skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Using a system takes partially out of the equation, which is more fair, especially in cases where huge numbers of the involved.
The magic mouse is certainly painful to move, however it would be interesting to see the actual impact on people's hands from it. Since getting one my behaviour has changed to move the mouse with a few fingers, and basically never move my hand. The sensor is very accurate so you can really crank up the movement in settings. This seems similar ergonomically to a trackball so i wonder if there is similar benefits.
Most hybrids use nickel-metal hydride batteries. Also, the doubled emissions from a non-hybrid over the lifetime of the vehicle are massive.
Working at a place where nobody cared how you dressed, because nobody cared about anything, there was ironically a tendency for people to dress a little less casually (wear button down shirts, etc) after a certain point because it showed you did still care and weren't totally burned out. And nobody was a rock star, so there wasn't any point in dressing down to prove you were above other people.
Anyone receiving or delivering healthcare is aware of these problems. These kind of critiques suffer from the same basic problem - they treat Medicine as a monolithic entity which is not intimately linked with society, culture, the economy and government. This conceit is necessary to write a book about it, and is a luxury available only to those who don't need to actually deliver or administer healthcare. It is also not the same thing as 'trying to make things better', despite what the author may claim. In truth the author is actually critiquing what they have decided falls under the umbrella of medicine, which they define at a particular point in time.

The problem is incentives, not sure why this guy wrote a whole book without realising this, but it is an easy mistake to make if you are thinking about the problem from your writing desk. People will minimise effort and cost, given a choice, and maximise profit subject to constraints. This behaviour exists even in highly trained health professionals already making many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Example - why do primary care doctors prescribe minimally effective drugs for depression? Is it because they can't understand a meta-analysis, can't remember all the patients the drugs didn't work for in their own practice, or because they are lazy or stupid? It is because a patient has come in looking for help and is sitting there in tears, and there is only 10 minutes to see them, and the history from the other doctor this person has been seeing for the last 5 years isn't available. And although everyone would be better off if the doctor spent an hour finding out in detail what is going on, carefully talking over the options, the side effects of various treatments and reaching a consensus management plan which starts with non-pharmacological therapies, and activates a government program which allows the patient to take extra time off work to attend therapy sessions with childcare facilities included. But it is easier for everyone to prescribe Prozac. This is the reality. Perverse incentives explain many of the problems in Medicine and healthcare systems. Nobody gets paid for delivering good care, nobody saves money by accepting good care. As shocking as it may be, delivering good care or exceptional care is a choice a health care team makes despite everything else. Similarly, accepting proven health care interventions is a choice a patient makes. Usually everything doesn't line up, and that is modern medicine.

The cited example of Gleevec also makes no sense to me. It revolutionised the treatment of 2 conditions which were almost completely untreatable beforehand (Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia and Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour). The alternatives to taking Gleevec for these patients were A) Toxic minimally effective chemotherapy followed by death or B) Just death. All of this context is extremely important in discussing the side-effects which can be severe. This is what the patient and the doctor work out together. Some throwaway line about how toxic it is just makes no sense in isolation.
Completely agree. With HDMI-CEC and moving off of old Campos it is the only remote used in our house and nobody ever asks me how to do X. They click it, everything turns on and the navigate to the thing they want.

A bit of rubber on the lower half so could feel up from down would be my only change.
There is definitely an opportunity for a distro directly aimed at laptops and/or providing the maximum battery life.
It drives me crazy that you can’t hold the Apple TV remote while watching tv for fear of accidental input. As soon as I turn something on, I set it down. Then, when I need it, I slowly reach for it, being careful not to inadvertently hit any buttons or swipe the touch pad.

When you’re using it, it’s fine. No complaints. But any time you’re not using it, it feels like a ticking time bomb waiting to mess up your show.
The view that Dirac is putting forth, that the fundamental equations need to be simple, is certainly not the modern one endorsed by theorists today. Since the 70s or 80s, the point of view that has come to dominate is that our most accurate theories (quantum field theories) are what are known as "effective field theories", where the adjective 'effective' refers to the idea that they are only only low-energy approximations to some other more complete theory. In this point of view the complete theory would have more complicated, even non-renormalizable terms that violate conservation laws, but these additional terms are suppressed by powers of something like the plank scale and so are virtually undetectable at low energies. Thus the low energy approximations (the effective field theories) have the simple, renormalizable form that we know. There is a good accessible discussion of this in Weinberg's popular science book 'Dreams of a Final Theory'.
Jony, Ive Made a Mistake
As explained every day on HN, you get money and exposure.
I don't think it's a stupid demand at all -- like I said, I have nothing against implementations behaving more nicely if they wish. I'm just saying that this is an extra demand, not an interpretation of the standard, and that it would have performance repercussions which many C users would rather avoid.

