skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are all value objects.

Imagine that eat a banana. The contents of your stomach change. You have assumed a new identity. If you grasp/accept this, you are perceiving yourself as having mutated after eating the banana, because you are in temporal lockstep with your stomach. Most of what we consider to be "fact" and "how the world works" is a matter of perception. But I don't mean that in some hippy dippy way. I mean it in the Cartesian sense, roughly speaking, but at the mechanical level not the cognitive level, partly because I don't want to get trapped in the Cartesian circle but mostly because my idea of perception is any matter whose input function is the state of all other matter, conscious or otherwise, and thereby that the arrow of time arises from an evaluative process.

If I had a spare lifetime I'd probably want to pursue this at postgraduate level at some reputable philosophy department, if there is one. But essentially the thesis is that state is coterminous with identity, and mutation of state therefore creates a new entity, and my interest is in the fundamental processes behind that.

Hence the suggestion: we are all value objects, all matter is information, all information is functional, and perception is therefore the lazy evaluation of the universe.

Note: this is especially important when you are the banana.
Ask HN: How do you like your Surface Book?
I heard good things about hardware and not so good about software. I have a MBP 2017 and I don't like it, so I am thinking about getting a new working machine.

Is Surface Book a good choice? Do you regret getting it?
Google recommends that you include the code on multiple pages, however, it makes it clear in the official docs that this is absolutely NOT required for the reCAPTCHA v3 system to work.

So if the article stated that websites were required to put the code on multiple pages (as the comment I replied to did) then the article is factually incorrect.
This 1000x.

The battery had to be reduced in thickness, so it had to get wider and/or taller, and now we have iPad minis as phones.

-edit

...and Jobs was not keen on the iPad minis.
Is this just not classic recency bias? Many TV shows feature a gay couple/character, and gay marriage was in the national news for years. People are shown examples through media constantly, and therefore think it's more prevalent than it really is.

This applies to almost all issues too, plane accidents being one of the more obvious ones (plane travel is many times safer than car travel, and yet many people don't see it that way).

Thinking Fast and Slow is a great book that covers at length recency bias and its affects [1]. Quite eye opening to me was one study where people were asked to spin a wheel with 1-100, and then asked how many African nations are in the UN. The number on the wheel had a profound affect on the number people picked [2], despite the fact that the number on the wheel should clearly has no meaning.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...

[2] https://www.realclearscience.com/lists/10_problems_with_how_...
Interesting problem! So much of 'reconstructing bits of programs' is about satisfying the constraints of a fixed ascii representation of code. I am hoping that structured editing might be able to help with this, by allowing you to hide or show bits of code without relying on the type checker, but we need to have good ways of integrating with other tools for that to take off (like source control sites).
Regarding your point 1.) Where I live in New Zealand, the largest newspaper/website (NZ Herald) has a Chinese language version. It was shown that the Chinese version of the news articles are sanitised to be more China friendly. Articles critical of China are also often not featured at all in the Chinese version of the website. The Herald always states this is a coincidence and is due to a 'lack of resource' for the Chinese version of the publication but it's clear foreign investment is manipulating the news/media locally. (A rival news agency recently showed some of the writers had been to China on paid trips for 'media conferences' which appear to set the agenda on what to publish etc)
Because our collective western culture is still the direct product of Greek philosophy no matter how many mario kart games are released.

The books in the western canon are important because they are good and went on to influence everything you consume today, even the narrative in super mario. Take some time to read a good chunk of these books and you will be wiser than most people you know on all sorts of topics.
If they did not have servers in Germany couldn't they have just ignored the lawsuit?

They can make it illegal for Germans to use the site if they wish, but they can't go meddling in foreign media content. If Saudi Arabia serves you a lawsuit because you have a picture of a woman's face on a webpage without hijab, would you fly there to go to court? I'd just trash their lawsuit and never go there. They can block my site if they want -- same goes for Germany.
Preternaturally talented professional athletes have terrible seasons, even multi-year slumps. It's downright silly to point to some piece of output that is a "mistake" (never mind the fact that this claim is itself highly subjective) and use that to conclude that, regardless of the rest of the person's output, they're not preternaturally talented.
forget DVDs, many libraries now carry blurays. With that said, unless you enjoy it as a hobby, the time it takes to do it (+the storage cost and electrical costs if you are transcoding it for storage) is hard to justify relative to even having multiple accounts.

i.e. if one spends only 10 hours a month ripping things, is paying $20-$30 a month for multiple services (or even $50-$100) worthwhile? of course it is for people who don't value their time (or view this as time well spent as it's their hobby), but for the majority of people, it shouldn't be how they use their time.
How many companies besides Apple can afford to bring Ive on as a contractor and implement his level of perfection? How many companies will continue investing until they have the perfect color “white”, the new ceramics, or the unibody designs that require completely new tooling?

