skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because those are people going to the mall. Not robots 100x the quantity of real people.
The problem with dealing with these concepts quantitatively rather than qualitatively is that the deeper you dig, the less sense this sort of statement makes. There's two ways to read your quote. If "the best people" are the best in an absolute sense -- say, the top ten in the profession -- then the chance that /your team/ will sample the long tail of these high performers depends on the size of the team, but is nearly zero for any reasonable team size. And the distribution described is non-normal, with long tails skewing towards high performance. So if /the/ best people outperform /the/ worst by 10:1, /your/ best will outperform /your/ worst by less than 10:1. Alternately, if the statement is true for a typical team, then the expectation varies significantly with team size -- which has changed (in my impression, for smaller overall teams in many cases) since Peopleware was written.
I have a galaxy S7 FE, 500$, includes an s pen, 12.8". Would never switch to the much pricier, smaller and more limited ipad.
I think you have that backwards: it's Linux that has diverged from the Unix way of doing things. All the various gotchas and different ways are Linux-isms. After all, which came first, and which came later, then changed?

macOS is more consistent with the BSDs than Linux is with older Linux or one distro is with another.
But that's a lot of words and they already knew people don't say those terms. 2, 3, 3.1, are much easier to say, and there was no consumer-benefitting reason to undermine those terms.
That's the direction most 'journalism' takes. Minimal effort, lots of filler to pad out space, the one thing you actually cared about buried in the second-to-last paragraph, but not completely answered.

The biggest example of this I see is when I search for info about student loan cancellation or suspension. One particular website, which is known for paywalls and usually has some sort of "X free articles" popup, hosts what amounts to an editorial column by some guy, who always seems to have articles on the topic, but barely provides any kind of real information.

Of course, there are link callouts to other articles on that site, written by the same guy, which look like they'll be informative. They're usually not. They still eat up one of those "X free articles" slots and try to bombard you with ads, however!
When the original ruling in favor of HiQ came out, it still allowed for LinkedIn to block certain kinds of malicious scraping. LinkedIn had been specifically blocking HiQ, and was ordered to stop doing that.
Agile is the No True Scotsman of development methodologies. It claims not to be prescriptive but if you don’t get good outcomes, you’re doing it wrong! Meanwhile you should follow these 5 rules, but remember there are no rules.
More complex? Less understood? Many obvious big downsides not really addressed?
You have no idea what you're talking about obviously, just spreading fud.
Pretty sure it was MS flight sim, but not sure which version anymore
Because every other computer manufacturer realized they can save on the BOM cost by shoving the whole computer under plastic gingerbread. That weight distribution? It'd cost way too much to redesign the product correctly. Flickering redraws? We don't make the OS, we just sell Microsoft's.

Occasionally you do see PC OEMs that try for taste in the Windows ecosystem. Sony did that with their VAIO laptops, with the somewhat-inflated price tag to match. In fact, it impressed Jobs so much he literally just offered them an OSX license (which they didn't bite on).
The Comcast access points do, at least, have the saving grace that they're on a separate network segment from the customer's hardware, and don't share an IP address or bandwidth/traffic limit with the customer.

Tesonet and other similar services (e.g. Luminati) don't have that. As far as anyone -- including web services, the ISP, or law enforcement -- are concerned, their traffic is the subscriber's traffic.
Do yall have any plan to do work in the vis/IR space?
Convince yourself that consuming for free a completely optional entertainment product that someone else created from their own labor is “ethics.”
> You can't take passengers in a bike.

I take my 8 and 11y old daughters on my old granny bike. One on the handlebar, the other upright on the rear rack.

Besides you don't need passengers when everybody can take his own bike and chit chat while riding.

> You can't transport large or bulky items.
>
> You are limited in how much you can transport (how much can fit in your backpack basically).

False. Anecdote, I once bought a tree at a garden center. Everywhere I looked, people where struggling to put plants without spilling dirt on the trunk of their van/wagon. The only 3 who were fine were a pro with a pickup bed, a middle age guy with...a convertible and me...with a bicycle trailer made to carry kids.

> Cars are faster if you are going more than about a mile - even including parking.

Not so true. Cars are marginally faster or plain slower in many urban areas with lots of traffic lights and/or with heavy traffic.

> You can't ride a bike in bad weather. Hard rain is very unpleasant, and snow is impossible.

false. Hard rain is very unpleasant for drivers, most barely see anything. At least cyclists see where they are going. Also unless you live in a place hit by moonson, rain is rarely an issue. For the many days that forecast some rain, the actual chance of being riding at the exact moment it rains is not that high. There are not that manu days in a year hit by continuous rain all day long. Also I've commuted on snow for years, and more efficiently than many car drivers thanks to very efficient bicycle studded tires. In cycling we say there is no bad weather, only bad equipment. You wouldn't drive your convertible open during a thunderstorm, right?

