skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I experienced a similar disappointment after installing one of the Sierra security updates. It introduced some external display issues [1] which to this day have gone unfixed. I've spent hours with Apple support, both in chat and over the phone, explaining the issue and providing them with debug data. They told me multiple times it was being looked into by engineering and would continue to update me. But time and time again they would schedule a follow-up phone call that never came or tell me I'd receive an email follow-up that would never arrive.

I also echo the sentiment that it's difficult finding a practical alternative.

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/277967/major-issue...
Tesla made a phone battery pack that mimics Supercharger monuments
Imagine how different naval history would be if the Megalodon still existed and considered humans / boats prey.

The size of vessel needed to be safe would be mind boggling. Would we have had to wait for steel to be invented?!
Here’s the map of the world, if size were determined by market cap (2015)
NASA to Test Kilopower Reactor
drpm files on Fedora 25+ spring to mind, along with jigdo and zsync (Debian, Ubuntu - for full isos). I'm sure they will get there, but then perhaps different installs have a different set of files that need to be replaced?
Kudos to the author for diving in - I made my transition 13 years ago in 2014 and started with Slackware.

While most installations work out of the box on whatever hardware, you might still have trouble with sound, graphics or wifi drivers. While finding help for this online is definitely doable it's not for everyone. As an example, I gave my parents my old laptop with Ubuntu installed (they basically use Skype and browse the internet). However, unfortunately they had some trouble with a Skype update and within a few weeks they paid someone to install windows on it (I was not around to troubleshoot their problem at the time).

The author does make a good point about hiring someone once to set it up for you though :)
Even this is not quite right. For keyboard instruments, that have a fixed set of pitches that notes map to, you have to choose a temperament, a fixed set of pitches for each note (unless you're on a clavichord, where you can adjust it a bit by how hard you strike the key). Fretted instruments may or may not be tempered. Guitars are, since the frets on it limit the pitch range of a given note, though it is still a range. Viols aren't, because the frets are soft gut and used to brighten the sound, so the pitch range is much wider for a given note.

For string or wind instruments playing without keyboards, there is no temperament. Each note represents a range of possible pitches, and what pitch you choose depends on the notes around it. For example, if you are repeating or holding a note, you don't want it to change pitch. But if the harmony around that note is changing, it may be in tune at one point in time, then out of tune at a later one. String quartet playing involves a great deal of working out compromises about what pitch each note should have.
Calling the pronunciation irregular is putting the cart before the horse. The spoken language is the fundamental thing. It's the spelling that is irregular; the pronunciation just is what it is.

Writing isn't the same thing as language. Language is an innate human activity; whereas writing is a piece of technology that some cultures use and others don't.
Orca sometimes hunt seals on rocks, so it would make evolutionary sense for the to see well their prey there.
Yes it would cost a bunch, because many users suck at taking care of their cheap stuff, they don't have any sense of stress their mishandling puts on things, or because they're plain scammers. It's a risk companies and sellers don't need, especially small ones, and the benefit is that they can make stuff cheaper, sell stuff cheaper, and people can buy stuff cheaper. One of the many reasons median Americans enjoy a higher material standard of living than people in Europe.
As the other commenter stated, the downvotes are most likely due to the holier than though attitude. It’s ok to be passionate and knowledgeable, but nobody wants to deal with jerks.
> So when we delete production data, it is a process failure[Gitlab postmortem] but when employees at a three letter agency cause spillage, it is a felony?

Are you equating an accident that resulted in deleted data with someone intentionally taking confidential materials and putting them on an insecure, personal computer?
If people think the internet should be a public service, why don't they fight for it instead?
Something is absolutely not right then, because APFS is MUCH faster indexing, listing, and instantaneously showing file/folder sizes. I'm running it on an unsupported MacPro 3,1 and it runs like a dream.

You're not running it on old platter drives are you? It's made for SSD.
Hes implying that the market forces propped up a higher salary
Avengers in Wrath: Moral Agency and Trauma Prevention for Remote Warriors
Show HN: Aurora, a pluggable note taker
As a dev who uses an editor I wrote myself... not having an undo button sucks, and is not terribly simple to build... and I have no one to blame but myself...
Stages of Music Addiction
>Wasn't Benghazi investigated to death by the right for an absurdly long time? Why do you think nothing was found?

Didn't all the people except Hillary (who lied to the committee) take the 5th? Do you think that might be a reason?
Say “getting people to click on ads” if you like it better. In the end it’s just making money as well. I guess working at a loss making company can be much more satifactory from a moral point of view but it’s not sustainable...
There's kind of a parallel with signals regarding businesses as well. There may be nothing wrong with a store that hasn't been renovated since the 90s, but it gives off a "run-down" vibe like it wouldn't be there much longer.
Sort of a mathematician here, it looks like a disease.
Awesome, pretty handy to have for engineering/scientific computing code. Over time, you do start to build the intuition just like you do for scalar derivative calculations, but it takes time.
>Images of futurist cities like this drive me nuts, am I looking at a pimped up motherboard or a city where people actually live? What if a sustainable and livable city doesn't look very exciting on picture?

