skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Below replacement birth rates in 1st world societies seem to disprove the idea that humans inevitably expand to the point of environmental collapse.

Or they're a warning sign of it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/sperm-cou...

> As new data emerge, however, many scientists now believe sperm counts have indeed fallen—and continue to fall. As a story in GQ noted earlier this year, a widely cited study published in 2017 by researchers from the Hebrew University and Mount Sinai’s medical school found that among nearly 43,000 men from North America, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, sperm counts per milliliter of semen had declined more than 50 percent from 1973 to 2011. And not only that, “but total sperm counts were down by almost 60 percent: We are producing less semen, and that semen has fewer sperm cells in it,” wrote the GQ contributor Daniel Noah Halpern. When Halpern asked several scientists why, they presented a united front: It was the unprecedented amount of chemicals now routinely entering the human body.
They are explicitly political. Not only that, they still happen, only became illegal due to political pressure, are not illegal everywhere, and are just two examples from many you can obviously think of.
my thoughts exactly. seems theyre going the wrong way size-wise. rather have 14". drop the 15 AND the 13, imo. reduce skus, improve profit.
Sears was ahead of its time but then never embraced technology. Makes me wonder where they'd be now and what they would be offering if they did.
FOR THAT YOU JUST TYPE WHILE YOUR LEFT HAND PINKY IS RESTING ON SHIFT!
I absolutely hate this sentiment.

Technical people know about this stuff, and designed it to trick people who don't know about it into thinking it's benign. But sure blame the user. Seems to be a favored go-to for Facebook.
Even as an emacs user, the answer is generally "No, I don't really use the function keys".

I mean, you're right that I use them to change brightness or change volume. But the touch bar can still do that, so... Meh.

It would probably be awkward to use for about a week, and then I'd get used to it. So it's kind of a whatever.

I do agree it's a dumb gimmick though, and is unlikely to offer anything more than the meme of running Doom on the touchbar.
Nitpicking the title:

The article title says "abalone" which can mean any of several species here in California:

The article is concerned with WHITE abalone making a comeback [2]. These are "Critically Imperiled" per their species status.

RED abalone are doing fine in California [1] with an "Apparently Secure" species status, and Cal Dept of Fish & Game will close down fishing when they need to, in order to allow for recovery.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haliotis_rufescens

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haliotis_sorenseni
Physical keys, period. People seem to not know that keyboard shortcuts have existed "forever" because they're faster than mousing about-- no need to look where you're pointing, or where to target on a touchscreen that lacks tactile feedback. They come with "muscle memory" and they don't change position based on context.

Learn keyboard shortcuts, and no one needs a touch bar.
"I wonder who is signing a 20mm contract that started from a YouTube ad??"

This is just a super common misconception among engineers that advertising is a very linear thing. Most ads are not direct response. Most of the time they're just trying to keep at the top of mind for specific groups of folks. So yeah you aren't going to just run out and buy a 20 million dollar piece of software because of a Youtube ad, but when it comes time to buy a solution in that space I bet you'll consider that product. When you think about the scale that this works at (It costs maybe a penny a view or $10 per thousand people reached) you really only need to hit 1 person at the right time across many millions upon millions of impressions to make it worth while. That's all. Many people just don't appreciate the scale of advertising and think it's more sniper rifle rather than carpet bombing especially for large B2B purchases.
We’re tourist hot spots ever all that special? Travel is still amazing, lame spots are now super lame :)
What software are they using for both of those?
You would be surprised to see prices for mobile Internet in Russia
Clojure scores exactly the same.
I dunno about that. If you're buying whatever's on sale, yeah, you're at the whims of the stamp-it-out gods. But I build a lot of PCs and Gigabyte, for example, has been consistently reliable across...five or six generations of Intel chips? Plus some AMD builds in there. Absolutely zero failures.

Anecdotal, but it also seems to line up with most of what I hear out there.
None of this is true. His "rant" was a well researched memo with extensive links to state of the art research. You should actually read the real thing, once, instead of the maimed version published by the guardian.

But honestly it's better if you don't know, you're better adjusted to living in this world by remaining ignorant. Just keep reading Vox.
> MagSafe charge adapter

we all want that, but apparently its not coming back
Things we are running out of
What is the expected value-added Google intends to provide the banks?
Nope. I'm just not a very good writer. How I know that's not an affectation is that I can't remember ever once thinking about using a semicolon; they just happen.
No headphone jack, which is big for me. If I was willing to ditch the headphone jack I'd just get the 11 Pro.
Thinkpad on mobile system 76 on desktop.
We recently moved to a large-ish (but not huge) city and since I would be working downtown we looked at becoming urbanites (easy commute, can get rid of one of our cars, proximity to restaurants, shopping, things to do, etc.).

Then we discovered that urban accommodations for a family of 5 do not exist at any price (and small 3bdr apartments can be had but are hard to find and extremely expensive). So, into the suburbs we went. The only people that seem to live in/around downtown here are either young singles (with good jobs, given the costs) or homeless.

Maybe when the kids move out and I'm close to retirement, but then I'd rather live in a shack on/near a beach somewhere, so nah...
> due to the rise of teleworking. No longer do people grab a drink after work.

I spent 7 years teleworking and had no problem grabbing a drink after work. Now that I have to physically co-locate with cow orkers I can't do that because (a) I'm driving and (2) they want to join me.

Drinking alone is the best kind of drinking.
I agree about having fewer workers stacked with upgrades seems to be the "meta" but I found that the upgrades don't seem to stack linearly. For example, one Dev with 51x mechanical keyboards is not significantly faster than 2x Devs with 1x mech. keyboards each, and costs orders of magnitude more $.
Upcoming Python Open Source Libraries Q4 2019 Edition
One hundred years from now, while Google surveils us 24/7, psychologically brainwashes us from birth, and sends the occasional Google drone to terminate users who violate ToS, you'll still have people on Hacker News bitching about Reader.
Guild Education Raises $157m Series D
So the software is improving by leaps and bounds but where is the hardware?

OpenCL --> deprecated

Cuda --> No Nvidia GPU

ROCm/HIP: does it work on Mac or are you strong-armed into using Apple Metal?

Metal --> I couldn't find an AXPY example
>This paper estimates the cost at ~$2.25B/year, and notes that more than 50 countries have military budgets exceeding $3B

An utterly meaningless comparison. None of those countries are going to simply stop spending all of their money on their military overnight.
I don't think there's any saltwater invertebrate that isn't delicious when breaded and deep fried.
When I first heard about Zuck's quote I agreed with one of the commenters below who views it as an adolescent gaffe.

But in the years since, it's become clear that Facebook is not a trustworthy platform. It is, in essence the social credit score AND great firewall of the US (and much of the world).

No data in Facebook is off limits to governments, period. Think about the many trillions of crimes that have been committed where solid evidence (even confessions) is on Facebook's servers.

It's just a matter of time until Facebook's data is used for law enforcement and profiling in ways that dramatically violate the 4th amendment and human rights in general.

We learned recently that two Twitter employees had been Saudi agents. I think it ought to be considered obvious that most state actors have various employees in key roles in major tech firms, so it doesn't really matter what Facebook's official policies are with respect to warrant compliance, crime preemption, etc., state actors have access.
Windows is a dumpster fire https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEkeonCW4AE2HHb.jpg
But they use "custom encryption technology" to solve a problem they have created themselves.

