skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if anyone else here thinks that the time is ripe for a competitor to Mac OS X given Apple's missteps regarding the Mac as of late? I'm in the market for a new laptop to replace my dead 2013 MacBook Air, and I'm not pleased with any of Apple's laptop offerings at this time. I've been thinking about buying a ThinkPad 480 or HP EliteBook 830 G5, but this will mean transitioning to Windows 10 or Linux, which are still a step or two down from Mac OS X for me.

I wish there were an workstation-focused operating system out there that had the polish of Mac OS X but can run on a wide range of PCs. Since the demise of BeOS there hasn't been any new commercial operating systems for personal computers; it's just Windows, Mac OS X, or commercial Linux distributions. Personally it should be inspired by some of the best ideas of computing, ideas that were ahead of their time back when they first appeared but may be successful today if reimplemented and reintroduced the right way. I'm talking about some of the ideas of Smalltalk that didn't make its way into contemporary GUIs. I'm talking about Lisp machines such as the ones Symbolics made that ran the Genera environment. Take the ideas of such systems, then add something like Apple's OpenDoc to encourage the construction of small, composable GUI tools that developers could write, and then use tried-and-true UI guidelines like those from the Mac OS 8 era, and we would have an operating system that is extensible, has a consistent user interface conforming to tried-and-true guidelines, and supports programmable GUI workflows while also supporting the command line via some sort of REPL.
If you want to spend time with family that sounds a bit harsh, plus 30 minute commute in a big city is way too optimistic, but of course you're right that free time will not evaporate magically.
He happened to go to the same design school that Jonathan Ive later attended.
No way. Tons of warm, white or cool bulbs. You just have to try a few and be sceptical of the kelvin rating. Trust me, the wife and I are very picky about color temp.
I cannot imagine running a bunsiness where I ship things ot people for money without doing address verification. In the mid 90s one of my first database related jobs was parsing the complete US address list we purchased from the USPS and comparing it to our internal mailng list - the process has gotten much simpler over the years.

This would have prevented 3 of the problems on this list, and would also result in a much lower rate of failed deliveries (expensive)...
You mind explaining?
"Hacker" "News" is again too stupid to grasp simple facts.

But they don't need to: Hustling and selling webshit is enough.
What names? You do extrapolate from the bad English. Loads of Indians using UK-sounding names and UK woman names.
What happens when the search engine indexes the archive?
It sounds like you are the problem here to be honest.
Jenkins Essentials: the end of version numbers
An introduction to understanding attacks and dishonesty in blockchains
> At the very least it would be since the 60's and probably later.

So Tesla is a high-tech software company trying to master complex manufacturing processes that took established automakers more than 50 years to perfect? I'm not sure that really changes the implicit argument.
I think RMS would disagree with you. He considers his cause to have been successful beyond his wildest dreams. Reading his biography paints a stark picture of a tech landscape being increasingly dominated by corporate interests.

His organization offered another way. He never thought it would get off the ground, but it turned out that corporations are desperate to save a buck and are more than willing to work with free software in order to do it. The GPL was the first keystone, his advocacy helped to popularize it.

His choice of appealing to nerds like him was perfect, and his kook persona where he doesn't bother trying to button up his rougher edges is far more convincing than any amount of sanitizing ever would be.

More to the point, Stallman is insanely smart, and is more accomplished than probably anybody posting on HN, including even pg. He didn't stop being smart just because he became notable.
>At one point Munro says that had Tesla outsourced the manufacture and design of of the car to a company like Magna they would have hit every target and even Toyota would be crapping their pants now.

This would lead to hitting short-term targets at the expense of never really learning how to perform such tasks well in-house. Being able to design and manufacture cars seems pretty important stuff for a car maker to know how to do.
Do apples grow on trees? Inadequate testing is endemic to Apple's corporate culture and has been for a long time. Software at Apple has always been a means to an end. Their corporate motto is "Software Sells Systems".
I'm not surprised you're not particularly interested in discussing definitions re: smart. I bet you feel the same way about the definition of success too.
But not in production.
Lol it takes somewhere near an average of 30 years to get a drug/therapy approved.
Humans raised on earth would find living there extremely unpleasant. The body would adapt by becoming stronger but it would be painful simply existing, and would wear out joints significantly. People with already poor health may be unable to survive, depending on how strong the gravity is.

We obviously don't have any data on how humans raised in different gravities would react, but its likely that humans raised on a higher surface gravity would grow shorter, stocker, and more muscular. Humans on lower surface gravity would likely grow taller, wispier, and more elongated, and would by the same token find life on earth equally unpleasant.

