skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that Apple just this week anounced to essentially consolidate iOS and MacOS (moving MacOS devices to ARM and adding capability to run iOS apps) in a near future the boundraries between iPad Pro and MacBook will diminish and work on a hybrid will be the norm. (Windows 8 was just a few years early, missed the proper mobile device and had too many compromises)
These so-called-experts are more similar to a cult than actual expertise. A self-perpetuating cabal kicking out dissenters and recruiting yes-men. Their beliefs are arbitrary and divorced from the real world.

Recently a woman was promoted to tenured professor for tweeting that "white lives don't matter". That's how your experts are selected.
>Senior leadership needs to lead by example

I was having dinner with a friend of mine who is a senior manager at a well-known SV company that has "unlimited vacation." He was telling me that the CEO absolutely sets an example of taking unplugged vacations. In fact, he told me that they had a PR person a while back who just couldn't deal with the CEO being out of pocket for an extended time to the point where they just quit.
"Johnson, stand here and guard the road against the approaching enemy" is a lawful order, but it may not be reasonable under many different interpretations.
Strangely, the word "union" doesn't appear in the article.
Considering that it is the police unions that create the system within which police officers are protected, I believe their power and tactics need to be examined.
I had no idea it was a generic term, and searching for it didn't cross my mind. Thanks! Guess my previous comment can be ignored as I don't seem to be the in target market either.
I work at JPMC. Athena is a huge platform, but not everything is on it (for example the team I work on isn't). I very much doubt there aren't small perl scripts and tools still hanging around somewhere. But probably no large customer facing is running on perl anymore.
I would have no problem with being a police officer in iceland, but certainly in the US. I get why they don't want to give up their guns, especially now, but that has consequences for policing work. If you can assume your "victim" to be unarmed, you approach the situation differently.

So I do think it is a quite dangerous job there to be honest. Moreso than the ones you mentioned. Some time ago deep sea fishing was the deadliest job. Would still prefer it from a risk assessment perspective.
Gate and landing slots are my best guess as to what their remaining assets are - but with the downturn in air travel and the fees to maintain them, they seem more like liabilities.

Maybe there’s a nice pile of customer data that’s worth a bob or two to the right buyer.
My experience driving through the EU is that barely anybody cares. You may be stopped at internal borders if your car plates don't match a Schengen-area country, but that's it.

You'll need your ID to stay in a hotel/AirBnB though. So unless you squat or camp illegally, better have it with you.
Could you elaborate on how exactly a Markov chain used there. Baum Welch is for HMMs though, which are different from Markov chains, they can capture infinite history/memory.
There’s a nice example of someone coming up with a good UX for this game, in the form of an iOS app that lets you play against a remote instance of DF called DF Remote (http://mifki.com/df/). I learned about it here on HN and I’ve found it to be a really impressive example of what the UX could be like. It’s not a 100% complete UI — but what’s there is pretty consistent and intuitive.
Of course for the longest time, carp were the most dangerous animal in the game, they would drag you into the river and kill you if you were standing on the bank. The reason? Swimming trains strength. Fish swim all the time. Their strength went through the roof.

And of course, for the longest time a main way to defend fortresses (armies were broken) was to have an entrance corridor, with another corridor filled with molten lava underneath it. This would cause the upper corridor to become warm. Not really hot, but warm. And there was a bug with the melting point of fat being set too low, so your enemies entering your fortress through the main entrance would die from having all the fats in their organs melted off them. Path finding didn't know about warm rooms.
The higher ups created it, the average soldier was sacrificed for it. Doesn't change the fact, that the military has apparently better internal controls, better training and better rules of engagements. Even for some sorts of police work. The US military. Quite telling if you ask me.
This article is bi-polar, which summarizes my feelings on the topic as well.

I'm in the same boat as the author and have been trying (slowly) to move towards using an iPad full time. Compared to a couple years ago the apps and UX have improved significantly, however, (for me) using the iPad still feels more like a very specialized tool, compared to the more general utility of a Macbook.

I realize that for general productivity the iPad works best with a keyboard attached, a mouse, external storage. Adding more hardware. But then you have a MacBook in disguise ...

I'm guessing we'll never get a Macbook with touch screen and Apple Pencil support? But it does seem like the iPad has been slowly optimizing itself to fill that role.
Riding a bike works like that. 2-3 minutes is a huge difference in terms of power output required. Headwinds can sap your power. Going slightly above your average feels like a headwind. A coach potato like me can output about a hundred watts on a good day so if you have money to spare and want to go faster, buy upgrades. 3 watts here, 2 watts there and you are at +10% ;)
[ is an external program called "test" and [[ is a bash builtin, they have many different behaviours beyond just trying to use one to prove the other wrong on a random internet comment.
You don't want to demean your dependent (response) binary variable. So you almost always want to keep beta0 to control for any imbalance in your dependent var.
Very cool! Does a good job on select websites.

Next stop: the holy grail of recipe website cleanup, removing the mindless drivel about the author's.. whatever / whoever, their inane anectodes, and generally any trace of their annoying personalities (here's an offending example: https://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/easy-roasted-pork-shoulder-...)
But pretty much all smartphone manufacturers glue parts together. Watchmakers show that it is possible to use screws even with tiny cases that must be waterproof. I believe Apple would be able to create an iPhone with identical specs with no glue used. But it's likely much more expensive to manufacture.
They ought to consider why users don't want (and are actively circumventing) the updates.
Apparently it's not just a name but a specific name that (every?) US cities has for their street where it's mostly businesses located. Don't think we have any equivalent in Europa, closes would be the main plazas I guess.
How to Unit Test an Abstract Class
I've tried that. After the recipe binder got to be a couple of inches thick, it would take more discipline than I have to keep it organized in some kind of effective way. Plus I don't know what way that would be. So I pretty much end up either looking at the laptop while cooking or printing out a new copy each time.
Technically? Nothing. Legally, this would be huge privacy incursion. In the EU, we have, among other things, (usually constitutional) right to privacy, anti-harassment and anti-stalking laws etc.
> I think here lies the miscommunication, I'm talking about pure functions, it doesn't cease to be a function, but it does cease to be a pure one if sending its output somewhere else is done by side-effect.

No, you're getting it entirely wrong. The input is the translation unit, the output is the binaries. If you understand what a compiler does and what's it's role in a build process then you'll understand it works as a pure function. There are no side-effects. Translation units in, binaries out.

I suggest you spend some time with a tiny C or C++ project trying to arrive at an executable by performing all build steps by hand instead of using a Makefile or any form of high-level build system.
Ah! Cool!! If they're generating an actual PAL signal I guess that explains why the picture in the emulated Macintosh Plus started to jump around like a bad VHS tape when I set the emulation speed too high for the host to keep up.

Edit: I confirm that the code is really pleasant to work on and understand! Found this project by pure accident this morning and was able to hack meaningfully on it right away. Kudos to the developer.
The underground plant exchange where White people send Black people plants
Well, if they are like the Batman supervillain, they just bought a fleet of flying bombs.
This makes me terribly sad to hear. I also want to integrate an iPad into my workflow, but it just doesn’t work. Everyone of my customers are HIGHLY dependent on MS Office products, to the point that every step of the job occurs on some MS product -

PowerPoint meetings on Teams, about Word and Excel docs stored on the SharePoint site.

I’m encouraged by MS’s recent moves into Linux / open source, but my gut tells me we’re a long way from properly functioning MS apps on iPad.
Weren't they always ? ...if you consider editions. Which essentially is what the author's promoting - access to draft editions (and presumably updates, post-release -- this wasn't clear).
Not every house has a set of standard cups and spoons. We leave a scale on our counter and when were mixing ingredients, we put the bowl on the scale, add and tare.
AFAIK it's a well-known problem players using mice have a significant edge in competition with game-pad users.
Google returns lots of results from a variety of sources for that quote:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22when+the+looting+starts%2...

As expected, most of the results appear to be about the original use of the phrase in 1967 by the racist police chief of Miami Walter Headley.
Are you presenting that quote in support of some particular point I made or are you just being generally helpful?

Yes, so a wrongful arrest was made, and thus the technology isn’t perfect, so we shouldn’t use it is the thinking?

Well actually no, apparently wrongful arrests aren’t sufficient cause to ban a technology but only one believed to racially discriminate lol.

Or maybe the real reason is because it’s become fashionable of late to fuck the police and the whole because reasons is an afterthought.

In any case, the larger point, the one suggested by the OP, the one met with foolish acquiescence in response, the one suggesting that our justice system convicts people on the basis of facial recognition technology is wrong..
This is to be used for defence and critical infrastructure. What is that? I mean, I'm sure there are <£500 phones that tell you where you are based on GPS, Galileo, Glonass and Beidou. The UK will hardly be at war with all of the US, EU, Russia and China.
>I haven’t ever met a ThinkPad owner.

There's always a huge world outside of one's bubble.
What exactly does sandboxing limit on macOS?
> Don’t shame companies who don’t fit your own personal ideals of working hours.

It's not "my" ideal - I don't set school hours. In fact, unsociable hours are defined in law, for many, many reasons.

Quora's approach is shortsighted and, in my opinion, fundamentally ageist towards their European workers - and I say that as someone who definitely prefers to work afternoons.
Not from a Nordic country, but with some similar-minded tendencies.

You understand that you enjoy living in a system that you can trust. You understand that being able to trust the system means that the system has to trust you. You value a working system more than a petty dollar or some other short-sighted piece of self-interest, because you get more benefit from having the system work in your favor than taking a little for yourself but eroding/ruining the system in the same go. If most people do the right thing, the system works and everyone benefits.

Simple as that! It's the opposite of the tragedy of the commons.

In non-utopian countries, you have to make an advance deposit into the system and may never do enough to make it universally trusted. People may never stop jaywalking, or taking a free coffee/waffle/etc. from the unmanned stand, or cheating your taxes with family income and business expenses. But I'm doing well for myself, so what am I really losing by doing the right thing? Life already put me ahead. I'd rather contribute a small part to a working system I can trust, than to grab another small pie just for myself.
I think its an attempt to keep developers who want to develop directly on their laptop.

Personally I am not taken with the idea of running a vm on a different hardware arm to the to the one I will deploy in production.

I much prefer developing and testing on identical hardware
Concordium Goes for Testnet 2
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/12/05/mozilla-files-cross...
It's not much better if Apple controls the mechanism for key sharing anyway.
Do you read the threads you respond to?
Some GitHub project main pages overload system
A mouse pointer. macOS was designed for the mouse / trackpad.
> I am finishing "a proper missing, a dream File Manager" for Mac OS

Can I sign up to be notified when it's released? :)
I wonder at what point you typically realize you've been put on a high-chance-of-casualty mission
Deciphering Python's Metaclasses
Just WTF... maybe if I understood Japanese :D This is nothing like the SpaceX sim, KSP or ISS streams.
UPMC doctor sees too much focus on rising cases too little on declining severity
That sounds nice. Do you have a good way of organizing it?
> vacuum cleaners that actually picked up dirt

I read that manufacturers were actually happy about the new regulation. Before, customers only looked at W for performance which made any innovation useless. With the new rules, manufacturers that are able to provide the same suction at a fraction of the power are actually at an advantage.

Similar with fridges, new rules put manufacturers with heavy R&D at an advantage.
Very Amazon move to wait until a company's valuation is chopped down significantly due to the market or other circumstances and then purchase it. I guess this is the move of any major company or smart investor though.
another shameless plug:

curl ipaddress.sh
This was much harder than the spacex sim - took me 1 failure to get it right
As I replied to your other comment, you cannot just replace [[ with [ and get the same behaviour. If you use the actual bash builtin [[ which we're discussing, it works as expected. Also, please use == when comparing, = is an assignment operator (in almost every programming language).
So it feels more dangerous to you. I’d assume it’s because the danger is so far out of your control?
Another thing working remote can't do (not that I'm fully sold olfaction is stereo)

Digital will not replace most human orientated things until it can directly program the brain.
Johnatan Blow has an intersesting video on issues with framerate and how it was handled in Braid at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdAOPHgW7qM .
As someone working on web stuff, I always find it fascinating to see all the complexity that arise in other domains, in games in particular.
What ledger is used for tracking cash?
That’s terrible, perhaps we should implement some sort of right to representation system. We could have public attorneys and everything.
also it seems to run at 10x speed that makes it so hard
Are you saying that the stats posted above are wrong? Based just on your imagination? Or do you have some information about shortcomings in how they were collected?
> In my region drinking water is no problem. On the contrary, due to washing machines and appliances using less water, waterworks needs to pump water through the pipes regularly to keep them clean. It is also advisable to do that in your home from time to time.

As far as I know, that's mostly because most customers use too much laundry detergent and flush stuff down toilets they're not supposed to. The washing machines are not at fault, the problem was just hidden better before.
being able to skip town and move somewhere else is good if you've refused to fight a duel of honor or sent love letters to someone of the same sex, not so good if you've killed a few people.
> Advertising is one of the first things companies cut during a downturn. Their revenues are down and they need to shave some costs.

Ok but did they cut advertising across the board or just Facebook?

You can’t have you’re cake and eat it too, either Facebook advertising was effective and they are harming their own business by cutting Facebook advertising (Suggesting there is more than money involved in the decision), or Facebook advertising is a waste of money in which case they won’t just quietly turn it back on as you claim.
Nice work! I built something very similar: https://recipemincer.com

It seems you're using the same Python scraper I am: https://github.com/hhursev/recipe-scrapers
The right to repair should at least cover trivial things like replacing the battery, keyboard, ssd, fans. Things which are going to wear down and can be cheaply replaced, if they can be replaced at all. But charging $600 for a keyboard exchange and even more for a new LCD (which is worth $100-200), that is entirely wrong.
Sure. Let me explain.

1. You notice how he said "Investment Bank". Guess what, that's not their entire business....not even in the slightest. Not even the most profitable. When I was there, they sold a significant portion of their investment services to buy more commercial, which is in an entirely different line of business. They aren't connected. Their systems are separate.

2. I worked there. I understand the absolute magnitude of how large their code bases are. The legacy software, the business processes. 1000s of servers, is nothing in a company that size. The division I worked for was a dust spec compared to the size of JPMC, and we had something like 300 servers on our own. We were a rounding error on the division's balance sheet. I should say, a division, of a division, of a division of a Line of Business. Multiply that by orders of magnitude and you begin to understand the size of their operations. Let me put this into perspective. A quick line count of the project I'm on, with 4 people and started 2 months ago (with npm packages granted) has over 500,000 lines of code. How big do you think JPMC's code bases are?

3. Do you honestly believe that a company that size tasked 1 person with just "removing PERL". Most of it was not being used anyway, and he "just did it." He just "searched" the repositories. How exactly do you think that worked? Do you think an EVP, a chief, just tasked 1 person with search "the codebases" across multiple lines of business? He might have done it for a division, a part of a LOB. I'll give him that, but not JPMorgan as a whole not even the the entirety of the investment arm. Think about how many legacy systems use PERL everything from legacy systems, to commercial ETLs. The amount of business knowledge held in those scripts, and making a mistake, even a minuscule one will cost potentially millions of dollars. What did he search? Did he do a Git search, or SVN, or CVS, or event maybe VSS? How many file and network shares? Did he have access to everything? All the devops stuff? What about all the things that are maintained by contractors and consultants? How about those?
lol weren't the original subscriptions newspapers e.g. serial distributions of books like david copperfield?
Software, Full-Stack, and Sumo Startups
What was ignored that having a 1600w vs 1000w means you can run the 1600w at a lower load for the same suckage which extends the product life.
Also, Glofo stopped developing cutting edge nodes (7nm or smaller) after AMD had ditched them a couple of years ago. It's now all but a two-horse race between TSMC and Samsung.
The Australian market for airtravel is big and, unlike in Europe or US, it's likely to grow in the long run; so those gates might be worth something if they can keep hold of them for long enough.
I take issue with this statement/argument based on the fact that there have been several people in jail for releasing material to wikileaks that revealed the grotesque amount of Human Rights violations, not least of which the video showing how some soldiers will kill in cold blood: Collateral Murder.

This ended up seeing Manning get thrown in jail, be tortured for years in isolation, as well as having attempted suicide several times while in jail (again! after getting a communicated sentence by Obama)_the last time for refusing to testify against others involved. And Assange has also had to suffer a confined existence, been dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy and placed in jail and still awaits trial while his health and mental health have deteriorated, I'd say his near 8 year amount of torture as a direct result of the Military trying to cover up misconduct showed the World just how perverse both systems really are.

I'm not even going to get into things like the use of Contractors like Black Water/Xe, or black-sites/rendition camps, and spies.

All I will say is read Jeremy Scahill's work, this pro-Military narrative seems entirely jingoistic and akin to 9/11 ahead of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, I have vets in both wars in my family and have seen the consequences first hand, to me and alarming as the tensions between the CCP and the US are accelerating.

Just so its clear, I despise the CCP but War is not a solution or an option we should accept.
>A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. There’s a great bike path that goes along the ocean for seven and a half miles. So, fifteen miles round trip. On weekday afternoons, it’s almost empty. It’s perfect for going full speed.

For anyone familiar with the area, it’s clear that this article plays fast and loose with reality. The path is narrow, and nowhere near “almost empty” except in the middle of the night. Further, it’s so twisty that you’ll only reach “full speed” on short sections. Your time will be dominated by cornering technique, not power output.
Is this that site that's always wanting my PI to sell off? Whenever I mistakenly click a link to it to see the whole answer? Maybe this will be the death knell.
> Bain has both the name and reputation of a Batman supervillain

And like said supervillains, this caricature is largely a fiction.

In an analysis of "European companies around their buyout event in the period 2000 - 2008," private equity was found to "select companies which are less financially distressed than comparable companies prior to the transaction and that the distress risks increase after the buyout" [1]. Critically, however, "the distress risk in private equity-backed companies does not exceed the distress risk in comparable companies three years after the buyout," and, "despite this risk increase, private equity-backed companies do not suffer from higher bankruptcy rates than the control group."

More broadly, an analysis of "17,171 worldwide leveraged buyout transactions that include every transaction with a financial sponsor in the CapitalIQ database announced between 1/1/1970 and 6/30/2007" found bankruptcy rates around 6% [2]. This isn't exceptionally high.

Large deals get press. They also have a habit of involving overextension. As a result, the average private equity story is about things going spectacularly wrong at scale.

[1] https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/31366/1/dp11076.pdf

[2] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.23.1.121 Table 2