In the case of your safety check example, it'd be nice if you could mention something concrete so we know exactly what situation you're talking about. But I mean, I can't rule out that maybe you'll find a couple situations here and there where the standard shouldn't leave things undefined. But the argument I'm rebutting here is that all instances of UB must behave "like the hardware", not that this particular instance is good but another one is bad, so I'm not sure you two would agree. I agree warnings would be nice too (some of which already exist), and I think despite their current efforts compiler still have some ways to go (e.g. a macro expanding to 0 should probably not behave the same as the literal 0 when you multiply, say, by a constant), but again, that's already assuming you're fine with UB...
Ditto on the cold/hot front. When I first worked on a macbook pro I thought if there's someway I could stick a layer of insulation on all the metal I had to make contact with. I frequently rest my palms and wrists on the keyboard pads and with metal as the only thing present I am forced to have this aluminium chassis constantly attempt to reach thermal equilibrium with my body temperature. Not fun.
Apogee is the point furthest away in an orbit from the center of mass in relation to the Earth, perigee is the closest point.

In the screenshot, the "active" blue orbit is nearly circular, so the Ap and Pe are similar and the eccentricity is small. Both grey orbits have a higher eccentricity with the periapsis being closest to the body (Kerbin) and the apoapsis being the most distant point, though neither are marked in the screenshot as they're not the actively selected orbit.

I find "apoapsis" easy to remember due to it's similarity to the Latin "apex" [0].

Apoapsis: The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum. [1]

Periapsis: The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its minimum. [2]

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apex#Latin

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apoapsis#Noun

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/periapsis#Noun
That seems like a brutally unfair interview practice unless you were told in advance they’d be doing that.
"all of it feels like the last gasp of a historical precedent that is, ultimately, shallow and meaningless"

Are you really saying this is specific to the last 50-100 years?
The thing that drives me crazy on the remote is that the buttons aren't backlit. I can't think of a better use of backlit keys. A $5 rubber case fixes the ergonomic issues, but in a dark room, not being able to see the buttons, which are impossible for me to memorize, pisses me off.
You're right! I was thinking only of corps not producing physical products, but that's only one part of the world.
Wound up parting ways with the company.

Because NOBODY else there was ever going to have the opportunity to be a "high-flying" developer.

Basically, there were a few engineers that had gained the trust of upper management. The "chosen few" engineers were talented, though not spectacularly so, and had also saddled the company with their share of mistakes and lots of technical debt.

This created a cycle where:

1. The "chosen few" developers got all of the greenfield(-ish) development work -- the only work at the company where it was really possible to move quickly, hit deadlines, and "wow" people

2. The "chosen few" developers got to make nearly all of the technical decisions, and if you weren't one of them you were stuck forever implementing somebody else's idea of a good solution

3. The "chosen few" developers were always solving challenging issues, which made them look impressive to management, who lacked the technical ability to understand that a lot of these issues were actually caused by the "chosen few"'s poor decisions in the first place.

4. The "other" developers were always plodding waist-deep through technical debt, much of it caused by the "chosen few."

I was there for only four years but eventually it became clear that there was literally no way for me to shine there. You can't shine when doing maintenance work on legacy nightmare code. I became jealous of the "chosen few" (or, perhaps more accurately, I grew resentful of management) and grew a bit bitter and burned out. My work suffered and I was eventually let go.

That was one year ago.

Now I'm making 25% more money at a different company where I'm 100% more productive and 100% happier. =)

When someone younger than me, in my field, is making more money
/ getting more acclaim / winning praise from people I respect,
it makes me seethe. Sometimes I even waste my time looking for
a way to invalidate them, to put an asterisk* on their success,
so I can feel better about myself.

I think a key question is, "Are you jealous because they're more talented than you? Or are you jealous because they have been given opportunities that you have unfairly been denied?"

If you are jealous because they are more talented than you, then YOU are the problem. Get better, find something you're the best at, or (perhaps most healthily) accept the fact that you can be a perfectly valuable human being without being the best at something.

