skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even though the coup in brazil was caused exactly because the previous government, corrupt or otherwise, was denying american companies access to new oil reserves already

Just want to point out to non-Brazilian HNers that this view is as fringe as UFO believers or hardcore Breitbart supporters. No one serious in the country is making these claims that sound more like outdated communism than real facts.

To name one counterpoint: the US is oil sufficient thanks to shale / fracking so it doesn't care about Brazilian "pre-salt" oil which is really hard to extract....
> The Mac Pro numbers certainly wouldn't pay for such a CPU development.

Again, though, what exactly does "development" mean here? Apple is already fabless. TSMC makes 32-core chips for AMD, so that scale is not new to them.
I’m fascinated by these things but afraid of the formalism involved in the papers that define concepts and prove things. Am I doomed to only enjoy math through the generosity of people like the author? Or is there a way for me to dive into math without the help of an actual mathematician using only books?
FWIW, there is tooling in place such that you can just recycle the hosts in your fleet and they'll be brought up with the latest image. so you can become just another scheduled and automated event.

Don't quite follow the latter.
In fairness it wasn’t always like this. People used to buy a box copy of SW for a fair price. then software shops started offering the $.99 app when app stores got into vogue. Now they want to migrate everyone to subscription models.
> There's nothing that keeps non-US citizens from investing in US market ETFs.

Actually, there is. Unless an ETF provider publishes key investor information documents in the format required by the EU, EU citizens are not allowed to buy those ETFs.

Since 2018, I have a number of US ETFs that I can no longer buy. I have to search for alternative UCITS funds instead, which are neither as diverse nor as large.
I think the only solution is to move open source communities to a more neutral country. Unfortunately, the US as it stands right now, is getting a less suitable place for international organizations day by day
I agree with your point about the fake personal touch, but I think this effect is because comic sans is so ubiquitous. A great alternative handwritten font is Architect's Daughter, which is free for personal use
Since self checkouts are cheaper to operate and take less space, it's compensated by there being more of them. Our supermarket replaced 2 checkout lanes with 6 self-checkouts in the same space with half the staff.
For me, I was technically over the threshold for type 2 diabetes before I started IF.

After 3 weeks of IF and healthier eating, that number had already dropped below the threshold to just pre-diabetes. Within 3 months I had reversed that as well. This was all verified by bloodwork.

Now it is true, when you eat, even when not doing IF, insulin spikes. That’s how our bodies process food. During extended fasting, your body will become more sensitive to insulin so it is important that when you eat again, not to stuff yourself with high carb foods that will only exacerbate that.

Now how much you’d have to eat to do hurt yourself, I don’t know, but I guarantee the first time you break a fast with just a bit too many carbs you will feel it. The first time was enough for me!
Insurance is best when covering replaceable things: cars, houses, etc. Had this guy had insurance, he’d likely have been compensated (for sure better than nothing), but would still be without his watches.
Tracking items you bought?
I keep paper copies of the backup 2FA codes for Google and LastPass in my wallet and have been pretty happy with that strategy.

A couple of years ago, I had my wallet fall out of my pocket while I was on a boat.

My phone was back at the dock safe and dry so I had my primary authenticator. And I probably had printed copies somewhere at home.

I've been much more diligent since then about making sure there are copies and that they're accessible.
On iphone, Perfect Browser. Easily the most configurable and best browser at adblocking.
React Apps – Open-Source and Free
Many levels are the developers in the team
The article suggests that the cruise ship is faster than the titanic, so maybe you want to make a point about being designed to always be close to port or something, but I’m not sure that’s really the case either as these ships must go from the place they are built to wherever they are operating the cruise and that place may move about the world from time to time.

