skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are others here who say this is a bug, not a feature, and I agree; and having looked through the open-source code that Apple releases, I have a reasonable guess of how this happened.

Apple seems to have an internal developer culture that basically does not value backwards-compatibility nor stability, and instead really loves rewriting huge pieces of code all the time. If you look at the OSS that it releases, you'll see interfaces between the various components change greatly between versions and lots of other churn. There are many places which look unimplemented, with only stub functions present. With such a situation, it's not hard to envision how a simple "change the MAC address" function could've gotten left out of some piece during a rewrite, because it otherwise does not affect basic functionality.

I really recommend downloading the OSS from Apple and inspecting it; the pieces it copied from BSDs etc. are relatively stable, but the amount of churn in other pieces is surprising to see.
I actually think it's one of my better opinions.
Don't kill, lie, cheat or steal. That will pretty much cover most of it. You don't need to be a lawyer to function in society.
3k areas in the U.S. have lead poisoning rates double those in Flint (2016)
Depends on the language but in Haskell, the (->) arrow is a function type constructor (i.e. constructs function at type level) where a -> b constructs a function type from a to b.

This is often chained to produce functions that 'take multiple arguments'. i.e. a -> b -> b. I put that in quotations because in reality all functions take only one argument, this is called currying. It gives functions flexibility in that you can partially apply them at will.

In languages like Rust and Swift, the syntax is (a: A, b: B) -> B. Because these languages are "uncurried", they use the syntax of uncurried functions. Meaning, they cannot be readily partially applied.
> As a non-native english speaker, using singular "they" is confusing.

I am non-native as well, but my native language doesn't have gendered pronouns. To me, using singular "they" is actually easier as it is closer to how I speak and think in my native language. The normal English (as well as most other Indo-European languages) way of using she or he, always meant I have to stop a bit to think, to add this extra bit of information I wouldn't have to if I were speaking in my native language.

Let's imagine a language that doesn't have a word for red, but has "wine" for darker shades of red and "rose" for brighter shades of red. You just can't talk about "red" in general, you always have to specify if you're meaning the darker or the brighter kind. That's a bit how I feel always needing to specify she or he.
Were there other major discussions besides https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167871?
This sort of moment is sometimes called a "crisis of faith", and it's probably been part of the human experience since before recorded history. People sometimes have them after decades of genuine belief.
LSD was a method tried, under the program, that failed. The program moved on to more effective methods.
As an alternative, as mentioned already in response to another comment is oksh (https://github.com/ibara/oksh), a portable version of OpenBSD's pdksh. It's in the same Bourne shell lineage as bash but is lighter and the completion is simpler: you have to customise it if you want it to work for you, but it's very easy and quick to do.
Before the 90s. Yes.
Zero days are one side of it, the other is the incredible number of cyber security companies born in Israel (or abroad by Israelis). Checkpoint, Imperva, RSA, Palo Alto networks, CyberArk and dozens more (and I only listed the ones that IPOd).
I think the problem here is that those values are not in fact being defined by the community, in toto. They are being defined by a very vocal and relatively small subgroup. Furthermore, the author doesn't even seem to be opposed to those values, just highly ambivalent about them.
The thing in my behavior that triggers it consistently is insisting upon using my right to remain silent. All of the questions that a US border guard has for a US citizen upon entry to the USA are optional once you have proved citizenship (by silently presenting your valid passport).

They really, really don’t like that. But they have to let you in, and they know it, so they lie, threaten, intimidate, strip search, et c. I’ve had non-citizens traveling with me through the border physically molested and denied entry simply because of their attempt to enter with someone who uses their basic human rights.

The US CBP is a travesty, a national shame.
It's probably on your backlog, but one thing would be useful is to build "components" with a container module. To group modules to a single entity, so they could be closed.

I'd assume it would have 3 inputs / outputs: gate / CV / audio and a custom label. Not sure how I/O is done in other node based editors, probably worth some investigation :)
I have both a 2015 MBP (same model as the 2013) and the latest 2019 MBP. The 2019 is almost better in every way (except for the dongles). FWIW, I did a Thunderbolt transfer from my 2015 to 2019 and it was pretty much a carbon copy of all my settings.

I recommend you actually try it out yourself before making a judgment.
Alex Hopmann (Creator of XMLHttp) used to have a blog post on his site about the history of Ajax. Looks like his site is offline now, but here's an archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170424220609/http://www.alexho...
Exactly. Why isn't the "fake news" MSM covering the war in Eastasia? We've always been at war with Eastasia.
These entities are very much like hostile AIs, or at least the closest we have to them in our world. Since solid state AI is not yet good enough, they use tactics like the ones you describe to assimilate meat brains and use them as components.

