skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see Handoff become more clever, and for Apple to choose a more gentle sound for calls and notifications, along with the vibrations. I had a colleague once who left his iPhone on full volume and he seemed to get a lot of messages. One 'DING/BRRRRR!' was okay but when you were trying to work and all you could hear was 'DING DING DING BRRRBRRBRRRBRBRBRRR DING DING DING DINGDING' in a tone that penetrates all walls and earbuds, it's too much. Meanwhile, the person who has suddenly become popular is listening to music in their insane-impedance headphones so they don't hear shit, they don't know how fucking annoying their phone is, and they don't put it on silent.

Make phones silent by default. If you need the notifications to be audible it has to be a choice.
I was just talking to someone last week who installed a Tesla charger in the common garage of their condo complex, in front of their assigned spot. The condo hooked it up to the unit's electric meter so that they could get billed for the energy.
You really need to deal with your straw-man fixation, or at least reserve it for people that may be impressed with it.

'Growth' as you are defining it, is unsustainable. Do you you know what 'unsustainable' means? It means it must stop. Not 'has to', 'would be nice to' but 'must'. It has a hard physical thermodynamic ceiling. Your philosophy has no future.
I didn't see anyone making that argument, either. Are you trying to summarize what I said? If so, that's not what I said. I'd love to have a discussion about these issues, but it's not going to happen if everyone's talking past each other, plus random downvotes.
There's no way to say this without being insensitive, but this reminds me of a grade school joke without a punchline - "how do you write in sign-language?"

Can you help me better understand what ASL language support would look like or what that would mean to you?
I wonder if source code repositories and sensible IP of some customers would be in direct conflict of interest with MSFT.
The first one did not specialize in small business, so he did not give me any specific advice. The second one was a bad communicator; took too long to respond, if at all, and did not fill me in completely on what he was doing.

The one I use now responds quickly to any questions, makes sure I understand what’s happening, and proactively offers suggestions.
When will Google defend democracy?
> The only real caveat is that you need to own a house and most likely a garage

Not necessarily. I own a Leaf and can make it to and from work (50 miles) with range to spare. I usually charge up at work, at cost, just to have that extra mileage for incidental need after work since I don't have L2 at home. It costs about $30 a month for me to do that which is less than 1/4 what I use to pay in gas.

I work in downtown Atlanta and many work places offer free charging stations. There are plenty of DC Fast Chargers around the metro area in convenient places like grocery stores where you spent 15+ minutes or more shopping.

With a higher range EV, like a Tesla, I think it would be pretty easy to get by without ever charging at home.
There's no need to turn this on the commenter.
Or it could be that the board has been looking to sell the company for that period and nobody wanted to come on to be the CEO for 20 minutes before being replaced by somebody from the acquirer. Hard to say.
Is anyone else excited about "dark mode"? Seems like a nod to developers, a lot of whom are night owls. For that, Apple, I applaud you.
I just had a total flash back to the modification I made to a portable television to allow it to accept composite video directly. (This was back in the early computer days) It was described by an article in Radio-Electronics, and you got a specific model of TV and you could buy a small add-on circuit board, and then voila you had a "computer monitor" at a fraction of the price of buying a dedicated monitor.
What's the difference between an "unmarked car" and a "nondescript vehicle" ?

You think the CIA would do their clandestine work on cars labeled "CIA" ?
> For most people emojis (and animojis) have opened a whole new way to communicate with each other

Emojis I agree, they are standardized and their meaning is clear by convention. Animojis? That's just salespeak for snapchat-like filters. They're funny but the novelty wears off the same day.
To be clear, I think the question is where the line is between 'experimentation' and 'just doing what people do normally'.

Concrete example: I am in the process of trying to hire people right now. I'm not sure what the exact best way to do that is, so I vary how I interview over time and see how well it seems to work. I record what happens in a spreadsheet, and then later on I look at the 'data' to make some judgments.

Am I experimenting on my interviewees? Am I potentially harming them?

Well certainly if I ask question A in one interview, and question A' in another, and question A' is harder and I don't pass that person, then one might be tempted to argue that maybe that person would've done better on question A; therefore, I've harmed someone by 'experimenting' and making it harder for them to get a job. Rejecting someone can certainly make them depressed.

In principle this is no different from A/B testing an interview process, using real live humans no less.

So do I personally have an ethical obligation to disclose to everyone I interview that I am conducting human experimentation on them? Or is the only difference in power and scale—I am just one person, but Facebook can A/B test on millions of people at once?
Whatever Cheney's threats might have been, they didn't prevent Barton Gellman from savaging Cheney with _Angler_, which he wrote during the Bush administration. Cheney is today a marginal figure, possibly in no small part due to Gellman's reporting.
The aesthetics of the BMW i3 are poor. Is that why resale value dropped?
You don't even have to self-host it now. You can host it on pretty much any cloud service.
Are you using it? I've yet to come across anyone hosting their own gitlab instance that has not had trouble of some sort.
> This was a designed/planned city that built itself from scratch in the mid to late 80s.

Where was that, out of curiosity? It seems like an interesting city to read about.
> Nobody even really sells desktop PCs anymore except custom gaming rigs and low-power kiosk boxes.

My personal impression is that while pre-built PCs are mostly sold to businesses, there is a strong growing trend since a few years to build your own PC from parts. I really do observe that if mobility is not an issue, people now tend to move away from laptops towards self-built PCs (or often rather: let a good friend build one). I don't want to go into the details what advantages these have over laptops, but just mention customizability with respect to requirements (e.g. very silent, very high-power, ...) and repairability.

A small (but only small) contributing factor is that laptops do not have sufficient power for VR, so you really need a stationary PC for VR.

The strongest "dampening factors" with respect to this trend are the growing prices of GPUs, because lots of cryptocurrency miners (in the last years in particular Ethereum) hoard them (but it is my impression that this will somewhat ebb away as soon as attractive ASICs for Ethereum get released) and the growing prices of RAM lately. On the other hand the release of Ryzen made building of PCs with either very high-performance or very good cost-benefit ratio feasible.
But perhaps an important one for Apple. Anecdotally at least (which is probably the best we can do here), concerns about Apple hardware are making many pro users, particularly developers, think seriously for the first time in years about moving platforms. Each significant date (WWDC, autumn hardware releases, etc) is a focus of procrastination for those of us a little reluctant to move OS's, but seriously thinking of doing so. My guess is that on each of these lost opportunities another group bleeds away. Perhaps not significant to Apple, but -- who knows? -- mindshare can be about more than just numbers.
Did Steve Jobs own a big portion of the Apple's stock? Elon and his relatives / close friends own a big chunk. (25-30% if I am not mistaken
Awesome thanks. Would you recommend WSL for my dockering on Win 10 or stick to Powershell.
Note that this doesn't preclude the possibility of an on-prem Enterprise Github setup.
Ok, Ayn
I thought the N was Netscape, a major competitor to Microsoft (browser and server) and Google (browser)
You've just described the problem with the Supercharger network, which suffers from that problem at an even worse scale.

In most urban Supercharger stations, the stalls are almost always taken up by taxi companies. On heavily trafficked highways/freeways like the Interstate 5, most of the stalls are taken up by drivers for hours-long intervals. Same problem, but far worse--because Supercharger stations are more spread out than their non-network/non-Tesla counterparts.
Don't you want your phone to make noise so that you can come back and get it because you have a phone call or message? This makes no sense to me.
There's a difference between putting on a mask of citizenship because it's profitable and actually caring about the world beyond the size of one's wallet. Confusing the two requires confusing the meaning of "their own interests".
Hence the phrase "ceteris paribus".

A man MIGHT have committed murder through altruistic means and ends, maybe smoking two packs a day or his cocaine habit got him through some hard times and energized him to achieve some good, and maybe the obese man put off exercising while he wrote the greatest novel the world has ever seen, but all those edge cases are nought when communicating in vaguely normal language.

Could the man in the Ferrari be a saintly dynamo of productive energy who bought the car due to some deep seated fundamental need for a luxury vehicle independent of ego or insecurity, having been unaffected in his character in all other regards and character-constituent corollaries? I suppose we must admit it a physical possibility, but one utterly unlikely and useless if we wish to discuss conspicuous consumption just like we reasonably discuss everything else.

More so, judgemental neutrality is sometimes not neutral. There comes a time when positioning yourself in a position of non-judgement makes you work as an apologist/stooge of the very persons and interest that profit from being able to partake in such activities with no one holding them to account.

Just as the ability to say "let it be" in terms of markets and life often displays wisdom, there is also a time when it intently supports the unjust and corrupt.
Well, it's more like if the nuts had an unknown reaction, and the idea was to figure out what the reaction was by slipping it into some cake, and then observing.
I understand this personally but I temper those thought by the fact that anyone can be killed randomly by anything at anytime. So live each day regardless.
I'm in my twenties, and this is basically my approach to notifications as well.

My phone and the apps on it exist to serve me, not the other way around.
Try switching to "Color Filters". Set it to "Color Tint", turn the intensity all the way up, and set the hue to pure red.

Turbo-charged night mode. No "smart inversion" to worry about, no orange stuff that suddenly becomes screaming blue. Just a nice monochromatic red display that you can see in the dark without ruining your night vision or confusing your body's clock.
I just did some googling to remind myself how ugly the Aztek is and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4llaTn-hk

Video of a guy transforming an Aztek into a reasonably attractive sports car. Pretty impressive!
ntile() is one of those functions that just never seems to work the way users expect regardless of the RDBMS. I don't know if the spec's definition was just poorly thought out or what, but it's often flaky, poorly performing, or both in many RDBMSs.

In PostgreSQL, you should generally use cume_dist(), percentile_cont() and percentile_disc(). Most later releases of other RDBMS have similar window functions that work more like users expect. I'm not certain what's up, but it's definitely led me to believe that ntile() was just poorly thought out at the spec level.
OpenGL isn't friendly to developers on either side. Tutorials are generally not trustworthy, there's no cross platform debugging tools, and errors just get you a "something happened vOv" code.

If you care about performance it will just do something slow at uncontrollable points in the background, like copy CPU-GPU-CPU memory, synchronize against the GPU, do format conversions, etc.

If you're the one implementing GL, it's gotten gigantic again since they simplified it. GL 4.3/4.6 core has compute shaders, which means you have to implement OpenCL twice but different this time.
"the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. " Under this description the author has basically zero rights. Im not talking legally im talking under the moralizing perspective of Free Software.
This "fight" over what separation of Church and State means has been ongoing since before the very beginning. Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Statute_for_Religious...) was actually quite controversial, even long after it was (barely) adopted by the Virginia legislature.

The fight has never been about the political and religious history; it's been about the meaning and implication of that history. Does the fact that Christianity played such an important historical role in European and American political history mean that it should therefore be given special legal status? For example, is it therefore okay for the government to display the 10 Commandments but refuse to display Buddhists' 5 Precepts? Where do you draw the line between historical homage and preferential treatment? Can such a line even be drawn? The anecdotes and contours of the debate have changed over the centuries but not the fundamental conflicts and tensions.
That's actually one of the main ideas of positivism: that if two theories lead to the same physical predictions, they are the same theory. When positivism is presented as "every true thing is empirically knowable" it sounds kind of shaky, but if you instead go for, "you can't tell the difference between two internally-consistent claims unless you compare them with the world," then it sounds a lot more likely to be true.
could you clarify what you mean by orthodox in this case? This is like, the one place where it really does make a difference. (Roman Catholicism, which is what luther forked, may be little-o orthodox but it is explicitly not big-O Orthodox)
Not steal source code, but platform companies have been known to use their insight into platform user metrics as a source of competitive intelligence metrics. Knowing which private repos are large and active is valuable info.
How many languages do you speak well?

Very likely less than the amount of different native language speakers who understand the vast majority of your emoticons/emojis.

I suppose you don't care cause you just speak your native language with other people who are native speakers. But a universal language on top of that has huge benefits in international circles. And, my 3 month old understands the :) smile. One of the very first abilities a newborn learns is recognizing faces. That's when they cannot even see a meter far!
> What's the difference between an "unmarked car" and a "nondescript vehicle" ?

Unmarked police cars often have multiple radio antennae, flexible lights, and even government plates, they simply lack explicit police markings and light bars.
> Which AFAIK they’re free to do on MacOS as well, they just don’t seem to bother since Apple was doing that work for them

As far as I am aware Apple develops the GPU drivers for OS X (though, I think, based on code that the GPU vendor provides).
Microsoft seems to be betting in that same space with the acquisition of Minecraft and porting that into their AR development.
I like this idea. Do you know of the potential downsides of it?
Paying for a tv spot with an audited and reliable audience estimate seems to be less fraudulent than any digital ad spend I've heard of with all those phantom bot clicks and impressions. Also you have the advantage of knowing the context of your ad rather than being surprised to be displayed on "John Doe's Racist Blog (tm)"
tar (bsdtar) apple: v2.8, current 3.2
feel free to continue...
> (e.g. non-technical employees in many big corps)

IMO, employees should be using whatever their organization has configured for them -- not whatever they wish.

A "regular user" changing the DNS servers on his work PC (joined to an Active Directory domain) to 8.8.8.8, for example, WILL run into problems at some point. They say they have workarounds for this but I think it's safe to say that bugs will likely be found. In the meantime, things will be broken for those users.

