skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I don't have a problem with the second region limited sale issue as a source. Plenty of businesses are built on arbitrage between regions.

However if these keys are not fit for purpose because they're region locked G2A should be pointing out explicitly in clear view what region a key it sells is from and they should be being forced to give refunds if it doesn't match.

Personally I'm against region locking and believe it's especially hypocritical in larger businesses (that say outsource their customer support to a cheaper region but do not allow customers to outsource their purchase to a cheaper region). But legally a company can license their software like this and G2A shouldn't be able to co-mingle explicitly different keys if they are licensed this way. I do concede there are good arguments (though not convincing enough for me in the general case) that companies will just not sell in a market if they can't stop resale of their items.

I do completely agree that G2A is a bad actor though. One 'simple' fix for their bad key issue is they could refuse to pay the same account (i.e. bank or paypal,etc not g2a account) for more than 1 key of any given game and rate limit keys sold to g2a from an account to 1 per day (which would limit the profitability of any stolen card before the associated payment option is blacklisted).
Yes.

Eventually.
Does this happen while typing? Do you touch-type?
I would add medical bills to that as well. Some emergency room bills have asinine charges, and many aren't itemized very well. For example, you could have a bill that says:

Emergency room: $5,000
ECG: $300
Radiology: $600
Laboratory: $750

And maybe you just went in with chest pain from asthma where they took some quick labs and an x-ray, sent you home after breathing treatment and no prescriptions for anything, and now you have a $7,000+ bill after spending 13 hours in the ER. Most of that time was spent sitting around staring at a wall.
I don't imagine that works on mobile chrome, which is what the parent comment was talking about.
I have a lifetime account that I don’t have any ongoing payments for. And now I feel a bit guilty.
While I agree with you I have to say there is real improvement Apple has made: eGPU.
DIY Cash (Wired, 1996)
"wtf?" is not a ridiculous conclusion.
The one that works for sum works for all associative functions. One can do a bit better using the same amount of space, but with query time O(α(n)), where α is the inverse Ackermann function. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.79.1...
It absolutely boggles my mind that people can't keep in mind that everyone has different preferences.

It's not the best part of the Macbook, it's your favourite part of the Macbook.

There very rarely is an objective best in anything. There is only what you like and need.
The modifier keys are out of place. Which can be fixed with Karabiner. What can't be fixed is mapping every keyboard shortcut to things that make sense to my hands with that keyboard. It isn't practical to rebind everything off of Command to Control even where it's possible, for example.

I'm a keyboard-based person, though I don't use tiling window managers or the like. I've got a system (he said half-ironically). Some shortcuts are more comfortable to do with my left hand on the modifier. Some, the right. All of them are hosed on a Mac and fixing them would take longer than what I did today, which is ask my boss to let me give the Mac to the new guy and go order myself an X1. So this story has a happy ending!
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And getting a BahnCard can be worth it for just one trip (there are short-duration ones) so it's possible even for tourists.
I don’t particular care who gets what cut as long as the content itself is worthwhile. Could be a mega budget blockbuster with $100M of special effects or a low budget indie film.

Only question that matters is, “Are you not entertained?!”
The biggest thing that bugs me about the Touch Bar is the fact that I can't turn its backlight off.

I use my computer late into the night, with the display brightness set just so that the backlight doesn't go completely off. I use the "invert screen colors" accessibility feature to make everything dark. In this situation, the Touch Bar is by far the brightest thing in the room.

(I also don't like the way errant finger movements mess with my Spotify tracks and volume settings, but I'm learning to work around that.)

The reason that I bought the Touch Bar model in the first place is that I need to be able to charge from either side of the computer, and TouchId is too useful to live without.
Its called modeling not science and not science modeling in any shape or form even closely resembling ex physics.