I worry that Ive will quickly grow frustrated when he realizes that he is a consultant, and at the end of the day, it will be the company that makes the final decision.Will Ive want his name to be associated with an object that was deemed “good enough” by the hiring company?

Understanding the culture of an organization, the strengths and weaknesses of its executives, what the organization is capable as a whole.. that kind of access and connection comes when you are deeply integrated within it. As consultant, you are an external party, an outsider. No matter how good your ideas are, it is up to the client to decide whether or not they will be implemented.

I see Ive as the next Terry Gilliam trying to pitch Brazil! to a set of executives, except Gilliam was able to work with Criterion to ultimately release a 3 version box set: his version, what the executives wanted, and what was released in the theatre. Three completely different movies that highlight the clueless executives and the genius of Gilliam.

Or maybe he spends some time with his family and is a secret force behind the scenes, donating time to universities and design schools, trying to encourage the next generation.
not sure how Google can keep making their product worst and keep getting more customers...
This can also be explained by the fact that humans are terrible at estimating percentages. I would assume we'd see similar result for other questions. "3% of the population" sounds ridiculously low, but if you interact with 30 people each day you're likely to meet someone in that small category.
Well, what other groups make up 5% of the population and get corporate logos changed in recognition of that group?

About 5% of Americans watched the NBA finals, did brands go out of their way to make NBA fans feel included?

Do news shows bring on their NBA correspondent to talk about NBA issues?
Eh, it's clear priming didn't have too much of an effect here. The single most selected answer in every year was >25%. Respondents thought the number was too low to begin with.
You sure? The A380 is so much larger (especially in width) that it can't fit into the narrower gate spacing typically seen for smaller planes. Sure, maybe one in isolation could service an A380, but ten in a row in typical airport spacing can't service ten A380s.

Separately, there's the issue that the A380 is so large that you need multiple jetways (at least one for each level) to efficiently load and unload everyone. Maybe you could slowly unload an A380 by debarking everyone off the lower level and forcing everyone on the upper level to walk down the plane's internal staircase, but this is extremely sub-optimal. In practice airlines don't do this; they use specialized gates set up for the A380's special needs.
On top of everything else commented, there's the matter of how delicate you need to be about it. I do hope no one ever tries to down a satellite with a railgun, as debris might create a runaway effect that brings about a dark night. Use lasers, be responsible.
Not a minor point at all. I think sexual fluidity is one of the most relevant aspects of sexuality and I would love to see it measured. Labels like "Gay" and "Bi" are way too simplistic.
I wandered into an Apple Store with my wife one day to look at the Apple Watches, the first major product designed without Steve Job's involvement.

Looking at the thick, rounded rectangles, I laughed out loud and said "Jony Ive has no taste".

Like I said before, without Steve Jobs, Jony Ive is just another designer.
Anything with DRM is not sold, it is leased. My bugbear is that they still have "Buy Now!" buttons and such, which to my mind is fraud.

I wonder what the reaction would be if it said, "Lease Now!" instead?
I like thinness, and agree that small volume is generally important, but for the target audience it seems that Apple made too many compromises for that thinness.
"1a" in this context means nothing. The AZ assignments each account gets is random. us-east-1a is probably a different data center for you than me.
To correct ambiguity, can we say WWII bomb? Makes it sound less like this is only the second time this happened. Thank you!

And kinda scary this is still happening, in 2019
If you're going to involve someone specifically for the purpose of writing English, then obviously you'd pick someone who's good at it. It's not a native/non-native distinction so much as it is "good at writing in English" vs not.
Check out "The Pentagon's Brain" for a view into the ways they've "played at" war since the 40s.
One only needs a single shop that would agree. And at those prices the shop can be in any country.
I’d tend to agree, although look at the success of new connection technologies Apple pioneered when they were coupled with things that already did similar things.

FireWire, all speeds: was always coupled with USB or other tech that possibly didn’t carry data as fast as FW, but was “good enough” for lots of things. FireWire never really took off aside from digital video cameras, and that got phased out over time, too.
DisplayPort: nope.

Compare that to the original iMac, which dropped the serial and SCSI port. People gasped, but in not too long (at least now, looking back in it), USB was everywhere.

And now USB-C. Would it have been as popular as it currently is - on lots of chrome books, many phones, even the Nintendo switch - if Apple has not been so gung ho on it? Possibly, but a bit of me doubts it.
They aren’t mistakes, just designs for constraints we aren’t aware of yet.
Conflating lead-acid with lithium ion is a mistake; they're very different technologies. LiIon Battery durability is getting better at a very fast rate, and proper heating/cooling is a big part of that.