The whole financial industry seems very much like this. There are all these conspiracy theories that propose that someone -- some group of actual humans -- is on top, but look closely and it seems that in reality the entities themselves are on top and the whole system exists to feed itself as an end in itself.
Why are you looking for a reason to upgrade? If you don’t have a reason to upgrade that is a positive, not a negative. Lots of MacBook Pro users seem to be upset they don’t have a good reason to spend thousands of dollars on a new laptop.
Required? No, but I didn't say impossible. I said "more difficult".

Made easier by? Most everything ever loaded in a debugger.
They stopped stopping me as a matter of course 3-4 years after I stopped refusing to answer their questions. It must still be in my file. One of these days I should test it again to see if I will get another few years of harassment.
60 million starving children in Africa. Something like 25,000 people die every year to war. The US president, leader of the free world, is facing possible impeachment.

And what are we worried about? Pronoun use and codes of conduct on software Q&A websites.

Give. Me. A. Break.

Almost 2,000 words on it, no less. Talk about 15 minutes of my life I'll never have back.

I'm trying to think if there's something dumber to argue about than this, but right now I can't.

Not sure how the world will continue to spin on its axis what with the bloodbath of moderators on StackExchange but somehow the universe will find a way to carry on.
Sorry, I don't believe there are videos this year. I'm looking forward to the articles, though. Even Knuth was visibly struck by the whole thing.

And I'd also be interested to hear how big a doc. I have a 300+ page book I am developing, with many graphics. Compilation on my several-years old standard laptop is 5-10 seconds. So I wonder what is up.
That's the same rate from ConEd. It's actually more like like 27c or 28c. 9c for electricity, 13c or more for delivery and rest taxes. I paid $370 for like 1350kwh last July, I switched to solar last August and that will pay itself in about 5 years.

There are TOU rates, but there are from 8am to midnight.
Thanks a lot. Can you recommend a book if I’d like to read more on this explained similarly.
Unless you're burying canned food, there's very little time-transfer of real goods and services involved in pension schemes. Current production is current consumption. If current retirees didn't pay "enough" into the pension system, the people getting screwed by that are past pensioners, who did not get the level of consumption that economic conditions warranted.
Don't worry about macOS updates, you can always go the Hackintosh way on non-apple hardware.
It is a violation of a code of conduct that doesn't exist yet. It is a proposed future code of conduct. She was kicked out because it was decided that questioning the logic of the future code of conduct meant she didn't (or wouldn't -- I'm not sure which one is worse) follow the code of conduct that hadn't been implemented yet.
Naive question - What makes deployment more difficult than development?
It's still just timing the market with more steps. You may have done well the past two years but there are many other periods of uncertainty in which a large bond allocation would significantly underperform.
Bosco Verticale
That would probably make it somewhat easy enough for most native English speakers who keep up with the times. It would still be difficult enough that a big majority of my peers (middle-aged+ non-native English speakers) would get it wrong a lot of the time.

This whole thing is just a little alien and baffling to me. I don't understand why all interactions should take into account gender (or religion, age, seniority, or insert-your-favorite-disposition-here). I respect your choices and accomplishments about these things, but it's hard for me to remember to weave them into every sentence when it has nothing to do with the matter at hand.

I've had quite a few fruitful and interesting discussions online without having to bring in gender, religion, age, sex, or any number of other irrelevant preferences into it. In most contexts, I don't see the point of making a point of any of those.

I could call rank and require myself be called with all sorts of names (check my profile), but what would that benefit? I'm interested in your opinions; not on making you follow my rules.
I can't find the right reference, but I remember that such "light trucks" (e.g. Ford F150) enjoy a different tax and tariff compared to cars, and that's why several car companies have pushed them to the market.
The Genie Speaks
Whose?

(If anything I suspect I'm giving someone at SO too much credit for understanding this dynamic - 99 times out of 100 this shit is just the boring office politics it looks like.)
Would you be offended if someone shared their name without being asked? The issue here is that names and pronouns come up in ordinary conversation quite frequently.
OsmAnd recommended a 15 minute walk that goes under the road.
I'm reminded of Itchy and Scratchy Money, themselves a parody of Disney Dollars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dErRj6V8_xQ

I'm not sure why Brave thinks the public will seriously value these.
Interesting. With this recent resurgence of Hitler/Stalin stuff (that is basically gone now) it seems the last time we went through an authoritarian phase there was a whole host of problems with the surrounding ideas and the implementation of it. The most recent speaker of note on it went on to talk about how he thinks the only solution this time round is to be individualist masters of our own house. Many people agree with that idea. That speaker was likely influenced by Epictetus too, and the Greeks in general.

