skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just adding my mbp anecdote.

I purchased my MacBook Pro in 2015. A year ago I noticed the top 15% of my trackpad wasn’t clicking. I did a little research and saw that this is sometimes the first symptom of an expanded battery and to bring it in. I finally made an appointment a few months ago and came in to have it investigated further. In the appointment they told me they “disassembled and confirmed everything was functioning properly.” They did a software diagnostic which also confirmed the same. The service person came out and said the very top of the trackpad never clicks and that’s how it was designed. They sent me on my way... a few weeks ago I received an email saying the battery was recalled.

In summary, the “genius” looked at an expanded battery and proceeded to tell me everything is fine. I respect the fact that apple has a presence that allows you to have your devices inspected but it gave me a false sense of security. I had even researched replacing the battery myself up until that appointment
"Our mission is to elevate the world consciousness". Let it never be said that tech startups were not very Californian.
Is there a better command for a cronjob to check for available updates? I try to get something like
<package name> - <current version> - <updated version>

i currently use

pkg_add -u -n -I -v 2>&1 | grep 'Adding' | sort -u
"Food delivery apps are reshaping the restaurant industry — and how we eat — by inspiring digital-only establishments that don’t need a dining room or waiters..."
Very true which is why they focused on free cashflow as a measure of profitability which could be immediately realized if they stopped investing their profits in to growth and market domination.

Though, certainly AWS has been a massive benefit for them. Allowing them to truly be disruptive and industry leading while generating massive revenues, growth, and most importantly profitability, however small compared to their overall revenue, to continue to justify their pitch.
I bought a refurbished mid-2015 in 2017. Looking up the serial number Apple indicates it's either not affected or already addressed. Pretty sure this model would get flagged for a flight. A few weeks ago replaced one of the speakers and the batteries looked a little puffy. https://imgur.com/3Dav7hH. Probably shouldn't be flying.
Where I grew up, before chavs they were called 'Car Park Kevs' (though in my wife's town they were called 'Barrys'
> they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.

That doesn't stop with the -ism's, I routinely run into programmers learning about DRY and cargo-culting the hell out of it. People seize onto absolute rules and superficiality, failing to consider deeper conceptual dissimilarities that would negate the application of the rule.
Those are some great points you have raised, I just want to add:

When actors are aware of the risks and exposures, they can sometimes inadvertently move the goal post further into the future due to their actions. In this case, the movements made by Central Banks and others may have led to the longest continuous economic growth in US history.

I would argue that the government's decision to delay the $150b tarifs was in part to delay the upcoming recession to help support retail & manufacturing numbers in the end of year sales.

I agree there is an inevitable recession, it is now a matter of how low it will get, how quick it can bounce back, its ramifications to the world, how it may impact your life and the strategy you intend to have to hedge the risks.
Or Microsoft Onedrive being stuck in an eternal upload/download loop.

Back when I had Comcast, that bug cost me $200. Thanks Microsoft.
I still don't get why the government gave free money to companies to invest in their assets. Even in a universe where they spent in on what they were supposed to, the extra profit they would have made from it would have been free money. Can I have some free money from the government?
> Is there any cost that an ISP company has related to the amount of data transferred?

If the data is coming from outside the ISPs network, it might be on a paid connection. Although I think it's less popular today, it was common for paid connections to be billed based on the physical capacity as well as the amount of transfer (95th percentile billing used to be ubiquitous).

Within the ISPs network, or on unpaid connections, the marginal cost per byte is discontinuous: most of the time it's so low it's probably hard to measure, but when you hit the capacity of a link, the cost can be high to increase capacity.

An ISP, especially a residential ISP is not expected to have capacity for all its users to transit data across the internet at the full speed of the last mile connections at all time. There is oversubscription, and it's ok and reasonable. To the extent that someone is using a residential connection at full speed all day every day, that's not really reasonable, and they should be in a different account type. However, ISPs play a large part in this: they should make this more clear, their data caps should be sized to bandwidth, they should offer transfer rate capping in case of overage, and the overage fees should be more reasonable.
147-150
My fastest speed I've measured at my place (Oz) is 1gbps, but due to latency and jitter it's generally much worse. There's a large disconnect happening in tech, where infrastructure isn't keeping up in all countries with what the tech companies are providing. Ironically, ISPs here do sell unlimited plans.
Even a nobody likes me knows to take TAM estimates with a grain of salt, so I imagine experienced investors know too.

