skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple service is atrocious. Don't they make you book an appointment and turn up at their store just to get someone to look at it? I hear of people who spend more time taking their laptops to the local Apple store than most people with major illnesses spend going to the doctor...

I bought a Dell XPS13 laptop recently which unfortunately had a non functioning motherboard. I contacted Dell and a technician came to my house first thing the next day and replaced it, no questions asked. Totally hassle free. I'd take that any day over having to book an appointment to see a 'Genius'.
We could feed one million people living in colonies on Mars
Idk.. I'm only at 357 and it's been years!
Validate product design ideas with wireframes
The Definitive Guide to Kubernetes Volumes (Part 2)
> We literally have a transcript here, people should be copying from it directly.

Isn't that what he said in the first place?
Uh oh. What are they going to do when they discover that there aren't any average pilots?

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230287)

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-inv... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155889)
It makes sense. You dont need language as a drive in the ambient medium of the wild and natural selection, you need just a bit of sentience as the bare minimum, granted by neurons(cog. thresholds is another topic). Language is a special emergence not universal.
Thank you, I had never heard of a working holiday before. Doing research now.
> There’s massive innovation in front end development because billions of users are using ever more sophisticated applications created by millions of programmers backed by virtually infinite money.

There's no real innovation on the web. As another commenter pointed out, all the "innovation" is around tools. And even those innovations are meh at best.

Web has been busy reinventing things that desktop programming has had probably for decades, and what mobile development has had for years. And that's when we consider tools only.

On the app/client side the situation is even more bleak and dire. We get a 100th store implementation. A 1000th drag and drop implementation. A 10000th file upload manager. A 100000th state manager. A...

The "ever more sophisticated" applications can barely scratch the surface of native apps. And the actual more sophisticated apps like Figma are busy re-inventing and re-building the past 20 years of desktop UIs from scratch [1].

It's not innovation. It's a hamster wheel race.

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...

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Pulling this off was really hard; we’ve basically ended up building a browser inside a browser.

The reason this is hard is because the web wasn’t designed as a general-purpose computing platform.

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In anything with a lower bound (passing to become a pilot) the distribution can be heavily skewed (ie cutting off the bottom 20% of a normal distribution)

Which means that more than half would be below average!
How'd he find "decades old tweets" when Twitter is only 13 years old?
That would explain a lot.
'Just business'? That is an understatment. Jobs' work redefined business in several product categories. That's not 'just business'. Jobs should be admired for his business skill, even though if you don't like the walled garden he put up.
Oooh, I'd be curious to hear people's opinions here. I'm on GSuite (using a combo of gmail via web browser and Thunderbird on local desktop), but really wanting to go elsewhere like Fastmail...But fastmail is just a tad too pricey for me and my family (when adding in all family members)...So I was considering to go to office365 - that is, add on the plan which includes email/exchange online, whatever its called now. This is not ideal, but because i'm already paying an annual subscription for my family to use the office 365 stack (word, excel, and especially the tons of storage on onedrive)...i'm begrudgingly likely going to use their email product. But, what do people use for office 365 mail on linux?
> "Creep" is a description of how attractive you personally feel someone is.

Not really? Where did you get this definition fron?
Wouldn't you need the worse pilot you can get? Average doesn't account for the fact that 50% of the sample are WORSE.
In linear algebra, you typically use juxtaposition to represent multiplication, rather than explicitly with a symbol. For some reason, this actually seems to capture noncommutativity better than a symmetric symbol.

Another example would be string concatenation, which people often debate the merits of using a + to represent.
> It's the equivalent of asking "why was that young girl out alone so late at night anyway?" when discussing a sexual assault case.

No. That's actually very different, I struggle to see any parallel.

> What you're doing is being deliberately vague to get away with blaming/accusing someone of something you wouldn't be able to get away with accusing them of directly.

Of course not. I'm deliberately using words that leave wiggle room, but not for the reasons you think. I believe in processes, not essences, I might sloppily say "Stallman is a misogynist", but I mean "Stallman's actions are misogynistic".

In a similar way, when trying to describe someone else's perspective I would not use absolute language. I can't presume to completely understand another person's experience. In order to be inclusive, I relay my general understanding with language that deliberately doesn't make hard borders for inclusion or exclusion.

Specifically, you suggest fixes to my language that change my meaning:

>> ...encounter a whole bunch of people (women) who feel the misogynistic air around him actively drove them away from engaging in fsf style open source.

