skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upgrading a laptop might increase its useful service life, but if bought well-specced, this isn't the biggest problem.

The elephant in the room are repairs. Due to the design, too many repairs are not economic, so machines get thrown away early. Repairs, which should cost way less with a design that at least allows repairability.
How China plans to lead the computer chip industry
Yep, I’m old enough to remember the global warming warnings of the 90s — one that has stuck in my head in particular was that New York City would be underwater by 2020.

Now there’s still six weeks to go, but it must be said that this prediction isn’t looking so good right now.
This is a repost on the OpenAI article from a few months ago

https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/
Very interesting article.

>> The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something for your own enjoyment that also improves the world. This has always been the value proposition of journalism and art. It’s a nonexclusive good that’s best enjoyed nonexclusively.

I think there's a lot of wisdom in that.
By innovating. They have clearly deeply thought about this space and probably have a todo list 1000 items long. By simply copying item 1, you will miss out on the rest until they have been released, etc.
Avoiding dropped connections in Nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”
Now that Jony Ive is clearly gone, who knows ;-)
There are perfectly fast m.2 modules, that would mean only minor differences in peformance, if any at all. My iMac actually runs perfectly fine on a SATA SSD, though this is definitely slower than the soldered-on SSD of my MB Pro.
Modulo Font
Tools for a far less intrusive and more mindful internet
The title is the only part of that page suggesting the City itself is a tax haven.
And this would be a net bad thing because?
Ask HN: Books, tutorials, videos on beginning online advertising
This topic seems to have a massive amount of blog articles, many many books and some video series on how to begin online advertising in the social world and with the biggest search engines.

I am wondering if anyone has hands on experience with any of them in 2019 that they found really helped them get the grasp of how things work these days with social media platforms and search engines.
Afaik the Council deciding how to roll out NBN was headed by Telstra people.
An experimental operator for managing FoundationDB clusters on Kubernetes
as other have already said, Xmpp.js works quite well

If it's Javascript it's already cross platform

> Ye, which problem exactly?

communicating via XMPP in a standardized way

> All of them are solved partially

And a new protocol based on half backed technologies would change that, how exactly?

> On your platform you have a username and you are supposed to communicate with others with your username.

On any forum or BBS I've been part of in my life, I've always used a nick, that changed over time.

> Well, because XMPP standard supports nickname changing, which means in a context of a platform it would allow nickname spoofing.

That's a feature, not a bug.

In 1995 I could change my nick on IRC, in 1997 I could change my nick on ICQ, I still can change nick on Skype today (my artists friends do it on facebook all the times)

Anyway, nick spoofing on XMPP is hardly a problem and it's not an XMPP fault.

Have you ever tried to search for "someone has been impersonating me with FB messenger" on a search engine?

> "Solved problem" of course.

XMPP it's a solved problem, your chat where nick cannot be changed is your problem.

Every implementation of standard protocols requires work, HTTP is a solved problem, but edge cases still exist.

Name one standard federated protocol that could help you with that and make it simpler, please.

Because I don't know any.
> Only a tiny percentage of laptops are ever upgraded.

Probably yes and that is also probably because behaviors like this. Manufacturers have trained consumers for years that upgrading of fixing stuff is not worth it. Personally, I have upgraded every laptop I have ever owned. This isn't possible with todays Macbooks.

> Also Apple devices on average have much longer service lives than devices from most other manufacturers

Bullshit, if anything I believe the opposite is true. What is your source for this?
Soldering it down doesn't provide any quantifiable performance improvements. It probably allows them to make it smaller / thinner, and less expensive to manufacture. However, now if any one component (memory, CPU, SSD drive) goes bad the entire set must be tossed! When this happens, it will be expensive for the unlucky customer. All so Apple could avoid including a bit more plastic for the component sockets.

Also, SSD drives have a limited number of write cyclew before they stop working, usually some 10's of TBW (terabytes written). For normal users, it will take them a very long time to wear out the drive. Conversely, developers and power user types may find their setups doing 50GB or more of writes per day. So for example, if a drive is rated for 75TBW, a power user could wear it out after only a couple of years.

I have some Samsung SSDs at home where I regularly track and monitor the write usage, and I'm always surprised at how many writes occur on my [often idle] Windows machine. Background OS and application activity is my hypothesis for the cause. The primary windows partition drive will probably need replacing within a year, and will have lasted three or four years.
> Only a tiny percentage of laptops are ever upgraded.

A larger percentage however needs repairs (apple care sells well for a reason). A 1/10 score means that a "repair" will basically be throwing (large parts of) the laptop away and exchanging it for a new one.

Similarly recycling is made much harder by this design.

> This is why they retain more of their second hand value.