We dont know its going to be bad, we dont know if its us or natural variation and we dont have a single scientifically demonstrated conclusion of climate change we dont know how to deal with. Modelling is NOT science, its more akin to scenarioplanning which is why the results are all over the map. If it was science on the precision of physics we didnt need modelling.

We understand greenhouse effect in a lab well, not in a chaotic non linear system like the climate.
It depends on what model you believe will occur. If you believe in cyclic climate changes, then the old "green" regions will come back. If that's the case, the fertile crescent & old roman grow areas (North Africa) & American Southwest will have a greening.

Another factor that has been observed is the changes in the jetstreams. This past winter there were Polar vortexes leading to cold temperatures. Europe was recently hit with an Equatorial vortex leading to a heat wave.
Nothing notable. I don't even remember the exact scene, I just remember it happened.
I didn't get a chequebook so I don't know but they did give me a nice leather wallet for my cash and cards.

They still have a doorman but I don't think he wears a top hat.
Surely you'd agree that there are people who are struggling financially that don't have a lease on a $40,000 car and a mortgage on a 6BR home.

"Just don't buy expensive shit" isn't an option when rent is increasing faster than wages.
> Reselling keys from bundles is also a problem. I don't have a link handy but I was reading just the other day some indie developer complaining that they're seeing more keys from Humble Bundle being redeemed many months after the bundle that had them than actual sales on Steam, and they claimed G2A was the cause (being a means by which people could sell their old bundle keys that they didn't want).

The thing is, there's no guarantee that that is the case. I still have unredeemed keys from (year) old bundles that I intend to redeem, I just haven't got around to it because there are more important things to do with my time.
Anecdotally it looks like parts of central Europe might also get drier.
Patch Tuesday Lowdown, July 2019 Edition
I love Pinboard the way I love no other digital product I’ve ever owned or interacted with. If anyone wants to take lessons for the future of what digital products could and should be, they should learn their lessons from Pinboard. It’s a delightful and wonderful service.
Firefox Preview ("Fenix") uses a different ID from Firefox for Android ("Fennec") in the play store.
i move my not-to-be-indexed stuff around a lot: renaming, archiving, etc. & i've a bit of shell scripting and a commonlisp program that automatically add things to robots.txt so that barely any of the things listed won't 404, and the ones that won't are protected via htaccess.

not sure why i did this aside from that it was fun!
yeah I downloaded Dock to display my dock and esc key at all times.

Thank you for the tip. Knew you could use the slider but thought you actually had to be on dot, feel so dumb. Never tried sliding in place!
Or with external display, keyboard, and mouse.
Assuming independent events (a bad assumption no doubt) then you're looking for 1 - the probability that for 20 years straight you don't have the event happening.

- E event happens in given year
- N event doesn't happen in given year

Then P(E) = 1/125. Conversely P(N) = 1-1/125.

We're looking for 1-P(NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN) = 1 - (1-1/125)^20 = 15%

Though I'm sure someone will tell me how I'm wrong
But they were perfect until 2015, making them bigger is a downgrade IMO as well. What’s the point of huge trackpad on a 13–15 inch screen?
>where exactly in the product cycle each product is. Am I about to buy something that will be upgraded in a week?

You've answered your own question. That is precisely why everything is fuzzy. So that people don't get caught up worrying about specs or versions. PC market doesn't iterate that fast any more.
As a user of both the Macbook Pro and the X1 Carbon, I have to agree. The MBP touchpad handles gestures and palm rejection really well. On the other hand I get accidental swipes every hour with the X1 Carbon that I can only bear using its keyboard in an emergency. FWIW I have oversized hands.

However, I do overshoot and tap the MBP touchbar now and then, which can be annoying.
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If I wanted less functionality in exchange for more freedom I'd run Hurd ;) Emacs isn't any less free with touchbar support.
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But how do you do local development when you can't get an SSL cert for your dev machine's server? No, self signed certs don't always do what you need, especially on mobile where you can't just add your cert as a trusted cert easily.
In a twisted way I welcome these news.

If they had released a model without touchbar and with improved keyboard I would be really tempted to buy it to replace my XPS.

Given their insistence on the touchbar is good way for me to accept that: a) the last good MacBook for me will remain the 2015 model and b) I will have to make do with Linux and XPS.
There are known issues with Catalina at the moment. After all, as you yourself said, that OS is still in Beta.
It used to happen constantly to me whilst touch typing on a 2016, yet is extremely rare to never on the 2015 MBP I replaced it with. So annoying to keep having something trigger whilst just typing something.

It was 2 broken keyboards in 6 or 7 months that had me sell and replace it though, but damn that massive touchpad was awful.
Much of that could be solved by an implementation having user-controlled policies that whitelist/blacklist sets of algorithms. An implementation could be made with a sane default policy.

Of course, some things ought to just be replaced (S2K).
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Unless you are really good at keeping your hands off the trackpad when you rest your hands, the previous generation trackpad was overall better in day to day use, and anything bigger is better as an external peripheral.

The problem is, Apple’s palm rejection tech just isn’t good enough, and if you have to write fancy software to cover a deficiency in the size of a piece of hardware, then you’re better off going with the smaller size. I’m assuming without the palm rejection, it would be an even bigger issue, and I wouldn’t trust any OEMs to get that right.

That said, it is only comparatively worse than the previous generation of Apple’s laptop trackpads which was already enormous, and arguably enormous enough. Compared to other laptops from other vendors, I could definitely see the appeal.
>He is expected to resign or be sacked when the next prime minister takes over

So they're going to tell him to take a walk?
Man it’s so great to see sites like this continue to thrive.

At the same time, I am once again amazed at how little revenue a publicly touted successful project makes.
Not to pitch in with low-value "me too thanks" style replies, but by god does this sum up the last 18 months of my life. Every time I feel comfortable, bam! Something new to keep me awake at night. It's one part exhausting and one part exhilarating and I'm not sure if I could go back to salaried work at this point.
> These forests are essentially tree farms.

Then the real problem is that this really isn't "afforestation" at all and what trees are being planted is irrelevant.
Some people smoke for 50 years and never get lung cancer.

Body oils have compounds in them that do things other than act as a simple emollient.

I'm not trying to convince you to change what you're doing. I'm just saying it's not as simple as you're making it out to be.
The hypochondriac / overactive purity instinct / easy to insult temperament hurts their life and the life of people around them by making them annoying and unpleasant to be around. Also by keeping things super 'clean', they increase the likelihood of their children to develop lifelong allergies. They deserve to be mocked.

Food processing laws are there because certain bad things do happen at scale in factories & restaurants that don't happen in home kitchens and when they are personally eating things in the world around them. The laws have to protect the very young, sick and the very old with their compromised immune systems. So there are different standards for different circumstances.

There is also a matter of degree. A commercial food chef needs to wash their hands, a healthy adult person eating prepared meals by other people doesn't need to wear gloves everywhere to be safe.

Also a lot of restaurants and farms are pretty gross places, go work at a fast food place, butcher, meat processing factory and cow farm to see how gross it gets, even with food safety laws & inspections.
Why do names of tools need to make sense? 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.
Your comment is definitely legitimate.
It’s in mice, so no guarantee it survives being used in humans.

Even if it does work in humans it’s likely at least a decade from being safely usable in humans.

And finally: there are already tens of thousands of people dying from previously treatable infections. I would expect that number to be millions eventually
why can't we solve the constant-time issue by just deciding before the action how long it should take in the worst case, and then just wait for that time before continuing?
Those can be solved
> getting more ram today versus in the future is just a question of deferring costs

Not really. I had a 2011 MacBook. In 2015 I was able to upgrade the RAM to chips that didn't exist in 2011. Technically they weren't supported, but they worked just fine. I couldn't have done that if the chips were soldered to the board.

