skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern with free vs. open source software is this: free/libre software assumes the power is with the programmer, to make stuff that does battle with the closed source hordes, and bring justice. Nobody will starve, the good stuff will rise, and bad powers won't win. It's a pretty fantasy and I'd love to live in that world.

I use open source (MIT license) because I need the ability to give of myself to others, and because I don't think I have any real power and do risk starving and failing. If I try to make a stand for justice, and push around larger powers, I can be just sort of blackballed and end up marginalized.

The solution to that is the situation that's always existed in my industry, the music business. Exploitation. I can only thrive and see my ideas proliferate, if I allow some larger power to exploit me and get most of the benefit from my work. They get to take and not give, they get to make themselves rich at my expense, and if I want to not starve it's a negotiating process as to what crumbs they want to throw, and my weapons are more PR than legal pressure forcing the larger entity to comply. If I can make it seem advantageous to 'shout out' me and my work, by painting it as a PR bonus that doesn't have extra business consequences, I can get more crumbs. What's crumbs to a giant business might be all I would ever need to survive. The relative poverty levels are that wildly disparate.

Open source lets me give ideas and code to other small fry like me, and also lets the giant centers of power exploit me in this way: it costs them IP-wise so little to 'give credit' that it's pretty advantageous for them to interact with me. I chose the MIT license for this reason, and hope to establish a good library of cutting-edge audio DSP code that can grow and serve the needs of open source and the true free/libre community.

I don't believe anything I can do, can get me enough power as an individual that I could join libre and pressure giant corporations to change their ways. I've written the best wordlength reducer in the world, the best audio distortion algorithm in the world. Doesn't matter.

Power is not about performance and meritocracy doesn't exist: the highest-merit solution tied to a restrictive license is a meaningless historical sidenote. I will happily funnel ideas and code to free/libre software, but I won't survive unless I let myself be a lot more exploited, because power is impossible to fight.
Even if "tracking" is allowed by the user for your domain (via the new API to request access), you must still get user interaction in the future to access the cookies that the user already allowed.

See: https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention...
There's at least one implementation that I'm aware of in MoltenGL (https://moltengl.com/moltengl/), though that's only ES.
If everybody in the UK moved to where houses had average cost, everybody would be able to afford a place to live. If they could get a job, which they can't, which is (a large part of) why they don't do that.

That's the problem with averages.

The high cost of housing is caused by demand outpacing supply for a very long time. It's expensive to live in London because more people want to live in London than the housing stock will accommodate, and no amount of redistribution will change that, except to the extent such a policy makes it drastically less attractive to live in London.

The exact causes of the supply shortfall is subject to some discussion, but that the shortfall is the proximate cause of the high cost isn't.
Firkins, theorem volume is measured in imperial firkins.
There are plenty of non-proprietary charges around these days. For example go here (and turn off Tesla):

https://chargehub.com/en/charging-stations-map.html
Why not have both and host it yourself?
You're absolutely right about the buttons (and the other things too, btw). I'm going to be a/b testing the buttons part, so yeah, I hear you.
Scientific maps are wrong when they are shown to be inconsistent or incomplete. Of course people can make mistakes.
Wouldn’t the appropriate parallel be renting a car? A rented apartment has zero value next month if you don’t pay for it; meanwhile a car and an installed charger would presumably have some value next month.
Been thinking of cancelling my reservation as well. My need for a car has dramatically decreased in the last couple of years with the ubiquity of ride sharing services. Now with last mile services spreading more and more (scooters/bike shares) I'm thinking this trend will only increase.

I take the bus and bike to work. Small groceries are also done by bicycle. Whenever I go out to eat with my wife we use a ride sharing service because we enjoy a drink or two with our meals.
Pretty ballsy, it didn't work well for Microsoft when they said "Use DirectX or die" I doubt it will work well for Apple. This is especially true for OpenCL (also deprecated) which nobody on big Linux server farms with GPUs is going to be using "Metal on Linux" for their code.
Original source is here (scroll all the way down) - https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/06/apple-previews-ios-12...
How to Pose for a Photograph
I did not compare Facebook's experiments to those of Nazis. I used Nazi experimentation as a canonical example of unethical science.

