skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an introvert and on the spectrum - when someone asks me about "life", I immediately find the question to be like an inquisition into my personal life.

I'm also gay and married, that makes any "personal life" questions fraught with discrimination liability.
In zuckerbergs testimony to congress he references "the data brokers" or third parties involved all of the time.
You’ve used past tense in all your examples. Is it still true? As Apple has moved more towards a system with GateKeeper where apps must operate in a sandbox, this behavior seems less acceptable in 2019. I don’t want apps having complete access to my home directory because they absolutely do not need it to function.

I like that when I remove an app installed via App Store on Mac, I know it’s actually gone. It seems like this was part of the thing that people couldn’t stand about Windows — spyware coming along for the ride that is not removed when you delete the main app.
As a person that is definitely not part of the global one percent, my imagination ran to something like the Eyes Wide Shut orgy scene.

Fidelio.
This is more or less how Jupyter notebooks work, and I agree this experience is pretty great. Make it a local web server and the browser becomes your UI.
Ohhh I see. Totally get what you mean now, yeah that makes more sense.
Meaning the search engines that appear at the bottom of the URL bar (respectively the separate search bar in case) and of course also the default search engine that is used when you load something that isn't an URL in the URL bar.
I am having problems installing on macOS Catalina bets. Same as installing Chrome.
FDA has faaar less stringent regulations for medical equipment than for drugs.
I guess customers want them to the extent they help them achieve their task without hassle and/or them realising it's a chatbot, pretty much just as well as a human would.

In some use cases, I suppose this might be possible (though I've not ever seen this - would love to see your example if you can name it!) but in most it's not, yet.
Imagine the young person who turns 27 the day this law in effective!
Approval voting eliminates the reduction of politics to the boardwalk ice cream vendor problem.

What's more, I'm tired of driving 7.5 hours to the boardwalk every time I want ice cream, and then not being able to find any parking spaces around the exact center of it, where the vendors tend to cluster.

Since FPTP mathematically converges on two parties, the two parties also mathematically converge on the perceived political center, and then advertise in opposite directions from the same spot. When the voting is structured to prioritize how far customers are willing to walk for the flavors they like, rather than going the shortest distance to the only flavor available (vanilla), we all get more choices.
Perhaps enough times where this fine from the EU is still considered insignificant (apparently about 30p per record). If you consider your details to be worth 5-10p per agency, if they've sold your details at least three times they've already made their money back (including this fine from the EU).
Why are they taxing flights rather than fuel?

There's nothing wrong with "flying"! What's wrong is how they get their airspeed, namely by burning fossil fuel.

Also those prices are insulting. There is no jet fuel tax in the EU. This gimmick tax is less than what people driving cars pay in taxes on their fuel for a tank of gas. Governments want to increase tax on car fuels (hence the yellow jacket movement) but still give airlines a break!
This is why the Fakespot extension is so great – that page is littered with "F" grades, and I would have never considered purchasing any of it.
> I think really the best other options without a fan are all Chromebooks.

I own both a 12" MacBook and a Pixelbook, and the Pixelbook is notably chunkier/heavier. (And every other comparable Chromebook is even worse.)

Next best fanless option is probably a Surface device.
I asked for "Thought Pull" casting cost UU and it gave me "Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand." Not bad!

(For some reason, the text on the side says "Uncast" instead of "counter".)
However, the developers of this software have no way to force browser developers to “fix their interface.” So they make a workaround instead.
So banking is a complex mess of years and years of regulation that seem to change when the government does or there is an event. An example for me personally was trying to buy a house after the crash. (This bit is simplified vs the details of rules). They changed the loan laws to put incoming as the key limit on what you could write a loan against. I had made a nice chuck of money on my last startup and was very lucky enough to be in the position to be able to write a check for the house. That however would make no sense. The interest rates where very low and having a mortgage has a tax benefit. The issue was that I had moved to another startup and traded salary for stock, so my income was to low to meet the requires for the home loan (they ignore the fact that my net holdings could cover the house 8x). No major bank could write the loan. However I was able to find a private bank that because of their structure and the fact that they carried the paper (did not sell the loan on) where able to write the loan no issues. I just structured stock sales each month to cover the mortgage, ignoring my income (which was a number picked to cover the family expenses less the housing cost). I was only able to set this all up because it was a private bank that looked at the full picture. That’s the key value of a bank like this.
Selling Microsoft: https://www.amazon.com/Selling-Microsoft-Secrets-Successful-...