But the overall message is sound: you have to commit to a very different infrastructure if you want to make the change. Cities with an aging and/or poorly maintained diesel fleet are going to be better suited to making a 'clean break'.

China is pushing it through because it's a long-term investment. That makes sense for them. That doesn't mean that bus electrification is going to happen rapidly in the US.
Why didn't you do more to sabotage these efforts?
FreeDOS, like MSDOS, relies on BIOS calls to control the hardware. Most PCs aren't pure EFI-only and can still boot with some BIOS compatibility, but of course not all of the BIOS implementations are bug-free.

When legacy BIOS compatibility is truly dead, I guess DOS will die with it.
> Consider iPhone 5c, for example. The colors are horrid, and when you add those Crocs-like cases it looks more like a Fisher-Price toy than like a device an executive would want to be seen holding.

But it wasn't for executives. It was supposed to be a downmarket phone. You may think the colors were horrid, but I think they added much needed character to the iPhone line, much like the XRs.
That's probably why they don't put up much fuss anymore if you never register windows 10.
>Nothing wrong with USB-C and the big trackpad is fine too, and I would love to have touchID on my 2015MBP. But getting rid of mag power and the USB-A ports, HDMI port, and SD card slot was a big step back.

All of the above plus a thicker battery.

95% of the time I use my MBPr plugged in, but the few times I need to run it on battery power it would be nice to have longer than 2hr run time (late 2013 MBPr 15" w/ Iris Pro/GeForce GT 750M and brand new battery).
Age is also huge. It's easy to forget that half of the population is over 38.
I don't have any issue with companies taking no stand, so long as they don't have negative impact on the LGBT community through political contributions.

Do people genuinely _expect_ Apple, et. al. to proactively support LGBT rights? I think it's asking a bit much, but also, I'm no marketing expert.

I get that people want to associate with brands that they feel can 'get them'. And brands can freely choose what they identify with. But this is just marketers getting you to buy, it isn't a real political stance.

So I would say to the person who exclaims, "Why doesn't <corporation X> support <cause>?", is largely ineffective. You got a bunch of social media icons to be rainbow-colored, and no actual legislative agenda for your issue, on behalf of these companies. Can we consider that progress? To me "Support LGBT rights <or else>" does not sound like progress.
Tour the Apollo 11 landing site, minute by minute, during that one small step
I hear you, but the current state of affairs in Java (I know this isn't quite Java, but just for illustration) is more like:

Dictionary<string, KeyValuePair<int, string>> contrivedExample = new Dictionary<>();

Which seems ok to me? And we don't enter the slippery slope of allowing variables without types, and hoping people just use it where appropriate.
I'm assuming existence as a premise to avoid circularity. I'm actually more interested in why the universe isn't static, i.e. the idea that state change and the arrow of time might arise from evaluative processes as the fundamental causal structure.

When it comes to the question of whether consciousness is orthogonal to existence. I'm inclined to the position that it's an emergent property of matter, in particular taking exception to human exceptionalism. I acknowledge this is sailing damn close to the Chinese Room argument.
You think, "The level of influence that LGBTQ currently has in the American mind share far outsizes their population".

They gained marriage equality only 4 years ago. They are underrepresented in Congress (10/535, about 42% of expected representation based on the 4.5% number cited in the article). Same sex relationships have only been decriminalized for less than 50 years.

By any standards they are a historically oppressed minority in the US. I wouldn't worry that your, "account will be banned for mentioning this" but I do think your concerns are pretty ridiculous in light of a few rainbow flags and rainbow themed logos.

edit: I left out a bunch of stuff (DOMA, DADT) intentionally but I made an egregious mistake with, "decriminalized for less than 50 years". I forgot that gay sex was still illegal in 14 states until just 2003 (Lawrence v. Texas).
Maybe the next steps for the working programmer are, in fact, a deep dive into math.
I share his concerns about not appointing a C level design executive. You need design (at Apple) to not be cost driven
For test systems, you can create LPARs on IBM z mainframes. I don't have much mainframe experience but I know they have access to test systems and development systems

Not sure about bugs, but I suspect mainframes have fairly redundant software with enough hardware and software to handle unknown bugs.
Plotly.express
Count yourself lucky. Most of us developers cant even read the code we wrote in a professional setting once we leave a company.
I’m highly skeptical of this. Local info will probably be used to refine things, but GPS and maps are still going to be the primary inputs driving things like “which exit do I take?”

Since you mentioned Tesla’s current systems, note that this is how they work now. Lane keeping is entirely local, but decisions about which lane to be in or which exit to take to reach your destination are done with your GPS position.
Battlestar Galactica, more or less
Yes? Advertisers always market to sports fans.
I'm now kind of curious if Hacker News has a policy on usernames (with respect to the standards applied to comments).
Hard to do if you’re aiming straight up.
I prefer 666 as a subtle reminder to the thief that they are being naughty.
Any UI element that you can't find by searching is not first class. In particular, if there's some gesture you have to randomly guess exists, it's a hidden feature for advanced users only.
I hope not.