If you are jealous because you're not given a fair chance, then THE COMPANY is the problem.
Once again the world is reminded how remote parts of the Australian outback are. Emu Flats is the only place ever decided to be too remote for nuclear testing.
FWIW, Buddhism breaks down various mental afflictions, of which Greed is one. Afflictions are pollutants to seeing things as they are, and it helps to allot run-time bandwidth to spotting them and hopefully, discarding them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleshas_(Buddhism)

Edited:

The above helps a person to manage their own Kleshas. But if it is the other person's that is bothering you, then it helps to cultivate a mind of acceptance (according to Buddhism, that is).

And to quote the Bard from Othello:

Who steals my purse steals trash;

’tis something, nothing;

’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;

But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.”
I'd like a back button, so the stream pause/resume isn't such a high cognitive load high-stakes high-regret "oh, that looks ... drat, too late" decision. Or perhaps a fade transition?
Blast from the past: The Pentagon’s updated war plan for tactical nukes
> do have minimal strain reliefs

That's the redesigned magsafe2 cable with longer and slightly more flexible strain relief.

The original magsafe power adapters had almost nothing, and it was a much harder plastic.

While material choice and thinness may be an issue, it's exacerbated by the strain relief being insufficient.
A somewhat similar "sampling" experience is searching for a high-frequency term like "a", and filtering for an upload date of last hour or day[1]. Non-English terms and time of day bias on geography.

[1] "a"/"last hour": https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a&sp=EgIIAQ%253...
The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets
Some people use their laptops in wider situations than others. Having had creases pressed into my forearms by the edge of my MacBook while using it in various non-ideal and uncomfortable seating situation, usually on the go, I can easily say you are not one of them. Implying that we’re being dishonest or somehow incapable of using a keyboard is a bit insulting.
> Having maid is pretty common in Bay Area

I did say it requires grotesque levels of income inequality.

In all seriousness, a maid service coming in once a month is not the same thing as having live in servants.
Split Sunsets are a natural phenomenon
Startup developing killer swarm drones for Indian Air Force
No, I haven't, but that's irrelevant.

The fact that your build setup was poorly documented provided you with no incentive to use the legal monopolies granted by copyright law against your users. I agree that it's important to go beyond the mere legal grant of rights to study, copy, modify, and redistribute software, for example by simplifying and documenting your build system. But not having done that, or not yet having done that, is no excuse for not having done the more basic step of simply granting them the legal rights that the law ought to grant them in the first place, but doesn't; nor for keeping secret the source code to the software your users were depending on, preventing them from modifying it even if they were capable of figuring out how to compile it.

And it's true, I have no idea what his contingency plan is. But you are suggesting some kind of secret Rube-Goldberg-style legal setup as a substitute for the simple and straightforward publication of source and promulgation of a license like the Artistic License he plans to use. That would also be much safer, legally, since there's no room for heirs, debtors, or lawyers contesting a will, auctioning off the copyright to the software in order to pay debts or legal fees, etc. A much more likely case is that he simply doesn't have any plans for that situation because he isn't worried about it, and you've been reading too many silly novels.
My question to people with this attitude is, what is the point of your life?

I've lost a lot of friends and recognize that life is way too short to not be putting as much time as possible toward something you find totally compelling. The stock answer is contentment and "happiness."

The most content person I've ever met was a flower cart man in Belmopan, Belize. Probably made $100 a week at most. He knew all he wanted to do was bring beautiful flowers to people and give them a smile. He had a point in life. Sure he had kids, but he knew that they would move on one day and do their own thing, and he wanted to be known as the best flower man in Belize so he got up early to start and worked late.

This pervasive idea that "it's just a fucking job" is ultimately a milquetoast cop-out. Spend your hours doing something that has impact to you.
> Britain has seen zero net economic growth since 2006 (that's before any inflation adjustment).

Firstly, net GDP, or net economic growth isn’t a thing. (Value added, and GDP is already a net measure).

Real (inflation adjusted) UK GDP has definitely increased since 2006. Real GDP per capita has also increased slightly.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/times...

France’s GDP contracted by 20%? Not according to the figures I’m looking at.

You’re just making stuff up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)... :

"An anonymous EU official claimed that the US officials implied that they might consider shooting down Galileo satellites in the event of a major conflict in which Galileo was used in attacks against American forces."
Look, it gives me satisfaction to rest the heels of my hand on the edge of the laptop. I feel more alive when I do it. Colors are brighter. Back off!
The last time I did that it ended in drama.
And that fucking sophon block...
“The iPhone Is a Breakthrough Handheld Computer”, Walt Mossberg’s original review. Maybe not 1000x, but definitely multiple X better (especially compared to leading US phones).