I don’t think you really can get an apple’s to apple’s comparison because people don’t really travel on fast ocean-liners anymore. They travel on aeroplanes. So the category that the titanic fits in doesn’t really exist anymore.
1. That's docker. 2. I should have specified "in local development".
Do you really need to OC for audio recording? That sounds like something a less capable machine could do, but I'm fairly ignorant of the CPU requirements of audio recording.
>> for something he calls adversarial interoperability

Cory Doctorow has had a lot of interesting ideas, but he didn't coin the term adveserial interoperability. It's a concept and term that predates the Web, and is absolutely the appropriate solution to many of our current predicaments.

All of this has happened before and it will all happen again.
We're talking about one of the richest parts of the US.
The title is maybe a bit clickbaity -- the author does not mean that it will "disappear" in the literal sense, but rather that in the vast majority of cases it will become a managed service which end users don't really touch, much in the same manner as today's data center hardware. All the things you describe as its advantages could possibly be realized with a simpler interface provided and managed by a third party.
So pre-industrial period and a drop in human population correlates with a reduction in global temperature.

Population has increased a lot and would be interesting to map that upon global temperature.

However you look at things - humans DO affect the climate of this planet pure and simple.
The headline is wrong. It depends on the size and range, but more than 3 attributes may not be used in anonymized studies anyway.
This study talks about 15 attributes, which of course leads to trivial deanonymization.
The US is concerned about oil supplies everywhere in the world, because the US economy is driven by oil prices and the US net oil self sufficiency (though it's not self-sufficient in the oil it actually uses) has only slight bearing on this, since prices are driven by global market conditions.

Which is not to say that US interest in oil as the reason for the events at issue is a reasonable, evidence-supported belief.
Can you fill up your car every night at home without going to a smelly, carcinogenic gas station?
Sounds like just another capitalist shill piece where they tell you that happiness will only be achieved through finding “meaning” in your work instead of being well paid, with benefits, good management, and good coworkers.
"He was taking advantage of peculiarities in OHIP’s billing system, which encourage all sorts of chicanery that, while not always illegal, can tempt doctors into bending the rules"

This explains a lot. If you have two issues they really do make you book again. They send you for unneccessary tests and refuse necessary tests. Everything is setup to beat the system. What you really need (medicine wise), getting better, safest choices are not really part of it anymore.

I think Ontario needs to move away from fee based billing. It seemed like a quick way to inflate how many people have a family doctor. Doctors see more people but appointments are 10 minutes of less. Pay doctors an annual salary and force them to work for the government as an employee and impose standards with customer service in mind.
The dividends would not flow if no one ordered the plane.
Ask HN: What best alternatives for Macbook Pro 2015?
I've never actually purchased a Macbook - Companies I've worked at mostly provided it to me. I've been using Macbook without actually buying one.

Lately, I feel that my usage on this machine has advanced beyond work that it warrants purchasing it for my own.
1) Personal writing
2) Personal development/research for fun.(I haven't done this on company's laptop for obvious reasons, but the desire has been growing)
3) "the" laptop of the house - it's the central hub that most of my bluetooth devices connect, I do my e-mails on it, I manage my NAS on it, etc.

Essentially I'm looking for a lifestyle laptop - one you take to the coffee shop. to The issue is that I don't feel like purchasing any of the newer model beyond the 2015 (one with lightning ports and USB-2.0 ports). To me, that was the peak macbook - both in build quality and usability. I strongly dislike the touch bar, flimsy keyboards, lack of ports, magsafe, and so on. It would need to be durable and supportable.

The issue is the alternative and the longevity of it after 3-4 years. I clearly do not agree with the Apple's philosophy with their new line of products and I doubt they'll change course.

1) What current alternative to Macbook Pro(2017) do I have at the similar price point?

2) Has Linux improved substantially since 2016 in terms of usability?

- Obviously yes, but how much of "hand-wrangling" do I need to go through to make it usable?

3) I can't imagine I'm the only one in this shoe. What has everyone's experience been?