I suspect if you added up all the TAM estimates for all the industries on Earth you'd get a number somewhere north of 10x the actual total value of the markets on Earth. I feel I'm being conservative; I really wanted to say 50x, but chickened out at the last minute before posting.
My apologies. I remembered incorrectly. The aerial flights use computer vision to extract depth maps. While aerial LIDAR is used in GIS, I could not find LIDAR mentioned connected with Google's aerial imagery.

https://blog.google/products/earth/google-earths-incredible-...
(context: white American from midwest). I found it a very mind-expanding journey to try and read the tao, I basically had to look up each page and read what it meant. I was also listening to a TAO podcast with a newbie, that helped a lot. Now I can semi-get by on my own and it led me to look at other Chinese philosophies.
New Irish Lotto and EuroMillions Results App
A mile-wide sculpture, engineered to reflect light for a NASA Landsat satellite
What T-mobile did for Binge On is allow any legal video service to sign on and be zero rated. They didn’t advertise it, but they even allowed some porn sites.

There was a poster on HN who said that his little small non profit was able to fill out a form and be zero rated.
I have no problem with a data cap. But any and all services received from that provider (i.e. television service) should have to count towards that cap.
As a way for people to talk about unimportant topics, small talk serves a few vital functions:

1. it allows politeness without deepening the relationship.

2. it can be a breadth-first search of mutually-stimulating topics for in-depth conversation (which may lead to a deeper relationship if desired).

3. it can avoid accidentally offending someone with controversial topics or opinions.

4. is quick to disengage from, unlike a story or debate, so is useful as a conversational holding pattern.

HN doesn't really fit any of those. Sure, some comments will say "my kid does this", but I find they're rare on HN (and usually downvoted); in general, comments are adding new data or engaging in debate.
no. also there is no "popularization." it's just a historical pattern.
Developers shouldn’t fear Friday code deployments
No fan of FB, but it's not necessarily a zero-sum game.
I go to psytrance parties reasonably often because I have friends who are into it, but I hate psytrance personally. Different strokes for different folks.
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It's a very common misconception. One I even held myself until recently. The more I thought about it, I realized that while I am introverted, I do like being around people. I'm perfectly happy to be with and socialize with people - as long as I don't have to be the center of attention or life of the party. Interestingly it was a 3 month stint doing full-time remote work that made me realize this.

Luckily when socializing with other introverts, they're generally OK with silence and gaps in the conversation, it's not awkward. And when socializing with extroverts they're happy to dominate the conversation and I'm happy to let them and just listen.
Evaluation of a Recommender System for Assisting Novice Game Designers
Doesn't to me when they use our tax dollars to expand their infrastructure to the most profitable places then leave last mile loops to the customers to pay and constantly reneg on they're contractual agreements with zero repercussions.
For those that don't read the article, someone posted about the medical response to Epstein's suicide on 4Chan before the news picked it up. A lot of people had access to that information at the time.
That's a lot rarer than a 5% chance. If 5% of these laptops exploded every few hours, there wouldn't be many of them left by now.
Are there good alternative building materials? Perhaps wood?

Edit: It seems I am shadow banned. I am going to take this as a deep insult.
Or pull a Groupon and just completely redefine several accounting concepts, e.g. list marketing costs as capital expenditures.
Yeah we had a motorhome outside our house and I looked at the 3D map and it showed even though street view car hasn’t visited since 2013. A few months later it updated and showed without the motorhome yet gain without streetview car.
This is interesting, I didn’t know that desert countries were actually importing sand for construction! Here’s a relatively recent paper looking at the suitability of desert sand to replace the fine aggregate in cement: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09500..., concludes that it can be used in small percentages.

Idea: It would be useful to have global competitions with hefty prizes, e.g > $1M, for process inventions that address scarcity problems like this to spur independent young researchers.
This statement though "The We Company is
committed to being meat, single-use plastics, and carbon emissions free."
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Apparently you have yet to fall into the area 51 memehole.

The Kyle's are on the vanguard with their +10 Monster Energy buff
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I sometimes identify as a socially-anxious extrovert. I gain energy from being around people, but sometimes the idea of interaction or going up & meeting new people makes me anxious enough that I just stick to the wall
Y'know, I'm aware that the "Kevin" meme originated with an askreddit story (which someone else linked below), but I'm wondering if the reason it took off the way it did had anything to do with Kevin from the US version of The Office, who fits that stereotype to a T.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Malone
I don't think so - each of these locations are owned by joint venture subsidiaries (IndiaCo, JapanCo etc). Without a diagram like that on page 16, it would be near impossible for an investor to understand how their investment in the IPO relates to these subsidiaries.
How about Karen?

I need to talk to your manager.
What works for us:
-specs (rudimentary ok)
- design review (saves rework)
- including test methodology and results in the merge request (saves rework)
- code review before accepting merge request
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But presumably individuals or companies decide to pay back debt in situations where they think the immediate economic future is negative?
So the same exact thing that Walmart does? You know, the retailer that's bigger than Amazon?