The Expanse series does a good job of highlighting these differences in a human way, since there are many people who grow up in asteroid colonies that cannot live on Earth easily.
> I'd prioritize "not having Redis in a design"

Why?
Disagree. I just swapped a 2700k bulb for another 2700k bulb and the room went from eery green to warm just off white yellow. You have to try them. The ratings are suspect, IMO.
You didn't read the original article. He claimed to be being picked up by his chauffeur. According to this guy anyway.
This is simply false. The needed escape velocity decreases with distance from the planet, so applying a change over a long period of time actually can very materially change the requirements.

To give an example, if you provided propulsion to move an object at 1 mile per hour, you could turn off all propulsion and the object would have escaped Earth's gravity once it was 4 * 10^12 km away. This is, of course, an extraordinary waste and probably practically impossible.
But they aren't selling it to the best of my knowledge.
A maze-solving Minecraft robot, in R – R-bloggers
News Osinbajo decries growing persecution of Christians
> Suppose my DNA is on the person I brushed on the street today. How would a government agent be able to prove that whatever DNA they extract from his coat sleeve is mine? In order to do so, they would have to have a sample of my own DNA.

That is exactly what the article is about: using large genetic databases to find DNA they have never collected in connection to an investigation.
Jenkins X adopts Skaffold, adds support for DevPods, Anchore and MiniShift
> If a reviewer doubts the CPU benchmark on a phone, are we going to talk about how a single reviewer cannot understand the trade-off a bigger team at Apple/Samsung/Google has put?

The equivalent for the GP's claim would be the reviewer claiming that a phone's CPU is underpowered and that a more powerful one could have been used instead. That assumes a lot of knowledge about the tradeoffs that the phone designer had to consider - technical, logistical, financial, etc.

I don't know anything about Monroe & Associates' expertise, but I agree with the GP that this is a high bar to clear.
The OS X Problem
Absolutely, and NASA is currently investigating this. There is the idea of magnetoshell aerocapture[0][1], which is to create a shell of magnetized plasma around the spacecraft which can be used to slow down the atmosphere. There are a couple reasons why this is attractive. For one, you can modulate the size of the magnetized plasma shell and how much drag you make. Aerocapture, that is getting into orbit via dissipating momentum with planetary atmosphere, is a very risky maneuver because things like solar flares can change the height of the atmosphere causing there to be too much(crashing into the planet) or too little drag(flying off into space). Being able to change the size of the shell fixes this problem. The other is that this scales better than traditional aerocapture methods. The authors show in [0] how this could enable 2 tons of asteroid to be delivered to earth orbit, faster delivery of payloads to Mars orbit, and more economical delivery of payloads to orbit around outer planets like Neptune. There's a lot of promise for this technology and it's currently being developed for a cubesat demonstration mission[2].

This does not harvest any energy though, however, a separate NASA project did investigate the feasibility of generating power and capturing Mars' CO2 atmosphere to make O2 oxidizer through aerocapture[3]

[0]https://iepc2017.org/sites/default/files/speaker-papers/iepc...
[1]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Kirtley_2012_...
[2]https://www.geekwire.com/2017/uw-team-wins-nasas-nod-small-s...
[3]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...
> The reason why the 2nd amendment is there is primarily to properly adjust the balance of power between the governed and the government, as is the rest of the Bill of Rights.

That's probably true. Also very abstract, and not in contradiction with anything I said. What's the point you're trying to make exactly?
Anyone with even a passing interest in this kind of engineering owes it to themselves to watch these videos. It's just utterly fascinating. At least one of his interviews with Autoline talked about the business of costing and reverse engineering, which is almost as interesting as the pure engineering.

He has a sense of humor about the controversy Tesla stuff inevitably engenders online.

Craig Cole (on measured gaps and mechanical tolerances): i3 was the best. Where does the Model 3 fall on that scale? Way at the bottom, is it somewhere in the middle... can you share that?

Sandy Munro: Now, I'm pretty sure there's gonna be Tesla fans here so I really don't know if I wanna say the truth, so, I will give you a nice lie. It's in the lower half.
Perhaps users were sharing their pass with their friends and they're trying to curb this?
I have never understood the attraction of poetry, and I spent 4 years getting a degree in Creative Writing.

I've talked to my peers about this, tried to "get it." It's something wrong with me, I'm not trying to come across as if I'm the only one seeing through the emperor's clothing here. But, this first poem in the article for example (by the way, copy-pasting from this website is a fucking nightmare)

>I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh.

I can appreciate a clever use of vocabulary, the choice of breathing words like "expand, hover, float, sigh" centered around the fulcrum of "jerk." Academically I get why it's a good poem. But I feel nothing towards it, it doesn't seem special to me, to the point that it seems even unnecessary.

Maybe someone else is here that used to be as cynical and boring as me and somehow has since "gotten" this art form that people have been playing around with for a couple thousand years, and is willing to share how they did it?

EDIT: I'm remembering specific incidents now, like of sitting around on a grassy hill on campus, smoking pot, while my peers read their favorite poems to eachother, everyone's nodding their heads, but I'm just not fucking getting it!