I also upgraded the drive from spinning disk to a much larger SSD. Again an upgrade I couldn't have done otherwise.

It allowed me to keep using the machine until 2017.
For an opposing perspective, I cite this article, entitled
Process first, not data first

https://scalablenotions.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/process-fir...
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> we shouldn't do anything to curb co2

We should act rationally, not implement random measures without forethought. I mention immigrants because international flights are disproportionately affected by this, and i think making it more difficult for them to see their family is inhumane. We don't see what is the projected effect of this law. They could have started with domestic flights or flights to places where rail travel is available instead. It would help to evaluate the effect of the measure more directly too.
About two thirds of all Apple's computers are sold outside the US. It's significant enough. In British engineering circles there are plenty of them (relevant given the location in which the Pi team works).

The key point here is the standard charger design used on almost all laptop models from the world's 4th largest computer vendor. In my experience laptops from the top three have nothing close to the level of standardization in their charger design, given none of the top three have standardized solely on USB C for laptop charging. It was entirely foreseeable many people would try this and be disappointed when it didn't work.
> 81 is probably as inaccurate the other way as 15 is today

I can understand both how and why someone would push Apache Groovy's ranking higher up the Tiobe results, but I wouldn't know how you could push it down, let alone why anyone would. #81 is probably as accurate nowadays as the mid-40's has been for most of Groovy's life on Tiobe since 2006. Groovy's seen a significant drop in use (outside Gradle) over the past few years.
With stories like these, there's usually SIGINT involved, and a traffic violation is the pretext for the "random pullover".
This isn't limited to digital goods.

Here in Norway we travel to Sweden and buy mainly meat, tobacco and alcohol, due to lower taxes.

In 2017 it was estimated[1] to be about 2.6 billion USD worth. This is in a country with some 5.5 million inhabitants, many of which do not participate in this due to distance to border.

Businesses and the government aren't too thrilled about this, for obvious reasons.

[1]: https://www.svenskhandel.se/nyhetscenter/pressmeddelanden/20...
>unless you actually have reproducible builds (and only Fennec has them from all the mentioned browsers) you have to use your intuition.

F-droid does independent builds. Even if it's not reproducible, I trust them more than over some random developer.
> In my experience, finding the right cable has never been an issue. All the USB-C devices I've bought came with a suitable cable in the box.

Which is fine, until you need you need a new cable. When I lost the cable for my phone, finding a cable I could trust was a pain.
If Apple was working on a complete redesign of the MBP with a new keyboard, how long do you think it would take them to release it?

And if Apple were indeed working on that wouldn't it make sense to ditch the 12'' MB since it could not accommodate a thicker keyboard?

I'm bitter too about what has been happening on the Mac front for the last 5 or so years, but I think Apple is correcting course albeit slowly.
If you gave computer manuals to kids today, they'd cry and beg for their phones back
HN has dead posters. They are still readable for those that want to. That's the type of solution I promote.

Digital media, like Twitter, can't be a megaphone to spread hate speech. That means their algorithms should be smarter, and accept input.

On the other hand, with these media effectively being monopolies, that doesn't mean they can excommunicate (which is what this is about). That should be against the law.

Just like when there is just one shop in town: everybody should be allowed to buy. That doesn't mean the shopkeeper has to smile to every customer. A good shopkeeper may even be able to get this customer some help.
Wonderful concept, I really hope that apple starts supporting nvidia gpus, I can’t work without cuda...
> Why design them to fit together if they won't always work right?

USB-C is designed for graceful degradation.

There are two main types of non-captive cables: USB 2.0 only and USB 2.0 plus USB 3.x. Hosts and devices have to support at least USB 2.0, so if you try to connect two USB 3.x devices with a USB 2.0 only cable, it'll fallback to a USB 2.0 connection.

There are two main current levels: 3A and 5A. Cables which can carry higher power have a small chip describing this fact; if the chip is missing, the power source will limit itself to 3A.

