skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't live in a post scarcity society. As such it's not possible to support every kid to a high standard of living unless you limit the number of kids.

I also want to point out that they don't pay taxes to their city, county, state, and country. There have been several studies by the CBO[0 - see the chart on page 31] that show that the lower 60% of households are not net tax payers at the federal level to such an extent that their entire non-federal tax payments offset by the transfers and benefits they receive from the federal government.

0 - https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...
Wish they'd do something about internet scammers. One of them got my mom to pay $150 and she lives off disability. She asks me all the time about these messages she gets about how her computer is damaged and to call a number. I tell her not to, but she has dementia and forgets. These assholes are preying specifically on our old population.
While I wouldn't trade in a 2018 MBP, I'm definitely considering trading in my 2016 MacBook to either the 13" or the Air once they update them.

I suspect both of these new models came in too late to appreciably affect the Mac quarter results, though, as the OP mentioned -- and I also suspect that the number of people who were holding off on upgrades, like you, has been steadily rising. And I know I'm not alone in looking at the 16" one and thinking it was neat but just too big. So maybe the acid test is going to be seeing what happens to sales when they update the smaller models with the new keyboard.
Another famous example is Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska. He recorded the songs on an Teac 4-track cassette machine at home as demos, took them to the studio to record with his band, but felt that they didn't work as well as the demos, and so the demos became the final album. (One of the songs from these sessions, "Born in the USA", ended up getting a studio version on a later album.)
The tax dollars I pay to house, clothe, feed, and provide medical care for people who have no reason to be imprisoned are the resources that belong to society that are being wasted. The waste of talent limits his or her contributions to the world.
I've only got 16MB of ram, Warcraft needs at least 8MB of Extended ram but Quake needs at least 12 MB of Expanded ram. Damn I'm gonna need a boot floppy for one of them.
The war against boys was won. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/05/the-war...
The Polynesian Voyaging Society has been using reconstructed navigation techniques to make trips across the pacific since the 1980s. Fascinating stuff!

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

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

http://www.hokulea.com

Even longer ago (late 1940s), there were arguments if a polynesian style vessel could even make the trip, let alone navigate using traditional techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
> I also support mandatory death penalty for use of methamphetamine and opioids

> I support the Portugal policy: decriminalize opioid use and provide free injections at all police stations.

These are not the same.
Well when I was a kid, I had to program my own games on the C64. Walked uphill to school both ways, too.
Even non defective foetuses...
If you were dealing in MB, you were already more advanced.
Citation definitely needed. At the end of prohibition, one could have just as easily said something like "Why work when you can drink and play cards/horseshoes/whatever all day?"
it's hard to have your software heard at the supermarket though, unless you design point of sale
Yeah but I want to make fun of a huge corporation for fakely supporting something only a small minority of us computer elite use
I, too want this. My ideal is actually mu4e, rather than mutt, but the idea is the same.

I think what is truly optimal is to keep the CLI nature of the MUA, but have a slave browser window that displays the HTML portion of a message. Then you can tile your terminal to one side of the screen and the browser window to the other. Use the already excellent UI to browse mail and compose mail. When you encounter a message with an HTML part, render that in the slave browser window and render whatever text part exists in the terminal.
Multithreaded programming is still one of the most problematic activities even for senior programmers

I agree wholeheartedly. FWIW I've found higher level abstractions built into the language itself, such as atoms and refs in Clojure, go a long way toward mitigating the problem once and for all. This gives you an actual harpoon to hunt Amdahl's* Great White Whale of Parallelism. Instead of a toothpick (C++) or a pocket knife (Java) to do it.

The trouble is we need to stop hunting whales if we're going to move the needle in a permanent and significant way...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
I hide it behind a wristband.
Thanks for the clarification!

I originally had typed "1 in 10,000" but that seemed too many kids....and it turns out I was utterly wrong!
Because we (as a society) failed to make those layers compatible with privacy and data ownership ?
>At the last graduation ceremony at Maine State Prison, Brown delivered a speech in which he spoke of the potential for prisons to become hubs of education, because of the power of education to change lives.

Brown is on to something here. Our current prison system could use a lot of improvement, current recidivism rates are out of control. https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6266
‘Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back’
"When you explain what happens under the hood, they will ignore you. When you tell them what a certain setting probably does, they will ignore you."