4) Specifically, I'm looking for this spec -
https://support.apple.com/kb/SP715

Is there a version that is more recent than this version, while maintaining the same quality(ports, good keyboard, no touch bar, etc)? Also, is it worth getting a 15 inch?

I'll leave the previous discussions from HN as a postscript and my thoughts why I felt the need to post a new question.
Sigh. Aside from the fact this comment adds no value to the discussion, anyone can walk into Zurich airport and buy a ticket.

By this logic, many public transport centres such as train stations wouldn't be public spaces either (not unheard of for a train station to have a ticket barrier too). There are adverts in places other than the airport too!
Postscript - Previous discussions on this topic that I found useful while posting this question -

1)"Ask HN: Is Dell XPS Developer Edition a Good Replacement of Macbook Pro?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12820778

I decided to discard this one as this was posted in 2016 - 3 years old and most products mentioned were outdated.

2) "Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?"
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16785507

I felt many of my frustrations echoed in the thread. There were a lot of mentions of Thinkpad and Lenovo series with linux - As a proud Dell owner for 7 years(may its rusty soul rest in peace) I am certainly intrigued and wanted to get a fresh take on it.

3) "Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894252

This thread essentially re-affirmed my aversion to the latest Macbook Pro models. I saw new hires using the later versions and I can repeat most sentiments expressed in that thread in my voice.

4) "Ask HN: Best robust laptop for everyday software development" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18022809

PascLeRasc's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024812) pretty much echos my sentiment and my reasoning to get a 2015. I wanted to see if there were other alternatives or if it makes sense to get a 4-year-old model in 2019.

Thanks
There are 16 articles (plus a forward) in the original publication, of which Stern's is the 4th, running pp. 39-66.

End of Stern's article: https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

I did not retype all of Technological trends and national policy, including the social implications of new inventions. I may be crazy and obsessive. I am not insane ;-)
And even if the model is sufficiently specified, the constant factors and lower terms hidden in the O-notationen can be deciding in practice, and are yet usually left out.
The thing is that the Amazon is not a good place for traditional agriculture. You can chop down the trees and grow crops for a couple of years and then you have to move on. We need a completely different approach to develop the Amazon.
“Daylight Drive” DC Solar Power at the Living Energy Farm
I never said it was better than all alternatives, I said my experience is that it is difficult to beat in a general case.

Bake a gauss curve out to three standard deviations into a LUT and normalize it. You can look at what PBRT does.

Keep in mind that I was replying to someone confused by all the choice of filters and was giving him a very solid starting point. This isn't some grandiose claim of scientific exploration, it's experience.
There's your solution to climate change. /s
Canadians live under the impression that their land is infinitely big, so strip-mining it etc. is only a problem in other, smaller countries.
You stated there was “no judicial oversight.” The possibility of appeal to an Article III court is “judicial oversight.”
Also Norway is taking steps to moving away from an oil based economy.

The comparison is invalid. This isn’t about ending existing means of supporting Brazilian society. These are about new measures that will (a) damage the rain forests, (b) almost certainly negatively impact ordinary Brazilians, and only enrich a few well connected folks.

The idea that killing the goose kind of growth will help ordinary citizens has shown to be false time and again in nearly every other nation.
Are you a lawyer?

Because there is plenty of precedent for this in available APIs and I've never heard of a case claiming this.
Definitely not. You are just being closed minded, incredibly rude, and dont understand how the brain actually works.
Isn't life too short for spending several hours to make pasta lol lol
My grandmother had lost her job and was forced into retirement a bit early and spent a lot of time at home. Since she was single, there wasn’t much for her to do except eat and sleep until others got home from work in the evening.

Well, she knew that she wasn’t supposed to sleep without her machine, so every time she got in bed, she’d put it on. This meant she was maybe spending 16 hours a day with this thing pumping air into her lungs. Now compound that with a sedentary lifestyle and a poor diet over a couple of years and it makes sense.

Her last days were spent in a hospital on a ventilator and every time the doctors tried to remove it for her to breathe on her own, her lungs just could not keep up.

