skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that looks really impressive! One thing I was struck by though was how "outdated" the phones recommended in the FAQ seemed to be - even though they're only a few years old.

What are your thoughts around working on a project that (very obviously) has value, but where you're inherently always chasing a target that's moving at breakneck speed in multiple dimensions - phone hardware, software, capabilities, feature set, etc?
Why would you try it? Some of us lose money when our machines go down. Apple is supposed to represent quality, but that hasn't happened in so long that if your machine is the machine you make money on, you wait to hear what other people are encountering.

Thanks for being my beta tester!
As long as Citizens United is upheld, despite how extreme this may seem I actually agree with it. Provided there was a sufficiently high bar for proving "an obvious financial incentive for them" (I see that as the most tricky part). Of course it will never happen and I'd rather just have C.U. thrown out, but it's a decent thought experiment.
Typing passcodes? Taking a long lunch? A ton of things come to mind.
TLDR; The author hasn’t upgraded, and while they have some well-founded concerns they haven’t actually used it.

It’s going to be difficult to make anyone happy with this release that has already decided they don’t like it.
Psychohistory is pure fiction. The closest real equivalent is economics and economic predictions are essentially always wrong. I don't remember where exactly, but I recall reading that someone had done a mass study on economic forecasts and discovered that the only time they're correct was when they were predicting a continuation of whatever the current trend line was. Forecasting never managed to predict an actual change to the status quo, making such forecasts useless.

We can't even measure GDP accurately in quarters already passed, let alone predict what it will be in future, and surely predicting the movement of GDP is the most basic task a psychohistorian could possibly set themselves.
Um, have you recently eaten something purchased from Amazon?

The previous poster clearly means that it is bad that negative reviews can't effectively convey information to consumers on Amazon. I'm sure they don't mean to defend Amazon or suggest that it is not culpable.
I dont think drivers can see how much you tip on average, and you get rated before they see how much you tipped for the trip.
Honestly? Too much effort finding a tailor friendly enough to make it (and perhaps not charge exorbitant amounts of money). And my wife most likely wouldn't approve me walking in it daily around our small town.

(And, I don't feel I meet Starfleet standards of excellence, so I don't deserve to wear one.)

Some 12 years ago I got together with a group of folks, intending to shoot a fan Star Trek series. We got as far as the dialogs, some CGI work, green-screened bridge set, few props and... few uniforms. One of the folks had a friendly tailor who was willing to make them, but as a ~18 years old, I didn't have the money, and eventually drifted away from the project. I still regret that. After I left, I think they've managed to release a long trailer, and then the project died.

These days, I scratch my Trekkie itch by figuring out how to make LCARS interfaces actually ergonomic for real-world uses.
> If you are a Google engineer, you can go work for literally anyone else if you feel you are underpaid and exploited.

Must be a recent development if this[1] story is true. It only took a few lawsuits too and far from the first problematic agreement they had to end, so very employee friendly and free market oriented.

[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/google-ends...
This is because the higher up members in SAG-AFTRA were complicit themselves. The management of the union are management themselves, which is what a lot of people seem to miss. Who watches the watchers?
Reliability is what sells me on electric supply. Take that away, I will find something more reliable, and I will make the investment in local, personal generation if there isn't a source.
Google Image Search "Classic men's fashion" (I'm assuming you're a guy), get some ideas there. Then find a good tailor and bring the pics to him. As a lanky westerner living in Asia, it's pretty much impossible for me to buy "off the rack" clothing in any style I would want anyway. So I've settled into infrequent purchases via western companies with granular sizes/fitment, or even-less-frequent trips to a tailor.

These days, a man can get made-to-measure shirts for ~$50/each. Ten of those in different colors will last you 5+ years and not go out of style. Four made-to-measure suits at $300-$400 each should be good for 10 years. I think Brooks Brothers and JoS.A.Bank have decent shirts and slacks, if you really wanna stick to store-bought stuff.

For casual/outdoors wear, add some Patagonia, North Face, or basically any law enforcement supplier (5.11 Tactical, Propper, LA Police Gear). Rugged clothes that will also last a decade. A fleece pullover, a moisture-wicking Polo shirt, and a pair of khaki tactical pants is the 21st-century "Plaid shirt and bluejeans" IMO...

https://www.propper.com/
They removed Raynor’s cigar in some situations, and removed some skeletons in WoW, both for Chinese audiences.
>Are disabilities not a protected class?

Ok, I see your confusion. Yes, disabilities are a protected class. However, being in a protected class does not provide the job candidate a free license to be rude and force other employees to suffer their rudeness.

And likewise, black race is protected class -- but the law doesn't require employers to hire "a black rude person".