> You don't say "Stallman is a misogynist" or "Stallman drove women away from contributing to fsf…"

I specifically didn't mean Stallman exactly, but him in the center of actions/reactions and whoever supports his ways (in mailing lists, meetups etc), hence "misogynistic air around…" (as earlier stated, I don't believe anyone IS anything). I also didn't mean contributing to the FSF only, but that this air around him has affected GNU and related software.

I try to use precise language, but you seem to argue I should reduce my views down to absolutes, which is not how I think about anything.
> Cloudflare is certainly not free for distributing multi-gigabyte binary blobs.

Citation needed. I've been using it for distributing all kinds of things like that and never paid them a penny... Just make sure you split it to 512MB chunks, which isn't hard for a software updater.
I never looked at Swift, but for example how do you wright 10 times "hello world" on the command line if you don't have for loops ?

You could do it with a while loop (if it exists in Swift) but I'm at a loss as to why you would remove a for loop from a programming language.
Makes me remember of:

"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."

and

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

- Nikola Tesla
If people's personal stories and experiences aren't "evidence," then indeed you should just look at his written words, which include such gems as taking a charitable stance toward pedophilia (recanted very recently, after maintaining it as a public position for some decades), his repeated public "emacs virgin" bit, his stated belief that people with down syndrome should be aborted, his habit of giving out "pleasure cards" to colleagues and people he's met at conferences.
Sh*t, I'm using Btrfs which is not in maintenance mode.
There was a murder in Nebraska where crime scene was liberally cleaned with bleach to obliterate DNA evidence. Still no conviction despite a lot of circumstantial evidence. This was partially compounded by older DNA technology that destroyed the sample while processing it.
Wow, while reading this I was thinking to myself: "this person better be a co-founder!".

You obviously don't need any advice since you know what you want and you know what you're doing. But I couldn't help thinking - 10x-ing your pay gets you 9 years of complete autonomy for every year spent working.

Also, are there any quick insights you can share about using actor model with .Net? Did it shine, did it make some things harder then you thought they would be? Thanks!
- Please refrain from name calling.

- His "crime" was to play down an accusation on an acquaintance by arguing on the sense of words. It might have been insensitive (use your own judgement), but it's hardly heinous.

- As a mirror question, why waste so much time and energy trying to pull down someone that merely committed social gaffe? If people really have to hunt witches (they don't), they are some much scarier ones running around. Myself, I think it has to do with Stallman being an easy target.
I used to use alpine, but after it was abandoned I realized the only place I could find the source was on my personal laptop.

I’ve since switched to mutt.
Yes, in this specific case it not a big deal, and they make some surprisingly effective passive coolers today. However, I have run into this issue in the past.

As to running a larger air cooler without a fan. That’s heavily dependent on case airflow. High speed case fans really defeat the purpose of a passive cooler.
We've travelled to Europe by train instead of air, and the journey is as much part of the experience as the destination. The cities we've stopped at, the new and often mostly tourist free places we've found, that still have unique national flavour. The travel time is no longer wasted, but part of the holiday. Some of the most magic views have been from the train.

We've also discovered far, far more nationally, and a lot of jewels off the beaten track away from the famous and touristy.

We'd miss that if we started going by air again. We mostly don't want to.
Low humidity -> static.

Lower air density -> less heat transfer, so components run hotter.

Air pressure may affect disk drives and other sealed / fluid-dynamic systems.

Capacitors and other electronics might possibly be affected.

Apparently displays and printers (liquid ink) are strongly affected.

Arcing increases with elevation.

https://highaltitudelife.com/electronics.htm

https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=24254

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derating
There was an experimental language I can't remember where arguments were only named by their type by default, rather than having identifiers. This implicitly discourages having multiple parameters of the same type. After I fully processed the idea, I came to like it quite a bit.
But that's median not average...
It even has argument completion. That's really nice. I'm going to put this through its paces and see if its as good as it sounds.
>usefulness of a hatchback

i.e. very? They've sold millions of them, that's not for the track performance.
We were hit hard by Chinese IP addresses. After a while we just blocked the entire Chinese IP range. Expecting script kiddies to try to hack our system, we started out with a Federal Reserve quality hardware firewall, and I suspect the presence of that security attracted attention.
Google is, with Stadia
reminds me of a sun ultra 45
I'd like to see your original comment.

I don't presume to know the full story of how this feature came to be inside your company, I'm assuming from your comment that this initiative was created organically by employees for noble reasons. Do you admit the possibility that management may have had different motivations to agree to this idea? There's no reason why both of us can't be correct. You might have your own incentive behind this idea, management might have another.
> respect the wishes of others

Please define "others". It should be a definition that is not only "transgender people". Could it be "all the people in the world that is not you"?

