skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to add to the above, about using Outlook: I truly despise using Outlook for my email. It's truly horrible. It's so incredibly slow and buggy and I have to frequently kill it and restart it so it'll show me my emails and there's even a very noticeable lag between my typing and the characters showing up on the screen. I can't believe people pay for this turd.

But it's just one of the things I have to put up with for the job, like many other annoyances, and overall things are pretty good which is why I'm still here. Thankfully my job doesn't entail a large amount of email. So I don't understand why people complain so much about Macs; if you don't like it, don't buy it, but if you're being given it for work, that's why it's called "work": it's not supposed to be fun. If Outlook started causing me so much trouble that it was impairing my work performance, I'd bring it up with my management and let them deal with it. If they didn't, I'd just continually remind them of how much of my time is being wasted by it so they don't think I'm slacking off.
Interstellar iron isn’t missing, it’s just hiding in plain sight
I thought this is saying it won’t continue.. the whole death + backup part?
I would do this but the fan runs much more when closed. As is, I use my 2017 MBP exclusively with the wireless keyboard from my 2008 iMac.
Can't we throw a few math instructions into the spin loop?
Not wanting my workflow broken and replaced with inferior software is "elitist"? I don't think so. I hope your attitude isn't prevalent inside of Mozilla. You can say that breaking existing extensions isn't necessary, yet that's exactly what has already happened once and seems like it will happen again.
> With Woz, who had only flown for 50 hours at the time, at the controls, the plane climbed too abruptly. Then the aircraft stalled and careened through two fences into the car park of a skating rink. Woz later said he thought Candi might have accidentally leaned on the controls.

How could leaning on the yoke (or any other control) cause a stall? She'd have to pull back on it to force a climb like that. I'm kind of amazed he was able to fly a plane like that at 50 hours. A turbo-charged engine requires an extra certification step right? And the private pilot license minimum is 40 hours.
I'd like to see Prime Video on the Google Home Hub.
> It may not have been preventable, but he was absolutely correct on NAFTA.

He was wrong on NAFTA, pushing the nationalist/mercantilist line that it would divert gains from the US to Mexico when the actual problem was that (as is generally the case for neoliberal “free” trade) that it drove gains to the capitalist class in both the US and Mexico (and internationally, as capital is largely globalized) to the relative disadvantage of the working classes on both sides of the border.

Bill Clinton was largely rhetorically correct on NAFTA, at least in outline (noting that it would be an aggregate boon but would require additional work to avoid adverse impacts on workers), but while he did impose a labor side agreement on NAFTA it was insufficient to change the basic problems.
ah, sorry to hear that. I only have one server in California. My friend in Japan tried it, and didn't seem to have the issue you mentioned. I wonder if others see the same too. This is certainly an issue I need to fix.
Of all the complaints about the keyboard, the reliability issue with them are real, but also they're the one thing Apple owns up to. When I get the keyboard swapped they often also swap out a new battery for me.
It would even be a million times better to place the sensitive files inside /TOP_SECRET_FOLDER and disallow the entire path, avoiding to explicitly name the paths at least.

This is the only way to use robots.txt for semi-sensitive info, and obviously not for info so sensitive that it would be awful for it to get out. URLs can leak through proxy logs and shared browser history.
So, I use Dell XPS 13 personally, and when I got MacBook Pro 15 2018 model, I was super unhappy with size of trackpad. It took a while, but I got used to it and now prefer over my XPS-13 trackpad.

The trackpad was always amazing (force touch, sensitivity, palm detection and all), but I think the extra size makes doing gestures super smooth. As in, my fingers don't feel constrained.
The new Jaguar Land Rover system to track the mood of drivers
We have a seemingly pretty firm age for the universe of 13.7 billion years; earth is 4.5 billion years old, and life on earth is at least 3.5 billion years old.

So I think the step of going from nothing to the first single celled life is implausibly large to happen in a few million to a billion years, and to me, Occam's razor would imply that something necessary was developing during the previous 9 billion years, such as the development of chemotrophs underground in deep space.
> Woz was scary good at both hw and sw

You damn-near gave me a heart attack then! :D

I thought he had died for a moment, Phew!
> Within the Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be)
Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
Should find brief solace there, as I have found.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52299/nuns-fret-not-a...
Egypt detains Iran oil tanker, arrests 6 for espionage
I disagree massively with your last point, on the manner by which someone ended up there being obvious. Our current children are being raised by parents who grew up in a very different time, and the world has never been more complex. The tradeoff isn’t as simple as an educated adult making a bad financial decision, it’s actual children taking on huge burdens with little to no guidance in complete accordance with what society is telling them to do to get ahead, cause thats what worked 30 years ago.
I really hope Roku stick around, as an independent company is very valuable in this space. Thankfully they're making popular and well reviewed TVs, so hopefully that's enough to keep them around.
Cloud formation is also thought to inversely correlate to sunspot activity. With the lull in solar activity, that very well could be the cause.
TMSU (https://tmsu.org/) is another one like this. It's simple and inter-operates with everything that currently exists and it offers most features you'd want out of a database file system.
Nice, now let's please pass laws to prohibit this being given to farm animals under high penalties and international prosecution.
You could give computer manuals, but you have to:

a) praise achievement not intelligence

and

b) Create an interest first. Maybe make it seem like magic or show something that you can do with it.
Join the ultra-low-power crowd! There are lots of fun things to make while trying to squeeze it in a couple of KB and a few kHz.
If you ping 0.0.0.0 on Linux it pings 127.0.0.1. That's the behavior I'm talking about. Binding to 0.0.0.0 is something completely different and not Linux-specific.
Considering a 128Gb SSD costs $47 and a 500Gb SSD costs $78 Apples's $400 "upgrade" to 500Gb over the base model's 128Gb disk represents a 6-fold price hike on its market value. Why do we put up with this? Now it's soldered on so we don't even have the freedom to upgrade our own machines.
Regarding the price: there have been very few other machines with similar specifications (12", fanless, <1kg). All of them were significantly more expensive than the MBP. I can remember for instance of the Asus LaVie Z laptop, which was priced at $1700.

Time to replace the battery of the MBP I've been using since 2015 I guess.
> I don't go around calling my screwdriver with cute names. It has a job to do. It needs a unique identifier to distinguish from other screw drivers.

Screw drivers also aren't regularly re-designed to hop on current design trends and bump specs (or, rather, if manufacturers try it then people ignore it). Car models are probably a more apt comparison.
Essentially no. As yorwba points out in a sibling post the GFW is wise to the protocols being used.

Algo doesn't work either.

Or more accurately they don't work for long. The GFW slowly degrades the connection over the course of some minutes, making it unusable after a while. This then resets every day or so.

After a series of days or weeks the IP address associated with the server is completely blocked.

The situation with Shadowsocks has more or less been the same for me. I have been unable to have a reliable connection to blocked websites with either a self-hosted (on servers outside of China) Algo or Shadowsocks server. This has meant it is impractical to run your own server with circumvention software. As far as I can tell the way that VPN providers get around this in China is to just operate a huge fleet of IP addresses that rotate in as they are inevitably blocked and leave ones that get blocked out of rotation long enough so that they are no longer blocked.

I have heard that V2Ray is the new way to go if you want to set up your own way of getting around the GFW, but it looks rather complicated to set up. https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core

Basically the GFW is quite sophisticated these days and the usual solutions used outside of China don't work.
Not everyone can be right about everything I'd note.

