skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if any of your examples actually shows unsustainability leading to price increases.

Whale hunting stopped when synthetic oils became available and cheaper than "natural" ones. I think the natural ones were still cheap enough.

Coal, and later oil, was a better (-> cheaper) fuel than trees, so people switched. Shipbuilding materials changed as new fuels and new weapons became available. We're not running out of trees, the alternatives were just better.

Sanitation AFAIK was purely a result of scientific discoveries finally being accepted by practitioners, and then by masses.

Horses were definitely useful and cheap enough for transportation - internal combustion engine created a cheaper/better alternative.

I won't comment on natural rubber and wells in cities, because I don't know anything about it.

My point is - at least with some of your examples, there was no strong price increase signal, and thus we can't use them to support the idea that market pressures will always occur right in time to save us.
> behind the scenes it's doing a fresh install, then copying your files back across

Are you thinking of the reformatting to APFS? That's kind of done like this. Aside from this, the OS upgrade is the same as it always is: install the new system-level packages over the existing files & reboot.
if you have several servers you can either wait until the drive has been repaired (by the hosting provider) and just reinstall. If you need it more quickly you can spin up a new dedicated server. Many providers will set up bare metal servers within a few minutes (as long as the demand isn't too big). It doesn't give you the ability to scale 1000x within a few hours but that won't be a problem for most.
Ever played The Sims 4...
Out of sheer curiosity I had a go at manually enhancing the Roundhay Garden Scene by dramatically enlarging the frames, stacking them, aligning them, erasing the most blurred ones and the obvious artifacts.

It went from this:

https://media.giphy.com/media/pUf3YfamV7BV6/giphy.gif

To this:

http://img.go-here.nl/Roundhay_Garden_Scene.gif

The funniest part was that the resolution really goes up if you make 1 px into 40 and align the frames accurately (then adjust opacity to the level of blur)

The crime television thing would be possible if you have enough frames of the gangster.
for the BBC that's terrible, they also pay their TV licensing goons peanuts too.
Ask HN: Which new tech stack on side project?
I’m a freelance, primarily C# developer. Currently I work on a project with React.js frontend and RESTful C# WEB API. Apart from this recent encounter with React.js my background is primarily 10+ years of backend development in C#. I have started a company before which still runs. For that project I developed everything within the “.Net ecosystem” as we had a tight deadline to market. But now I have an idea where I’m not really under any time-constraint, so I might as well develop my skill along the way, so if the project fails I still end up with a better CV and skills I can leverage as a consultant. Further and this is by no means a deal-breaker – but for what it is worth I would like for it to be able to be fully developed on a Mac.

So which tech stack should I use, that also adds some valuable skills to my CV? The project will primarily be a website and probably apps for iOS and Android, where you can create a user, log in and enter a small amount of data, that then can be shared with people you choose to share them with. Furthermore, these information would in time be available to share with other companies in a “SAAS way”.

At the moment I lean towards a MEAN stack – but is a bit wary on the MongoDB backend. Read some critique arguing about the people behind just ignoring 40 years of database evolvement and thinking they can solve everything better – but apart from that no real experience to sway me either way. Angular also appears to have a steep learning curve. A possibility would of course also be to just build it in React.js and C# WEB API mirroring what I work with at the moment, but I don’t feel like that would really move my skillset any further than what I already do during normal working hours. And somehow I don’t really like the tie to Facebook with React..

I hope the question is not too vague and I know there are no right answers, but I am very interested in hearing thoughts behind possible suggestions.
I am not sure if its the American date format or the way they choose to write them (with the . instead of - or /) made it confusing to me. On Indian website it is written "Available 26.9"
Why does that make the production heavily subsidized? Surely the state doesn't need to subsidize what is already very popular?
I do this every 1-2 major OS releases. Copying from backup gives you a cool total defrag for system and user files, and cleans up all the BS that has accumulated (config files, stuff no longer need, use, etc).

I have a script that installs all my settings, brew packages, etc, even App Store apps, from external backup disk -- I'm up and running in 2-3 hours after the base install.
Have had no lag-g-g-g-g problems with iOS11. Maybe it's the device?
That depends - it's possible to have a first stage bootloader in mask or OTP ROM that hashes the firmware before passing off control. No idea if Macs do this though.
Ask HN: How much are you making in recurring revenue?
No remotely relevant app

Define "relevant".
As mostly an org user, I still find that part of the markdown syntax to be more intuitive: parentheses are commonly used to clarify or expand on something, and links are often inserted with the same purpose, so a link goes into parentheses. E.g., "foo (you can find it there)".
I hope they fill their diversity quota and don't just hire people from the huge white pool. because I want them to fail.
This, and the recent timelapse video of Earth's atmosphere from GOES-16[0], made me realize just how a dynamic phenomenon clouds are. They look so much different at this timescale than when watching them real-time.