If so, it is impossible to please them all. Some will contradict each other. It will generate antagonists or you will be seen as rude whenever you want it or not.

So you may decide you will be siding and pleasing those "others" who are "right" (based on your personal preference only). But at the same time, not everyone who is "not right" is necessarily "wrong".

I'm not siding with anyone, and I won't tell if I use or not special pronouns. But today the discussion is about pronouns. Tomorrow, who knows? Up to where are you willing to bend?
Kubuntu Eoan Ermine (19.10) Beta Released
Thank you, well put and I agree with your conclusion.
As far as I know, Stallman respects "he", "she", and a genderless pronoun he made up. He refuses to respect singular "they".[1]

[1] https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html
Surely there are only two types of pilots?

* Pilots

* Dead / disqualified pilots
In Python, by default you can use keyword arguments for any function parameter.

And if you want, you can make arguments keyword-only:

def copyFile(*, source, dest):
...

Parameters after the asterisk cannot be specified by positional arguments. It must be called with keyword arguments:

copyFile(source=src, dest=dst)
Intel doesn't even ship coolers for higher TDP chips. I have a i7 7700 (65W TDP) and the stock cooler and it's just too loud under high loads.
I can’t speak for the OP, but I like Hugo better than Gatsby as far as static site generators go. I think Hugo is easier to use and is a lot faster at generating sites. Gatsby does more than that, so it may be a good choice when you need something more than a static site generator; however, if I’m going to have to dick around with programming anyway I’d rather work with anything other than Node/JavaScript.

EDIT: I forgot to mention Zola, which I like quite well as far as static site generators go. It doesn’t have the support for multilingual sites that Hugo does, but its templating is much nicer, I think.
My point was more about the problem it solves not the nature of the tool, i.e. that it does not concern itself with data store or routing.
Good. More competition in the space of currencies and money is exactly what it's needed for hundreds of years.
Dell does this.
Social media is either private or public according to how you choose to make it.

You can have your IG posts set to private and only those who follows you see them. You just have to make sure those you accept their follow request are people you want to share with.

Same for Facebook. One can't have 5,000 Facebook friends and worry about their content being public when you chose to accept friend requests from thousands of people you don't know.

For a very very long time, my Twitter feed was my private journal for things I didn't want to forget because my account was private and wouldn't accept follow request from anyone while I'm able to follow accounts that interests me.

This isn't Facebook's problem as far as I can tell.
> Apple service is atrocious. Don't they make you book an appointment and turn up at their store just to get someone to look at it?

I can't speak for anyone else, but the last time I had trouble with my MacBook (five years or more ago now, the touchpad had cracked, IIRC), I made an appointment in the morning to come in in the afternoon. Walked up, explained the problem, gave them the machine, and they called me back to pick it up a few hours later. That's not bad, IMO.

Home service is awesome, but unless things have changed recently, I don't think that's common. It also may be different for wear-and-tear fixes vs. DOA replacements; Dell has a strong interest in fixing the latter as quickly as possible to protect their reputation. Most companies, most of the time, expect you to come to them to get service.
We allowed too much centralization of news - TV, radio and newspaper ownership is too concentrated. I don't know that I can make a great case for it, but it seems like news gathering and dissemination has some similarities to health care in that economic incentives are the opposite of what we need for accurate reporting (which includes depth when necessary).
I don’t know what you think ‘average’ means. Median is an average.
>her work with Ildefonso, who had grown up without learning sign language or any other form of communication. //

It sounds like she's limiting her definition of language to "ability to communicate". Which I think it's wrong.

One example is how babies can communicate with sign long before they can talk.

When I learnt some BSL I was essentially in a situation like Ildenfonso (sp?) in your link. But, I certainly had language, it just wouldn't let me communicate in that situation, it essentially became a private language only for me. Now, Ildenfonso may not have developed a sophisticated language, but once the penny dropped and he began to communicate in sign with his tutor it seems like he already had a working language to match the signs to, that better explains - IMO - the rush to identify signs for the physical items around him, rather than waiting to learn as things came up.
It didn't strike me as one, and I'm not sure what it would be a metaphor for.
As someone currently living in Des Moines, this is all the city can talk about right now. Facebook is on fire with people going after the Register, pitchforks in hand. It is kind of ridiculous they'd dig up 8ish year old posts this guy made in a story about his generosity towards a children's hospital, but it seems that is what media has to do now to get eyes. The backlash on the Register has been swift and harsh, though, and with print media already on the decline, is probably pretty bad news for the paper overall.
i find getting called 'cis' quite disrespectful. offensive even. doubly so when light skin color, 'white', is used to generalize and demonize. hypocrisy is the worst.
What I mean is that if you post that person X did Y on HN (or elsewhere), you attach links that prove this fact. In other words, [citation needed]
I don't understand the thought process that leads to Calvin publishing (well, submitting to his editors for review and publication) King's quotes in a negative light when he has said similar. Wouldn't you just chalk those kind of posts up to "meh, I'd do that, nothing to see here"?

