skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
even when it doesn't. I find that if you are careful about adhering to the unix philosophy of tiny scripts that do one thing well then you end up with lots of tools to solve problems specific to your problem domain that get reused in future tools.
This competition has been going on quite a while. Is there any evidence it has led to any of that?
There's a fork of Firefox for 10.4 that worked pretty well last time I needed to use it (although slow on JS heavy sites)
All the flaws mentioned are valid enough, but most don't resonate with me as strong negatives, with the exception of iTunes, which is a bloated, slow, nasty mess.

That aside, a big deal for me is that Mac laptops max out at 16GB. That's perhaps the biggest single reason I'm not buying one now. Hopefully the refresh will fix this.

Another big deal is the general lack of attention for OS X (or macOS or whatever). The exception is the updated filesystem, and even this was an extremely painful transition for me because (although it may be fixed now) Spotlight doesn't work on external volumes using APFS. Or how about some good process/application sandboxing and quota capabilities? Or, my machine with 128 GB (!) of RAM starts out blazing fast, and then slows down: process switching can take a second or two, which is really annoying. How is this happening on a modern OS in 2018? Simple -- Apple is not trying.

Having said this, I agree with some other posters that macOS is the worst desktop OS out there, except for all the other ones. I frequently have to use Windows and I simply cannot make myself like it. I love Linux for its freedom and for its terminal, but none of the desktops are awesome in comparison to macOS. Not many people would say they "love" Windows or they "love" Gnome, but many would still say they love macOS, despite the flaws.
I see you too have had to deal with AAA.
> never ever accept a position that doesn't offer a very large severance package, usually in the range of 1 month of salary plus benefits for every 1 month of time listed in any non-compete, non-disclosure, or non-disparagement agreements, or anything like that implied in a company handbook.

What level can you expect this? I haven’t personally come across this. Am I missing out on something?
Ask HN: Core data and iCloud or external database for iOS app storage?
Quasar is the fire. Has tons of features to get you going cross-platform, nice docs, constant updates. Definitely worth checking out.
> KDE and Gnome are not only desktop shells.

This is just not true. KDE and Gnome both have a huge app offering.
I would recommend using Rails(Ruby) or Laravel(PHP).

Both have great communities to help you along the way.

Due to clients I have moved from Rails to Laravel. Both are similar.

Checkout Laracasts.com.

Laravel has some great tools. Valet (Local development environment) forge.laravel.com is a great tool for setting up servers and doing deployments.
The part about 2001-2004 is pretty hard to believe. Inflation was maybe high and I do think some housing debt came from that but there is absolutely no way all the effect you claim can be explained by the monetary policy of that time.

However in 2008-2009 the Fed policy was actually extremely tight. The recession of 2008 can not be explained by the monetary policy of 2001-2006. It simply does not add up. And even people who argue for the Austrian Theory (i.e. unsustainable investment boom in long term investments).

If monetary policy was to easy, then there is simply no way to explain nominal income. How can you explain this with 'Fed was to easy':

https://oregoneconomicanalysis.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/n...

The people who developed the Austrian cycle theory actually called this 'secondary deflation'. A static central bank policy can be inflationary or deflationary depending on the outside of the economy. Or more technically the stance on monetary policy depends on the Fed target rate relative to the natural rate.

What happened in 2008 is that the natural rate fell bellow the Fed rate and Fed policy became deflationary. They did not notice this because they observed false signals from high oil prices, you can read that in the documents from their late 2008 meeting. In the middle of a NGDP collapse they were talking about high inflation expectation, pretty insane.

The story of successive Fed created bubbles simply does not hold up.
In Reykjavik "too many tourists" is very much a problem. Or more specifically, the ratio of tourists to available housing.

Sure, there are solutions. There's a huge housing bubble right now (which will collapse whenever tourism dries up), for instance. Maybe if it keeps on this way some legislation will be passed to get it under control.

But both of those solutions are completely out of the hands of the people who actually can't afford to live in the city where they work.
> 'too many tourists' or 'too many jobs' are a problem

Don't convolute these two things in order to influence readers. One does not necessarily imply the other. Venice would not 'kill' for more tourists and most cities in the world would probably 'kill' for a certain amount of tourism but not for couch tourism which indirectly favors real estate speculators buying housing for short-term rent and driving the locals away.
I am acutely aware of that difference- however, both scenarios are enclosed tubes.
Hmm makes sense. I see what you mean from the position of say a general in US army tasked with this stuff: if someone says China can do X, his bosses are going to ask why America can't do X too. And therefore to force America into doing X, you just need reliable sounding misinformation to prove China doing X, and then moral arguments are swept aside.

