skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

I talk to several Fintech startups a month complaining about this sort of thing. Forgive me if I can't quite gin up any sympathy. It's a business with centuries of baggage, massive inertia, vast resources, but what I typically hear is "I'm gonna Uber/Tesla/Bird this financial industry thing in 6/12/18/24 months, ignore the rules because 'disruption' and find someone else to push all the risk, compliance and governance issues off onto. I'm going to pretend it's not a cost of doing business and hope no one catches on before we find an exit and get rich". And now you're finding those 'others' aren't the suckers you wanted them to be, and that complying with regulations, especially across the world, actually costs money. Tons of it.

And most of all...real disruption is incredibly hard, no matter the SV mythmaking. The Fintechs that are going to be unicorns aren't complaining that the people they tried to outsource the hard parts of the business to aren't making all the hard problems magically disappear.
I certainly would. A little more empathy for slaveowners (that is, the ability to see things from their point of view) would have enabled the US to abolish slavery without the bloody civil war.

Every country in the western henisphere abolished slavery around about the same time, but only in the US did it cause a civil war.
As a bald statement explicit empathy would (perhaps correctly in a political context) be confused for endorsement. That does not imply a lack of empathy: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2009/5/18/732785/-

(Ignore the partisan commentary please, I am only linking for the quotes which do demonstrate this.)
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they go that way too. When I first heard that rumor, I thought "never!". But now I'm like... "hmm, hooray battery life, an OS that more fluidly switches from mobile to desktop, maybe not a bad option". Plus ARM is only getting faster/more powerful. Yeah yeah, apple will probably go the way of locking the OS down more, and thats a major buzkill/non-starter, but otherwise I think it's an intriguing concept. Convince me otherwise, I want to hear what huge drawbacks you see to having an ARM laptop.
I went with my gf to take a look at these last night at the Apple store. Her command key has completely stopped working on her 2018 MacBook that otherwise works perfectly fine.

It feels clumsily large, especially since we’re coming from MacBook 13s. She kept asking me if I’d heard any rumors about when new 13s would come out. She went in pretty determined to get a new machine but decided to wait.

The struggle continues for us 13ers I’m afraid. Not really excited to drop $3K+ on an even larger form factor I haven’t been excited about for upwards of 5 years (and being forced to upgrade to Catalina) just to fix what is now universally understood to be a defective keyboard design.

I’m fairly convinced that this whole speaker business was to have something, anything, to differentiate it from the current models other than fixing the keyboard, and probably delayed this release. Someone said “we can’t seriously just ship a new laptop, with the same CPU as the current models, and just fix the keyboards!” It wouldn’t surprise me if the 13s haven’t come out yet for a similar reason.
Some thoughts:

- Do you have no way to travel/move? Do you have any money saved/access to money? Perhaps move to a friendlier state (as someone else suggested) or back to Europe as you mentioned?

- If you're completely stuck for funds, can you use crowdsourcing or go_fund_me? - I'm sure many people would want to help if they heard your story.

- If you're being poorly treated by family etc. can you not seek refuge with organizations such as the the salvation army?

- I don't really know much about dealing with homelessness but
a quick search suggested:
https://endhomelessness.org/how-to-get-help-experiencing-hom...

- Also try to do all the basics: get enough sleep, take in good nutrition, if you're able to exercise (even basic exercise) do it, try to find an environment with less stress (as above), try meditating if you haven't already.

- Hang in there, at least try the suggestions above. Let us know how you get on.
Listened to the podcast and its good. I've always been empathetic to shooters because I understand determinism and realize the shooter didn't have any free will in how his/her life turned out. The universe just happened to make it be. Anyway more food for thought to the topic.
Except these heat exchangers have two filters that need cleaning very 3 months and most people never do it, so they don't really function properly.
Expanding on S[a-z]{3,} Reliability Engineer roles
>I guess you mean something like

Yes.

>But Perl is a real language which allows you to try reading from the point in the file you've reached the last time, without reading anything you've already read again.