I cannot see how you can not be happy about that. This is definitively not a lie or something.
As the meta key, i.e., hitting ESC then x for M-x.
More reputable source (Handelsblatt):

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u...
Why Debian?
Those full sized arrows on current 15” MacBooks were driving me crazy! It’s great to see them put half sized left and right arrows back! I’ll Definitely b buying it
Thank you for summarising and thx to OP for publishing his work. The combination of both was a nice opportunity for me (and others?) to learn something from mistakes. :-)
If I were Mark Zuckerberg, the sticker is the solution to my laptop camera, and buying up all of the adjacent houses is the solution to neighbors

http://money.com/money/4346766/mark-zuckerberg-houses/
Good article but it didn't mention predation from sea otters. At one point otters were almost hunted to extinction for their fur, and that allowed abalone populations to flourish. Now sea otters are protected and have stable populations in some areas so they're back to eating a lot of the abalone.
I hate acronyms. I hate them even more when I found them in
articles with no reference about what they stand for.
Just one reference at the beginning of the text would
suffice. That should be a rule in writing articles.
Without it, it makes it more difficult to learn
something new and it makes the whole text losing
intellectual integrity.
I like the macbook pro's keyboard out of the box. The low-travel clicking feels ideal to me, for maybe that first week.

Of course, my issue is that they have some sort of internal catastrophic process failure if they were able to release a keyboard that fails so consistently. It wasn't just bad design, it was a process that seemingly did zero testing behind some Apple employees typing "hello world" on a ground floor clean room and going "yep, seems good."

I look forward to see how the 16" MBP shakes out. I can believe that they redesigned the keys, but not that they fixed a gaping hole in their fundamental processes responsible for a dud keyboard that they had no idea how to fix.
“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”
Finally an upgrade worth of replacing my 2015 rMBP 15.
By finding a bug or oversight in how the dialog was implemented.
Sure but I couple my experiences with what I've read on what it's like there, and well what more can one do? I probably could apply for a job there but that seems a bit of an extreme move :D
People don't mind buying from a vendor's site directly but the vendor should do their best to reduce the admin / pain of doing so.

Some tips I wish vendors would follow:

1. Don't capture more information than is absolutely necessary for the transaction.

2. Don't force the user to sign up or join anything if they just want to buy something.

3. Don't automatically add the user to your newsletter and send their details to your ad network. Be very explicit that you won't do this.

4. Tell the user up front how much postage will most likely cost and expected delivery time before you capture all their details. You can guess their general location from their IP address of have them select a city.

5. Have multiple payment options (like paypal for example), not just credit card.

6. Up front, tell them what you need from them before they can complete the transaction. Nobody likes working through an endless data collection wizard only to stop half way though because you don't want to give up that data or get bored filling things in.

It's really not that complicated.
Please pass this memo on to people who feel the need to animate UI elements to hide laggyness, and then animate into and out of a loading screen (eg. Loading an app on Android).
Mass media does cover outages.
no, just usb-c
The Remote Work Report by Zapier
> You can not have lazy evaluation without referential transparency, and you can not get referential transparency with mutable variables.

"… allowed to up­date the unique ob­ject de­struc­tively without any conse­quences for referential transparency."

Uniqueness Typing

https://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/html_report/CleanRep.2.2_11....
They're not saying AEAD has anything to do with PFS. They're saying that the only encryption they have is (at best) the AEAD, without a kex.

The sketchy, home-grown AES-CBC isn't "kind of bad". It's unauthenticated CBC. That's completely broken.

You don't PR a VPN from cryptographically secure to cryptographically sound. The cryptography is most of the point; if it isn't there, it's not going to get there by committee.
Most computer users aren’t hardcore users. Of course not scientific, but I know a lot of users that are intimidated by strange FN keys and are glad the touchbar clearly labels the current function of the virtual keys. We as HN crowd and hardcore freaks need to accept that no major hardware company can survive by delevoping for us niche users.
Evil escape and binding esc to fd or jk is a game changer
This is what I am hoping. As a MBP 15" user I don't want something any bigger (even just a few mm bigger). I want something in the current 13" models size just with more screen/less bezel.
There are still a lot of people who could afford to live in an urban core but choose not to.
> Personally, I like controlling the brightness and volume with Touch Bar. If anything, it makes the adjustment more precise.