Moving this setting into the web browser (where it likely CAN be changed by a user) is not the proper solution.
Microsoft destroyed Skype something I used for ten years but don’t anymore. I.e. I forgot my password and mistakenly chose a fake birthday in my first attempt to reset my ten year old Skype account. Well doing that triggered authenticate your age by giving us your credit card number... what? Horrible consumer UX it’s all about milking Skype for all it’s worth and was worth. Facebook voice messenger works just as well and no credit card needed.
One of the first "promises" of nanotechnology I ever read about was that you could create batteries so small that just calling your cellphone would charge them I wonder if that is fundamentally the same idea.
We're also just added an immediate opening for a senior Software Engineer with GPU acceleration expertise as well as experience architecting big picture solutions. Pay $120k-140k DOE. https://bit.ly/2Fg7QlQ
I wonder if google would want to buy Atlassian some time in the future?
Doesn't the OIN secretly sell some of its patents to non-members and non-licensees? Sounds very strategic for the companies involved and this can lead to some serious consequences for any company who is targeted by an OIN patent.
Third party has never meant anyone who is not the first party. Special agreements between companies alter this status.
my favorite part of this all is that the last generation's retina have: 1) larger batteries, 2) better track pads , 3) magsafe vs crap connector for power USBC 4) horrific keyboards that have no travel, bad feel, no space between keys and 5) on macs with that stupid touch bar no physical ESC key.

not only is it disappointing and boring but things are starting to go backwards.
Some government agency is likely to step in and make this illegal, right? Just like the FCC allows me to put up a satellite dish no matter what my landlord or condo board says?
the font loader script is causing it to never load for me

i run latest chrome with the --disable-remote-fonts command line option
I actually really like Visual Studio Code, I could imagine a great product coming out of the marriage of Code and Atom. I could also imagine infighting killing Atom, but I’ll try to be optimistic.
5/9 is also approximately half, and 5/10 is exactly half.
But getting imprisoned, certainly
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/30/cia-whistleblo...
Well, as far as I was taught growing up Roman Catholic, you were supposed to be faithful and good, and honour God every day, and over time your soul would be saved through faith and good deeds. In old-school Calvinism, original sin is upon you until He takes it away, like the bomb in Jackie Chan's mouth in Rush Hour 2, and he'll just as quickly give it back if you break the faith.

EDIT: not the mark of Cain, duh...
A few important points to understand about Aristotle's ethics. One is that for him ethics and social and political philosophy are closely interlinked. That is, you can't have a good society unless its citizens are ethical people, and going the other way, you can't have ethical citizens unless the society is structured to produce them.

Secondly, Aristotle followed the general classical Greek view of meaning by ethics a set of principles for living a rewarding life. And this goes with my first point in that Aristotle thought the rewarding life (or at least an essential part of it) is one of productive participation in society.

Thirdly, Aristotle's approach was basically a scientific one. That is, he observed what sorts of behaviors lead to rewarding lives, and what caused people to behave in such ways or fail to, and it was from this that he derived his principles of ethical behavior. And in a similar way he derived his political philosophy.

This in turn leads to a final point. Many in the modern era criticize aspects of his political philosophy, such as his approval of slavery and an inferior position for women. But if you argue that these produce a less happy society, then you are using Aristotle's empirical method to improve his ideas, rather than starting all over and using a completely different method to derive your ethics.
Matt Taibbi had a well written piece on Seymour Hersh in the Rolling Stones. [1]

The world is a worse place if values are shown to be hollow and lacking substance. There will always be some real politik but between surveillance, dubious wars and neoliberalism the democracy project is in tatters.

Jingoists will defend everything but there is a great responsibility on the the general public to hold their governments to account. If not there will be no credibility and no moral high ground from which to operate, and that's a serious loss that cannot be regained. It's already significantly diminished.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/seymour-hersh...
I've heard good things about this:https://github.com/gogs/gogs

I heard those good things here, iirc.
Easy, simply install a venting port in the patient.
I recently was looking at the original LR paper by Knuth, and for the first time noticed that it said "Case Institute of Technology" at the top.

i.e. he discovered it as an undergrad.
Not an impressive update I am afraid , apart from the dark theme I could not care less about the rest
"hahah, no worries, if you don't come maybe I'll just paint my nails or something"
> Besides, I don't see how adding an option for DoH to Firefox is centralizing anything ...

AUIU, this is currently disabled by default but will be enabled by default in the future.

When that switch is flipped, that's when the "centralizing" begins.

If this were to be disabled by default and forever remain that way, I would be perfectly fine with it.
Ask HN: Should I get a 2lb, 3lb or 4lb laptop?
Tried using iPad Pro 10.5 for a few weeks as a walkabout machine but it’s driving me a bit nuts. Should I get a 2lb, 3lb or 4lb laptop? Basically maps onto MacBook, MacBook Pro 13, MacBook Pro 15. I have a desktop I use for heavy lifting.

What’s the argument against the 2 lb MacBook? Or is the 13” the “just right” between the “too small” and the “too big”?
It's come a very long way.
"Why are you arresting me for armed robbery, dont you know that guy is a Murderer??"
That’s a highly unrealistic real world scenario. I’d like to see a page under load with actual queries. Heartbeat checks are far from actual real world examples of much of anything.