He was a man who made a tremendous influence, mostly good, some bad.
And I think it depends on the kid, and the fact that smart phones exists now makes little difference.
Also, the government immediately put price controls on the Hepatitis C cure even though it was already going to be offered at a cost that was way below the lifetime treatment cost of the previous standard of care. This was predictable, of course, but it's weird to blame the pharma companies.
The mainland conviction rate doesn't matter. It's about the HK criminal laws and whether the case in question was sentenced a 7 year prison term under HK law before extradition is even in question (if it's simultaneously a crime under the target country's law).
> In either case, it seems like writing new software using bleeding-edge versions of libraries and tools is not really necessary; if you hang back a couple releases, it makes matters much easier.

I believe this is precisely what Foliate does. It depends on meson 0.40 (released Apr 2017) and gjs 0.52 (released Mar 2018). Sixteen months old dependencies can hardly be considered bleeding-edge.
Dont give them a phone in the first place
Lindsay Ellis. While she does mostly film movies, she's also done some great documentaries about YouTube, fair use, etc. It's very long form, with not a lot of clickbait or CTAs. I think she's heading more that way these days, and she is entertaining, insightful, and wicked smart.
Is there some credible info about this somewhere, or is this just speculation?
OK. That has caused me to update my beliefs. I still think that there is relatively little risk -- like, you should be much more worried about being in a car accident -- but I no longer think it's on par with being struck by lightning.
The modern economy is "super recent". So are computers and solar cells. Just because something is new doesn't make it easily dispensable.
> What if new tropical paradises means the current tropical paradises become uninhabitable.

And what if the shift happens so fast there isnt enough time for all of the tropical plant life to migrate with the temperature changes?
> implies that we and the alien bacteria had a common ancestor

My intuition suggests that wouldn't be necessary. For example, if I saw a snowflake like structure on another planet I wouldn't be surprised since that kind of structure is a result of the physical properties of the elements involved. It could be the case DNA is very similar in that respect, a mathematical necessity given the properties of hydro-carbons. I suspect the science on that issue isn't settled.
The ban on 'dehumanization' was in response to NPC memes. It was introduced in mid October 2018 after the NPC memes became popular. They banned over 1500 accounts -- for a while they were banning every account with a NPC face in the avatar. Recall that the NPC meme originates from the (joke) that some people are robotic in their thinking, and the NPC memes are faces running a program. As this was not a violation of any twitter rules, twitter made up a rule as an excuse to block these memes.

But if you think about it, the NPC memes were not arguing that some specific individual was not human, but rather than certain types of reasoning was robotic -- e.g. atavistic, primitive, and automatic. So this was an idea that was being blocked.

Going back to religion, the whole point of religious arguments is that they offend people and challenge the core of their identity. So of course this is going to be used as a weapon against religious views. Especially if your religion includes beliefs that some people are followers of false prophets, children of the devil, etc. Religion is used in many ways as a dividing line over who is favored and who is not.
> a whopping 1.4 kilograms (3.1 pounds) of a substance, believed to be Californium

That's preposterous. Californium is not naturally occurring and costs tens of $M per gram to produce. Anyone who paid attention in high school should see big flashing alarms when reading a claim like that.
That "simple" fix won't solve the problem where G2A makes bundle economics completely unsustainable for indie games.
Want to start a podcast?
One character shorter, so that's somewhat helpful. However, wouldn't requiring to type the http:// prefix still kill the simplification enough to make this not even bothering with? Otherwise, both Chrome and Firefox will do a google search for the decimal number.
Pure CSS Graphics and Animation
> it's a supported release.

Calling it "supported" in the context of the ability to build arbitrary software is misleading. It's supported by Debian for the particular packages included in Debian's package repositories - nothing less, nothing more.
Once a Joke Goes Viral, Who Cares Where It Came From? (2015)
Its a service ran by a single person. He croaks and its gone with no warning.

You should anticipate that as how your relationship with any non-big name service you use will end because that's how it will. It just won't be working one day, then the next. You'll hit the internet to find that the person running it died a month ago and the business with them.
Posits also take less space for the same total accuracy, they use less space on disk, ram and less memory bandwidth.
If you lived on Long Island, and didn't know where humans came from, but you knew about how big the earth was, would it be rational or in accordance with Occam's razor to assume homo sapiens originated in your vicinity? Most people would in fact be wrong if they even assumed humans originated on their continent.

