skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an atheist. I want to agree with you so bad, but having kids is different than building families. I think beasteurope is correct about religion encouraging families to stay together rather than breaking up. I'm not saying other social structures can't encourage this behavior, but I don't think relying on evolutionary instincts is going to keep families together as reliably as relying on evolutionary instincts combined with a social custom where potential parents promise commitment in front of the whole community (with the magical threat of eternal torture should they part ways for bonus points). Not the world I want to live in, just the world I think I live in. And again, I can imagine other social customs for building families (like matrilineal lines with strong social expectations of uncles participating in childcare, for example -- there's at least one hunter-gatherer example of this I'm forgetting the name of).
Did something change regarding the trackpad? MacBook trackpads have always been at the top of the class, far better than any other manufacturer by leaps and bounds.
For what it's worth, my multi-monitor settings are remembered just fine in Ubuntu 19.04. I _just_ switched from Macbook Pro to Dell XPS 13/Ubuntu, and I couldn't get multi-monitor to work for Ubuntu 18.04, but everything worked out of box for 19.04. But I don't know if upgrading will mess with any legacy config you may have!
It's frustrating to me that browsers lend themselves so willingly to being fingerprinted, and it's up to the user to stay aware of and keep ahead of these new avenues.

I wish there were 4 modes:

- Standard/light mode

- Dark mode (website has facilities to test for this and style accordingly)

- Dark mode with fake or unknown values advertised to the website

- Dark mode with a user-custom filter applied (like below) that the website cannot test for (it sees untransformed computed styles)

> filter: invert(95%) hue-rotate(190deg)
A funny tidbit from this saga:

> When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed by Apple's Legal Department who objected that the new sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical," under the recent settlement. The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that would not pass Legal's approval, he remarked, "so sue me". After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"), telling the Legal Department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Ultimately, the people teaching young people math do not understand what it is or how to actually use it. If you took away their ability to do math, it is unlikely that anything would actually change in their life.

Mathematics is the closest thing that humans have to doing magic. It's about consistent axioms and finding true statements that are unintuitive. And it allows you to problem solve at a level that exceeds what experience can teach you.

No 'this is how you can use math' statement that I've ever heard in school has ever done it justice.

Here's another history of math and women story that you might be interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_MpQG2xXVo
My suggestion: anybody thinking of getting started with 6502 will probably have more fun with the Atari Lynx.
How about the POV that if I buy the device, I decide what the device does? This is a fundamental property right. You may argue that the data created isn't "mine", but I would argue that it is absolutely my data if it is created by a device I own. The fact that someone else manufactured the device doesn't give them some sort of retained ownership once they sell it to me.
Sadly, game theory bears out that observation. [1] Trust is difficult to cultivate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
> Where does it end

Somewhere before "actively recommending people feed their kids poison," I should hope.
Seems like "finding another job" deserves a spot in offensive work:

-- it's likely revenue-positive

-- it's visible

-- it involves understanding customer needs
The author's ideology perplexes me.

He focuses a lot on the allegation that the disinvitee makes women (specifically) feel unsafe, but it's clear from his story that the alleged behavior isn't gender specific.

Is what they allegedly did to him more acceptable because he's a man? Should future organizers ignore his story, even if conclusively proven true, because it's not about a woman feeling unsafe?
Completely agreed. I’m on my 2016 max spec. Need to take it in for keyboard repair at some point and I’ve barely used the keyboard as I’m using external keyboard and monitors 99% of the time. If they offered the new one with an option to get it without the Touch Bar and old style keyboard that alone would be an instant buy for me.
This is the first analogy that sprang to my mind as well but as they noted Coinbase gets all the upside and you get little in return. When you put your money in a bank typically you earn interest in exchange for the bank having your money.
Google Spent Years on a Secret Plan to Dominate This $830B Industry
a lightweight alternative to dark reader is this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-light-m...

YMMV
Oh, this is Miracle Mineral Solution. I've heard of this disgusting quackery for years and years. I'm surprised YouTube is getting around to this just now. They need to read more Respectful Insolence at the Goog.
I think an interesting way to address this impact, is to start adding more time to each task and address it as technical debt, which is both informative and actually true.

For example after a few months of no refactoring, you start adding 10% to all estimations based on technical debt. It grows more the more refactoring is kept at bay.
Similar to how we add a certain percentage to each task for communication, bug tracking, qa, scope changes or anything else.
You can keep an arbitrary count, and perhaps even have a "technical debt" reduction amount for certain backlog tasks.

