skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I worked at NeXT we created a lights-out factory in Fremont, CA and then closed it. Steve said that we were moving it offshore to be closer to where the parts were manufactured. At the same time, I was told by some employees who worked on creating the automated factory that the real reason for moving it was completely different. They told me that the goal was to sell it to a group of Executives who could then charge the company for manufacturing the machines and avoid US taxes by sending the money offshore as a business expense. It was sold to a group of Executives so that they could avoid any one Executive being technically in "control" of the offshore. I was also told that the group of Executives included theoretical "competitors", and they traded "favors" for shared ownership.

I can't confirm any of this - but it is consistent with other things done to avoid taxes. (Steve was once successfully prosecuted for avoiding taxes using an offshore. After that, he got better accountants to make sure his tax dodges could withstand legal scrutiny.)
The Ukraine is not an EU member country.
Slack's API documentation and handling of accounts/bots is so obscure. I've never seen anything that bad from a major company.
It's 2019 – where are our smart glasses?
I never had a use for Evernote, but I was always bitter towards them after they bought and gutted Skitch. Skitch was amazing
Also web browsing, mail reading/sending, authoring. Emacs can handle essentially everything in the article. It's a perfect middle ground - not 1D like pure CLI, not "bitmap" like TUIs (ncurses-based in particular), which are essentially rendering bitmaps on the screen, but in ASCII, not a point&click GUI. Emacs gives you a 2D text GUI, in which almost everything interoperates with everything else, and things like searching through or editing whatever 2D interface you have on screen aren't weird, but normal.
I don't think that is true of Apple given the scale of their operations.
What confuses me about products like Evernote and other CRUD services is - it's just a notebook app. How is it truly worthy of the army of coders, or the millions or billions in valuation that similar CRUD acquires?

It feels like there is a tendency of projects like this to grow too far, too fast, until they fail - dollar signs in their eyes obscuring a reasonable vision of their scale and potential, which is far more modest than they realise.

But then again, the ones that remain reasonable don't get in the news I suppose.
Google Keep updated itself and deleted all my data, everywhere, just saying.
I also used to use 1Password and migrated to KeePass. The problem is that password management isn't a good fit as a service with the subscription model. It's completely unsexy (nothing wrong with that) and therefore doesn't have the "can't do without this" emotional factor that connects people to, say, their phone data plan, their gym membership, or even their Netflix habit. Password management is something that you set up once and hopefully forget about completely.
With a little elbow grease this hasn't been true for Hackintosh builds nor virtualization for ages: https://amd-osx.com
AMD in this case would likely have to meet the public figure standard of proving defamation, which would mean proving the WSJ was grossly negligent or knowingly published false claims.
Oh, like Bloomberg's The Big Hack?
There's a lot of rural places that barely have 3G. The problem is if only 20 people benefit from a tower being stood up, they won't do it. This is the advantage of satellite internet, connecting the sparsely populated. Towers are the future of cities and outlying areas, low-orbit sat-internet is the future of rural areas.
Facebook SDK bug crashes apps
If the constellation costs $10 billion to launch as estimated and has a operating cost of $1 billion/year and a lifetime of 5 years, Spacex will need only $3 billion/year to break even. If they sell subscriptions at $50/month they will only need 5 million subscribers to break even. They only have to be better than current offerings in poorly served markets to get that. I think it will be a cash cow.
https://archive.fo/K0q1f

I know that some servers have been shutdown because because of racial slurs but what is effectively illegal pornography (at least in the UK) is A-OK.

Discord like every other company will enforce their TOS when they want to.
"AMD put significant protections in place to protect its intellectual property (IP) and prevent valuable IP from being misused or reverse engineered to develop future generations of processors". We no steal you IP. - China, Hehe.
Thank you for your comments herer.

There are myriad things that impact both actual temperature and perceived temperature. I don't even try to talk about any of the more "woo" sounding things that impact perceived temperature.