Just as a data point, the picture is an aerial shot containing a highway interchange and part of the Olympiapark in Munich, built for the '72 summer Olympics.

Which is sort of interesting because it's both a futurist planned thing (the Olympiapark) and a city where people actually live (Munich).
Connecting Blockchains: Instant Cross-Chain Transactions on Lightning
Thank you for sharing those; Jackson presented his ideas in a very clear manner. I especially liked how he broke down the evaluation and the accompanying examples. If one replaces users by other developers or even future self, the application of his ideas can lead to better system organization and consequently better developer experience.
Why do you worry - only Tesla authorized service will be allowed to repair the truck
Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant
I'll actually go further than Dan here: I'm beginning to believe that the default should be one repo per company or team-of-teams, and that creating a second repo should require extremely good reasons why.
Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by the Biodiversity Heritage Library
This appears to be a recent development in English writing, perhaps related to Americans' fondness for directness over pretense as well as accessibility to all socioeconomic classes. In the past, more words were often viewed as better; Charles Dickens, in particular, is sometimes singled out and mocked by modern writers for his tendency to ramble. It extended to the names people chose for their characters; in Ian Fleming's time, long pretentious names like "Percival Aloysius Merriwether IV" and so forth were the norm in popular literature. Fleming looked down at a book of ornithology and saw just the sort of short, nondescript name his faceless hero needed: James Bond.
I'm 33. I started learning Python about 4 years ago and now I'm doing full-stack web development. I enjoy my work, but there are downsides to everything.

I'd recommend getting into either Python or Javascript. If you can stick with it for a few weeks and not go crazy, it might be a good fit for you.

Good luck.
That's incorrect.

Equal temperament is very recent. Medieval through Baroque used a system of temperaments called meantone that began with C major being in tune, and then distorted tones slightly in order to make the proximal keys usable. Choosing a key in meantone implies a real difference in what the relative distance among notes was. When you go out beyond three sharps, it becomes very distorted. Five sharps is essentially unusable in meantone systems.

Bach's well tempering was a replacement for meantone where all the keys were usable. We don't know exactly what it was, though there have been some interesting attempts at reconstructing it. I remember being in the orchestra for the Bach four harpsichord concerto as a demonstration of one such attempt, which was wild.

As for using technology to create in-tune musical instruments, the original one, the voice, already has that. For keyboard instruments, there have been all kinds of crazy ones built over the centuries that have many more notes to an octave to allow much more precise intonation. But that's not the core restriction. I mentioned elsewhere in this thread that the pitch a given note maps to changes during a piece of music if you don't have tempered instruments involved, and those changes are always compromises.

So I wouldn't suggest reading that discussion, as it's apparently full of inaccurate material.
Maybe I'm just a nostalgic old geezer, but that was kind of socialising was my favourite thing about the internet. It's a shame I haven't been able to experience it in over a decade.

It was so incredibly easy to find and talk to new people. It seems like everything about the current internet makes that deliberately harder. Even sending e-mail to strangers is hard now, you'll likely end up in their spam folder.
If anything that's an indictment of whatever Berlin is compared to!

FWIW my experience has been that it's surprisingly difficult to compare my 'home', Amsterdam, to Berlin, or The Netherlands to Germany. There's tons of things that I prefer in the latter (cost of education, civil society/engagement), but also plenty of things I prefer in the former (ease of starting a business, relative lack of (monolingual) bureacracy).

But from talking to expats to both Amsterdam and Berlin made me realize that even the shitty parts of my world are much better than where some of them came from. Most of my complaints about Berlin or Amsterdam pale in comparison to the benefits it offers to many people from other places.

(For example, the complaints about DB (Germany) or NS (Holland) are ridiculous in comparison to my experience what almost every other part of the world)
This will be the first time since 1965 that NASA has taken a reactor critical! Also, it's the same type of reactor that YC-backed startup Oklo is developing. It will be the first reactor of this type ever tested.

More info:

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcdfMcjUy_U

slides https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201600...

paper https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...
Twitter wants to police its users both on and off the service
Can you state 5 examples of products which you think are working great for more than a year and are cheap which you would buy without any warranty?

i am sure we all would be so happy to buy them.
Flat-Earthers Gather at First Conference
But there are other ways to build software. You can make apps with very few dependencies, use stable APIs only, program defensively, make sure you properly read the docs and handle all error conditions, don’t add unnecessary features, etc.