We are all individually doomed to stand and burn in the sunlight, as a hierarchy of authority forms around us. But this is only half the equation. In the past the exiled half was a matter of flesh and assumed racial identity. We aren't doing that again. But what is the exiled status? An individual that says no to authority? What is the core problem with somebody who does not bend to our current wave of authoritarianism? How do we harness this power for good? It would be trivial to f* it up. Give past dictators the power of tagging & labeling in a secret worldwide internet database that contains everybody's face & data and the world becomes very dark very quickly. We must figure out what we are fighting to protect before it's gone forever.
The flip side of money being created by creating loans is that it is extinguished when those loans are paid back.

Taxes also effectively perform the same function - destroying money (consider what would happen if all current tax money were burned and all government spending were printed - economically no different).

This side of the equation doesn't get a commensurate level of attention.
"Would" is not a phrase you'd use if you've actually written lambda functions the way we're talking about.

I have. It's pennies, literal pennies. None of those pitfalls actually end up adding up to more than pennies, everything there is entirely theoretical and does not actualize with substantial consequence, in my experience.
Think resource extraction, transportation and processing, for self-sustainance.

In that regard, there’s a 200 years old phenomenon where humanity is by the day more reliant on the industry whereas the industry is less and less reliant on humanity.

If it continues, it won’t end well.

https://www.xkcd.com/605/
This is not what the article is about.

This is about massive retirement funds unable to meet payout requirements and it's the same all over the world and it's an existential issue.

The #1 economic problem in the developed world is the secular shift from 5 workers to every retiree to 1 worker for every 2 retirees and pensions hitting up against interest rates is a signal for this.

This whole 'low to negative interest rates' system that is confounding bankers, investors and economists everywhere.

In particular the rules for how retirement funds need to hedge are driving volatility (i.e. massive EU funds stampeding for assets due to specific regulatory requirements)
Ask HN: Sales books for people who don’t like sales tactics and gimmicks
I want to get better at sales, but I realized it has a very bad connotation for me due to hands on experiences building a MLM software early in my career, and dealing with bad sales people.

I am looking for books showing that it is possible to sell something without resorting to “mental triggers” and other gimmicks.

Any recommendation?
Apple’s New Map, Expansion #6: Midwestern U.S.
Are you talking about name-calling? Cause people already know what to do about it.

Is "Mikey" pejorative?
>I know someone who makes $12MM/year from high-ranking websites in extremely competitive keywords... and it's all about peddling links, really.

How are these sites monetized?
We forked ejabberd because it's the best existing XMPP server. We do provide XMPP hosting (at xabber.com/xabber.org domains), but currently, it's just standard ejabberd, a transition to our own build will come later, hopefully, this year. We also plan to provide domain hosting.
> The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.

-- Hannah Arendt, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/10/26/hannah-arendt-fr...
My speedometer 2.0 tests on Firefox 70b12 win64.

No password addon: 74.5

Bitwarden: 74.0

Lastpass: 39.7

Pretty grim for LP.
Experimenting with Languages in Redex
Those reports are voluntary. Many states do not participate.
Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance
The answer to this is fairly obvious if you would avoid having a knee-jerk reaction: Because the dimension of gender inflects grammar, even in "ungendered" languages like English, but even moreso in most Romance or Germanic languages.

This is literally the reason many signup forms ask for gender - to know which pronouns to use. Why not just ask that? In languages which have other inflections, those fields are also often asked for - I've worked on software that needed to support Korean honorifics, and even in German you get dropdowns for "Dr." vs. "Prof. Dr.", "Prof. Dr. med.", etc.
Those are separate issues.

Retirement issues and secular shift around demographics, and the end of the current 10 year bull run are kind of separate ordeals.

Many people are signalling issues about current stock market conditions.

The much longer secular shift on retirement is different (though related) story.
Or just install ubuntu LTS
I don't think people who go into finance are evil because at the end of the day incentives matter a great deal, but I do find it disappointing that financing is more profitable than many other industries which might have greater long term benefits to society.
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This line of argument is specious. There are always bigger problems. That doesn't mean that smaller issues don't matter.
> If the government banned this kind of lending and didn't provide an alternative, poor people would have no lending options.

IIRC poor women's self-run savings groups enable microcredit for poor people, and these loans generally have high repayment rates and relatively low interest. It has been a while since I read about this so it is possible that my info is now out of date.
Is anyone else happy with the Trezor password manager [1]? After years of using LastPass, I just bought a physical Trezor wallet and its password manager works well enough considering it's a one-time-purchase.

