skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent write up
For point 2, I think they mean in terms of product and not code, ie. "Google should create a centralized social platform (G+)" vs "Google should create a federated social platform or contribute to existing federated platforms (Mastodon)".
funny how job pressure makes you accept anything

my brain dies on copy pasting

but you cannot always land a position where you actually think
I believe the Demonym for Venus is Venusian, or perhaps Cytherean. Venician sounds like Venetian, that is, somebody from Venice.
>I am afraid this business will fail (as a business). People, on average, prefer to have freebies at the expense of losing their privacy, than pay even a moderate amount for a service.

That is the current state yes, but I think that this was a manufactured type of psychology/expectation. I remember back in the day (90s 00s) when I used to install software for my family, one of my uncles was always flabbergasted that the software was free. "But why is it free?" "How do the make rent?!" I tried to explain the Hacker/OSS ethos and whatever else I could think of, but it never really sunk in for him.

I think paid software is going to make a comeback once clients realize that nobody except google (and a handful of companies) are actually benefiting from the pointless web surveillance. Hopefully that will happen when the tech industry stops giving Google a free pass for their spying and squarely puts them in the enemy camp...
To ask an odder question, why be an early adopter to new machines as someone that also wrote https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.ht... ?
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Watch American Factory on Netflix. It would support a bit of what you are saying... Not only is the glass factory in China way more efficient, at least through the end of the documentary, the quality of the Chinese glass also appears to be higher. Of course, in that case there's the confounding factor of the age of the factories which complicates the comparison, but it is all in all a very interesting documentary which looks at this exact question.
>This sounds like a hassle for anyone trying to use gps on their phones.

What hassle? Futzing with your GPS app while driving is just as dangerous as texting. Set your destination before you drive and pull over if you need to adjust it, just as you should if you need to text.

>How can you accept rides or confirm a pickup...

Pull over.
This argument is tired. We can maintain 1st world living conditions while drastically reducing emissions. Throw away consumerism is literally a toxic force on the planet, but the wealthy do not want to disrupt their income streams and "gamble" their fortunes on reinvestment or environmental rehabilitation. Your argument is akin to "why don't you donate all your money" when someone says the rich should be taxed more heavily.
IBM got a lot of deserved grief for working with Germany in the 1940s. Arms manufacturers are rightly shamed for some of their customers.

I'm somewhat certain your beef is with the idea of that specific organisation being considered bad, not with the reaction to that determination.
That's why standards shouldn't focus on the device and model number, but on minimum capabilities and user interface. So even if a given calculator supports various other functionality and advanced programmability, as long as you can switch it into a "standard UI" mode (which defines what various buttons do, the programming language, screen output, etc) then there shouldn't be a problem

For test taking, you can even add boot verification -- you can run whatever you want on it, but to get the green "Verified" light to come on it would have to boot into a signed image.
Also because this product is more targeted at business use, assembling it in the US may open the product for more customers. I work in defense and some of our HP computers have to come from a special division of HP that assembles the computers in the US.
IMO, it's because Evan Spiegel and Snap by extension is just as cutthroat and unlikable as Mark Zuckerburg and based on what I've read about it I feel like he would be doing the exact same things as FB is if the roles we reversed.

This doesn't feel like some altruistic, whistle-blowing gesture for the good of the consumer. This feels like Snap being pissy that there is a bigger bully on the playground.

I'm not saying what Facebook is doing is okay, because it's not, but Snap has a vested interest in FBs demise and Spiegel and Zuckerburg have their own pissing match. I have a hard time feeling sympathy for either company in this issue.
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For most households bankruptcy happens slowly, then quickly. I think we need to be more mindful of our debt. Most people I talk to are like, "It's not a problem yet." Which implies we will deal with it when it is a problem... which is dumb.
Looks like Bart Simpson to me
Yet we have seen budget after budget blocked that would fund more humane facilities. If you care about stabilizing the asylum pathway, you have to be willing to fund it.
climate change certainly looks to be a very likely contender for a filter
I feel really out of the loop here. I went through a pretty standard curriculum in the 2000s and have never owned or used a graphing calculator (aside from the few times the teacher demonstrated our school's TI-83s in class in high school). What are they used for?

[And while I used a bog standard scientific calculator regularly in science/stats classes, I'm pretty sure my calculus classes disallowed calculators and only stuck to magic numbers that were easy to manually calculate with. It might even be plausible to go through a whole math curriculum without a calculator apart from whatever stats/applied classes you're required to take.]
Correct. Perhaps I can make that more clear in the FAQ
"Compared with cigarettes its damn near harmless."
Maybe. Maybe it is. Maybe it is not. We don't know what the long term effects will be, and conducting a real time trial on 20% of the nations high-schoolers isn't the optimal way to find out.
All these replies saying ansible is the better tool. Highly disagree.