I'm just talking about well established design principles that were a time-honored tradition globally until recent decades popularized throwing money at the problem, using insulation and adding AC to shittily designed buildings. And I get nothing but grief most of the time.

Tempted to start blog number umpteen to bitch about this in specific. I'm calling it "While The World Burns." Maybe if people here keep pissing me off, it will actually get content and traction and yadda.

Historically, people were only interested in rubber necking at what a goddamned social train wreck waiting to happen I was. Maybe I can harness that bullshit for a change instead of trying to avoid it. Swim with the current, not against it.
So from a recent standing start Apple are going to beat Intel and AMD - I could see Apple using their own cpu's for tablets and phones but for work stations I don't think so.
Not GP, but gaming on 2700x+1070ti w/ 144hz 1440p monitor. It's suboptimal, but usually I can play games on high/ultra settings ~60fps or full 144 on low-medium. Not having any problems with VR either.
Show HN: A social network that lets you own your data
I created Timelines so that people could have ownership over their data while posting on social media.

Timelines stores your data in a specific folder on your Google Drive which is sandboxed from all your other data on Google drive.

Do try it out. Hoping to get some useful feedback. Thanks!

https://www.timelines.co
The product sounds great to me! The workflow is pretty much the same as the one I'm using currently with my girl friend.

I haven't tried Pinegrow Snapshots or Pinegrow Web Editor yet. Just by reading the description, I'm not sure how I go from "STEP 2 - EDITING" to "STEP 3 - SHARING & FEEDBACK". Concretely, when do the edited snaphots got pushed to GitHub? Step 3 mentioned GitHub and Slack, are they required tools or can I substitute them with, say, Dropbox and talking to each other face to face?
The article says the situation is a lot more complicated than that. It quoted a farmer who said that much of the food it sold to Imperfect Produce had previously been plowed under. Or it had been given to a food bank for free, but the IP money help pay their expenses.

The author's main point is that too much food is being produced, but she doesn't really explain what she thinks a better solution would be.
I am all for going with your guts, that's how I am built, but I would like to offer a different point of view.

"Sucking it up" seems to have a bad connotation from two different, even opposite points of view. Either you think of it as a coward move, to go against your "real" self and individuality to conform to a cubicle in order to receive a lot of money. It is almost like you are bribing yourself, having both accumulated guilty feelings of corrupting your ideals. On the opposite side "sucking it up" is viewed as a dilemma only for whining, entitled people, who believe they are above the routine obligations of life in society just because they are privileged — the usual "snowflake" critique.

I believe that both views are a dangerously superficial translation of a more profound choice that can lead to fulfillment and maturity; either way it goes.

The benefits of staying in your job can be more than money. There is a lot to learn in facing a harsh environment, facing uncomfortable obstacles, and dealing with unwelcoming people. If you endure all of that, you will recognize yourself as a stronger person, more professionally competent, more prepared to live and thrive out of your comfort zone. It will practially results in you having a better chance of achieving more things decades from now. It comes with the risk of not being any of that and, in reality, is just you staying in your comfort zone, not learning, not enduring, just following spoken and unspoken rules.

The benefits of quitting your job are the number of opportunities that open once you are out of a clear career path where you know all the rules. You gain freedom. You will learn about new things, new people, new cultures, new games with completely different rules you will have to learn. It comes with the risk of losing focus so much that you also learn, endure, and achieve nothing.

Which way to go all depends on which path you are most likely to pursue learning and personal growth, and which path you are most likely to fall back to a stable and unsurprising state, where you are the same person every day. Each person, at each moment of their lives, have their own better path. I am usually the one to go free and experiment a lot, quitting corporate environment as soon as I am bored. My wife chose to endure in a very demanding job because she believed in the mission (it was a non-profit) and successfully arrived at the other end of a tough year triumphantly, stronger, mature, and competent. Very happy with her choice.