Same for women or older-aged job candidates. Being a rude and disrespectful 65-year old female job candidate means the company can still reject on the grounds of being rude. This separation of reasons is allowed and is exactly how the discrimination laws are spelled out:

- may not Discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or political affiliation.[1]

Note that Equal Opportunity Employment does not protect on the basis of rudeness. There are plenty of black applicants to hire who are not rude, and likewise, plenty of ADHD/ADD/Asperger applicants who are not rude that can be hired.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/no-fear-act/protections...
Making all your processes wait on a lock is multithreading 101. The horrible part is the specific way this lock is getting held, which is not useful.

And there are simpler ways to prevent all access to a drive.
Bopomofo was phased out as the official transliteration system in the PRC in 1958 and replaced by Pinyin. Most Mainland Chinese probably won't be able to read Bopomofo. And if you're going to use an alphabetic writing system like Pinyin, you might as well use the original orthography and skip the need for transliteration altogether.
What about all the iCloud bugs? https://tyler.io/broken/
Sorry for stating the obvious, but.. if you have to slam on the brakes when approaching an intersection, you are driving too fast. :)
I find it slightly annoying too, especially when an upgrade breaks the command line tools, or homebrew, and make me lost a few GB of SSD space. The last upgrade made me lose about 30 minutes of my day to fix a few issues. And I didn't notice much changes, besides the welcome screen picture, and that something changed with itunes, which prevented me from using it.

So overall, I tend to think that there are too frequent upgrades and that I don't need them. But overall, I'm still a satisfied mac user so I give Apple the benefice of the doubt.
U.S. Government, Military Personnel Data Leaked by Autoclerk
>> And unions don't seem to drag the salaries of other high earners (actors, screenwriters) down.

This absolutely happens in MLB/MLBPA. Players are not allowed to negotiate most types of incentive-based contracts that would align interests of management and players to give them higher possible pay, amongst other methods of capping pay to improve standards for average professional athletes.
>I avoid arbitrary web browsing on my Linux laptop and just use it for coding.

What makes web browsers less secure on Linux than on macOS?
Main cause for data breaches in the U.S.? Humans
If the cost of hosting a "non-purchasing" player was less than the expected revenue of hosting N non-purchasing players, they wouldn't make a freemium game.

There's no version of "I am gonna stick it to blizzard" that is concordant with "while continuing to enjoy their products." It's just rationalization because people want to minimize the cognitive dissonance that comes with maintaining their routines.
Catalina does break a lot of games. I am pretty sure that if you get on Steam, the list of games that Catalina breaks is longer than the list of games that work on Catalina.
Skippy's email is worth reading.
I started using DDG after Google settled the lawsuit with Getty Images. The "view image" button is incredible handy.
All U.S. citizens need to realize that publicly traded companies are NOT U.S. companies.

Where the company was founded, has it's headquarters or where most of it's employees reside is irrelevant, these publicly traded companies should be thought of solely and only as International entities.

Now looking at What Tim Cook is doing makes perfect sense, and frankly isn't news worth.
Any comments about Encrypt.me as a NordVPN alternative?

It looks much more reliable. (from their website; the team's CV's; etc -> i.e.: no hard evidence)
This doesn't scale.

Even investors and economic agents can't be said to behave this way, and their incentives to put in the effort are much more immediate and explicit.

Few people have the time, resources, patience, persistence, and expertise even figure out whether any single thing a single source said is true. (Imagine someone makes a single claim backed by a mountain of "true" data, but ignores some problematic data. Time, a little domain knowledge, and patience might suffice to validate the ground-level truth of what they did cite, but I'm not sure anything short of domain expertise will be able to view it in light of everything it didn't cite.)
> but I also have to believe the designers at Apple are trying to make things better

Except they're not trying to make things better. They're just changing things - often ignoring their own UI guidelines to do so - and introducing bugs that cause data loss at the same time.

Updates shouldn't cause data loss - especially for something as critical as email.
Surplus value extracted from labor is the literal definition of why you hire employees. If there wasn't surplus value, you wouldn't do it.
My mother bought a spinning rust iMac two years ago, sold to her as a "fast" machine. It was not fast. It took 15-30 seconds+ to do the most basic of tasks. It was unusable. I did what I could to remove background tasks and it was still painful to work on. She hated it.

I cloned the drive onto an external SSD with no other changes. Immediately she had a usable machine, and she now enjoys using it again.
The author is not Chinese. It is common for people who study a foreign language to get a passion for things that to them seems more authentic.

For example, many learners of Japanese consider English loan words inferior to Sino Japanese words, even though in modern Japanese, they are equally Japanese.
UK person here. Many (most?) people would say you were "Asian" of you were from anywhere in Asia apart from the Indian subcontinent.
This is as useful as trying to to throw out the water from a sinking boat, instead of attacking the root cause of fixing the leak. You're simply slowing down the inevitable if you don't act accordingly.
... provided they have money.
He also hasn't installed Mojave. Was that not worth the trouble, either?

It's a pretty typical graybeard rant about the halcyon days. Except since we're in 2019, replace System 7 with Snow Leopard.
I read Knuth's Volume 3, Searching and Sorting back in the 70's when I was a new grad student, it's great.

I now own the second and latest edition of this volume, but it is now over 20 years old. I recommend all of Knuth's publications.

Is Search and Sorting dated? Well, it is quite old. The fold out chart of tape merging patterns for different tape based sorting algorithms doesn't really come up very often anymore. It's been over 40 years since I've had to write programs that worked with mainframe tape drives.

Although AVL trees are covered well, there is no coverage of red-black trees or splay-trees.

Hashing is covered extensively, but there is no discussion of more modern hash table methods (like Cuckoo Hashing or Robin Hood Hashing or the power of choice results).

Furthermore, the basic hardware model used by Knuth in volume 3 assumes uniform costs for memory access. Cache sensitive algorithms aren't considered in volume 3 but are very important today.

Even quicksort, which I learned by studying Volume 3, now has what I consider to be a more modern treatment in Sedgewick and Wayne's Algorithms, 4th Ed.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for AWS cost analysis and rightsizing?
I'm currently using a number of tools for different clients and companies but I find them all lacking in various ways. Looking at the available tools, I wonder if there is anything out there that makes people really happy.

I'm mostly aiming for the tools that do something like billing analysis and rightsizing based on CUR (cost and usage report) and inventory (API read calls) to find out what you have, how much you use and which part of the inventory is responsible for what part of the bill.

So far, most tools are either scope creeped beyond usefulness, expensive beyond potential savings or outdated and will not work with new instance types, CUR or inventory at all.

I've looked at:
- CloudHealth (seems the most complete but also rather expensive for small bills)
- CloudCheckr
- Ice
- Claudia
- AWS Cost Explorer
- CloudForecast
- Metricly
- Cloudability

While I know there probably isn't a universal tool for everyone and there have been a lot of lists and discussions over the last few years, I haven't found a good user-curated list or reference. Some experiences form others would be very welcome.
Mail on Catalina has no visual difference to me, but this may be because it preserved my layout. now itunes being broken up into multiple apps was more annoying
Be nice if phones had a standard BIOS and allowed a competitive selection of operatings systems. Worked well for PC's in the end and Linux being one of many alternatives testaments that.
They are a thing. Find a local tailor. (They often hide out at dry cleaners, but not all of them are good :) OK, that will be more made-to-measure than bespoke - the difference there being that bespoke comes with a master tailor who does a really exhaustive initial consult on what patterns work for you, what fabrics work best, what specific cuts to choose, etc, while m-t-m is more "we measure you, you get a standard tshirt". It'll still be lightyears better than anything you get in a shop.

I'd expect you'll be in the range of $100 per tshirt, +/-

And yes, of course you get to choose a fabric, that's the point of bespoke :) It's also the major cost factor. Depending on your taste, there are some expensive fabrics to have.
Note you can get (very) old ThinkPads for a pittance which will be a much better platform for running Linux. Many actually prefer the T420/X220 for its keyboard and the performance is not as bad as one would think from the eight years passed since its release. As https://www.hardocp.com/article/2017/01/13/kaby_lake_7700k_v... attests from Sandy Bridge (2011 ThinkPad) to Kaby Lake (2017 ThinkPad) IPC only grew by 20%, the big changes were in efficiency allowing the move from 35W CPUs to 15W CPUs. Also, if you are just slightly handy, you could use the T430/X230 with the old keyboard hacked onto them. If you are even more handy, you could install a converter board and a full HD screen. If you are doing this to a T430s with an i7 CPU without an nVidia GPU you even get Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt 1 for sure but still, a converter allows you to attach TB3 devices. A T430s hacked so is basically the poor man's ThinkPad 25 which is the pinnacle of laptops. (Not counting the T480-ThinkPad 25 Frankenpad which is nuts.)
Additionally, it's the hypocrisy of a global icon. There is a cinematic in the video game NBA2k that truly puts it into light [1]. James' production company helped write and produce it, they're his words.

It hurts, and is terribly disappointing.

[1] https://streamable.com/jxkz0
Nobody wants to lend a poor person a large sum of money the fact that you are presently poor is sufficient proof that you are a bad risk.
I thought this post was going to be about stability. It is _not_ stable. That's the biggest problem.
I have not been, but how is this different from lockers with electronic locks? I don't consider that anything resembling a robot.
If there were a free version we can play with, I think this post would get much more interest.
As I understand it, with Purism, if you want to "pick it up in January" you'd better order it now! People have waited more than 3 months for theirs.
I think this is a legitimate question. There's two main things smartphones and PCs have in common, but both are arguable:

1. They do the same things. Both are general purpose computers. For some use cases, they both work fine.

2. They're about the same cost: ~$800 or so. But that's comparing flagship smartphone costs with entry-level desktop PC costs.