>As a professor, she used poetry in her mathematics classes to help students to connect emotionally to mathematics...

how???
In my experience people who have access to a theater during their daily work/chores/gym-run/etc. will buy tons of tickets using their account to help get groups in to a movie.

I saw black panther for free thanks to my friend getting like 8 tickets for 6 of us. He had so many tickets he didn't even know where all of them were or how many he had so we found another couple in his car a few days later.

Movie pass just puts on the money on the card, but they're unaware of what you're actually buying with that. You can buy the same movie for a date in the future over multiple days. I'm sure many will try to do the same using up movies they don't care about.
As far as 3 goes, the Perl5 community tends to deal with that with software licensing. I doubt it's possible to do that with Redis at this point, but the Artistic 2.0 license (Perl5 comes under both GPL and Artistic 2.0, with the choice between them) lets you make forks of the project and call it something else without having to release those changes. I'd definitely agree about 4, at least except where he talks about the cluster stuff, it sounds like there's more murky waters there than I know about.

https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0
The police used GEDMatch which is openly available and it says explicitly it's used for "researcher" and warns users that their genetic information is available to the public and they can't control what the public does with it.

People "unknowingly" give evidence to the police all the time. That's like complaining the police used information that someone blogged about to solve a crime.
In the past we have generally managed to find safer alternatives for most substances.

CFCs, lead solders, DDT, leaded gasoline, radium paints, mercury lamps, cadmium paints, microplastics in cosmetics, ...

Sure, the first iteration of regulation of may have unintended consequences, but they are often smaller than the original issue and can be compensated for with another iteration. The process takes many years, but on average things are improving.
Your company’s HR is terrible.

One suspects this could be written on every occasion.
As a consumer why would I change payment methods in order to bolster the merchant's certainty that they will receive their money? I suppose the ultimate answer is "fees", but those are hidden in the prices. And who is to say that the increased margin won't simply go in the merchant's pocket?

Rather, what I care about as a consumer WRT payment methods is simply convenience. Apple Pay is probably the best one I've ever used, very simple and quick to pay.
Are STEAM types on here with undiagnosed mental health disorders legitimizing anorexia nervosa with studies?
Needs a [2016] flag.
He was also behind the design of the QL. It's one of the most elegant computers of all time. I'll eventually get keycaps like those...
So police, teachers, firefighters, gardeners, construction workers, tradesmen, who work in a community and commute from outside it shouldn't have a say in the policies of the community? Most bay area cities don't have any of those people living locally anymore.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/08/25/cops-living-in-r...

https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/03/08/school-district-con...

When your city cannot house the people required for its basic functioning, its government is broken.
I imagine that with a treaty, they would have an excuse to spend less on military and more on domestic improvement. Whether it would actually play out like that is an entirely different can of worms, though.
I am doing mostly C++ algo trading work right now. So I thought I would try and speed some things up and also write my own network stack.
There's an update to the original post. What a lovely ending to the story.

http://www.askamanager.org/2016/10/update-a-coworker-stole-m...
Yes, I'm employed full time, work law requires 40hrs a week (afaik this is true for most countries) - right now we have time tracker cards for gate entry so the timesheet is accessible by the employer.

It's not as uncommon as it sounds and I'm in fact fine with it, but by the end of the week I feel quite tired. I quit my current place but there only the employer firm had access to the card timesheet data, which felt wrong to me... it was a stinky company anyway. Too bad I'll miss the guys, the team was pretty good.
I totally agree, it's all about increasing supply: build more housing. Getting rid of zoning laws and increasing building heights, etc, are a great start.

But, to do that, we also need to work with developers to help reduce the underlying cost of housing. It's not just the cost of land, but also the actual cost of building it too. Once the actual cost of housing goes down, they'll be able to build much much more and they'll be able to profit even when the price decreases significantly which keeps them building more and more, as long as there's enough competition.
When the javascript miners first came out I did this as a test. Worked great the few minuted I had available. I could collect as many cycles as running myself in my own browser for 12 hours.
I identify with both of these issues, and have mixed feelings about MSG.

I'm a sort of accidental vegetarian, in that I never really decided to become one; the rest of my family is vegetarian and I stopped eating meat because it was inconvenient, and then gradually I lost interest in it.

I realized at some point MSG is really useful for adding umami flavor to things without adding other flavors, like seaweed or tomato or mushroom. It is wonderful for certain things, and makes some vegetarian dishes basically indistinguishable from those with meat. I think it's a little odd that people will go out of their way to add unusual strong-flavored ingredients for the umami, when you could just add MSG.

At the same time, MSG on its own to me has a really cheap umami quality. It reminds me of really cheap frozen dinners and bad food from elementary school. For awhile I couldn't get over that, and then eventually realized that when it's used in complement with the right things in the right amounts, it works great--you just need to figure out the right settings.

