shelf it, is a total mess as you say. (As well as probably loaded with crapware)
If you know Windows youre gonna install LTSC on that machine and have a nice productive time.
I am curious, do you buy a mac and just use it for work without any setup, off the shelf? If so that is a point in its favour I guess.

Also as someone who only knows Linux and Windows and is not familiar with Mac OS, anytime I have to use it, it is a baffling experience, common things are done with gestures and keyboard shortcuts that one would never be able to intuit or discover.
I find some random completely new Linux windows manager that Ive never seen before much easier to get to grips with than Mac OS.
The article is light on detail, but it doesn't seem like he was "arrested with a firearm". He was arrested later for making the threats, in his home state it seems, rather than police near Youtube HQ thwarting his attack.
Just because someone is at the top of their field (consumer electronics) doesn't mean that they know anything about other, non-related fields (music). I was actually at this event and I remember rolling my eyes so hard they almost fell out of their sockets as this was the most trite, baby boomer-centric music selection I'd ever seen.

Not to mention the cringe worthy Bono/Jobs relationship:

https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/10/07/bono-calls-steve-...
Why are you trying to create a scenario that justifies the speaker's false accusations and harassment of the organizer?
>You are not entitled to the Facebook communication channel or any other privately owned channel.

Legally, that is true. I don't think anyone in this conversation or elsewhere is claiming that Facebook is illegally silencing people.

Of course, while you are not entitled to use Facebook, Facebook is, like all businesses regulated by various existing laws in the US, prohibited from denying you service based upon certain protected characteristics. I do not point that out to claim that Facebook is currently denying anyone service based upon those protected characteristics, only to point out that "it's privately owned" is an argument that lost most of its punch many decades ago.

Furthermore, the people being silenced by Facebook are well aware that the people calling for them to be silenced by Facebook and others are heavily in favor of those laws, so when they hear "Facebook is a private company so it can kick you off if it wants" from those people, it comes off to them as being very dishonest, partisan, and malicious.

>The unstated suggestion that lacking access to Facebook is a fundamental barrier to effective communication in our society is untrue.

Lacking access to Facebook is a fundamental barrier to participating in the (large) portion of the public political debate which takes place on Facebook. That is a problem we should be concerned about. We want to ensure people can meaningfully participate in the public political debate, because if they cannot, the alternative is violence.
According to TV, no.
I upgraded from 2015 to 2018 at work recently and then went back to IT and asked if I could change my mind and trade back. The 2015 is nicer.
Not till Jony Ive leaves?

I think this is the root of most of these Apple design faux pas... he goes back to the Steve Jobs Era and was definitely blessed.

With Steve gone there is probably no one at the company who can actually say "This is the worst !@#$%^& thing ever!" like Steve Jobs liked to say. Tim Cook doesn't seem to be a product guy or something and trusts Ive too much.

Ive's ideas were good back in the day when everything was huge and clunky but he seems to look at everything and try to think it is still not sleek & minimalist enough and he's just gone too far at some point. It's a wonder we still have keyboards at all on these laptops!

I have a 2018 MBP and I am lucky.. I use it 99% of the time plugged in at my desk at work. They provided us all with $400 OWC USB-3 docks so I mostly dodge the dongle thing. I have some cheaper dongles at home that live permanently on my desk. So I also don't run into too many touchbar issues since I rarely do anything serious on the internal keyboard.

For some reason my usage I don't have battery issues. A lot of my co-workers do. Ad blockers don't help with Docker & Eclipse hogging CPU.

I wish for 32GB of ram every day, we got our 2018 laptops < 6 months before they added the 32GB option.

Linux is much better, I tried a pilot System 76 laptop our IT let us try. It was great for development, hugely better than the Mac. But it was horrible as a laptop, horrible for going to meetings. Drained the battery in 1 hour if you had to do a WebEx. Constant WiFi & VPN issues. Having to reboot the machine sometimes to clear up issues with external displays and internal displays. I gave it back after a month when I admitted I was wasting 40% of my work time chasing linux issues.
I've just about given up on Apple. My spacebar on my 2017 15" MacBook Pro started going bad after only three months. Bundle that with the pointless Touchbar and the arrow key layout and I just can't see myself using another until they sort all of that out.