- First phone emphasizing Wi-Fi

- Full web browser

- Integrated iPod

http://allthingsd.com/20070626/the-iphone-is-breakthrough-ha...
I followed the rabbit hole a bit further and found http://dedalvs.free.fr/writing/dpetersoncomps.pdf and https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/engma-enigma/, which cover the vowel-quality question in more detail.
I have never been to the Getty, but from my experience going to plenty of other museums it has always seemed like getting "lost" was the whole point. You can remove yourself from the real world for a bit and have total focus on the exhibition.

Designers should tend to put emphasis on beauty, otherwise they would just be called engineers. I'm not a designer either, but I think the secret sauce is convincing users (of hardware, software, no matter) that form followed function. Ive is most certainly a designer so the changes he made, e.g. removing ports, were driven by aesthetic rather than function. Without the checks and balances named Steve Jobs these were allowed to ship, and is a reason why Apple is getting a bad rap.
But seriously, can you point to a good example of that? Your criticism is shocking to me as my perspective as a long-time listener is that she's NEVER "over-the-top and self aggrandizing".
Sand in fungally dominated soils show signs of biological erosion similar to you see under lichen. What we can take from this is that soils under perennial woody crops can mine their own minerals, probably until the sun runs out of hydrogen.

But annual crops mostly grow either in prairie or disturbed soil ecosystems. Bacterially dominated soils. So any way you slice it, we need a wider mix of perennial and woody crops. Over a long enough time horizon, all of your fertilizer resembles compost and that compost has to derive its minerals from fungal soils.
No, because presumably his property has permanent plants with roots that retain the soil, while his neighbors are constantly tilling the land making it easily blown or washed away.
That’s a good point: if municipalities want you to recycle, they need to provide the necessary infrastructure, and that means at least three source separated bins (ideally 5-7), and a clean container collection system. Otherwise it just turns people off the whole system. A financial incentive to save money when you don’t throw away as much into the landfill bin helps too.

Any chance you could compost the kitchen scraps in your garden?
Jobs had plenty of design failures on his conscience, like the G3 cube, the skeuomorphism fad, and the hockey puck mouse. We should not pretend the guy had irreplaceable design sense.
It isn't justifying it. This is not an either/or situation. We can both have smoother laptop edges and be mindful of our typing posture.
The Oracle lawsuit exposed Android revenue numbers. OEMs definitely have been paying for quite some time now.
Ask HN: Are there any new languages designed specifically for webassembly
It seems like webassembly in the browser is different enough of an architecture and use case that it makes sense that people would be designing languages designed from the bottom up to be compiled to it, but I can’t seem to find any.
I feel Ike the feeling of being served on our society has everything to do with economic equality. There are professions that pay more or less, and people with professions that pay more are able to afford services that people with lesser paying professions can provide. Using words like "profession" and "service" tend to imply that these are normal, usual things that happen in "free" societies, a.k.a. capitalistic societies. If I'm not mistaken, this is essentially the exploitation of the working class that Marx was talking about.

If everyone earned the same living, then there would be very little serving happening, because everyone's time is effectively worth the same amount, and thus it wouldn't make sense to give away all your money to people to perform services for you that you could have done yourself if you didn't have a job.

The reason that people serve other people in our society is that we're unequal, and there are socio-economic reasons for that. I believe it has more to do with economic inequality than Nietzchean slave morality.
The Singapore/Hong Kong/Taiwan style arrangement is for the maid to live in with you. Conditions are often pretty harsh, ie passports are with-held, phones are confiscated, and they have one day off a week. Not really comparable to a once or twice a week visit from the maid.
Sorry, it takes 'partiality' out.
Despite many of the negative comments here I find Word on Android pretty awesome. I wonder if the comments are more "historical" anti Microsoft and less objectively focused on the product.

I also think OneNote is great on my phone, as is Excel!
Yes I’ve used cfpb hmda data and race is a column in reported lending.
No, this doesn't happen to me. When someone younger gets accolades, I celebrate. If I can, I try to learn a technique from them that might have helped them get their success, but it's not always possible to isolate for just one thing.
Thanks for linking to these specifically. Wouldn’t have spent the time to find it otherwise but am loving the Richard Stallman interview.
Much better. Thanks!
This gets at the heart of one of the issues with these discrimination laws.

What if, all else being equal, people from zipcode A are statistically much more likely to default than those from zipcode B? Do financial firms have to pretend like they don't know that fact?

How removed from race does information have to be in order to be considered by a financial firm?
There's a subreddit dedicated to this sort of thing, check it out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX