skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool tagline. But the richest men in this industry are math graduates.
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None of these are the experiences I have. The most concrete example - my laptop has 4 USB-C ports.
"Responsibility" is an abstraction needed for enforcement of the law. It doesn't say much about how things actually are.
"There is only True Way of installing software: using the Apple store. If you do anything else you are bad and you should feel bad."

Isn't this sentiment a bit excessive. Homebrew is a perfectly safe and accepted way of installing software.
Such a dull post.
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It is now the modern way to publish drivers for Android, either in Java or C++, implemented as kind of micro kernel architecture, where drivers get each their own process, and talk to the Linux kernel via Android IPC.

Classical Linux drivers are considered legacy on Trebelized devices.

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hal#hal-modu...

The big problem is that in spite of having a standard ABI, Google does not require OEMs to actually push updates, so everything stands as before for consumers, while OEMs have even lower development costs.
Apple 2019: if your problem is not google-trivial, there's nothing you can do. Calling Apple's tech support line does not help, because they will just type your problem description into Google and read the first hit.

Really? My experience of calling Apple tech support (to troubleshoot something to do with Messages on my Mac) was that they were surprisingly well-informed, and they fixed my issue with approximately zero patronising, script-parroting, is-it-turned-on? nonsense.
People decided that walking on paths is better then not walking on them.
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Who made the decision?

The first person who walked the final path. Everyone who agreed with that person and walked the same path compounded his decision. Everyone who crossed the field should have thought about what they were doing at the time.

Far too many people, and especially developers, are way more focused on absolving themselves from responsibility for anything bad than they are willing to put the thought in at the beginning, and that's the root cause of a lot of problems.
Political advertising should be banned entirely in my opinion.

As a side note, I wish there was less exposure to political opinion in general. I think there's a problem in how a single celeb, or a close friend talking about their political views can be so influential. Not because they've made a particularly good argument, but because that person is trusted or looked up to.

I often wonder how we would vote if we were blind to the opinions of the media, celebs and friends. I find it fascinating how political memes exist and evolve for almost no reason. How one generation can be almost universally opposed to something like gay marriage, then suddenly in just a generation the majority of the population is in almost religious support of it.

Would this happen if we were forced to think about politics for ourselves instead of relying on the main stream opinion for what's right and wrong? As someone on the spectrum I find frustratingly difficult to find anyone with their own takes on the popular political topics of the day.
> If an aircraft model retains the same type rating as previous generations then pilots don't need retraining, this saves money.

It also makes the airplane safer if pilots can transfer their experience and training from one aircraft to another, as it reduces the likelihood they'll do something right for one airplane but wrong for another (there have been multiple crashes due to this sort of mistake, even when they were correctly trained for each type).
Somewhat similar. In my case, they got me to install a debugging profile and spent quite a while scrutinising the output
True to a point. However, that person doesn't necessarily know why a computer made a decision. The high dimensionality of these questions and decisions can be solved by programming, but the question and solution aren't completely understood. Thus, we enter the age of AI.
This should be a fairly simple calculation: coal kills a lot more people than nuclear. It has also, over the course of the last 100 years, produced far more nuclear waste exposed to the environment than nuclear power has (including if you normalize for power contribution, etc; the numbers aren't close).
I had the same issue with XCode update. Today, the download finally started, progress bar reached 100% then... XCode was not installed. Infuriating. Too bad Microsoft don’t allow easy access to LTSB and destroyed Windows UI. I feel the state of commercial OS declined sharply in the last decade.
My recollection of Linux in year 2000 was it was very easy to understand how everything worked. If you were searching for "terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best" then you were definitely doing it wrong (in 2000 and now).
Will that be affected by the notarization requirements in the future?

https://discourse.brew.sh/t/code-signing-installed-executabl...
That would be a particle swarm optimisation.
Sure. I was using Linux in 2000 and now I’m using Apple in 2019.
Not only that, there are and were multiple ways of installing software in Linux, both back in 2000 and now. Notoriously

./autogen.sh && make && make install

wasn't mentioned but installing via `rpm|dpkg|apt|yum` is?
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“Dutch roll stability can be artificially increased by the installation of a yaw damper.”

Less stable is not the same as unstable.
>I'm always wondering how the software developers of FinFisher justify

"stopping terrorism" for when they make a sale to Turkey and "preventing anti-social behavior" for when they make a sale to London or NYC.
TL;DR: A user is as frustrated with the Apple experience in 2019 as s/he was in 2000 with Linux. Then that user goes on to rant about some things that frustrate him/her, completely ignoring that one is FOSS and by no means a hardware manufacturer while the other is proprietary and primarily a hardware manufacturer.
really good job and congrats
have a grammar guru go over your site
to touch up on the English and i'd maybe
not tell everyone your numbers for 'income'
so much, talk about you and your journey to
get where you are at today, nothing wrong stating
income for shareholders etc but you are not on the
stock market and you don't need to 'sell your success'
nobody cares how much money you make or don't make,
especially if they don't have a clue as to who you
are and the why of it. my two cents ;)
Get help. Seriously. I don’t know why you’re keying in on me for making a comment about how Apple can’t just magically relocate millions of jobs to the US as being some kind of bad person. I’m purposefully not discussing the moral side of this, I’m rebutting the parents claim that Apple should just throw money at this and fix it. They can’t.
True. It isn't possible to work on Mac without Homebrew. This is exaggeration but true for all practical purposes.
Are you on Catalina or Mojave by chance?
I share your opinion, job market in Germany is a tragedy today. I fully understand people writing shady software for VW group at Bosch, they have no alternatives. Kids want nice vacation, payments for the bank must be done every month.

Though I am not software developer, but I get also some recruiter offers every week. I was interested in changing jobs and starting talking to these recruiters. Max offers were at €60k what is a bad joke for Munich. Many offers that start negotiations as employment end as contract for 6 months.

Before writing here, that changing jobs in Germany is easy, talk to these “recruiters”. Get other work contract with negotiated salary ~€100k for Munich every week. I doubt this will happen soon again.
> After a ton more googling

I believe the author is exaggerating it a little bit. Local time machine snapshots are not arcane secret knowledge (man 8 tmutil).
> Past periods of high CO2 do not contradict the notion that CO2 leads to higher global temperatures. Indeed, it confirms that there is a strong relationship between the two.

The relationship, at least in the smaller graph, isn't in question. The causality is. I didn't say it contradicts the causality, I say it doesn't support the causality.

If you look at the larger graph, whatever relationship there is between CO2 and global temperature becomes indiscernible.

> There are other sources of temperature change so you can't use one indicator to prove there is no effect

You can't prove a negative in the first place. Of course there's bound to be some effect, but how large is it really?

> On the right of that graph, there is a vertical red line. That's not an axis or a border, that's the recent rise in CO2 levels, and it's unprecedented.

The rise may be unprecedented, the level isn't.

> The overwhelming majority of evidence shows that human activity, mainly greenhouse gases, is causing climate change.

That's a strong statement for what it is at best a discernible correlation.

I'm willing to take it on faith. Humans cause climate change? Now what? We absolutely have to drop everything and start cooling the planet? Until the next ice age, when presumably we'll have to warm it?
I think though it got upvoted, I’m not sure this piece should be taken so seriously by the commenters.

It’s a play on taking some ballpark similiarities and making it seem like Apple 2019 and Linux 2000 are alike.

Some might enjoy it, some might not but this is not meant as serious technical piece.
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That doesn't change the fact that they're responsible for the outcome.

A reasonable metaphor is someone firing a gun in to the air: they can't claim not to be responsible for where the bullet lands despite having no real control over where it's coming down. If you don't want that responsibility don't pull the trigger.
Yes but no because it is 2019. It's simply a list of things that Linux sucked at and Apple is now dropping support as it no longer matters or things that affect a very small number of its users.

I remember when I tried to use Linux as my desktop operating system because it was up and coming to destroy Windows.

>External monitors

I don't know how you can have a problem with that. I have a 10gbp dongle from Amazon with HDMA, DVI and VGA output and works with no configuration. On Linux, I had to do some hacky stuff on the terminal to get a monitor to somewhat work(wouldn't turn off, would come back from sleep mode etc.)

>Software installation
I don't feel any pressure to use Mac Appstore, in fact, I never use Mac Appstore. I also, in fact, know that people don't actually use Mac Appstore because here are many stories about Mac Appstore being useless for developers

>Hardware compatibility
The given example is an Android phone. That's nothing like the given example of not being able to use your graphics card on Linux. The Android phone is not an integral part of the Mac user experience, it is a separate computer that you may choose not to use if that computer's vendors are not providing decent support.

>Technical support
I would agree that Apple lacks on the phone support but Mac power users are much more polite on the internet than the grumpy Linux gurus out there that will not hesitate you to tell you how stupid you are for not being able to solve that basic problem. Also, there are Apple stores where you can hand over your computer and get it fixed.

