skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have been nice if he would have included a citation for that claim. I have wanted this to be true for a long time!
Apple doesn't seem to have it's ear to the ground. Ever since windows 10, the software and design advantage Apple had over PCs has arguably narrowed down to irrelevance.

Windows today boasts of good design, higher security than previous versions, a Microsoft supported full blown embedded Linux (WSL) and a much larger selection of apps/tools

It all comes down to specs and build quality in 2019. If one is paying top of the line for Apple, they better ship decent spec-ed hardware, including GPU
>baseless defamation of ReactOS ("like a baby mosquito on the back of an giant elephant")

If only he had called it a cancer. That seems to work well generally.
+1

Talk to HR, discuss this in details.

HR would be on your side (and not on the employee side - even though he/she may be told otherwise).

So HR may propose good plan to resolve it.
Seriously, if "Appalachia" is doing so great let's stop taking from wealthier states and redirecting to these poor ones. Let them clean up their broken down coal mines and polluted water resources. They can handle all the opium addicts and disability deadbeats. They should be able to prop up their own economies without handouts and programs from wealthier parts of the country. Let them continue their war against the "War on Coal". Maybe they can eat their coal. And don't get me started on the litter pretty much everywhere and trash dumped in every river of my home state (KY). I'm sure they will eventually handle that too.
I get anxiety when I smoke and am way too young to attribute it to any sort of “reeder madness” - so it’s definitely a thing. I don’t smoke super often, and don’t always get anxiety when I do, but it definitely gave me terrible anxiety when I was younger.

If anyone else gets anxiety when they smoke, I recommend smoking sativa instead of indica (nicknamed “in da couch” because of its anxiety effects). I was given the tip from a stoner friend, and it’s fsirly true in my experience.
Your sarcasm is brilliant; top points! :-)

All tabs for me. We can configure your editors to show it as whatever we want; no post and pre check in transformation needed. Accessibility is another reason. So really, why is this even an argument?
> My wife and I identify thrift stores, in part, by the number of copies of "Iacocca" (his autobiography) that are on the shelf.

Another thrift store metric is the number of copies of "Jerry Maguire" VHS tapes. A video performance group called Everything Is Terrible has collected over 15,000 Jerry Maguire tapes. They've hosted pop-up video stores that only rent Jerry Maguire. Their new project is raising $500,000 to build a Jerry Maguire pyramid in the desert.

http://www.jerrymaguirepyramid.com/

> (I tried reading "Future Shock", our other perennial thrift store classic, and couldn't make it thru.)

Orson Welles narrated a 40-minute 1972 film version of Future Shock. It's available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUwXenBokU
Plenty of books dedicate the first parts of the course to the experimental evidence of the need of a new theory, namely:the ultraviolet catastrophe of the blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, the unexplained stability of the electron position in an atom among others. From there you introduce, the Planck constant, the quantum of light concept, the de Broglie particle-wave duality and the Schrodinger equation and off you go. It is a pretty standard approach. As per the study of QM as a mathematical probabilistic theory you dont need Newtons Laws at all. The 5,6 postulates are pretty standard, and you take the position operator and the Hamiltonian definitions as part of them , no need to relate them to classical counterparts, at least until you prove the Ehrenfest theorem.
I like how any criticism what so ever of Tesla/Musk results in comments like this.

How about addressing my points. Specifically focusing on profitability and their declining ARPU.
1. but trying to rein in population to save habitat has nothing to do with eugenics or hatred.if we dont stop procreating at this rate, all of us will perish.

2. i disagree. the wasteful rich will never create as big a carbon foot print as the countries with the billion+ population: india and china.

our carrying capacity is anywhere between 500 million-2 billion. in 1600s, we were 500 million. that would be a start. if everyone had 1/2 surviving child quota, we can get to that number in about 150-200 years.
Strip the company into pieces and sell those is another option, that's what KKR did with NXP.
NXP is now again healthy, but that's thanks to a CFO who pulled all sorts of tricks to reduce the huge debt that KKR put on NXP.
Ask HN: What tool(s) are you using for managing localizations?
We are maintaining projects across a variety of platforms and frameworks - ranging from native iOS/Android, Flutter, Node, React to PHP/Symfony e.g. - and need a tool to ease managing localizations across all of them.

Spreadsheets is coming up short and all existing tools seem to be targeted towards a specific platform/framework (and be super expensive).

