skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 2015 rMBP (base model 15") that used to bike commute to work with me every day for 2 years. Now it's just used daily around the house and is still 100% as good as the day I bought it. I'm glad I worked out a way to keep the laptop from that company.

I'm at a different job now and have a 2018 MBP (usb-c only, 15" base model), less than a year old, that is used on a daily car commute (much gentler than the old bike commute) and the keyboard is giving me lots of grief. I will happily turn this one back into the company.
Just want to say that this is a fantastic effort. I wish you every success!
>If only Snopes didn't ask archive. org to scrub the entire site.

As with almost all of your other claims, a citation or source is needed.

Edit: On top of that, there are several other archive sites that do, in fact, have Snopes articles linked. So, you tell me... why would Snopes "go after" one archive site and not another?
I love sndio. I was able to write a little synthesizer for it using nothing more than the man pages. It's weird to think that I'm using OpenBSD rather than macOS for music-making, but the latter is just too complex and unpleasant to work with.
Lots of pretty good salaries for spending 6 hours a day refreshing twitter...

edit: Downvotes are warranted, I forgot to include the amount of time writers spend discussing twitter in slack.
If the collection is truly necessary to provide a service, and the consumer has decided (opted in) to use that service, it seems pretty reasonable.
Let's say that there is a population bell curve of the variable "propensity to enjoy being a programmer". One curve for men, and one curve for women. In some dystopian future, everyone takes a career aptitude test, and if an individual falls within the top 10% of the overall population, they get turned into a programmer by the government. This is assuming a perfectly-trained AI judges the variable, and that it controls against the underlying variables of societal bias in order to ensure that long-term human resources are properly allocated, and that long-term biases, informed by people's interactions with eachother, trend toward actual biological differences.

It may well be the case that the gender split is 80% / 20% male to female (as is roughly the case today). It may not. However, the left-leaning zeitgeist opinion would seem to be that this outcome is impossible, and current observed differences are only due to systematic oppression. The right-leaning zeitgeist opinion would seem to be that this outcome would make sense.

I tend to think that the left-leaning opinion on this is so wrapped up in double-think that it can't even understand itself- it tends to argue too much in favor of "biological differences would mean permanent, uncorrectable injustice, therefore it is impossible that biological differences exist."
While I think CNCF/Linux Foundations would be a better fit, I do agree that the rest should probably come under a more protective umbrella. Given the many options, MS is probably one of the better ones. Definitely wouldn't want to see Oracle step in, and while I appreciate RedHat they are much slower moving (since IBM's acquisition, and I'm not sure if for the better).
Basically all spinners on the web work by sending a request which causes the spinner to show up, waiting for a response which causes the spinner to be removed. Many of them don't handle errors which causes them to keep spinning.

A static loading message is exactly the same, while the message is on the screen the request is still pending and while it is gone it is not. The only case you are not catching is where the browser locks up and becomes unable to render the spinning which is not that common or useful.
The situation for Vivado (Xilinx) is more or less the same, Tcl for everything but terrible documentation.
Are you making the assumption that the survivors will speak English?
dawn is also a lot colder than dusk
In a way it is the same thinking that speeding drivers use. They need to get somewhere in a hurry and it is too much to be bothered and slowed down by being careful. Traffic rules as a source of nuisance. Then when an accident happens or get caught by police they will blame bad luck or everybody else.

Thinking long term (playing the infinite game) is so overrated...
Modern online advertising is more unethical, so shrug
>a stronger predictor of being a good programmer than being a woman

Of being a programmer, not being a good programmer. There are more men than women in programming, but the recruiters want to tell good programmers from bad ones, not programmers from nurses. The data clearly shows that a randomly chosen man is more likely to be a programmer than a randomly chosen woman, but that's irrelevant. The likelihood that a randomly chosen female programmer is good should be about the same as the likelihood that a randomly chosen male programmer is good, and that's what hiring managers care about.
That's like saying a knife isn't a simple tool since chefs sometimes cut themselves despite being trained to use them.
You don't have to hope for anything. You just wait until they try to carry out the action (paying particular attention to those who have previously expressed views that are likely to lead to it), and physically prevent that.

If you normalize cracking down on views on the basis that they're intolerant, the people who make that determination end up with a lot of unchecked power. In France, for example, you can be jailed for wearing a t-shirt that says "boycott Israel" today - it's hate speech. In Germany, many flags used in Rojava are banned as extremist symbols. And note that despite all these laws, RN and AfD still exist and thrive.
Worth noting that Lyrebird is very rough -- at least last I tried -- and produced extremely robotic sounding (though recognizable) audio.

