skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I'd like to see it, I don't think Windows will ever quite get there. Not, at least, in any recognisable form. They value backwards-compatibility way to much (which is to be commended in some ways, but won't save them here).
While they seem to have everything lined up to be able to turn it into something, developers seem too reluctant to get on-board too.

Apple will have to go through all of the growing pains Microsoft has already weathered, so they're miles off, but maybe they can do it faster because they don't care as much about what people think of them, and are willing to do whatever they think is right (if it is or not is to be seen).

Google is well placed because, while they have a bunch of platforms, the only one in the desktop space is basically dead, and really didn't ever have too much investment in it, so not too many feel put out if they get rid of it. But that not even the case, because they're able to engineer everything so that it stays relevant.
Free stuff! Great!

But I imagine one barrier to this gaining traction is trust. Cryptocurrencies are open source and peer to peer, everyone can see everything that goes on. Do you have any plans on open sourcing the current implementation or perhaps moving to a blockchainlike implementation after the initial experiment?
Since Fuscia is a new kernel, that means it will probably only support Google hardware.

The status quo right now among android hardware vendors is to violate the GPL, and they have faced few if any repercussions for doing so. I wonder if Fuscia is sort of viewed as the way forward to addressing that.

Anyone care to speculate why there isn't a community version of chromium os? I'd donate to it for sure. It sounds like getting android apps working on it would be pretty easy: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?hl=en#!topic...
ISRO satellite launch: record 104 satellites put into orbit
We're actually horrible at it, considering that we're producing CO2 at an unsustainable rate.
I believe this is the one they're referring to on pagination: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/03/30/five-ways-to-pagin...

Though hopefully you'll find many more useful ones about Citus and Postgres broadly on our blog: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/
Ouch, that's a good point.

If you don't mind a question ... I was thinking about taking out a loan again once it was paid off in order to pay my house mortgage down to 78% so that I can knock off the $200/mo PMI. If I then contributed $200/mo toward the loan + 401K, do you think that would be better or worse than just leaving the 401K alone and paying the PMI? The PMI will probably take another 6+ years to fall off on its own, due to the criminally lopsided interest-to-principal amounts that 30-year mortgages start off at.

(I realize the absurdity of asking financial advice here, but you seem to know your stuff, so why not? ;)
Open sourcing the product will help the competition to catch up quickly, all they have to do is take googles product and change its look. The next half is infrastructure, which companies like Microsoft, facebook, amazon, alibaba all have. Plus services like AWS will help future version of dropbox & netflix.

A good example of that is Visual code. I am sure some at github (atom's paprent) is pissed.
I highly doubt it. If he had said "10% annual turnover for all people" that would be a really decent signal. He had to add in "that passed probation" so it is probably a horrific culture. Just putting that disclaimer raises huge red flags
You mean the 4th Amendment?
You could always develop remotely, use your phone to ssh into a more powerful machine. Use tmux or screen and pick up right where you were on a laptop or desktop. This is far more compelling IMHO.
You should checkout https://github.com/jumpsuit/jumpstate

It's much easier to reason about, including side effects, while not being too magical.
I agree with hxta, I imagine these are the same questions your startups will be wanting you to ask i.e. "how do I sell to X?" "how do I make this venture profitable?" Startups have two things - equity and cash, if its cash you are looking for then you are either going to have to limit your sales to funded startups or write out a performance agreement which means you take on more risk.
> Plus they usually explicitly say that it's cleared customs.

It didn't on the last package delivery, at least.

> Did you pay the right duties and tax on this?

I don't know, sorry. I'm the recipient.

> It may be that it's still with customs and they have absolutely no idea what a giant box of old SNES games is worth?

