skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that's the marketing intent, but the last iteration of MacBook Pros (with the gimmicky taskbar, the fail-prone keyboard, and glued items) has failed on that regard, at least for me. I had to replace the keyboard on mine, and it took Apple 10 days to do it. How is that "pro"?

Twice during this summer, I was not able to share my screen with coworkers using Zoom because my MacBook pro would overheat and throttle the processors. It might be that there's some dust inside the fan (I have a cat) but I am not able to open and clean it up. How is that "Pro"?

Our servers are all linux based and virtualization in mac is spotty (especially if you want to share a Docker-based setup via Zoom on a mildly hot day).

I strongly doubt I will go back to Mac when the time comes for renewing. I really do need to get stuff done, and this machine has gotten in my way too many times.

The finger reader thingie is nice, though.
The list may be entertaining, but displays little in the way of objectivity. For instance, OOP is a major con of C++ (even though many people write C++ all day without any of it) but isn't even mentioned with regards to Java and C#? Really?
Hong Kong police are now routinely insulting the city’s people as “cockroaches”
Billionaire are selling their stocks like jeff Bezos
https://tinyurl.com/Lebenslange-Provisionen
More small pages means more opportunities to show ads. And in the case of search, a larger portion of the first page can be given to sponsored results. :-(

Somehow the web has evolved to a place where the poles of infinite scroll and excessively short pages are two of the great annoyances.
Keybase
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I was holding my old iPhone3 in my hands a few days ago (one of my kids have collected a few phones in the house over the years). It felt so good, light and small. I really long for a phone in that form-factor again, the big phones of today is just silly.
And the user has to opt-in voluntary. Checking (and hiding) all boxes by default doesn't imply consent.
I am, but I definitely agree many people don't consider privacy in that choice.
Tough cookies.
This makes sense to me. The distractions are easily turned of i think, but the competition the platforms generate are much worse.
Wow, "UC Browser for Android" has 3.5% market share and does not support javascript modules.
You're totally right that the weekend is valuable, but some people enjoy doing this sort of thing with their free time. It's not anyone's place to decide what anyone else does for entertainment or self improvement. That is to say - what is not valuable to you might be valuable to someone else.
Such as, the idea that the basis of goodness is Oneness (source: Arstoxenus). Pretty esoteric. Shwep.net is my favourite new podcast for these histories.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Urged India
Rocket Reply for listening to text messages has been published on Product Hunt
How are they supposed to migrate if I can't openly host my solution because it was developed on company time? Merging back into the original project is one thing, but making your solution available some other way is a whole other story.
I would love one, just for our(brain) memory or lack of thereof; especially to remember faces of people we meet once,
when we meet again after several years and they ask do you remember me? The smart AR glasses should give us the name via bone conduction!
Not true, the instruction set of eBPF itself /is/ Turing complete. Linux is one implementation of it and the verifier currently imposes restrictions in order to not destabilize the kernel (e.g. infinite loops). But that doesn't mean it's not not Turing complete. E.g. in future there could potentially also be a mode that allows to run unverified eBPF programs. Think of it like kernel modules which are also not verified for safety, but can be loaded with the right permissions like CAP_SYS_MODULE. In future I can image a similar mode/option for eBPF as well as long as the user has the right permissions to do so.
Judging for v1 [1] -- yes it is. And no we don't. That would be double-plus ungood.

[1] https://adammunich.com/x-ray-machine/
You aren't wrong, but if someone paid me to write a chat application I probably wouldn't fight it. It sounds like a lot of fun.
Contract employment? Unions?
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Significantly more severe than the rocket blowing up?
How liberated they want to be, we will find out after the Dec 15th tariffs hit and what happens to their currency.

Lot's of people are going to take a hit and no one knows how many are going to unhappy about that.
Exactly.

> Taiwan, officially the Republic of China...

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
I dont really share that negative sentiment. Not quite the same genre but the latest Murder on The Orient Express with Malcovich was nothing short of refreshing.
Malaria breakthrough as scientists find ‘highly effective’ way to kill parasite
Moreover Taiwan's transition to democracy was 'indigenous', as it was never effectively colonized by the West (barring some isolated outposts), therefore defeating all the silly talk of "democracy is a cultural norm imposed by the West and is not compatible with Chinese culture" that pops up every now and then, including in this thread.
Choosing the right commenting system for your blog
Samsung and SK Telecom partner to build a 5G-capable 8K TV
That's unfortunate - they could have made Mattermost on par with Slack instead.
Similarly, only Rust has "non-standardized, only one meaningful implementation" listed as a con, even if this is true for several of the others as well.
> Probably because liberty does not mean prosperity.

In the post WW2 era, it has overwhelmingly meant that. Not subtly, not kinda sorta, overwhelmingly. And the lack of liberty has overwhelmingly meant poverty.

