skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had to come up with a dollar amount worth several months of expenses on very short notice (same day, life is unpredictable). YMMV, but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to get those funds within seconds (if I'm adequately authenticated). With a wire, I can get it same day (if executed by ~3pm eastern). I shouldn't need to pay for a wire, or talk to a human unless a fraud signal was detected. I'm not a hedge fund seeking tens of millions of dollars of liquidity of a cash equivalent in a moment. These dollar amounts are trivial (<$100k).

Financial services users should be able to have access to and be able to move their funds through financial plumbing inexpensively and rapidly. Fix the plumbing, raise the bar with regulations on financial services providers to commodify the offerings.
AT&T Released Danos Code to Linux Foundation
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Can you elaborate "round-trippable"?
MacRuby kind of lives on as http://www.rubymotion.com/
Yeah, it may be a concern in terms of extra costs in sewage treatment.
Still the kicked out code is out there somewhere.

As opposed to.
No, the people who were supposed to maintain them didn't bother because they knew they didn't have to fear accountability and they were extremely understaffed and overworked.

> A New York Times investigation published last year detailed this practice, under which federal prisons are so strapped for correctional officers that they regularly compel teachers, nurses, secretaries and other support staff members to step in. The practice has grown at some prisons as the Trump administration has curtailed the hiring of correctional officers.

> Many of these staff members only receive a few weeks’ training in correctional work, and, while required by contract to serve as substitutes, are often uncomfortable in the roles.

> Union officials said that for more than a year officials in Washington had been made aware of a severe staffing shortage at the facility in the wake of a federal hiring freeze. One of the guards on the unit where Mr. Epstein died had been working overtime for five straight days, while the other had been forced to work overtime that day, a union official said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/nyregion/epstein-barr.htm...

Here's another quote from Ken White, the criminal defense attorney I quoted above

> Jeffrey Epstein’s name and face are everywhere following his death. Even as an investigation reveals that the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he died, was terminally short-staffed and relied on untrained guards who failed to monitor him, conspiracy theories persist. Americans who believe in their justice system assert that it is obvious that he was murdered, and that jailers could not possibly be so incompetent, cruel, or indifferent as to let such a high-profile prisoner commit suicide.

> Here, to help you evaluate that claim, are 32 short stories about in-custody deaths or near-deaths in America.

> These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him. Epstein was incarcerated in the United States of America, and this is how the United States of America, the mightiest and richest nation there is or ever has been, treats incarcerated people. When you say, “There is no way that guards could be so reckless, so indifferent, so malicious as to just let someone as important as Epstein die,” this is how 32 Americans respond. Many, many more could respond in kind.
Arby's employs more people than the entire coal industry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/31/8-sur...
If it’s the best thing we have, then it’s worth using. You are proposing no alternative.
Unsure why this is getting downvotes. This is literally the conclusion of the article/video.
Yeah, not surprising. That isn't Apple's focus on their product lines at all.
In desperate situations, noise canceling headphones on top of earplugs (while playing a pink noise track) can be very effective. MacGuyver your silence
Because that's where the money is. -- Willie Sutton
FYI when I navigate to Learn > Guides, the first letter of each row is cut off. https://imgur.com/a/vMR6erq
Also known as "better include the three years of Apple Care coverage in the cost of the computer."
I'm not sure I understand your use case well, but have you tried lvm's snapshots? That could be the simplest solution.

If you're going to try btrfs, check if your system/tools handle the space overcommit correctly. Some ways to check the available space don't really play well with snapshots. (As in, they report less space available)
Sounds similar to what Joe Armstrong reportedly did all the time with his programs: write an implementation, identify the faults, rewrite it entirely, identify the rewrite's faults, and rinse/repeat until it was good enough.

On reflecting, I've had a similar process, too, though now I'm at least consciously aware of it as an actual development strategy rather than just believing I'm a shitty programmer who's forced to rewrite things because he can't fix his prior horribly-broken implementations, lol.
Do you have a source for that? We're pushing 7 billion people on the planet.

Here's a source that uses that $34k figure: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05061...
Spammers would hammer it with bots.
I just replaced the keyboard on a ThinkPad T440p, and it didn’t seem to add a significant bulk to the machine’s profile. It took me 2 minutes flat.
We may not be robots, but our code is still run by machines which are incredibly pedantic. Any imprecissions which require human intuition to untangle won't help solve practical problems.
(whoops, excuse the bad webserver config... should be fixed now)

> Don't require users of your API to start goroutines to use your API correctly.

Actually, what I postulate in the article is different... The theory is that making the caller kick off the goroutines puts more control over concurrency into the hands of the caller, and the resulting API is simpler.

> Avoid high goroutine fanout in your implementation.

That's for sure. :)
Yes, but a Makefile is a sensible place for documentation on how to build and run everything (that happens to be executable). If there's a bunch of scripts all over, I'm not going to know which one I'm supposed to run. And it's probably not going to resolve dependencies for me.
We were having a tax discussion. We both agree that gov't has gross inefficiencies, so I'm suggesting funding the inefficient organization less. When I said "it hasn't been good" I was talking in the context about efficiency.

In my next comment, I again was talking about taxes. I used communism as an example of a high tax system. I also wanted to point out that western style democracies which you call good, lean toward capitalism, where gov't have a smaller role in society - which I am using to support my lower tax argument.
Some people (those who own wells) don't have real "water bills" at all and are actually referring to a portion of their electric bill corresponding to the well pump usage when they say "water bill". (Depending on well depth and usage patterns, this may or may not be a significant portion of the power bill.)
what benefits do you see in URLs being unique? not necessarily disagreeing, just curious
So no upgradable RAM, no upgradable storage. If either stops functioning, you have to change the entire logic board (including the CPU and GPU? I'm not sure). Wow this is a crappy design. But expected, since this is Apple that we're talking about.
How-To Force Matlab (MKL) to Use a Fast Codepath on AMD Ryzen/TR CPUs
To me it seems very unclear what this license means in practical terms. It mentions that contributions are needed unless it's prototype but definitions on what it means isn't there. Can you operate gmail-type of service, call it beta and not release the code for many years because it's "used for for non-production user testing"?
From observations of myself, I think this behaviour is compelled by a childlike grasping at control of some trivial external aspect of my experience to make up for my inability to control the bug I'm working on, for example.
Speculation: Americans elect Bushs and Trumps. It's also easy to absolve yourself when the person you're hating on is the strongest.
If anyone has issues with ANC, I suggest giving Etymotic IEMs a shot. I have ER2XRs, they provide a quoted 34-42dB of isolation. I never had a problem with the deep insertion, they sound great and are relatively cheap.

This isn't necessarily directed at OP since he's been using Bose since 2004
It's a scientific fact that donations influence behavior. It is impossible for these organizations to remain unbiased in their approach to privacy when they take these contributions.
What Belongs in an Effective Code Review Checklist?
Insurance is about risk aversion (which is reasonable in some cases), not loss aversion (which is completely irrational)
Good point. Looks like my number is outdated, it's from the worldbank data from a decade back
i like make primarily as an 'entry point'. there are better tools for dependency management and building, usually language-specific, but as the OP notes, that also requires remembering each tool's invocation details, and documenting them in the README for anyone else wanting to build your project. it's easier to capture the tool invocation in a Makefile and let that serve as your primary interface.
The future of the species is literally imperiled right now because we've allowed rich people to hoard wealth, so that's a reason to care.
I'd also add https://github.com/go-task/task and https://github.com/magefile/mage (both written in Go) for people who are looking for alternatives to Make.
I came here just to say that - if memory serves - this was mentioned in The Mote in God's Eye by Niven & Pournelle: humans have contacted an alien race, and the aliens suggest some improvements to the human technology on display on the spaceship. Among these, a "frictionless material" which one of the human engineers points out "will save lots of water on arid planets and also on the spaceships themselves".

(During the exchange with the aliens who live there, one
> If everything worked so fine and dandy in the good old days, we'd still be there.

I'm not a historian, but I'm pretty sure a historian could find a lot of counter examples to statements like this.

That includes historians who know an aweful lot about programming languages.
The thing you tend to hear about banking services is that everyone is dissatisfied with them. This is probably why a lot of startups think they can jump in and disrupt.

People should lend directly to each other, or have sensibly priced investments, or people should have simple bank accounts that don't surprise you with charges, or be able to change FX cheaply. Those kinds of ideas are pretty easy to suggest for outsiders, and the answer is always "I'm gonna make a website that's better than the incumbent".

To be fair, startup FS sites have tended to be easier to navigate, and focusing on an area like FX does create a simpler user experience.

The question is whether any money can be made. For instance we now have a load of challenger banks that have a slick app for sending money to people. But how much is the customer actually worth? Do they stick around or open a whole bunch due to it being so easy? Also what are you gonna upsell them on other than the metal card?

What about the lending markets? How come Lending Club has issues making money as the premier business in the direct lending category?

What about the investment businesss? Competing on price is generally something they tell you not to do in business school, but that seems to be the main value proposition as far as I can tell. I reckon Google could jump in here though. They have credibility among the general populace as being pretty smart with ML, and I bet they could morph their bank into a super hedge fund.

The FX niche, I don't know how TransferWise are doing, but it's fairly easily encroached on by the challenger banks. The backend is fully commoditized, it's a question if getting customers. Which is probably why TW are offering bank account like services.
> Another answer: because regular banks are awful to deal with. They don't have nice APIs to just move money around. They apply velocity limits at surprising times. They can terminate your account suddenly for opaque reasons.

Do you think Google is going to do any better at this? They already have no customer support, close accounts without notice....etc... The article is right, this is about engagement.
Hackernews comments don’t get run on anything. Not to mention that they are imprecise anyway because they are written in English.
So after firing the vendor, who on your side got fired for allowing it in the first place?
I used to use Freebsd. It was great until it wasn't. Mainly, I would recommend not using it as a desktop. It's perfect for a server or FreeNAS but the ports for common desktop applications seem to be broken fairly often which causes usability issues and some very heavy frustration. From the forums (you will use them allot), I learned that the developers mainly use Macs as their primary PC's. So this problem is not likely to change.

As far as Awk over Perl. It's been quite some time but when I did awk scripts they had some pretty annoying quirks that you just had to learn. Perl was just easier. Has that changed? I know that Perl as a larger language is languishing but isn't it still perfect for this type of thing?
That solution is still better than what Amazon is currently doing, and I do like it. My reasoning is that an account being accused of fraud shouldn't be left open. But I suppose a fraudster isn't inconvenienced by having to create a new Amazon account and continuing their fraud there.
It‘s not a very professional device if you can‘t upgrade the storage and the memory.

The Mac Pro will feature modular SSDs (and they aren‘t even super fast). I wonder if Apple will use something proprietary or standard M.2 NVMe modules. They probably can‘t offer PCIe 4.0 slots since they‘re using Intel which is trailing behind.
Not sure why you were being downvoted. That was iFixit's final repairability score. Their summary...

Pluses:

The trackpad can still be removed and replaced with very little drama.

Minuses

Minor components are modular, but the processor, RAM, and flash memory are soldered to the logic board.

Glue and/or rivets secure the keyboard, battery, speakers, and Touch Bar, making those components a tricky fix.

The Touch ID sensor is the power switch and is locked to the logic board, greatly complicating repairs.
I used to work at a coal plant. The skillsets(mechanic, electrician, boiler, welding, labor, tech) have plenty of overlap with other types of plants. Workers regularly transferred to hydro and nuclear plants when necessary or for better opportunities. The majority of workers will be fine if they're willing to move to another region. The co-op or owner will oftentimes pay for the move
thanks perspective1! I find overt self-promotion to be distasteful, so glad it came across well. We are using the interchange fees to pay for the $5000 emergency fund, they have to move their direct deposit over to switch "ON" the safety net. We do break even based on our current estimates of annual spend and claims, but looking at a few different ways, upselling insurance is the big one! Will write about it and make sure to post on this comment thread!
Apple rolling back the keyboard design and lack of Escape key reminds me of the satirical "Upgrade to Windows 7 (from Windows 8)" article from six or seven years ago, joyfully describing how Windows was back on track after 7 fixed most of 8's problems.
Once again, that's a general statement that doesn't apply here. Rest assured that heads will roll/have already rolled over this.
No one had killed themselves in that prison in over ten years.

You have to really contort all the information available in this case to see it as anything other than a massive cover up. People in the media going out of their way to claim it's a "conspiracy theory" should be held in utmost suspicion. Look at how ABC spiked the story of Epstein before it became public and how the other major networks have since played along. Including CBS firing the ABC whistle blower (who had since moved on to working with them) at ABC's request.

I don't know what Popehat's motives are for trying to cover this up further, but I bet he's friends with people who are implicated.
While you were streaming: Smoking on demand
This is an odd definition of professional.

To me, what you can do with it and the kinds of jobs it enables is what makes a computer pro or not.
This is great. A Glassdoor employer/requester rating hovering scorecard with the possibility to ping the HIT crowd for updates in realtime.
Thanks, that led me to: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/atomics.html#acquire-relea... which has an even better description.
Came here to say I paid for this a couple of years ago and found it very useful (ended up using it on both C++ and Java codebases), do give it a try.

Sad to see that it didn't make it as a commercial product (wonder what lesson to draw from this ...)
Strangely under-reported is that the same hacker is offering up to 100k to others who perform similar acts of hacktivism:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5agy/phineas-fisher-off...
This is correct. The Magic keyboard has been beloved for several years, and it is not a keyboard that has ever been in a laptop before.
> "There's nothing wrong with the amount of water we currently use to flush our toilets."

That depends entirely on where you live. Depending on the local situation, you might have almost no fresh water, way too much fresh water, or just the right amount of it. In these sort of conversations people often seem to forget that their local conditions are not universal.
> Nilsson was only able to photograph one living foetus, though, using an endoscopic camera that travelled into a womb.