And because there is large base of people paying that much for them. A high-priced sony vaio, elitebook, thinkpad etc. stays usable just as long and there is large interest in the secondary market (e.g. see reddit's /r/thinkpad) but at much lower prices. Macbook buyers instead treat them as design objects first (which keep value) and computers second.
Please avoid calling the "gas duster" type cans "compressed air". It's misleading.

They usually contain compressed fluorocarbons like difluoroethane. These are toxic chemicals, which are also potent greenhouse gases. Their casual use for cleaning should be discouraged.
Thanks for your continued replies and balanced counterpoints to various statements (including my own).

Maybe I've gone the wrong direction, but I'm almost convinced now that it may actually be worse to make public statements linking encryption to child abuse because it potentially paints backdoors as a solution in the minds of the non-technical folks, and potentially makes child abuse closer to appearing to be a "solved problem" and distracts further from progress towards a real solution.

I'm aware now (thanks to you and some others who have horrid coalface experience) that the digital realm is indeed more of a problem than I'd considered. I can't bring myself to accept, however, that mandated encryption backdoors are worth the attention they're being given by law enforcement for the purposes they're trying to align it with.
I couldn’t find that specific one, though I did find this article from 2007 predicting an ice-free Arctic summer by 2013...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm

Edit: Also I just found a brand new article predicting it’ll actually happen by 2044:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1205850/Climate-chang...

I wonder what the prediction will be by 2044.
As a counter, I've contracted for a bank and big business generally, and they are activly resistent to allowing you to interface with the business in any meaningful way.

There's several reasons for this, but at the end of the day people don't take kindly for your making them redundent and there's a lot of fiefdoms going around.

Why would any developer who wants a deeper look stick around?
I’ve never known anyone to throw away a Mac. They get used until the temptation to upgrade becomes too big, then sold onto someone with different needs.

I don’t have a Mac, and I think they should be more repairable, but I still think they’re ahead of most the rest.
Quarterly economic performance.
Edit: Servers are back up

I moved from a single massive instance to a target pool behind a load balancer with health checks based on if there's available queue.

https://free.cloudbrowser.xyz

https://hk.cloudbrowser.xyz

I have not worked out how to geographically load balance both of those from a single domain based on which you are closest too, but I want to see if these new smaller instances in load balanced target group pools can scale to take the load like a larger instance.
The ER-8-XG router would be able to handle that easily...
and it costs only $1800!

https://www.ui.com/edgemax/comparison/
Exactly.
When I had some sticky keys on a 2015 MacBook Pro, the Genius told me that the only way to fix that was to replace the whole top case and it wouldn't have been cheap.
I just went home, searched a bit on YouTube, removed the keycaps and cleaned them.
It's the same for batteries: they want you to replace the whole top case for a stupid battery that they could have made much easier to remove (it's still possible to do it BTW)
Ok, you got a replaceable battery. Now when you replace it you not only have old battery but also the hard shell for that battery to throw out. The same goes for storage. You don't have soldered storage, you have cased SDD. How is this any better than Apples solution?
Empathy allows people to better understand the asshole which will cause them to hate the asshole even more.
Please stop with the apologetic fanboy rhethoric. It's not helping. I have thrown away several macbooks and I know several people that has too.

I used to have Macbooks, I upgraded them with new disks and memory. Today that would not have been possible which is one big reason I would never buy a macbook to begin with.

This behavior is bad for all consumers of their products and should not be defended with anecdotal stuff like "people don't throw away their macbooks" which is easily refuted by going to a garbage site.
That does not at all seem like the constructive thing to do. Generally speaking, ostracizing groups of people for their beliefs leads to further polarization, and more extreme views.

In my experience, people are seldom racist for the sake of being hateful. Rather than applying an arbitrary label to someone so that you can lazily dismiss them as evil (which is just as bigoted as the bigotry you claim to oppose), it's better to find the underlying cause of the apparent racism, and addressing that concretely instead.
If you're interested in this space, we're building a fully-regulated platform bank to essentially power all of these consumer/business facing banking applications.

This is us: https://griffinbank.com
Pokémon localisation for European languages (and English too) has always been full of puns and jokes like that; they really put a lot of care into them.
Not OP but you can find the 50 million climate refugees claim in the report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development on page 20: the map itself is titled "Figure SR-P2. 50 million climate refugees by 2010" [1]. That report was backed by UNDP,UNEP, World Bank, the WHO - most people would count the report as credible, certainly more so than a newspaper article or opinion piece.

[1]: https://www.weltagrarbericht.de/fileadmin/files/weltagrarber...
I develop specialized software for a niche field. I prefer to remain pseudonymous on HN.
Rebecca Stand and the Phone Reason
Not really. That's a well known headline taken out of context. A model predicted ice free summers by 2013, and the article includes two scientists discussing that they think the model overcooks the prediction, but both thinking it will come far sooner than previously believed. e.g. the first

"In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier than 2040."

and from the second

"A few years ago, even I was thinking 2050, 2070, out beyond the year 2100, because that's what our models were telling us. But as we've seen, the models aren't fast enough right now; we are losing ice at a much more rapid rate.

