skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still using my MBA from mid 2013. It's a wonderful thing. Battery is "replace soon" but it's mostly plugged in. It's battered and bruised, but still fast enough. I've been debating a change for a while and figured at the start of the year I'd wait to see if they were going to ditch the bf keyboard if they release a new MBA. Super glad I waited, fingers crossed I get the same life out of the next one!

Say what you want about Apple and price, but I've had PCs since 1994 and the two Macs I've had have (usefully) outlasted every other machine by quite some margin - this one in particular. 6 years without formatting a Windows machine (I can't talk for now, but especially back then) would be crazy.
I mean....what do you really need? I work in the games industry - do you need to play video games? I'd guess no.
I take it as a sign they're exploring other options. If this takes off, I would expect them to more seriously consider including adblocking as a default.
Facebook, More Downtime Transparency Please
I am tempted to visit buzzfeednews sometimes but can't bring myself to do it based on my disdain for buzzfeed as a whole.
Transpose whistling into the bass range live
The chat's "Send to bottom" button made my day. This is hilarious.
I agree, but the problem here is that not all pages are of equal value. The Guardian ought to be able to charge me more per page if it was written by one of their full time employees. I can't see how Mozilla will ever be able to figure out how to apportion the money, without just exposing my "balance" and the cost of visiting each page.
>> Everyone knows the bit in The Matrix when Neo achieves digital messiah status and suddenly sees “reality” for what it really is: lines of trailing green code.

Given that the Matrix was a simulation, what it "really is" can't have been trailing green code. What it "really is" must have been electric charges stored in memory circuits. What Neo saw was his own mind's interpretation of the software and hardware underlying the Matrix.

Though of course the point about the green text is that it was a spiffy effect, and not a supposedly accurate representation of what computer memory "looks like".
Has this theory been tested in similar cases at all or is it entirely untested ground? Is this perhaps what mingw and WINE did?
I wonder what an average user generates in terms of ad-revenue per month. You know, the mix of your-favourite-media-provider, your-favourite-news-sites, your-favourite-social-media.

If that's more or less than $14.99, I'd be willing to pay it for an "ad-free" internet. This will never happen, I guess, but just thinking about it...
I use an ad-blocker on Firefox but I think if Firefox started blocking adverts by default it could find itself in a dangerous situation. A lot of sites would feel justified blocking Firefox in that case, which would do more damage to the already-shrinking user base. I know many sites have "turn off your ad-blocker" currently and I usually just leave at that point, but I could imagine a movement to more actively crush Firefox if it had ad-blocking baked in.

Although maybe long term this will happen anyway, so Mozilla has nothing to lose. I mean Chrome will have its ad-tech-friendly blocking-lite, Firefox will be the only real ad-blocking available, and sites will start to make moves to directly discourage Firefox use ("I see you're using Firefox, switch to Chrome to view our crappy site").
1 & 2: Could it be? https://futurism.com/russian-sub-fire-internet-cables
A lot of them are very domain specific, like controls engineering and stuff like that.

If I recall, a big chunk of the code that controls Toyota engines is generated from a massive Simulink model.
To be notified.
Yes, as there are plenty of those being done by humans today. Manual labour in developping countries (and plenty of small manual tasks in developped countries too, how many people wash dishes manually when dishwashers exist?), weird one-of-a-kind knowledge jobs for which the company doesn't bother buying the automation software that exists, because the transaction costs make it uneconomical.

There is no reason to believe this results in less social cohesion and self-satisfaction than a not-doable-by-robots job.
I'm still rocking my MBA form 2010, it wasn't even top spec at the time, but the keyboard, size, weight and battery are all great. The screen is pretty terrible I'll be honest, but if I'm working on it it doesn't bother me much. Plus it has one of those ever so rare HDMI out ports (no accessories necessary). I just replace the battery every so often.

