skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One bonus which isn't obvious on the website: the code's open source [1], and released under the CC0 licence.

[1] https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot
I was trying to understand andrewclunn now dead comment below. Basically he was saying there was no need for the author of the article (not the study) to write "toxic masculinity" narrative. When I clicked on the PDF, to scan for the word "toxic" I was unable to open the PDF. Did the author of the article Jon McBride artificially put this narrative spin on the study?

If so, I don't understand why somebody would do this. Studies like this bring us wonderful news, there is no need to add negative connotation. Sure the tone of
andrewclunn comment is debatable, but given he is a father, I think he is entitled to be upset about this because I am also. What do you think HN.
I wonder if the name is a nod to Ubik by Philip K. Dick
That seems like a distinction without a difference. How exactly does a human's agency help their ability to negotiate for a job against a better cheaper robotic worker?
Apple reportedly near deal for animated movie from Irish studio
Maybe in trivial examples, but bleeding edge has for quite some time adopted 3D convolutions (either 3D space or 2D + time), and combined them with RNNs for more power.
You need a lot of R&D to get there.
step 1: Look at the top most upvoted products on ph: https://www.producthunt.com/e/50-most-upvoted-products

mostly curated lists and color tools. Make one of these, make it well designed.

step 2: market. Get on ph/reddit/hn for an initial user spike. If you're lucky a blog or two will link to you as a part of their "40 design/dev tools for june" listicles.

3: profit! With decent traffic carbon or adsense can net $xxx a month.
Why it is so hard to spot domestic abuse early on and what to do once you see it
You can even get the MacBook itself with 16GB now. Looks like 32GB is next up for MacBook Pro.
The ABCs of language migration
I haven't read it (so worth checking the reviews to see if it meets your needs and desired style) but I did immediately wonder if perhaps this would suit the bill:
Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/
I can’t promise that it’s the same for everyone. But for me, the pain faded. Thinking about it still brings up some emotions, but so much else has happened since then that the loss is nowhere near the forefront of my mind.
Part of the problem is (or at least used to be) that Geekbench tests a things that are done in hardware, e.g. encryption. That just tests the various ISA extensions and coprocessors.

I don't know if that's still a problem. It's been a while since I've looked at it in detail. The benchmark is still obviously broken, though.
Close Quarters Battle
https://github.com/dbcli/mssql-cli
I guess it’s hard to pin down exactly :) I guess it’s a variation of ‘To thine own self be true’. For me, I think there tends to be a background process running which attempts to find the correct and socially acceptable thing to say. This is often not related to what I find to be true and important myself. It’s kind of a simulation of a simulation: I-perceive-that-what-I-perceive-are-people’s-intentions-is-answered-by-this-pattern-I-have-observed. It’s a habit and it’s a relief when it can be tuned down a bit.
That's okay -- I'm sure they fixed something like that issue! The WSL team has been crazy busy, and their work so far is super impressive.

VirtualBox shared folders had their own problems. `npm` wants to create symlinks for commands provided by packages, but VirtualBox doesn't support symlinks by default on Windows shares. So you have to execute an arcane command to enable that feature -- every time you restart the computer.

Interesting to hear that performance is decent with the Samba share. I presumed it would be otherwise. In that case, Hyper-V with Samba may be my last shot at getting the machine to work for me... we'll see if I can muster any more enthusiasm.
I'm not understanding your comment. Weren't they always just that - a hardware vendor? I think they had some image editing stuff that only ran on their boxes but didn't they still essentially make their money on the high end hardware needed to run those programs?
It's interesting that you didn't look at the binary that created this file and tried to reverse engineer it that way. If you're still looking for more, I'd suggest going through Instruments.app/Contents/Frameworks/InstrumentsAnalysisCore.framework/InstrumentsAnalysisCore.
Not really, iOS is built off Darwin (which is a Unix) same as macOS (which is a Unix) and is a perfectly acceptable Unix-like.
Yeah, fwiw, I am pretty good at avoiding too many shiny toys (though this project might not be a good example of that).

I'm all about using React without Redux when it makes sense, and especially at the beginning of a project. Heck, I wrote a whole book teaching React that way, and it's how I learned it myself. Wanting to use the "best practice" libraries is a different angle than what I meant though, which was more like a background thread running in my mind about how I should be refactoring things as I go. Two sides of the same coin though, in a lot of respects.
15-20 years is not a brief spell. Apple products were complete shit during all of the 90s, then they came out with the ugly POS jelly Bean imac. They were absolutely not a mindshare leader in that era and as for desktops they don't even rank as an afterthought, for laptops they slightly register. Steve jobs matches apple perfectly, overstated in importance and overrated.
I just kind of assumed they did. Also the sibling indicates this might be a troll so I'm taking the whole thing with a grain of salt.
Hey James, since you seem to know a lot about graphics and ML. Am wondering which specific problems remain open before what I mentioned becomes more feasible product wise?
I'm not sure configuring a Linux distro to work better really counts as 'hacking' either though.
Sincere thanks for your understanding! it really is an amazing machine.
It's hard to pick between those two in particular. Nim is more fluid syntactically; D is more precise. D is also older and I would generally consider it more mature.

(After trying both, I went with D. But in the future I want to use Zig for some of the lowest level code.)
Not testing thermal throttling is fine. Often CPU tests are done with overkill cooling specifically to take throttling out of the picture.
You definitely are looking for crystal language https://crystal-lang.org/
I would love to use my old Apple TV as mini computer, but there doesn't seem to be a way to jailbreak the 3rd gen Apple TV.
I really love what I see of Flutter, but JSX, for now, has me won over.

I've love a JSX like tool for Flutter, especially since JSX is just syntactic sugar over a c-like syntax.
Show HN: Quick Vulkan API search/viewer
It's probably someone's 20% project.
iWork for iOS and Mac updated, built-in audio recording on mobile
Has that project been subjected to the greater world of people who don't think like Google programmers? Internal projects always suffer from groupthink.

Don't get me wrong, I love internal projects because once you're behind the gate, they are the first things I probe and attack. Usually very easy targets.
Democrats Ratchet Up Pressure on Facebook Over Unanswered Privacy Questions
Just the mere fact that the EU government can be so technically inept as to draft and circulate such a legislation makes me totally distrust its intentions.
Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new USB Restricted Mode
They look freaky as! But not dangerous at all.
> The European Parliament legal committee’s vote on the law, scheduled for 23–24 April

The vote will be on June 20, 2018.

See https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/

Hopefully enough people will protest, like happened with ACTA.
PR sucks. It looks like PR.
It's wrong, and possibly other things, but not malicious.

Malice: desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/malice
Yes, they seem to have changed a bunch of the examples linked in this thread. Dunno if it's general changes or quick manual hacks they bolted on for specific cases.
It’s not as simple as violence = jail and non-violence = no jail. A person could still inflict a great deal of harm without physically administering it. Punishment is circumstantial.

If a person swats another person on a livestream should they go to jail? What about if a scammer wipes out the bank account of someone who is already poor and the anxiety causes them to commit suicide? What if someone’s life gets ruined by identity theft and it takes them years to recover? There’s lots of ways a person could ruin the lives of other people and inflict tons of damage while “non-violently” sitting behind a computer screen.
Fantastic, so simple and powerful. Great work.
You are misunderstanding ambiguous words. "Take a break from technology" means to take a break from interacting with technology, especially video screens and information technology, not take a break from using technology as tools.

Also "news fasts" are commonly recommended.

Information diet is analogous to food diet. Taking an occasional fast and making more conscious choices about consumption is healthy.
By your logic, the following two statements are alike:

- only people who drive cars can crash their car

- only some people who drive cars crash their car

I don't see that, and I don't see how the BBC article - claiming the same thing as the latter statement, is tautological. It has a whole list of known risk factors too.
How Netflix could be a surprise winner in Comcast, Disney’s bidding war for Fox
My problem with React Native is lack of proper ES6 support on Android. The issues are closed on GitHub instead of being addressed. See https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/11232
It might be great but it's still ugly.
iPhone SE and iPad are pretty cheap and clearly marketed as "entry-level".
> demand for horse work dropped rapidly and never recovered.

I don't think horse work is a problem. If anything, now they can enjoy their day wondering large vast fields in the summer , and eating high quality alfalfa hay made by a tractor in the winter. And since the invention of the Horse Trailer, they can travel with their owner on interstate highways at speeds as much as 55mph while eating the same high quality hay going to another field.

If anything, the horses benefited the most from the technology improvement.
What about the low-end Mac (e.g. the Mac Mini) as a "dip your toe in" approach to inviting developers into the macOS/iOS ecosystem? That's always what I understood it as before—it was never an HTPC, and regular users always preferred either AIOs like the iMac, or notebooks. The Mac Mini was specifically the "you already have a Windows workstation, now unplug it and plug its peripherals into this to try out developing on a Mac" experience.
Not every business is a web app.
It is too big. It's nice but too big. It is, however, an excellent trackpad. Reviews constantly name it #1.
There's Keynote on iCloud, if that satisfies your needs…
> I suspect we'll see touchscreen laptops running iOS pretty soon

Seems unlikely. From a 2016 interview:

> MacOS is meant to be operated with a mouse and keyboard. Apple says it doesn’t make sense to lean forward to touch your Mac screen. An iOS-powered iPad works best with fingers, which means you can just lean back while using it.