The result can be an app that requires minimal maintenance and it might work for years without any changes at all.
> Just like it's acceptable to reboot a computer without a user's permission, losing all their work

This is something I've found fault with in Windows, and was greatly disappointed to see happen in Sierra.

I had been getting the High Sierra update reminder notification once a day for several days and normally just clicked "Remind me tomorrow" (since there's no option for "Don't remind me"). One day after having it pop up, I instead clicked "Try in an hour".

I expected this to ask me again in an hour, at which point I would choose whether or not to proceed with the update. Instead, while my MacBook was asleep with work open, it went ahead and updated the OS without my consent.

I don't (think) I lost any work, as I typically save things and Vim didn't leave any swp files. But the experience was disconcerting and bitterly reminiscent of Windows...
Bach wrote for meantone and later well tempered. Mozart was working with further variations on meantone, as was Chopin. Shostakovitch worked in equal temperament.
I really regret upgrading to High Sierra, because — thanks to a still unfixed graphics driver issue, my 2014 rMBP reboots/lags/breaks when using the GPU. Fortunately, I managed to remedy it with a beta Nvidia driver; without a pro-user mindset, I can only imagine how many people are frustrated by this issue alone

I honestly see why normal users never want to upgrade anything, for any reason. The first 5K iMac I used was an upgrade nightmare: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/01/5k-retina-imac-and-mac-os... . Many of the x.0.0 OS X / MacOS releases have edge-case bugs and one gets in return minimal user-visible functionality improvements. So why bother?
Thanks for the response. I appreciate the clarification on this being the beginning of the visual design for the future. As long as _solely_ browser extensions are not the future of 1Password, then it will continue to be my password manager of choice.
I think this is the primary path to management.
I thought I was crazy for a second... I clicked on the link that scrolls into view when you visit the linked page, and it brought me to an article with the same name and roughly the same content: https://www.startupon.net/2017/11/18/the-atoms-of-programmin...

I thought that was the article people were discussing and couldn't figure out why no one else was mentioning having trouble following the flow of the language:

But the utility, the summary configurations of suggestions that speed on these programs,
exist in fully separate condo and are merely (though the undeniable truth that here’s
that that you can maybe be additionally bear in mind is immensely worthy) translated
into the digital or paper medium.

I guess it's a previous version which hadn't gone through proofreading? Pretty confused here.
On High Sierra, is anyone else having TextEdit freeze-crash every time you try to save?
This is one of the biggest ones for me. Also known as "are you going to make me rewrite my damn application every time you think you had a good idea".

I just looked back at some old web projects from about 6-7 years ago that I'd mostly forgotten about, to see if anything was worth keeping. Every last one that called out to an API is now non-functional. Oh well.
Lambda: The Gathering
Great list. I'd also suggest researching what portion of their mutation API is idempotent. If they highlight those endpoints, they know what they're doing.

Network and system hiccups/outages cause non-trivial error rates with non-trivial load, so understanding how to recover from those errors is critical (to your ability to sleep through the night because your on-call pager stayed silent).
1/2 being equivalent to a coin flip is only true if we're looking at a binary value. In reality, much fewer than one in two coin flips would accurately pinpoint the location of an ancient city. Even if it only worked half the time, that would still be much better than random chance.

BTW, I believe the parent comment that you're replying to is a lazy joke referencing an old '70s song, not a serious argument.
What's your source for this? I remember they got a lot of flack for introducing race changing filters (AKA digital blackface). Thinking that was a good idea is pretty sickening.
Any recommended vids?
Show HN: Easy-grid – A React CSS grid layout package
looks like there is a dark side to the word freedom.
How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways
Exactly. I have no idea. It would make sense for a large, capable predator to try out eating a human, but they just don't. Maybe humans don't have enough fat on them to be appealing? ...but orcas also eat birds, which don't have a lot of fat. Maybe because orcas are intelligent collaborative hunters, they have instincts not to eat other intelligent species like humans? ...but orcas also eat dolphins, which are similarly intelligent hunters.

I would also expect any large predator to spontaneously act aggressive at times, but this very rarely happens. Or at some point I would expect it to make a mistake and kill a human even though it doesn't actually want to eat him/her, but this has apparently never happened.

I find it all very interesting, but I'm at a loss to explain it.
I agree - they're hard. I found a bunch that could be handled mechanically, and I think we had a problem last year of answering questions in comments and then never creating a formal answer. But some of the problems are just head-scratchers, as you observe.
Yes, AWS really sucks for mobile dev right now. Their other services are great but I would really wish they had something like Firebase (or even better, Realm).
In my experience the employees without kids tend to work longer hours and put in more effort and cultural time. So from that perspective perhaps the founder with children should acknowledge that their total input will be lower due to obligations competing for time and energy and should take a lower salary.

