skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am in America and have yet to get screwed by a counterfeit.

Well, how do you know?

Maybe they’ve been good counterfeits?

Another possibility is that you’ve never seen the genuine version, so you don’t know what to compare the counterfeit to.
Succinctly put. Realizing this is very painful if one has been raised idealistically.
If you want consistent display and editable format, why not just use HTML with standard css?

You also get enhanced accessibility.
(I often need to reflow the pdf when reading from mobile device)
The only explanation I can find for this comment is that it's meant to be a hyperbolic satire, from someone whose views may be hyperbolically satirized as "all goverment and regulation is an affront to my inaliable right to dump toxic waste everywhere".
Even those hard and fast rules leave a lot of room for interpretation hence why many cases are decided in months and years and not days.

Laws change and are updated all the time.

I stand by my original assertion.

Apple with its App store most certainly is a monopoly/oligarch with unchecked power in the mobile space to destroy entire companies on a whim, companies like Uber would be irreparably damaged for example if removed from Apple’s platform. I believe this fact to be self evident and indisputable - Apple clearly has monopolistic power in this space.
In India is between 7 to 8 %, it was even higher a few years ago.
Aha, yip, my bad. Thank you for that, edits added.
"connect" seems clear to me. But anyway, doesn't really make much of a difference.

>Many folks I’ve talked to don’t realize there are alternative ways to connect to Slack still once the XMPP / IRC endpoints died. They think the only way is using the Slack developed apps. Thankfully, that’s becoming more and more not true each day.

Which are? Using a proprietary Websockets API is not "another" way if even the Slack app is using that (not sure). The main difference to XMPP/IRC is, that with the later ones not a single line of code needs to be written (not from me and not from IRC/XMPP developers). Just use the client you like, set server and credentials and you are done. That's why there are protocols.

>Slack uses Websockets. Websockets != to HTTP.

port 443 is close enough and http is needed to start anyway :P
Amazon could root out these users rather quickly. If this "reviewer" is posting only 5-star reviews Amazon could implement a check box the user agrees to before submission. It would state that the user has not been paid or will not be paid for said review and that the review has not been influenced by the manufacturer or seller. If said user is found to be placing erroneous reviews (all 5 star reviews seems to be a dead giveaway) Amazon will remove all prior comments and ban commenting via the users account for X months. She states that she doesn't think what she's doing is wrong. It is wrong because it's a misrepresentation in many cases. Her gain is another person's loss of time and money based on what most people expect to be reasonably honest feedback. It's amazing what people will do for free junk.

Cables are notorious for this - almost every knock off type cable I've purchased from Amazon has come with an envelope asking for a review and they will provide a free gift for me. Most of those purchases go back to Amazon and I try to review them accordingly, but it's hard to judge when you've got more than 200 reviews and averaging 4.5 stars on a very specific cable you're looking for (length, color, specs, etc). In these cases Amazon eats significant shipping costs for the send and return labels - you'd think they'd want to get this under control better. But if anything I'd say returning the item is the best way to get Amazon to crack down on this since these fake reviews then cost them time and money.
Its interesting that a few years back brands were losing their power. Why buy a Sony gadget when a XYZTech gadget has great reviews and apparently works even better. Now you can't trust reviews any more and the Sony product looks more like something you can trust.
Uh... you just have to press the right arrow to get out of the code block when you type. Seriously, that's not even one more key press, that's just pressing "right" instead of `
The same thing happened when we were working on Leopard under Bertrand. Because the developer toolchain switched to Objective C 2.0 with garbage collection enabled, the OS was unusable for development for months at a time.

Development took twice as long as planned, the release was fairly bloated, and required 2 or 3 updates in the first month or two.

When Craig took over he introduced a sprint model so that there were periodic relatively stable releases. If something wasn't ready and there were still sprints left, you could push it back.

But it sounds like there has been milestone creep causing those sprints to either become more heavy or less missable. And I'm guessing the consequences for missing a sprint are more career limiting than they were when the methodology was still new.

It's like Rich Hickey said, we're smarter than runners, we just fire a new starting pistol every 100 yards and call it a new sprint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPT-DuG0UjU
Comment from Elon Musk: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1197271943180771329

Official SpaceX statement: https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/11973066177605591...
How Airbnb, Google, & Netflix Improve Their Products with UX Writing
> But most BT headphones don’t work seamlessly between laptop and phone.

That's a firmware deficiency, not something mandated by bluetooth ICs. I, right now, use bluetooth headphones that connect to my phone and my laptop simultaneously.
Amazon reported that in 2018, customers spent $160 billion on items from third-party sellers — 58% of all sales on the site. More than 1 million sellers joined Amazon marketplaces around the world that year, according to e-commerce data firm Marketplace Pulse. In this year’s shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote: “Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly.”

This tells me that Amazon is never going to fix the gamed reviews, or the counterfeit items, because doing so will impact their profits.
Not direct answer to your question, but Berstel's publications:

http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~berstel/PubsJeanBerstel.html

You can try to contact him, he might be able to help you.
I too do not care for the new text box.

Does anyone know why it only shows on one of my two Slack workspaces?
The assertion was that IP address = Web.
I was quite upset after paying $3-5 for a movie off Youtube that was labeled as "HD" which ended up being 480p. It turns out that 480p is technically considered "HD"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_video
What a crypto doomsday might look like: Harvard simulation
Maybe we need to see those skills map. I can't wait for CEOs to disagree that you don't need those skills. Most CEOs became CEOs because they started the company or are connected to the owners of the company. Most CEOs are just political leaders of a business. They didn't need to learn HR, Finance, IT etc in order to run the company.
Searching within its internal game tree is different from what it actually does in the game-trajectory-generation phase. It could be entirely true that the search does not do anything at all to handle illegal moves, relying on the RNN being good enough to predict that illegal moves are never taken, and that the actual game-playing masks it out, or instant-loses, or something else entirely.
People already came up with a solution: fast breeder nuclear reactors. Western activists are just not interested in considering the solution.
She's basically taking part in fraud.

How she justifies it to herself is pretty irrelevant.
Yeah that sucks. But at least their phone support has low wait times and you can talk to people who actually speak English. Not "Robert" from "Redmond City" aka Rajastan.
I think the most interesting bit of trivia here is the discussion of Bertelsen's Number: 50847478, which is famous as being a published but incorrect count of the primes less than 1e9. 50847534 is the correct answer, but the incorrect number was derived in the 19th century and has persisted in textbooks through the 20th.

In some ways, with computers, this is pretty trivial; what's impressive is that this was computed long before computers were available, and although incorrect, was remarkably close. Computers have spoiled us.
> But often it's just as expensive as the other name brands.

Sometimes it’s even more expensive. A Wyze smart outlet is $20 for 2. Amazon brand is $25 for one.

Wyze https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XZT24B8/

Amazon Smart Plug https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZEEFNX/
You got it backwards, the CIA cannot lawfully operate within the United States, they however can operate lawfully within any foreign territory.

Their mandate is based on US law not whichever country they operate in, if they are caught they will be charged with espionage.

There is no such thing as a legal CIA operation, it might get permission from the host nation to operate but it doesn't make it a legal act in the nation in question.

If MI6/5 whoever gives the CIA permission to rendition or even assassinate a target from the UK that doesn't mean it's legal according to UK law.

Intelligence agencies operate in grey areas where there is an agreement in place as long as no one gets caught and most things are either kept so secret that no one would ever get to them or there is simply no paper trail at all.

The UK knows very well who is that CIA station chief in London despite them being there under false pretences which is a violation of UK laws, same goes for most of the CIA / any other TLA agency staff operating in a diplomatic mission under cover.

They all get some US State Department BS title and assignment and diplomatic papers but in reality they aren't diplomats and any competent nation knows all if not the majority of the TLA staff stationed in the US missions operating within it's borders.
I'll put money on that not being the engineers; I'm guessing that a dev merely added Google Tag Manager and someone in sales/digital marketing went to town on it.

Still, yep, I disabled uBlock Origin and that site is bad (on my work's 2015 Macbook Pro). I like disabling it on news sites every now and then to remind me just how utterly fucking unusable much of the Web is without it.
OP's proposal is one of the right's solutions to climate change. They just described a form of ecofascism.
Just switched over to this. Thanks for posting.
What Happens When We Die? Insights from Resuscitation Science
Weird, I use Chromium at work and Teams seems to work fine for me.
They just did that with iOS 12/macOS Mojave. I guess they need another one?
The latency on the magic keyboard is only 15ms, as opposed to the common 30-40ms on other keyboards.

Key travel time contributes to this, so if you have longer travel you will also have longer latency (latency being the beginning of the keypress untill the character appears on your screen). I personally much prefer the feel of a mechanical keyboard, so I dislike both the magic keyboard and regular dome keyboards. The typing experience on a mechanical keyboard is better, even though it has more travel.
Take a look at Gemini[0] for self-hosted issue management and help desk ticketing.

[0] https://www.countersoft.com
I was about to ask the same. One of the things I badly needed was persistent logs. I googled around and found https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-irc which lists bouncers that serves the purpose.

Not really looking for replacement though (team is currently on Mattermost)
It clearly was an accident, why would they put 3 rocket engines in it if they were going to stress test the tank?
These two books might be useful,

1) https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/electronic-design-autom...
2) https://www.crcpress.com/Electronic-Design-Automation-for-IC...