So teenagers do what teenagers have always done? I agree with the others - kids who need to figure stuff out will find a way.
> just too big

I pointed out in another comment that the 16" is actually slightly smaller on every dimension than the 15" 2015 MBP, even with the extra diagonal-inch of screen space:

358.9 mm × 247.1 mm × 18.0 mm

vs

357.9 mm x 245.9 mm x 16.2 mm

Although I do believe it is slightly bigger than the 2016-2018 15"
That's no more effective than replying to spam.
There are some BitTorrent BEPs you might be interested in:

- HTTP seeding, allows normal web servers to serve as backup seeds: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html
- Torrent signing, uses digital signatures to prove authenticity of data: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0035.html
- Arbitrary data stored in DHT, would allow publishing new versions of torrents without a central point of failure: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html
- Updating torrents, allows torrents to be updated with new data: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html
- Distributed torrent feeds, specification for torrents of torrents: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0049.html

They aren't widely implemented, sadly, but if they were, one could publish and update a torrent of torrents via the DHT, removing any central point of failure.
Ask HN: How do you process payments?
This is how YOU have chosen to do it. Let us know if it is physical or virtual.

I found an old post from 2009 about this, wondering what the answers will be a decade later : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526517
Indeed.

As always, the public debate (and witchhunt) is focused on the tool, the symptom, the observation, and never the underlying cause.

How are these technologies being abused, and why are the perpetrators allowed to do so?

The surveillance tech already exists, as a component of personalised advertising, because it makes lots of money. It's all any government needs as well. It's flown under the radar wrt. the masses, because most people have absolutely no comprehension of how that kind of thing can work and will ignore anyone talking about it because it's an SEP.

But facial recognition is something which the masses can recognise, if not understand, and therefore react to as a threat.

Personally I think that as long as we haven't solved the first problem then we should avoid piling more possible problems upon it, so roadblocking facial recog tech is not something I would object to. But it does miss the point by rather a large margin.

I don't believe that it'll be as 'awareness-raising' as some people seem to believe either, for the reason implied above: people only care about the comprehensible threat.
Informative YT video covering the significance of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1hnTKrbq2I
The irony is that this post is misinformation. It's based on guesses and tweets you saw online.

While I don't think the official numbers are correct, we really don't know the truth yet.
Owning a computer

You mean I have to own a computer to back up my phone to a computer that I own? Scandalous! Next thing you know, you'll tell me that I have to own a phone in order to back up my phone.

Plugging your phone into your computer

If an iPhone is charging and on the same wifi network as the computer, it will automatically sync at night. There's a checkbox for it.

Having iTunes always running

Or you just fire up iTunes when you want to sync. Once a week, or month, or whatever works for your schedule.
Software developers continuing, after all these years, to dismiss any kind of creative work with a computer that isn’t typing, is crazy. I’d take an iPad over a laptop or desktop computer for lots of creative work, if I could only have one device.
Which one is it? "BE ADVISED: It takes a long time to earn enough Loyalty Points to cash out for a meaningful amount of Bitcoin" or "You can cash out on the first day"?
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/28/617308/Ron-Paul:-M....

How about moving pictures? Would that do?

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/24/616953/Baghdad-ant...
And ... "A message to you, Rudy!" - that be my favourite ska song from the Specials :)
That seems illegal, which illustrates the point well enough already.
@nineteen999: that all happened a long time ago. Study your history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
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They are not "C-like" in their syntax, at least in an enforced kind of way. (What I proposed had to deviate from C-like a bit to ensure NON-reliance on key-words to know where block-groups start and end. I had to find a middle ground between being "meta" and being C-like. I nicknamed it "moth" based on the shape of the primary "atomic" structure.)
There are lots of examples. You are right that technology itself is usually value neutral, it's how it has been applied.

But as you suggest the usual answer to this is has always been regulation, which is only effective with teeth.

Nobody can stop you learning how to build a RF transmission devices, or conversely a blocker. But the FAA has very particular ideas (US specific) on what you are allowed to do and not in that space, and if you step too far out of bounds you will be shut down.

The trick is to make the penalties both likely and severe enough to outweigh any benefit you'll see. That will shut down most (ab)uses of the technology. Note regulation can include "you cannot do this as an individual or corporate entity, at all".
I am happy that I grew up in the golden age of computing - people say it was the 80's, but being a "90's" kid, we had classes from HTML w/ dreamweaver, how to modify/break windows 95/98 ---

In fact in NYC, my elementary school had keyboard class where you'd learn to type and general proficiency w/ a computer.

In Florida, middle school photoshop, dreamweaver, fireworks and even access database.

High school had C++ class - from what I believe was a fired Compaq programmer, needless to say it sucked but gave me a foundation.

Meanwhile this was also the time where you needed to know a bit of HTML to modify your Geocities, Angelfire, Neopets (middle school days) to Myspace profile.