The input in this case is the stdout of a command (clog), so it's not a seekable file.
The FDA wants our opinion on stimulant meds (& how to decrease abuse)
> determine what a clean JSON API contract looks like, write all the boilerplate for controllers

Isn't this what GraphQL suppose to solve?
I agree, empathy is about being able to see things from another’s point of view, not the feeling of “tender, concerned feelings”, and particularly not of restricting those feelings to those less fortunate than yourself.
That may be true, I never claimed to be accurate (certainly not in a general sense), I am just conveying what I hear when I talk to people about what matters to them. Fear is certainly not a value, but americans rarely talk about values in any explicit way.
Electric heat pumps work fine in cold climates down to -20C as well. Below that they switch to resistive heating, so if it only drops below that for a few days a year it's still cost effective.
Guess I underestimated them based on their youth and company size. Didn’t know they had disrupted the market so quickly. If jumping into banking services is an industry convention, I suppose that goes to show that even a brokerage of Robinhood’s age and size must have the stability and temperament to provide reliable banking services that customers can trust despite their breakneck Silicon Valley startup ethos and lack of prior experience in checking.
I'm lucky in that I can code in any environment and I get used to things pretty easily. I can be interrupted by a coworker and can resume programming immediately. I recently started working near a door that slams shut. I was angry at first but it took me about a week to completely ignore it.
I'm with you. There are probably dozens of us. But really, the loudest ones in the room are always the ones that got screwed over by the keyboad. I love the way the butterfly types, and 1+ year in, I've had no issues. Let's just hope it lasts another 6. I got 7 years out of an Air (replaced the battery in year 6), and I'm hoping to get as much out of a way more expensive pro...

I'm also curious as to if the keyboards are different sizes on 13in v. 15in models. As in, are all the problems/complaints stemming from the 13in models?
Which has driven the price of coal down, making it more attractive in non-US markets.
You gain back some efficiency by cleaning up all in one go at a later time! Think of trips to the sink with the dirty dishes.
And our society seems to have picked the latter because it sounds good when it comes out of the mouth of a politician. This is probably a weakness of democracy.
It's a pretty bad licensing arrangement, actually. I'm honestly surprised the Racket community didn't consider just adding a license exception to the LGPL.

Alternatively, ASL 2.0 with exceptions could have worked to make it compatible with the full assortment of GNU licenses. That's the strategy that CUPS and LLVM chose.

This weird MIT/ASL 2.0 thing (which clearly was stolen from Rust) is a completely asinine idea, because it forces a situation where it's impossible to verify a patent license grant to users and contributors.
Differentially Testing Soundness and Precision of Program Analyzers
He hates ML as a pattern recognizer (I.e. have no real understanding of the world).

He does not hate symbolic ML which is based on logic/knowledge (and do understand the world).
Show HN: Migrator-A CLI tool for easy and flexible reassignment of kafka topics
Looking for the kraggle...
Real-Time GraphQL API Exploration with GraphQuill
Hotel Cupertino clause: pick any browser you like, but can't choose a better web
> I am on the left (technically independent) but I certainly have a mountain of criticism about Democrats.

I'm entirely unsurprised, they're more to the right than our NZ centre-right party National.

The fact that the Democrats are even considered left-wing in the USA baffles me.
What do you mean, no transaction costs? What are ACS transfers?

Can you share a "good" bank account?

I've moved after 36 years in the states -- and was shocked at the quality of ING Bank.
Yeah, it's pretty good. I love Lego, it's still undoubtedly the best toy. But it's also way worse than late 90's Technic, which really felt focused on piece versatility above all else.
It's a valley, not a volcano.
I'm an industrial engineer and geek out about manufacturing stuff.

Lego used to make custom pieces all the time. That, along with other missteps, nearly killed the company.

Product variety means changeovers (switching molds in the plastic injection molding machines). More quality problems will occur. Low volume parts for one set may use a tiny fraction of the mold's useful life, making the unit cost much higher than a 2x4 brick. You need more inventory to successfully fulfill any bulk order you receive. You also need to store the molds in an environment where they won't degrade over time.

Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) and Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) work hand in hand dictating how to economically run a facility like this. EOQ considers storage costs, the fixed cost to setup the tool, demand per unit time, and time value of money to minimize the per-unit cost.

SMED reduces the fixed costs which are spread across a batch of pieces. This is the lever you can pull to reduce batch sizes, reduce inventory levels, reduce working capital, and help maximize profits.

To your specific comment, the difficulty lies in fulfillment. Making sure the robot picks up the right number of pieces which are unceremoniously ejected from the injection molder in no particular order. Having inventory of all the pieces people want - or having a relatively long lead time hoping you get enough demand to run batches on a make-to-order basis. SMED would make this a much more viable business model.

This article goes into more depth on the turnaround they went through.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/04/how-leg...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-minute_exchange_of_di...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_order_quantity
Tax the corporation when an individual buys goods. Essentially a much bigger VAT.
Here's the discussion of "fair use of non-free image" on this image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uc_Davis_Pepper_Spray_Inc...
They acknowledge that it might be copyright infringement, but feel it's 'fair' since it's a unique historical image and there aren't 'free' images which would serve as a substitute.
I agree with you about Antartica, but I think the pressure underwater at even quite shallow depths makes it harder to build any large-scale inhabitance there than on any of the bodies in this solar system that we'd want to go to, which have (I think) lower atmospheric pressure than earth. Of course, resupplying an oceanic habitat is much easier than resupplying anything off-planet, but besides that, I wouldn't be surprised at all if we have space colonies well before oceanic colonies.
You don’t need empathy to love your neighbour, you just need to choose to do so. This is one of the central tenets of Christianity.

This story reminds me of Scott’s essay I can tolerate anything except the outgroup [1]. I am partial to Father Brown’s argument that it doesn’t count if you only forgive the people you like. That’s just tribalism, which humans are naturally inclined toward. The hard thing is to forgive (or indeed to offer anything of worth to) people you don’t like.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
Effectively I'm supposed to start someone off with expert tooling and security knowledge so they don't end up blowing themselves up on ... well... Anything?

In my experience all of this knowledge happens "on a journey" vs. treating it as an ideal set of skills. Hence why we have student/intern/junior/senior/architect levels and the like. I review the heck out of junior level work and often find opportunity to help them improve.

I start people off at being able to accomplish something as I find it to be more motivating to keep them learning all of the things you mentioned.

If you're expecting me to have someone at a PCI level (which I am) as a junior you're missing the scope of what I mean when I say "honored to help them start". It took me years to be competent enough to handle PCI as a dev/admin!

Sorry I start with nano and simple web server configs =/
Germany is still on coal too. They’re planning to shut them down by 2038...

Rich country or not, people want cheap electricity and until fracking unlocked cheap natural gas in the US, coal was the cheap option.
Reddit censoring discussion round Hong Kong on China's request
pyinvoke can be used to define Makefile-like tasks in Python.
http://www.pyinvoke.org/
http://fabfile.org allows to execute the commands remotely via ssh
Looks like the mobo came from space invaders.
Finding Where Do the World's Developers Live via GitHub Data
I like listening to ambient Fallout music while working on the Fallout-like game I volunteer for. Seems to actually work pretty well.
Remote work is more popular than ever—I say do it. It’s great for your quality of life.
Microsemi Libero is a joke and is probably the greatest hindrance to getting actual work done. I wish Xilinx bought them out instead of Microchip so there could actually be some improvement to the tools. You can throw every bit of computing resource at it's dinosaur PnR tool and it will just happily chug along at 1% CPU usage. They just came out with some update that made a 20% improvement to PnR, literally hours of time gained back from watching a wheel spin. What is it doing? Who knows, it will probably fail and not tell you why. Zero source control, almost zero documentation for scripting, and a design tool that seems nearly crash everything just to tell you there are IP core updates available.