So sometimes those natural sources of umami just seem contorted and more trouble than they're worth. Other times, they seem to supply umami in a way that doesn't seem cheap or one-dimensional.

I suspect that there's some other component of many "umami" flavors we haven't discovered yet, or other tastes that technically aren't umami but would be identified as such currently. It's difficult for me to believe that MSG is really capturing most of what I like about savory dishes; I feel like something else is missing. I'm waiting for other amino acid salt receptors to be identified; I wouldn't be surprised if they're somehow linked in their activity to glutamate receptors or something of that sort.
Yes, though if I understood things correctly that one had the option to add capabilities using fmri vetted coders.
Thanks for the link. Yes, That is the goal :-)
IANAL, but could the person file a police report for theft, then forward it to HR to ask for their assistance in a criminal case?
The update to the post can be found here: http://www.askamanager.org/2016/10/update-a-coworker-stole-m...

TLDR: Guy gets his job back and a generous raise (almost double his paycheck) after getting fired and threatening legal action.
It's surprisingly unregulated. I haven't heard of anyone melting stuff down, but thieves commonly sell jewelry to different buyers, who are only concerned about the quality and will take any ID details, fake or not. One guy said he can carry gold across borders in liquid form (I'm assuming aqua regia?) so he can sell it for a higher price.
As a finance major, I don't really want my wife whispering "EBITDA" in my ear late at night, so I can believe this conjecture even if the article isn't convincing.
> The point is very simple: removal != retraction.

Exactly. NPR should retract the story -- that is, admit mistake and add a clear statement that they do not endorse it -- but they should not remove the text from the internet. The policy ColanR quotes says content should not be removed, and everyone agrees that content can be retracted.

> Removing without retraction is erasing history. Issuing a retraction is not erasing history.

But issuing a retraction and and removing the text is (an attempt to) erase history in standard vernacular English, i.e. make it difficult for others to figure out what happened in the past by hiding evidence. It's true that silently removing the story is even worse, because it erases the history of the article's existence rather than just erasing the history of the article's content.

> 1. How does showing the edit history reduce embarrassment to NPR?

You misunderstand my claim. Showing the edit history would increase embarrassment for NPR.

> Ironically, if reducing embarrassment were their goal, they would've found a way to keep the story as in-tact as possible.

This is not true if the error was so egregious that it couldn't be defended with a straight face. Given the constraint that the story must be retracted (i.e., un-endorsed), it is clearly more embarrassing for them to leave the retracted text online than to remove it from the website.

> IMO a full retraction is far more embarrassing than trying to weasel out of it by keeping as much of the story in-tact as possible

You misunderstand. None of us think they should weaseling out of it. I am comparing what they have done to the better procedure of (1) retracting the story (in the sense of declaring that it is flawed and not defensible) but (2) leaving the text of the story publicly available with a disclaimer.

> 2. Some real downsides to this approach are already debated down-thread

This thread has dozens and dozens of comments, many of which are flawed, and I'm not sure what you're referring to.
> This thread is surrealistic to me in light of the NPR retraction.

I was responding to the statement that bad ideas should be censored, not to the actions taken by NPR. I actually agree that NPR did the right thing by retracting the false information. That is a very different thing from censoring bad ideas. So yes, the thread derailed off into the swamp and here we sit on the wreckage.

> In most countries in the EU it's forbidden to be a nazi, that's an opinion you're simply not allowed to have.

Yes, I know. I studied Nazism in depth during my undergrad years while earning a history degree. I still recall being nauseated for an entire semester because of the material in one particular course, in fact. The downside of restricting political thought is that those who create the restrictions generally become tyrants themselves.
In the US, the Sinclair computers were marketed under the Timex Sinclair name [1]. One of these, a TS2068 color model, became my first computer on which I used a Basic compiler to program Conway's Game of Life at unprecedented (for me) speeds.

I just sold my TS on eBay for just under the price I bought it for in 1983.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair
There's a vast difference between criticizing the software and criticizing the people who develop it.
LED lighting can be recycled the same as e-waste. The challenge there is to ensure you have a proper e-waste stream recycling system setup, but it's a solved problem on the technical side.

Luckily, due to LED longevity, we have a decade or two to get better at recycling e-waste for the majority of bulbs out there.
I'm reaching the point where I don't think people should be allowed to interact with each other.
In this story, HR is literally sleeping with the guy who filed the complaint. I think it's safe to say that we've surpassed normal levels of dysfunction.
Seems like a made up story to seed conversations.
My wife and I both have accounts. Tickets in Seattle are usually 12-15 each, so if we use it once a month we're breaking even.

I'm very disappointed in this decision but I kinda didn't figure they'd last very long if they didn't strong arm the theaters.