Ansible is too procedural. "do this if that otherwise something else. Then that. Then this other thing". This is very much prone to human error.

As a platform engineer I care that this file exists with this specific content and these specific permissions. I don't care how it happens. Puppet and Chef have the advantage of being declarative and that's 100% better than procedurally telling ansible what to do and what not to do (plus the overheads of every ssh connection that it creates every single time it generates a script). You might as well just write a bash script that does it all for you and execute it over ssh.
When I was in our high school equivalent, our maths teacher blew that trick out of the water simply by having us all clear the calculator memory, then having us swap calculators at random.

Worked a charm. Next time, noone had bothered to hide notes as they didn't want to spend time helping some random sod out.

Solidarity is dead.

(You could, of course, try to counter this by having the entire class install the same cheat - but that would be unlikely to succeed...)
I think it's more that Juul pods have a very high level of nicotine and are creating a new generation of addicts. Even if they don't end up dying of cancer, this is still potentially millions of lifetimes of addiction for society to bear over the next 20-50 years.

My opinion: keep the nicotine for tobacco-flavored pods as a smoking cessation tool; otherwise drop the nicotine and go for a La Croix-style strategy.
LOL - He's talking about the USA.
I am jaded here so take it with a grain of salt.

I figured the new Mac Pro was priced as such along with that monitor and stand as to spit in the faces of the fans that had been badgering Apple for years over the debacle that the Mac Pro had become. As in, Apple said fine, but you aren't the customer we want and you cannot afford it. Then again I am not even sure Apple wants any of that market, the machine by looks and its monitor seemed tailored made for influencers. that monitor stand was just a shark jumping moment if ever.

Seriously though, while the modular portion is an interesting take it is a convoluted method to deliver the upgrade path people wanted but worse it traps people to Apple which of course benefits Apple.

FWIW, custom configurations of iMacs are US assembled too. For the EU I think that work is done in Ireland.
IQ and death: why smarter people live longer
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They could have put most of those TB3 ports and controllers in optional PCIe cards and the $4999 base model would still be Pro. Because the point of the Pro devices is to be the more-powerful option.

The iPad Pro doesn't have any TB ports and the Macbook Pro and iMac Pro only have 4 each so I think 12 is simply unnecessary for the "Pro" moniker in addition to greatly exceeding most people's requirements.
Excellent, thanks for the link!
When it's a symptom of some part of your body being worn out there's usually no treating that.
Excited conversations between geeks tend to ramble a lot with a lot of interruptions, and while everyone's having fun, many conversational threads get abandoned as people get drawn into the new topic and forget what they were planning to say.

I invented conversation queues for me and my friends. Whenever someone is inspired to tangent onto a new topic, they interrupt only long enough to point at me and say a word or two, which I write down. The next time there's a lull in conversation, I announce the next topic in the queue and cross it off, and the person who inserted it gets to expound.

It seems to work really well, and the list can get quite long with a few hours over coffee or beer.
I took GP to mean that the DoJ hasn't been enforcing antitrust laws the way they used to, so the rational action for selfish companies to take is to break those unenforced laws.
I learned programming on a TI 83+ while ignoring math lectures in high school. I grew up to become a full-time software developer, so IMO that $100 calculator was money well spent.

I also learned some stuff about math and graphs on the TI 83+, but I haven't used much of that knowledge in my work.
I think a better solution is to have the school purchase all of the calculators and give them to students at the time of the exam.

This also would align with driving costs down since schools will not want to pay $100 per calculator for their student body.
There may not be much difference. Extinction of the human race is an exaggerated prediction, but more importantly, what do you expect the consequences of global economic disruption (to the level of taking the US down) to be? Take a look at history if you may.
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And in 2.0 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

And in 2.1 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

3.0 has new JIT capabilities like CPU hardware intrinsics; devirtualization; Span etc which in turn enable new techniques in the standard library.

Though 3.0 is a vast set of improvements compared to the previous two
Yes - while WPF and Windows Forms are still Windows-exclusive, there are several cross-platform UI libraries for .NET Core, like Eto.Forms (https://github.com/picoe/Eto) and Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/).