I recently switched to a Dell XPS 15 9560 running Pop!_OS. Talk about a simple setup for a Linux system running a HiDPI screen. Before that, I was running Manjaro with i3 and it was fairly easy to set up but took a bit more fiddling.
There are plenty of exclusive communities on the internet because it's just as useful of a tool for any illegal activity as it is for corporations trying to drive more profits.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes Is Now Generally Available
Are Titles of Chemical Papers Becoming More Informative?
You're in a bit of a niche though; gamedev is heavily slanted towards the microsoft ecosystem, and that might be changing depending on how Stadia is adopted.

Source: myself, a gamedev for AAA titles.
Fair enough but Lenovo doesn't solder their SSD. Nothing prevents you from buying the cheapest option and upgrading yourself, e.g. Lenovo thinkpad X1 Extreme has even 2 SDD m.2 slots. You also don't have to max out you storage when buying because you can always upgrade it in the future once you need more storage or when SSD gets even cheaper few years later. On top of that those 2 m.2 slots allows you to put disk in raid 0 or use second one with optane memory once its cheaper and worth it.
Mobile GPUs perform absolutely miserably; no surprise given the design constraints. Using your link as a comparison, its nearest neighbors are top-of-the-line parts from nine years ago, and budget parts from four years ago.
The Unitarian Universalists, are, as I understand it, pretty close to a "religionless church". There's a general sense of "search for the truth", but there's no specific confessed creed.
www.pinboard.in is great. Could use some improvements, but it just works and is reliable. Highly recommended.
This. The level of discourse in mainstream news is gobsmacking in its simplicity. This recent "capitalism v socialism" debate revolves around a limited set of widely accepted aphorisms, happily tossed back and forth like handfuls of sand on a playground. No one bothers to disaggregate these words, examine their premises, or fit together different components to see what shakes out. Or, god forbid, ask whether they are even useful abstractions.
There is no need to, its already out in the open: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2oL_vh...
> Much of that is economic. Our society places no value on most people that age.

this feels like a theory in search of facts. are your friends hanging out with you simply because of your economic value to them? or weirder, hanging out with you because of your economic value to your employer?

there might be a correlation between someone's "economic value" being zero, and them being lonely, but there are a lot of ways that can happen, and direct causation probably isn't one of them.
I live in Somerville, Massachusetts. It is the sixth most densely populated city in the United States that isn't part of the NYC metro area. That's why the hardware stores are the size of closets. If I lived in a rural area--well, I grew up in Maine, surrounded by large hardware stores that frequently did have that sort of thing, like the Aubuchon Hardware chain. Home Depot is the only store in the city, and the only one within quick-trip distance outside of the city, that has a broad selection and services like rough-cutting.

(I do like Tags in Porter Square, but their selection is lacking. Great people though.)
if you could just broadcast trump's actual thoughts to the public we might get one here.
There's nothing I can see here :(
When I first got mine I found it fun to customize using BetterTouchTool, but I quickly realized it was no replacement for having hardware buttons. I miss them so much.
Yes, I do remember when Uber killed a pedestrian. A pedestrian that the car didn't see. Yes the computer needs awareness, but it needs awareness no matter the kind of vehicle it is controlling. The hard part of awareness is the ability to see and correctly categorize potential hazards. That part is absolutely no different for any motor vehicle. The way the vehicle reacts to potential hazards is absolutely going to change depending on the vehicle's characteristics, but that's one of the least hard parts of the whole system.

>Given the current landscape, I'd say with enough data you could more or less brute-force an AI driven car and be somewhere on the spectrum of safer than the worst human drivers.

What's your definition of "enough data"? Tesla seems about as close are you could practically get, and they don't have a great safety history (although they don't have enough history period to really say whether they're safer than humans). The specific issues that Tesla and Uber have faced are issues with seeing and correctly interpreting the world around them. Those issues are largely the same in either case. If you assume you can see and follow lane markings and it turns out you don't do so well when the lane markings are damaged, you're going to have a bad time no matter what size vehicle you're in.
It is "form" which made macbook THE notebook to have.

> The vast majority of users choose Macs because of the great OS and the hardware specs

Very wrong. Your average consumer can barely differentiate between MacOS/Windows. The vast majority choose it because it's the best social-status-wise. Which it became because of form. Everybody knows that only poor people have Androids/PCs.
I have a "nose pillows" type CPAP mask - about as small and low-profile as they get. I hated the other types. You have to be able to keep your mouth shut for it to work... I tend to now always sleep on my side because of this. I sleep so well now, I actually look forward to putting the ugly thing on.
I was talking with a coworker from India at lunch about 7 years ago. He talked about the extreme urban/rural divide in his country - to the point that movies were made for different audiences - and asked about it here in the US. I said how rural communities tended to be more conservative and urban ones more liberal, but in terms of mass-media and entertainment none of those differences appeared to be very significant.