Then there are the alternate modes. If you try to plug a device which only understands an alternate mode (for instance, a DisplayPort adapter), and the host doesn't understand that alternate mode (or can't understand it, like in the case of a USB-A port with a USB-A to USB-C cable), that device will instead appear as an USB 2.x device (the "billboard device"), which the operating system can use to show an error popup.

And so on. At every corner of the spec you can notice an interest in making it degrade gracefully. Of course, that can only work when the manufacturers follow the spec correctly.
That's because the new Macbook Pros are actually MacBooks. No I/O, no upgradability, gimmicky and useless touchbars, etc
So, I understand the attitude that, "twitter is just a platform, they don't have to be just, why wring your hands so much about what their rules are?" This makes sense if their rules don't matter, so in that case why should they even have rules? That's a position I can understand, where you can post anything on Twitter that's legal under US law.
I see your point about mobile testing. (I don't do mobile work, so I didn't think of it.)
He just described every digital service. There is no such thing as buying audible books or kindle books or iTunes movies. We’re just leasing it until their runway ends or they change their TOS
there is an official definition of "rogue state" but it's an inherently political term, hard to have an unbiased discussion over who is and is not a rogue state.

pakistan does present a bit of a problem for the rest of the world. they have over a hundred nukes and a very tense relationship with their neighbor, india. it's somewhat unstable and ISI has had some questionable (to say the least) dealings with terrorist groups. definitely not a combination that makes other countries very comfortable.
The keys that the touchbar replaced were definitely not useless - they were media control, sound control, screen/keyboard brightness and expose/mission control/launchpad (and of course, ESC.)

Those are all extremely common keys to use. And yes, you could also use them as "F#" keys I guess. Now, those keys are non tactile and much, MUCH less pleasant to use. Also, if you're watching a movie in the dark and you turn off your keyboard backlight the stupid touchbar stays lit up for 45 seconds.

I think Apple will eventually kill the touchbar or at least offer a version without it.

I think the corner they've painted themselves into is they know they can't charge more for a non touchbar version and if they offer it for less that's cutting profit margin as well as a tacit admission that it isn't a beloved feature.

But their choices over the last few months along with the revelation that they're finally ditching their butterfly keyboards leads me to believe it's coming.
Who paid the F35s 1.5 trillion?
Sometimes I wonder how many people use Macs mainly in clamshell mode. I’ve been doing this for the last 10 years or so because working on a laptop is a huge ergonomy antipattern and Apples keyboards are famous for giving RSI.
Silly old me always starts with / in a browser. Then I click on links. Not all sites leak information like a sieve with the wire bit removed but many do. There is sometimes no need to do anything clever like look for robots.txt.
I know there's a lot being said about super bugs...but is the expectation that we just keep developing stronger antibiotics? is this something can be sustained over the next few decades/centuries?
This was quite interesting thanks!

On a related note, does anyone have a good recommendations/blog post that explains how IP addressing, ports, subnetting, etc.
all work?

This is one of these things where I know that I'm just working off of empirical knowledge without knowing the fundamentals.
My guess is it will depend on whether or not the journalist is considered part of the mainstream media.
I am glad to see him write that he is trying to win back customers. I use pinboard a lot and was worried it was going down when a post appeared here saying that parts of pinboard weren't working and the owner wasn't responding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18749330
> I really (really!) appreciate how thin they are. The new 15in is as heavy as the old 13in.

Are these the same thing? Thickness and weight?

How much more material is required to make a laptop a couple millimetres thicker?

I would have assumed most of the weight reduction would be from making the battery smaller?
It's certainly gotten warmer in the Arctic.
Mitsubishi had one of the most popular cars around, the Evo, and they pissed it all away. Apple is doing the same thing with their market dominance. Makes you wonder.

I don't care about "thinner." I care about speed and reliability.
There's also the Algo VPN project using Wireguard:

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo