skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't meant to be trolling but: why would they follow the law? No one is playing by the rules and no one is being punished. Not the politicians, not the government agencies, not the banks, not big tech, not big pharma, not the schools/teachers, not the cops, not the military. No one is being held to any kind of standard....

Luckily they make up for all of this by unfairly punishing individual citizens....without connections and who can't afford a good lawyer.
Why would you want two sets of number keys on the keyboard? Except for the case of one-handed exclusive numeric input.

The biggest problem with a number pad on a laptop, is it puts the rest of the keyboard off-center from the screen. No way around that I can think of.
> perhaps this is a sign that Apple is finally interested in listening to feedback from its long-term customer base

What makes you think they stopped? You know it takes a couple years to design and ship hardware at this level (as well as to design the production lines to be able to build a few million more copies), yes?

It’s not like a web app where they can change, test, PR, and deploy in a few days or weeks or months. There is a lot of preproduction work that goes into building the kind of objects Apple is now famous for and are almost taken for granted.
Over the years I've found some really good deals on Nike's site. I'll admit I'm usually lazy and will buy from Amazon to avoid the hassle of creating an account and giving all my info to yet another company but when Nike wants to clear out their inventory of something, they're pretty generous with the discounts.
True, Google often evokes comparisons with The Matrix:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14363093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9780632
I once saw a heat map of the Macbook Pro keyboard after a while in use. Heat spiked around WEASD location. Maybe it's where the CPU is located, but the extra heat could be why those keys always seem to be the ones that go (mine were s and d, and e sometimes). But you never know..this other Macbook Pro is from Mid-2014, and keys work fine.
It seems backwards but late revision high end gaming boards have economies of scale that force the manufacturers into making stable boards to reduce RMA volume. The boards also tend to be cheaper too due the same economies of scale.

The VRM and other power delivery circuits on overclocking boards are also typically engineered to handle much higher voltages than spec.

Avoid the first revision though, which is probably good advice for any device.
I tried that too. I am getting mixed results. I have to change the way my hands and fingers move, being so used to moving the whole hand as a signal to say, "esc". I am a very tactile/kinosthetic learning, so changing the sequence my body has to move in space can really mess things up for me,

It is not working well: the very limited travel on the keys is not giving my fingers the feedback that I actually hit the "esc" key (capslock). It introduces errors.

I'd probably have to live with this laptop for a while though. I don't think the startup I work for is going to buy a new MBP for me anytime soon.

Being able to go to 32 GB will be nice though. Up until this 2019 MBP, I had seriously looked into switching back to a Linux laptop.
He misapplied science to make a point that's not supported by science, so that he could try to argue he's talking science. I'm not sure whether it was out of malice or just poor scientific reason.

As the most base example: the candidate pool for a company like Google is self-selecting. Taking research about women (which I'm accepting uncritically just for the sake of argument in this post) as a population (research which showed a very small, minor difference in certain narrow traits) and implying this tells us anything at all about the women who have applied, let alone been hired, by Google is completely unsupported by science. Women candidates, or engineers, are very far from random samples of the women population.

It was the same kind of fallacious or dishonest thinking as pointing to research that shows that white men are more likely to be serial killers and concluding that the company needed to treat their white male engineers as a threat.
She will if u have kids...
One of the things that stops a custom Linux distro from taking off is the lack of support for pro applications. If you can't run Creative Cloud natively, it's a non-started for many people in the target market.

> Thing is, Mac OS isn't as great as it used to be either.

That's 100% true. MacOS gets a little worse with each new release.

But there is still one area where MacOS shines: backup and restore. I've had the same user account on five different machines now, because I just restore from a time machine backup every time I buy a new Mac.

And I cannot think of an easier way to backup my wife's laptop than pointing it at our time machine server and letting it just work.

Time machine is the biggest thing keeping me on MacOS right now. If your fancy Linux distro solved that, I'd be very tempted to switch.
I think the primary barrier here is that, while you can assume based on IP/Locale, you don't entirely know where the customer intends on shipping the product, and therefore rates fluctuate.

It would be great to allow customers to estimate shipping as soon as possible, rather than just before clicking the "give us money" button.
They have more variants then in the past, but when compared to competitors today they still offer a more simplified lineup.
Unfortunately, even Google would concede and hand over the money because it's backed by Citi-Group. Financial institutions listen to court and state orders blindly.
> making judgments about the parent's values is a bit out of line. Some people really do just want to go to the office, put in a full day of work, and go home where their "real" life happens.

My impression, from working in one of these progressive workplaces, is that nobody is forced to interject or defend their personal opinions, or be a part of those discussions at all. Indeed, just as we have employees bringing the latest from the social justice circus to work, we also have employees who sit it out entirely. We even have a dedicated #activism slack channel, which is obviously opt-in.

So when I see complaints like the parents, my impression is the true feelings are "I want to disagree and say X but my coworkers will think I'm a bad person." Obviously, the coworkers will only think you're a bad person if you're disagreeing with them on a strongly held, deeply personal value, hence my example of LGBT rights.

There are a such thing as bad opinions. If I share bad opinions, people will think I'm a bad person. Every person's conception of bad opinions is a little different - For example, most people here agree that mass surveillance and censorship is bad, but only some people here feel that deporting DACA immigrants is bad.

Thus, I concluded the parent probably just holds vastly different values from his or her more vocal coworkers. There's nothing wrong with having different values, in fact it's quite normal. I don't know why else parent would be concerned with being labelled a bad person.
> What if your punch in, put on the blinders, work 8 hours, punch out, go home; emotionally-deatched approach has you building tools to enable censorship in China?

If I thought that the company was doing something deeply unethical then I'd quit. I'm comfortable saying "I don't want to work for a company that is complicit in X bad thing". But we have to understand that "complicit" and "bad" are not easy to define. Each individual should decide what those words mean and collectivizing these decisions is a massive mistake.

> Your employer doesn't have power over you, but you have power over them. Organization is about choosing not to exercise that power by leaving for greener pastures and letting the company rinse and repeat with the next cycle of college graduates, but by staying and choosing to influence the direction of the company in a positive way.

I don't want to "influence the direction of the company" in the way that you mean. I want to influence its culture by speaking and writing precisely and being nice. But I don't want to make the kinds of decisions you're talking about. I don't know what a "positive direction" is (I don't think you do either). We are constantly acting into an uncertain future and the idea that "the laborers are the good guys who know what's positive" is infantile. I already said what I think about that: if labor gets too much power to "influence the direction of the company," labor will abuse that power (less work, more pay). If management has all the power, management will abuse its power (more work, less pay). The answer is a balance of power and I don't think we, in software, are doing too bad.

> You can choose to do your 8 hours every day and devote a full one-third of your life - the only life you get - to someone else's work that you don't have a stake in. But that just seems like the stupid, easy way out.

If I want to take the plunge and choose what I do with 8 hours a day, I'm sure as hell not going to choose "working for someone else". By "working for someone else" I am making a very clear decision to avoid risk. I'm fine with this decision. You're trying to have it both ways. You want the control without the risk and, sorry, but you don't get to do that.
My assumption has always been that the "Pro" line is aimed at content creators. Because in lots of professional work you would want a plethora of ports which Apple doesn't give you.

When they started removing ports I use I switched to a Thinkpad T-series. It's been the perfect laptop for my use.
I still can't get over how they killed Wave while it was still extremely in beta. It didn't hurt users in the same way, but I think it clearly demonstrates their terrible decision making.

Google could've easily occupied the space where Slack, WhatsApp, etc currently exist. They had the technology, they had the team with a vision for a new standard of internet messaging. Instead they just pulled the plug within months.
Neither. We usually turn the cameras off to hide the fact that none of us got dressed that morning.
Baseball coach told kid to slide. Then he got sued
& in India.
Informative? Seems like you want to mitigate my theoretical dissent, to be honest...
You have to add velocity to the earth along it's orbit to raise it.

Would the moon do it:
Size does not matter (despite what my ex may tell you). You can accelerate a bowling ball by throwing a tennis ball at it hard enough. You can do the same with the earth and moon if you throw it hard enough.

Lets give it a whack to increase perihelios by 0.89M km so that we average 150M km and a more circular orbit. We'll need a velocity increase of about 0.33 km/s.
If we assume that it's an inelastic collision we'd need to throw the moon at the earth at about 27km/s.

It's popular to measure energy in comparison to nuclear weapons. That is about 10E14 times the energy of the most powerful nuclear bomb ever designed.

You should dobule check my calculations before sending out RFQ for your doomsday device. If you just send this out to a contractor you will run the risk of looking silly to people who know what they're doing.
Custom Object Detection on iOS
I don't think so. It pulls results from other search engines, including Google.
Hopefully this will help gather more adoption.
I personally hate the run of the mill "Portfolio" sites. I like freelancers who actually write about their work and talk about the interesting problems they have solved. Best way is to create content like Blog Posts, short videos/training materials etc. Heck, write an e-book if you can. Those are the things that will get you the best clients. I recently hired a freelance developer who literally wrote an e-book on Go and the moment I purchased his ebook and went through his quality blog posts, I knew what he could do. Didn't care about him showing me a portfolio site.
The tells are obvious and easy to spot once you know what you're looking for. The moissanite has more fire than the diamond of the same shape and cut, and the angle of the point is shallower. The angle is particularly the easiest way to tell if the setting allows you to see it. I guess in the grandparent's post the point was hidden from the jeweler.

I don't think any of this stuff really matters, btw, just get what looks good to you.
Impossible to defend’: China goes rogue with new weapon
Can you give examples of the touchbar with the scripting?

Wait, that might not work for me -- I use emacs in a terminal.
Not sure why people downvoted you originally, but I certainly downvoted you for your second edit.

Your certainty and refusal to acknowledge other points of view is condescending and annoying.

I'm a software engineer. I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. I never learned which function keys control which hardware (brightness vs volume) so have to look every time. A touch bar would suit me.

And I don't know about your workflow but most programmers I know do NOT like function key shortcuts because it requires moving fingers too far. People I know prefer additional modifiers (i.e. CTRL-R vs CTRL-SHIFT-R vs CMD-CTRL-R)
> I think that a secret ballot is fundamentally incompatible with an incorruptible voting system.

I don't understand this statement. In the following paragraph, you state yourself the problems of a non-secret ballot: "paying, or intimidating, for votes". Why do you not see that – arguably the most obvious form of a corrupt voting system" as "fundamentally incompatible with an incorruptible voting system"?

edit: fwiw, the machine described in this article uses a paper ballot, which the voter can review before putting it in the ballot box. But I assume you're arguing that the voter still doesn't know that their vote will be recorded in the official count, without a system that ties and tracks each ballot to a voter ID.
I mostly think of it as the emoji bar. It's genuinely useful for people (pros and non-pros) who type a lot of emojis to have them on the keyboard. But it's certainly not specifically a pro feature, I agree 100%.

Apple probably has better data on how it gets used than I do, but that's almost exclusively what I'd use it for if I had it.
I always wonder why "silicium" is disused in favor of silicon, given that "-ium" is used liberally today, and you made me to look it up. Apparently, "-ium" is a suffix for metal only. But when naming new/hypothetical elements that have no standard name yet, IUPAC's Systematic Element Name rules overrides it and use "-ium" for all elements, but when the name is given, the usual rules apply.
Nike Says No More Amazon
So a State government, using lawful authority, for taxes owed ordered Chase to hand over your money, and you frame this as Chase "stealing" your money? I'll acknowledge the $150 fee that you ultimately pay is high, maybe even unreasonable, but I feel like your original post was a little disingenuous nonetheless.

Your own explanation of events reads like you tried to ignore a tax liability until you gave them no choice but to seize it. If you believed it was erroneous you should have worked with the State of Indiana to resolve the error (or create a payment plan saving $150 in fees).
It was nice when I moved to California and started getting paid time and a half on Sundays, though I think that was by union contract rather than by law. It was eye opening to work in the same industry but in a "right to work" state and California.
Diamond material is already "cheap" if you just intend to use it on a drill or lens and not a prestige object. You can get a 99.9% perfect pure synthetic diamond plate bigger than your palm for like 500k, 90% of which being the new tooling for a reactor big enough to form such an object. In contrast a high quality 15 carat gem cut can easily go above $2M.
Left-handed people?

Edit: not really. I did some research and it appears they use IJKL because it's easier to reach SPACE bar with the right thumb.
Researchers Discover TPM-Fail Vulnerabilities Affecting Billions of Devices
Welcome to America, bend over.
$70/month is standard totally not collusion pricing for single line plans.
Buy her a house! A car! A macbookpro!
On the 2010 models upgrading the RAM or hard drive just involved a specific screwdriver to take the back off. It took approximately 5 minutes to do at home.

Pretty sure its impossible to upgrade the Air unfortunately.
> this person watched this, so they would also be interested in this video and this ad

That's what I meant by cross-platform linking.

> You can't make this anonymous and near as useful

I argue that you can. Anonymity is about not linking you, the physical person, to your online presence. An online presence can be tracked and profiled, without the invasion of privacy. It all depends on what data is collectable and who has access to the data. An algo provider doesn't need to also control the data it is used on, it just needs access to training datasets. There are technical solutions to all these problems, but it's a political solution that's lacking.

> Most other data is already available with a little work, providing the data you describe doesn't help competition that much.

Well if it doesn't help competition, how useful can it be?
I checked my trade in value for my 2018 MBP. $1130. Come to think of it, my 15 inch is actually pretty big, so I'll wait to get the next generation.
Brave launches 1.0
I told the spouse that I am not buying a diamond, ever, nearly 20 years ago, and I haven't. I like synthetic corundums: sapphires and rubies. I understand the synthesis process, which does not involve hired enforcer thugs and criminal exploitation of poor laborers. They are hard enough to resist scratches from most things, and they fracture conchoidally, instead of along 4 perfect planes of cleavage. I'm also good with nephrite and jadeite, which can take a pounding, due to their fibrous crystals and interlocking crystals, respectively.

The spouse is not okay with this, and makes only token efforts to hide disdain, but I am stubborn enough to die before giving a single penny to some parasitic international diamond cartel, just for a little bit more refractive index, hardness, and thermal conductivity.

We're still not a diamond-free household, though. Some have been inherited from more foolish ancestors.

We have also "mined" natural corundums at a touristy dirt-washing operation in western North Carolina. This, of course, led immediately to talk about digging up yellow/brown rough diamonds in Crater of Diamonds (Arkansas) State Park, which immediately informed me that the venomous DeBeers brain-hooks were still set. It just makes me hate the cartel more.

I think what irritates me most is that their marketing is so effective. You can show an entire feature film, starring A-list actors, about people getting brutally murdered over the diamond trade, and people will unabashedly say they still want diamond jewelry after watching. Hell, you can watch Marathon Man, and hear, "I'm afraid of dentists now, but I would also like to keep all the diamonds I can eat." They have somehow made diamonds bypass all reason, and link directly to the emotional center of the psyche, with nothing more than decades of persistent advertising.
Tech worker unions are something that's probably been a long time coming. Rather than commit subversive outbursts putting your job in jeopardy, organize. You'll be much more effective in large numbers.
So, technically, the government can't do illegal things. People working for the government do illegal things, and as they are functioning outside of their commission when they commit those crimes, they are not covered by sovereign immunity.

This is important to note as it makes it easy to diffuse responsibility for an act. The courts have more or less made it so that you must prove someone knew an act was outside of their commission and knew the act was illegal to get anywhere.
>> Injections seem like they would be off the table because they're both not free and inflict pain.

Not so I'm afraid. Antibiotic use for ag use is exploding in the developing world and that includes India.
Your suggestions are what give that icky feeling. It's creepy. People don't like creepy. You are losing costumers.
Facebook is even trying to create their own money. We really are moving towards a cyberpunk dystopia.
This is the first time I’ve ever read anything which left me thinking ‘it may be satire’ ...

Be it satire or not (which I think it actually isn’t), this is not a good sign.
Or rather, it isn't just about complainers on the net. The design seemed to have incorporated a lot of other feedback from pro users.

Something that seems to satisfy users _and_ is less costly seems to be a no-brainer business decision.
That would not be noticeable to HN people apparently

"Scientists discover it is turtles all the way down" Bad: 0.9998 - Good: 0.0002
ironically, Hawaii has no death penalty and extremely restrictive gun laws. it's a big country!
If you are one of those early users of GAE who deployed and forgot about your app, you might want to check your account for valid billing instrument.
Ask HN: What kind of projects do you use with Go language?
All services for .SM domains are back up at 101domain.com now. Thank you for your patience! - 101domain
Google App Engine (GAE) will no longer have a standard free tier
This is incorrect. Modern polling calls cell phones, and also uses online surveys. However, the fact that people get so many robocalls from unknown numbers is attributed to the decrease in overall polling response:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/27/phone-polling-cris...
*caste
None of these three links offer the same concise summary that the article provides.

I don't care if minute details aren't correct. I just wanted an overview (key word being overview) of how the entire process of internet ads work and OP delivered.

Thanks OP.
Almost half of all children live in low income families. Are we going to eliminate tax breaks for those families? And even if we could do that, it would be a ghastly misanthropic policy nonetheless.
It's the only way to continue the infinite growth model. Maximize rent seeking.
> it proves effort has been spent

Diamonds only prove that in a very narrow sense, namely in that some gemstone expert (that you need to trust) can subject the diamond to a battery of sophisticated tests in order to testify to its genuine, non-counterfeit nature.

Bitcoin's Proof of Work is trivially verifiable in comparison.
One big difference is that using Fn-keys requires me to remember which key does what. They also provide no visual feedback on what state I'm currently in. For example, I may have a Fn-key that works as stop/start, but unless I already know what's going on, I don't know what impact pressing the key will have.
I use caps lock the moment I need to type 2 consecutive upper case characters.

Reading through the comments here, it’s amusing to see how many people make assumptions about how things should be just because that’s how they work.

Someone above claimed that not being able to blind type function keys shows severe keyboard incompetence, something all trained computer typists should be able to do.

Well what about us poor souls who are trained mechanical typewriter typists? We didn’t have function keys?

The age discrimination is real!
iD, instructs the users browser to fetch an image from graph.facebook.com. The problem is that this tells Facebook that you're interested in a certain brand, if you're logged into Facebook, then FB associates the two. We all know that FB grabs and uses and assembles every bit of information that it can, even repeatidly breaking the law.

Adding a Mothercare shop on OSM shouldn't result in Facebook showing you baby/pregnancy adverts, but here we are.
You mean like when you hand a check to someone?
The 2018 MBP could be configured to 32GB. (It could not be configured to have scissor-switch keyboard of course)