I suppose from hte perspective of a large company, a smartphone sale seems like it might be more or less valuable than a desktop PC sale depending on a variety of factors. So I think it's safe to say they are similarly comparable in that sense.
I don’t use iTunes for audiobooks (I had an audible subscription that went unused and I finally unsubscribed, I’ve realised that I prefer reading physical books), but there’s this free OSX app called AudioBookBinder[1] that can bind a set of mp3 files into an m4a file and add it to iTunes as an audiobook. That might help in this case.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiobook-binder/id413969927
Public power -- public utility districts -- very often do better. Sacramento gets power from one, SMUD.
I have firefox with DoH enabled and it still works with the companies internal domain names. I'm pretty sure nothing breaks because of the fact that it falls back to regular dns if the lookup fails so internal domains still resolve.
I wouldn't say that Chinese should hold strong opinions on how we run our country, either.

But for what it's worth, the average educated Chinese knows far more about America than vice-versa. These threads are great evidence.
So union stewards get paid by the company to work on union work? Why doesn’t the union pay for that time?
!g doesn't load googles results on duckduckgo's page, it just forwards you to the appropriate google page. A quick test suggests the format is

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=<query>

(Google might have redirected me after whatever ddg directed me to, but just using this format should work)
I have a question: I'm doing an ambitious Web site startup; current status, rushing to alpha test; and from this thread and more I wonder about servers and our server farm and in-house network, that is, for the options here, in-house, co-location, AWS, Azure, etc. I'm using Microsoft's software, Windows, .NET, SQL Server, etc.

Q. For many of the reasons given in this thread, etc., I'm leaning to having our own in-house servers, server farm, etc. For that, is there a source of information I will be able to use, say, as consulting, depending on the issue, an hour, day, week, month at a time, to get us past the chuckholes in the road on the usual work -- system and network planning, installation, configuration, monitoring, diagnosis, correction, etc.? E.g., can I just call Microsoft for such issues, CloudFlare, VMWare, Cisco, etc.? Assume that money to pay for the products and consulting will not be a problem.

If the broad answer is "Yes", then that will take a lot of entries off my TODO list and let me sleep better.

Thanks.
> Exchanging data for value will be normal and young people will ask how it ever could work without that.

How is this different from using a credit card to e.g. purchase a streaming movie? Is it just more seamless? Or does the fact that there isn't a centralized bank behind the transaction somehow significant for the consumer or business?

(I'm really just trying to understand this btw)

> Kids will aks if it's true that back in the days people who inserted data into the internet had to pay for it and not the people who consumed the data.

If I understand correctly, the current situation is that there are free services where you can upload/insert data, free services where you can download/consume—and there are paid services for both too.

Could you elaborate on what the difference would be there? Anyone who creates/hosts content does so for free, and the people who consume it always pay?
> That reads less like a reasonable, well-thought breakdown and more like a whiny diatribe coming from an entitled teenager.

A customer is legitimately entitled to upgrades that aren't actually downgrades.

> Apple isn't forcing anyone to upgrade at all.

> Just don't act surprised and attacked when it doesn't work anymore years from now.

Well... if Apple isn't forcing people to upgrade now, but will later, then there's still grounds for complaint.

An unhappy customer always has the right, nay, duty, to publicly complain until the business changes its behavior.
It doesn't seem clear at all that having many different kinds of Western Europeans makes for a "highly homogeneous" culture compared to neighboring countries that generally have only one kind of Western European.
> I've never used uber or lyft, so I'm not sure how their apps work

What country are you in? I'm curious what percentage you are compared to working adults in your country because "never used Uber" in my social circle/area is very close to "living under a rock"
Thanks for the support.

We have more than Tux Racer. There are a lot of games without DRM and with full offline single-game experience, like for example the excellent Factorio. Factorio isn't without issues either, because it isn't free software. It is only released as a x86-64 binary, so when I get rid of my x86-64 desktop and switch to then hopefully RISC-V or POWER, I won't be able to run Factorio. Still, this is much better than anything Activision Blizzard offers. There are many other games like that.

Also, for many consoles the software works in emulators and are outside of the control of any company.

Yet, we need free software. There is no way around it.
Is that a startup thing, because i've only worked for the big 5 (GAFAM) and I've always worked 40 hours a week. Add in the way higher comp, and I don't know why anyone outside of founders work at startups.
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