Since it is likely unavoidable that referring to Nazis will lead to accusations of Godwining, I have edited my above post to hopefully make this distinction extremely clear.
I guess it's time for some developers to deprecate macOS as legacy now too :)
I encourage everyone who supports Bitcoin to speak out about it! It makes it easy to know whose opinions to take with a pillar of salt.
For some perspective, the Model 3 is already outselling the Chevy Bolt by a factor of > 5x, and has already set the record for greatest monthly deliveries EVER for a plug-in car in the U.S.

https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
GKE Regional Clusters (HA, Multi-Master) Are Now GA
It is hardly anti-capitalist. It is anti-exploitation. Granted, given the some of capitalists we currently have to put up with, it is easy to miss the distinction, but it is there.

I would, however, encourage you to continue to avoid software that does not meet your ethical standards. That is what I do, and why I refuse to use software from a number of sources myself.
It does put apple in an interesting position of subsidizing the infrastructure for apps which are 100% ad-supported (your $99/year fee probably doesn't cover all of it).

Part of the reason you can't charge for your app (or at least this is true for many apps) is that you have to compete with ad-supported alternatives which are "free".

I really wonder whether the App Store would be a more or less pleasant experience if there were only two types of apps: totally free and paid (either freemium, one-time upfront or subscription). I'd also love seeing a new category that mimics the podcast model: "sponsored" apps that advertise 1-2 products for a month or two at a time, but don't transmit any user data back except aggregate views. (This is also similar to the Masters golf tournament in the US with its very limited commercial breaks from 1-2 companies each year. It's the only golf I really enjoy watching.)

Apple desperately needs a trial infrastructure so that devs don't have to do the very anti-user move of blackmailing them with ads every 12s. and an "ad free" IAP. That just puts me in a sour mood toward the dev and starts off the whole relationship on the wrong foot (yes, I probably take devs auctioning off my user data more personally than I should given that they don't have much choice in the matter if they want to eat).
15.000 electric cards sold in the U.S. in March, out of 1.6 million is an interesting number, closing in to 1%

My country (Uruguay) is at about 0.5% electric cars.

China is the world leader by quantity, about 2.1% of new cars are electric.

By percentage, Norway has an astonishing 40% of new car sales being electric, due to heavy tax incentives, it'll be interesting to see what happens there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country
I believe that in the US if they think you might look under 18, they generally ask because certain federal and state laws kick in relating to child labor.
I've rented housing in Nicholson, MS for around $200/mo. I worked at John C. Stennis Space Center, MS (a 200 square mile federal city with a huge buffer zone, nearest town is Nicholson, MS). You can find such these listings in local papers, but I don't think much of it is online.

It was not the best housing, but a 2 bedroom duplex (only 1 half of the duplex was included, that half had 2 bedrooms, I don't know how many bedrooms were in the other half). Trash, electricity, and water were not included in this price.
I'm a developer using the mac as a programming and devops system. I do not want teen features to be the best thing about my next upgrade. I want it to be about the computer feeling faster, smoother, better. You know, like an operating system feature?
> I think it's morally ok for people to make software under any license they choose

Yes, you can make your own software under any license, GPL has no control over you. But it's not ok to fork a GPL software make internal changes and sell it like you wrote it.

If that applied to linux, no hardware vendor would be contributing to linux.
We're working on it. We'll get back to you on that. (Maybe we need a bigger particle accelerator?)
It's worth pointing out that you can host a public, read-only Git repository over HTTP without running any special software or permitting anonymous SSH. All you do is clone a bare Git repository into a directory that is publicly readable via your preferred HTTP daemon and run `git --bare update-server-info`. Et voila. It doesn't provide a fancy web GUI[1], but it does allow people to clone, and at the end of the day that's all you need for publishing your work to serious contributors.

For me this was the killer feature for transitioning to Git from SVN for my personal projects early on in the distributed SCM wars. I've been hosting my own services for over 15 years, and not having to manage niche daemons is extremely important to me from a time and security perspective. The only additional code I need to keep in mind is a simple post-receive hook that synchronizes a master Git repository to the public HTTP mirror on the same host, because I don't want my master repositories accessible within the HTTP daemon's chroot'd environment. I just hardlink that hook into any new repository I create.

Theoretically one could write a pure browser Git viewer and then the puzzle would be complete. The Git HTTP protocol doesn't utilize "index.html", so you can drop the JavaScript viewer into the same directory as the bare Git repository. Currently I put a simple HTML page at index.html telling people know that the directory is for cloning via a Git client (sometimes along with a link to the non-canonical Github mirror so people can view the code online).
I'd hope there would be no comparison between a car starting at $29,990 and one at $74,500.
I think a lot of people have lost sight of this.

OS X/macOS has had releases (since version 10.0) after:

0 months, 10.0 released
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I think I got them all right. When you wait 1.5-2 years between releases, it's reasonable to expect more extensive changes. But every 12 months, the big changes won't happen every single year.
There are still not a lot of good options for long distance travel. Third party fast chargers are usually slow, broken, busy, or badly located.
>If you Google for primary literature related to Tuskegee, you will find, front-and-center, publications describing the ethical disaster that it was.

Your citations were published ~50 years after the Tuskegee exeripments. A proper analogy would be to compare your citations to the ethical condemntations of Facebook made 50 years from now.

>And, where did the Nazis publish, again?

The Nazis published in all of the front-and-center, mainstream publications after they were brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip (among other operations).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Right, but that's a fairly personal and perhaps even cultural thing.

When Chevy Bolt came out, virtually every north american automotive magazine slammed its looks; and virtually every European immigrant friend of mine absolutely loved them.

Similarly, the Sedan nature of Tesla3 appeals to a lot of my 4th-generation-Canadian or -American colleagues, but screams impracticality and poor visibility to others.

Like the UI (the all-touchscreen paradigm is a HUGE deal breaker for me - I want buttons and levers I can operate without looking), the design is not universal :)

(edit: note that I'm carefully not saying anything about the i3... I have yet to meet a person even anecdotally who loves it for its looks - maybe it's just too ahead of its time ;-)
Doubtful. Night Mode will most likely only affect application chrome and menus that use Dynamic System Color [1] named colors, not the actual content within the app (i.e. images, webpages, documents, etc)

Websites will be entirely unaffected as they have they're own custom CSS palettes.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Not so sure about this. WWDC 2017 (last year) had all of these announcements:
- New iMac Pro
- New iPad Pro 10.5
- New HomePod
- Updated iMac
- Updated MacBook
- Updated MacBook Pros
> It's a bad analogy but it's as though car repair shops were illegal and you could only repair your own car.

It's a great analogy: just look at the Mac repair shops being sued by Apple, or the idiotic things printer manufacturers and even coffee pod makers do to prevent people from "pirating" their machines.

Free software, and arguably free markets, mean free secondary markets for used goods. That includes all the repair shops and a cottage industry of craftsmen who provide those goods and services.
> Including Linux, which originally used the proprietary BitKeeper VCS system before Torvalds wrote git.

BitKeeper is by that time open source under Apache 2.0 License:

http://www.bitkeeper.org/

EDIT: Why the downvote?
OK. Let's not talk about potential threats. That's the language of fear, control, and paralysis. It's the language of liars and demagogues and exaggerations.

Let's talk about risks and goals. The language of opportunities.

An approach of `curl | bash` takes a needless amount of risk to accomplish its goals. It can do far too many things, of which it actually needs to do a small subset. It offers a lot of opportunity for bad things to happen to seize the opportunity for the things we want. Maybe there are ways to do the same things, to get the same ends, without taking on so much risk.

How do you feel about this subject?
Lots of shade thrown at Facebook. Instagram and Facebook were the top 2 apps they demoed for reduction.
I have two young kids. I find these demos awful, and Lego's AR-spiel abhorrent.

Looks like 2-4 kids will use AR on a combined $1-4k iPads in order to "play" around an actual $30 Lego house. Let's envision additional killer applications: the AR yoyo, AR stuffies that snuggle with and talk to you in bed, AR food ingredients to pretend to cook a meal, AR face paint, AR lemonade stand... reality is so boring. [added] AR bath toys.
My guess is browsers will just implement WebGL on top of Metal and this will be transparent to web developers.
Same here. But with a wider audience this lack of functional app would be unthinkable.
Because it uses pictures instead of words.
I think this is an illegal interview question. You are in your rights to answer this with "this is an illegal interview question" but that is not a winning answer.

Usually people are worried about age discrimination against older people, but I've certainly seen workplaces where people above a certain age fit in and younger people did not.
meanwhile... https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-looks-to-expand-advertisi...
I will a/b test the buttons. I have a feeling there'll be a lot less left by the time I'm done with it :).

I'll play around with the color. Perhaps adding subtle shadows will help.
Yep, completely agree.

I've been using the do not disturb feature for a while now (2 years?), gets switched on an hour before I usually go to bed. As you mention, only calls, SMS and whatsapp is enabled for notifications, everything else is switched off. DnD stops these coming through late at night.

I've got nothing against adding extra functionality though. Perhaps being able to tell the phone do not disturb me for the 2 hours might be useful.
> DEPRECATING OpenGL

Wow, does this mean Maya, Houdini, and basically every 3D package out there will no longer run on macOS? If so that seriously sucks for 3D pros.
Sometimes I'd like to think that it prevents misunderstandings. But that's probably very subjective.

I'd also guess that just because they feature it heavily on the keynote that a huge team spent the whole year only working on just Emojis. That doesn't mean that there weren't a lot of other teams doing important ground work and internal improvements that are not that easy to showcase on a keynote for a very diverse audience and press.
The Bolt is hideously ugly.
The new Microsoft only exist in markets where the old Microsoft have been pushed to the fringes. In the markets where Microsoft still have the ability to set the rules their behavior is even worse then the bad old days when they still believed the windows market could grow(as anyone trying to get a telemetry free copy of windows10 can tell you).

What we are seeing now is Microsoft reacting to being kicked out of several markets by going back to the embrace phase in an attempt to regain some of the ground lost from Balmers failed attempt to secure a foothold for MS in the mobile and web framework markets.

If they had really been about embracing open source and open standards we would have seen them do something useful for Linux like releasing a version of excel for Linux or opening up the protocols outlook and exchange use to talk to each other, but that kind of openness was never on the table.

What i would expect to see with github is that if/when ms decide they want to utilize their investment for profit is a heavy integration with the azure environment in the form of CI hooks designed around azure api's to the point where other CI platforms become 2nd degree citizens in the ecosystem and i would not be surprised if a github account becomes a add on to an office365 subscription rather then a stand alone product.
WatchOS 5 adds powerful activity and communications features to Apple Watch
> Nobody is denying that Apple made it while Commodore failed

Sure... my main point is that it's overstating the case a bit to say that the C64 was strictly more powerful than the Apple ][ series. There were technical aspects of the Apple ][ series that were usefully more capable than the C64.
LR Parsing: More Elegant Than You Think
If that were true there would be way more than 25% refunded. I honestly expected it to be more, even if they had met their production schedule.
As someone who purchased a laptop with a valid Windows license, I would so appreciate if I were able to do run said Windows as an app under Linux without falling into despair.
But dark mode is the best thing announced...
> CarPlay adds support for third-party navigation apps displayed right on the car’s dash — joining music, messaging, calling and automaker apps.

