skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we risk turning that wasteland into a desert! /s

Considering the crop's nature, we probably have to assume that it won't be used sand for maintaining rice puddles but rather clay or something which can hold water. For higher concentrations of salt partial desalination can be employed. AFAIK, it's only expensive to desalinate if you want drinking water levels, otherwise it's just some filtering. Also, we can expect continuous work on those varieties of salty water rice to eventually be able to support lower and lower desalination maintenance.
At least in the Tesla fan community, a number of people got tired of waiting and bought a Model S/X instead. It remains unclear how many upgraded and as a result of this fell off the reservation list. They should have asked that as well.
So how far are away from the macOS iOS merge? A Stocks app as an OS-level feature feels pretty darn close.
Chris Wanstrath and Nat Friedman Talk about the Future of GitHub Under Microsoft
I am curious to know if current generation and future still interested in buying expensive items like diamonds, jewelry, watches. Because I notice is, you very rarely sell these when you need money unlike like other assets (like House, stocks).

Wonder if only past generation people are the ones who still interested to buy these and feel like whole price is fall down once people loose interest in materialistic things.
They said they'd be releasing that tech to other developers next year, I believe
When they add big features, people complain they haven't spent enough time on stability and performance. The event is every year so they announce something, it's not like they're going to write a new OS annually. Slowing down the release rate of shiny new things is probably a good thing.
I think you mean "in tabs". Safari has always supported favicons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
"A built-in stock application"

This was essentially their sales-pitch demonstrating write-once run-anywhere codebase reducing the effort required to develop an app which can be built to run on both iOS and MacOS hardware.
Elon had clever VCs/advisors that were scouting old technology that was uneconomical in the past, but became trivial/economical these days. Many of the battery-related things or NASA stuff were difficult/expensive/next-to-impossible in the 60s, but totally doable in the 2010s, but nobody was doing them.
Hope significant are the differences between cocoa and uikit? I don't have any experience besides some light source browsing and it seemed the big difference is the NS to UI prefix change. Anyone care to summarize for the unenlightened?
It's not false. There are religions that proscribe death for homosexual behavior. People celebrating such executions are celebrating their faith and their religion. Saying that denying them service is based on their actions and not on their religion is the same as saying that you're not refusing them service because they are gay, but because they act like gay people. There's no daylight between being something and acting like that thing.

>...but kicked out because of both what they were actively doing near and in his coffee shop.

They were doing nothing but be customers in his shop. They weren't leafleting or proselytizing. Kicking them out because they engaged in a protected practice outside of his shop is kicking them out because of what they are. Otherwise we could say that it's ok to deny service to people who, for example, march in a pride parade.
I don't think GDPR comes into this. You could probably make the case that the issues you've posted yourself are personal/identifying information but github have no obligation as far as I can see to allow you to export issues and comments created by others as well.
MacOS will not be replaced by iOS, but they will bring UIKit to MacOS so you can port apps.

That sounds like they are unifying the two OS's to me, or I am mis-remembering the question Tim Cook answered with a definitive No?
Basically an Electron for OSX is pretty neat.
I have been trying to hire people for 8$/hr, 10$/hr, 12$/hr, finally I can hire people at 15$/hr.

Sure you might have some teens that dont realize they can make more than minimum wage, but thats about it. Ive meet moms that work for under minimum wage if they can watch their kid (work from home).

But these are not the homeless.
Plenty of nefarious applications for this. The range alone blows away existing RFID designs, which will make it the preferred "chipping" technology for surveillance states everywhere.
Does anyone know if the usage data collected will be available via iOS API's? It would probably be a bit ironic if it were, but it doesn't seem out of the question either.
Google kind of managed to force most accounts together. ;-)

In the process it seems they managed to seriously undermine their new, really really nice social network by using the same name for that and now me and a few others have a nice social network all to ourselves :-\
What does "baked into reality" mean? We can never know more about reality than what we observe, and furthermore conservation laws are axiomatic -- conservation simply means that we are able to account for (almost) everything we observe, in a consistent way. When conservation is broken, we name a new form of energy, and (so far), we find that it can by accounted in a consistent, predictable way.
(Dark matter is an unsolved problem. Knowledge is incomplete. That doesn't mean conservation is false.)

When it comes to fundamental science, a consistent map is the territory. "Map is not the territory" applies to simplifications that omit detail.

I don't see people trying to be "clever".
I know this is a Stallmanesque suggestion, but if Facebook is the only way to authenticate, odds are that I don't really need whatever is being offered to me.
Never a good idea to run an OS beta if you're not making money off it...
Does s/he implicitly trust Atlassian?

If anything, that comment makes it clear to me that they're staying mobile because they don't implicitly or explicitly trust any of the current providers.