FYI, holding shift+option moves brightness and volume in 1/4 increments.
Estimate value is replacement value from a store. (Mostly for insurance). People think it's "new" and "never worn". And stores have very high margins.

But, if you buy wholesale/used the buy/sell will be closer together. The issue is people think "used" stones are tainted for some reason. Divorced? Bad luck!

It's like a gold band. It might cost $600 in the store. But, really the cost is the weight of the gold (~$50). But, you can buy/sell it at $50 all day.
Wholly agree. Although I may take a pass on these guys if the opportunity presented itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

::shudders::

Edit:
Update... Well somebody went there:

https://soranews24.com/2014/03/12/dinner-is-served-get-your-...
Go to "Settings > General > iPhone Storage".

On the list of apps you will see "Google LLC". This is where Google stores account data and this is shared with all Google apps.

Under Google LLC it says "Data shared by X apps".
I don’t think Apple improved the front facing cameras on phones because of face time. I think it was because selfies became popular.

Perhaps better cameras would be thicker than screen currently has room for? I don’t really know how thick they would be.
The touchbar is basically the 2010s equivalent of old-school function key overlays: http://www.hamstuff.com/Overlays/overlay.htm

It does also provide some useful feedback as it can display things, too.
I can reach it from the starting row (ASDF) of my left hand without moving it. This might be more impactful to people with small hands.
Also not a lawyer, but check what country you're in before you try this. In countries like the UK, many more things are insider trading than in the US.
There's userspace WireGuard in Go.
I was about to disagree before I realized with my Precision 5520 (analogous to XPS 15) the left hinge is broken and my battery is dead, and they both broke after about a year.

I don't know about the battery but the hinge was certainly a problem with the line in general, since it was a flimsy plastic thing unable to hold the weight of the 4k screen it came with...I'd be a bit surprised if that hasn't been fixed in the around 2.5 years since I bought it though.
Same here. One morning I came downstairs and found laptops vents working on full. I left it on the table in sleep mode the previous evening. Laptop was extremely hot, luckily there weren't any papers underneath. After that the fans were constantly on full, often the CPU even locked itself on 0.78GHz and needed to be restarted to stop the throttling. They then replaced the mainboard, CPU, but it seems it's still overheating.
VC means Venture Capitalist
Drinking alone is one of the tell-tale signs of alcoholism.
I read the whole thing word for word. I recognized the language and wording from scientific racism tracts. I also tracked down his fundraiser which I haven't seen covered in the news.
Agreed.

The idea that a social network is better or of a higher quality simply because there are more bodies around you is a false premise. This sweeps aside the idea that people may prefer a lower density social network where each party mutually seeks another out as opposed to forced through proximity.
IDK but I know for a fact that I can comment with the same message in different ways and get upvoted or downvoted accordingly just by wording the the comment differently
> One way Apple has become a trillion dollar company is by minimizing skus.

One way. The other is, if your computer breaks you either upgrade or spend a lot to have it repaired by Apple.
There's no downside in using non soldered down ram and storage, it's just the nth lock in strategy.
Oh well...maybe there were other reasons:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/tesla-cit...
The chassis is barely larger (someone did a calculation in another thread). They basically made the bezel smaller (thank goodness).
Mountain Gravity Energy Storage[pdf]
It's about time. Looks like they incorporated a lot of feedback.
Conversely, have a touch bar, and no one needs to learn keyboard shortcuts.

The touch bar works best for things accessed sufficiently infrequently that muscle memory won't be a thing.
That seems to be a key distinction.

If I fire an arrow in the dark, and it kills a person of color, does that make it a racist act of manslaughter?

Of course not. Racism denotes the motive of the attacker, not just the nature of the victim. Both have to be present for racism to be a factor.

That may or may not apply here, but I would need to see the video. Regardless, I've seen the 'ascribed motive' attack applied practically nonstop during this whole debacle, conjuring racist motives on the basis of a person of color making an accusation of racism, and not any acts of Charles Wood himself, including the aforementioned video. If that was key evidence, no one has brought it forward.
I believe I read the way America does "early candidate polling" (like what is going on now for Democrats) is having an approved sanction randomly call landlines.