Obviously this is a special case. Many people use these machines with no ill side effects, but for me, since it’s so personal, I have an admitently irrational fear of them.
it is irresponsible to promote this rhetoric
>without knowing now noisy the fan is

That is completely up to you to decide.

IIRC Raspi4 does not come with a fan so you need an aftermarket one. There are plenty of silent fans. It gets easier if you can increase the size, because bigger fan blades can be turned slower for the same airflow at reduced noise levels.
Another story- sorry.

I had a friend, called Mitsos, the Sailor (because he used to be a sailor). I
first met him after he had come out of jail- I don't know what he was in for
and I never asked. He had this way about him that you see in people who have
been in jail and have taken it as a harsh lesson. Once they 're out, you look
at them and they may be a bit scruffy, a bit uncouth, a bit down and out
(because jail never lets you move on) but they are straight like a rod,
figuratively speaking. I don't mean sexually. I mean they watch their own
behaviour like a hawk watches prey. The slightest misstep can lead to trouble,
you see, and trouble can only end in one place.

So, Mitsos, he was trying to get his life back on track. He was homeless for a
while. He slept at the benches in the park where we all hung out. At some
point I noticed that when this girl -I don't remember her name but she was
from Brazil- so when she was around, Mitsos was more smiley, more polite and
even better groomed than usual. One day I saw him, out of the corner of my
eye, hand her an actual boucquet of flowers, all wrapped up in crispy plastic
sheet with a huge big smile on his face.

Eventually, Mitsos shacked up with this girl and they were happy together.
Unfortunately, one of Mitsos friends was a junkie. But he was Mitsos' friend,
so the Brazilian girl let him into her house.

It pains me to remember what happened after. One day the Brazilian girl came
home and found her house empty- Mitsos' junkie friend had sold everything off.
For junk money, it goes without saying. It goes without saying that Mitsos and
the Brazilian girl had a huge row and Mitsos ended up on the streets again.

But he didn't stop there. I lost him, for a while, then one day I was in
Athens' central square, Omonoia square. Omonoia is where you go to buy heroin
and I saw Mitsos standing in a corner with another guy and trying to shoot up
with what looked to me like a syringe with a broken needle. I went over and
talked to him but he didn't want to talk. He wasn't drugged yet, he was still
trying to shoot. He was angry and desperate and, I think, ashamed that I had
seen him like that. I stood and watched him for a while trying to insert the
needle in his vein and all I could think of was how grotty that syringe was. I
worried he might get an infection.

Do you understand what he was doing? Mitsos wasn't a junkie. He had junkie
friends but he was clean. At Omonoia he wasn't trying to get high. He was
committing suicide. I only figured it out a couple of weeks later, when I
heard they had found him dead.

I've thought often that maybe I could have helped him- given him a place to
stay, even though my folks would never have agreed. Anyway, it happened as it
happened. Mitsos took a last shot to nowhere a day when I was with my other
friends at the park and we were all happy and laughing and having fun enjoying
each other's company.

At least I got to say goodbye.
I'm concerned about future powers using data to target me and my family for "re-education camps"
GMO is supposed to save us this time, if we have to pay for it some other way is still being discussed.
Analyzing Google News: Introduction
> The mass market is use to paying little up front and expect updates and fixes forever for that one time fee which of course is non sustainable, subscription software is/can be.

Since every up-front price has an equivalent value to a certain ongoing permanent flow, this is nonsense. Now, it may be that the price/quality ratio the market supports with the will support with up-front pricing is too low for the downstream support expected while the subscription price that is supported is greater.
Layer Migration
Convenience stores here in Japan do that a lot - they'll have a campaign period where for every $10 you spend or so you get to pull a raffle ticket and might win a chocolate bar or can of beer on the spot. Not related to self-checkouts though (those haven't reached convenience stores yet, at least not outside of one or two enterprising franchisees)

Certain brands of vending machines will also do a slot machine routine - the price LED display will spin numbers and if you get 4 in a row you win a second drink (I've never won)
Can't comment on any of the other points, but as far as battery time goes, the article notes that it will work for only 2 hours.
My grandmother had lost her job and was forced into retirement a bit early and spent a lot of time at home. Since she was single, there wasn’t much for her to do except eat and sleep until others got home from work in the evening.