> If you live in a place with hills, bikes are just not practical.

Not true anymore with e-bikes. Also fitness come with practice.

> Bumps in the road, potholes, etc, are very dangerous in a bike

You just learn to avoid them. Also skills increase with practice. Also there are bikes an bike. Using bigger tire volume help tremendously. Overall driving a car is much more dangerous. Despite the protection, odds of dying are statistically higher. Perception of danger in cycling is similar to people afraid of boarding a plane. Irrational. As is the perception of safety in cars.
Actually what I said was telling someone who enjoys sex to not have it makes their life miserable.
Is this really capable of live 24/7 local bird sound identification? That sounds like it could have a huuuuuuge effect on all kinds of things world-wide. Imagine real-time tracking of whether bird sounds are getting fewer and fewer, or tracking real time changes in bird song around the world due to climate change, or just specific species disappearing due to environmental factors. Or being able to push back on new development that harms local bird populations by measuring a reduction in song. The possibilities are endless!
I’m the complete opposite as far as it can be.

Work is life. I don’t want to spend a third of my life on something that’s just a “means to an end”. It is me. It is mine. It is my expression. It’s the result of everything I’ve got to give to this world.

So, to each, their own. This game is better played when you have skin in the game (equity, control, recognition).
You probably can. On the protocol level with JSON-LD or other rich data packages that generate xml or standardized json endpoints. I did this for an open data portal, and this is something most G7 governments do with their federal open data portals using off the shelf packages (that are worth researching a bit obviously first), particularly in the python and flask world. We were still getting hammered by China at our Taiwanese language subdomain, but that was a different concern
Not entirely on topic, but the original article the writer references in the beginning was fantastic, honestly changed my outlook on the world.
Reading your comment my impression is that this is either an exaggeration or a very unique type of site if bots make up the majority of traffic to the point that scrapers are anywhere near the primary load factor.

Would someone let me know if I’m just plain wrong in this assumption? I’ve run many types of sites and scrapers have never been anywhere close to the main source of traffic or even particularly noticeable compared to regular users.

Even considering a very commonly scraped site like LinkedIn or Craigslist - for any site of any magnitude like this public pages are going to be cached so additional scrapers are going to have negligible impact. And a rate limit is probably one line of config.

I’m not saying you are necessarily wrong, but I can’t imagine a scenario that you’re describing and would love to hear of one.
They wouldn't even have to, really. We see almost nothing out there, coming towards us or not, and even if we saw it a year early, what could we do about it?
not to sound like a curmudgeon but I for one will be in the cold cold ground before I ever declare macbook as the only viable option.

hackers are working hard on really cool daily driver laptops that respect your freedom and work to deliver an excellent computing experience.

system76 offers a good balance of performance and value: https://system76.com/laptops

pinebook offers a competitive and cheap arm daily driver: https://pine64.com/

and purism frankly rivals Apple levels of build quality and performance: https://puri.sm/
Maybe I'm unlucky too. I have a work MacBook and a Lenovo ThinkPad manufactured the same year. The ThinkPad has aged extremely well and I'm really happy with it. The MacBook on the other hand struggles badly with tasks the ThinkPad does without a sweat. The battery life is also far worse on the MacBook. The MacBook has needed repairs whereas the ThinkPad has not. I'm sure both would have been fine brand new but it's interesting to see how they've aged over the years. It used to be that Apple hardware aged well, but I don't think that's the case anymore especially with their Intel hardware. YMMV as parent has pointed out.
Using proxies to hide your identity to get around a denial of access seems to get awfully close to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act(in USA, at least).

I’m surprised your school was okay with it.
Recreational marijuana access reduces demand for prescription drugs
Couldn’t you use jupyter notebooks for R? Idk about Latex, but there’s probably a plugin out there for it.
Short answer: I have a lot more experience with terraform/ansible/docker than with nix and nixops. Maybe when nixops gets a bit more tractable I will go full nixos.
This does seem to exist. https://www.magicstickone.com/

Specs aren’t great though.
Not with me in it.
I do not trust you, and I also should know.

