skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is excellent. Most times I'm willing to live with just the text.

The article had some pictures and graphs (see archive.li someone else posted). They were nice but they weren't essential.
Agreed. Their forced Windows 10 upgrade "mistake" and my experience last year trying to plug all the holes in enterprise just to watch them re-install Candy Crush Saga with the next update vaporized any confidence or trust I had.

I've always been an MS person but am running Ubuntu on all of my devices now. I feel it hurts my productivity as lots of things I did in Windows just don't work in Ubuntu, but it's better than the alternative. I have a Windows 10 VM that I use every once in a while for those things that are completely impossible on Ubuntu.

And I'm not even sure I can trust Canonical.
Mining magnate Andrew Twiggy Forrest unveils $400M donation to charities
people can hold a bias against creativity that is not ne
cessarily overt, and which is activated when
people experience a mot
ivation to reduce uncertainty.

Translated: When people actually try something new and it gets tough, they get scared, give up and go back to the same old way of doing things.
If you haven not been keeping up, since about sometime in the mid-1980's acquisition of Money became the defining virtue of goodness and success. That's all that matters now.
I'd even say that creativity requires waste, or at least a kind of attitude where wastefulness is okay.
I think millennials simply earn less. That has cut them out of balancing a mortgage and child care while having a stable job. It's pretty easy to work on cutting out lattes and eating out while increasing your earning potential though. I don't think daily frugality comes at the cost of improving your skills or position.
I'd propose a hypothesis that yes it does, for a couple of main reasons:

1. Concentration of job market - a lot of industries only exist (or at least, in a large enough volume) in the larger cities (e.g. financial services, tech). I'd say this is largely coupled to the location of higher education, where there is (relatively) less tertiary education once you leave the major cities.

2. Desirability of location - infrastructure and general "way of life" tends to lead people to wanting a more coastal existence. Australia didn't have the boom of city development in our regional centres, look at towns that are considered large in rural Australia, and they barely compare to even the outer suburbs of the major cities.

As much as our deputy Prime Minister would argue "just move to the country", it's not a realistic statement without addressing massive shortcomings in the long term planning of our rural areas.
The fact that this is the 'top' comment made me stop reading anything further. Wow - decadence.
Accessibility on the Modern Web
Win98 SE was a lot more stable than original Win98, but I agree about 2000 being a better platform all around.
I was deeply tempted to setup a Windows 10 Enterprise machine at work, then have my OpenBSD firewall add any IP the W10 machines tries to get to a block list.
yes: this is a terrible title for this post. even the primary article doesn't use this wording.

mods: can we get this changed to the original title?

"The Language that Stole Android Developers’ Hearts"

i don't know if it's fair or not, but it feels like there is somebody making a really concerted effort to astroturf kotlin.
> I saw a barista ask a Colombian couple to speak in English because Catalan was his native language and he couldn't understand their accent.

I find that very hard to believe, but if it did happen, it's either a joke or a one-off case.
The folks running the place need a clue.

I've seen things like what the parent describes in prosecution with tens of thousands of people work just fine. The leakage to sharepoint has nothing to do with SMB, but with the lack of an easy to use search solution.

Email and Sharepoint give you search and avoid the need for hierarchical filing systems. Search is often less effective, but the clerical people who would maintain those other systems are long gone.
Been on Ubuntu for a bit over a year now.

Steam works great, and LibreOffice has been good enough to get the job done. I run Google Earth Pro and Sketchup in Wine, even World of Warcraft runs quite well in Wine.

I had a ton of issues with Wine until I found PlayOnLinux. Things still don't quite 'just work' -- but I've been able to use way more than I could before I found it.

KSP and WoW are my two big games, and they both work fine.
One wonders whether he is making a Dark Tower joke there.
South korea fertility rate is now lower.
you make a good point, but I would argue that the existence of java means that there is absolutely no more necessity for kotlin, per se, than anything on the list. having it is great insurance for google against oracle, but it shouldn't give any assurance to developers.
Genius is a strong word here
(2007) to CLOS or not to CLOS?
These are terrible alternatives once more than a half dozen people are involved.

SMB isn't about file transfer so much as the system around authorization and authentication. SSH/SFTP gives you highly secure access to unix file systems. There isn't a good interface to advanced ACLs.
> half of the players will beat the market

For how long? And if it is for more than one sample (year), then how do you explain the continued success of places like Renaissance Technologies?

> Both Vegas and Wall Street prosper from this same principle.

I think poker is probably the closest thing in Vegas that matches Wall Street. Probably why it is so popular among quants.
thanks for starting to respond more seriously, but I just don't understand and would like your further clarification. You call them pre-prison but what does the "few dozen" of them going on to college mean? Prisons don't produce college diplomas, so what is that figure? I am totally confused. Please direct your attention to the cited figure of a few dozen of each of these schools going on to college. That is not anywhere near 0.
I'm glad to see Kotlin support (would love Python support but you can't win them all)

The Android APIs are still a major problem for me. In web front-ends we've basically gone full FRP and I'm sitting here with my resource files and 10 line invocations to make a notification.

This is partly because it's necessary for Java, but I'd love to see a first party API that tries out something a bit more fluent
It's an answer to a problem, but only for a limited number of use cases.
Japan doesn't have a fertility crisis. They are merely in the process of replacing themselves with robots.
This has kind of popped up on the internet every so often, and while I loved the story at first, I've become skeptical. How come nobody else has studied/recorded/referenced these myths? We have one singular article, but nothing else.

I hate to suck the magic out of the room, but something tells me that the author took the imagination of children and wrote about it in a way to make it more of a social phenomenon than a set of individual ones.
Most is C++
It's not necessary for Java, the Android APIs are just horribly written, and the notification is a lot more involved than you'd think because it ties into how the OOM treats your app and the intent system
It's plausable from my experience riding an ebike. I've been yelled at by cyclists claiming that I'm not allowed to use trails, etc. and from /r/ebikes it's common to read that many cyclists call ebike riders "cheaters".
It's about whether the computer does the analysis or not, but that's just a stand-in. The real difference is whether and idea or investment strategy can be systematized to the point where it's automated. That implies that there's no emotion or personal bias in most individual trades.

Contrast that to humans doing the picking where there's a fair amount of "lick the finger and hold it up to see which way the wind is blowing"
This is just baseless accusations and speculation.

Jigsaw is important for everyone in the community (less so for Oracle actually) because it reduces the startup time and memory footprint of the JVM. This enables it to be used in more places and on more devices and benefits all of the JVM languages in one hit.

The issues raised within the JSR group have been transparently raised and are purely technical and ideological. There could be a commercial aspect but really it's irrelevant. Red Hat, IBM etc do not depend on OSGi or other module systems for their commercial success. Any ulterior motives really don't make much sense.
The OP's issues seem to indicate that this is not the case, the system would just crash under hdd load in those virtualized systems.
I'm on 55k USD per year pre-tax which is about average (mean) wage I believe.

I am not renting my own place, I'm in a share house. My rent is US$900 per month (including utilities).

A more accurate calculation shows that this is about 27% to 28 % of my after tax income.
If you are talking about transistors, when they were invented the only other alternatives were triodes (vacuum tubes) or mechanical relays. Both were orders of magnitude less reliable and slower in terms of switching speed. When transistors were invented it was a mad dash to get them cheap and small enough to replace everything else, because everyone could tell they were the future. It took 9 years between the first transistor and receiving the Nobel Prize for it.
Cited paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15181
Use your legs. /r/shittymotorcycles
I have not tried to donate programming skills outside of younger family members and junior programmers I work with.

I was at a NY Tech meetup a few weeks ago, and there was an intro about TEALS where they were looking for people to teach high school students in the NYC high schools.
There are two dangers in what you are saying here.

Firstly, The thing is about the placebo effect, is that it is an actual effect.

Placebos are tough to account for in studies specifically because they actually DO help, for something to have medicinal properties it needs to have a greater effect than a placebo. Placebos even have been known to work when people know they are placebos.

The second one is that humans are terrible at self diagnosis / analysis, we are way too emotionally influenced, too biased, and there are too many variables to make conclusions on treating yourself. That's where scientific studies do a good job of removing biases and variability from the equation.

I'm not saying banana peels definitely don't help, because I honestly don't have a bloody clue, but I would caution telling other people about it with such certainty until there is some well researched initial evidence behind it.
The internet is many, many, many exabytes large at this point. Hell, I'd bet YouTube alone is a few hundred exabytes at minimum.
There's such a thing as real alpha and also just luck. In a market with so many players, you would also expect that random chance would predict many people winning consistently year after year.

This is not to say that all such funds can be explained this way. But most of the successful ones likely yes
I've never lived anywhere near where I worked or studied - absolutely not within push-bike riding distance. So I used to ride a motorcycle. However, after several near misses with oblivious car drivers I decided I didn't want to die.

Riding a push-bike is great for your fitness, but it's not feasible if you have a long distance to travel every day. That can be assisted by public transport, but that means you need reasonable public transport - being drenched in sweat, trying to squeeze a push-bike onto a completely packed peak-time train service isn't fun for anyone.

Motorcycles (and scooters) actually make a lot of sense, they are extremely efficient as a personal mode of transport, quick and great for travelling most distances. In many places around the world (particularly certain Asian countries) motorcycles are hugely common. I wish that were the case in western countries and that people actually took motorcycle rider safety seriously. The stigma is really "do it at your own risk", which is down-right ridiculous given I never sped, lane-split or did anything even remotely dangerous on my motorcycle. If I was going to die it was at the hands of someone else, someone whose thought-process never considered motorcycles as a legitimate means of transport, never expected them on the road, and frankly never looked out for them.

It's a shame, driving around a large 5 seat vehicle for 1 person is an enormous waste in most cases.
Original post here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844723
Governance, Risk and Compliance
I saw that tweet but I still doubt that any Windows 10 service would connect to analytics.google.com. It seems more likely that he has a Google application installed.

Edited to reword the second sentence.
frp on the front end varies widely. it's trending towards a true vision but something like Cycle hasn't completely enveloped the mainstream's mind. IMHO, Microsoft and FB need to lead the way on this complete transition on the web
Yes, and the reason the government rushed to it is because they wanted the absolute best technology (that was orders of magnitude better than anything else) and would pay for it to have a leg up over their enemies. If they were cheap right when they came out, everyone would have bought them.
5. Microsoft. Could arguably live without Windows and Office (via either OSX or Linux), but at present it underpins all that I do on a computer.

4. Alphabet. Alphabet/Google products are the next layer I use on top of MS products, therefore are the next hardest to remove.

3. Facebook. The next layer again; MS and Alphabet provide general case tools, FB is a particular implementation on top of those, so it would go before either of the above two.

2. Amazon. No Amazon in Australia anyway, no big loss.

1. Apple. Only Apple product/service I use is a keyboard. Happy to see it go.
Under KVM the guest has a bridge adapter that you can set rules for on the host OS. So, you can mark, log and all that other fun stuff. Like route all DNS queries from guest to logging-cache DNS running on Host, block ports and full control of egress
The easiest to drop for me would be Facebook and Amazon.

I enjoy Apple and Google. products and don't see a need to drop.

Microsoft doesn't have a big impact on my personal life anymore. It wouldn't be feasible to remove them fro, my personal life, however.
I've not only always shared an apartment since college, I've shared rooms.

Millennial, two STEM degrees, live in a 2nd-tier city, and likely a decade more before I can afford a down payment.

So uhhhh....checkmate?
You must mean "false" not "farce". I can't see how such claims could be considered farcical.
Electric bikes are really taking off in China. I wrote down my thoughts a while ago. Will copy and paste here:

Like a car, they offer cheap on-demand transit to your exact destination. Unlike a car they do not support long distances, heavy loads or more than 2 people, but often those features are not needed by the urban commuter. Furthermore they lack many of the drawbacks of a car; getting stuck in traffic, the need for parking, the need for insurance, licensing requirements, high fuel requirements etc. Furthermore an e-bike is a signifigantly smaller investment than a car. Having it lost, stolen or damaged poses less of a personal risk to your finances. Unlike a classical bike, e-bike's do not require the user to be in shape or even exert effort to operate. Thus we see that in the personal transport market, e-bikes represent the best of both worlds for the urban commuter. We can see proof by demonstration that in the right conditions they can be enormously popular (China). Why haven't they taken off all over the world yet?

1. Topography. They are generally not powerfull enough to go up steep hills. Sadly this rules out San Fransisco which would otherwise be quick to pick up on an eco-friendly trend.

2. Regulation. These vehicles neither qualify as motorcycles nor bicycles and thus are often ambiguous or de facto illegal in many parts of the states.

3. Weather. Driving at 40 Km/hr in the cold of winter is unpleasant. The otherwise perfect markets of the flat mid-west and dense+flat New York may find this a deal breaker. Sun-belt cities without too much sprawl (Eg San Diego) are the only place in the states that are a perfect match. The Chinese have invented a rather unfashionable "bike apron" to make the cold weather driving tolerable.

I think point 2 is a huge mistake. If the US is serious about green technologies, deregulating e-bikes would be a huge boon.
I kind of don't understand why people would drop these, who else would take over? I realize you don't want monopolies, want competition to bring out innovation. But at the same what else do you have left from the internet unless your life isn't already heavily integrated with these services.

edit: I don't have an Apple product myself. Though the build quality is nice, it's expensive (and I am poor) also never used/could be confusing to use iOS/Mac OS.

Use Gmail... but you can use hotmail (microsoft), Yahoo (yikes). Chrome browser (google) ... Youtube (google) ahh you can use Vimeo... Don't use Facebook (don't have friends) though their marketing/advertising for a business is great.

Just my useless opinion
when I just have my phone, I use an app like Google keep for temporary notes.

However, if I have a little spiral flip pad, I much prefer that.

Anything I put into the phone, I transcribe onto a bigger sketch pad. I feel like having them in the phone is less accessible in some sense. Thought to paper is just easier to for me.
It's kind of interesting, is it common for you to have Win10 systems in scope for PCI compliance?

It seems unusual to me if any desktop systems are anywhere close to card data, IMHO usually you'd have in scope only a bunch of servers (so, Linux or Windows Server for normal businesses who don't have a reason to wrestle mainframes) in an isolated network, but most of company computers including all the user desktops shouldn't have a way to touch in-scope data or systems in any way whatsoever, so if they're properly isolated (as they should be anyway) they would be out of scope for most of PCI DSS requirements.
Not sure if swooned is the right word.
I use Little Snitch¹ in macOS to block/allow connections the VM process is making.

EDIT: Just realized it was already mentioned by mcbridematt, and with more detail too! I’ll just leave this comment here for the Little Snitch link.

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¹ — https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
I have a couple of friends with e-bikes and they sound like a lot of fun. My only problem with them is that, by the time you've added 10-15kg of running gear to a bike, you've entered a feedback loop where the bike's heavier, and it goes faster, so it needs wider tyres, better brakes... and now is even heavier and harder to pedal, so it needs more power... pretty soon you have something that's enough of a motorbike that you can't pedal it unassisted and should really be wearing proper safety gear, but still enough of a bicycle that it's not a very good motorbike.
LTSB (aka: long-term servicing branch)

I'm not sure if it's comedic or tragic that the version so very many users would want most, is not only the version with the worst name, but also the version Microsoft discourages people from adopting.

Critical patch support, infrequent updates, and excludes crufty bloatware. What's not to like?
WhatsApp is huge in Europe but any other IM app could replace it in a matter of weeks if necessary.
You know the same headline could be written in reverse and still work. Of course, it would get fewer votes and clicks. The actual bottom line is they are going for the same size of home ... surely that's not either generation's fault.
Use LTSB. Microsoft tries to scare you into not using it because it doesn't support the Windows store or Edge or have telemetry or any of that fun stuff.

But they keep coming out with respins of it to otherwise keep feature parity with CB Enterprise. A 2017 LTSB based on 1703 should be out soon.
From one of the examples, the author writes: "I concluded that Torquing’s founders had never possessed the skills or experience needed to pull off their project."

This has been true of so many Kickstarter projects, but has hit hard goods especially. There is so much depth there that isn't obvious to anyone who hasn't done the whole process, and is so totally obvious to someone who has. I have half a mind to start a 'hardware manufacturing boot camp' where students would spend 3 months in classes learning what it takes to bring a simplified product from concept to market.
The simple upvoting system you described would only be useful if you happened to like the same things as the average internet user. For example, I'm probably not going to like something just because a hundred million teenagers liked it. (An upvoting system doesn't even work very well for me on a fairly narrowly focused site like HN - I only read a small fraction of the items on the front page.)

A more effective approach might be for the system to learn what users like based on the correlations between their upvotes and other users' upvotes. For example: "people who liked X also liked Y". (Kind of like how Amazon suggests merchandise to people.)

However, I already get more interesting stuff than I can ever finish reading just by following links from sites that I already find interesting. So I'm not sure what value would be added by having a curation service.
What I'm more impressed with, though, is the scientific journalism.

Actually I was disappointed with the article.

The image at top shows two output streams: waste, and filtered water. I was expecting an explanation of this while reading the article. But as I read the words, the build-up wasn't matching the image.

Finally we come to: In a working system it would simply be a question of splitting the water stream into three as it left the processor, with the two outer branches being recycled and the inner one tapped and piped to consumers.

So, no, pretty sloppy.
Yes. Most of them are a few lines of code to tweak other examples, not full apps, and they all work.

Have you? Do you have an example of something that doesn't? Or are you talking about something you have no experience with?
RetroTech: TV Personal Stereo – 1986 in your pocket
Umm, so why doesn't the invisible hand intent people to grow elsewhere instead?

This could be interpreted as a snide comment but it's the opposite: I strongly believe in regulation but could someone with an Austrian-economist bent explain why this doesn't happen?
Now more I think about It is genius move by Google. With this low effort work Google generated lot of buzz. Android remain same. Tooling and language is developed by Jetbrains for Kotlin. If Kotlin brings in new developer to Android, great for Google, if not, dependable Java is always there.
Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing.

Losing $50k and a college friend may seem like a lot but I think it is at the beginning of your career. But good that your learn these lessons before you have a $$$ home, a wife and kids -- then losing it all is a lot more serious.

I would not be surprised the hard nootropics played more of a role than you give it credit for in taking you down such a path. Hyperfocus drugs and anxiety-inducing drugs are not conducive to globally optimal decision making in a diverse and rich environment that is critical for running a successful business.