Either I was naive or I broke the universe, because ever since then it seems like everything wants to prove me wrong on this point. I browse headlines from many publications, and I can often see a divide between what is being covered. Just today I read that PBS had a "Arthur" episode with a gay marriage and Alabama isn't airing it.
I assume the New CPUs are 14nm Coffee Lake-H:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i9_micropro...
A 2016 Macbook Pro speaking at a graduation, saying "My generation has failed you".
Good article, thanks:

"A protocol is the rules and expectations of participants in a system, and how they are beholden to each other. A protocol defines who takes responsibility for failure.

The problem with message brokers, and queues, is that no-one does.

Using a message broker is not the end of the world, nor a sign of poor engineering. Using a message broker is a tradeoff. Use them freely knowing they work well on the edges of your system as buffers. Use them wisely knowing that the buck has to stop somewhere else. Use them cheekily to get something working.

I say don’t rely on a message broker, but I can’t point to easy off-the-shelf answers. HTTP and DNS are remarkable protocols, but I still have no good answers for service discovery."

I would not disagree with any of this but I don't know enough about service meshes to know if they mean that you don't need a protocol (meaning the edges still need to deal with failures after the mesh or broker has retried etc).

One thing a broker gives you is that if the problem is that the other service is busy or down then it will eventually get the message. So it avoids one specific kind of failure in the case where eventual consistency is acceptable.
I've been waiting a year to replace my 2015 MBP. Will probably have to wait another year now :L
I also work at a company heavily reliant on Microsoft Office. It makes it hard to pick any OS that isn't Windows or Mac.

Cloud apps like Google Docs, Hangouts, Slack etc.. were supposed to make the OS less important. It's too bad we're not there yet.
Church was a weekly social activity shared by practically the entire community... Not to mention larger events organized by church's, and charity performed in the local community by many churches.

It's unfortunate IMO that there is no non religious equivalent.
Stuff like this freaks me out and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Thanks for the wake-up call. It's a terrible amount of money to lose. I hope things get better for this guy in the future (and I don't think anyone would say they're to blame for this.)

Security is becoming so difficult to balance with an every day life... I don't know how anyone can remember everything that they're "suppose" to know about security.
It's a group of LAX employees. It's been a while since I watched this [0] doc about it or read [1] about it but there's some pilots in that group too iirc. Some more recent posting about it on a forum seem to indicate they're trying to just quietly snuff it out by not accepting new 'residents' and will eventually shut it down.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004630021/long-t...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-20-me-lax-c...
Yea I wouldn't recommend doing anything other than hopping between buildings or vehicles when it gets down to -40 (same in both C and F, which I think is neat)

-10C is 14F, which I agree is a pretty nice day if you're properly outfitted.
Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language are two completely different things:

Wolfram|Alpha is a natural language computational engine which takes queries and computes custom answers based on
back-end knowledge databases and a large amount of Wolfram Language algorithms.

Wolfram Language is a computational (programming) language. There is a good 'fast introduction' for it here:

http://www.wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-progra...

The full reference documentation for the Wolfram Language is located here:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/

(It's extremely well-documented with extensive examples for every function).
"I treated Coinbase like a bank account and you have absolutely zero recourse in the case of an attack."

Now that's the real problem. Coinbase acts like a bank or a broker/dealer, but isn't regulated like one.
Account is suspended it seems.
>Or just not read tabloids

You make a good point. If only the likes of The Guardian and Bloomberg didn't make it to the front page on HN regularly.
> It does not really seem that he tried to talk to the person whose talk was cancelled (and who had probably already bought plane tickets, etc).

You missed that as well. He and another person of his group reached out to her beforehand. Here's the part in the article that says so:

> Therefore, on April 25, 2019, I, along with an employee of my company, communicated to her our decision in a meeting held in a place of her choice. She took it badly.

The conference will happen next June.

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> Whatever, it is a bit absurd to have an opinion on this question without information from both sides.

The people who were denied were the ones who came forward and they never addressed nothing of the sort. They only engaged in doxxing, harassment of other speakers and false accusations.

This is not a proportional response.

All that happened in public. If you need info, just ask instead of assuming.