I feel like people get sidetracked into talking about evidence, when the issue is that life originating on Earth should not be the default assumption. I feel like someone more lucid than me could make a good Bayesian sort of argument.
I just got an update! Good job Jonathan Leitschuh!

Release notes of 4.4.53932.0709:

Remove local web server

-We are discontinuing the use of a local web server on Mac devices. Following the update, the local web server will be completely removed from the Zoom installation
Option to uninstall Zoom

-Zoom users can now uninstall the Zoom desktop application and all of its components through the settings menu
Interesting. You can store the data in a regular browser window, and it's still there if you open the URL in a private window.

The private mode should have its own cache that is initially empty.

Idea: since private sessions are typically short-lived, they never have to validate ETags. Basically just cache resources indefinitely and never ask "is this item still valid". the cache is thrown away when the private session is closed; that's what invalidates it.
I can’t stand using Any trackpad, but the huge Mac one literally deters me from buying a Macbook. I am very much sold on Trackpoint, which I find to be all of conveniently positioned, not nearly as accident prone, and quite precise. Some also don’t realize this, but if you hold the middle button while pointing the trackpoint, it scrolls, which is super useful; I hardly have to move my hands to operate the pointer. A lot of people with aversion to trackpoint can be seen doing odd things, like scrubbing across it like its a mouse or trackpad. Once you get past these issues, which unfortunately does represent a learning curve, it’s quite good in my opinion.

My take: I think the touchbar and giant touchpad are both symptoms of Apple’s aversion to put a touchscreen on the Mac. With many Thinkpads and other PC laptops, you may not get quite as good of a touchpad experience (though Microsoft Precision Touchpad is a pretty good experience I would argue,) but my touchscreen experience with even Linux has been pretty good in recent years, and it has ended up being a useful, if not quite killer, feature to have.

Touchbar makes little sense to me. Power users don’t look down at their keyboards. I think the same reason Valve dropped the screen on the Steam controller applies to keyboards, and is probably part of the reason why similar visual keyboard utilities have largely not sold well. Interestingly, ones that have, like the Streamdeck, are often designed to be positioned on a much more convenient angle. On top of all of this, it didn’t seem worth getting rid of the useful fixed-position keys for a programmable bar.

And on top of everything... I don’t even think Apple has made the most compelling innovative designs in this space anyways. PC laptop manufacturers have been trying arguably more interesting and possibly even more useful concepts for a while to varying degrees of success. For example, MSI has a keyboard where the number pad is a programmable touchscreen. I believe ASUS has a laptop where instead of a touchbar, you get 3 small desktops that you can pin things to. Granted, none of these things are likely to stick in the long term, but I also believe the touchbar won’t either.

I think I get why Apple does not want to put a touchscreen on Mac: the interface isn’t really designed for it. But as much as I have a strong dislike of Windows 10s propensity to install Candy Crush without my consent, I will also concede and say it does a seriously excellent job handling a touchscreen on a desktop. It’s a shame that it will take so long to clean up decades of UI cruft, but even with it, Windows turns out to be a good experience with a touchscreen so as long as you have another precise pointing method simultaneously.