[1] https://wiki.trezor.io/User_manual:Password_Manager
Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)
The point being the government didn't prevent them from borrowing money, it just made things worse as they then are forced to deal with criminals.
Especially by Google. The web as it is meant to be: open standards, without control by any single large entity, a level playing field.
Show HN: Mergecrush – Gitlab email and slack reminders
this probably isn't what GP cares about, but it is kind of silly to drive around a pickup truck with no weight in the bed. these vehicles are designed to handle a heavy load in the bed. the tradeoff is that a pickup doesn't actually have it's best handling when the bed is totally empty. it's not catastrophically dangerous, but a pickup with an empty bed is more susceptible to stuff like lift-off oversteer than something like an SUV, which isn't designed with the same assumptions.
I just went to the Rust homepage and clicked until I found an example of a function. It's being presented in Monaco where the dash is noticeably higher than the centre of the angle bracket.
At the time it was one of the largest publicly accessible datasets.
Last time I tried it it was missing (and probably it still is) shell-escape support.

This command argument is needed if you're planning to use packages such as pygments (which does code highlighting).
An app that translates air pollution into cigarettes
Netlify is exactly that with Gatsby, I have two blogs running on them.

Many themes have now deploy to Netlify buttons:

https://github.com/netlify-templates/gatsby-starter-netlify-...

Many themes support https://www.contentful.com/ as a backend.

The only thing that's a little concerning to me is the separation of domains: Hosting on a freemium service which deploys me a Node/React based static site generator that can connect to a third party headless CMS. That's why I still use markdown as the source of the content.

Too many moving parts, but at the same time if one goes down for good, I can fix it quite easily.
These issues aren’t mutually exclusive, and it’s not “dumb” to argue about something that affects the the software engineering community personally and that we can have a meaningful impact on.
Two clear inaccuracies are that the team worked out of the mountain view office and they joined months before the ipo.
a pre-pre-thoughtcrime
Searches/topics that don't have any content , usually have very low traffic.

So what's the point ?
ImageNet Roulette and AI Bias
It doesn't help much. Most notably, it even removes credible sites like Wikipedia.

Programming queries are a completely different thing. I'm talking about queries like "plumber in X", "build website", "which laptop to use" etc - queries where there's a very direct path from search to money being spent. Those queries are completely littered, you can just skip 10 pages and maybe you will find some actual professionals or enthusiasts with actual information.
Worth a Wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt
> Already economic growth is basically not capital-constrained

I really disagree with this. Consider a simple counter-example. Workers in the Bay Area are substantially more productive than the American average.

One simple way to use capital to increase GDP is to build more housing and infrastructure in places like the Bay Area. Even if the population doesn't grow, that housing stock will allow future workers to move from West Virginia to San Francisco.

By shifting future workers from low-productivity job markets to high-productivity job markets, we can substantially increase total economic. Even with the same population and the same technology base. The only constraint is the tight housing supply in places like the Bay Area. But we know how to build more housing, all it takes is a willing political system and capital investment.
What makes me somewhat mad are the (Western) countries "solving" their public pension problems through immigration. Not only do you then destroy the tax payer base in the country that loses the emigrant, but you're just pushing the problem down the line so that the immigrants that saved you tomorrow, are themselves screwed when/if they ever get to retire.

It's literally a legal Ponzi scheme and in many cases, you are legally obliged to play.

I'm looking at you Canada.
Using this as well. While I like Spolsky in general (see other comment) I'd argue he is off here. It makes me come back to threads instead of forgetting my comments.
The risk is similar because the too-big-to-fail phenomenon applies to both. Back in 2009 the central banks stepped in and bought any MBS for sale at pre-crisis market price, still on their balance sheets to this day. They couldn't let MBS fail because it was used as collateral in all kinds of loans. Now we see the same with stocks, so we know what to expect, thus the risk is similar.

The central bank of Japan is already openly buying ETFs (stocks) along with many sovereign funds around the world, giving ETFs further credibility as collateral between central banks and governments. ECB and the Fed are following their steps, even though they haven't done public purchases yet. All central banks are singling that buying stocks is on the table, there is no question it will be done in case of emergency.
> Yes, you'll be writing about the pen and paper a bit.

My diary is full of entries about how I need to cut my fingernails because they're making it hard to type a diary entry.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes this place even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Some people work and produce stuff, some people do not.

And some other people print money, whose value should be tied somewhat to the stuff that some people did or will certainly produce, but now most often does not.