"My thinking on this is that 2030 is not an unreasonable date to be thinking of."

The Daily Express are a credible source for nothing since their purchase by Desmond.
Probably should look at the whole picture. They use recyclable materials and have recycling programs to collect them as they are very easy to break down into reusable parts: https://www.apple.com/in/environment/
An aside, but an important distinction is that a TV is definitely not something that is going to interact with you, it's just background, it will not change it's behaviour without specific defined inputs (remote control); It cannot affect you either except for the changing of light in the room and it's fully controllable without impacting anyone else.

It's the difference between sitting next to a busker in the street for 8hrs per day and listening to recorded music on your phone.. in that it's a _huge_ difference.
Yes, like filenames with multiple dots, for example.

I agree that filesystems must allow almost arbitrary filenames. But some characters should definitely be forbidden, like '/', '\n' and ' '.
https://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/01/12/fact-checki...

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... (section 5.1)
I preferred this to the Sobel book. More academic, but a lot more technical detail.

The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 4-6, 1993
Hardcover – November, 1996
by William J. H. Andrewes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quest-Longitude-Proceedings-Massac...
> There's not a lot of papers saying nice things about a mafia oligarchy state unless they've been paid to do so

There was one, called "The Economist in the year X" for all X such that whichever combination of oligarchs, mafia and security services are in power happen to be friendly to Western business interests.

> The economist has firmly located itself in an economic and socially liberal policy position

They are the voice of Empire and always have been.

http://exiledonline.com/exile-classic-the-economist-the-worl...
'Meth. We're on it' – South Dakota's new public health ads raise eyebrows
I have created a comparison site for budget android smartphones.
URL - https://shop4moto.com
The traditional view is indeed that we shouldn't legislate things happening in other countries. As an example for what is going on though, we're set to have a vote on the Responsible Business Initiative[0] under which "companies will be legally obliged to incorporate respect for human rights and the environment in all their business activities [...] abroad".

While initiatives usually fail the popular vote, it is not so certain for this one. It has very broad support. All parties have to argue their position regarding initiatives that will get voted on. So yes certainly there is a debate on such issues.

[0] https://corporatejustice.ch/about-the-initiative/
Tokaido is quite fascinating to me. A 500km long path, primarily traveled on foot even in the 19th century because there weren't many horses or carts. The rich were carried in hammocks by a team of 4 people.
Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
> I would certainly hope that "entering an endless boot loop" is considered a malfunction no matter what network traffic is occurring.

Once the switch is in airplane mode, the endlessly looping device seems fixed.

The fact that it reboots is probably a bug.

The fact that it reboots endlessly is caused by the nintendo switch endlessly broadcasting the same signal.
iFixit, the site that did the teardown, measures the repairability of equipment according to objective criteria and rates it. Apple does not typically score well at all.
Top Thai Oil Refiner Hopes Vegan Meat Will Bolster Business
> One of the things that I find challenging is getting people to think beyond a few months. We really are victims of short-term thinking.

That's why we evolved groups to overcome individual weakness. Then bigger groups to overcome group weakness. Understanding how and why groups form/evolve/break/merge etc will change how you think about what can and can't be done by yourself.

Check out Robert Axelrod's Evolution of Cooperation, and Complexity of Cooperation.
It's actually a worry of mine that I'm very annoying to those around me in my open office and people are too polite or see me as too intimidating to say anything about it.

I can either be the asshole who doesn't care, and subsequently be freed from my anxiety, or live in anxiety but at least not be as much of an asshole.
Interesting. I thought Go used standard IEEE-754 floats.

Why does it have this result?
> memory safety

Harvard Architecture?
Right click (or control click) the app, click open, then click open in the dialogue box.
Fair enough then, good for you. Sorry if that was harsher than I should have worded it. I've seen things like that happen before tho, so there definitely are places where staff are afraid to speak up for that reason.

> The real reason people tend to dislike open plan is screen privacy.

Still going to call citation needed on you tho. I've heard many people complain in person, and this wasn't a big reason I heard. The last place I worked, almost every single person spent a lot of money on noise cancelling headphones.
Testing Google Stadia [video]
China plans to lead the computer chip industry
Permafrost is permanent on the timescale is years, not on the timescale of interglacial periods. Most of the permafrost we have at the moment thawed in the last interglacial period and refroze in the last ice age.
Nuxt.js Auth with External API Server (Vert.x/Kotlin) Using Keycloak
It's not something manufacturer do since it can be time consuming, but if you have a spare afternoon it's fairly easy to do.