Maybe we are missing something?
Unfortunately, it seems really hard to learn a modern "good" subset of C++. Too many resources teaching it in too many ways. As an outsider, I have no idea what is good or standard.
This was a concern for me trying to play ~2005-era games on macOS on a 12" MacBook. One of the reasons I offloaded to Steam streaming and stream from my Windows HTPC now.
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How did you handle it?
D uses the same backends, so in principle it's similar coverage to C++ (gdc targets loads and loads of architectures, for example) however druntime hasn't been ported to many.

WASMV is completely doable but there's no C environment( at all) so you have to do it all yourself
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Macros are effectively just masturbation compared to well thought out language features
> I don't see why people spend time on this.

Because control freaks still can't accept personal preferences and insist on uniformity, the idea that I won't indentation to look slightly different on my computer than it does on there's is a heresy. If they world were up to them they'd enforce other things like editor schemes, in fact some have tried to: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Modeline_magic

First shalt thou press the Holy Tab. Then, shalt thou space to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt space, and the number of the spacing shall be three. Four shalt thou not space, nor either space thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, writest thou thy Holy code.
Please don't use HN for nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for. Racial/ethnic/national slurs are particularly unwelome.

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As an aside, anyone ever transitioned from IC SWE to private equity without an MBA?
As a random aside, is it just me or does the logo that the USGS uses for this project look a lot like the Klingon insignia?
They should export to PDF rather than sending word files.
Wow. GCP is always a networking issue. Their QA on networking changes needs work. Maybe they should spend 20% on it.
I don’t watch much tv, but when I do I see a lot of car advertisements that feature a car on some winding country road. Which, while nice, most of us spend the time in our car in traffic/commuting. So I’d view it more of a change of our desires or ideals.
I’ve never heard of spacious but it’s something I would have totally used. It sounds like a great idea.
You could write that as a library feature in D, technically (I'm guessing no one's done it, for obvious reasons)
Do builds go through stage role out?
For service like Cloudflare.
Retailers all but beg FTC to take action against Google, Amazon
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Debug assertions in game binaries for blizzard and blizzard-branched studios are more common than you might expect. At least at ArenaNet, it was studio philosophy to ship with most debug assertions enabled so we could gather crash reports in the field to fix bugs. We only exempted assertions where the checks would cause performance issues (i.e. in a renderer or audio mixer). Most of our engineering culture was inherited from Blizzard and I think that particular rule was too.
If the guy barged into the new position from outside and cursed his way through meetings in aggressive way - that is one thing.

But if he used a "curse word" once (OMG!) in a meeting and some primadonna filed a complaint - fuck that.
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I did and it fucking worked!
Bypass with “Request Desktop Site” in Safari
Interesting - I had assumed the opposite! I picked up a few different blends a while back hoping to address some (relatively mild) social anxiety and it worked well at first but later started giving me horrible anxiety (oddly only later that night - I'd take a small dose in the morning and be fine all day, then freak out from 1am to 4am.) Tried a bunch of different blends of thc:cbd with little luck, but I was sticking mostly to indica thinking sativa was more likely to cause anxiety.
The infamous "cancer" analogy was referring to the copyleft-licensing, not the actual system per se.

Saying ReactOS infringes 200+ Microsoft patents and threatening for lawsuits to developers and all users is a more effective FUD approach to me, and may even be factually true. The entire project of Linux kernel was running under this threat for 10+ years until ~2005 (?) when an agreement was established.
Passage from an ebook by Charlie Cook (The New Profit Rules):

> Lee Iacocca became president of the near-bankrupt Chrysler Corporation in 1978 with an ambitious recovery plan. Had he approached Chrysler’s problems sequentially – making cuts in operations, then making changes in marketing, next making improvements in product lines - the company would have been belly up long before his full plan went into effect.

> Instead, Iacocca took on every problem at once; firing inept management and replacing with his own trusted team, putting two new untested products on the road at once, offering a new, better warranty without possibly knowing what the future cost could be to the company, even placing himself in the company’s commercials as pitchman.

> Iacocca’s understanding of the critical need for speed is exemplified in one classic story. In 1981, no major American car manufacturer had built a convertible car for five years. Sensing an opportunity, Iacocca asked his lead engineer how long it would take to make a convertible for him to test a new convertible. The answer? Three years.