I'm currently weighing up the option of installing Linux onto it as I'm more inclined to move away from the Apple ecosystem, but I have reservations on what that will do the battery life :/
Read David Graeber: bullshit jobs
> unwilling to alter their planned product schedule

Given that Apple is a company headed by a COO, run entirely on tight logistics, my strong belief is that they just wanted to use up all the butterfly keyboard key-mechs they had already pumped out.
It was the reason I bought an XPS 13 instead of MBP when I got a new laptop. Wonder how many advocates they lost amongst the professional segment.
The crazy thing is that Boeing hasn't designed a new clean-sheet small jet since 1967, when the 737 came out. Prior to that they were iterating on a pretty rapid cadence, with the 707, 717, 720, and 727, and then they just got stuck in an absolute rut and have been increasingly paying the consequences as the 737 no longer stacks up favorably against the much newer clean-sheet designs put out by their competitors. To give an idea of how antiquated the 737 is, one of its primary design considerations was that it could land at primitive airports -- its low ground clearance is caused by the need to be able to fit a folding staircase inside the aircraft itself. It didn't even require a stair car, let alone the ubiquitous jetways that we see everywhere nowadays. And this design consideration is the main cause of the 737 MAX problem.

I wonder, if the merger hadn't happened and Boeing hadn't been taken over by penny-pinchers, what would Boeing's small jet offering look like now? Would they still be iterating on the same obsolete design? Was there some new replacement small jet already in the early design stages that got canned?
Speed Reading Channel in Telegram by Readlax
Are psychiatrists in the habit of confidently asserting what drugs work to treat people’s problems?

As someone who has mental health struggles, I’d love to live in the world where psychopharmacology is that advanced.
I'm still not used to the missing gaps between function keys on my newer Windows laptop. That and the up and down arrow keys squished to fit between the right and left arrows.

It's like the people who design these never used arrow or function keys. Did they think the gaps and positioning were arbitrary and useless?
PyLibra: A Python Client for Libra Network
I really like (read as: hate) the placeholder text not clearing out and then the user input text being the same color as the placeholder.
That doesn’t really pass scrutiny. It’s not like they are mass collecting insects and it’s not like someone else is using insect traps to mass trap insects. As such there is practically no evolutionary pressure to adapt to not being caught in insect traps.

Insect traps are a rare sight for any one insect.
>This revenue stream is what pays for the content you enjoy, so ad blocking kills content.

Content that is funded by ads is often not content I particularly care about. If it matters enough people will be willing to fund it, if not, let it die.
I don't understand how reducing meat intake benefits insects. Is there a connection?
I don’t mind it. I use the keyboard 95% of the time. Then touchpad much less. While Apple has the best touchpad. Keyboard is more important. IMO.
The Future of Dota: How Long Does Dota 2 Have Left?
Ask HN: How do you market a developer tool?
Hi HN,
I build and run a developer tool which helps teams deliver products faster by allowing front-end devs to mock REST APIs easily, without needing to wait for the backend guys to get things ready. It has a few features my own team finds very useful (ex: a single person can mock a server and share it to the entire team, and updates then get synced automatically etc.) which reduce the overhead of maintaining the mock in sync with the actual API being built.

The product is split into an Electron app (fairly performant), and a web service which allows for teams to be created and mocked APIs shared.

So far, I've had an abysmal time marketing the service. My marketing strategy so far has been:

1. Posting to HN, Reddit (r/programming and r/programmingtools), Product Hunt, IndieHackers - Bad initial traction (the post on HN got buried), very few signups, quite a few downloads of which about 5% stuck around and still use the app.

2. Posting as a response to appropriate questions on stackoverflow - The four answers I wrote still net me about 10 visits a day.

3. Blogging on the official product blog - Pretty much nobody reads this, I've tried cross posting to r/programming but generally not very receptive over there.

That said, based on my own teams usage, and the usage of a few teams we have gotten to use through word of mouth is quite positive and it has quickly become an integral tool. So I'm not really willing to give up on it yet.

So how should I get more developers to try out and use the tool? How do I market this tool to developers? Should I be trying to go after Engineering Managers instead?