>Advocate behaviour
Oh god, this is no comparison. Lunux power users are the worst. They are out there to get you down, they are angry, unfriendly and arrogant. They are on a mission. Maybe they should seek help just as Linux Trovalds.
Apple did it right by completely cutting carriers out of the update loop. I don’t think AT&T could possibly do that even if they wanted to.
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This letter is something the modern internet and media are sorely missing - a real expert opinion instead of a flood of "armchair expert" opinions. I would always prefer one opinion of someone who does, over a hundred opinions of those who think.
AR would allow each athlete their own personal pacing grid, or ghost racer, or ideal line. You can run that on a watch or bike computer (or heads-up display), but AR would be that much more intuitive.

It doesn't apply to this one-person demonstration event, but it would sell like crazy to the gear nuts.
Are there any legal consequences if Sci-Hub is hosted in China?
This isn't about political ads, it's about silencing any politics on the platform.

There are over 80 million US downloads of TikTok as of October 2018, with an active user count of 40 million [1]. This means China's authoritarian regime is influencing the political discussion of 40m+ US citizens.

You say this ban is good, I disagree. In the US, a lack of informed political discussion is one major factor keeping young voters away from the polls. It also prevents global free speech from reaching 400 million Chinese users.

1. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/tik-tok-statistics/
Linux was something you downloaded for $0 and half the fun was tinkering on it.

Apple is a proprietary product that you pay a hefty premium compared to other available options for.

It's getting to the point where even the most full-throated Apple advocates have to admit that things are not going in the right direction, and normies are starting to bitch and moan about their Macbooks more than Windows laptops that cost half to a quarter. They really need to focus on quality, if they want to remain a viable platform.
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You clearly haven't seen my, buy/sell at random algorithm!
1. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination.

2. I just downloaded Caret (Markdown editor) from their website and used Homebrew to install a CLI tool. Nothing has changed between the current OSX and previous ones.

3. If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Store and work with them 1-1. Very rare to find anything that someone in the store doesn't know.

4. MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports.

5. If you resort to calling groups of people "condescending elitist hipster latte drinkers" then pretty sure you've lost the argument.
I have to admit, not working at a startup or FAANG-scale company, I'm amazed to see the place I work mentioned, even just as a note, on here. Fun little double-take!
> Apple 2019: plugging an external projector will most likely not work. Fanboys are very vocal that this is the fault of projector manufacturers for not ensuring that their HW works with every Apple model.

Glad I'm not the only one having issues getting my non-antialiased fonts to render properly on external monitors. Crossing fingers for 2020.
I've read articles that say that when they stress-test fighter pilots by having them do cognitive test while wearing headphones with different sounds, they usually mix in infants crying. It's one of the most distracting things for a person to hear.

For me, it wasn't when the kids started crying that was the most stressful, but when they wouldn't stop. You check their diapers, you check if they're hungry, you rock them gently, and even then sometimes they just wouldn't stop crying. After a while the noise would be so bad that I had to hand them off to my wife, and she did the same when she became too frustrated.

Funnily enough, it made me immune to other kids crying. Before I had kids I would get very irritated at noisy kids or crying infants in the subway. Now, I'm just happy it's not my kids and that it's someone else's problem!
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Mine, is that my using my soundcard could randomly freeze my machine needing a reset.
you should write a book!
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> surely it's not hard to see that people are likely to be uncomfortable to share their opinion in front of people who disagree that they should have an equal voice merely for being who they are.

But surely the same argument should apply to people sharing the current left sociopolitical theory, which uses terminology such as "privilege" (with various qualifiers such as "white privilege", "white male privilege", "straight white male privilege", etc.), or "unconscious bias", which also implies that a certain section of the population should not have an equal voice for merely being who they are. And yet it's not how it works, somehow.
Perhaps they don't care because your issues with Apple are not their issues?
Follow up post contains much more detail

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/10/chinas-new-cybersecurit...
The main reason why offices have gotten dimmer is that energy conservation codes limit the amount of power you can use for lighting. Most office type spaces are only allowed 0.9 - 1.1 watts per square foot compared to 3 watts per square foot in the past. Part of that reduction is also that lights are vastly more efficient, but designers are also incentivized to use as little lighting power as possible.

Lighting power is also tradeable among spaces. If you want to use some extra light for a fancy lobby space, you can make the office areas dimmer as long as you still come under the allowed total overall.

Energy codes are in general a good thing, but there are some tradeoffs and unintended consequences.
Using those Positive, Neutral, and Negative stability terms from PuffinBlue's comment, is the problem that we want positive stability, but the MAX without MCAS exhibits negative stability at a certain part of its flight envelope?