I absolutely love the current MacBook Pro as it is, keyboard, Touch Bar and all. The only changes I would wish for are an OLED/better screen with a higher native resolution, and perhaps make it even lighter. :)
firefox singlefile extension is pretty nice for this but still not perfect given how much dynamic bullshit gets shoveled on top of every website
It's risen by 1 percentage point since 2012 when they started tracking this, and for millennials, the number is around 8.2%. They don't seem to have data for zoomers yet. [1] This would suggest (imo) that 4.5% is in fact a significant underestimate, but I don't know necessarily that it's as far off as 20%

[1]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population...
The macbook pro is barely a professional device. Just look at the bottom end of the specs.

The macbook should be closer to the current pro, rather than this basically an air/but not an air thing they have going on.

The pro should be for actual professionals, not for anyone that wants a laptop with more than just 2 cores.
Sure, you can be upset about it, but then at least let's make the argument about "What is the best way to solve this business problem?", instead of pretending this business problem doesn't exist.

For example, you argue that this "breaks an existing paradigm", but I'd argue that auth with just username and password is so fundamentally broken that a new paradigm is needed in any case, and things that push us more towards passwordless/token/key based auth is a step forward.
Don’t do that... it’ll knock wood particles into the air, which might settle in the butterfly mechanism and jam up a key.
> Fifth: Fuck this “sir” shit. We don’t have titles in the United States.

The 1 second it took me to google revealed he is British,
and apple is all about showing off your "class".. so yeah.
You can go further. There's a result that if you know how much processing time is left for a job, and can pre-empt it, then the most effective scheduling rule is "Shortest Remaining Processing Time" or SRPT.

Harchol-Balter calls this the All-Can-Win Theorem, because it counterintuitively shows that jobs with more time to go being interrupted by jobs with less time to go will be better off.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/all-can-win.pdf
Ookay. Apparently something in my phrasing seems to have ruffled some degree of feather, but I'm not seeing much in the way as to response to substance, so perhaps a final clarification is in order.

On vulnerability to being rigged:

I Absolutely see gerrymandering as a form of systemic cheat. It is a legal option within the explicit constraints laid down by the Framers, however, from a systems oriented point of view, the practice of districting is meant as a way to geographically divide up up the space in a State in such a way as to allow representation to be ideally derived equitably via geographical proximity.

I find any attempt to try to engineer a district based on anything but geographical division to be highly suspect. I understand local footprints change, and redistricting may be required, but the process should be looked at as an technical apolitical consideration, rather than as a strategic way to exploit statistics to try to shift district lines into a more favorable arrangement for one party or another. My original statement was meant to clarify that the Supreme Court decision hasn't really changed anything in the grand scheme of things. I.e. no new vulnerabilities to gerrymandering were introduced. There was only a closing of the door on the Federal Courts picking sides.

On the rest; I find both Maryland and North Carolina's attempts to quantify and measure the effects of gerrymandering admirable, even if the Supreme Court chose to abstain from the fight. I'm not 100% clear, but I don't recall having seen SCOTUS overturning the lower court's judgements; they merely proclaimed that no precedent derived from either case had standing within the context of the Federal system, and further remedy would need to be sought either in the National Congress, or through State specific law. Then again, I may need to re-read.

Wasn't trying to start a flame war, even though apparently my initial knee-jerk reaction did. I could not understand how gerrymandering could have been casually tossed aside, even with their reasoning. It took a bit of stepping back to get the subtler points to crystallize.
Sorry, I didn't mean to. It's my fault.
Higher traffic noise makes it more likely that the one engine or horn that you need to hear will be masked by all the others. Any kind of noise, including the music people play through their headphones, will have that effect. Headphones reduce the amount of ambient sound one hears, they interfere with interpretation (e.g. localization of sound), and they even interfere with response to even non-auditory stimuli. People wear headphones all day in open offices precisely because they decrease awareness of the environment. Please follow some of the references in the introduction of this document to learn more.

https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/59823/MAY-...

"Not clear" indeed. It just doesn't get much clearer.
>What is the competition for?

to get users

>What outcome is Libra competing for?

somebody creates money, zucc wants to be that guy
I respect John Gruber but on this one I find it a bit too easy to lash-out (rightly or wrongly) on Jony Ive only when the man stepped-out of his job at Apple. It would have been a bit more courageous to have said these things when he was still there.

More on the point though, I'm not in the camp of those believing that in this day and age in a company as big as Apple you can assign all the mistakes (or successes) to a single man. For instance, to think Jony Ive being even remotely responsible for the keyboard debacle seems preposterous to me.