After all, what is the commodity the company is buying when they pay a salary and equity?
Are you subscribed to Numberphile too? ;)
JOY.js (Demo) – make happy little programs
I think a more interesting subject is how we allowed ourselves to become so gullible. I was once told by a campaign manager that you can get a vote to believe just about anything. The trick is to get them to believe it about 15 minutes before they walk into the voter booth.
its a cult of one man
and a pity that the man in question still wants to take all the credit
i wonder who will take the blame when time comes
> That said, there was some serious computer science behind the event, as each engine played from a powerful Amazon Web Services computer.

Love the subtle product placement :D
There's a huge demand for explanatory material for ML, and running small-sized demos in the browser is a great tool for that purpose.

I don't know how many people are using JS to train particularly large models, or models they'd use in production, however.

Finally, I wouldn't be surprised if we see something like "ML tools for Brainfuck" sometime on HN, because everyone wants to learn ML and implementation is a good way to learn and everyone wants to write something new and "fun" (for various definitions of fun).
Thank you for your suggestion. My next upgrade will be an SSD. With 8 gigs of memory it runs surprisingly well for a 5yo laptop :-)
> Very few people have a solid grasp of musical theory.

This is just like saying that very few people in the world have a solid grasp of computer programming... Do you know that there are hundreds of university departments in the world where the only thing people do is, wait for it... having a solid grasp of musical theory!?
To be fair, quant vs. programmer is a false dichotomy since most quants did degrees like mathematical finance, actuarial science, etc. where computer science and numerical programming courses are part of their degrees.
This kinda <del>pisses me off</del> makes me a little angry. I've a 2014 rMBP and, given the issues I've heard talked about, have no desire yet to upgrade to HS. Them pulling a Microsoft and auto downloading the OS for me is consumer unfriendly seeing as how HD space on Macs cost a premium!
I have a late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro and I've been using High Sierra since the GM release and I haven't seen any of those problems. No visual artefacts in Xcode, either.
I do update the security updates. Some years ago apple decoupled those from the OS updates.
>Calling the pronunciation irregular is putting the cart before the horse.

Spelling sometimes precedes the pronunciation. That's why Detroit is not pronounced "day-twah" like the French would say it. Because English borrows so much from German, French, Latin, Greek, with some Scandinavian and native Indian thrown in, Americans often look at the spelling and derive an Americanized English pronunciation. Put another way, a lot of English sounds the way it does because of the way it is written. The spellings originated from different parent languages but the pronunciation did not tag along with it. This adds to the inconsistency.

As far which causal direction (pronunciation->spelling vs spelling->pronunciation) has the higher quantity in English, I don't know.

I agree that in the large scheme of evolution from apes to humans, spoken language is more fundamental and will come before writing.
The truth is that intellectualy the USA is an underdeveloped country. Once the uninformed (which is probably half the ooplulation) got access to a megaphone, they’ve drowned the conversation and were able to legitimize a candidate such as trump, which we believed can only get elected in countries featured in Ali G movies. The mentality in Alabama and other states in the south is not that different (to mean enlightened) than many places the west assumes are backwards. The only difference is the language they speak and the false messiah they follow.
I wonder how far you could get at a startup just using git as the monorepo. That is, before it became too painful.
and if your leap is 1 foot instead?
There's one element there that might be missing: Vigilance. Vulnerable, sure, but with great care it can be managed.
Ah I missed it!

You make a good point.
> Didn't all the people except Hillary (who lied to the committee) take the 5th?

No.

It's pretty simple:

> Benghazi investigated for years

> Longest congressional investigation in history

> Multiple reports find nothing

> Hillary is guilty she escaped justice!! Investigate Benghazi!!

And at the same time:

> Russian collusion investigated for 10 months

> No published reports, investigation not concluded

> several inditements already

> This is a witch hunt of the highest degree to keep you distracted from uranium, emails and Benghazi!!!!

Wake up.
Show HN: Create your local water sport community
Best Comic Books from Reddit in 2017
Thanks! We've removed the anchor from http://www.sicpers.info/2017/11/the-atoms-of-programming/com....
So can we conclude that Stockfish just plays more "drawishly" than the other top-tier engines? Or is this effect just random chance so far?
Especially since this "OS" is so far from being just that. In the tour of new features, the first 3 were about editing/organizing photos, then there were a bunch for a browser I don't use followed up by some changes to a mail client that isn't webmail.

I'm sure High Sierra includes plenty of lower-level improvements too, but I fail to see why a photos app isn't an optional add on or distinct app from the app store, especially when the OS download is over 5 GB and done in the background without asking. Maybe I'm just a purist, but I'd like my OS to focus on system stuff rather than application stuff.
This site first nagged me to join their newsletter and then locked the second half of the article behind an email harvester.

This is toxic behavior from a content provider, please do not drive traffic to this site.