This method has much clearer audio, but seems to lack generality / TTS capability.
This links to the U.S. Department of Labor's prevailing wage database. Sort by geography, then job: https://flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx
From $9Bn to $0: What Happened with Theranos
I'm curious. What do you not like about PayPal? It seems to be working well for me.
This has already happened.
They removed USB-A about a year before they should have, but now the industry has moved on. We can talk about it as a mistake in the past, but it would be wack to put USB-A back onto these devices.
I wonder how the lighting was done. The shadows are really sharp, as if they're coming from a single source, without overlaps. This really adds to the realism of the scene.
I haven't played with it for too long, but the app seems reasonably native.
You could skip some steps and install a proper ad blocker. IDK, call me old fashioned.
Rich people move in, place looses its vibrancy, everything starts to look the same, etc. Ofc, the miserable part is not true for the affluent who gentrify the place. New York is a dirty old place but sometimes something special happens naturally, when people from all over the world, from all cultures, blend in and create something, it’s very hard to describe if you don’t experience it in person. The problem is that New York’s specialness is slowly dying out
I hear some people saying that by the time it's built, rising sea levels may have already obsoleted it.
So Apple made a decent MacBook Pro again. Good. But they still haven't made things right for the lemon they sold me. My keyboard is still not working, even after I handed it in for repair twice. Now I'm expected to shell out a few more grand just to have a working f key, and Apple is not even willing to acknowledge that they for years sold faulty products to gullible idiots like me.

Would it really hurt their octibajillion dollar valuation too much to just make things right for the customers who got shafted by their broken keyboard design?
Except that doesn’t work in every other app that doesn’t understand vi keys.
Adaptive Computation Time (Act) in Neural Networks. (Part 1)
Yes. If it was just an introduction, that does not warrant an ongoing 25 percent. That kind of thing is what finders fees or referral fees are for.

However, if your friend is leveraging his relationship with the customer, and he is carrying the risk, that does warrant an ongoing percentage.

What I mean by both recognizing and paying for value serving you later is you will be participating in and learning from and how to do business at a higher level than just a simple client relationship. You too can cultivate relationships and you too can leverage them and carry risk and profit.

Value takes many forms. And when you learn to see it, pay for it, later you also can do it, and ask for payment.

Just the negotiation on this will benefit you.

Make the case referral vs ongoing customer relationship and carried risk.

You are happy to pay for the latter, otherwise there needs to be a cap on things as you will be doing the work, taking the risk and building the relationship. You should get all the income.

Everything costs something.

If he wants 25 percent, fine! You need to come to an agreement on what that pays for and all is well.

And you need to make sure those things are real, so that your own time, appetite for risk and resources are otherwise free. If they are not, then your friend is not adding value and the 25 percent is a freebie, unreasonable.

And maybe he can only add some value. That is fine too, maybe he takes 20 percent. That is the basis of negotiation right there.

Think in these terms and more deals get made with better terms and fewer hard feelings, everyone adding value, doing work, making money.

Make sense?

Also, do raise your rates. Get a client that will pay them and then find a friend with whom you can make a similar arrangement. Take care of this friend to get your percentage cut.

Does that also make sense as a future possibility?

If it does, then you now have a basis for placing value on time you free up that goes beyond billable hours. That is the next step beyond mere contracting.
I once had an account banned.

TotlolRon was the username.

“You know, when you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that’s… that’s… that’s a part of life.”
Well, successive-approximation mathematical optimization algorithms are sort of inherently anytime, in a way: you can stop after any integer number of iterations and use the approximate solution. Some of them fail to be anytime in practice, like SOR (“successive over-relaxation”) where you usually quit after like six iterations but each iteration takes a long time. And autodiff makes it a lot easier to apply mathematical optimization, in particular variants of gradient descent, one popular use of which is training deep ANNs.

Is that what you meant, or are you talking about something else?
> If github did their 2FA correctly/very securely, it may literally be impossible for them to give you access again.

This is probably the most popular current dogma in security circles. This is a policy issue not an intractable mathematical problem. In theory maybe it could be as rigorous as math but in practice security is always relative.
Who talks about child pornography enough to need an abbreviation?
I worked at a GDS and you're pretty close. There's a component of not wanting to change, but when they do they are burdened by their fragile infrastructure and thousands of competing projects. Very small changes would cause defects in one project that one customer uses. While massive bugs are ignored.
> Things change, deal with it

Things do change, but change for the sake of change isn't a good thing.

Meanwhile, I can use all 4 ports to:
- Run a display
With a dongle

- Charge my laptop
Did you need 4 ports to do this? How is this better than a magsafe connector?

- Charge a phone
Existing USB ports do this fine, and most charger cables have USB-A on one end. USB-C-USB-C cables are extremely limited in their use and are more expensive.

- Connect a drive
Again, no advantage over USB-A

Apple has "solved" non-existent problems and in exchange they've created a whole new slew of problems. Why should I have to replace all my existing cables to work with a computer? It's because Apple is designing for slim cases above all else. (So slim and delicate that resting my hand on the case while typing causes random keypresses).