I haven't ever tried this though. But it's an interesting way to communicate technical debt (and is very close to the metaphor).
I think we're pretty close with English, or it's at least the best candidate. Most of the knowledge recently produced (since WWII) is in it, and the world's largest economy uses it. It's also taken a little something from every one.

With that said, I think national pride will prevent such a thing happening. As an American, I wouldn't want to learn someone else's language as a "common tongue", though have no objections to using it for communication. Same thing with units: I'll convert if needed, but won't use yours. I've also got a bit of an objection to "design by committee" (i.e. esperanto) because it is either influenced primarily by one language (which goes back to the "other guy's language" objection above) or has little influence from other languages (meaning massive barriers to adoption). Most Americans are also highly resistant to bureaucrats dispensing "what's best" from on high, be it with language, units, or most other things.

It's also a cultural thing: how much tradition, history, and lore would be lost if we all spoke the same thing?
Yea, I have always this problem with people from Japan coming here. When they tell their names, I'm not sure if they do as they do in Japan or they do for me to understand. I always have to ask them.
This happens everyday with the sun during sunrise and sunset [1]. When you first see the apparent top of the sun during sunrise, the sun is still well below the horizon physically. It's just that the image of the sun is refracted around the curvature of the earth a bit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise#Angle
I live on the edge of the divide, and there are differences, but everyone farther out from the city than me still sees the Avengers just like everyone in the city does. The rednecks driving jacked up trucks are just as likely to listen to rap as they are to country. If you stop at a red light in the city on a nice day, you're still likely to hear someone singing about pickup trucks and beer from the car next to you. And 95+% of Americans bought something from Walmart last year.

I remember visiting relatives on the other side of the country in Burbank as a kid, and if anything the culture is far more homogeneous than it was then.
I was thinking of the context where you are talking to someone in English, but they have a Chinese name. In Chinese I assume it would be much less ambiguous how to address someone with a Chinese name.
This. FWIW, I have mapped some perma nent functions (brightness,volume etc) to the touchbar (you can do that from the preferences), so it doesn't keep changing based on the application in focus.
This is a work laptop so I am stuck :(
I have a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro and it is still fast enough for me. When it fails I will either buy another of the same model or get a PC and put Linux on it. What Apple has done to this product line is awful. At best it's just bad design, at worst it's exploitative.
I guess "hacker" doesn't really mean what it used to mean. I thought it used to mean people who are curious and like to tinker. Maybe it now means "busy people who have no time to actually tinker but like the idea of tinkering".
> There is zero evidence sustained, controlled, above break-even fusion works at the types of energy densities people talk about for power plants.

This is just another way of saying we haven't gotten it to work yet. That's true, we haven't. The same could have been said about controlled fission in 1941.

> there are by now reasonable arguments to be made that it's a big waste of time and money better spent on something boring that we know will work, like thorium.

I agree there are reasonable arguments to be made about this. But comparing controlled fusion to ghosts and leprechauns is not one of them.

> it will be a hell of a lot easier to build a fusion howitzer

I have no idea where you're getting this from. Again, I really don't think you've grasped the implications of the fact that the energy content of the fuel inside a reactor producing, say, a gigawatt of power, is the same whether the reactor is fueled by coal, oil, natural gas, or fusion. So a "fusion howitzer" based on a fusion reactor would have no more explosive power than a chemical explosive howitzer (which is not based on a coal, oil, or natural gas plant anyway, it's a very different thing).

Nuclear fission is a unique case here because of the historical accident of fission power developing in such a way that multiple years' worth of fuel, containing orders of magnitude more stored energy than was being burned at any given time, was all inside the reactor core at once, instead of the reactor having fuel continually injected just in time to be burned, like every other kind of reactor. All of the downsides of fission--the possibility of meltdown, decay heat removal, huge spent fuel pools containing lots of long-lived radioisotopes, even an accident like Chernobyl--are due to this unique attribute. Newer designs like pebble bed reactors have shown that this is not a necessary attribute of fission power. But it won't be an attribute of fusion power at all.
It feels like the evangelical movement’s power on the wane, and the subcultures gaining ground on that side of the political spectrum are less savory...
I don't understand your comment. They're describing an Integrated Circuit with several transistors.
The article is paywalled so they are also profiting from it as well.
Awk one-liner deduplicating lines of text files explained
Read it? You're talking to the author :-)
I am a bit surprised at the lack of opsec considering the author’s employment and experience.