I think if they implicitly trusted someone, they'd just migrate to them immediately - why wouldn't you?
Nitpick: C is weakly typed, Ruby is strong.

C is statically typed, Ruby is dynamic.

Strong typing is about objects having a definite type. In Ruby, you cannot cast a String to a Fixnum, an exception will be raised. But in C you may cast anything to anything really, and your program will believe you, whether it could possibly make sense or not...
I really have to agree with this. It used to be a selling point for me that Apple gave free OS upgrades (cost baked into hardware I know).

But lately I’m on the fence wether some of this is really a free OS upgrade or really even fully justifies a full point release. Lots a hype for what imho used to be a 10.x.1 to 10.x.4 release.
The name is unfortunately shared with the ill-fated marketing campaign from Microsoft to tell people Vista wasn't a hot pile of garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihorvo2tEuA
Still no window border. I often clicked wrong window when multiple windows stacked together.
I really like what Microsoft did in the past 2-3 years on the open source side and I keep my fingers crossed hopin they will do a good job with github too :)
Is that an OS update? Do you really need iOS apps on the Mac? How about having decent apps in the actual native apps store?
Remote front-end developer
Because those devices run Android Java, which Sun saw $0, thus not able to capitalize on it to pay their bills.

1 - Google did not pay for Java licenses, when it should. Even Andy Rubin admits that on his emails.

2 - To this day Android is not Java SE compliant, thus creating a fragmentation between Android Java and Java. Just like Sun managed to prevent with J++

3 - Being a Java license as Google avoided to be, and still isn't (many Java APIs are not yet available on Android), would have required Android to be fully Java SE compliant

So to conclude, Google tricked Sun and fragmented the Java eco-system.

They should pay and provide a 100% Java SE compliant implementation, or be honest about it and fully migrate to Kotlin, Dart or whatever they feel like it.
Yeah it's very cringe to watch. A grown man being exited about personal emois on a phone. Really?
> Everything a corporation does is to further its own interests.

This is a common misconception. It's a close cousin of the "increase shareholder value" school of thought, which has widely (and correctly) been called "the world's dumbest idea": https://www.google.com/search?q=the+world's+dumbest+idea

We exist in a complex society. It is everybody's job to maintain that society. We do that through things like voting and paying taxes. But also through making the world better directly. Companies that only do things they perceive to be in their immediate pecuniary interest are essentially parasitic. And, at least sometimes, are rightly shunned for their self-centered behavior.

If Microsoft is trying to grow up and be a good corporate citizen, I applaud them. But if they are, as you say, only putting on a mask of neighborliness because that's their plan of the moment to fill their pockets, then there's no reason to welcome or trust them.
"freedom" is an imprecise word. Most people are surprised at hearing it associated to software or books or artwork.

"collaborative software" sounds more accurate to me.
During the keynote, they showed Fortnite and a Unity demo running on Metal 2, and showed off the power of an external GPU. The new Mac app store will also give them the ability to highlight standout games, like it does on iOS.
There are serious problems with actually getting to full-time minimum wage work; there's a lot of controversy over the so-called "zero hour" contracts where people are not guaranteed any minimum amount of shifts, and because the shifts are on-demand it's not compatible with another job.

(Having said that, all the example people mentioned in the article are there from forms of "mental health" issues; "mental breakdown"/abused child leaving 'care'/bad divorce)

Then there's the huge numbers of families in "temporary" accomodation. It's so bad that even the Grenfell survivors are in this state: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/29/100-househol...
BetterTouchTool is great but it's a commercial add on you have to pay for.

This illustrates to me that Apple just doesn't get it.

My guess is they probably spent more time on the Split View animations knowing they could show it off in a keynote than they did considering how people who actually like keyboards as tool would use it.

It's 2018 and they still don't have a keyboard short cut to open the context menu so that you can get spelling suggestions without using the mouse.

All their guff about accessibility is just that, guff.
The original articulator of open-source values, Eric Raymond, whose essays helped crystallize open source as a "movement", gets free software on a fundamental level. He and Stallman were once close friends, and from his blog posts and comments it seems he and Stallman are in broad agreement on the points of software freedom being good and proprietary lock-in being evil.

The reason why open source is a "thing" is to convey these benefits -- these virtues -- to an audience that doesn't think like Richard Stallman. I.e., most of the world. It was an exercise in much-needed marketing for the movement. At the time, no one could out-market Microsoft. Microsoft were licensing Stones songs and lighting up the Empire State building to promote Win32 duct-taped to DOS. Unless free-software hackers had a counterstrategy that didn't sound like a tin-pot revolution organized by bearded, Kaczynski-esque radicals, they would lose and lose big.