On the first book, see chapter 10 - 12 (on floorplanning, placement, and routing). End of chapter 11 points you to some literature survey as well. But the book itself is somewhat dated (published in 2009)

I haven't read the second book but it's much more recent (published in 2018), it also has chapters on placement, and routing.
Seems like in addition to all the other problems this is enabling people with hoarder tendencies. Amazon needs to start losing business for this to change.

Maybe all the big data collection could come in handy. Amazon could probably pay Facebook to find out all the people who are in these paid reviewer groups and ban them all, buyers and sellers.
Agreed - should probably read " web frontend" or something similar.
We had constant issues with our fridge water dispenser using 'Samsung' water filters bought on Amazon. Out of desperation, I just bought a cheap off-brand one, hoping if it was at least being honest about not being an official product, it'd at least be functional as a replacement. All of the issues with our fridge have since vanished.

I've since learnt real Samsung water filters come with an authentication tag, and none of the ones I ordered on Amazon came with one. I think we've been drinking water from counterfeit filters for a year now.

https://www.samsung.com/us/home-appliances/home-appliances-a...
« My rule of thumb generally is: if I need significant rich text formatting in a message I'm writing, it should probably just be an email. »

Italic and bold I can do without. But code blocks are absolutely necessary for my day job, especially during a production incident. (Email won't cut it for that!)
I wonder censorship-proof communication technology will ever be widely deployed around the world, so that this sort of blackout is no longer possible.
In MA we have the Turtleboy blog which is basically the only way to get news that doesn't bend over backwards to stay on the "correct" (where correct is defined on Beacon Hill) side of issues involving government. He has a right bias on certain social issues but it's easy enough to tune out and he does a good job delineating facts and his opinions.
Satya Nadella Added $850B to Microsoft
"For example an average person, if focused, can learn to read (but not understand) Korean decently in under an hour."

Correct. I also recommend reading 3 books a day to change your life for the better.
Honestly, take a look at what’s happening in Australia right now, it’s absolutely astounding how apocalyptic things are looking there.
What’s more amazing is the Australian Government is still in the business of climate emergency denial.

I’m really worried about certain communities and cities making it through the summer down there. It will be California In the same situation again soon.
And imo it's still basically the best design.

98 and XP were basically just flavors of win95 and those were everyone's favorite, UI wise.
We think of the millions of dead in the soviet famine of 32/33, and the tens of millions of dead from the chinese famine of 59-61, as "crimes" of communism because they were largely driven by man-made policy decisions.

In a 3 or 4C future we will almost certainly see such famines again. This time we can see it coming in the charts and graphs decades ahead of time. Doesn't that make it a much greater crime?

4C is the pre-meditated famine-murder of 10s of millions.

edit: love the onslaught of downvotes when I dare paraphrase the well accepted science. hacker news is a reactionary cesspool of vile cowards.
Languages that do provide a while loop are generally OOP, which have their own class (see what I did there) of foot-guns.
We've had a perfectly good open chat protocol since... gosh, I don't even know. It's called IRC and it's so simple you can implement a server or client in python in under an hour.

This is what happens when you over-engineer things.
From my 30 years management experience, your personal experience is not what I've seen. Maybe works in small teams but not with strangers; too short, too abrupt and provides little to no context about the desired answer.

For example, in the case above, was the "How so?" directed at the "immediately stop using it" part or the "have no choice" part? Both?
For a bit longer than slavery or smallpox has existed.

Saying a thing always existed is a pretty bad argument to keep it alive.
How amazon could solve the problem

block_accounts_in(
select users.username, avg(reviews.stars), sum(order.amount) from reviews
inner join users on reviews.uid=users.uid
inner join orders on reviews.uid=orders.uid
group by users.username
having avg(reviews.stars)=5 and sum(orders.amount)>10000
)
Not sure what that is supposed to mean. It's ~9 % the last ~5 years.
iOS 12 and Mojave are fine. Just stay there, fix bugs, and add support for new hardware.
A Practical Guide to State Machines
Sent an email this morning. Will update if I get a response.
> The new approach calls for Apple's development teams to ensure that test versions, known as “daily builds,” of future software updates disable unfinished or buggy features by default. Testers will then have the option to selectively enable those features, via a new internal process and settings menu dubbed Flags, allowing them to isolate the impact of each individual addition on the system.

Uh, I'm not very confident on this helping; wouldn't this mean fewer people will be using and evaluating beta components?

> Apple privately considered iOS 13.1 the “actual public release” with a quality level matching iOS 12.

It certainly didn't reach that quality level…
> I'm not sure why you think that other places can deal any better with this type of review fraud.

I'm not sure why you think that I think that.
"Of the remaining [kids], they mostly used it to go on the internet. This was not something that the machine was really designed for."

Even in the western world if you hand someone a computer that doesn't have internet access they'll probably just turn it off and go do something else.
MySQL seemed a good start and we'll roll out more options upon request, but we first want to see some engagement and get some feedback before investing in that.