The scales are so radically tilted toward those things, that the outliers are few on each side, counted on one hand typically.

Prosperous + high degrees of liberty: Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Iceland, US, Canada, UK, Denmark, Australia, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Belgium, France, Japan, Israel, New Zealand, Italy, South Korea, Spain

You know, just nearly all the most affluent nations on the planet. Nearly all the most prosperous nations are also high liberty nations.

The list continues even further on down the line: Taiwan, Portugal, Estonia, Slovenia, Czech, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, Poland

Even Romania for example now has a GDP per capita well exceeding that of China and Russia. How is that possible, that Romania is embarrassing Russia economically? One has far more liberty than the other; one is democratic, the other is autocratic to an extreme. In the not so distant future, Romania will double Russia's GDP per capita. Russia's liberty deprivation is beginning to show itself - again - in their economic regression (eg falling incomes for 5-6 years) and general stagnation.

What are examples of very impoverished high liberty nations? There are exceptionally few. So few I would challenge anybody to name more than three or four out of ~196 nations.

Outliers in the prosperous group when it comes to low liberty? Also exceptionally few: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE

The low liberty group of nations is dramatically dominated by poverty by comparison.
Yup. And you can implement something that loads all the content up until that point when the user presses F5 in the middle of the page. And you can implement smooth scrolling that takes into account your sticky header. And you can make your pagination based on the ID of the last seen page item instead of based on count.

The question is, is this the best use of your time? Are you willing to invest more time in it when you give it to the user? Because the user will do something you haven't thought of, they will break it, and you will need to fix it.
It is true that mainlanders face discrimination in Hong Kong. But let's not forget that a huge portion, if not the majority, of people who call themselves Hong Kongers were born in the mainland, or have parents that came from the mainland. So it's worth examining where those feelings of ill will towards mainland Chinese come from, because it's certainly not ethnic.

Hong Kong has a very "western" culture (for lack of a better term, because Hong Kong certainly has a heady mix of Chinese, British and American culture, with the rest of Asia sprinkled in). The increase in anti-mainland sentiment seems to me to correlate closely with the fear of Chinese government encroachment on Hong Kong's institutions, and outright attacks on those institutions and values. From national security legislation, to education reform, to reducing the prominence of Cantonese, to the stifling of the free press by purchases of news organizations by mainland companies, all of this creates a feeling among Hong Kongers that they are losing the way of life they treasure.

In addition to that, there is the economic pressure from rising property prices spurred by endless flows of money and people (albeit in quotas) from the mainland, and world-record income and wealth inequality (a problem Hong Kong's government set itself up for long before the handover).

This is in no way a defense of the despicable treatment many mainland Chinese have experienced in Hong Kong. That is indefensible, and it is shameful in an otherwise liberal society. But it is just that, an exception to the rule in a liberal society being squeezed relentlessly by the mainland government—and most lately by the Hong Kong government itself, which no longer makes its own decisions.
Exactly. (Somehow, these have an extremely calming/relaxing kind of suspension.)
Personally I drive the top-spec Civic of 15 years ago. I would never own a current luxury item because I don't think it's worth spending my entire life working for a product that will become normal a couple of weeks after I buy it.

Humans are only sensitive to change. A positive change feels good. No change feels normal. A negative change feels awful. A sensible person would try to fill their life with positive change.
That's assuming that, with 27,000 employees (why does Uber have so many?), monthly licensing fees are not negotiable. Which I would doubt.
> Perl supported tainting from at least 1989 as the -T switch was included in Perl 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking
I would say it's a PR piece, because they named it "Volfefe" and because the Wikipedia article reads like it was written by a PR firm for JPM. (and if not that, it at least quotes a lot of PR articles)
Hong Kong Exchange Makes Surprise $36.6B Bid for London Stock Exchange
Most electric cars now have locks on the charging cable port so cables cannot be unplugged without unlocking, and these types of charging solutions are operated by dedicated app and/or NFC card and won't start charging if you haven't registered your payment details first so electricity can't be "stolen". I'm sure both can be hacked, but if you really want to steal cables and/or electricity there are probably easier/safer ways to do so.
ThinkPads, T/X2/X1. NOT Yoga. NOT IdeaPad. NOT whatever-the-hell-consumer-they-produce this year.
Scottish judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful
"every PHP programmer is bad at programming, the language is designed to accommodate them with convenient footguns (or faceguns) at every step, and the ecosystem is accordingly bad. No, PHP7 doesn’t fix this. Use a real programming language, jerk."

This guy seems like a real open minded person who did his research and shared his opinion after making strong points. /s
You thought an account (that you created just to comment on this thread) with an Indian sounding name will give you credibility?
Pure, unadulterated propaganda on HN... I despair. Even worse it's total nonsense.
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Would poorer people definitely get jail time? Are you certain of that?

