skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having talked to a lot of people... the Touch Bar is not meant for regular computer users or for developers.

The Touch Bar is meant for graphics, audio and film professionals. That’s the “Pro”. It’s an incredibly flexible “picker/slider” for colors, volumes, mixing, and so on.

I know HN hates the touch bar... and I personally have no use for it... but we’re not the market for it. There is a market for it, but it’s not us.

I think it’s helpful to acknowledge that in these conversations, rather than act like Apple is making dumb decision in a vacuum.

(And I’m personally happy there’s now a retina MacBook Air without it, which will probably be my next machine.)
State of Developer Experience: Banking and FinTech 2019
That is a bit of twisted logic. It does not say anything positive about touchbar, but conflates a negative in a somewhat dishonest way and ignores the core of this topic, that it is now compulsory. For instance, prison has forced people to change their life for the better, but that does not logically lead to "I am glad to have prison (compulsory for everyone)"
I'm pretty sure that "grab a coffee with" is a smartass way of saying socializing.
Grabbing a coffee, while talking about work isn't worthwhile mentioning.
I find that an under appreciated use case for the touch bar is UI discovery. I'm a fairly savvy computer user, but there have been many times when using new software that the touch bar has shown me a feature that I did not know there was a shortcut for.
Install `tldr`.
This is funny, because the reason they are not profitable on their own is because they don't need to, since they are subsidized.

Competition makes those companies use any cost-saving they can. If the government takes an option away, they'll just all not use it anymore and settle down on a higher price.
My First [Failed] Payment
Is the real deterrent the exercise before we board a plane that apparently only stops 5% of the weapons people bring, or the observation that given people know their lives are forfeit once the bad guy shows his intentions, the passengers will rise up to thwart the bad guy?
Oh really? I didn't know their algorithm took that into account. Are you 100% positive on that? I would be curious to see where you read about that. If that's the case, it must not be super effective, because I know from first hand I've seen organic tweets show up in my feed by other celebs criticizing Trump, whom he has blocked.
I don't think that solution works, because I have one converter that is audio, visual, power capable for my Nintendo Switch, but incompatible with my Surface Go, and another that is vis versa.
Unrelated note:

>"Your browser isn't supported

This browser won't play nicely with some features on this site. For the best experience, update your browser to the latest version, or switch to another browser."

What on earth is that supposed to mean? Update to what browser? (Using Firefox on Android, latest version)
Removal of the function keys actually dates back to Jobs

"When I invited Jobs to take some time away from NeXT to speak to a group of students, he sat in the lotus position in front of my fireplace and wowed us for three hours, as if leading a séance. But then I asked him if he would sign my Apple Extended Keyboard. He burst out: “This keyboard represents everything about Apple that I hate. It's a battleship. Why does it have all these keys? Do you use this F1 key? No.” And with his car keys he pried it right off. “How about this F2 key?” Off they all went. “I'm changing the world, one keyboard at a time,” he concluded in a calmer voice."
[Steve Jurvetson on Steve Jobs 2011-10-06 By Steve Jurvetson.]
Found the BlueJeans server listening on :18171

To test if the BlueJeans server is running:

lsof -i :18171
The creator of FiveThiryEight, Nate Silver [1], had a great chapter in his probability book about the global efforts to detect earthquakes and there have been tons of research over the last century (including radio). With many people claiming to have found solutions only for them to quickly fail.

With current best-effort science it’s basically impossible to detect them ahead of time, particularly with any relevant geographic accuracy. At most only a probability figures within a 10-100yr+ range over a very broad area seems to be the best they can do. Fault lines can encompass hundreds of towns and cities.

Even if they detected the Cali quake before hand from Vancouver there is no way they could pin point that in any reasonable way to evacuate particular towns AFAIK.

1: https://books.google.ca/books?id=SI-VqAT4_hYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1...
> So you're saying that, because the median damage is zero, the mean could be arbitrarily small, and in particular might be less than US$3?

I'm saying we have no idea, and we're not going to get there, by doing arithmetic. But, if you ask me, I do believe (based on nothing more then a worthless napkin calculation) that it's more likely to be between $0.3 and $3, than it is to be between $3 and $30. Remember, the recipient of this data is incredibly unlikely to cause maximum possible worst-case damage to even the interesting people on the list. Most likely, they just want to steal credit card numbers.

> There's also a problem we haven't brought up in this thread, which is that the main damage from privacy invasion is not to people individually, but to human society as a whole. Increasing the price of doing anything particularly interesting can condemn an entire society to domination by mediocrity.

The nice thing about the GDPR is that even if it doesn't address the damage of a particular leak, it's a swift kick in the ass of the IT departments other companies, who are really keen to not end up on the receiving end of the next fine.
Only problem I've found with join.me is performance. My experience may not be common, but there is so much stuttering with join.me that it's unusable... And I've tried it multiple times on different days with different people.
Raise your hand if you couldn't knock out a prototype algorithm over a weekend when handed that set of data. FFS, with something that obvious, your "machine learning" could be a bevy of if statements.
To avoid copying the training set you can increase the temperature at sampling time. This should trade off between accuracy (maximum likelihood) and quirkiness (more stochastic background).
Unison is terrible in that you must have exactly the same version (down to micro version) of unison on both sides. That makes it very hard to use in practice.
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> Also windows absolutely refuses to update. It didn't update to 1803 without downloading the install iso manually, it didn't update to 1806, and now it's refusing to update to 1903.

Microsoft has leaned very conservative in offering the feature updates after complaints from the earlier ones. Especially if your laptop has high usage patterns that likely suggest a work laptop it may not offer you the feature update until late in the cycle. Or in some cases specific hardware or software installed.

(A big block right now still for 1903 is it can be hesitant if you have a lot of unpatched games installed because several versions of highly deployed anti-cheat software cause BSODs if not up to date, affecting even major games like Fortnite.)

There is a good alternative to downloading the ISO, called the Update Assistant. It's an app that can tell you why you are currently blocked, if that is the case, and/or force install the update. It's at the top of this download page (the "Update Now" button in the gray region, not the Media Creation Tool below it):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
And posted as flamebait; it's not even a paper, but an abstract that requires a subscription to view the full paper. The question is whether the person who posted read the paper, or just agreed with the sentiment of the title.
Zoos Called It a ‘Rescue.’ But Are the Elephants Better Off?
Mono vs. Project Repos? Hurray, Software Sucks
Unorthodox advice if your someone like me: take improv classes and study comedy. The saying goes if you can make someone laugh (more accurately: associate you with positive emotions) you can make them do anything. Including buying whatever your selling.
generating images for generated cards:

https://andymakesgames.tumblr.com/post/167733819029/urzas-dr...

http://andymakes.com/urzasdreamengine/
I wonder if something is to be said for the third generation of people who suddenly find themselves facing musket balls to the front from a hostile population now more heavily armed by previous pioneers.
I'd like to emphasize #4.
I hate people that are hired because the manager liked them. My husband falls into this trap all the time. Hiring "nice" people, instead of the best team members.

A job isn't a friendship, though it's nice if people who you work with are your friends. Friendships also make it harder to quit or fire people.
FreeBSD 11.3
And the criticism is completely invalid here. The power spec is very clear and unambiguous, and there is only one way to get it right. It is not the fault of the spec when manufacturers cannot be bothered to produce a circuit that has already been designed for them in the spec itself.
move to a higher density area? i moved to the east coast, from the south.
Conclusion: You need pre-processing and another data structure (sparse table) anyway....

On the other hand, if you have a particular problem, there is always someone that have solved in a very clever way to make it optimized for the given situation.

But, Please, folks in HN, don't take questions/answers like this and ask them on interviews....

They are very specific, and the solutions are basically using tricks (i.e. enough esoteric data-structure and algo), to solve those limited amount answers.
Too weak in modern, basically like any other bomb in limited but less interesting, and too non-interactive in standard.
Latest tech is far less important for games these days. I have a laptop that is 4 years old currently (admittedly it was pretty top end when I brought it) and it still runs latest games perfectly fine, and I'm still not really seeing any need to replace it. Last year's Farcry 5 ran at close to max settings.

Tech just doesn't make the gains it used to any more.

Back in the 90's a 4 year old machine would be lucky to even start a new released game, let alone run it at close to max settings.
As a LoadingReadyRun (and Desert Bus) fan, I was waiting to see if RoboRosewater came up.

I'm not sure it's quite fair, as RoboRosewater is funnier when it's garbled. Some of its cards have been… memorable :)
I'd love to just make a GUI for generating ffmpeg filter graphs. The MS SDK had a directshow filter graph editor (graphedit i think it was called?) that was quite pleasant to use back in the day.
I hope Twitter follows up by adding a 'public servant' tag like 'verified', but public servants cannot block users, because I'm sure Trump will still claim he can do it, and will still do it, unless the platform itself won't let him. Because he's Trump and thinks he can do anything he wants.
USB in general seems like a deep, deep rabbit hole. You could devote your entire career to becoming a USB expert. The USB 2.0 spec is like 700 pages long. The 3.0 spec is like 500 pages long and requires you to be familiar with the 2.0 spec at the very start.

I started digging into USB for a project and the rabbit hole kept going deeper and deeper; I never fathomed the amount of complexity hidden under the hood of USB until I needed to start talking to a Qualcomm modem on the other side of a USB 3.0 connection (and the modem, even though it is a single device, enumerates 16+ USB 3.0 endpoints, which is a problem for a lot of ARM SoCs, or at least the vendors we tried!).
Why Are Moscow Mules Served in Copper Mugs?
You're ignoring much of the story, such as the part where they ignored the issue for months and then released a patch that they were told is ineffective.

So yes, we all make mistakes, and we should fix them promptly and correctly. Zoom did neither, and then put out that nonsense PR blog.

There's no way I will trust that company again after how they handled this.
I think it was Mick Jagger who bought a London "residence" from this family in the '60s and enjoyed referring to it as "The Hoare House"
When politicians do focus groups to fine tune their speeches, they are not looking to change their platform, their opinion, or their actions.

They are just looking to fine tune for optics. The knowledge they gain from the focus groups just helps them make their message more palatable.

I think of fb that way because they are masters of double speak, weasel words, etc. which is the common behaviour of dishonest politicians.

Imo many of the questions posted here can be easily deflected, handled with conversation techniques that any politician or lawyer would know well.

You want an airtight position, built on a detailed understanding of how they typically deflect in the past. And because you are asking, you are probably the right person to do this.

Harari tried, and despite being brilliant and knowledgeable, he was simply talked over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boj9eD0Wug8 Though I suspect he is aiming for a softer approach.

Instead of a pile of disconnected questions, I would suggest developing a clear list of requirements, statements which must be true as a set, in order for a social system to have an acceptable level of privacy.

The list should be iterated upon, and not sent to them prematurely. It should be built on best practices and knowledge of privacy experts from leading institutions. Then it could be broadly endorsed. Then it could not be as easily weaselled-around.
> practically you cannot

Exactly.

Copyrights are ridiculously expansive, and Fair Use defenses steadily narrowed. The reality is that the primary limiter on copyright enforcement has always been the practicality of detection and notice. Secondarily is the fact that in some jurisdictions, most notably the U.S., remedy is limited to an injunction and actual damages (e.g. lost licensing fees) if the work was not registered prior to infringement. (Because for most works, such as a resume, actual damages can't be shown--the standards for calculating damages are pretty strict--all you have is an injunction.)

If such technicalities were to be magically lifted there'd probably be much more pressure to reduce the scope and duration of copyrights. Conversely, that such technicalities exist goes a long way in explaining the wide scope, and to a lesser extent long duration, of copyrights.
Behind the Scenes of Atrium Records
Dell E7440 and E7240 Hackintosh
A secretive group of Cold War scientists are fighting to survive
>FWIW, there are quite a few things that haven't been added to the API, most importantly the ability to accept key events from pages where our content script isn't running.

Speaking as an end-user, I find the eagerness with which web developers re-purpose key events to be extremely aggravating. If I hit ctrl-F, I want to use Firefox's native full page text search, not jump to the in-site search box.

I'd like to see Mozilla start treating key event capture as an opt-in-required permission like site notifications, location, camera, and microphone. Currently the only way to blanket-deny permission to capture key events is by disabling javascript. That's not ideal.
> 4. If no majority winner exists, the party with the least number of electoral votes casts their vote to other party/ies and this repeats until a winner obtains 270. If a rather obstinate third party refuses to proxy their votes, those votes are dropped when calculating majority.

Why put this in the hands of the lowest vote getter when we can just ask the voters directly with ranked choice voting?
> A kid is like a participation trophy for life.

I think you’re the one in this thread with the holier-than-thou rhetoric. You and the other commenter are the ones trying to minimize the work of childcare. Don’t make like it’s the other way around.
Usually that means “use the IE6 of our times, aka Chrome”.
Common Character Encodings
There is no 8gb model, there is no memory chip of that type that would fit in the spot.
> Wow that is really damning, trashing user security in trade to remove a single click

As someone who has had to develop and maintain a similar web-to-desktop bridge I can tell you that this one issue was responsible for around 90% of my company’s total support requests, despite only being a small feature in a optional addon in one of our main products.

For businesses just trying to keep their customers happy, this particular one click is a very real problem.

I can absolutely symphetize with people trying to come up with workarounds.
Mass famine, economic collapse, war, and ultimately the collapse of industrial civilization: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-...
I thought it was broken when it wouldn't accept an answer I gave for level 2. Turns out I was on the right track but had the wrong word. I somehow feel like my answer was also correct but they just didn't think of it...

Not trying spoil it for anyone else though so I won't give details. I will say if you think you are on to something and it just doesn't work as a correct answer, keep trying. You might be right but they thought of something else for an answer.
Same here, just give me a PWA, or if one so insists in using the Web stack for the UI, then deliver the application as a daemon/service that uses whatever is the standard browser.
You don't need a trap for that. All you have to do is request some particular piece of information as part of the initial application.
Setting a pointless trap(ex change the name on your resume) is a stupid move.
>that planes will fly in with enough fuel to fly out again

Planes with fuel are too heavy to land, planes have just enough fuel to get to destination. Landing with 40% fuel capacity would break wheels and damage planes, increase stopping distance.
Getting to America in the 1500s and 1600s was very expensive and came with a high risk of death. I'm not sure how it would compare to a ride on SpaceX's upcoming Starship but it was definitely tough. People found all kinds of ways to finagle or mortgage (e.g. indenture) a voyage. Eventually the price dropped of course.
A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles
If you work at fixed locations most of the time, is getting real (i.e. external) keyboards an option?
I think they're saying that case d specifically is not a legitimate proof, or equivalently that instances of case that are legitimate proof can be made constructive through a trivial addition (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395476).

I suspect they are mistaken, depending on how one defines "demonstrate" and "specific", but you haven't actually shown that.
Who on earth even asked for this Touch Bar in the first place? The move always struck me as out of touch on the same level as "install this creepy U2 album on everyone's iPhone against their will".
Conclusion from paper:

With large-scale, population-representative data, we show that Americans are aware of, and in fact quite pessimistic about, the remarkably unequal distribution of economic outcomes by family background.
The Turtle Submarine
>The middle classes will still buy your stuff because it's the polite thing.

Not only polite, but easy. If you could afford the game, you buy it, it downloads, you play. Piracy is more work, but if you value that time spent as less than the price of the product, of course you will pirate.

I used to pirate a lot of music. I'd have to find the title on some tracker, download the album for a couple hours (shit internet at the time), import it, deal with metadata, deal with album artwork, import into my device. It was a lot of work, but I couldn't afford $1 a song! I definitely can afford $10 a month though, and spend probably 2 seconds finding a track on spotify to play it on any and all devices. Worth it. Easy. Affordable. But if you charge too much, don't be surprised when your users are willing to take the long way and get your stuff for free.

Nothing will ever be uncrackable, so why waste expensive engineering salary on the digital equivalent to the war on drugs?
Libyan hacker stole data of thousands of Facebook users
Or in a way that would be less constitutionally difficult do national ranked choice and proportional electoral college. Most of the benefit without, probably, having to change the constitution. To completely remove the electoral college you'd have to amend the constitution because the constitution spells that out as the method for choosing the president.
I've also recently started using elvish as my default shell full time and I really love it! Still needs some kinks worked out, but it's a very powerful shell. And pretty easy to pick up!

For anyone interested, here's a good article with some tips about working with/customizing elvish: https://zzamboni.org/post/my-elvish-configuration-with-comme...
>It is not like the 50s and 60s where people had the time and energy to protest

It has more to do with the lack of education than free time. We live in a society obsessed with entertainment, and completely ignorant of basic civics and logical/scientific reasoning.
I can give the automotive electronics perspective here. Suppose that resistor costs 2c, including the actual part cost, PCB space, pick-and-place machine time (inc. more frequent spool replacement). Further suppose you expect to sell one million of this device.

$0.02 x 1E6 = $20k

If you are the circuit designer making, say, $150k, you just justified about a month of your salary (after accounting for benefits and other overhead). Your manager may parade you in front of the team at the next big group meeting as an example of how to achieve the BOM efficiency the company need to hit profit margin targets.
>The one exception could be business success which indeed is possible even at a very late age

Business success and greatly contributing to the society in the way that most people dream of aren't mutually exclusive. You might not be the kind of person with a PhD who made a scientific breakthrough and finally developed a great self-driving car, but if you created a business that managed to achieve that same thing, I see no reason why it wouldn't count.
OP here. This is inspired by the webpack Monday bugs[0], which is somewhat similar to other classic bugs that I found interesting. Hope that this list will help others when looking for similar stores.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390724
This article says a bit more about it without a paywall: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190624161147.h...
Someone once told me to make any sales process as bland and unemotional as possible. The more emotion or perceived “friendliness” I had with the sales person would tip the scale in their favor.
It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
Yes, you can actually see sort of a "switch" flip after Trump lost this court ruling the first time.

All his Twitter replies at the top were supportive.

Afterwards his top replies tend to be critical.

It's not about which tweets show up in your feed, it's about which users replies are allowed/shown in Trump's own feed.

He can't block anyone so anyone is allowed to reply and be seen.
How is that any different than most political HN submissions?
So anyone using Dark is completely locked-in, to the point that they can't even take their code into an editor other than yours?

It's a proprietary language, that can only be edited in a proprietary cloud-based editor, that only runs on proprietary infrastructure?
> It will continue to support add-ons, and it will receive regular security updates and bugfixes for at least the next year.

This is indeed what "dead" looks like.
On Twitter, the specific mechanism of censorship is that a blocked user cannot view and reply to tweets of the account that blocked them, and so cannot participate in conversations started by the blocking account.

It doesn't prevent collateral @-mentions.

(My post upthread was a little too general to be clear about Twitter specifically, as it addressed the general idea of social media blocking and not the specific mechanisms relevant to Twitter.)