skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone goes on about the charing port. Personally I think the much more fundamental problem with the Apple mouse is that its just not a very good mouse. I've tried using them several times and I just can't get used to the lack of actual physical buttons, or the fact it doesn't sit in the hand comfortably.

My personal opinion is that they should have just gone all in on the external touch pad, and quietly recommended that if you want a mouse you should go and buy a Logitech one.
Or maybe they actually sell things that are useful to companies that allows them to invest in making the public website more valuable? But because they always put the community first, they have until this recent change been hesitant to even mention anything that they sell for fear that users would revolt. Of all the services I have used, SO has been consistently the best at being user and community centric. Without SO, I am pretty sure I would spend 5x longer to get any useful coding done, that is how much value SO has given me and I suspect the same is true for millions of other developers.

By the way, Quora and Genius are both super useful. I really do not understand what you mean by "lost the battle".
Apple products, while expensive in a general consumer goods sense are not anywhere near the pricing of a typical Veblen good, they have never been particularly status driven throughout their history in either computers or phones, and their sales violate the textbook definition of a Veblen good, sales dropped substantially when prices increased.

Apple is much more in line with a premium brand driven good like Nike, or Sony.

A true Veblen good phone would cost like $20000, be gold cased and nobody you know would own one.
Safari does this too, last I checked.
> But whatever, who buys apple for the hardware?

Unless you mean because they need Xcode, are you joking? My personal Mac runs Linux, and my work Mac (with mandated image) frustrates me with macOS all day.
Agreed, the website change is dumb. They could make users aware of the products without the obnoxious front page advertising takeover.
Wrt downvoting: I’ve seen some really trigger happy downvoting on other comments as well, even though the argument was cogent. It would be nice to reserve downvoting for clearly stupid comments.
But you are slapped with more taxes and duties there then suddenly your money can't buy enough.

Also, to have much power with money you need desperate people who will do anything for money.

You can get guns and you aren't charge 40% tax on your income even tax on capital is quite cheap in states.

Having money in Europe doesn't mean difference between life and death as it does in US as they've state funded healthcare.

Here you can go down the road and ask them to act in a porn and in return you pay them enough money to fix their whatever health issue they've for which they've no money.

I am not advocating that this is better, I am just pointing it out why some people might like US.
A recap of the Philadelphia refinery explosion
It looks like there's two very different styles going on here. Most of us are used to the OO-type approach (Java, C#) where the operations are "inside" the object and defined on it. This article is coming from a very different place where the operations are "outside" the typed things, which are more like structs, and the programmer can write any operation that takes structs which have the right fields.

The author doesn't make any comment on dispatch let alone multiple dispatch.

They appear to be writing for the kind of quasi-schema'd information bureaucracy that's very important outside of SV. Lots of data in XML that never quite lines up with an object model.

The Haskellite approach would also say that "what operations are available on that thing" is the wrong way round; you define your operation, and the type signature tells you what kind of things will work with it.
Neurotechnology holds promise for chronic stroke patients
Previous discussion:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20235259

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240359

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20238181
Concerned, but not enough to really do anything about it.
My battery was in the program as well but at the same time it was also lower than 80% of original capacity at full capacity with 1000 cycles, so it was technically worn out. Usually you can replace them for 199 euro in that case and it's fixed within a week, but they had to replace it for free which takes 2-3 weeks. System wouldn't even accept the paid option when I asked to pay for it.

Never had the idea it was getting exceptionally or even moderately hot, never saw any bulging. But when it's back I have a MacBook Pro that only has the bottom case and logic board of the computer I brought and the rest replaced for free (screen program too), after four years. Though I can imagine people that do not have a backup machine hate to wait so long.
Talking of space faring .. according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organi..., the Indian Space Research Organisation budget of 11,538.26 crore (US$1.7 billion)(2019–20 est.) would buy a lot of water infrastructure, but that's obviously not as exciting as going to Space..
This has been posted and discussed few times in the past weeks but I think there is no harm to leave this here to make more people aware of this.
[quote]- my phone will still work in 5 years. No "oh the home button is broken" scandal.[/quote]

I don't think this is a standard, not every iphone button will be broken in 5 years; or no phone (with android os) has hardware guarantee for 5 years.
Sometimes the time changed every few minutes.