However that aside, AI is very big in China right now, and they're using it for numerous applications with thousands of students going through Chinese universities being taught how to handle this stuff. While the same doesn't apply to niche interests like genetically enhanced humans (who is working on that, really?), something like AI with thousands of capable researchers and engineers is a different story.
Let's see how long until they deprecate BSD sockets.
I recently started working at Asana and I was pleasantly surprised how people constantly strive to empower each other and make them feel secure in making decisions and picking up responsibility. Mentorship has been gret as well. It has been by far the best environment I have worked in so far.
I don't really see how you could have sun damage underneath a hat.
20% time that people use. Quarterly hackathons that the whole company partakes in. Healthy budget for travel, classes and conferences. Engineers have lots of weight on product decisions and ideas. Cloud teams use modern tech stacks and are doing cool things with infra/AWS. Founders are highly technical and still like to be involved in some high level technical decisions.
I notice this interface is a copy of https://uploadfiles.io/

Is this code released by them, or simply a clone of their site? I used uploadfiles.io until last year when they started implementing a countdown timer on downloads, and haven't used the service since. However I did find the interface and usability quite nice, so this is a perfect alternative to host my own.
I think comparing Arch linux to MacOS is even worse than apples and oranges. They are pretty much literal opposites of one another.
...it got us to the moon. When war is avoided, competition can be a powerful incentive.
Well, you won't be happy in your job. Personally I don't feel spending your life in a job that isn't really "for" you is a nice way to spend most of the hours of day for most of your life...

Also, you'll be the first to be obsoleted, automated, replaced by a nice framework made by someone who had an itch to scratch at the other end of the world; you know, a weird guy with a calling ;-)

I do realize I'm lucky to do a job I still love, but my originally point is that perhaps we shoudn't 'force' people into a path they won't enjoy ; worse, you might make quite a few unhappy ones if some realize they aren't made for it after a while.

The "coding is easy, come and play" slogans we see around are false advertising.
I probably didn't, but sometimes doing so helps you come to deeper conclusions and a better understanding of your own points.

My feeling is that people who need to be abusive of others are compensating some of their feelings about themselves. I think everybody does this though, I am no angel myself either. I just thought that people who are highly visible and in some way represent our industry, like Linus, should not be praised for being 'bad ass' when they are needlessly rude to people who are contributing. On a whole though, anyone can do what they want, and I can form an opinion based on what people do of course ;)

Yes, haha, Rocket League teammates sometimes don't excel at being good sports.
I hate that statement. Because people who say it claim they were right based on it, when they were clearly wrong and just trying to excuse their failure.

Saying 'at some point in the future prices might be lower' without a time attached to it is an intellectually empty statement.
When the challenge is gone. And how do you know that? When you're bored - not bored for a day, but bored for six months.

That may not mean that it's time to change careers. It might just be time to change jobs.
No downvote. You're argument for sparseness could be what's best for the most customers but a decline in sales, a law suit and numerous forum threads like this one over the last few years seems to indicate that its not.
Yeah. Knowledge siloing is real. That's when you know that people realise their job is bullshit.
In general the crowd at hacker news prides themselves on being super objective, so I think it's worthwhile to recognize the fundamental subjectivity of being a human.
In perfect timing, Bank of America released Erica, "your virtual financial assistant."

https://promo.bankofamerica.com/erica/
> the problem is by definition how Microsoft makes money.

That assumes that this situation is a zero-sum game. It's not. Microsoft clearly benefits from this, but so does everyone else.
>>This is one of the reasons why they're losing so much trust.

Sorry, but this is the actual bullshit narrative. Most media outlets, especially ones that Trump loves to rail against, are reporting record profits. That, to me, shows that people trust them more than ever.
And if you have people in China that use your site some of the CDN's are blocked and can't be reached from behind the GFoC.
Yeah - AI in general sucks balls.
Author here. Using the Google ecosystem on a MacBook is fine for me since all Google software has web versions.

I regularly use both macOS and Linux. I also have an Android phone and an iPad. So cross-platform compatibility is particularly important to me (though I realize that's a very personal situation).
I don't know about you, but I find that to be dystopian and weird. Nothing against windowless airplanes but damn, that thing is weird and scary. It's straight out of Black Mirror [1]. One of these days some PM will have the great idea to overlay some promo bullshit on top of it and in the future basically make you watch 'safety' messages or ads.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
STOP creating racist stereotypes.
Just a point of order: Summit isn’t used for weapons work. You have to go down to 6 and 7 on the current list to find one that is.

The DOD stopped reporting many of their computers to the list though, so it’s anyone’s guess where those would land.

Edit: US weapons work that is. I would imagine China uses at least one of theirs for classified work.
Meet Erica, your virtual financial assistant
I wonder if this is a kinda of paper that is meant to be used under the hood of key/value in existing data bases vs a brand new data base?
Because the governments of these countries are in competition when planning their tech projecst.
MacOS comes with a very lightweight app that you could replace Evernote with. It's called Notes.
Regarding that, I highly recommend "a Paradise in hell."

It analyzes the citizen responses to several catastrophic disasters. Turns out, people don't turn into ravaging wolves in a disaster, they immediately begin to help their neighbor, with no regard to race color Creed etc. It's when the national guard comes in that issues start arising...
Here's the patent

http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20180158227

Here's the prior art from a SIGGRAPH (2011) paper

https://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/

What am I missing here?
>Doesn't sound like you're really that willing to give them the benefit of the doubt like you said.

I said I'm all for giving the benefit of the doubt _but_... That _but_ is important as it explains why I don't really buy it this time around, and that's based on how they handled this situation.

And c'mon, really; judging their behavior should be solely based on ML (it's not AI, let's avoid marketing terms) code? Why does the application matter? They've violated their own "don't be evil" tenet (in spirit, not saying they are literally "evil") before.
i have both a mac book pro, and ubuntu running on a xps 13. the mac book has infintely better hardware: better keyboard, touchpad, screen, battery life.

I think the real issue is laptops suck. I would rather have a mechanical keyboard, real mouse, and a 24" screen at eye level.
You are disagreeing with all economists. 1929 was clearly a monetary policy issues and even left wing economist mostly agree with that.
Lol for sure any NN-based approach can claim to outperform traditional ways while half of CVPR paper results cannot be reproduced.
Just the fact that the EFF, the FSF, BoingBoing, European Pirates, etc disagree with this makes me want to support it.
I wish agent-based programming was more popular today. It's an extremely powerful way of thinking about complex problems and distributed solutions. And it has much more actual theory behind it than things like SOA (which is mostly a re-branding of good OOP practices with a lot of buzzwords added in).
For me, the biggest impact is health. I was recently diagnosed with a very benign skin cancer, but I dearly love open air driving, so trying to figure out how to enjoy my Jeep while not inviting melanoma is tricky.
How Red Hat helped to build Summit, America’s top science supercomputer
You can, there are a ton of instructions on the internet showing how. Not sure why you would bother though, disk space is cheap.
Why on earth was this downvoted? Reddit started by creating fake users and fake content - much like stocking shelves with empty boxes.
> During Clinton's time there was a huge run-up in the stock market fueled b a lot of internet companies.

I'm not sure the dot-com boom and bust affected the rest of the economy nearly as much as it affected our industry. If there was a recession, it was the smallest in decades:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth-annual
Summit – America's Newest and Smartest Supercomputer
Admittedly, I am also not well versed in this area. My guess is, because Metal is proprietary, they can include intimate details of their hardware platform to squeeze out the most performance. And they probably would not feel comfortable having that same level of detail in Vulcan.
Microsoft Acquiring GitHub Might Be a Good Thing
Scooters littering US city streets alarm: 'Unlock me or I'll call the police'
I'm guessing that

weight with windows - weight without windows = 2 * (weight with virtual windows - weight without windows)

NOT weight with windows = 2 * weight without windows

NOR fuselage weight with windows = 2 * fuselage weight without windows
Predator and Prey: An Explorable Explanation
My company was recently acquired and we switched from GSuite to Microsoft exchange. Using the native mac apps (email, calendar) instead of Microsoft's clients was nice and i probably wouldn't have done it if they weren't installed.
Usually nimbyism refers to residential property clashes: people who don't want more housing "in their backyard" because it blocks their view, don't want lower income housing because of worries about crime or property values, etc.

It doesn't really refer to "I don't want to live next to an unregulated hotel"
Trust has nothing to do with soap operas.
With China? Maybe not sabotage, but IP theft and espionage. With Russia? Certainly.
They nail this in the article, but draw the wrong conclusion:

> Communicating with the more distant server caused a 500% increase in round-trip latency. 250 milliseconds may sound like a short amount of time, but this time penalty applies to every request the user makes to that server: CSS, JavaScript, images, etc. Even small amounts of latency can negatively impact your site. If there were an easy way to eliminate this latency, wouldn’t you want to do it?

(150 assets | 8MB (lol)) may sound like a small amount of data, but bandwidth delay product and sequential asset requests can result in time penalties which are multiplied with latency to significantly increase page load time.

You can optimize your TLS handshake (you're using TLS, right?) to fit in fewer TCP fragments (don't include the whole chain), use OCSP stapling so the client doesn't need to make a separate request to your certificate authority before starting to load your site.