I broke an early macbook screen by tripping over the charging cable. When they made the switch to magsafe cables it was to explicitly prevent this very common occurrence. They traded trip-proof laptops for the ability to plug your charger into 4 different ports. What possible advantage could that offer?
Sure, but PHP's got it's shit together lately. It's actually grown w/ the times and isn't the POS it was a decade ago w/ the 4/5 versions. 7 and soon version 8 are a lot faster, more secure, and w/ composer/laravel and the ecosystem a lot easier to build apps in. That said it's not always perfect. There's definitely something to be said of building the entire stack in JS simply because then devs only need know JS... Or use something like elixir because of performance needs.

I think hating on PERL is more of a meme than hating on PHP, and in some circles hating on JS is just as popular a meme... I mean JS is a nightmare sometimes esp. the tooling/build setups but it accomplishes things not many other languages can. Though rust+web assembly might be interesting way to skip js, but learning curve is a bit high on rust.
The spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SP3Sqqdv6R8chFamjtgd...) could use some normalization and sanitation, but this would make some very interesting data stories.

I tried to find data on media trends to cross-reference the salary data with industry revenue to get a better understanding, and the best source I could find was Pew Research (https://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/digital-news/) but it only covers Digital News.

Overall, my initial gatherings from perusing the spreadsheet are:

- Don't expect to see Software Engineer salaries in the dataset (6-figures is the exception, not the norm).

- Biggest surprise was a Reporter in Boston with a 22-year career making $62k/yr.

- The most frequent locations seem to be NY, DC, Boston, and LA (perhaps unsurprisingly), so I'm not sure how capturing that is of wider domestic and international salary information/trends for the industry.

Another question: I wonder how profitable these companies listed in the spreadsheet are, and how much their owners are making?
I installed the Youtube and Google Home apps.

However, still i see no "Google LLC" in "Settings > General > iPhone Storage".

(i do see Youtube and Google Home. But after deleting them and reinstalling Youtube i am automatically logged in again.)
Nope, and it wasn't on the list of WebKit goals that was on the front page this week.
... and now let's talk about in-house development.
Unlike the svalbard seed vault: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-s...
Ethos Capital to Acquire Public Interest Registry from the Internet Society
This reminds of of Tay from a few years ago.
To add to this, with v3 onion services you can designate your site as a single-hop rendezvous if your service doesn't need to be truly "hidden". This helps reduce latency significantly.
> aside from money

obviously people do, but considering that the tech exists, why not have an option? Also, consider that many blog posts are essentially blogvertisements anyway, and there is apparenty a market for buying upvotes here.

> you have to put a lot of work into connecting directly

That is a lot harder because people's attention is limited and the big tech cos have a stronghold on it. E.g. it's very hard to pull people away from youtube.
Big plus to regain the Escape key.

Hopefully the new keyboard is reliable.

The Touch Bar is forgettable and a row of physical function keys would be an improvement. I don't know any "pro" user who likes the Touch Bar or who wants to look down at the keys when typing or interact with a microscopic touch screen.

Still puzzled by the lack of ports for a pro laptop. It's 16" with a huge body, not particularly thin or light, and they couldn't add two USB-A, SD slot, HDMI? The age of a dozen dongles continues.

64GB RAM option is a big plus, though the prices are 2x-3x market.

Presumably the SSD is still soldered onboard, which basically makes these unrepairable and disposable premium priced laptops.

Overall far better than what it replaced, but still missing some key features from the 2015 MBP line which remains the best Mac laptop ever made.

Will be interesting to see if they ditch the 13" and move to a 14" with similar specs.
Bond's ain't VC.
FWIW I'm not. I believe the "some % of a speed tested value" covers that scenario though. It's not a hard problem.
A Practical Introduction to Kafka Storage Internals
OP never heard of a USB hub
The Politics of JavaScript
There's also:

Option 0. block no ads, publishers receive all of the applicable revenue from their preferred network

It isn't clear to me from the website what happens if the publisher is unaware or unable or unwilling to claim revenue generated through this fringe browser's alternative revenue mechanism. Who ends up with that money? Is advertising even shown? Is the user aware of whether or not the publisher is in a position to claim revenues of the ads they're seeing?

Depending on the answers to those questions, the addition of (2) could be worse for these publishers if it makes some users who otherwise would've (begrudgingly or otherwise) chosen option (0) feel morally justified in switching over to (2), converting their real (0)-derived revenues into unrealised (2)-derived theoretical revenues.
Brave hasn't rounded this corner yet, but I have to imagine that a future feature addition will be trading access to content for payments in BAT. When that happens, whether I care about the volatility will depend on the implementation. If content prices are in dollars, then yes, I suppose I have to accept some of the uncertainty that goes with the fluctuating exchange rate. If it's BAT that I trade for my content, then no--I already got _n_ tokens, they're redeemable for the same amount of content, their market value is meaningless to me. But whatever the case, I'll take it or leave it as a whole, depending on whether it's worth it to me.