The calculation by probation officials makes me think "no jail time" is the usual sentence here, and the prosecutors' demands are because of public pressure.

While equality of law is usually understood to mean that the rich don't get more lenient treatment, it also means that the rich don't get punished more harshly, just because the public wants a spectacle.
I'd be very interested in understanding mainland Chinese sentiment better. My impression is that there is a lot of love for the current Chinese political system, and I'd like to understand why that is. Can anyone refer me to writing pieces that focus on this?
I love the watch - but its painfully tied to location - due to the lack of space inside it (US watches - don't work in Europe) - has this watch been updated ?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/can-i-use-apple-watch-l...
> infrastructure that allows me to pay for consumed electricity, and doesn't allow random person to steal it

Smart meters have existed for quite a while now. An electricity meter with LTE and a card reader is not a difficult thing to make (not very different from a parking meter)
I might actually hire an Uber for the express purpose of having someone to talk to. In Germany, taxi drivers were often former "German studies" or Philosophy students who did not find a job, so it was kind of guaranteed that you'd have a competent, honest communication partner (albeit left leaning).
My trust in random article writers that happen to appear in HN is already low, as it should be. I'm not sure why this one specifically deserves a takedown, which are not at all common on HN, except for the fact that he happened to criticize Tesla, which triggers some people.
Pythagoras, a hundred years earlier -- and Plato's biggest philosophical influence next to Socrates -- was also against writing. Now, we don't know why he or his followers were against writing, but here is a possibility:

Pythagorean mathematics and science were developing rapidly, alongside spiritual doctrines about harmony in numbers and the cosmos. Even today, Pythagorean ideas are incredibly predictive (e.g., small integer ratios constituting consonance and dissonance). However, even then, there were limits to the ideas. For instance, a triangle with the side of 1 has a hypotenuse of the square root of 2. They may have thought there was more to learn and committing the ideas (which had spiritual meanings) to words may have created non-empirical doctrines. For instance, Pythagoras was familiar with many religious traditions and saw the role of books in creating unbreakable doctrines.

If Pythagoras had committed his ideas to writing, he could have been wrong or incomplete about his knowledge. Since he didn't do this, all of his influential concepts remain completely commensurable with modern science and mathematics. That's huge. As a result, those who wish to can still take spiritual inspiration from Pythagorean ideas about cosmic harmony without violating empirical reality.
There's a lot of reasons why it would break all of those things. Hacking it so that the URL & history is rewritten when content is loaded is significant extra work.

I have no idea what you mean by indexing, given the word index doesn't feature in the article. You also ignore the problems of making the scrollbar useless & the footer unreachable. I don't see any fix for those issues at all.
Are you talking about the cosmetic for the Lina second spell ? Doesn't the cursor show the Stun range when you're about to cast it ? (the only broken cosmetic is the one that make Nyx Assassin look like Sand King)
I don't know why but many project management tools these days do not have a milestone section. Do teams these days not use milestones as a time box for significant feature delivery ?
Apple announces iPhone 11 Pro: triple camera, A13 chip
> That's still a number of days a year dedicated entirely to social media.

That's not necessarily a bad thing though is it? I speak to my parents on the phone 1-2x per week for ~30 minutes at a time. That's 1-2 days a year just on the phone.
>This test for real-life camera usage is as objective as it can get

Not at all, most people do not take different pictures of the same scene under the same settings from about half a dozen flagship phones, post it on Instagram and ask which one is better. In fact, this is the only time I've seen such usage.

In practice, people use a single phone to capture moments that do not come back and even if the scene is repeatable people prefer to succeed on the first take, therefore they will take photos until they get one that is good enough and editable. Most people don't even know how the photo will look like until they try a few edits. It is an intuitive process that involves multiple trials and misses.

So the best camera is the one that gives you the photo that is easiest to edit to achieve the picture you desire. #nofilter is a special case, a niche and If you ask me, it's not a nofilter just because the device applied a filter by itself.

Anyway, if that test was correct the cheap and great photos phone would have been a viral hit. When people see a great photo, they do ask how you took it. That did not happen.
You gotta love how predictable and consistent The Economist is. When it was founded in the 19th century it was a strong advocate for forcing China to open up to British opium. It was important to The Economist then, like it is important to The Economist now, that westerners be allowed access to Chinese people and Chinese markets.

One could argue that the United States has been operating a regime change operation in China since 1949. But The Economist, they've literally been arguing the same thing since like 1850.
My password manager is the "Forgot your password?" link.
Right.so..farmers have been going broke and collecting subsidies smoothly before the arrival of Big Data. Why would they bite?
Over half the entire population out demonstrating is not the radicals taking over, but there's bound to be a few easily found to spin up any desired message, amongst millions.