Wait, what did it do in between?
Yes. It is actually pretty simple. A place like SF has the choice between converting the wealth its citizens generate into more housing or higher house prices. It is a political choice.
Since he seems to have used it already I also assumed (s)he knew the difference and that with TeX it was meaning a TeX-based workflow. But I wanted to make clear the difference for newcomers since TeXmacs is often misinterpreted as just a TeX frontend, which is not the case.
I've sent them a pull request with some spelling corrections.

https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-guix/pull/35/files
There's not much to see in SV apart from the computer history museum, unless you like seeing parking lots and industrial buildings.
This should include "2015" in the title to be less click-baity.
To be fair, machine-generates assembly codes are much more cryptic than hand written ones. That’s why, even though the language is straight simple, reading through it is still difficult. The same works for high level languages, like generated parser, generated protocol layer, generated object system, etc.

And, yes, knowing assembly sometimes do make huge difference as a programmer, but only in limited fields.
But people never select for "good" elderly so to speak.

Neither do most primates or lions. The elders just happen to be there. So we can't really even say if it's just more elders in the animal kingdom making themselves useful. Which, again, is happening after reproduction typically.

For something to have an effect on reproduction, I would think it would need to be part of the decision beforehand.
I’m curious what sorcery and witchcraft actually meant in the context of Cherokee society at the time.
That's true in third-world countries too though. Service is good about anywhere if you've got the cash.
The current trend in computer game architecture is also away from OOP/inheritance and to Entity-Component-System designs where you have entities without behavior (often just an Id) that are composed of components (pure data structures) that are operated on by systems specialized to single or small sets of components (functions).
Yes, I also noticed it in SE Asia. I guess, due to the fact that AC was (and in some places is) too expensive for the majority of population, cold air feels like a luxury attribute.
I want this. If I am connecting remotely, I want to use the keyboard layouts present on my remote station, since they are likely a good match for the physical keyboard I am actually sitting behind. Remember that keyboard layouts are not just different letters, they also define different sets of physical keys.
Interesting variant of dehumanisation [1] that often precedes the act of taking property without compensation.
The gap between the article's
"the city [the tech workers] fought so hard to conquer", and the reality that is squarely the opposite (tech workers did not engage in violence at all, did not fire a single shot) is remarkable, and scarily Orwellian.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization
Not all land is livable. And more land becomes livable if the population residing on them have more resources.

Many places in Scandinavia go below -20c and people live there because they've means to heat up the spaces where they live.

People are surviving in dessert where there is no natural water because they've built sea water planets.
…Sounds like he just wants row polymorphism, no?
>You can change your language, but then you've put the bugs in your compiler / interpreter / vm.

memory safety issues account for an overwhelming amount of security bugs¹ and are avoidable by moving to managed languages. Compilers and VMs are very, very good at elimianting this primary source of bugs in code.

The first answer to the C/C++ problem should be to, whenever possible, move to languages that do a large part of the work for you.

In particular in the linux world it seems like a lot of application code that could be written in memory safe languages is still written in plain C.

[1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
The chief executive of Kenya’s biggest telecoms firm has died
yeah, indeed i was
> Schooling is a waste of time anyway
> enjoy their childhood and learn some new skills on their own.

Sadly most kids wouldn't "enjoy their childhood" without school. Schools aren't just about useless assignments, it's a social framework that prepare you for life; learning, the scientific method, living/working with people you don't agree with, doing tasks you don't want to right know but which end up beneficial in the mid/long term, entering a community, &c.

You need a minimum set of tools to be able to navigate in life and most people aren't going to learn these by themselves. Some people have great families/local communities which can play this role but I doubt it's the majority.

None of that needs to happen in a $50k/yr private school though.
I run a fully remote team of devs.

If you need to travel into a major city, that can easily be 45 mins each way. 5 days a week, it pretty much adds up to an extra day each week.

Then there's the benefits to hiring. You now have a global pool of talent to tap, and you can offer for them to live wherever they want. Plus a lot of people appreciate being able to see the kids to/from school.

And just general flexibility is useful. Why shouldn't you run to the shops for a few minutes while things are quiet? Or pay bills, do your taxes, etc?
It doesn't suck in countries such as Australia and Norway.
On the contrary: stories like these are a constant reminder that certain things need to be changed, in spite of extremely powerful forces that would prefer the status quo.
"Ok. I'll delete these repositories at the end of the day on Monday." (;,;)
Why should it include 2015? The date of the recall says June 27, 2019.
Plenty of places in the US have excellent public schools. This is unique to SF.
Internet point king here, but has done nothing in the last decade. Enjoy your meaningless fame.
On my previous team (South Africa) I was located in an underground room with cheap air-conditioners set on 30 degrees celsius.

My eyes couldn't handle the dry air. It was unbearable. One of my colleagues was prescribed subscription eyedrops and another developed an eye condition.

After unsuccesfully trying to negotiate some sort of change to a more sustainable environment with the team of managers I evently started sitting in the above-ground building until I was repremanded and told I had no choice but to sit in that room.