That's very archaic and made me lose interest in the whole process.
> Have you entertained the possibility that the decision to de-mitigate was the result of considered risk and resource management modeling ?

What do you mean by `resource management modeling` in this context? Do you mean `capacity planning` or `system scaling planning` or something else altogether?
Still buying refurbrished 2015 model.
Do you find that you can use the touchbar without having to look at it? For me I can press the volume up/volume down buttons without having to take my eyes off the screen. Plus the volume increases and decreases with a constant interval. At this point it's pure muscle memory for me to adjust volume and requires no thought. With the touchbar slider I have to physically look down and put the slider to where I want. For me pressing keys is easier than moving a slider and it's faster.
Side note, for more capable boards with the features I need I've noticed it actually costs more to get one without built-in RGB. Not sure how that became the premium option now.
According to this tool, HN would not give a fuck about "Windows 11 will use a Linux kernel", "Mark Zuckerberg's lizard tail falls off during interview" or "Google Search to be rewritten in PHP", but "Trump nukes North Korea" would at least be 0.5719 good.

So... I guess the neural network has some learning to do?
North Korea's Keangsaeng 88: What Is It, and What Do We Know? (2016)
This is not a master plan. This is not The Perl Foundation. This site and these people do not speak for the Perl community or its core developers.

The whole site is run by Will Braswell, the creator and maintainer of RPerl, and Reini Urban, the creator and maintainer of CPerl. Both are increasingly troublesome to the Perl community. Rather than apologizing and reintegrating to the community, they've decided to start their own separate community where they are the leaders without disclosing the fact that they are speaking for this new, separate party.
> "the two worst things about the original Touch Bar MBPs - the lack of a physical Escape key, and the full-size left and right arrow keys."

The "butterfly mechanism" keyboards are awful, unreliable, and get worse with time, so I'm very glad to see them go. Likewise, the return of the physical Escape key is very welcome.

But honestly, the design of the arrow keys has never bothered me in the slightest. If anything, the present configuration is slightly better because it's aesthetically cleaner and gives you a larger surface to hit the left and right arrows.
How much of this, if any, applies when using the Facebook or IG mobile websites or PWAs? IG's PWA seems to be the same as the mobile website, except that it launches in fullscreen, with no browser address bar. When using those on Chrome, I have not received one of those dialog popups saying "m.facebook.com wants to know your location".
I'm sure there's a prototype of this sitting around somewhere in Apple headquarters, either waiting for some patent to expire, or some key component to become cheap/thin/reliable enough.
That would be ideal but every piece of data they capture is a component for a future sales funnel. The smart way to do this would be to have some boilerplate language about respecting user's privacy and having a minimum number of required fields and then baiting you to provide more info for discounts, insider info, and whatever else they are willing to give as digital tchotchkes in exchange for more and more marketing data.
The cynic in me sees this less as a change motivated by improving the customer experience, and more about Nike promoting their own walled garden.

To be fair, Amazon is the LAST place I would buy Nikes. Counterfeit risk is too high. Comingling inventory is the worst.
Manufacturers are moving towards selling direct to the consumer and, although this is an obvious progression, most seem to be quite inept at it? (@davidhyde has listed a lot of valid points).

That said, amazon's fashion/footwear is a bit of a hit and miss experience here in the UK. Multiple listings for the same product, poor quality own brand merchandise, branded products with very limited colour/size combinations, and so on.

I expected amazon would have smashed this by now but it seems to get worse and worse?
Not really.

What do you think you do when you write in assembly and want to enter or exit a function? You push and pop on the stack control registers.... gasp?

It’s not common but I’ve had to manually adjust PC register before. The author and most software devs are so far removed from metal, the downvotes on my comments are hilarious to me.
I expect the 13" will eventually move to a 14" similar to the 15 -> 16 change.