Definitely sucks to have $100k stolen.
The tech industry bends over backwards to get women involved. Putting them on a pedestal only worsens the divide rather than closing it.
Artificial Intelligence, Surgery, and Trust – Would You Trust a Robot Surgeon?
Drink bleach, asshole.
I have the larger battery, and for daily development (including web stuff) usage, I get 10+ hours. Even if I'm doing heavy dev (running test suite, lots of compilation, etc) it drops down to maybe 5-6 at worst.
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This is true of Korean American churches as well, with lunch, weddings, etc. It's an all-day affair and the center of the community where people meet, do business, etc. The younger generation is trickling away but it was a bedrock for the immigrant community.
I'm very sorry this person is having to suffer all this crap, but

> conferences tend to net to a loss.

If you put out a lot of energy, for "free", then you often get shit in return. If you don't take responsibility for what you are getting back for all your hard effort, things can easily go pear-shaped. This seems to be one of those mystical laws of the universe. I'm not saying you should be selfish, or charge big bucks for your time. There are plenty of ways for people to give something back, and you need to make sure that is happening too.
Most games are played via discord voice chat, often roll20 is used for rolling dice, managing character sheets, and moving tokens over the map. Create discord/roll20 accounts, come up with a character, make a character sheet.

You can find people to play with on /r/lfg subreddit. If you're not ready to commit to a long-term campaign, I recommend looking for one-shots(one-time games lasting 3-5 hours). Try things out, play a couple of games, get to know a few people.

Also, there are a lot of discord servers where people hang out and play together:

https://disboard.org/search?keyword=dnd&sort=-member_count

They often have channels where they announce games, free for anyone to join. My favorite server is:

https://discord.gg/vPFH5sQ

There are a lot of games in there, and people are very friendly and willing to help. Just come over, ask questions. Don't be afraid to just join one of the games and start playing - nobody expects you to know all the rules when you get started, DM and other players will help you out, you will learn as you go.

Quality of games can sometimes be uneven(depending on DM/player skills). I was lucky that my first few games turned out to be amazing, but occassionaly it can get a bit slow/boring. If that happens - don't give up, just give it another shot, it's worth it. Gradually you'll meet and get to know people you like playing with.

Quick tutorial on playing games on that server:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=euClihK7GhI

You can also find a group to start a campaign with right away. Post on /r/lfg and say you're looking for a DM and players, or find a post made by a DM and apply as a player. The biggest challenge here is scheduling - people live in different timezones, and sometimes groups fall apart because people have trouble making it on time. Your group needs to decide on a specific time you can play every week, and stick to it. Some people have trouble with this, but it's easier than it seems, if the first time doesn't work out - just try again. I was lucky to find 3 amazing groups with awesome players right away.
Now that really depends on how powerful your laser is, doesn't it?
I'm having some problems parsing the triple negative in your second sentence...

But if I understand it correctly, it's the old accusation that religious people effectively "brainwash" their kids when raising them to their beliefs. The problem with that is, that it is impossible to raise a kid without some kind of worldview - for the simple reason that it is humanly impossible not to have a worldview.

As long as you teach your kids to think, and allow them to make their own choices once they are old enough, I don't see how you can be accused of "pushing your own agenda". At least not in a way beyond what all other parents (atheists and agnostics included) also do.
So would you please post the data on your devices here on HN, since you think we are all collectively owners of it? How about we start with your location and search history.
It's their thin-is-better lighter-is-more-important model.
In the traditional 14-16" size, the T4xx/T5xx devices do what they are supposed to. A changable battery (while running, without tools) enables you to do things like swapping an empty battery for a full one, either by plugging in shortly, using a secondary battery in the case, or briefly shutting down.
I don't want to carry that much energy with me all the time, but I still want the option to use the device without having significant downtime. A short break is fine, but that's 5-10 minutes, not 30+ for charging the battery.
At least Lenovo just ditched their Touchbar after the disastrous 2nd generation of X1 Carbon, never to be seen again. Also did a mistake with the 2014 series of ThinkPad by removing the mouse buttons due to a bigger touchpad, just to give them back when the users complained enough in 2015.

Have to give them credit for that.
Apparently somebody put together a Docker image:
https://github.com/michielbdejong/fxa-self-hosting
Well, YouTube can't really stop people from being stupid.
If only it was the antivax parents drinking it.
Not everyone reaches the conclusions of the Dark Forest.

But those who don't reach it are exterminated.
That was an extremely difficult read.

Especially part with the moderators of these forums encouraging the parents to up the dosage of poison in response to photos of their children's medical issues brought on after they started 'treatment'.
grinds teeth

A vein almost explodes in my forehead everytime someone points to Cixin Liu as the originator of DFT.

The idea's been around since the early to mid-80s, and people could at least do diligence to properly cite.