The only cases where I have personally seen that a whole keyboard replacement was needed were those caused by a liquid spill, but Apple is never going to cover those since they could easily damage the logic board and you wouldn't be "safe" even after months.

But yes, at the end of the day using screws instead of rivets would be better for everyone
I would pay for an iOS app that I could point at a graph I've drawn and get back an SVG together with a data structure representing the graph
I have found Soma FM to be excellent for the purpose of masking annoying noises at work, and pay them a small subscription. They have various channels with a variety of useful genres.
I am one of those up to 100GB/day developers. Reason: handling huge codebases (Chromium, among others) and working with VMs, which also extensively increases the write volume. My top day saw multiple TB written on a single day.

But even I don't seriously fear my MacBook pro SSD will die because of write load. I've done the math, and I should be good for way longer than the projected use of the laptop.

My actual annoyance is the inability to upgrade. I would love to make use of the currently laughable prices for m.2 SSDs and upgrade the 1TB internal storage to 2TB or more. But I can't, thanks to soldered storage.
Sounds like AI would basically make the low to mediocre end of the business _exist_ at all, it really, really hard to find audiobooks of some lesser known stuff and I hate having to use TTS because it's awful, but if TTS sounded like that one demo Google did of their AI appointment booking service for Pixel, I'd be way less unhappy about it.
I always thought that TL;DR was a flippant statement that the post you have made was too long.
This seems to have morphed into 'For those who think that this is too long...' often just the important parts, which is usually a summery.
I'm sure someone could make a point about using FAQ, etc
This is why film music is a thing!
Presumably microLED will be the holy grail. When I first heard of OLED it was another 20 years or so before it started to really show up. So, I'd expect microLED to be making waves in 2030-2040 lol
Or the Japanese voice idols?
I despise PHP, but those are words of truth. The first time developer experience in vanilla PHP is the most friendly and easy as you can get, cannot be compared against Next.js, AspNetCore, Flask, Express.js, or any other framework in any other language I could imagine.
JVC make memory foam in-ears, they block a lot of noise (and are cheap) those and rain/wind noise are my salvation in an open office.
so basically the problem is offering cheaper repairs? that should be relatively easy to solve, no?
They evaluate constant expressions exactly at compile time, then convert to float.
I don't know anything particular about the Dutch market, but some rough estimates:

Current 3m euribor is -0.4% so 1.6% interest rate means 2% margin. Assuming that your initial costs of selling/assessing/processing the mortgage are covered with fees, something like 0.5% would be enough to cover the main (non-systemic) risks and expenses for decent quality mortgages, so you get 1.5% of pure profit; for every billion in your portfolio you'd get 15 million profit each year; Dutch banks have 500B of housing loans so that's a capacity of something like 7-8 billion of profit per year from housing loans alone.

And various short-term loans have lower volumes, but much higher interest rates and room for profitability.

Looking at the stats in https://www.statista.com/topics/3442/the-banking-sector-in-t... it's clear that the net interest income dominates, it's something like 5x the fee income.
I feel like much of these claims are only in the past. I used my 2009 Macbook for 5 or so years, and it only lasted that long because I was able to upgrade it. It came with a comical 2GB of ram, and that would have been a trash—as in worthless to me—if it couldn't be upgraded. I was able to sell it, only because they're desirable, and they used to be more reliable. The latter quality is not so evident any more. Many naive customers are duped into buying the bottom of the line MBP or Air, and then are dumbfounded when their thing runs out of resources. I blame apple for making less reliable products for higher margins and offering their customers less agency over their devices. Their marketing pitch is usually that you should have to know the details, but you do, because they're trying to screw you. The people with money to blow I'm not so concerned about, it's more the person who buys a 13" MBP for 2k that has 4GB of ram and 128gb ssd, and can't ever upgrade the thing.
AFAIK nasty stuff often leaks into mine water. Also it's questionable if the mine passages could sustain meaningful flow over long oeriods without collapsing. But worth a try. :)
They even launched a paperback edition a few years ago: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/commitstrip/commitstrip....

I really enjoyed reading it, sad that there is no tome 2 on the horizon.

Edit: it seems that indeed a tome 2 is coming soon: https://commitstrip.pledgemanager.com/projects/commitstrip-t...
I keep looking at the Dell XPS 15, but several colleagues at work have horror stories about Dell laptops with faults and bad service. I've seen similar stories online.

At least with Apple I can walk into the store and talk to somebody face-to-face.

(UK-based, here).
I found out that following programming related comics like this or blogs like DBAreactions are a great way to learn about a certain domain. Because if you don't get the joke you are missing some kind of ubiquitous knowledge about the domain.
Computational Reproducibility: Some Challenges
Maybe massive solar deployment then ?
That works great until people complain that it works differently at compile time, and they have a point.
I like my 13 inch retina 2013 model, and i guess i will be holding on to that as long as possible.