woohoo! Can I finally use google maps in my car then? I don't understand why the Apple Maps team has been so slow on features
What's the fundamental difference between making no predictions and predicting every possible observation? Both seem unfalsifiable to me...
We went Gitlab to Bitbucket + Jira. Quite a bit more power, for less money (even after paying for cloud testers).
https://www.scribd.com/document/202387818/Why-I-Use-Fossil-b...
Wait for the Platforms State Of The Union video to become available. That's usually where the good stuff is. The keynote is often more consumer oriented to grab some media headlines.
10 years too late...
Fellow Atom user here. According to Lee Dohm, Open Source Community Manager at GitHub, "Atom remains key to GitHub. Our product roadmap is set, and the team will continue all of their work." [0]

[0] https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/17454#issuecomment-39442...
> For most people emojis (and animojis) have opened a whole new way to communicate with each other

Wow that is an extremely generous characterization. At best they're just prettier versions of :) and :( and I don't see how they allow people to convey ideas they couldn't do just as well via text.
What? I think most people who advocate for the homeless are advocating for the full spectrum of people. Most of the homeless - addicted, mentally ill, down on their luck, etc - aren't really there by "choice" in any meaningful meaning of the word.
Painful... for you.

On a serious note though, they deserve all the skepticism coming to them. I know they’ve been working in the last few years to revert their status as OSS public enemy #1 but remember, this is the company that said the GPL is cancer.

Let them earn our trust. Keep the pressure, stay vigilant and be ready to change vendors.
This is quality clickbait. The title grabs you with its absurdity, and then you get some ego-preserving justifications for a lack of industriousness, along with some of the now mandatory virtue signaling. The actual content is nonsensical, but the presentation is impressive.
It was actually very easy for me lmao. ^_^ I'm nooooooo noob to computer technology.
communities are moats too
Internal documents reveal Tesla Model 3 manufacturing/waste problems
They may be ugly, but they are here now and working. Love the 233 mile range on the Bolt after coming from the 78 mile range of a SmartED. Also the 10" touch screen with car play is sublime. So much better than the non-touch carplay in a Mercedes 250/300. Also bluetooth door/trunk open/lock. Can't wait to see what range is like in 3 years when lease is up on new EVs.
> When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms

What a ridiculous definition.
Well that's a pretty inane reaction. Next time I see a bad movie should I just keep my mouth shut and make my own movie?
Yeah, totally understand that from a utilitarian point of view, hatchbacks are an incredible value buy. I have a truck just because of how useful it is.

It also looks cool (to me).

So I understand your position, but I honestly can't get over the look.
I'm guessing it's not the end of the world for Autodesk to add a metal backend to maya. Some smaller teams might very well choose to let go of mac though.
I loved developing Mac apps. It was awesome. iOS is even better, so as a shared platform grows I'm excited about the prospect of more native Mac apps becoming available.

What do you feel is the problem? Primarily Xcode? I hear many people have issues with it, though I've not been a heavy enough user to notice anything particularly problematic.
John Carmack probably knows the Apple of today is not the Apple of yesteryear.
Just last year they announced new iMac, Macbook Pro, Homepod and gave a sneak peek at iMac Pro.

Hardware announcements sometimes do happy at WWDC. I'm guessing they are not ready yet, so we just gotta hold out until fall event.
WWDC is typically software, not hardware related.
Thank you.

How recently was this roughly?
This is great, however there are a slew of games that should technically work on mac but won't ever be ported because of 'technical limitations' set by Apple.

Those reasons could be any number of things like not having native nvidia drivers, or lack of openGL support (which is completely deprecated in Mojave), etc...I'm happy to hear about their work on fortnite because currently my mac is overpowered for that game yet it is absolutely unplayable in its current state.