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[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/12/us/hurricane-...
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Ah like, what do I look like I want to eat?
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I am very skeptical of a new filesystem that is going out to users that fast. I haven’t tested the beta yet, but I would imagine we still have the option of using HFS+? Otherwise I’ll wait six months or more to even attempt it.
and there is no ambiguity, does 6/7/2017 mean 6th July or 7th June?
Technical write up?

[edit] some info here - http://alexanderperrin.com.au/portfolio/short-trip/
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I own an iphone 6+ too, this could also be a hardware issue. It started for me with the touchscreen going unresponsive for a few seconds and then suddenly 'catching up', it got progressively worse so I got it repaired. Hopefully it's purely a software issue in your case but just in case : https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6plus-multitouch/
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How to filter fake engineeers
Reading HN’s “Why every company is terrible at firing ineffective engineers”. I had a powerful realisation. Why is it not possible to filter those almost fired engineers? Many engineers bounce around every 6-12 months, bad and the good. Due to the fact that it’s exceptionally hard to hire an engineer, good and the bad. This activity continues.

A talented coder but bad employee will look good in interviews. The current interview measures; coding tests, technical/scenario questioning, test ability over an hour rather than a year. Once you get to know of people’s reputations, you see baffling things. You’ll consistently see engineers with bad reputations getting jobs at good companies. The inevitable end result - a short tenure and a new job in 6 months. But when you look at our measures for interviewing, it’s not that hard to see how they could have impressed.

It’s frustrating for recruiters. It must be even more so for good engineers that do care about their reputations, that lose out. When that talented developer your old company was on the verge of firing for 9 months is hired over you. A group of people know you’ll add more value over 2 years but you can’t get this across in the interview.

A successful Angel Investor once justified an investment to me by saying “I have the best measure of success for that team. Having worked alongside them full-time for 6 months.”

His best long term performance metric - a reference. So why aren’t references, working to filter the the bad engineers? The answer is simple they aren’t being done, the few that are conducted are ineffective. The answer to the problem is... Start doing referencing again and start doing it better! Don’t kid yourself, a date check after you’ve offered a candidate is no use to anyone.

Engineers that do care about their reputations or companies that want a long-term success metric - sign up for early access to this free tool >> https://rblock.co/ <<
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I'm totally with you on that one. My biggest hope would be to be able to use only Photos in my photography flow.
I remember the first time I saw Spotlight. It was magic. Then came Expose. Wireless that worked. Sleep that worked. Trivial configuration of things like sshd, apache and samba.

Amazing days.

Lately I only upgrade when forced. I ran 10.8 until earlier this year when I finally upgraded my machine. Then I spent a week trying to figure out how the hell to get gdb working again because binaries now require code signing and there's this horrible new thing called System Integrity Protection that tries to protect me from myself. They also took away my Escape key and replaced it with this TouchBar nonsens just because I wanted an i7 CPU. To put this into perspective: I practically live inside vim.
a variant of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
Try using apps like Workflow, Homekit and others. There’s lots of Tim wresting highs to do with the watch. Podcasts are a dusty corner of the portfolio and barely get attention. I’m sure they’ll gobble the function into Apple Music.

I get what Marco is talking about here, but Overcast is already so complex it can barely play a podcast without crashing if interrupted. I don’t need that drama on my watch, where complex stuff either doesn’t work or sucks battery.
And all on UTC, please. End this timezone and daylight saving nightmare.
Well, maybe we could use the news to make more people aware of it and help mitigate human behavior? ;-)

But, yeah, it can be used for nefarious purposes. In fact, it probably will be. Hidden under that will be good uses.

I suspect there's going to be constant innovation. There are people who thought that personal transportation was a solved problem back when we rode animals. These days, we are looking at an EV revolution and SDV somewhere in the not-too-distant future. Along the way, it hasn't been a solved problem, even though it looked like it was.

I guess that's what I've been clumsily trying to say.
You see thousands of individual ants, and call that colony.

What if I went around the forest and picked one ant out of thousands of colonies and put them all together? Will you still call this a colony? Even if they begin fighting each other?