Facebook came in and removed that whole layer of customization - Windows XP was really stable and besides malware no one needed to really know how to fix their computer.

Then if you were into Video game culture, you had to learn how to solder to modify consoles with modchips, how to burn a CD, and generally modify and configure OS settings from IRQ to adding a DVDRW.

Same with pirating videos, there was no youtube - maybe you'd get lucky and find an FTP server that hosted videos but even then you'd had codecs. Default, Windows didn't include Divx, MPEG2, etc - just WMV/WMA.

Same with burning an MP3 to CD.

Nowadays I feel like a SRE/Sysadmin hack, but man then again I know my way enough a system, can program lazily and hold my own with people who consider themselves senior devs, architects etc from MSFT, NIST, SpaceX --

It's nice. Maybe I do know something.
Wow, Openwall has been really at it when it comes to OpenBSD related vulns.

First with the user authentication vulns [0], now this.

For those running OpenBSD boxes: the patch is available through syspatch, but you may need to change /etc/updateurl to an official OpenBSD CDN, since the patch is still fresh and not yet distributed to all mirrors.

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/errata65.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20200128230246/https://www.bestli...
Interesting. I've always been suspicious about Grindr, because there is no apparent reason for it to transmit so much data.

On the other hand, the ads I see there are poorly targeted. Either it's really obvious, reminding gay men that they still make KY Jelly and so on, or I'm surprised that anyone thought to make that stuff and that anyone buys it. This high-tech ad market doesn't seem to work very well.
The Art of Storytelling – Pixar in a Box
Allow me to preface this by saying that I am, in fact, a teen, and absolutely do not represent the majority of teenagers.

This post is a generalization and a subjective rant that absolutely doesn't hold up in real life.

>>>When you explain what happens under the hood, they will ignore you. When you tell them what a certain setting probably does, they will ignore you.

In my experience, although there may be some teenagers for which this is true, this is also true for people of all ages - those who aren't interested in learning the base technology simply won't.

>>>Green text with a black background is the norm, right? No.

This seems a diversion from the writer's point, that teenagers don't understand computers. Maybe it's meant to simulate what the writer believes teenagers think of the command line? If so, it's hopelessly off it's mark, like much of this post.

>>>All they want is a computer that works, and that runs their text messaging, anti-privacy and social media apps. They think that Linux is for hackers, that OS X is premium users and windows is what everybody else uses.

No. Just no. I don't know where the writer could have gotten such an idea - most people who use OS X at my school do so for dev, but there is definitely also a sizeable Linux population in addition to the Windows contigent. Personally, I have devices running Windows, OS X, and a few Linux distros.

Ultimately, however, the writer disproves his own point, that teenagers don't know how to use computers as well as their reputation deserves. Being at home with the development of computers is vastly different from actually using them - something at which, I counter, teens are actually pretty good. Yes, the majority of teens may not use the command line much. But the computer is much more than the command line - something other posters on this thread have noted well.
One thing I'm not a fan of C# is how often library usually lack bundled code source, while other similar language(eg. Java), you can use "Go to to Definition" on pretty much any third-party library/anything without hassle.
It's a big company! Even people are not that consistent! For one, I'm seeing that the "mono" culture (not sure if pun intended, or not) is going away from there!
Not sure it’s interesting. But it did become a problem :)

Anyway...

This summer & fall I wrote a JS core lib and a set of compatible packages that together greatly simplify the creation of terminal based node apps and games (in the realm of blessed, blessed-contrib and ink, but with no dependencies and with a novel api/architecture)

I got into it because my son did this node project where an animated car drove in a forest of cellular automata generated trees. Yah. You read it right. Things spiraled from there...

It is not a small project and it is pretty close to release form. I’ve used the lib and components to write a couple of small but non-trivial things. So, yes, it works.

In December, though, I stopped actively working on it. There are various reasons. One of which is that there is snow on the mountains. There are other reasons, none of which is code related.

More curious? More question. Cheers.
Hm, where did I say anything about FP?

As for managed code, it's being used with huge success in a lot of places (not in OS-es or drivers, yes) but that's quite the huge topic by itself.
RxDB maker here.

You can do conflict-resolution by subscribing to the changeFeed and when multiple versions with the same revision-height exist, you create a new version with a 'merged' document. Depending on your dataset this can be tricky and painful.

RxDB can only be used with javascript and will likely ever be.
What are some examples? (I'm genuinely interested.)
I still have a series 0 Apple watch that works fine and is used everyday. How is your watch not working?
You are selectively quoting. You left out the "when combined" with other felonies. The problem is the people get addicted to heroin, heroin costs a lot, so they break into houses, and encountering resistance kill the person. They also will prostitute their own children out to get money for fixes. These folks should be put out of their misery through a lawful process of justice and compassion for their suffering. Like putting down an old dog with cancer, we should put down parents who prostitute their own children to get money for drugs.

Portugal solved the problem another way, a better way. Decriminalize heroin and make it available for free. There, no one needs to murder anyone or prostitute their children to get heroin. The heroin is free at the police station. You just have to go there, show your id, sign a log, and sit in the police station while getting your fix. Simple and easy. This solution is extremely effective and has reduced addiction and suffering, and eliminated horrific crimes caused by junkies who need money for a fix. Because no longer do they need money for that fix. The fix is free. It's a very good policy that works.

In the US we will never give free heroin to addicts even though that is a better solution. We would rather live with the elderly being horrifically murdered, and children being prostituted, than allow such a solution. But elder murder and child rape are not solutions. Extreme punishment for those driven this far then is the option.
FISA Court Orders FBI to Start Cleaning Up Its Carter Page Surveillance Mess
"Widespread" doesn't necessarily mean that sufficient quantities make it into the diet of humans.

Some herbivores harbor a reserve of the bacteria in their digestive tract. Perhaps that's because eating widespread bacteria doesn't give you enough; the B12 must be concentrated somewhere.

Also, humans spend very little time eating. It's much more believable that a cow (which eats all day) somehow ingests enough B12 from widespread bacteria than a human which eats for a few brief periods.
This is an interesting thought though the math in final sentence feels off.
I'm gonna be That Guy and point out that rayon addresses parallelism, not concurrency (which is crossbeam's domain). My favorite explanation of the difference (by the inimitable yosefk): https://yosefk.com/blog/parallelism-and-concurrency-need-dif....
I love the copious references to the 80s film WarGames in the examples :)
It’s honestly insane how a prisoner gets free healthcare, education, shelter, food, etc. and yet those who do not commit crimes are (ironically) “chained” by debt instead to pay for all those things.

Honestly if you’re in bad health, old, and have limited savings it would probably be better to just commit a white collar crime and go to prison than to die in sickness and poverty.
The oss-security@ mailing list is hosted by openwall. This advisory was posted by Qualys Security.
Not trying to be childish, but let's be honest, this is a horrible name if you are not a native english speaker. I just hear giggles every time somebody mentions this name...
Meditation is great but this post is just an ad for a software subscription service.
>So they don't leave it on your doorstep, but they put the code in your box? That sounds even better for thieves!

In most of Europe a mailbox looks like this: https://imgur.com/ppSrO1W
I am also excited about the Mac Pro. However, at a $10k average configuration, it would need to sell several tens of thousands to comprise 20% of Mac line revenue, which would be at least half of the video editors in the US.
When I was a school IT admin, I saw students try a lot of creative things.

Some of the best, were thanks to KnightOS.

There are a lot of stories, but I might relate what might have to be my proudest.

The teacher had caught the students fooling around with BASIC to share notes, and for some reason thought that sharing notes about what they were talking about was counterproductive to the lesson, so asked me to erase the capability.

I didn't want to, but orders are orders, and I could only appeal all the way up the food chain to the principal, who barely managed to use his email on his best days.

So as I was doing as instructed, I noticed one of the calculators that came across my desk had KnightOS. This one hadn't been part of the note sharing, but had an interesting program on board that was still being written.

I called the student in excitedly, to ask them to explain, hoping I was right. I was. They were making a program that transmitted a minimal MIMEfile across the 2.5mm cable from one device to another. They were implementing email.

This was the first C-compiler that they'd be allowed to touch. Their parents strongly believed that girls had no place in IT, and did everything they could to keep her away from the computer at home. Her calculator with KnightOS was her only outlet.

When it came time to hand all the calculators back, I casually mentioned the program she wrote to one or two of the students.

Within the week, everyone in the class was running KnightOS and sending each other emails of notes in the class.

When the teacher came back and complained, I then had the power to appeal to the principal that the teacher was complaining that her students were using email, using a program that a student had built herself to send email.

When the principal heard that, it wasn't note passing anymore, because he knew what email was. It went from potential punishment, to the girl who wrote an email program getting called up in assembly to be congratulated in front of everyone.

I didn't really keep taps on anyone, but from what I've heard, that girl now works for a game development company in town.
Literally hacking. Lots of shareware games wanted a registration code, but after changing the right offsets in the hex editor you could play them without registration code...

People have no clue about computers, till they can manually convert between assembly and hex code