> Iacocca didn’t understand why it should take so long. It would take him 4 hours to take a chainsaw to a sedan and end up with a convertible, he said. Within a few days, Iacocca had a freshly-topless car to drive around to see if women would stare at him (his key indicator). They did, and the LeBaron convertible was born. It was a huge success, selling 21,000 units over projection in the first year.
An American Treatment for the 'American Nervousness' (1980)
I feel like it makes your inner
Voice louder.

some days you can control your inner voice better than others

Also thc tolerance helps, once you get the tolerance up it is a lot less anxiety inducing and more relaxing.
Apple employees comment on Hacker News all the time: they just don’t identify themselves as speaking for the company and make sure to only talk about publicly available information.
I have used so much Corel software in my life. Crazy to think that it was once what Adobe and Microsoft are today.
> more snacking

There are free snacks at the office while remote I'd have to buy my own, so less snacking for me. Same goes for the alcohol, I can't participate in office parties, if I'm not at the office.
Wait, MBA? How are you avoiding thermal issues? Are you using a fan pad or something similar?

I’m considering a similar setup, but I worry the underpowered Y-series chip in an MBA will just become a bottleneck instead if I attack an eGOU.
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Hahah this is what I get for typing on my phone.
That label is so long it’s breaking the HN front page layout for me on mobile.
> every subculture of humans has fractal complexity that is not captured by any representation

Yes, and the facile reduction of that complexity is the source for much of the political stupidity making us miserable. Also, thank you, Internet, for spreading it around so prolifically.
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I don't believe it ever was a C clone.
I remember it always presented as a C _successor_, like C++, but in a different direction.
At some point they didn't have the C extension, making them unable to run software compiled for "GC", which is the baseline targeted by most Linux distros. Has this been fixed yet?
> This will all be at the expense of the commons and the nation state.

Completely wrong.

The state employs force to exist on the account of the people.

Private companies where workers choose to voluntarily work and spend would be a big improvement over that.
Python 3 won't compile with mixed indentation so by recommending a mixture you're picking a fight you cannot win and still have python programmers along with you.
> China says jump and Huawei jumps to build whatever state-sponsored surveillance tooling they need

We'll see your Huawei and raise you AT&T

"The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.” It is a collaboration that dates back decades [...] The NSA exploits these relationships [..] commandeering AT&T’s massive infrastructure and using it as a platform to covertly tap into communications processed by other companies."

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...
<<--Calling WeChat "a kind of malware", what do you mean by this? I would see a miniscule difference between WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or whatever.-->>

WeChat doesn't have end-to-end encryption, while other apps have them. So the difference is not minuscule.
Any communication on Wechat is interceptible by Chinese govt agencies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/07/wechat-chinese...

Wechat doesn't fit the definition of a "malware", but it is a weapon that Chinese govt uses to monitor it's citizens.

<<--Is WeChat actually required in China? I can't find any article to corroborate this claim. Or are you just saying that it's extremely inconvenient to get by without it. One could say the same about Google or Facebook services in the West.-->>

Read this https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/opinion/learning-to-survi...
Yes, the main problem is when an account is using the site primarily for political or ideological battle. Take a look at these explanations that I've posted in the past, and let me know if anything is still unclear.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

If you know of other accounts doing that which we haven't asked to stop, it's likely that we haven't seen them.
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Which, of course, makes it perfectly acceptable?
Broadcom Is in Advanced Talks to Acquire Symantec
My friend says that WinZip makes $70M per year due to government contracts and inertia. There is zero development or costs, it's just a pure money maker for them.
As Google keeps racing ahead, where is Apple’s A.I. strategy?
I remember this cartoon video as well. I found it instructive: https://youtu.be/mII9NZ8MMVM
Irrelevant considering the stuff glyphosate is mixed with, including emulsifiers, surfactants, stabilisers, buffers, solvents.

The cocktail is designed to protect the solution in storage and transport, make it easy to mix into batches for spraying, atomise cleanly when sprayed, but then cling to whatever it is sprayed on, then get absorbed into the plant quickly.

It is those chemicals which cause wet membrane irritation, chemical burns, skin irritation and inflammation, etc.

The glyphosate itself is basically harmless to humans and any effect it might have on gut flora is overshadowed by the damage RoundUp will do to your throat and gut on the way through.

Basically remember to follow the directions including appropriate PPE: gloves, dust/mist breathing mask and eye protection.
suckless seems like a spiritual successor to Plan 9 (albeit POSIX), to the point that it uses some of the same constructs, so I’m not surprised that you thought of it.
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In something that could be worse than solitary confinement. I remind you, that is the place used to punish people who were already in jail. Nobody is known to resist more than a few days there, yet you want an entire eternity.

Far from me to deny you any option... I'm just saying it's far too risky for myself.
The same happens to me, but the next day I feel a significant decrease in anxiety. I wonder if the pro-anxiety effects of THC are overcome by the anti-anxiety effects of CBD over time (e.g. the anxiety effects of THC last for a few hours, the milder anti-anxiety effects of CBD last for a couple of days).

FWIW, I have the opposite reaction to different strains. Sativa gives me anxiety, while indica makes me want to relax and take a nap. Really hope researchers can start testing effects so we can figure out where this can help anxiety. So many people I know struggle with it; I'd love for them to have a way to treat it.
I used to love PaintShop Pro. I even used it when I worked at Adobe back around 2002. Of course my manager freaked out when he saw me using it: "But... You work for Adobe!"

I explained that I would happily use Photoshop if it would just do the one thing I really wanted: load several photos that I shot in a burst and then let me cleanly flip back and forth between them to pick the best one (most in focus, best facial expression, whatever).

I could load a few photos into either Photoshop or PaintShop Pro and then flip between them with Ctrl+Tab, but Photoshop would draw the notorious gray and white block pattern and slowly trickle the new photo onto the screen replacing the blocks. PaintShop Pro simply flipped instantly from one photo to another, so I could easily compare them with no distraction.

I'm sure Photoshop has gotten better since then (I hope). But PaintShop Pro got worse. Besides selecting the best photo, the other main thing I did was cropping. This worked fine back in the day, but then a bug crept in where selecting the crop tool would reset your display zoom level! This was not good when I was trying to crop precisely.

I dutifully reported this to Corel, and the response was that if I wanted to file a bug report I needed to pay for a support incident.

I didn't need support! I just wanted to tell them about something that used to work perfectly and now failed in the new version, along with easy instructions to reproduce the bug.

Still, I paid for a version upgrade every year in the hope that they might have noticed this problem and fixed it. Eventually they did (I think).

Adding insult to injury, every time I upgraded it lost my custom keyboard shortcuts and I had to re-enter all of them. There were only a few of these and it only took a few minutes, but still it was a pain.

I sent in another suggestion that they should adopt standard browser zoom shortcuts with some extensions:

Ctrl+Plus: zoom in
Ctrl+Shift+Plus: zoom in more (5x)
Ctrl+Minus: zoom out
Ctrl+Shift+Minus: zoom out more (5x)
Ctrl+0: reset zoom to 100%

Never heard back on this one or saw them in the product, so I kept re-entering them every time I upgraded. Maybe I won't bother upgrading again, so I won't have to mess with it. That seems like the easiest solution.
> Compared to Java, Javascript, Python, put together?

Yes still. Look to your laptop right now and count the software running in C/C++ vs anything else. They still dominate by far.

And the current fashion of writing everything in Javascript + Electron/NodeJS, just made the C/C++ backend more important than ever. NodeJS is in C/C++, V8 is in C++, Chromium is in C++, Firefox is in C++/Rust and every library behind are in C.
> To me when I read C++ code it's like the modem disconnected in the middle of the editing session with all the : and << flying around.

Visual appearance is a rather weak reason for preferring one language over another (especially if it's for explicitly personal reasons).
Mario 64 was solved using parallel universes
React custom hook for form validation without the hassle
American Medical Association Wades into Abortion Debate with Lawsuit 4:15
Private equity's playbook is very, very transparent. They will take massive loans and use the money to try to create fake growth, maybe by buying a high growth unicorn. Then they will turn around and IPO it and sell it to retail suckers like mutual funds, and make a ton of money. They will get out, and then the company will collapse in a few years, taking down all the retail suckers who bought into it.
Just build a PC and run Linux on it. A lot more games will be playable that way, thanks to Wine, dxvk and vkd3d which macOS can't run well due to Apple sabotaging Vulkan support.
Also interesting, but not mentioned in the article, is that Apple provides data on how often they comply with such requests in addition to how many they get.
Bloody hell. At this point my Linux Desktop + MacBook Pro solution is looking pretty good.
This reminds me of a great talk by Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) about what would happen if you made up a physical version of the periodic table made up of bricks of elements:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GIDDaF26zE
HFT doesn't subset C++ nor does it ignore the standard library. Given you're totally wrong about one I'm not inclined to believe you on the other, and I have an examples from the standard library used in game dev eg atomics.
Introduction to E-Cigarettes
If you're really into it, the most straightforward way is to simply scan the code files one by one.
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