It's also possible to build an Electron wrapper around an ASP.NET Core web app: https://github.com/ElectronNET/Electron.NET
The SAT II Math exam is administered 6 times during the 2019-2020 school year. To be used 100 times, it would have to last over 15 years. For IB/AP Calc it's even worse, that is literally given on one day to the entire country (modulo a very small number of makeup exams), so would get two days of use per year (one for AP, one for IB). If you used the same set of calculators for both, we're talking about the hardware lasting at least 12 years on average, ignoring storage and transportation costs. Oh, and then you expose yourself to "the calculator was broken, that's why I failed" when right now they have the excellent defense of "well, you brought it."
Especially compared to America, which has awful infrastructure...
Why do you mention vegetarianism and not e.g. plant-based or vegan then when referring to people being blind to animal cruelty? I genuinely find vegetarianism confusing and want to understand the rationale behind it, especially when someone knows the dairy and egg industry is similarly cruel.
We do, we found that having a no releases on Friday policy was just an excuse and diverting us from actually improving our CI/CD, monitoring and alerting infrastructure.

We invested work on those and try to deploy as we can.

It works great for us but obviously you need to try and see what does for you.
PHP has non-nullable reference types!

There are some really good write-ups by the C# team on the creation of non-nullable types and how it's implemented but my google-fu is failing me on it.

It's obviously a bit a of hack involving annotations/attributes but for the end user the result is pretty seamless.
Technology has brought meaning to the lives of many technicians.
Sounds like you're always the first one to reply to anything climate related with some false dichotomy.

We can make changes without adjusting living conditions drastically - moving to EVs, removing fossil fuel subsidies, pushing solar over coal/gas.

In fact, we might improve our living conditions by reducing our addition to oil, as long as it's managed and not cold-turkey.
Type 1 diabetes is a good example of this, where the body detects its own insulin producing cells as threats and eliminates them. Lots of the research in type 1 treatments isn't just about producing insulin, but figuring out how to prevent the body from destroying it again without all of the risks of immunosupressant drugs.
As a european, i wont be buying this product as long as it’s not built in Europe. If the us is pushing hard for buying made in usa, europeans have the right to buy made in europe only.
Facebook has currently bought out the entire advertising space of one of the downtown SF subway stations with ads for their groups product. Seems like they are trying to promote it.
Well well, everyone has its own problems. And we are Monday ...
As long as profit is taxed in the country the sale is made, nobody would complain. Now it’s just transferring money and making sure to pay the taxes in the most beneficial country.
> you would need a very high resolution image with litle blur to determine that they were 'texting'

Bigger reason: This amounts to "set up cameras that record exactly what's on the screen of every phone that goes by", which is an utter nightmare in terms of privacy.
I’m sure the East German Secret Police did some good work too. Same with the Gestapo. Want to fund them or provide services to them?
Most of us here are "pros" who use our computers to make money.

Maybe if Mac Pros were designed for animation studios or something niche, the pricing would make sense.
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Nontrivial, yes, but for said crypto-supporting crowd I don't think it would be a stretch to presume that a lot of them are the kind that would know how.
I release on Friday, it is not any different than any other day. Canary deployment is the way to go and quick rollbacks makes your life easy
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Yes and not only that but the fact that the glaciers are going to melt over 1000 years is actually worse than if it happened in a single event- instead of a single trauma you have a 1 foot per decade rise, decade after decade, century after century.
Nah sorry shouting matches are not my thing.

Please provide evidence goodwill towards W's ICE's was not squandered by this government's disgraceful and abhorrent behavior, or figure out someone else to drag into the slippery slope thing.
That's not the point made in the article though — the point is that IQ tests are predictive of many things, including longevity.
I would accept decline in more than 1% of world population over 10 year time span caused by ecological collapse as overpopulation.

But the important question is what would you do about possibility of overpopulation however it is defined?

If you want to invest in health care and education in Africa - awesome! You have my full support. For example educating woman has excellent side effect of reducing fertility rate.

If you think about enforcing population restrictions, then you should think harder. How do you imagine that would look like on a global scale if you can't get USA to stick to Paris Climate accord? Some country with nuclear weapons threatening mutual assured destruction if some other country doesn't stick to 1 kid policy? Ridiculous.
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Kinda funny how HN is normally anti-surveillance and against automated law enforcement unless you frame it as something pro-social.

At the end of the day this is still a camera network capable of being repurposed for more sinister means of revenue generation at the whim of the government.

If you really want to stop this behavior post a cop on the corner. His presence will prevent people from all sorts of other minor traffic violations too.
There's a pretty good map here:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/brchannel/Map-The-Chemical-Legacy...

TCE has a distinctive smell - sweet, like cookie dough or donuts. You'll know if you're in an area contaminated by it - I've smelled it at the Google Quad campus and some of the residential areas around it. (The area around Evandale is particularly bad, I've smelled it just driving through some of the residential streets there.) Some of the other chemicals used in semicoductor manufacture are odorless, though.

Most of the contamination is in industrial or office park zones, so I'd be more worried about your workplace than your home, and many of the spills are plain old gasoline (from service stations) which you can have anywhere.
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It's really bad news that ecigarettes are now banned in India. Smoking is a huge public health issue there.