How was this approved? Inserting an endoscope into the uterus (presumably through the cervix) is likely pretty uncomfortable to the mother and has a decent risk of causing infection or loss of pregnancy and there is no offsetting medical benefit to either the mother or the fetus.
The easiest way to improve a good laptop is to make a bad update and then revert it.
Three? Isn't it 2? (which overlaps with the mandatory 1yr warranty period)
Why is the first step to monitor it, not 'get a HEPA filter & fan / purifier'?

Monitoring seems like it's interesting to do if you want to, but if you already know it's an issue, just start addressing it?
There is this great talk 'stick to simple Haskell' along those lines, but unfortunately it is hosted here https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/14133-stick-to-simple-h...

Unfortunately I can't find it anywhere else, but it is worth keeping your ears out in case it pops up somewhere..
She also attacked the Barcelona police department, the Turkish government, and stole money from various Bitcoin wallets to donate to the Kurds iirc. Her write-ups are always really great reads and very enlightening.
How much money can one make in an hour as a Turk? Has anyone tried it? I used to click links and made a few dollars back in the day...
I'm genuinely curious as to who would bid for the source code and what their motivations behind it would be. There isn't exclusive rights to the source code and the original owners of the source code even say that they are going to continue to work on it. So you start off with 9 other competitors at the exact same place as you as well as all the other competition in the market. Then add to it the competition that may come in from buying the code on gumroad.
You are completely right I made a general argument. I didn't say that Epstein must have committed suicide. I said that an argument based in the idea that Epstein was treated in a shockingly irregular manner ignores the state of the US justice system.

As to heads rolling, the low-level guards in charge of watching Epstein are on unpaid leave and under investigation. The head of the Bureau of Prisons has been demoted to his previous job as the head of a department in the bureau of prisons. I wouldn't call that accountability.
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I don't know why you're being downvoted. Maybe for spoiling the end result? Haha.

Having the lowest repairability possible should not be acceptable for such a high-end machine.

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 got 5/10 (23 October 2019)

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+3+(...
gruseom: This seems like an interesting initiative. Can you tell us why you shared it?
> particularly when I hear a mouse click getting louder and more violent.

What really gets to me is loud and furious typing. Otherwise most office noise doesn’t bother me. But that’s mostly because I’m surrounded by colleagues who I get along with.
Not your parent comment and not blaming the media for giving people what they want (especially since the media has trained consumers not to pay for news)

That said, this argument of giving people what they want is a weird one. It is like taking the easiest and the laziest route to profit. Also, there is a not insignificant population that still wants facts and not click baity nonsense. But media churns out click baits because it is easier and faster.
Last post is from Friday, Nov 15, 2019. Seems like the story isn't over.
Pripyat had 53,000 people evacuated by bus in one hour.

Hurricane evacuations even a week in advance are horrible by car. Highway infrastructure simply cannot cope with large movements of people in one direction.
Attention control with distracting external stimuli is associated to higher intelligence.
The satire is a little imprecise here, but this is literally why there's a Green New Deal being proposed. We can address climate change AND make sure everyone has a livelihood while society undergoes the massive changes necessary.
Epstein absolutely had a massive public profile when this story would have aired. When he was first arrested there were many stories about him. There were multiple witnesses and mountains of credible evidence. It was a cover up plain and simple.
>I can start as fast with my favorite technologies and without hitting a wall later.

What are your "favorite technologies"? Where can I get a hosting using your "favorite technologies" that would allow me to create dynamic server-size content just by editing a single file? (No command line fuckage.) Will the resulting solution be portable to other hosting providers?
No-Go for me when there isn't mobile support, but once that's there, I am very happy to switch to that.
I actually can't see rtings saying that noise cancelling is better on there -- just noise isolation. But I'm probs missing it and also think it's highly subjective -- in-ear just feels more effective to me.
I don't know where you live but I hear a gram is like $5 in WA. Seems like it's at least worth a shot, and with nothing left to lose, why not move to one of the 11 states that have legalized recreational use.

(I admit I don't know if that price is for indica or sativa)

I don't know your whole story, and I haven't suffered as you, but at least some states in the country are trying [1]. I hope you've explored the possibility of relocating within the country.

[1] https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/07/colorado-public-health-in...
In all fairness, dealing with unicode in general has been a pain point for me.
Why can't he be both an economist and a pundit? They're not exactly mutually exclusive.
Hey payamrajabi, you can copy the link of an issue from the desktop app. You need to click on the meatballs in the issue and you are going to see the option there.
The problem with Catalyst apps is that hovering is not a functionality that existed before.