> saving a few pennies on transaction costs

The transactions we're talking about (one per ad viewed) are probably in the fractions of a cent. The "few pennies" you refer to is going to be the vast majority of the overall cost of each one (supposing you use traditional payment rails). So yes, an exchange fee on the way in, and another one on the way out, would be far better.

As far as how the content creators feel about bearing the brunt of the volatility... I hate to sound callous, but as a consumer it's not my problem to consider such things. Either the industry finds a way to provide a product that's worth it to me, or it doesn't. I don't buy any other product based on how difficult it was to manufacture, I buy it based on how much it's worth to me. Why should content be any different?

The hassle of keeping track of whether I'm logged into my Washington Post account, my New York times account, etc... and on which device... will never be worth more to me than the content that those sites provide, so the only pay-for-content model I'll patronize is one that distributes my money based on how my attention is allocated without requiring me to guess today where my attention will be tomorrow--and Brave is shaping up to be exactly that.
First class, built in integrations.

While an open API is offered so anything can be integrated, nothing is going to beat custom built in integrations for user experience. Also, built in integrations are always a step ahead in terms of time to market too. Even if only by a few weeks or months, this really matters.

The example I'd point out is integration of Typescript vs Flowtype in VSCode. The Flowtype plugin maintained by the community was a good effort, but was always quite a way behind the native Typescript integration. There are more reasons for this than just technical, obviously, but that's one of the main ones.

I think, having been a user of both, the awesome native VSCode integration was a huge factor in Typescript 'beating' Flowtype. It'd be a similar idea for Azure too.
If you look at those languages closely, they are usually high-level enough that they can be mapped reasonably well to the JVM object model, or else the language itself is intentionally designed around its limitations (e.g. Scala). But something like C++ doesn't really compile to Java bytecode well.

.NET CIL is much better in that regard precisely because it was designed to be low-level enough to compile C to it - it has stuff like raw pointers and pointer arithmetic, stack-allocated arrays, unions etc. The reason why not many languages bothered is longstanding lack of cross-platform support - Mono was around for a while, sure, but it was not the official implementation, and nobody knew whether it'd still be there next year. Today that's not really an issue anymore, but by now wasm is a better choice.
Your wife might be special, but there are differences in the signalling of a diamond and gold despite their superficial similarities.

Gold is famous for holding its resale value; so a gift of gold can in theory be unwound to recover the money spent. It is a signal of wealth.

Diamonds cannot be resold, the money may as well have been burned. It is a signal of wealth and commitment. There is also the added bonus that a diamond is not going to be stolen.
Why are you suspicious of a coworker buying you lunch?
I was pretty amazed as well - frankly I'd much prefer buying direct with apple pay than through amazon
Nope, included is a guide to learn english via Rosetta Stone.
I'm not a firefox user (edit: currently anyway; more below on that), but the firefox version on openbsd 6.5 is 67.0.4, and firefox-esr 60.8.0 and 60.9.0, for what it's worth. I need to upgrade to obsd 6.6 sometime, and that probably has a later version (checking... I see on the obsd 6.6 packages lists both firefox 69.0.2 and firefox-esr 68.1.0 and 68.2.0. In the last release cycle, obsd has made package upgrades easier between the 6-monthly system releases, but I don't know if that would meet your needs exactly.

For me, the point is as described elsewhere on this discussion (search for "lcall"): obsd is really good at isolation of users, and limiting potential damage by processes within a user's space, which I think of (at least on obsd) much more reliable than what a browser would do alone. So, I do my browsing in a user account that doesn't have access to the most important other things. If I do something like banking, I do that in a separate user account that does only that or only things at that level of security, separately from general browsing. And I mostly have images/javascript turned off when I do general browsing.

In my comment history there is another about why I use Iridium (or chromium sometimes) instead of firefox, with a question where you might know more than I.

(At my site lukecall.net , in the page footer is my email address if you have questions later that I might be able to answer.)

edit: ps: the way I separate users does involve extra work though, but now that the work is done I like it.
> If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta.

100% agreed. It was cool at the time. Now Google has so fundamentally changed and I don’t trust them with my data anymore, but it is a Herculean task to move everything off Gmail. Literally hundreds of accounts are bound to my Gmail.
Nextcloud is a wonderful bit of FLOSS, been using it for years now.
's all cool, dude, countering their spin while minimally signal boosting it is why I'm commenting in this thread.

Have a skim through chromatic's Modern Perl when you're bored and see if it gives you ideas :)