Thanks in advance for your help.

EDIT: It's called Mocktastic. (Site: https://mocktastic.com, Blog: https://blog.mocktastic.com)
what happens if you put this in dropbox? (does dropbox open archives?)
When the iPhone was announced and Steve Jobs commented how they were going to replace the keyboards on the screen, it seemed like a great idea. The adaptation was instantaneous. But when they announced this for the Macbook Pro models, the experience was not the same. Not to mention the bugs I had.
It could still use authentication
Yeah!

The new MacBook Pro is looking mighty attractive now.
It doesn't strike me as fundamentally different from suicide. Or killing other people. Possibly less ethically questionable, but if you go that route, for whom are you even saving the environment, exactly? Obviously not your children, if you don't have any.
You could do that but if you become a target due to unexpected viral growth then it's useless.
As an example, I would assume meds would start working noticably within hours whereas exercise is more of a long term thing.

However I am extremely interested in where you got your exercises from as my wrists have started to hurt and I want them to stop.
OK, I am not that familiar with Amazon DE's operation, I only ran companies that acted as 3rd party sellers on Amazon US, including writing MWS software, and they had certain requirements.
std::future is stable. Async/await in about 12 weeks. Been writing loads of code, trying out the new futures and especially the possibility to use &self in an async context is a huge benefit.

Beware though to use an executor that can drive the new futures and watch out certain libraries using `tokio::spawn` , which will cause panics.

Some executors for the new futures:

https://docs.rs/futures-preview/0.3.0-alpha.17/futures/execu...

https://github.com/withoutboats/juliex

And a web server to try out async/await on nightly:

https://github.com/rustasync/tide

Compatibility layer from 0.1 to 0.3 and back is in futures-util-preview if compiled with the feature flag `compat`.

https://docs.rs/futures-util-preview/0.3.0-alpha.17/futures_...
YouTube very aggressively curates copyrighted content. This idea seems like the ideal way to stifle any competition to YouTube because the little guys cannot afford to implement a sophisticated machine learning copyright dragnet.
Well good riddance. They have become ridiculously expensive
First fine for the application of GDPR Article 25 in Romania
Yes, eventually.

First the auto industry asked and revived $25 billion in TARP money and $5 billion in loans for auto industry suppliers. That was not enough and they asked another $25 billion and this time the government refused. Only after that GM and Chrysler went bankrupt.
The caste system is very much a part of Indian society even though the law forbids discrimination on the basis of it. Anyone who tells you otherwise - that there is no caste system anymore - is lying or is from one of the upper castes and therefore don't know what it feels like to be a non-Brahmin.

My parents didn't believe in the caste system, were opposed to it strongly and therefore it's impossible to figure out which caste I am from just by my name (ambiguous last name). I can't count the number of times people have tried to fish for information about my caste. Some ask me directly while others try to be "more polite" about the question. I just smile and tell them I am not telling you because it's not relevant and I don't believe in it. This makes them very upset. Then some of these people try to make guesses based on the colour of my skin (light skin in India is consider superior and dark skin is looked down upon), my height and other characteristics.

And this has happened not just in India but more so in the US and Canada, where I now live.
I recently went vegetarian. I also strictly reject capitalism, even to the point of not being able to make a living.
kind of depends on how you name it. my understanding is the code 'worked per requirements', meaning it did everything that it was supposed to, as defined by the requirements allocated to it.

for things like this, there is a layer of 'systems engineering', that decides (hopefully using an engineering process) how the airplane will work. this is codified into a 'specification', that is then handed over to software to implement.

if you are a software engineer given this task, you implement it per the specification. nothing more and nothing less. of course, if you have a concern, you bring it up (both informally and formally). there is no 'discretion' by the programmer.