Quoting an Amazon reviewer:

> As opposed to most "hot new" sales approaches which focus on changing your personal style, this book does a great job of providing a strategic step-by-step plan from A-Z. It's void of fluff and gets right to the point of outlining the nuts and bolts of the process including pre-sales planning, performance tracking, maintaining growth, and time management. It's worth reading in general and especially for those migrating into tech sales.
Ask HN: How do you distribute iOS apps internally?
Our organization has gotten big enough that we've run out of App Store Connect users, and waiting for iOS beta review is slowing down our dev/release cycle. We'd like to be able to build and distribute our app internally to product, design, stakeholders, etc, but I'm not sure how to go about this.

I know some companies use the Apple Developer Enterprise program for this, but I vaguely recall a few companies being kicked out of that program because it's not designed for internal testing.

So, how do you distribute iOS apps internally once you pass the 50 user App Store Connect limit?
This is exactly what has happened — the 787 is the result, and is hugely popular with airlines. But the operational life of a big jet is measured in decades, and there are plenty of 50-year-old airframes in regular operation today.
Hello from Redmond. It's all good old NT under the hood. NT is in Azure, XBox, anything which MS builds really. What is interesting is that Windows Subsystem for Linux v2 will actually run a Linux kernel in a VM. I guess implementing a syscall emulation layer for all of Linux was too much, but they still did a very impressive job.
> Your "evidence of illegal activity comment" is written later in the post, and I didn't respond to it because it's completely irrelevant.

You forgot about the guidelines: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

You did that by ignoring the context of the post.
Sitka spruce, not pine.
GAAS—garbage as a service

99% of software world these days fits this description, sadly.
Sounds like it could use sources for the assertion. ;)
One might work at opening border in all the years the tunnel is being built - closed borders should't be considered a irreversable thing.
Furthermore, of course there still be flights available. The whole point is to have less flights. So some flights could be shifted to train or boat and for the rest double-checked whether the flight is still needed.
BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Probably not. It feels more like they're solving 2010 problems 9 years later, which has always been the case. The law (and US government) is generally designed to be slow. Tech is, by its nature, very fast. It will always be a game of catch up.
A German Financier Wants to Turn Magic Mushrooms into Modern Medicine
we have a once in a millenium chance to rebalance our landscapes and ecosystems towards biodiversity. A spruce monocrop wont help.
It is. He literally explains what kind of stupid actions he suggests going "candidates to replace the subject line of their application with a specific phrase".*

If you want attentiveness, then ask for a rational action to be completed... Not senseless idiocy.

* - Had I seen this request(I read the job postings carefully) I would definitely skip the job.
Why label literally any button? Just number them all, and if a pilot can't remember that button F81 means "gear down" well that's user error.

Hitting a function button is not "typing" in any real sense anyway, use being so relatively infrequent. Can you really hit F8 consistently, without looking?

Maybe the doctrinaire solution would be to delete the function keys, if "thou shalt not look at keys" is the ultimate commandment. But that's incompatible with legacy needs.

Back in the pre-GUI days when use of the function keys was far more prevalent, software would sometimes ship with cardboard overlays to indicate which key did what action. The touchbar is bringing that old idea into the 21st century.

I would have preferred they scaled it back and include physical Esc and power keys on either side, but in other ways it presents a real improvement in computing UX which is too rare these days.
The Zoom admin for an org can switch to cameras default Off

I agree it should be the default, though if you're worried you can open your Zoom app and change the default as well
This feels kinda like bait to ask what happened, so, what happened?
Totally going off-topic, but for others like me who love these poetic phrases, they're called "terms of venery", dating back to the late middle ages' hunting tradition [0].

In the list I see "coalition of cheetahs" and "kindle of kittens". But then again, I don't mind new coinages, these are fun.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_terms_of_vener...
That makes sense. But in the case of online transactions (where you can't ask for id), how can the seller prevent the fraud? It's there any due diligence expected? Or how can they send themselves? Is this just an example of "the cost of doing business"?
If you don't need to remap Esc, try remapping CTRL to CAPS. Helps a lot with dev work esp if you use mod keys frequently.
I'm not sure why in a democracy, the majority of people don't have the majority of the power. If they happen to be urban / rural, so be it.

The developed world is becoming more urban because we do not need that many people in the rural industries any more. It's that simple. Fighting for their 'rights' just makes the country non-competitive. We need to actively incentivize and assist those in rural areas find a way of life where the economy is actually happening.
You're right, but the more people are able to make good choices, the more politicians will be able to put pressure on companies who make money on carbon emissions. Politicians can't do anything unless consumers really show they're able to change.

Climate change is a problem of consumption and how economies are completely dependent on carbon emissions. You just cannot realistically forbid this and this without hurting the economy and its existing carbon-dependent infrastructure. Climate change will be fought on campaigning on consumers so that they call on their good will and shift markets.

I guess the only reliable way to make consumers change their choice is fear mongering about climate change. We need more climate change hard-scifi.