Part of the reason I left that team was to protect my eyes and my health. Other people in the room thought 30 celcius was generous and that it should have been hotter if the aircon could do so. Seems utterly absurd to me.
It is - if you call your shop "Tesco" for example and use their logo and branding to resell Tesco stuff at a slight markup. Of course this would get you shut down very quickly in the real world. I don't know why it should be any different just because it's online.
You would have to ask the authors of those languages but I do not find it very surprising. If you take the whole set of features that commonly comprises object-orientedness it is a rather large set that also seems a bit arbitrary. Why would the same language construct known as a class support inheritance and static members and data hiding? Those are orthogonal things. It seems as such more logical to provide these and other features but not necessarily as a package deal.
Hmm, you're right, the indian ones seem to be the cheapest, even more than Jinko. IDK about Enersol, it looks like a spanish-made name but I can't find any info about it.

I asked you this because the spanish solar industry suffered a lot because of the Chinese competition. AFAIK Atersa was the only brand that remained producing in Spain, everyone else moved production to china.
75% of all databases will live in the cloud by 2022, Gartner says
The arstechnica article is much more detailed with many hd pictures: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/behind-the-scenes-at...
> For example, currently on x86-64, only the lower 48 bits of a pointer are actually used. The other 16 bits could carefully be used for other information

Well, you can't dereference these fat pointers directly on amd64, you have to remove the tag.

aarch64 actually has a Top Byte Ignore flag though :)
It's about the 2015 models.
What makes you say schooling is a waste of time? My kids in an East London comprehensive have come out with a great, rounded knowledge set and a whole set of interests I wouldn't have been able to inculcate into them, plus some rather cool friends.
We're trying something similar - to provide a set of curated services with example deployments for cities or municipalities. We build on NixOS and use morph for deployment. Services include simple-nixos-mailserver, Redmine, Sympa, owncloud with LibreOffice Online and many more. If you're working on something similar or your're interested in helping with this cause feel free to contact me via email or IRC.
I think there's a fundamental distrust of government here in the U.S. that I chalked up to greed until I bothered to glance at the beginning of Tom Paine's "Common Sense" which basically states that government is a necessary evil.
These sorts of selections are likely to happen on a group level to the best of my knowledge, and you can easily imagine how selection for good elderly could work if you imagine children's life expectancy being dependent on their parents and grandparents. If (hyper simplified) a mutation that allows people to maintain eyesight for an extra 10 years helps them be extra spotters for the family on the hunt, and in a food scare environment, making one kill is life or death for the children's ability to eat, then that lineage with better eyesight could be selected for
Is that so bad? Schooling is
a waste of time anyway

The fact this thread is about people paying $30,000 a year for private school suggests this not a universally accepted truth.
Because the effected models are 2015 models, not all 15 inch macbook pros are effected.
Kin selection. The elderly can help their grandchildren survive, so genetic predispositions towards living longer and helping your grandchildren can propagate depending on the cost-benefit of that strategy.
Trade deal won't fix problems experienced by US companies in China
i agree intervening in the economy can have totally unforeseen effects... but if you think about it, we are already interfering in the economy by just having a set of rules (for example, you have to pay your creditors, have to make a profit or you go out of business, have to pay your employees etc)

the thing is, and again this is just my opinion of course, but when everything is based on capital and money, and that’s all that is used to enforce adherence to a system of economy, then only those with access to capital can affect change in the system...

the idea of regulation, at least in theory is that it’s a democratic set of controls on capital that a population feel s is important enough to push for (such as labor standards, or safety standards) and i find it hard to believe (as we can see from our own history) that those wielding great power will just do the right thing because the market pulls them there; people at the bottom with little collective share will have little collective power to affect them through market signals

i think at least we can agree that alot of today’s regulations are by corporations to protect thier positions and do no good, and that even well intentioned but not well thought out interventions can wreak havoc, but i guess we differ on what to do about it (i would prefer to have more democracy (e.g get corporate money out, outlaw lobbying etc) instead of just market based solutions)
Military. Fire service. Police (in specific ways). Government research. University education. Parks. Interstate highways.
The 6s in 2018 was still being sold for maybe $449. Not too much more expensive than the Moto G. A discontinued new 6s can still be found now for around the price of a Moto G and in real world usage is still faster.
Is this only for the US? My 15" Macbook 2015 should be included in the program (And the battery has been asking to be serviced for a couple weeks now), but when I check with my serial number it indicates that I'm not elegible
The video description says that to show you 8k video, you have to use Chrome.
I've been working remotely for 3 years now. This year with a new daughter we took off to Europe for 3 months to visit family (live in NZ). It's so amazing to be able to continue to work but spend time with the grandparents. Incredibly lucky and privileged position to be in.