"Cancelled" and "toxic" are vague terms that we really need to stop using, please use the more precise words you mean. Has he broken the law or been unforgivably abusive, etc? If so, say that. If not, stop throwing accusations.
TBF Apple sold very expensive laptops with shoddy faulty keyboards for YEARS. People idolize and idealize Apple but tend to ignore the faults and failures. I truly believe Apple does not respect their customers. They have some good product and some bad ones too.
Scrum predates Agile by eight years.
Kinda like that but I want a machine I'm free to install windows/linux/whatever on to.
Well, I am a working professional historian of the premodern world, and this is certainly my impression from years of reading Chinese-language primary sources about China during the Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties. Spend some time with the literature, and you'll read how Mohists coupled careful logic and quasi-scientistic reasoning with "ghosts who will punish you if you're bad," about how Han dynasty tomb exterior-door inscriptions talk extensively about how the decedent's family loves them but earnestly hopes to never, ever see them again, because if they did it would mean the decedent left their tomb to punish them for their unfilial conduct. (And you'll read how gingerly the subject of human sacrifice in the distant past, or emperors indulging itinerant "Daoist" rainmakers, to the considerable chagrin of more secular-minded officials, is handled.) I can't point to anything synoptic on the Chinese case -- early China scholars tend to make a lot (frankly too much) out of a little (we don't have that many texts -- but Herbert Fingarette's "Confucius: The Secular as Sacred" was formative for all the early China people I studied with on a more intellectual register. One controversy that gets lots of play: whether Confucius urged performing the rituals "as if" the dead were present, or if they were actually present. Linguistically, the phrasing is entirely open to the latter, even if people like to make the thinking presented in the "Analects" out to be more modern-seeming. At the risk of giving too much of a peek behind the curtain, so to speak, broadly speaking -- this being several decades since Foucault made his mark -- careers get made by either emphasizing the past's surprising lack of alterity or by finding some spectacular, flamboyantly surprising new form of alterity. And the former is rather easier to pull off than the latter.

But, I read about the piles of genitalia in Toby Wilkinson's "The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt" and about the god-statues in Trevor Bryce's "Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction."
Yes clearly the billions of dollars, millions of adoring fans, and immense power he's acquired are an unfortunate side effect of him being a good samaritan.
You can always raise a question (especially in a meeting where your entire team is present): “What’s driving the deadline?”

And then let your boss fumble if they are making things up, aka arbitrary deadlines.
The phase diagram of Xenon or Argon. The latest studies for hydrogen are wild. Several newly understood lattices, metallic and liquid-metallic transitions in very narrow bands. Understanding the phase effects is the whole task, no? So, measure, measure, measure, tune, tune, tune, no?

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dima-Bolmatov/publicati...
It's not nerdy enough! I want a 10 part series on just the machine that sharpens the blades, and another on the engine oil, and another on the heat-resistant paint! None of these are my area, but all are fascinating in their own way.
Was that the same company? Never knew that....
These anti-scraping corporate activists need to get with the times and allow access to their data, legitimately, through an API. Third parties will scrape and sell the data regardless, so why not just cut them out and even charge for individuals to legitimately use the API. API keys could be tied to an individual and at least LinkedIn would know who was conducting what action.

Make it easier to get the data through an API than having to scrape it.
I'm in complete agreement with this point of view, with about 22 years experience in the remote sensing space, ~10 of that in private industry.

And its not just Planet that is hung-up on this same failed business model. Its also Hexagon, and a myriad of other earth-observation providers. Some are so difficult to work with its literally cheaper to go buy an airplane and a wide format camera and roll your own.
Yeah, I might've put it a bit more diplomatically, but the sibling comment captured my intention accurately.
They're not hard, and I think Stallman et al figured them out way long ago, and they are why they created free software. Roughly, "permissive" ends up meaning "bad faith actors are permitted to take advantage of others' spirit of sharing."
I've used nexe once or twice for some use cases. It worked reasonably well. If I remember, my one complaint was with the output binary size. I was using this circa late 2015 though, so I suspect there's been substantial improvement in that regard.
>technical excellence

Technical excellence doesn't pay the bills.

Curious - what products do you pay for due to their technical excellence of their backend instead of the value they provide you directly?
I want to like the carbon but the lack of AMD options and a hard cap of 16 GB of RAM keep me away.
> Depends on what you mean by order i suppose.

I mean, in the context of Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations [1], what sort of turbulence model [2] you are using. But apparently you are not working in this context at all, so maybe my question doesn't make sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds-averaged_Navier%E2%80...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_modeling
Really happy with my X1 as well. I prefer my X1 over my work supplied MacBook. The difference is like night and day for me. YMMV of course.
Will the JWT be able to see the actual shape of stars and planets rather than just points of light?
... thanks to a basically unlimited budget for maintenance.
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I understand that I published it. That doesn’t mean I should accept that hostile parties will use it against me.

This is kinda like telling someone who is being harassed on social media that they’re consenting to it by having a public account. We should strive to make our digital personae safe from bad actors, not throw our hands up and say “if you put yourself out there, you have no recourse”.
IANAL but it's not immediately obvious to me that this ruling covers bulk scraping and republishing untransformed. I'm genuinely curious about this personally. I presumably can't just grab anything I feel like off the web, curate it, and sell it.
My experience with Agile has been that it is a powerful equalizer of everyone on the team. The degree to which a person's productivity is equal to others on their team may impact whether they consider that a net positive.
Has nobody thought to slap a set of retractable wings on them, and turn them into remote controlled gliders?
Sorry for the excitment
Yeah, that's why I hesitated to include it on the list, but I don't think such representations are very common in religious contexts today (and these statues do seem to have been religiously significant, e.g. all the Venus statues from prehistoric Europe and the Middle East)
>to hurl, propel, or divert some rock at us at some non-negligible fraction of light speed, and we would be powerless to stop it.

Wouldn't you need to solve the n-body problem to hit a planet (earth) from many light years away with a rock? And to do this without exact knowledge of planetary bodies in our star system. And even if you could, a stray hydrogen atom hitting your rock early on would make it miss its target by some light hours. So you better account for every speck of dust on the way and everything with gravitational pull on your rock. An all the quantum fluctuations..

I would even wonder whether the space itself is fine grained enought to precisely target stuff light years away.
That was a different mess that people ignored entirely.

The x.y numbers were not a mess until 3.1
I just got my first thinkpad in 9 years, after having spent two years on a dell xps from hell. I have to say, this is the first time in a long while I'm back in love with hardware. Got a second-hand L14 AMD G1, upped the ram and SSD (yes you can do that!) and apparently there's even an option to add another m2 ssd since the ryzen in this thing has some spare PCIe lanes that are hooked up to the WWAN slot I'm not using.

My whole family and most of my colleagues use macs/iOS all over, and interacting with these things is plain infuriating to me. Plus, somehow Apple pulls an amazing PR stunt where somehow everything is purported to be easy, but really they rely on untold hours of non-volunteer work from family & friends who feel bound to help out with Mac handling, because they feel "it's apple, it has to be easy... right?"

Anyhow, these are my two cents.
nginx can be set up to do that using the session cookie.
This falls apart when there are less jobs than individuals who would be happy in that job (extrapolated to all fields and interests), or conflicting interests appear. Realism doesn't always mesh with that ideal.
I tried to reply to this earlier but was put on time-out by the mods for replying to other comments. Literally has never happened to me before, until today, when I started challenging Dem establishment lines.

There's way too much to say in one comment, but just to summarize:

The "establishment" organized a quite effective takedown just prior to Super Tuesday. It was in retrospect a classic rug-pull: flood the field with candidates who provide each segment of identitarians a race-horse they can get behind; dilute the rhetoric and box out the candidates labelled "extreme" while simultaneously ripping off and diluting their core policies; pull all candidates except one, have all the other candidates endorse them, and bet (correctly) on the assumption that people don't have the time or inclination to look at all beyond the news headlines to inform their vote.

I am happy to dive much deeper into this if you are interested. There are many angles to investigate, but I would say the mainstream news media outlets were the most crucial factor, being used as effective tools of consent-manufacturing in many of the ways Chomsky describes.
> You basically cannot get a right wing viewpoint in anywhere.

> It's not even view points any more. It is facts [...]

First, it was viewpoints that you can't share. Now it's not viewpoints, they're "facts"?

What facts do you think are going to get you deplatformed?
What distro and kernel version are you using?
I wonder in which environment this is used. Does it handle all the noises of a typical human-populated environment well enough? Or do people only successfully use it in very remote areas?
There have definitely been some noteworthy problems with Apple's laptops in recent years...but I'm honestly not sure what it is you're doing to them to break screens on multiple machines in a row. You're the first person I've ever heard with that specific complaint, which suggests it may be something unusual about your usage pattern that's causing it.

Note that this isn't saying "you're being abusive to the computers": I can imagine daily-use patterns that are genuinely the best you can do that would result in much higher physical stress to a laptop than your typical office work. It's just saying that maybe, for your particular use case, you might need something more rugged than a stock MacBook of whatever type without a case on.
"Just demand the respect that the business isn't giving you. What's the worst that could happen?"

You didn't say exactly that, but that's kind of the undertone of what you wrote.

If you live in the US and you demand your right to a fair trial, well good on you. But if you live somewhere perhaps less committed to such a thing, making the demand doesn't mean anything other than you're naive and foolish.

So it goes in some companies as well. If they don't have the values the demand isn't you being courageous. It's you painting a target on your back.
Why LineageOS and not GrapheneOS? I have a Pixel 4a with GrapheneOS and really like it. The lack of Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google's push notifications service) isn't an issue for personal usage; for work I still use an iPhone because I don't want to put things like MS Teams on Graphene OS.

As for PinePhone: it's interesting that this article puts LineageOS and PinePhone together since the latter cannot run the former. Speaking for myself, it would be nice if I could buy a phone from someone other than Google to install and use a de-Googled form of Android.
The algorithm is a custom one based on SM-17 with some ML optimizations.
If you have any specific feedback or feature requests we'd love to hear them :)

Thanks for taking a look!

-- Hirsh