Criticize Raymond's efforts all you want. 20 years ago Microsoft was making strategic acquisitions to quash the viability of free software; today they're making strategic acquisitions to be at the center of it.
Can Data from a Zero-Filled Hard Drive Be Recovered?
You mean other than continually improving Metal and working with Unity to get the latest Metal stuff supported properly?
>"Are you saying that it doesn't make any predictions (and is therefore unfalsifiable)?"

As I understand, its the opposite. String theory "predicts" any and every possible observation, then they cherry pick whatever predictions are already accepted as fact to say there is evidence for the theory.
> suing others when seeds blow into their farmland for patent infringement

This never happened. Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/to...
Although you have to code it into your app, it is possible to greatly speed up the transition by implementing the full-screen delegate animation methods and just refusing to use the given transition time value (i.e. make it shorter). Then, at least your app snaps right into Full Screen.
I think that's a shortsighted response.

If you look at another technology that started out on the pro side and eventually dominated the consumer landscape, it's Adobe's PDF format.

To quote wikipedia (sorry): "In the early years PDF was popular mainly in desktop publishing workflows, and competed with a variety of formats such as DjVu, Envoy, Common Ground Digital Paper, Farallon Replica and even Adobe's own PostScript format."

I think those key words suggest that Apple is being farsighted here. In 10 years, the idea that computers will want anything less than a professional model will be quaint.

Remember, your iPhone now has the power to render Toy Story [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
[1] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/766989221961748480
Algorand's solution is in fact pure genious, however there is no implementation yet (that I know of, if someone knows of an implementation, please let me know!).
Honestly I'm thinking they'll have to explain why they bought empty box for $ 7bln.
I’ll throw in my favourite as well : Shiftit is the first extension I install on any new Mac I set up.
To be fair, New, Stocks, and Voice Memos are really there as the first public tests of UIKit’s Mac port.

And desktop icons might not be a huge deal, but I’m glad to see Apple acknowledging that they’re useful and continuing to improve it, in contrast with major Linux distros removing files from the desktop entirely.

For the Mac App Store, developers have been complaining about how subpar, useless, and stagnant it’s been for years. If the new version can drive customers to buy things, it’s a potentially big deal.

Personally my favorite features are dark mode, fingerprinting protection in Safari, and improved security of the camera/microphone and sensitive files.

UIKit will be a big deal for the Mac ecosystem when developers outside Apple get it next year.
Apple did not mention AMD or nVidia in their eGPU support announcement. With ML/DL, Rendering (Redshift is nVidia exclusive) and Gaming; Apple needs to throw the towel and work with nVidia to make a solid native driver for the mac.
Normally in a physical theory, you have some equations describing the dynamics and you go looking for solutions to these equations. The dynamical equations may have some parameters (such as the constant G in Newtonian/Einsteinian gravity), and then there are usually additional parameters required to describe the solutions (such as the mass M of the gravitational field source).

String theory has the unusual property that its dynamical equations don't have free parameters. The dynamics is apparently unique. But there are many many solutions to these equations, and so there's a huge space of parameters from that. In particular, if you go looking for ways of embedding the Standard Model in string theory, all of its dynamical parameters (like the electron mass and Newton's constant) are realized as solution parameters.
From the press release:

"macOS Mojave will be available this fall as a free software update for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, plus 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards."

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/06/apple-introduces-maco...
Apple Hype Theory requires the irreducible Apple quantum of hype at any event be spread across whatever announcements are being made at that event. It's Apple's modus operandi, and I don't mind it, because I can compensate.

What I wish, though, was that they themselves would get more excited about making MacBook Pro hardware improvements intended to drive people to upgrade to new MacBook Pros instead of seemingly trying to drive them to move on to iPads.
Wow, they are DEPRECATING OpenGL from both macOS and iOS: https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new/

This is in addition to last year's announcement that "macOS High Sierra is the last version of macOS to run 32bit apps without compromise"

I wonder if we will soon see a new lineage of Macbooks fitted with Apple-specific arm64 chips.

The most scary thought is if UIKit-on-macOS starts requiring Developer ID entitlements and need to be installed via the app store, with fairplay DRM encryption of binaries and everything.

Edit: Also, r.i.p. my old macbook air 2011 :-/
Devil's advocate though:

You have the requisite technical knowledge to do those things. Not everyone does. If someone non-technical's stuff breaks, you can't distribute the changes you've already made yourself. It limits the value of the work you're putting in and it limits the repairability of an item based on the owner's skills.

It's a bad analogy but it's as though car repair shops were illegal and you could only repair your own car. Most people would have some pretty junky beat-up cars or they'd be buying new ones every year.
Maybe it is because I am not a native English speaker but I had a different understanding of the headline than some people here. I read it as "an alternative to Git, which is also open source" and not an implied argument that Git is not open source...

Also I've been wanting to dive deeper into Fossil for a while. Will try it now...
I really like the idea of giving users more ability to manage their devices at the OS level.

Apps, websites (everyone wants to send me notifications) are not going to do it as a group.

The more customization I'm allowed and options to be human with a device the better.
From the Press Release under "Availability"

"macOS Mojave will be available this fall as a free software update for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, plus 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards."

Looks like it's the end of the road for my 2010 Mac mini running High Sierra. So long as Photos and Photo Stream continue to work, I'm not complaining. It was a good run.
If your comment was about mental illness than you need to be more clear in your writing.

Either way, your point doesn't make sense.

If you are saying it IS a mental health issue, than pointing out how easy it is to find work and how cheap living is in rural areas has nothing to do with that point.

If you are saying it is NOT a mental health issue, then my counter arguments stand. Poverty is a cycle that affects even those with good mental health.
I don’t consider myself phone addicted but it could be sobering to see my app usage broken into times instead of battery consumption percentages.
https://github.com/VoIPGRID/vialer-js/

A softphone built on top of Sip.js and Vue. It also runs in a webpage or as an Electron app.
Give me service availability over "source availability" any day. The gitlab paas product has shocking performance and uptime.
Solar powered electric bike-cars ELF and PEBL might just be weird enough to work
Apple Announces MacOS 10.14, Competing with Fedora 28 and Ubuntu 18.10 This Fall
This is the only way that they can make developers to care about putting more apps on the Mac AppStore.
Better: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/igis && https://github.com/magik6k/git-remote-ipld
Bitmoji and Animoji were already popular, so it makes sense for Apple to combine the two (and sherlock Bitmoji).
Free as in freedom is a very old and established definition of the word. It is also very engrained in the American consciousness.

Liberated software sounds like closed source that someone leaked the code for, or just a euphemism for pirated software.
Do you mean Apple's own apps or third-party ones?

I'm not sure in-app ads should be completely blocked, but there should be strong policies around what is allowed, and possibly an approval scheme for ads just like there currently is for apps. Also, a paid tier that removes all ads should be mandatory if an app has any kind of ads in there.
No the name just came out of the fun dog icon, which was inspired by Neko Atsume and Big Dogs.
There is so much more they could do to make it be a real developers system. They could make the system modern. Right now there is more desktop innovation in KDE for gods sake.
There may as well be no territory, the only thing relevant is the map and how it reacts to probing.
Aesthetics are great, but did you make any provisions for airflow? I'd be worried about equipment suffocation.
They likely have only the open source repos, not the private ones.
Anyone have a link to a list of all the api changes / enhancements that will take place.
Really now..? We're innovating with color schemes?
Erlang and FreeBSD
Decent apps in the actual native store is what the UIKit port is about. It’s not iOS apps on the Mac any more than tvOS apps are iOS apps on the TV.

You still need to adapt it to native UI conventions like the menu bar, you just won’t need to rebuild the entire UI from the ground up in AppKit anymore.
That's not the issue. Controlling for a variable is a model like `y ~ x + z` where x is the explanatory variable and z is the control. The commenter complained that since `y ~ z` and `x ~ z` the interpretation of the effect is strange. Not so. This is the sole purpose of controlling for confounders. If parents income were either not correlated with willpower or child's income, it could be dropped from the model. The stronger the correlation of x and z, the more important the control.
Interesting to consider its apparent strengths vs weaknesses, and what that may mean about each musical style (or at least the training sets). It seems to completely suck at generating listenable Beethoven, and its Bach is better but still not great, but this system creates quite passable Mozart.
Agree a lot of negativity here. I don't really use any of the MS stack at all but I really want to see where they take things from here.

The last few years have been very positive for Microsoft in my eyes from an outsider perspective. They're saying and doing the right things.
Hey, I'm the creator of Rash. I just noticed that this was posted here. This thread got no traction and zero comments, but I'll post this for the benefit of... I don't know, people who search through Hacker News history. I think it's worth noting that while Rash isn't totally stable yet, it's getting fairly close, and I've been using Rash as my daily-driver shell for most of a year now. It's a pleasure to script with -- often I start with some commands that I'll want to run, and dump them verbatim in the script, but then write the bulk of the scaffolding around them using normal Racket forms. It was designed with the goal of being convenient for interactive use (IE useful for those who live in the shell day-to-day like me) as well as being a scripting language, and bridging the gap from shell scripting to “serious” programming. Think “scripts to programs”, a phrase of the gradual typing crowd, extended to be “interactions to scripts to programs”.