So after all is said and done, and contrary to probably many people’s sensibilities, I actually think the PC laptop market is doing peripherals better, even if the touchpad drivers can be a bummer.
Card decks are a much smaller problem space than the entirety of the Earth and factors affecting it's climate.
What with the Botoșani reference, what were you doing in Romania?
independents were always weird, but at least not stupid dicks like you know who.
I'm thinking someone may have proved by construction that DNA isn't the only possible code. Didn't someone make "artificial" DNA by substituting something chemically for some of it?
The first time I installed Zoom, I opened up a pkg (an Installer package) and Installer said this package wanted to run a script to determine whether or not it can be installed. Usually this is for checking system version or some other harmless action. But for Zoom, this script immediately installed Zoom itself. I immediately thought something fishy was going on.
I have no connection or affiliation with this product, but I enjoy a good ASCII/Unicode chart in code—a picture is worth a 1k words—and I've been leaning on https://monodraw.helftone.com/ lately for my text drawing needs.
I think the real reason that airdropping information into North Korea won't help is that it's a slave state held hostage by a ruling family that secures aid for itself with the threat of nuclear Armageddon and the immediate shelling of Seoul. But this is also the reason that the sophistication or lack thereof of their political belief systems is irrelevant: These are not participatory governments.

I would highly recommend The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith for a reset of one's political expectations, especially for countries with resource extraction economies. The mechanics of selectorate theory can be very, very brutal.
Even though we have only one datapoint, I wonder how much can be inferred from this planet's life characteristics.

First, life came about rather shortly after the planet was able to sustain it. So this timing is either very unlikely, or biogenesis has a high probability of happening, or the initial life got seeded from off planet (from a very rare initial phenomenon).

Second, all the biosignatures from all forms of life are similar. For example, corality (left handed versus right handed molecules) is the same in all life examples we had. So that means that biogenesis happened only once. Otherwise we would have multiple unrelated examples (yes, there is the possibility that one form "ate everything else", but we have all kinds of variety instead of only one organism becoming dominate). So if biogenesis happened only once (for all of our bio examples), then it is either a rare event that just happened to occur very shortly after the planet cooled, or it happened sometime before Earth was hospitable for life and elsewhere in the universe.

Does any of this make sense? Or am I reading too much into the tea leaves?
Fair enough, thanks for taking a closer look at the OP's post and my analysis. I appreciate the insight.
Pretty sure that having a work laptop gone for a day is not an ideal situation for most people.
I wonder how many scientists, musicians, sport legends wouldn't exist if their world wasn't boring, and if there wasn't just a very limited pool of things to do, allowing them to become specialists on those.
> transmission speed

Memory bandwidth relative to instruction to instruction latency has gone way down. Memory is slower now relative to the amount of math one can do.

We are also swimming in extra silicon, so even if what you are saying is true (2x the number of gates, all adding to the delay), posits would still be a win.

You are arguing from an arbitrary what-if position, it doesn't look good.
> A one-person business is an exercise in long-term anxiety management, so I would say if you are already an anxious person, go ahead and start a business. You're not going to feel any worse. You've already got the main skill set of staying up and worrying, so you might as well make some money.

This hits very close to home, guess I might as well embrace it! I'd probably be just as anxious at a normal job anyway and am determined to figure out anxiety management.
I agree, with the caveat that the same holds for big-name services. It's only the mode of death that's different (bus accident vs. "our incredible journey" blog post).
The finicky bits of a Hackintosh were always the trackpad support, wifi card, and longevity of the battery. I tried a hackintosh for a year but it felt like I was always tinkering with the config like you do/did with Linux installs.
I'm once bitten, twice-shy. IIRC Roku was created by Netflix in order to avoid the potential conflict of interest between device maker and content provider when the manufacturer is also a content creator.

I'm not going back to the FireTV, Roku seems to work well.
Maybe many centuries after the upcoming massive population displacement that threatens to seriously destabilize the world politically and economically
My girlfriend was in the Peace Corps and I was freeloading.
Having a tenancy to send an entire family (and future generations) to a forced labor camp for trivial "violations" tends to make people STFU.

I have no doubt that people in North Korea know there is an outside world that is a little less fucked up. Do they (at an individual level) have an empowerment to enact change? Lol that's a good one.
“Making an App Is a Terrible Idea, but Here's How You Can Do It” [YouTube]
What if life is a fundamental property of a sufficiently complex universe and a stable energy gradient?

That's where I'd put my money.