I too don't want to go back to office life full time if I can avoid it. Unfortunately getting this position was sheer luck, and, I'm not expecting to find it easy to find another full time remote position when this ends. Still, that's a problem for another day ;)
"Seeing a programming language in your native language after working with English ones"

That's probably the reason.
I'd bet after working for the same time with 1C, you (or I, for that matter) would completely ignore keywords and names being in the Russian language. You'd die from the boredom much earlier though, but that's a different matter)

Btw, END IF is as weird as КОНЕЦ ЕСЛИ.
Restaurants are probably the most common type of "offline" business and their owners tend not to be tech-savvy. Couple that with them working long hours and living in their own bubble and it's no surprise that this kind of thing just doesn't get dealt with.

Perhaps the ambulance chasing lawyers should turn their attention to these aggrieved restaurant owners next. They'd have a field day.
It's a bad article, I called it out on that. That is being done all the time. It is not an ideological battle, certainly not "clearly" so.
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Most of what you are reading is basically fake news. Yes, there are homeless in SF, but overall it’s a beautiful city and it’s surroundings, check out Muir Woods
GH comment dated Sep 22, 2017. Looks like UK bureaucracy is a bit slow...
Thanks for this comment. (Mostly commenting so I can find this again, but also genuinely grateful for what you shared)
That's a hypothesis.

Again, reproduction is happening prior to any potential partner even knowing of a grandmother in many places in the animal kingdom. Even for humans actually.

So you're subscribing to the more adaptationalist line of reasoning for the existence of menopause. Which is fine. But you should concede that fact. Many others might subscribe to any of the other hypotheses for reproductive senescence. I subscribe to the artifactualist line of reasoning. ie - people just started living too long, and our bodies adapted for a 20-40 year life span. But there are numerous other hypotheses out there, many of them every bit as plausible as my artifactualist hypothesis. I only subscribe to the artifactualist hypothesis because it is the hypothesis most in line with the theory of evolution.
As far as I understood the cat was adopted because he had a rodent infestation problem. I think he wants the cat to kill prey, only not for it to bring them in.
I did a similar trip last year. San Francisco can be a charming city at times, I especially recommend doing a bike tour across the golden gate bridge via the golden gate park. Alcatraz was interesting to visit too.

Just beware that it is a pretty run down and dirty city. The streets downtown are full of homeless people who seem to be not all there. I've never felt as unsafe in any city as when walking in downtown SF in the evening, it's very counterintuitive if you're used to downtown areas in Europe. Also avoid public transit at night.
That was just the point. At no time did you have to go through the App Store to get s Netflix subscription. You could always go through the Netflix website.

Netflix chose to use the App Store as a method for payment even though they didn’t have to. They decided it was worth the trade off. Plenty of subscription services decided it wasn’t from day one.
Yes, a Ruby port might have had a better chance given the number of Ruby contractors working for gov.uk.
Java agent for dynamically collecting performance, tracing and business data
"It should be noted that Zoe, who asked not to be identified by her real name because she was not authorized by her employer to speak to the press, is not the stereotypical tech bro who moves to San Francisco for a job and immediately starts complaining about the city’s dire homelessness crisis. She arrived in 2007 to study at San Francisco State University and had a career in musical theater before attending a coding bootcamp and landing a job as a developer advocate at a major tech company."

Um, how is she not exactly that? Except that she is a girl, so I guess not a bro. What would you say to girls? "Tech chick"? Or just "Tech sis"?

"It’s just not sustainable for a couple to live here"

Then don't? I write this as somebody who also moved away from his hometown and now can't afford to go back.

"she says she is terrified to walk at night."

And how exactly did Tech workers cause that?

Is there even data showing the homeless and drug addicts are former residents of SF, who were then displaced by rising housing costs because of tech workers?

I don't know why SF with all its money can't get a grip on the problem. But it also seems likely to me that many homeless were simply attracted by the rich people, who can donate more than people elsewhere?
Ocaml also standout as a language in which you can omit type definitions (the only exception I ever needed was when deserializing data).
Whatever could the difference be??
Im curious whether the "evidence" takes into consideration that the people who switch to remote working have naturaly high level of self-organization and often value their own time a lot more simply because they are "better" than an "Average Joe" from the Corp Co.

Evidence that sound like "A group of experts that are alot better than an Average Corp Joe, produce a lot better results even when working remotely" is not as impactful, dont you think ?

Tho if the best candidates value remote working so much, mby corporations have not much of a choice but to change hiring policies.