You can remove the penalty of sequential asset fetches using HTTP/2 to push / prefetch assets. This should almost completely eliminate "asset delay product" parts of your load time from having too many assets that aren't queued as part of the initial request.

You can cheat bandwidth delay product by using Google's BBR TCP congestion control on your servers, which provides much higher bandwidth in the face of packet loss (packet loss which will probably be more likely for clients with higher ping). You might not really notice this, but someone loading your site from Australia over janky undersea cables will thank you later.

At this point, if you look at the flame graph of your site loading, you may have realized that the steaming garbage heap of JavaScript and fonts is still taking several seconds to literally transfer over the network and parse. You should now meditate on what part of "static site" requires so much dynamic client code, and try to trim your site down to something that could at least fit on an effing floppy disk.

Maybe after you've looked at all of these, maybe, if you have globally distributed users and site load time is still a major issue for you, maybe then evaluate what putting a CDN in the middle would do for your load time. But loading your site from a CDN will never make up for the 5 second render time caused by your endless bloated chain of abstractions.
>How often do utilities compete?

They don't often compete directly for you; the government gives them local monopoly. They compete to sell excess product on the open markets, which is why energy trading is a massive industry. By competing on that market, they indirectly compete for you, since your utilities can often buy capability from other markets. In short your pipes are limited, but the product you get from them is created in open markets, with your utility company being the last middleman in the chain to deliver goods locally. It's also why you can sell capability back into electrical grids in many places. There's a market for it.

So in that sense, probably every one of them competes.

This trading directly happens because there is no central planning. Central planning, as usual, is inferior to letting pricing determine how goods move. Your claim was this industry was an example of central planning, but it is not. Capability is not centrally planned - markets react to move goods where they are best prices by local merchants, like any other free market good. If you've never seen how this works here's an intro[1]

>Also no one has actually done UBI long term and on a large scale

If there is evidence that it fails on short term and small scale do we really need to make it bigger and longer to hurt more people before we address the reasons it fails? There have been several places that have tried portions of it, and they have matched what economic theory said would happen. At some point it needs a new idea or method before more people are subjected to historically damaging ideas.

UBI is simply welfare for more people. Those paying for it necessarily get less than with no UBI, and those getting it will receive more welfare. No UBI proposal I have seen is anything more than this - tax some people more to give others more.

There is ample evidence among countries that more welfare correlates with more people working less, and less overall productivity. Even the Canadian UBI experiments found this to be true.

When people work less, less is produced, and as a result society has less.

>At this point I feel like you are being disenguous.

About utilities? You think they're centrally planned and don't compete in markets. Both are wrong. So I don't think I'm being disingenuous - you're simply uninformed how things work. It's disingenuous to claim you understand something that you have not simply googled to see where your understanding fails, then not admitting it.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/042115/under...
As someone for whom English is not the native language it's the worst. It's incredibly humiliating when the stupid machine can't understand what I am saying - and 100% of the ones I encountered fail to understand my surname and I have to repeat it 5 times like an idiot before it finally gives up and just tries something else as an authentication method.
You make a good point, and they really didn't have a choice. They're trying to get out in front of the reality that Android is more secure than iOS. http://bgr.com/2018/03/15/ios-vs-android-security-malware-im...
Their primary market probably isn't going to read through the technical points of Android's improvements, but will probably find these new Apple bullet points pretty impressive.
> Pixelbook failed

This is news to me. How did it fail?
Expectations change. Scotsmen change.
Finding and continuously wearing a hat that would entirely compensate for a lack of hair is non-trivial.

Driving at 70mph down the road in a Jeep with no top and no doors, e.g.
I feel like the real problem here is that bash is still the default and bash defaults/UX are straight up awful. The fish shell gets a lot of things right in regards to a sane out of the box experience, though there are a few things it could do better.

The tools themselves leave a lot to be desired from a UX experience too. Things like nonsense names, bad defaults and/or no inherent intelligence in the program, means you have to specify numerous options manually for things that should be easy to automate.

The whole experience would benefit greatly by telling people about things like man/apropros on first startup and other one time tutorials.

There are some days where I feel tempted to write small helper scripts whose sole purpose would be to rename/reorient the default experience/flags of various CLI apps, so that it is not a jumbled mess full of historical accidents that can no longer be changed.
As of the last few years, there are actually high quality apps for music production on the Linux desktop (BitWig, Tracktion), they're just not the apps that I've used for the last 15 years, and since I have a Mac, I'm not inclined to change. However, if there's not a Macbook I'm excited to drop €3000 on by the time that my current one dies (or stops getting updates), I'd consider spending the time to switch tools.

Notable there too is that my next Macbook will almost certainly be around €3000. My last one was €1300 plus another €80 to max out the RAM. That's a pretty massive difference for the top of the line 13" model.