I would truly love it if someone from USPS would tell me that, if that were the case. I'd pay their ransom to get the package.
This is like how anti-abortion activists think that every aborted baby was going to be a doctor. In reality, abortion has likely reduced crime.
I'm a minority I know but I don't like material design because it's terrible at "scaling." It looks great, it's beautiful, but you lose too much damn functionality. When I had to redo apps to material design we had to completely remove multiple buttons due to them not fitting material design standards. I really hope they have some way to alleviate this problem without using 50px icons for all the extra buttons.
Well, there's Cloudready[1] which is ChromeOS for any computer. I installed it on mom's laptop (ancient device) and it works well.

[1]: (https://www.neverware.com/freedownload/)
> With that said and not to diminish the good work. It is sad and eye-opening more progress has not been made on these issues.

The reasons for this are not hard to find. Indeed, you hit the nail on the head in the next paragraph by pointing out the role of governments.

> I'm not sure what can be done on that or what that means, just a bit breathtaking how governments can help people or really screw things up on a scale nothing else even comes close to.

A case study of this in Ethiopia serves as a point in William Easterly's critique of "technocratic aid" in general and Gates's approach specifically:
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/guest-the-flaw-in-bill-g...
He elaborates upon this at length in his book "The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor".

The way I like to think of it is that money, especially in large sums like the $50 billion in the foundation, is a potent tactical weapon. However, wars are not won on tactics/technology alone, but also on strategy. Here that amounts to solid leadership/deployment of the capital. I think this letter shows that they have done a pretty good job with it. Nevertheless, it is easy to fall into complacency and arrogance here. I only hope that they continue to listen, observe, and learn.
Yeah. Truth be told, I've had around 400 mail shipments to complete my US set, and another 900 or so to complete my Japanese set. Even the last 100 games made it just fine. Never lost a package of any importance until now.

I honestly didn't expect this package to go missing.
Cassandra is sort of a Bigtable without transactions. It is not comparable to Spanner at all.
I have nothing constructive to add aside from that I appreciate the simple uncluttered design of your blog. The typography and glasses logo are very pleasing to my eyes as well. Good luck and I look forward to reading more.
“PSLV-C37 / Cartosat -2 Series Mission Successfully Launched All 104 Satellites”
> compared to the kinds of technologies used for copy protection and telemetry in native applications

Compared to the damage a logging truck can do to my car, a snow plow is very limited. I still don't want to be hit by a snow plow.

The threats to privacy posed by JS are severe and constantly evolving. Being able to profile based on hardware is effectively breaking the sandbox.

> (barring security bugs)

Which are far from uncommon. But you can't predicate a security discussion with the phrase "barring security bugs".

> I fail to see how this can possibly be any worse than installing software in other ways such as running a native executable you downloaded from somewhere, or following a "curl | sh" installation process as advocated by plenty of popular OSS tools, or allowing native software that you already installed to install arbitrary automatic updates that it fetches from remote sources.

Each of these requires explicit user authorization at some point (barring malicious operating systems). In the case of automatic updates, the initial install required user consent.

That isn't the case on the Web when you click on some random link I send you and automatically download and execute a program.
Maybe not quite the same, but it is indeed a similar theme.
Made a poorly worded statement against the recent travel restrictions, that:

A. Alienated any non left or non-US members

B. Used their position to break their own rules

C. Told the community that they would do A and B again

In the process they alienated a lot of high rep users who are slowly leaving the site. Myself included, who had my 20k+ account deleted.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342903/well-always-...
We have kept it under wraps. The whitepaper will be ready next month most likely.
I've read up on this, and have always felt like the nuance is important.

Netflix _could_ just rely on the standard infrastructure like everyone else, but doesn't want to because it would provide sub-standard quality. So they also have their own "ISP" that hooks into Comcast and co.

This is less like Comcast + a website, and more like Comcast + another ISP. The dynamics are different.
I can do much better! :)

Here's renderings, the full schematics and part numbers, gerber files, FPGA source code, and boot loader source code.

https://github.com/defparam/21FX
>However, Texans do have a tendency to blindly support anything the Military and Police want to do, while at the same time complaining about big government.

I did observe that. Why is that so? Historically was the police or sheriffs independent from the government?
I can't speak to that really. Never had it happen and my work's customers are in Commercial Real Estate so our services don't dabble with DMCA notices.

Hopefully they at least give you some warning before a filter is placed.
Create, Read, Update and Delete Footnotes in Word Documents inside Cloud Apps
Operating System is about applications. Even if Google comes up with a universal OS there will be many applications that only run on Windows forcing people to continue to use it
Is this so surprising? Kevin Hale, YC partner, talks about how it was implemented at his startup Wufoo with interesting results about how it drove engineering to improve the product. On his Stanford lecture video for those who are interested.
"The pitch will clearly be that developers can write a Flutter app once and have it run on Andromeda, Android, and iOS with minimal extra work, in theory."

How's that going to work? iOS, specifically? Is Dart a supported language?
You listed windowing/UI concerns. And, while they may commonly come bundled with the OS, they're not the same thing.
If you are not using reusable bags when going to the grocery store (or any store) please attempt to try it.

It absolutely amazing how many more groceries you can put in a reusable bag over a plastic or paper bags. So at the bare minimum it is an optimization (less trips from car to kitchen).

When I bring this up with people I get unbelievable false rationalization like: I reuse the bags for trash or the reusable bags take 100x to make over plastic bags.

Plastic grocery bags have knack of flying into lakes, rivers and streams. I have saved many turtles and fish a long the Charles river that are caught in these bags. I have never seen a kitchen trash bag or a reusable bag in the river.

Many grocery stores even give a discount if you use reusable bags not to mention reusable bags are extremely cheap (I don't think I have ever paid more than $2).
It's likewise way oversimplified to imply that non-brain serotonin quantity is the most obvious determinant of weight gain
Fair enough, but think of that free and open stack: (layer 1), Ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP, HTTP/SMTP/DNS/etc, HTML/JavaScript. How many cut their teeth on those?

The apps on top, Facebook, Snapchat, etc., are not so open and much of what they do is out of reach from the user.

Also, I meant to add above: People could tinker with data files (e.g., Word docs), configurations, etc. The whole system was local and accessible. You could write local code, such as VB or for Windows, that integrated with those systems.
I have confidence in certain people that they will follow a given protocol to the best of their ability. They're not vouching for someone: they're indicating the successful completion of a keysigning protocol.

But again: you don't have to trust a single person. As more people sign Alice's key, it's increasingly unlikely that Alice fooled every one of those people.
To be usable, SSH to a more powerful machine requires a good and stable connection. That's almost never available, in my experience. If I'm on my phone, I'm likely to be on trains/planes/in tunnels/in the countryside/etc.
Scientists found CTE and Alzheimer’s in soccer pros’ brains
> If he had done absolutely nothing with his dad's money, except park it in an index fund, he'd be 4 times richer.

That's actually not correct. He says he got a $1,000,000 loan in 1975.

The Fortune article picks a time 13 years after his first loan, and coincidentally at the start of a bull market. I'm not sure how that comparison is valid.

See a more thorough analysis here:

https://dqydj.com/donald-trump-beat-sp-500-index-funds/

Which indicates that if you count from when he started, he did beat the market.
On OS X all my stuff syncs between my iDevices
> Windows [...] [is] terrible on tablets and phones.

Surface tablets seem to be doing OK though.
Thanks for the kind words.

And afraid not. I am willing to drive there, but only if I know it's possible to get my package that way. It's a ten hour drive.
Great first post, hope you keep it up! Only feedback is that I had to reread this sentence several times before I was confident I'd parsed the negations correctly: "I also can’t imagine the Android update problem (a symptom of Linux’s modularity) won’t at last be solved by Andromeda, but one can never be too sure."
Tmux or screen? Wouldn't it be nice if there were a graphics-over-the-network system?
And can a universal OS be everything to a power user and still be useful to a beginner?
Slightly tangential, but you can find a similar UI in the Ellucian's Banner system used in some schools for course registration, payment, schedules, etc. I think its simplicity is brilliant, but most users find it ugly and old school.
The OS Fuchsia, including the kernel Magenta, appears to be open source, mostly under BSD 3-clause, with parts of the kernel under MIT and similar licenses.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/master/LICENSE

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/LICENSE

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/
ISRO successfully launches record-breaking 104 satellites in a single mission
You think the problem with the media is a lack of centralized control? Sorry, I don't think we're anywhere in the same neighborhood on this issue.
What? God no.

We need competition. A single OS controlled by a single corporation with their own conflicting interests is a million miles from what we need.
The author calls it Andromeda OS, but is this really the Andromeda OS we've been hearing about? I'm not so sure about that. What we do know right now is that the OS is currently code named Fuchsia.

Fuchsia repository:
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/?format=HTML
Not really, no. Most of what I use are FreeBSD tools I wrote. So it's mostly just connect cart, turn on SNES, run commands on the terminal, log the resulting SHA256 and cart serial#s into a database, move ROM to archive, rinse repeat.
But I don't have an iPhone, I have an android phone, I use syncthing, but this isn't the kind of sync I hope, I want both the OSes to be quite same with inbuilt sync not through the internet but through my LAN
Wikipedia says it's not a fork of atom but based on electron. Does that make a difference?
What percent of people regularly use them as tablets without the keyboard?
Yes, I have to figure out the typing issue with mobile first!
re: "Flutter was [...]"

A bit weird to use the past tense here since it's not reached 1.0 yet. You can try it out today (tech preview) to create apps in Dart that run on Android and iOS:

https://flutter.io/

(Googler, not on the Flutter team itself, but working on related developer tools.)
Link to the source code:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/
Wondering what your background is as you state you're not a programmer but you can obviously parse code (at least at a high level) and have familiarity with the OS ecosystem. Market research? Great analysis btw.
Stingray's inner workings are supposedly not disclosed but it is said to mimic a nearby cell tower. I bet the device just echoes & amplifies the signal to trick your phone to connect.

If that's how it works, then If you know what each tower relative strength from that given position must be and you note a new surge in strength, that will tell you. You could also use triangulation with cooperating devices.
Spanner is unique in a lot of ways, but it still trades off consistency for speed.

The most unique thing about spanner is the use of globally synchronized clock timestamps to guarantee "comes before" consistency without the need to actually synchronize everything.

There is nothing stopping startups and open source developers from building the same thing in a few years. The missing ingredient is highly stable GPS and local time sources which will hopefully be available on cloud instances sometime soon. This is a new piece of hardware so it will be interesting to see if cloud providers make one available or use the opportunity to sell their own branded "service" version you can't buy. Unfortunately I think we'll see the latter far before the former, it it ever even exists. Without a highly stable timesource doing what spanner does will be completely impossible.

Yes spanner is special right now but that's even more reason to not go near it. Google has a complete monopoly on it, the strongest vendor lock in you can possibly have
The reason is, we don't have enough money.

Lack of money requires both partners to work in order to sustain the family.
Typical Japanese work at least 8 hours, Plus one hour resting in the middle as the law demands it so it took 9 hours of a day.

But we don't have a luxury to live next to the working place.
Most Japanese live 1-2 hours away from the working place. Going to work requires 2 to 4 hours.

It took 11 or 13 hours of a day.

Not all jobs are 9-5 jobs. The holidays are also differs.

So, partners work hours and holidays doesn't overlap.

Which makes really narrow margin of time spending together with the partner.

And this is the case of a family without having any kids.
No wonder the birth rate is historically low.

Before somebody mentioned it, remote work isn't possible for many type of works. Most jobs still requires physical person's presence.
Yes, for a beginner who does not need the advanced stuff, they can just ignore it right?

As of now, I never use Google drive sync, I use syncthing to sync folders between mobile and my Mac.

Universal OS rocks! (I hope it is in line with my vision of how the concept of universality is) I want to just visually ssh the phone and the machine, or rather the OS is in the phone and I just connect it to the machine, there was some project recently I don't know if it is available now.

Edit: Why the downvotes?
I mean, no reason to be cynical except constantly publishing information sourced to anonymous operators with their own agendas that may or may not be accurate. I just don't think what would make the world better is more people uncritically reading the papers that led us into Iraq.
Try /r/personalfinance?
Ask HN: JavaScript variables sync libraries?
Searching for variables sync libraries that do NOT depend on a database server (redis, sql or nosql).

Thank you!
> In music, the story is even starker than in television. At one time, consumers used to buy a collection of songs — on vinyl, cassette and then compact disc. It was possible to
buy a single song or two in these formats, but the internet facilitated more and more people downloading individual
tracks.

Yet, today, there is an inexorable consumer shift to all-you-can-eat bundles of music.

Well, music often comes out as thematic albums, I don't see a problem with that. There are good stores where you can buy albums, and individual tracks as well if you choose. Bandcamp for instance indicated they are gradually growing, so there is clearly a market for that.
>the main UI API is based on, yes, Dart

Won't the Dart's single thread nature be bad to take advantage of Murli core processors? Or they are embracing web workers?
Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Offering Expands to $100M
I do, I mean, I am guilty of using HipChat to talk to people in the same room.

It's just that I can drop off a question, come back later to read the answer, we both have time to think about it, etc
> developers seem too reluctant to get on-board too

Might be limited to your specific environment though. As a counter-example among the people I know there are far more .NET devs than the total sum of iOS/Mac/Android devs.
> The pitch will clearly be that developers can write a Flutter app once and have it run on Andromeda, Android, and iOS with minimal extra work, in theory.

This is worrying for Apple. I can see the following playing out

- Apple continues releasing machines like the TB MBP, much to exasperated developer dismay.

- Other x86 laptop industrial design and build quality continue to improve.

- Fuchsia/Andromeda itself becomes a compelling development environment

- Developers begin switching away from Mac OS to Fuchsia, Linux and Windows

- Google delivers on the promise of a WORA runtime and the biggest objective reason not to abandon Mac OS, i.e. writing apps for iOS, disappears.

- Apps start to look the same on iOS and Android. iOS becomes less compelling.

- iOS devices sales begin to hurt.

Granted that the App Store submission requires Mac OS (Application Loader) and the license agreement requires you only use Apple software to submit apps to the App Store and not write your own, but it seems flimsy to rely on that.
I'm not talking about changing languages, but rather about giving existing languages more rigorous specifications. My beef with C, C++, unsafe Rust, etc. isn't the presence of undefined behavior in arbitrary programs (for which the solution is very simple: don't write arbitrary programs!), but rather the absence of a calculational method [0] for designing programs that don't have undefined behavior (for which a formal semantics is an indispensable prerequisite). To convince yourself that a C program doesn't have undefined behavior, you need to interpret the English text of the C standard, and that's what I object to.

[0] The calculations needn't be performed by a machine. If they are performed by a machine, you have a safe language. If they must be performed by humans, you have an unsafe language, which is nevertheless a lot more usable than C and friends.
Yeah, he starts of saying they have over 40 people, then says one of them tried working remotely and didn't keep it up. Seems misleading.
There are several managed hosting companies that will run Postgres (and other databases) for you on public clouds. Compose, Aiven, ElephantSQL, Database Labs, Heroku, etc. There are all kinds of price points and GCP is working on supporting postgres internally.

How many nodes are you looking to run for $300/month? Unless you have more than 150gb/node of data, you don't really need a distributed database which is what Citus is for.
I think Google just wants to transition to an OS with a micro-kernel architecture with the smallest possible attack surface. Also, user space drivers should help with the update problems they've always had with Android.