The only parts that actually work reliably are whatever ancient Actel-branded tools are hidden in the suite.
Sure, memories fade and become distorted. But that's precisely the problem with photographs: they're intensely vivid. So every time you look at a photograph you're creating, transforming and reinforcing an experience you never actually had, accelerating the loss of aspects of your personal experience.[1] Photographs aren't the only way to do this: simply hearing people recounting stories can do this, but photographs are just an immensely powerful and almost instantaneous way to have such vicarious experiences.

I'd rather have my own memories, however faded and worn, though there are strategies (like music association) that can help minimize that. Nonetheless, however distorted, they're principally distorted by my own emotions and desires; they're faded by my own lack of interest; they're mine, which I'd argue is the very definition of a personal memory.

Many people couldn't care less. And that's fine. And if you don't know (or believe) this happens to you, then I suppose it doesn't matter, either.

[1] I want to say that losing the personal visual memory might be related to losing the memory of other aspects, like the emotional experience, but that's more of a fear than anything I'm confident I've experienced personally or have read in the literature.
Please don't do flamewars here.
According to their site, they make the necessary money for that safety net by splitting the profit from the interchange fee they get from big banks. That statement reminds me of Martin Shkreli telling the media he was profiting by overcharging insurance companies. There's no way loudly telling the world how you're screwing over the big players doesn't result in you getting squished at some point. Sure, now I understand their business model. But if they ever get traction these big banks will put an end to their medical bill subsidy real quick.
I trust Google much as I trust the sun. I believe it’ll keep doing its thing, and that this will probably overall be beneficial. I’m glad there’s a sun. But the problem with the sun is that it doesn’t give a crap about me. If I have a problem I’m going to have a helluva time contacting the sun’s customer support people, and they’re not going to be well incentivised to take care of my problem if I do.

Perhaps that analogy had got away from me a little, but the point is: I like having a bank with branches where I can go in and talk to a person if I ever really have a serious problem. I feel confident that the bank isn’t going to accidentally swallow all my money and then become uncontactable, whereas I tend to worry that about big tech companies.
> it's not a seekable file.

The flow I've described works on non-seekable files (and pipes). After you reach the end of file in one pass, you are allowed to try to read again in the next, and the file pointer stayed on the same position if you haven't closed the file (and of course you should not close it). If the other process wrote something, the next time read will succeed. If you don't want to display the partial line before the line feed is written, you have to collect the read bytes before you read the line feed. It's all doable in Perl.

The only case I've seen something of what I've described not working was some case under some non-recent version of Wine, and I don't know if they fixed that. Otherwise Perl and POSIX support everything described.
>And it's even incorrect as a practical matter in the modern USA, where government revenue as a share of GDP has been going steadily downward for like 70 years now

Because government spending increased explosively before those 70 years. First, the government essentially took a loan from future generations through social security and second, there was an enormous war that the government mobilized the economy to fight. You would expect spending to go back down after both of them.
What Are the ‘No Free Lunch Theorems’ in Data Science?
Thanks for these links Gwern, down the rabbit hole I go.
But how would you summarize the situation? Is it that there's not a definite study that proves the whole thing?
I'm a power user and I'm really surprised you looked at this release as "just" fixing the keyboard. I'm more excited about this release than any other macbook release in the past 3 years. Increased base hd size, new graphics card with performance that stomps the previous model, more available RAM, the largest battery legally possible on a laptop, and a larger screen in the same form factor as the previous 15 inch model. There are actually no downsides to this laptop except the touch bar.
> Although I will always be curious why countries are letting those small, insignificant islands and countries manage all this wealth, and why they're trusted to do it.

Probably because the people who run the state are also people who take advantage of these tax loopholes. I don't believe the US even needs foreign countries to hide taxes this well, we have better mechanisms in e.g. South Dakota.
He doesn't understand what the business values. Show him that.