Well, she knew that she wasn’t supposed to sleep without her machine, so every time she got in bed, she’d put it on. This meant she was maybe spending 16 hours a day with this thing pumping air into her lungs. Now compound that with a sedentary lifestyle and a poor diet over a couple of years and it makes sense.

Her last days were spent in a hospital on a ventilator and every time the doctors tried to remove it for her to breathe on her own, her lungs just could not keep up.

Obviously this is a special case. Many people use these machines with no ill side effects, but for me, since it’s so personal, I have an admittedly irrational fear of them. For me though, I’d rather not need it in the first place if I can avoid it.

This also only happened a few years ago so it’s still fresh for me.
Not a single point you made addressed what you replied to. They never said deregulation was bad for service or prices. It's bad for competition because it has been proven consolidation wins out, especially in Texas, by AT&T, American Airlines, NRG, etc.

I work for a large company whose goals are not only to become largest, most profitable, and never lose money ever again. But also, to gain strategic ownership where ever possible by acquisition.
Even forgetting the illegality of the referendum and that it was done under occupation -- the results of the so-called referendum were completely falsified. See e.g. here https://kireev.livejournal.com/1095568.html (in russian, from a person who professionally analyzes elections)
And personally I do think that it is possible that the majority of people in Crimea did want to join Russia, however we'll never know, because nobody cared to find out.
Question now is - what did they use to write upon this iron stylus?
well, you still look at them subjectively ... just maybe more objectively.
One of the nicest things about my current infrastructure is terraform + ECS + Route53 + ACM. There's basically no work required to set up a new server behind TLS loadbalancer and get the hostname registered, etc.
If you choose the standard engine edition, there is no additional Kubernetes Engine Cost.
if, instead of saying "is, however, wrong" you say "is wrong, however" you can save a comma. Just some LFP offered in a kindly spirit.
It's controversial because we already have a decent solution and the competing ones suck for a lot of reasons that can't be developed away.

It would be as if someone started doing research on vacuum tube transistor technology today if we were having a global compute crisis and we also had limited amount of sand with which to make glass and sand was an essential resource in all sorts of other things like the food supply chain.
Everytime there are news about Brazil the threads get a simple political view with shallow arguments.

I'm yet to see an article from nytimes and so on where they begin with basic and correct information instead of out-of-the-pocket made up numbers. Because numbers, in reality, are very different from this perspective that it's written. There isn't these increase in forests falling as this article implies.
> I get the point of "choose boring tech," but it seems like launching your app on EC2 requires a whole bunch of rework around automation that's already done for you in ECS, EKS, or dare I say even Elastic Beanstalk + Docker.

I have a service that has to run tasks immediately that can take a while to complete, often in a minute, but occasionally taking hours. (And we're working on the obvious solutions of making it both fast and interruptable, but this is tricky.)

With ECS, if you want the automation to place your services, you run into trouble with these when you're deploying a new version because ECS assumes that tasks can be stopped quickly.

Especially, if ECS has asked a task to stop and the task is taking time to shut down, it can't deploy new work to that host until that process reports that it's done.

Does EKS handle this better? I'm inclined to drop ECS entirely and just bake an AMI because the automation feels like it's getting in the way more than anything.
Tried to use this service on the HN comments discussing it. It could not generate a summary of HN comments, now I need to read people's opinions the hard way.
I wonder if Republicans would be more willing to believe in climate change if it's solved through endless wars instead of taxes.

Perpetual war to keep the planet cool.