That is, if the pilot is holding the airplane with a constant amount of force and the airplane is climbing at a certain angle, some turbulence or other disturbance could cause the nose to pitch up, and then continue pitching up?
I don’t see how it could be a 9 because camera-wise it will be a downgrade from the 8 right? Surely for 400 you don’t get a zoom lens. Will it have night mode? I suspect not.
With cognitive impairment, older adults struggle with smartphones, computers
Neat but i think this would be more useful if it was a standalone utility that did the launching itself instead of replacing your existing shell.
They will be once their warranty is out.
> Life adapts, when it can. The rate of change you mentioned ensures that a majority of life will not be able to adapt and it's not impossible that another K-T level extinction event is already taking place.

It's also "not impossible" that a meteorite wipes us all out tomorrow. Which serious scientist is predicting a K-T level extinction event?

Serious predictions are talking about a couple of degrees over thousands of years. That's not out of the ordinary in terms of variance for life on earth right now. Sure, some species may have to migrate, some will go extinct one way or another, but not a K-T level event.
I do believe that macos is not as stable, performant or well thought out as it used to be. There are also a few recurring bugs that really annoy me (search not working in Apple Mail forcing me to reindex for example)

But, I think this article is over the top... I've never had issues with external monitors (nor know anyone who had some), I never use the App store (I oppose it on principle) and when

I've had a non standard issue with my mac, the technician proved knowledgeable and quickly figured I did know what I was doing so didn't baby talk me. It turned out to be a hardware problem but I was impressed with how well they diagnosed it.
Apparently it works as effectivley at lower doses.

Someone posted this a while back, and it goes into a lot of detail:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-...
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Youtube has no interactivity within videos. There used to be a little bit of it with annotations, but those were killed off ages ago.

Compare that to Flash video series like Homestar Runner, every episode had little Easter eggs where you could click on background characters to unlock a bonus scene about them. It really helped you feel engaged with the medium in a way unmatched by anything but full-length video games.
Apple support has always been great in my experience. They’re worth the money.
A semi-related issue I've had as well is macOS has a tendency to try and use the wrong colour space for HDMI monitors, causing everything to appear purple.
In our company at the end of the 1980s we built embedded systems based on Z80 and 8051 chips; our compilers were CP/M.
We maintained the builds from a 386i/SunOS environment using make and SCCM. The builds were done using DOS with a CP/M emulator. Builds were run from a SunOS makefile.

Cool stuff for the time.
I really like the Idea.

Since I bought a reasonably open Kobo recently, I feel the main pain point with eRaeders though is actually getting something to read on them. A dozen stores with DRM exist and the few sites without DRM naturally have limited selection.
Also reading pdfs is really not great, yet converting them seems also unreasonably hard.
So the problems seems not to be the hardware only, but the whole stack from hardware over software to content.

Still, an open eink device could be fun and can certainly be used for more than just reading books.
> Linux 2000: it is very difficult to find a laptop with more than two USB ports.

AFAIK laptops designed for Linux didn't have that problem. Nor did they have glossy screens, misdesigned keyboards, or corporal existence.
I think I know quite a lot about C and C++ (which means Modern C++ (currently C++17)), but have also worked in a lot of other programming languages (including Python, Java, JavaScript, Erlang (additionally, some further ones for university courses)). Additionally to computer science, I studied mathematics, where I also have a doctorate. I wrote my doctoral thesis about some very tricky questions about geometric structures behind optimization algorithms for discrete optimization problems. In all of these areas (mathematics, computer science, doctorate in mathematics), I either graduated with best possible or second best possible mark.

I also claim to know more about IT security than my CV suggests (I got one job interview for a job in this sector, and afterwards the interviewer told me that I have far too much knowledge in this area to be suitable for the available jobs; "you belong into academia").

The same holds, I believe, for embedded programming, where I also think to know quite a lot. Why am I so sure about it? Because as a hobby, I worked on reverse-engineering the firmware of some quite non-trivial embedded device.

I also think that I have an immense knowledge of arcane details of the instruction encodings of various CPU architectures, but this is merely a hobby of mine and useless for the job market.

--

There exist lots of people who seriously could not understand how I could not find a job as a programmer. For example quite some doctoral classmates (who could find a job in software development) called me a "wandering encyclopedia of the history of computer science".

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As I said: I found a job in a sector that is very different from software development. Just don't tell me that it is easy to find a job in software development; it isn't, even if you are willing to relocate anywhere in Germany or Austria. And I know quite some people who have the same experience.
I fully agree with you, but anyway an online game cannot be repeated once the community has moved on. For example my son says that fifa, a soccer game that gets a new version every year is not the same after one year: the whole community has moved on the next version and thus you'll be playing alone to the preceding version.
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