That said, if going looking to see if someone said something stupid on social media a decade ago is part of a "routine background check" then I think that speaks to something larger being wrong.
Imagine the day you're hired to be a test pilot, and _officially_ graduate as the worst pilot there is!
Ask HN - Know any similar technology like FlatBuffers but based on “SQLite/SQL?”
Do you know any similar technology like FlatBuffers [1] but based on "SQLite/SQL" for schema development?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlatBuffers
Here is a tweet by the developer with some explanations

https://twitter.com/axi0mX/status/1177542201670168576?s=20

> What I am releasing today is not a full jailbreak with Cydia, just an exploit. Researchers and developers can use it to dump SecureROM, decrypt keybags with AES engine, and demote the device to enable JTAG. You still need additional hardware and software to use JTAG.

> During iOS 12 betas in summer 2018, Apple patched a critical use-after-free vulnerability in iBoot USB code. This vulnerability can only be triggered over USB and requires physical access. It cannot be exploited remotely. I am sure many researchers have seen that patch.
It's not that complicated, Carson King's tweets were not newsworthy and not even remotely part of the story. By digging into the subject's background for dirt and then leveraging that dirt to get Busch Light to cancel the relationship, Aaron Calvin inserted himself into the story, opening the door to the backlash.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Content is wrong or it isn't. Tone is a logical fallacy.

Your true statement that tone will often matter is an interesting discusson on society and education. That it is also relevent on a site otherwise dedicated to intelligent discourse was the nugget I was hoping people would think about.
What is your actual complaint? People have been complaining about taxes for years and years. That doesn't mean we should get rid of them.
In at least some cases, yes.

https://support.apple.com/applecare-enterprise-service

I do not know what the criteria are to be able to get on that program, though.
When I get annoyed by magazine ads I cut them out with scissors and throw them away. Viola, ad free magazine!
Its called Mozilla Hubs
That's how Perl's Path::Tiny[1] works, for example:

path("/tmp/foo.txt")->copy("/tmp/bar.txt");

[1] - https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Tiny
How many honorary doctorates add up to calling yourself “Dr.”?
Jailing people on drug charges? That’s Bakersfield’s idea to fight homelessness
That reporter is no longer with the Register.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/f...
I too have been using react professionally for the last 5 years and I have the opposite take on it - I still love it as much as when I started using it. I'm a solo dev so I get to control quality end-to-end, perhaps this is where our difference in opinion stems from.

I have no doubt there is tons of awful react code out there written by noobs but the same can be said for practically any software engineering endeavor.

I'll concede that it takes time + effort to understand how to best use react but it's merely a tool and you need experience and insight to understand how best to use your tools. I try to use as little state as possible and use functional components everywhere I can. Hooks have been a big help.

I agree about having reservations with GraphQL, it doesn't seem ready for primetime to me although I'm keeping a close eye on it because I like the underlying concept.

JS is a "huge noobfest" imo because webdev is so accessible and prevalent. But today's noobs are tomorrow's professionals ;) Typescript has been a very welcome development to encourage better dev practices.
The irony here is that when I wrote "The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User" I'd specifically excluded cases such as commercial aviation, where a minimum qualifying standard can be used.

By that logic, aircraft certification should be based on the minimum qualifying pilot.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
To the people saying it's too expensive for most people to travel: you can work and travel simultaneously. Lots of hostels offer room and board in exchange for working there, others pay cash. You can work as a club promoter or a laborer or as a freelance programmer, since this is HN, abroad. I have met people that have been on the road for over 5 years continuously; I assure you they didn't start out with any significant savings.
I've been writing my side project in vanilla es5. I use rollup for bundling, and nothing else. Life is great.
I prefer to let the IDE do this.

Developing C# in rider if you call `foo(a,b)` then it'll display as `foo(from: a, to: b)` in the IDE.
Most commonly it is used for the mean though...
Yes, he did. There are other articles mentioned here that prove it.