This is a moral panic. Somehow it touched a nerve...
I like the idea, to use Apache Kafka as the underlying log. It's in principle what Martin Kleppmann suggests.

As I also want to use a distributed log in the future: Do you know Apache Pulsar or the underlying BookKeeper, which I think was especially made for a distributed WAL?

I might either want to use Apache BookKeeper or Apache Pulsar for a distributed log for scaling my Open Source temporal database, too. Furthermore I'd like to expose the API for streaming changes into the Browser or wherever you want to :-)
What do you mean by "filter"?
> Sounds like you're always the first one to reply to anything climate related with some false dichotomy.

Nah, somehow I just got unlucky enough to log on when alarmist articles are somehow in the feed. I'm simply not huge on alarmism.

> moving to EVs

Which run on electricity generated by coal.

> In fact, we might improve our living conditions by reducing our addition to oil, as long as it's managed and not cold-turkey.

And we will. Just not huge on articles where every comment essentially says the world is going to end 10 years from now. It won't.
I don't exclusively use old hardware. I own and regularly use a wide variety of hardware.
Well it is much more harmless than tobacco. Which is not a reason to encourage its usage for kids of course.
The individual outspoken developer who started it seemed reasonably clear: he didn't want helping ICE through his code to be on his conscience.
Or worse like paste in, Bitcoin and other public places people will post urls to terrible/illegal things on the internet. People always find a way to ruin the public commons.
> This sounds like a hassle for anyone trying to use gps on their phones

I think safety is more important than avoiding hassle. I think someone touching their phone for navigation is distracted from driving. Their eyes are away from the road. Their mind is focused on finding the place to touch, touching it, and getting confirmation, possibly repeatedly. Without tactile controls, that requires focus.
There was the little known, but powerful combo called "GROUP" and "ARCHIVE". GROUP allowed you to package together a set of programs. Archive would allow you to take that group and store it in the long term memory of the calculator. You can then "clear the memory" of the calculator, but can then immediately unarchive the grouped programs and get everything back how it was.

That said, I don't recall my teachers ever getting too fussy about having us clear our memory; in fact, iirc one of them actually told us to write programs to handle some of the nastier formulas.

Anyway, in my opinion, a good mathematics course should focus less on regurgitation of formulas, and more on problems solving---recognizing which theorems or strategies might apply to a problem and applying them to come up with a result.
Generative music is already a thing, Jean-Michel Jarre's "En Attendant Cousteau" piece was released close to 30 years ago and Brian Eno coined the term a few years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music

You can find a bunch of video on YouTube where Eno explains the whole process and how it works.
The goal would be to challenge your belief.

If you were knowledgeable, you would know for example that chromium 2D rendering engine (skia) is the current state of the art.
Benchmarking fps, vsync stability, input latency, etc would be enlightening.
There are order of magnitude more engineers working at optimizing chromium than WPF.
As a not American, I cannot understand why should I subsidize rednecks by paying extra for something that could be done much cheaper in China.
I can't speak for vegetarianism as a whole. The word is ambiguous at best and only useful as a pointer to the layperson. Most people don't even understand the differences between vegan and vegetarian. Ultimately I find veganism is a form of extremism that isn't right for everyone. Any level of mindful eating is admirable, even if someone changes their constant diet of meat to one of having 1 day a week meat-free for the sake of animals and the environment is worth applauding.
Well, LINQ is special, it is a language that is similar to SQL that's inside of another language. Such code then is translated to SQL. The language is still not SQL but SQL-like and is incomplete, for example you can't do CTE in it.
> but there are kids that doesn’t have that

Yes, totally agree here. Obviously was far from my experience (In my house there've been for years now more computers than people, and that's not even counting cellphones). But I couldn't agree more with what you are saying: For an incredible lot of kids was not only the first contact with a computer; it was also completelly unrestricted.

Regarding incompetence, I think there was some sort of desconnection from reality from a lot of people in key places: I think way too many people thought that just dropping the netbooks would be enough (Like in Ethipia) without even considering cultural and social constraints.

It still baffles me that it is heralded as a success by a lot of people from the previous government; yet, I think that the move by the current government to scrap it completely - instead on making the effort of fixing the problems - was utterly stupid.
There was a lot of energy, effort and knowledge by a lot of incredible hard working and knowledgeable people put into making them work.

Also, I never gave them much of a cursory look, but I think the machines were _really_ configured to be a powerful assistant to education: It's demise in the end was mostly due to - failed - politics... Just like with socialism ;)
What is a difficult concept to understand is the point of shifting the mass killings to another method which is about as easy, unless you're just coming it from an exploitative gun control position.