The number of AOA sensors, how much control authority, how often the inputs are applied, are all decided by systems engineers (with aeronautical engineers input and analysis). the software engineer cannot 'second guess' if AOA failure has been considered and change the implementation.
Autopilot ON has logged a billion miles. So, not really "few situations".

https://electrek.co/2018/11/28/tesla-autopilot-1-billion-mil...
Forgive my arrogance.
That's quite pathetic, given that the actuarial value of a life is actually around $5-10M (in the US anyway). They're going to end up paying out a lot more money in the lawsuits though, so we don't know the final total number yet.
I don’t believe the bondholders were wiped out, though they did get a haircut. The controversy there was that the government changed the ordinary priority of debtors to save politically influential pensioners from the consequences of bankruptcy.
Try 1000% for a lot of people, thanks to the magic of debt!
In practice header files include some things like inline functions, macros and data structures, so they're treated just like source code (which is really all they are - there's no technical difference between a header file and a source code file.)
I didn’t even mind the non-retina display on the Air. But ffs give me an IPS panel at least. For years I see it being called the best laptop again and again by tech journalists. I always wondered if I was in a parallel universe.
I agree with thinner ≠ better.

So where is the thinner obsession coming from? Why are they removing all the ports?

Isn't it because of fashion?

Functionality and esthetics do not have to be mutually exclusive, but the people designing laptops don't seem to be aware of that.
Building Rust crates so they look like C
If I recall correctly from my very limited knowledge, German is not really agglutinative, as it mainly just has the ability to combine preexisting nouns together into one word, while agglutinative languages take a root and then add a pre- and suffixes to build up new words related to the meaning of the root.

Taking the 7th example from this table [1], while you could theoretically construct something like "erfolglosenmacherwerden" in German and have it still sound somewhat comprehensible, that is not something that is actively done in the usage of the language and would sound about as strange as coming up with "to unsuccessfulmakerbecome" in English.

[1] https://aimdanismanlik.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/539526_38...
See, I use a retina MBP touchbar and really don't agree. Apple has made some missteps but it's still the best pro laptop for my uses. Over two years with one replaced keyboard (because I spilled wine on it!) and no sticking keys.

USB-C is awesome. I can reuse all my 3rd party and Apple adapters for my USB-C peripherals, including tablets and the Nintendo Switch. In retrospect, Magsafe wasn't that great (comes off too easily). Moving back to older USB ports really would make no sense. They're obsolete. If you have older peripherals, get the dongles. We've been using dongles since the VGA/DVI days or Serial/USB days, so I really don't get the problem with them. Life moves on.

I have a need for HDMI and VGA and Mini DisplayPort and old USB... not to mention lightning. MUCH rather would have a single standard of multi-port w/ dongles than a mess of fixed ports.

Also, on what planet did anyone have a Magsafe cord over 2m? It was fixed to the adapter. The 2m usb-c cable is removable, add it with the 1m (edit: 2m!) power cable and it is a further reach than any prior Mac laptop adapter I've had, though I suppose third party ones exist.
>> Seems like insecticides, but we really don't know! Has insecticide use really increased that much since the 80s across the west?

The amount of insecticides used doesn't need to increase, to cause a mass extinction. A constant dose is enough, if it kills more insects in a given period, than are born in the same period. Over time, this will cause the number of insects to decrease steadily.
It’s spam.

https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/that-which-we-dont.html#n...
Correction - they raised $41m. They eventually shut it down

https://collapsed.co/startups/color-labs
German is not considered an agglutinative language (you can google it if you don't believe me). German has long compound nouns, which isn't really the same thing.

English has long compound nouns too, by the way. You can make basically arbitrarily long nouns like "chief regional dairy inspector" in English. In German you would write this without spaces between the words. That's just a typographical convention, not a linguistic difference. It doesn't mean German's structure is fundamentally different from English's, and isn't what linguists mean by "agglutination".
The solution to a plague of possums is coyotes and big cats.
The Ballmer comparison seems apt. Coasting on astronomical financial success while pursuing a vision (remember “Windows everywhere”?) that consumers don’t actually seem to want.

Fortunately it seems that Microsoft has experienced a renaissance. I wonder if Apple has the humility and self-reflection to do the same.
WTH, don't keep that stuff on YT.
I can't use Rust because I like to make sexual jokes and that is against their Code of Conduct.
I have been fairly impressed by Del hardware. Unfortunately, you can no longer get a tracking on their 13 inches (and they never had 3 button).
> This app works best with JavaScript enabled.
At least the page seems ad-free.
Check out what Sam Rosen is doing with drinking water and trying to reduce single-use plastics. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/10/26/tap-a...
> The nightmare scenario would be multiple models suffering from a wide range of issues.

Fortunately, Boeing has no other new plane besides the 737 MAX. The 787 is their second newest, but it's already been flying for eight years with no loss of life. If there were some undiscovered fundamental problems with that design they would've made themselves known by now (like with the Li-ion batteries that were fixed).

People are really going to be looking closely at whatever comes next after the 737 MAX, though.
You can get cables longer than 2m. I have 4m usb-c cable for charging my computer.
And as for dongles, most people will need only one.
And it's not like with other computers you don't need any dongles.
Lottery with display connectors was always PITA (vga, hdmi, mini hdmi, micro hdmi, displayport, minidisplayport, dvi, mini-dvi). Having usb-c for that should finally solve this in some time.
There was (in my filter bubble) a pretty big wave of people moving away (or at least looking) after Apple introduced their touchbar models; I wouldn't be surprised if they felt that in their numbers. Or if they didn't because lower volume but higher price can even one another out, I guess.
Apple is reportedly giving up on its controversial MacBook keyboard
I think I used a ThinkPad back in 1997 when my Uncle had a laptop. But aside from that possibility I don’t believe I’ve ever touched one until beginning of this year.
I can't help but cringe when people compare the machinations of a video entertainment company to literal genocide.
Well, that wasn't racist at all.

Isn't "Proof by Quora" a wonderful thing?
I am an Indian working at Facebook and can confirm that what the article says is true. The team I work is 100% Indian and that is fairly common. Managers hire not just based on "Indian" but the state where the applicant is from. The Chinese also do it. This puts folks from other communities at a major disadvantage and needs to be addressed.
Show HN: Measuring Team Morale on Slack with NLP
I wonder how much this will affect sales between now and the 2020 model. As a 2018 owner, I strongly recommend everyone who can to hold out until they change the keyboard...
>We're one nation with extraordinary cultural diversity.

Despite our best efforts, yes.
No assumptions necessary; being able to manufacture cutting-edge aircraft is clearly strategically important to a country's national defense.
I think you missed the point. The implication is that it is the direction we're headed. Which, personally, I find egregious given there's a criminal investigation into the company. I'd love to see the executive ranks do legitimate prison time for their cause of unneeded death.
Arguably it's important the same way The Fountainhead is important: a work based on an outdated and fundamentally wrong idea that a lot of people still think is gospel and would solve everything. Something something know your enemy.
I would say "promising" trend
Evolving the Hearthstone Meta
I believe Google tried something like this and then shut it down.
> Scroll doesn't have some popular news sites such as NYT

The NYT is one of the co-sponsors that started Scroll, so I'm sure that they'll be on board eventually if they're actually not already.
From Elder to Younger, actually.
If they offer free trials so I can evaluate its worth to me personally, maybe I'd try it.
Otherwise I'll keep fighting every website I visit with my massive list of ad-blockers and privacy tools. At least the latter option is free.
And if it doesn't remove EVERY clickbait and dark pattern in said sites, I won't do it.
Yes, it’s worth arguing with science deniers – and here are some techniques
And, in fact, CN has never referred to Chinese - it's an ISO two letter country code abbreviation for the PRC, admittedly - but the ISO two letter language code would be ZH for the Chinese language.
Just that page seems to be down right now.
The Payara Monthly Catch for June 2019
My side-project, AutoMicroFarm has a secondary goal of keeping your edible yard beautiful and HOA-compliant (if your house is in an HOA neighborhood). The primary goal is to help you grow the majority of your food in your yard).

It just takes a bit of foresight and planning!