If consumers act like lazy sedentary irresponsible kids, the only way will be to instate hard measures: banning personal cars and adding more organized public transport, switching to reusable glass and steel packaging, reducing bullshit jobs to avoid useless transportation, economies of scale to avoid emissions, a big nuclear energy plan, etc. To be honest all those things should already be startups. They're not complicated. It's a matter of law and how salesmen are pushing consumers to make bad choices.
The sentence "The Touch Bar is useless to me" is the only negative sentiment in the paragraph (if not the entire comment), and it's followed by a few positive examples.
Thanks for the detailed answer. I assumed I would be owner of my resume. Guess there is not much I can do.
He dropped out of the race to get away from bad press, the establishment players kinda forced him out with dirt-digging.

I think he thought it would help, but when he re-entered he was worse off.

I also remember him doing well in the debates, but his VP pick, Admiral Stockdale, badly flubbed the VP debate.
Use the App Store and the preference setting to only allow App Store apps if you want that behavior.

Macs are general purpose computers and it would be absolutely inappropriate for Apple to try to prevent users from running software on them.
Wheren't both those examples driven by government regulations?
> Come on, the man's a legend!

He’s a self-promoter. A valuable life skill to learn at some point is how to differentiate those who are legendary due to the awesomeness of their own feats, and those who manufacture legend from mediocrity.
Creating TF-IDF Model from Scratch
No.

Alcohol based cleaners don't work against a variety of germs that are important in healthcare settings. (eg norovirus).
Not ignoring, but I've seen similar from many companies we all work for. Of course, your criticism against them is fair too. And, I can also show you many companies who haven't gotten their shit together in 90 to 120 days too.

Give them some time and I think they will fix this and fix the issues that caused them to not catch this the first time and fix it as quickly as we would all like.
I do not have ZoomOpener running.

My feeling is that removing the startup item probably cripples this, no? I mean, fuck them for doing this, and get rid of all of it, but I think the StartupItem is required for their hack to work.

Right?
And some new CLI programs don't ship with their manpages at all. I've also seen some manpages that don't match the specific version/release of a program installed on the OS.
So, a browser-specific website is OK as long as it’s Firefox?
Should management of personal information be standard or offered at premium?
For copying files from A to B, I wrote a simple script[1]. rsync is not as universally available on hosts, the tar version is sometimes significantly faster than rsync when just copying, and rsync won't let me triangle-route copies.

https://gist.github.com/jasom/ecdec7767b5f774cd24aebba3c2ba3...
Those are 2 very different measures. You can't compare them.
Wow great tip thanks.
I AGREE
iOS doesn't allow anywhere near the level of customization that Android does, nor does it allow 3rd party browser engines at all, however there's Sailfish OS and maybe the Librem 5 soon.
Or alternatively, I'd like to see variations like: "Git repo as a database"; i.e. sqlite backed git.

There are a whole class of problems here that I have little or no experience with, but seemingly could be incredibly impactful. For instance, further research and investment into versioning, event-logging, etc. could bring about a very rich revolution in OS / user experience.

"What if... data (e.g. file) manipulations where semantic – rather than CRUD, you had application-layer higher level blocks that presented different abstractions to data below."

Or, as I have more experience with SQL than FS, I could just be looking at the world through the lens of having a hammer and seeing everything as a nail.
What kinds of software did you provide to these private family offices?
The sort of folk who run rsync is a niche clique. Maybe this GUI is the perfect occasion to put rsync in the hands of more people ? We all know how powerful it is, there is no reason it should be used only by people who are happy testing the different flags, reading random blog posts about what combination to use, and trying to find salvation in a 3000-line manual page.
If you can build a car for cheaper elsewhere, why wouldn't you? If your goal is to keep people gainfully employed, well how about working on improving their skills so that a laborer in a developing country isn't more productive than they are?
Soap bars?
I'm fairly certain you have to agree to some to join the Apple Developer Program, which is (sort-of) required if you want people to be able to run your app.
My preferred external keyboard only has a PC layout. Having my fingers confused by having none of my shortcuts work is a bummer.

The real answer for me is going to be swapping for an X1 Yoga or an X1 Extreme, I think.
> Logic Remote (which works with GarageBand, AFAIK) already exists and works with an iPad. Clear labels, clear text, manipulating multiple elements easily at once--it's a better solution than what they tried to wedge in with the touch bar.