To test out how hard it would be to support another DB type, we already have a branch working that writes to a Postgres DB, which was a minor adjustment. So: MySQL for now, but we are writing our code to easily support other DBs if needed.

There are migration tools available for almost any database type from MySQL
A snippit in Phava. https://gist.github.com/forairan/b1143f42883b3b0ee1237bc9bd0...
The only additional thing I can think they they could do is start infiltrating these review faking networks, figuring out which products are having reviews bought for them, and penalize them. That kind of goes down a rabbit hole where what if a competitor buys fake reviews for your legitimate product in order to get it banned. There is no perfect solution. It seems like Amazon has tried to alleviate the lowered integrity of reviews by showing professional reviews when you search certain things (such as Wirecutter). It's a real problem, and not an easy one to solve.
> This contract is clearly entered only because Facebook is making it a condition of using the service

The contract is entered when a user registers at Facebook. However Facebook seems disagree about what the contract involves. Any sane person (well, 96% of them, as the article claims) would say that the contract is for delivery of means to communicate with other people; Facebook seems to argue that the contract is for delivery of personalized ads.
I think the idea is that you can't put anything with a known regression in the daily builds any more. But that gives a problem of how do you even get feedback on an in-development feature while you're trying to get it to a zero-regression state? The answer appears to be feature flags, I guess.
Don't forbid to say good things about a product, forbid paying someone to do it. I don't mind Apple fanboys saying why they think Steve Jobs was a genius. I mind the big fucking 5m ads they put on historical monuments.
Those are few and far between, so unlikely to reach full scale deployment in time.
it's a bit late, these protests should have taken place 20 years ago. all we can do now is prep
Been working on Documize[0] for a while now and we get plenty of Confluence people moving over.

Open source core supporting WYSIWYG, Markdown, Code and more.

[0] https://github.com/documize/community
I think they need to do it to hardware too, they will be selling shitty butterfly keyboards for 1 - 2 more years while they stutter out upgrades. The 13" MBP upgrade is expected to be another 6 - 7 months away which is just incoherent, Minis and the iMacs are all over a year old again albeit they at least don't have the butterfly keyboards.
Black light:

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

We had one of those at home when I was a child, it was a lot of fun.
it’s hard to have a moral compass when your stomach is empty. even if that’s not the case you will always have bad actors. always.

the question is: who has the right incentives to stop this kind of behavior?
Has a Douglas Adams quality about it; if it's possible to write a book containing an infinite improbability drive, a restaurant at the end of the universe, and a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue, it's probably possible to write this.
Those pictures are not sufficiently anonymous; https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05314 or just neighbors could easily see where she is. And the barcodes are easily visible on some of the boxes.
In what world we live where this is a good idea?!
Not just cheap methods - even if the methods are better, they have a history of not being followed correctly [0][1][2].

[0] https://nypost.com/2017/02/10/thousands-of-convicts-told-tha...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/weekinreview/the-nation-y...

[2] https://www.kuer.org/post/private-utah-dna-lab-faces-scrutin...
So one of the issues is that Apple lives on their own tools, so when critical system components are broken nobody can get work done. But ideally they'd actually fix the bugs and try to keep the daily builds livable rather than trying to sweep the issues under the rug…
I look it up but I can't see a clear answer of why?
Wow, this is nice. Going through the front-end path briefly, I realize I know most of these things, and it is because of gradual exposure and necessity in a tool.

I remember as a freshman in college, when I decided to first learn the basics of web development, I saw an intimidating roadmap like this one (though that was for full-stack). Back then, I would have never dreamed of making it even a quarter way through the list.
100+ years of industrialisation has some momentum to it, but just because objects in motion tend to stay in motion doesn't mean they cannot come to rest
But isn't this not really and argument against FLOSS in this case? Isn't support the entire business model of, say RedHat?
> Anyone can claim "security advantages" from their walled garden, there's nothing particular about their implementation that grants them any additional security.

This is just not true. Apple does tons of stuff to keep users protected from third-party software distributed through their app store.

Sometimes those things are frustrating and get in the way of app developers, like me. But I see why they are doing them, and I see THAT they are doing them, and I am, in the end, happy they do. Because of that, the computing platform I use that I feel is the most secure is by far iOS. I can trust it far further than I can any desktop system on the market today.
The thinnest iPhone was the 6 and 6s. Every phone since then has been thicker to accommodate new technologies and bigger batteries. Recent Apple Watches are also bigger than the earliest models.

I understand why Snell wrote this article now--to tap some pageviews off the public interest in the 16" Macbook Pro announcement--but his fundamental thesis is wrong.

Apple has always balanced size vs functionality; it has not been a continuous track toward thinner and thinner under Jobs or Ive. Where they have made major missteps, it is because they guessed wrong about technology, not some Ive-driven quest for thinness at all costs.
¿Por qué no a los dos?