It is terrible but they aren't exactly breaking new ground here.
Yeah, I don't see that providing the outsized gains they're hoping for. I've talked to a number of entrepreneurs who business plan is basically

1. Collect data
2. ???
3. Profit

And every time I quiz them on point 2, they get squirrely. They can never explain exactly how it works; at best I get hazy references to Google making lots from data, which is at best a partial truth.

In this case, I doubt having that data will do much; humans are already natural optimizers. Really, the things workplaces should be optimized for are unlikely to be easily measurable, so at best these systems will optimize for the wrong thing.

And really, the reason workplaces aren't particularly optimal now is that most decisions are made not for maximizing business value, but for maximizing the power and comfort of those high up. As an example, when businesses relocate their headquarters, it is generally to move closer to the CEO's home. Or we can look at all the decisions made to optimize a visible metric, like cost, to the harm of invisible ones. E.g., the open office plan, which is cheap and lets managers supervise by looking out their office window, but significantly harms productivity and employee happiness.
Sensitive but not specific
So is unregulated news the real reason they want the rest of the chans shut down? It seems 4chan at least, already capitulates to all LE demands.
Totally!
I am reading at least 2 books a month, and I am pretty sure not Spiegel nor the "Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels" is able to see that, because I am buying nearly all books international. ebook readers makes it easy to source books from authors directly, getting them from independent publishers and so on.

At least in my filter bubble it is pretty standard nowadays.
How to delete ALL node_modules folders on your machine and free up HD space
Sounds this solution only exists because Amazon allows itself to be flooded with knockoffs in the first place. Funny how that works.
All those politicians who run this world are in secret societies. think masons, skull of bones, hundreds more all interconnected.

And to join the club you take an oath to keep your mouth shut, Hence you can google alot of famous peoples photos with one finger on their mouth as if to say shhhh.

Epstein was going to sing and so he break his oath
and they killed him.

Anyway, We all know this and that 911 was an inside job
and none of us, including myself can do anything about it

There is a worldwide conspiracy going on at so many levels it boggles the mind, even the bbc the very next day was talking about don't listen to conspiracy theories ..... mmmmh
Did it really make a mistake LOL, if you know what I mean xD
Amazon should just distribute everything themself and market financial instruments tied to prices and quantities (gambling on retail).
I'm calling it now, but you won't actually see a recession until after he leaves office. The rich and powerful control the market and it has no actual real indicator to the effects a majority of people are seeing in their personal lives.
X-Dream - We Created Our Own Happiness album, that’s one of my favorite trance albums, but maybe nothing to do with psy? Also Eat Static when he does psytrance. But I should totally listen to some stuff that’s not a quarter of a century old.
Yeah, I'm not American.

I've heard something like your last paragraph there a lot.

I don't really understand cooking as something that takes a lot of skill or time. I just made a stew whilst chatting on here, it took less than 10 mins and you just throw things in a pot.

Hell, if I had a McDonalds or whatever _next door_ it would take me more than 10 mins to get food from there.

What it does require is some level of capital investment - you need pots and pans, a hob, a stable place to store that stuff, etc. Which is a barrier.

The whole "Americans can't cook" thing just seems like a silly joke to me though. It's not like other countries don't have that sort of person. They'd figure it out if you took away their microwave bullshit, they're not gonna starve and die.

And of course, this is all tangential to the issue of straws. There we're talking about opening a tap and putting a cup under it. Or a bottle if you have no running water.
We recently started using XBox Gamepass which is a small monthly fee to get access to a fairly large variety of games (all digitally downloaded) and our bandwidth usage exploded b/c there's no extra charge to pull down 5 games that maybe looked interesting but that you would never pay full price for.
Large reserves of sand is getting accessible in Greenland: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/01/climate/green...
That's absolutely not the case The Yield Curve is now talked about on nightly news shows and it used to be only known about by economists and people in finance.

It's completely legitimate to question whether this increase in publicity for this one metric might be causing it to be less useful.
So some 4channer was presumably listening to police/EMS scanners for the area of the prison Epstein was in and "got the scoop" that way?
I absolutely love that hn doesn’t buy this bs
Wasn't vi invented specifically for dealing with high latency networks?
any sane watch manufacturer would mention that people don't have a limit of owning one watch
duck yeah
But Walmart does the exact same thing to their suppliers. They attract suppliers with dangling sales numbers in front of them. Next year they demand the suppliers bill of materials and tell them the exact price they are going to pay and not their problem if they can't meet it.
The Bloomberg article preview describes enforced vegetarianism, not veganism.
> I saw no indication that Kapitalerträge (interest, dividends, capital gains) are excluded from the income.

A trust (Stiftung) owns itself. Its capital gains are not the beneficiaries' capital gains. It may also own the mansion in my example, so good luck taking imputed rents into account.

> Furthermore, university in Germany is basically free and there is government support for poor students (BAföG) [1], so graduate debt is not that much of an issue.

This doesn't change the point that someone who just started a well-paying job and owns nothing but debt is considered "upper class" by this so-called study.
The Solar Investment Tax Credit Expires This Year–Should It Be Extended?
I feel like I have to meet people and am uncomfortable with them - been told that it is important to do whats uncomfortable.
It will be interesting to watch a recession that hits with zero or near zero (or even negative) central bank rates together with ongoing market disruptions such as the US/China trade conflict and Brexit. By “interesting” I mean terrifying.
Fellow Kevin here. While I was doing a fellowship [0] at the US Census Bureau last summer, I noticed a peculiar abundance of other Kevins working there. As a joke, I created this presentation [1] about this phenomenon, which I ended up accidentally showing the chief marketing officer.

He loved it.

[0] https://www.codingitforward.com/fellowship

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117Q3zuyWulkDGcGXp4Bd...
How Monopolies Broke the Federal Reserve
Bitcoin starts to sell at a premium in Hong Kong due to protests
Blue Brain Project
It was predicted by almost everyone that he would die somehow before revealing whatever information he may have had, so it was not surprising in the least. Further, 4chan is not a secret club -- you go to the site and you can create however many threads you wish, and reply to whoever, however, and however many times you want, no registration or signup process exists, so it's not surprising that Epstein's death, conspiracies of which run rampant on 4chan, would be leaked randomly by someone involved in dealing with the situation, it happens all the time actually.
the ratio seems too low.
Well if this was Nov 1999 (one year before the crash), S&P 500 was at $1.4k, so it would've taken you 14 years for your position to be in the green again
Non-paywall version http://benjaminhardy.com/this-morning-routine-will-save-you-...
I agree they are fine as myths and mythology. They can be illustrative and entertaining. But not sure they can tell us about navigating the modern aspect of today’s world (there are constants like interpersonal relationships, duties and such).
Yeah, except that's not how this works outside the theoretical realm.

In practice, those that actually took companies public know that the more terrible crap you throw into the S-1 ( pitch deck included ) as long as you state that risk-wise you are probably a terrible investment for the public, the better protected you are from the lawsuits in the future when the public's investment does not pan out: you say 'we are doing X and this is our rosy pie in the sky pitch deck, but we must tell you the risk is that none of this is helping us to make money. Buyer beware'

Should one look at the S-1s of the tech companies that went public in last 4-5 years one would see that pattern

Source: Attorneys engaged by the investment banks to help companies to IPO.
I don't read these pop psychology articles very often but when I do, wow. The hand waving and lack of any sort of rigor is shocking. From the fine article:

Those two scales (extraversion and sociability) measure similar things so it is odd that they did not produce consistent findings.

You don't say?

As an aside, alone time is one reason I really love working remotely.
No, I'm not. Religion is a formalized system of causality about things we do not understand: the sky god wants us to eat grapes, we do not eat grapes, there are floods, therefore we must eat more grapes. It's not wrong or right, it's non-rational.

Religions know how things work, you just can't reason with them. I'm arguing from ignorance: we cannot know. My only additional point is that not only can we not know, we can not know in a billion different scenarios. Odds are many of these scenarios will work out poorly. That's the only "point of faith" my argument calls for. It seems to me to be a reasonable thing to believe.

You seem to feel that this will be a disastrous thing. It's interesting to me how people who don't see problems with AI keep insisting that there must be some huge, horrible result. If there were, as you point out, people wouldn't do it.

You also seem to assume that I'm making some sort of moral value judgment. That's interesting to me as a drug-legalization, open-borders libertarian. I wonder what sorts of morals I am supposed to be having?

No morals or religion is required to understand my argument. We humans work as best we can in various-sized social groups based on each of our understandings of cause-and-effect, as flawed as it all is. If we change that in a massive way, the obvious conclusion is that we cannot continue to reason about the results, not that they would be morally good or bad. Then, it logically follows that for whatever definition of good or bad you have, moral, utilitarian, whatnot, there's going to be a lot of bad things happen for which our society has no prior experience. That doesn't seem workable to me.

We gotta stop expecting these arguments to play out in some grand fashion. Boundless optimism vs. religious fear might be a great plot for a movie, but it's highly doubtful the future is going to play out like that at all.
Nope, it’s because it’s how you ship crates.
What would you expect? Brexit fears and almost every EU government banning ICE vehicles ten years from now. Good luck selling those Volkswagens. Add to that Trump's trade war with China. The EU is probably next.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-europe-autos/tr...