This suggests a fun and interesting way forward for Apple UI design - layered augments from additional devices. Let OS X be the core of the system, but enable big apps like Logic or Photoshop to have connected supplementary UI's in iPad or VR/AR that provide a high-quality interface to some specific functionality. Reduce alt-tabbing on the main screen.
I'm surprised how infrequently this is brought up. Folks are either shocked or dismissive whenever I bring this up, but it keeps me from being able to recommend O365 at all.
>>why does any major political figure, celeb, influencer, or whoever waste effort/time to 'block' anyone on Twitter

They don't. They hire someone to do it for them. In that instance they're just wasting money, and if you're employed by the government you're just wasting someone else's money so no cost.

And as someone else said, you block people if you're a politician because you don't want the opposition message gaining ground of your platform. I understand why they would want to do it, I also believe they shouldn't be allowed to as public servants.
Yes, yes... Because cultures don't exist and people all over the world are exactly the same.

And it's a case of too many Americans thinking that American way is like it is everywhere.
> the two parties also mathematically converge on the perceived political center

There is a mathematical theory about this, but it assumes a number of things that aren't true about real political behavior (basically, it ignores that political engagement that matters isn't limited to voting, and that voting behavior isn't simply “every eligible voter will vote, and will vote for the candidate nearest to them by some political distance function”; it may also ignore that distribution of political views is neither uniform nor unimodal with a central peak, but instead has peaks away from the center [0]), and empirically doesn't seem to predict the actual behavior of parties very well at all.

[0] it's not clear if it ignores this or just doesn't consider distribution because distribution wouldn't matter if the things it does ignore were true; certainly some of it's defenders seem to think that political views are unimodal and centrally-peaked and that that mitigates any problems from the other oversights, which it might, if it were true.)
> I'm saying that the non-elites are counter-productive, that they contribute negative productivity.

You may have concrete examples of that, but I couldn't agree based on my own perspective/experience. I've worked on a team with an elite programmer (in terms of actual 10x productivity) for nearly 3 years now. I know they're not all the same, but this guy isn't particularly sophisticated or cerebral in his approach; in fact, he wouldn't want to take on architectural concerns, refactoring, or really complex problems - I and another dev take care of that. He's just incredibly productive, by any measure you'd like to use -- LOC contributed, modules written, features implemented, issues closed. I've sometimes wondered if he's a front for an entire team behind him.

That doesn't mean the rest of us aren't worth having on the team. We are definitely contributing positively. In fact, he couldn't work anywhere close to the rate he does if he had to take care of the stuff the rest of us do.
what about local filesystem access, os integration, and all the other things that you expect a desktop app to be able to do (like in this case executing a separate binary) which violate the security models of browsers?
Bizarre that people thought this exclusive to Zoom, imo.
I am learning about a lot of video conferencing solutions for all the wrong reasons this week, between this and Zoom.
Big Shifts in Big Data: State of Upheaval
Maybe I'm particularly dense, but I can only get to the Rules page. Is the Rules page in fact the first puzzle?
LG May Be Engaged in the Development of a Crypto Wallet
I'd like to add to the above question: how does (or can) a person who never had an FB account request deletion of (possibly illegally collected) private data about them, without having to register to the very platform they're not a member of?
Ridiculous, it's his own twitter account. He can do with it as he pleases.
I'm actually rather surprised that so many of these reactions are so negative. I guess it's another case of outrage being a more profitable form of journalism.

In reality, Apple just price cut all its most popular laptops in a pretty major way.

Want a quad core laptop? It's $1300 instead of $1800 now, and adds the Touch Bar.*

Want a basic MacBook for school or light browsing? The MacBook Air is $100 cheaper now and has a better screen.

These are big, big price cuts, and I think Apple's going to sell more laptops in Q4 than they ever have before.

The 12" MacBook was discontinued, but we can only assume it was never really selling all that well. I think the Air's extra 3/4 pound of weight is somewhat unfortunate but I'd imagine that the extra horsepower is probably needed for most people over the anemic performance of the 12" MacBook.

* Love it or hate it, you still get more tech for the money with the addition of the Touch Bar to the lowest MacBook Pro model. Why exactly do we assume that most people dislike the Touch Bar again? Just because some people are vocal about it online? Apple does collect plenty of telemetry and I assume they wouldn't add it to more models if they figured out that nobody used it.
People are using the same name for two distinct colors, a mix of blue and red on the one hand, and on the other hand the pure spectral color after blue and indigo, which by definition doesn't have any red in it, being on the other side of the spectrum. Also, modern electronics based on RGB primaries can't display violet.
Well for the rest of us, old CPUs do just fine in 99.99999% of cases :) RAM is cheap, and a good GPU is really all that matters at this point.
Squeezing Rocket Fuel from Moon Rocks
graph database could handle the infinite directory nesting with ease
^ very true. Larger banks also do this, but you need someone high up the totem pole to connect with. Most lower level employees cannot approve these things and just input things into the system (which has a risk model that spits out a yes/no answer).