We both might invert our positions in the future, and that's a good thing for you. If you quit now, you can work hard to go back to your position later. If you decide to stay, you can quit a year from now.

Good luck with your choice!

EDIT: Don't take this advice from a workaholic paradigm. When I say "learn and personal growth", it can be a year reading, relaxing, meeting people, travelling. To each his own... learning come in many forms
Hmm, how can we really know the population is _okay_ with this? Seems like if things are working this is what the outward appearance would be. But the existence of all this social control means there must be some internal risk China sees.

After all, China is continually upgrading its surveillance and other means of social control. They're also committing cultural genocide in Xinjang despite the international media fallout. They must feel like there's some real threat worth fighting to do all this.

Also unlike the other top 8 or so world economies, China has had an internal revolution/civil war quite recently.
Why are you willing to use a dictionary to look up a word, but not willing to use a car manual to look up a symbol? Do you throw out your car manuals and replace them with dictionaries or something?
I used such linters, and they fail at certain things.

Of course. They're just a tool.

For the amount of concurrency done, golang is doing pretty good. I know of no other programming community which has such community standards on using race condition checking to the same extent as linting.
A basic search could find strings that look like network addresses, but those addresses are easy to obfuscate.

Any algorithm that can detect every possible obfuscated address would have to include a solution for the halting problem. So detecting every single address that might be encoded in a JS file is impossible, an undecidable problem.
Are you calling me delusional?

They ruled states have the freedom to design their own voting districts. State sovereignty has always been a thing in the US.

I would encourage you to read the historical documents of the country where many of these constitutional arguments were had: The Federalist Papers
Canal 13 En Vivo – TV Online Chile
http://www.bcninsurances.es/sites/default/files/webform/chile-vs-colombia-en-vivo-online.pdf

http://www.bcninsurances.es/sites/default/files/webform/colombia-chile-en-directo-online.pdf

http://www.bcninsurances.es/sites/default/files/webform/colombia-chile-en-vivo-online.pdf

http://www.bcninsurances.es/sites/default/files/webform/colombia-chile-envivo-tv.pdf

http://www.bcninsurances.es/sites/default/files/webform/colombia-chile-en-vivo-tv01.pdf

https://www.spreaker.com/show/colombia-chile-en-vivo

https://www.spreaker.com/show/chile-colombia-en-vivo

https://www.spreaker.com/show/colombia-vs-chile-live-stream_4

https://www.spreaker.com/show/colombia-vs-chile-live-streaming

https://www.spreaker.com/show/en-vivo-colombia-vs-chile-live-stream

https://www.spreaker.com/show/en-vivo-colombia-vs-chile-live-stream
Yeah in general if the untrue statement was made without at least negligence then it will be protected.

> Statements made in a good faith and reasonable belief that they were true are generally treated the same as true statements; however, the court may inquire into the reasonableness of the belief. The degree of care expected will vary with the nature of the defendant: an ordinary person might safely rely on a single newspaper report, while the newspaper would be expected to carefully check multiple sources.
The 3900X already crushes in multi-threaded. That stone-throw multi-core result result is 12 AMD cores on vs 18 Intel cores. That's 50% more cores and 300% more cost for basically the same results.

Single-threaded is the only thing Intel's been touting as they get steamrolled. This is particularly important because a big market for this class of CPU is desktop gamers and for better or worse games tend not to be particularly well multi-threaded so single-core performance is king in that market. Obviously this will change over time as engines continue to adapt.

To your point though it's better to look at an overall trend of AMD vs Intel over the last couple of years, and that's equally devastating.
bouncer, or web client that persists chats, like TheLounge or Convos.
>The beauty of exceptions, on the other hand, is that the default option is the safe one

Except, when it's not. Exceptions tend not to solve the problem, only make it subtly worse. The biggest wart on exceptions is the fact it introduces non-local control flow. All of the sudden any function you call can cause you jump out of your current function. In any situation where an unhandled error will corrupt your state, exceptions have that problem as well, on top of the fact that they are invisible.