What matters is they're too radical for the current CCP leadership. It doesn't matter that the agreement provides mutually agreed and signed written promise of universal suffrage in election of the Chief Executive, and I think of the Legislative Council.

Which is a slap in the face for HKers with every Chief Exec appointee from Beijing with the comical farce of the "show election". Surprise, Beijing's choice wins every election!

Had Hu not been forced to resign and publicly recant, Tiananmen and the China wide protests might have gone very differently. The hopes and optimism expressed in the article had a real chance of becoming true. Being forced out for not being harsh enough on protesters, months before Tiananmen and only weeks into the demonstrations changed everything both in China, and for Hong Kong's future.
Not many people care about these atrocities in the west.
yep, stopped reading after this. How can this be objective if you think that everyone is a "bad" programmer that uses this or that language, wtf.

Pros for PHP could be, it's templating capabilities with HTML, easy to use DB interfaces and the entanglement with the web/HTML/web-server in general. Nowadays you don't really write these kinds of apps anymore where your backend returns whole HTML Pages but that doesn't mean it's a bad language.
>> For normal people... pretty much nothing.

Did you even read the article? They mention Solid State Plasma antennas, which can be fabricated using standard silicon chip fabrication techniques.
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The blanket policy does have the effects you described, but more _often_ it gets rid of hidden charges or makes it trivial to prosecute them. Americans are apparently so used to these that it doesn't register, but Europe has been pretty effective at ensuring that headline prices must reflect the price you pay so as to be comparable.

Europe wants to ensure that if you say Product X is €10 and your competitor says it's €12 that's not just because you were better at lying than they were, the customers buying from you should pay €2 less for Product X. Transparency is essential to having a working market.

The most common place to see "processing fees" was online where in fact cash isn't an option anyway. A company would offer a product for seemingly less than competitors and then charge a "processing fee" which was really their profit. Committees looking at this stuff found that companies charging processing fees were fiercely resistant to a regulation that made them charge their actual cost, insisting that this couldn't be measured anyway and so the options were:

* Let companies advertise a price and then add processing fees of their choosing. As I said Americans are used to this, but Europeans see it as destroying market transparency.

* Forbid tacking on fees altogether (the option they took) so that prices must end up including the merchant's card processing fees the same way they include customer service call costs, warehousing, taxes or anything else.

* Regulate to try to ensure customers have a real way to avoid any processing fees, likely leading to years of court cases as courts rule out each individual sneaky new trick to make an "optional" processing fee in practice mandatory.

In the end I think the route the US chose ends up being more regressive, but I agree the European option isn't a panacea.
There aren't many alternatives when you consider that cheap phones are Big Brother devices for Google.
No 10 request for user data from government website sparks alarm
So like to be clear, I am not saying that this theory of mine is correct; I am saying that based on my extremely and knowingly limited knowledge, it looks reasonable. So like chill with the haterade, and bring forth the "well, this revolution doesn't fit that theory".

Maybe it's that cultural revolutions are like this, and there's very, very few non-cultural revolutions - maybe only independence revolutions? I literally do not know so like if you know one, put forth the Wikipedia link?
What does that setting do? There is no tooltip.
What does it take to build good software?
September 11, 2001 Attacks - 18 years ago today
dragonsh, are you affiliated with Taiga ? I remember seeing you post a similar comment when I looked at the zepel thread this weekend.... or are you just a satisfied customer ?
When large MMO guilds have had a mostly trouble free chat client that supports a few thousand concurrent users on the free time and good will of admins I'm loathe to believe that this shit is impossible
Ah right. Thanks for pointing that out.
Back in 1994 I worked at British telecom on one of the first high profile web projects for our intranet.

Apparently there was a serious suggestion that this new www was shoddy and we needed to write our own version of http - this got stamped on by some senior people at Martlesham (UK version of bell labs)
Of course the Milky Way is also moving.
In quite interesting ways: https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/61117-future-motions-of-the-m...
I had been a Windows phone user for 3 years from 2009 to 2012 (HTC HD7, Nokia Lumia 800 and 920). Then switched to android for 7 years. Had a OnePlus One, <one more android here>, then a Google Nexus 6p, a Motorola ( solely for a 5000mAh battery as I was fed up with the nexus battery). Finally got an iPhone XS Max this year and I don’t think I am going to switch. My needs are to have a reliable phone with good battery life to last a day and that will run for 4+ years and get full security upgrades (else I don’t get work email on my phone). I think if I get 5 years out of it, the iPhone even with its 1100$ price tag will be cheaper in the long run.
For 1D It's trivial to see that a side scroller with side-strafing controls (Space Invaders not Asteroids) will always return to the center if L and R appear with equal probability, in euclidean geometry
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What's the issue with Java package management? If that's a Java con, what should be said about Python's?