It's almost as insulting as if I said "When George Lucas started science fiction films with Star Wars..."
How to Redux with React Hooks?
Apple building large car drive rooms as Project Titan lives on
If this resonates with anyone, than might I suggest you have a look at volunteering at a CodeClub or a Coder Dojo. Your skills would be greatly appreciated in our efforts to introduce more children into coding.

https://coderdojo.com/volunteer

https://codeclub.org/en/volunteer

(Disclosure - I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation)
I know such people too. The problem is that when things go south, those paper backups mean next to nothing. No bank is going to ever use your paper reciepts to correct something electronic.
Note the other overly-emotional responses to your comment, I share your concern.
As others have mentioned, exercise daily.

There's a psychological trick to a daily routine of self-discipline. Exercise is a good choice, since it brings all sorts of other benefits in health/fitness/appearance/mood. But a major component of its effect on self-esteem is just the success of sticking to your routine and maintaining self-discipline.

Stupid things like making your bed every morning, are a small success to start your day with. Exercise is similar but more arduous, and hence more rewarding to maintain.

Experiencing success regularly and overcoming adversity is how you build self-confidence.

Another option is to always be learning new things so you're always feeling like you've conquered something via acquiring new knowledge. Being able to look back at the you from a month ago and see how you're now able to do and understand things you couldn't in recent history does wonders for the ego.

The improvements to one's physical appearance regular exercise brings will also help your ego when you look in the mirror or notice members of the opposite sex regularly flirting with you or otherwise checking you out. This last one can be a source of stress if you're introverted and wish to be ignored, YMMV.
I guess I'm the only one that thinks USB-C is actually better?

The biggest win is that now I can use a single dongle for power, displayport to my monitor, and connection to a USB hub. So if I take my laptop home or into a meeting room, when I get back to my desk it's just a single thing to plug in now instead of 3+ separate cables. And since this stuff is all standardized now and there's no longer anything Apple proprietary like Thunderbolt 1, I would guess other makers will follow suit eventually and most monitors will support it directly without even needing a dongle.

Plus the MagSafe port was not without problems - every few months I would get like a little magnetic pebble or something stuck in there, and then it's plugged in but not charging charging and usually I'd realize when my laptop is almost dead and then have to find something small to try to pluck it out of there. The USB-C port doesn't have this issue and it's still a relatively small port with very low resistance to being pulled out. Tripping over the power cord just has never really been an issue for me, it kinda seems overblown (knock on wood though, I guess).

I do miss the external LED that showed whether you were connected to power or not and whether it was fully charged, it would be nice if they found a way to add that back on the side of the laptop or something since it can no longer be on the cable itself with a standard USB-C cable.
“Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro”*

* Performance now equivalent to 6 cores due to Intel microcode vulnerabilities
> Do people also get annoyed at printed paper being white?

Printed paper glowing white would indeed be very annoying.

Passive displays, such as old non-backlit LCD or e-ink, can be white and not annoying. Most people don't want to stare into a light source more than necessary.

Using proper brightness helps, and dark mode can help even more.
Regarding how long it takes to travel between habitable systems- Cixin Liu, like most other hard sci-fi authors, and everybody else who thinks about those things, seems to assume that lightspeed is just as problematic for everyone else as it is for us humans.

And yet we have no way to know that for sure. We have no idea what the average lifespan of an intelligent species is. It may just be that humans are particularly short-lived, among all the species in the galaxy, or the entire universe. If a species has a lifetime of a couple thousand years then interstellar travel, even at sub-light speeds, would be a lot more manageable than it is for us.

Which to me, means we can relax a little about the risk of being destroyed by hostile aliens. We don't know what we don't know. Chances are, if they were going to destroy us, they would have already done so in the last million years or so. We're probably a lot less appealing, as a world, than we think we are. Perhaps the universe really hates salt water or oxygen atmospheres? Who's to say?
Only if you actively hide the community from the rest of the internet, rather than passively hide (by not advertising its existence).
Close, but not quite. This is "Those people are too propagandized to know what's good for them, so we should decide for them what their sources of information should be."
> Conversely, I would care a lot if there's some job that would earn me more money that my gender hinders me in attaining (as is sometimes the case for women in tech).

It might be useful to point out since this is an internantional forum:

This is very different from northern Europe. Here if I help recruit a male engineer I get a fat check.

If I help recruit a female engineer I get an equally fat check + smiles and possibly mentions, because leaders have this as a KPI.

So for me this all seems really weird but I guess it looks a bit different in the US.

I'll also admit that I once helped a foreign woman get a job in my office (she was cleaning, but had a degree in IT and had the skills), but this is > 10 years ago and she wasn't fluent in the local language.
The The is fun to think about.