An `err` aliased to `_` or shadowed can be found by a linter or a human reading the code. A function `foo()` causing your stack to blow up and possible corrupt any IO you are doing is worse. Therefore, the guys in Java-land discovered CheckedExceptions which were even more controversial, and arguably led to languages like Go and Rust dropping exceptions in general.
Wow, that's an interesting way to put it.
The bigger issue, for me, is for things like Facebook gathering data on third-party sites that I had no idea* were feeding the information back to Facebook.

An even bigger issue, for me, is having my face added to their facial recognition algorithms, despite never once tagging myself in a photo. Is there a way to opt out of this?
First try in Vivaldi's private mode got me still a 0.3 . Then I tested it while being logged into Google and it went to 0.9 . However, when I tried it again in private mode, I got 0.9 there too. Temporary fingerprints show quite the effect.
No, I don't eat cereals (though I sometimes make my own granola), cookies, crackers, cake mixes or instant prep meals. I try to stay healthy and not consume heavily processed foods. I make cakes and meals from scratch by hand. I do have dry pasta that comes in thin cardboard containers, but that's the only thing I can think of. Thinking about my girlfriend's house or our friends' houses, they don't hoard cardboard either. We're all in the US. I also lived in Europe for many years, where this also didn't happen.

But that's all immaterial, because I don't at all buy the argument that the average person would hoard so much cardboard that it would have an effect on indoor temperature. So I still don't understand your comment.
I use the TSC for high precision timing, and turning TSC ticks into nanoseconds requires interpreting model specific registers, so my timing code would need AMD specific patches to work properly on those processors. Not necessarily a deal-breaker, but it would definitely be an annoyance for me if I did decide to switch. Probably not super relevant to scientific computing or ML though.
My company uses a common data lake for various teams and organizations to share their datasets. We enforce schemes, and owners are responsible for the correctness and quality of their data, although some consumers usually build some tests in their downstream pipelines to validate data sets from the data lake.

It has its problems. How do I know a data set I am consuming is complete or correct? As a consumer, how do I even know what to test for? Although producers are technically on the hook for the quality of their data, it is not clear which data sets in the data lake have what level of support from the owning team. You probably want to get in writing from the producer that it’s safe to consume or take a dependency on their data.

Personally, I don’t want to vend a service to provide data sets, especially when they’re in hundreds of gigabytes or terabyte scale (for analytical use cases). I don’t want to support all that infrastructure and have engineers supporting he service logic itself, and so a common abstraction makes sense, at least on paper.

One of my recent projects involved using this data lake as an integration point. The specific data lake implementation means that for consumers, the exact time that a dataset (after it is written to the data lake) is available for querying is non deterministic, and that resulted in a lot of friction.

What is the size of the logs you want to consume? Are you able to query specific log lines by wildcard or key? How fast do you need the data once it has been produced? Are you willing to support your own infrastructure (hosts, configuration, patching, etc)? If there is a datalake, is it a common/managed service, and so is the cost of supporting your own service worth it?

Does your data lake enforce schemes on write? If so, how easy is it to change schemes later on, and how does that impact consumers? How do you identify or track consumers of the data, whether you’re using a data lake or a service? Is there support for versioning?
Duh... To enable the DeepSearch AI and containerization of each user account.
Aside from the iPod, I've never liked any Apple product. They feel constraining, less practical, less compatible, less comfortable, more expensive.

The value of Apple products is mostly based on marketing. Apple sells products by appealing to people's insecurities. Apple products appeal to status-focused people who want to see themselves as cool and sophisticated to the point that they are willing to overlook the terrible UX.

The mouse is so flat, it makes your hand sore. The keys are so low and sensitive that you keep hitting the wrong keys and they easily break. The navigation for most of their UI makes no sense. If you open the laptop while it's sitting on your laps, it will pinch you when you open it. Having to use Command+C to copy stuff by pushing with your thumb is awkward even after years of use. Siri will keep popping up when your finger accidentally touches some random key. Switching between multiple desktops/windows is a pain (e.g. even compared to Ubuntu). Finder is shockingly bad; it's a struggle to navigate; merely copying the current directory path is infeasible... The list of UX problems goes on and on; I'm not even a UX designer but I can see all these problems.
I just got mt AR-15 blueprints and the gun I printed was 2x more powerful because they came encrypted.
>ioctl, mmap, sockets could be represented as files, why not?

The fact that they're not may be a clue to answering that question.
> Non-starter. The whole point of ordinance is its cheap. What's wrong with ye olde ground based x-ray laser and a mirror on a satellite?

Mostly the fact that

1. as someone mentioned already, x-ray lasers are not easy to generate, with designs sometimes using nukes to pump them [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excalibur ];

2. while x-rays can be reflected, x-ray mirrors don't behave like optical mirrors because the wavelength of an x-ray is in the same ballpark as the size of atoms (10 nm to 0.1 nm, with atomic radii being in the 0.1-0.01 nm range), and they only reflect 100% of incident radiation when it hits them at very shallow angles ("For gold at 1 keV, the critical reflection angle is 2.4 degrees") [see https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/128247/how-would... http://henke.lbl.gov/optical_constants/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_optics ].

When talking about lasers pumping out enough energy to be usable as weapons over distances of hundreds of kilometers - to bounce them off a satellite - you will need a mirror that can reflect that ray almost perfectly, or you'll just blast your own satellite out of the sky. And to do that, that mirror will only be able to reflect your ray at a shallow angle, which pretty much rules out bouncing an X-ray off it (unless your target is in orbit or, I suppose, if you have a fleet of such satellites, and coordinated enough to bounce the ray down 2° at a time).

[Also see http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent... , C-s for "X-ray" and "grazing", but that whole website is a goldmine]
> It's odd to me that Emacs wasn't mentioned at all. I use it for most of my computing (email, music, file management, etc.) and it works well enough in the terminal if the Meta-key works properly, as opposed to needing to use Escape.

Yes, and literally every point on his list has something in Emacs to handle it -- it is my favorite operating system, just needs a good text editor, as the old joke goes.

Sure, not all of the in-emacs tools are as nice as some of things like `w3m` and `w3m-image`... but they are all there, for every facet listed, and some of them are even better in Emacs.

Old joke aside, I bet Emacs' text editing and word processing abilities (with some packages installed) are as good as or better than those found in WordGrinder.

Emacs plays nice with `tmux`, but also provides its own in-emacs windowing.

You can even run full ANSI terminals within Emacs and then run anything (such as `cmus`) that might not have a direct in-emacs integration within an Emacs terminal buffer.
What special scale would that be?
See also Org Mode, which has basic[0] spreadsheet capabilities[1].

> is there a lost manual of emacs where they are listed?

That first link GP posted is literally a link to the Emacs manual[2]. Emacs and its info pages are something I also ignored for years, but one day I finally realized that I'm doing a disservice to myself by not reading manuals. Nowadays, I try to always read whatever official documentation there is for anything I work with more frequently; in some cases cover to cover. It's worth it.

--

[0] - by basic I mean basic, until you learn enough Emacs to supercharge them; then there aren't so basic anymore.

[1] - https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-intro...

[2] - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/; it also ships with Emacs, so you can read it off-line; just use M-x info.
I think our goal should not be a body of mathematicians (or coders or nurses or NBA players) that closely reflects society at large, but an entry process that is fair. And the first and foremost tenet of fairness must be that each human be treated as an individual, not as the member of some group.
Thanks Hillary for that, and the Honduran coup.

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/hillary-clinton...

Doesn't change the fact that the US stands several steps above China in any human rights index.