I wouldn't. It's the behavior of the ants that makes them a colony, which isn't a "real" physical thing.
> having Google drop your account over a misunderstanding and thereby disabling all your laptops for several weeks would be a nightmare.

This I think will be the biggest challenge. I've never heard of Microsoft disabling software or cancelling support if by some stroke you were audited and failed. The matter is handled outside of normal business operation.
Yeah, I thought about that as I was writing my comment and realized that's why I always write "back to front dates" with dashes instead of slashes. I think it's probably because I always use that format in filenames and slashes feel like a very bad idea there ;-)
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I don’t mind ads. I just cannot hear about why Squarespace or Casper are awesome ever again.
>Considering that, as a nation, American has a foundation in its constitution that surpasses pretty much every other nation

It's strange that you claim that; as the American Constitution ranks right at the bottom in terms of forcing social accountability. It's an outdated document that allows individuals to get away with everything a reasonable society has at least some claim to punish or direct, and it's something that has held American social progress back. No hate speech laws, extensive rights against self-incrimination, no "right to be forgotten", no socialized medicine, very few equality-of-outcome initiatives, and the like.

And as a result, you've correctly noted that the American commons is horribly polluted and everyone acts as if they were a (little) king.

>Responsibility and sacrifice do not have to be associated with conformity and keeping your head down.

Yes they do- they're inextricably linked. Let's take the example of a father providing for his children- given the choice of a risky venture vs. a more stable position at another company, the choice is now to prevent loss rather than obtain gain. So we see that as responsibility increases, so does the requirement to not rock the boat, so to speak. Never change a running system.

Now let's extrapolate that attitude to individuals in a society. The more that individual feels beholden to it, the more they'll limit risky action in favor of stability. Their window of tolerable risk shrinks- and while they're very unlikely to do anything that costs that society, they're also unlikely to make it prosper. And as a result, any (read: above-average) member of the society has already checked out because even if they have something that will work, it's less likely they'll find others willing to risk what little individual time/capital they have on it (and it's not like they'll ever see a meaningful reward for that risk either as the society feels entitled to most of it).

So either you have a society in which individuals feel beholden to it, in which case you get something that's pretty good for everyone but can't properly reward the people who end up doing most of the work (it's more important than usual that those people believe they owe society something); or you don't, in which case the poor get barely-passable treatment but being objectively useful tends to bring big rewards (and incentivizes advancing the capabilities of the human race).

You can't both encourage deference to society and thinking outside of that society's standards at the same time- you either pick one or the other and live with the benefits and detriments.
It'd sure be nice to have both, but you can't beat human nature or reality.
I found that Capture One is a decent replacement.
The hardest part of microservices: Calling your services
Just to add a counterpoint to this experience report, I use GCP and pay for their support, and have found it to be generally great (with some variability in quality of SE).

I understand that this isn't the experience that folk have with every Google product, but I suspect that any enterprise support would hook into their GCP support platform.

Concerns about "turning off your account" are certainly valid, though you that's something that Amazon or any other SaaS vendor could do with (I've seen a few nightmare reports over the years, though they seem to be the exception not the rule).
Expensive and wasteful, as people all donate the same tin of beans and no spoon to eat it with, so to speak. But there is also a point to this sort of donation - gifting in kind usually ensures it won't be pocketed along the way. It might get wasted (food expires, boxes break etc), but rarely exploited for profit - or so the common wisdom goes.

Unfortunately, something like that can still be used for evil in many ways. Say your container full of cans gets delivered to Port Disaster and stored in customs; the local docks boss (be it a warlord or local leader) gets wind of it and refuses to release it unless his palms are greased. The org will be forced to pay, otherwise all effort will be for nought, food will rot etc. Charitable gifts will then help fostering the blackmail and corruption economies that wars and disasters inevitably create, rather than relieving the honest one. But then again, so would random "cash rain".

There is no magic bullet, all solutions have their downside. Operating in crisis scenarios is a constant moral maze.
It looks like a theme from themeforest. They must have had a tight deadline
>"Do not tell your boss you want his job/to be a manager because anything you ever do that makes her feel threatened from then on will be noted and used against you. People move companies to gain good promotions for a reason."

I don't entirely think that piece of advice applies if your manager/boss is ambitious. If they're ambitious, then they're most certainly looking for their own replacement. Heck, someone that can in the interim do their tasks while they focus on "moving up".
Or just use an unambiguous format especially when writing normal copy. It would only take a few extra characters to write it as "25th Sep" or "Sep 25".
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There definitely still is ambiguity if you're unfamiliar with the format. Show someone "2017-07-06" and they still might be unsure whether that's June or July.
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I hear you, but the FS has been silently deployed to millions of iOS devices already, so I'd imagine it's pretty well tested for them to bet customer data on it. I also haven't had any issues with APFS on 10.13 beta, but I haven't used it in any fancy way yet.
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Why can't anybody work on some kind of blockchained database software? I wonder if it would be doable... The Silicon Valley TV show had this. I've also thought about it, but I'm not sure it would be fast enough and redundancy could be tweaked... so only for backing up data...

I don't know but storing data in a cloud which resides in user computers sound like the perfect solution to those kinds of legal issues. The whole feature is having data that cannot be suppressed or accessed by a private party.
That's a great point; I get the appropriate date formats whether I look at the default site or the UK 'mirror'.
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Same here. On 6S animations lags very often, on iPad Pro 10.5 swiping window to multitasking causes dropping frames.
Google also competed against Baidu for years and lost. When they exited China in the early 2010s they only had 20% marketshare
Eink displays only use however much the battery inherently loses when not changing pages. If you only read 500 screen of text that month then it only consumed a trickle of battery x 500. Your screen itself consumes power every second its on and you also ask much more than rendering text.

What you propose is interesting though none the less. What is the most battery life that can reasonably be packed into a device that is modest but still useful.
So now you've moved the goalposts. You went from no to some.

Yes, that is hyperbole. America has faults, plenty of them in fact. But, I gave examples of all three of the things you claimed we had none of.

And yes, yes we do have faults. Man, have we got faults. We aren't all bad or in truly dire straights. We do have Nazis marching in the streets but, in the US, they are free to do so - and we are free to counter march. Not only are we free to do so, we have the liberty to do so.
AFAIU it actually seems to be sort of "just" a clever application of the nearest-neighbor interpolation. The CNN is used to come up with the feature space for the pixels (weights of the CNN), and then each pixel is "copy-pasted" from the training set based on the nearest match.

It seems that this could be used in theory with any feature descriptors, such as local color histograms, although the results wouldn't probably be as good.

Edit: Being a nearest neighbor probably also carries the usual computational complexity problems of the method. If I understand it correctly, they ease this by actually first finding just subset of best matching full images using the CNN features and then do a local nearest neighbor search just in those images.
Does anybody have more information on this claim of a keychain vulnerability in High Sierra... just saw it fly past on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/912254053849079808

>on High Sierra (unsigned) apps can programmatically dump & exfil keychain (w/ your plaintext passwords) vid: https://player.vimeo.com/video/235313957 #smh
If you invite me to a dinner party and I shit on the table it doesn't really matter how much I claim I'm reformed you're not going to invite me back unless you're really short on company. If there's any other source then there's no reason one would spend time checking out if sourceforge is really reformed or they just did a legal manoeuvre and started hiding the malware better.
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How do you do this? I really need to step up my security game. As an aside - are you encrypting all your cloud storage data, and if so, what tool are you using?
Isn't it kind of offensive to suppose that billions of users should pay more money so that hundreds of developers can use less efficient tools to build apps?

Isn't this backwards?
Emacs support too.
Yes that’s a huge problem and I’ve seen a lot of misunderstands from it.
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Will you join my AMA?
I'm a '2017-09-25' fan, myself :)

Given that I read from left to right, I mean.
I don't like the look of these pages. Parallax on everything makes it feel like it's 2010 all over again.
Hollywood got it right!!!
SIP is protecting you from rootkits. And it’s pretty trivial to turn off if you want to do that.
That was my suspicion as well, it’s quite a dramatic improvement.
Because not everyone cares about the startup time of an application on a platform that is 10 times slower than an intel CPU from 2012 when the application runs for more than a minute?

Also why are you even considering go as modern? The best compiled alternative to java is D and it's possible to disable the stop the world pause for specific threads by detaching them from the runtime which make it useful for realtime workloads while still being able to take advantage of the GC to boost your productivity when determinism is not important.
In the military junior leader's get taught Adair's theory of Action Centred Leadership: that Task, Team and Individual are separate things to deal with and yet mutually dependent.

Which to make the primary focus can and should switch up. If you are firefighting on a submarine all that matters is the task - the team are all dead if you fail. The individual does not matter there and then.

Back in the land of computers we have less extreme but analogous problems. There are times when you do need to focus on the task, however if you're a good leader you've used the times when that isn't the case to focus on building a Team and developing each Individual so that they can, and are willing, to dig out to achieve the Task.
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And from being productive!