Nights? Or just I worked on it last night while also learning inkscape or something? Maybe he's trying to master a technique that he'll use in other places. The way you said it makes him sound bad.
I reached out individually to every single productized service entrepreneur featured in those interviews and made sure they go in-depth with their answers. Not sure how that qualifies as webspam?
Based on their monthly fees, they're charging $150-$250 per post at ~1200 words per post.

Assuming a blog is getting 25k+ views on each post, it's ramen-profitable, as long as it's not cannibalizing their other content.

My guess is that it's not ground-breaking content, but hopefully good-enough to fill in your off-days if you're trying to keep up daily posts.
Seriously, fuck off, Apple. Gluing and rivets - does this actually accomplish any kind of real measurable cost-saving or just introduce bullshit vendor lock-in? Same deal for soldered RAM.

Pro-tip for everyone wanting to LEAVE Tim Cook's sinking hardware ship: Buy a Dell XPS 15, install Linux and enjoy being able to:

1. Upgrade your own RAM
2. Install a second 2.5" SSD
3. Being able to easily remove components from the notebook
4. Replace your own battery
5. Switch your Wireless card

And considering the train-wreck that was macOS Catalina, Linux actually looks stable in comparison.
When covering Huygen's principle: the wavelets always give a backwards-moving wave in addition to the forwards-moving wave. In other words, Huygen's principle is time symmetric. So in real life, why don't you get the backwards wave?

When covering the principle of least action: often, applying it will give infinitely many solutions, or none at all. An example with no solutions would be the harmonic oscillator with x(0) = 0, x(t) = 0, and t not a multiple of half the period. An example with infinitely many solutions would be the principle of least time applied between the two foci of an ellipse with reflecting walls. So what happens in these cases? Does Lagrangian mechanics just not work?
Berkeley is the kind of place where your furnace shuts off sometime in March and doesn't come on again until October.
You're leaning too heavily on rationalism whereas computer science is both an art and a science and its definitely not for everyone hence the preference for sheer barriers to entry
Haven't done any, but a relevant twitter account: https://twitter.com/badthingsdaily
It’s very surprising that in-group/out-group factors didn’t really make the theories’ section.

“Looks human, but not quite what I’m used to.”

Seems like a decent way to quickly spot nonmembers of a social group. I wonder if an experiment could classify the revulsion and compare/contrast it to something like, when a person meets someone of an unfamiliar subculture.
> Buy a Dell XPS 15

No. Windows sucks ass and Linux isn't as good as macOS, even with all the later's bugs recently.

And Mac trackpads are awesome.
Read comment. Install Linux. XPS has Linux hardware support. 0/10.
There are actually no downsides to this laptop except the touch bar <that have been realized at this time>.

FTFY. No Gen 1 Apple product has been without it's flaws. Some just take time to make themselves known.
The Global Team That Captured the First Image of a Black Hole
How the hell does she justify buying another multi-thousand dollar Apple laptop when she already has a broken 2018? Is this a business write off of some sort? If not, are you at least rich?
Fees and interchange are regulated / capped by the government
For those who can't upgrade yet, there is an open source utility, Unshaky (https://unshaky.nestederror.com/), that can help with double presses. It's sad and gross that it is necessary but it works well on my aging MBP.
I'm not so sure how aligned the EU is with the US anymore. A lot of what some EU politicians say is about not being able to trust the US. Verhofstadt gives me such an impression at least.
An Intuition for Propagators
You mean like all Macbook keyboards from 2016-2019 Q2?
Off topic: Is this a good time to buy Xilinx shares? I seem to hear their name, and talk about synthesis every week on here now.
Ultima 7 and Kate Bush's "The Red Shoes" for me, in the winter of '94.
Interesting. It has apparently been around for decades.

>Union mounts have also been available in BSD since at least 1995.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS
So every time you compile/synthesize the result is different?
Nice edit without the edit note. 0/10.