> “We did spend a great deal of time looking at this a number of years ago and came to the conclusion that to make the best personal computer, you can’t try to turn MacOS into an iPhone,” Schiller says. “Conversely, you can’t turn iOS into a Mac…. So each one is best at what they’re meant to be — and we take what makes sense to add from each, but without fundamentally changing them so they’re compromised.”

--https://www.cnet.com/special-reports/does-the-mac-still-matt...
Productivity is defined in subjective terms. I know several success stories of companies that use Scala as a better Java and find themselves more productive. That doesn't mean they don't do any functional programming -- it just means they don't need to use Scalaz/cats to be happy Scala developers. The OP is mostly concerned about Scala being a language that encourages the use of monad transformers and catamorphisms all over the place. What I'm trying to illustrate is that nothing could be farther from the truth.
More evidence points to a free version of Microsoft Teams
Why not check Xamarin? It’s already on a modern language (C#), great cross platform capabilities (Xamarin Forms), but can also directly interop with native APIs when needed (they are always needed).
Do you have the 2015 XPS13 and are you using it in dualboot Win/Linux? I love this thing but the audio problems are killing me as now I need it a lot for video calls. It bothers me that the only reason I would have to update is because of the audio.
Nothing wrong with Geekbench. It's a great way to measure actual CPU performance, since it's based on common software that's used across systems.

Yes, a 3 watt CPU is better than a 40 watt CPU.
This is about react native, not reactjs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216628
The states threatening to secede are net recipients of welfare payments, so secession makes UBI more cost-effective.
Love my 5k iMac I bought 2 years ago; it replaced a 10 year old Mac Pro when I just couldn't justify the pricetag of a new computer AND display separately, with the 5k iMac starting at just $1800. Friend just bought an iMac Pro. My mom's still going on a 20" iMac from, I think, 10 years ago. I replaced the hard disk with an SSD at some point, but I can't even remember why -- possibly just to give it a performance bump. I know the disk didn't outright fail but it's possible it was making noise.
Lisp doesn't have any way to define those FP constructs and it's one of the first functional programming languages ever. I think you're being misled by Haskell.
There's an appropriate xkcd for most any conversation. Posting them is far more beneficial to the community than downvoting them.
I see your point and not necessarily disagreeing, but noting the creators of typescript refer to it as a superset.
Carlo Rovelli’s books click for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rovelli
Wifi hw is also an issue for surface pro 4 (under windows and Linux both). Apparently ms finally fixed in the 5th generation.

Anyone know if there's any really great wifi cards internal or USB, that allows full AP, "war driving" etc - and also 5ghz and such? Preferably with great drivers for Linux and freebsd?

(I doubt internal is an option for my surface pro 4, but for refurbished ThinkPads/dells it might do the trick..)
At a first approximation, everything in the actual machine works. The touchscreen was picked up immediately, the machine stays pretty cool, it's reading about 7h40m in battery life (this is the 4K model with the i7 and 16GB of RAM; I expect more like 4h to 5h). I really like the keyboard, and the keyboard correctly turns off when it's folded back.

This seems at least as good as the XPS 13. Only downside so far is that the pen is a little finicky in Krita, but I haven't tested yet if that's a battery problem (it popped a battery warning right away) or a software problem. But this thing feels really good. I'll probably keep it.
>"...Blocking things like Intel ME"

Can you elaborate on this? How were you using these to block Intel ME?
>people who lost their jobs en masse to competition from free trade.

Globalization wasn't really why they lost their jobs. The old jobs left, but they could have had new jobs if we had something resembling an industrial strategy and a progressive monetary policy.

We underinvested in literally every job-creating public good from education to infrastructure since the Reagan era. We decided we could make up for it by putting working people in debt and slashing taxes on unearned (investment) income until it asymptotically approaches zero. Any time the economy gets hot enough that wages might rise, the Fed starts screeching about inflation and hits the brakes on the economy. We've gone out of our way to make sure that people who need to work for a living be as desperate as possible.
I had massive issues with the Killer Wifi until I installed an (April 2018 iirc?) driver update from the Dell website. Dell's update tool didn't seem to install it.
If police use firearms on the crowd, the crowd is entitled to shoot back?

Is there a solid legal distinction between protesters and other classes of people whom it is the police force's job to inhibit, like bank robbers and drug dealers?

Even if there is, I don't see this happening....
Sure, iOS developers. Apple just deprecated OpenGL and told everyone to use Metal instead. Where is the non-iOS, Metal-using audience for a supposedly 3D/VR graphics-oriented machine like the iMac Pro?
I wouldn't be surprised if there were builds for Mac OS X on ARM ever since iPhone came out.
Talk about unnecessary cruelty, lemmings are quite cute creatures, can't imagine what was going thru their heads ("the Disney filmmakers") when they threw all those lemmings off a cliff to their deaths for a film.
My employer just increased their family leave from 12 weeks to 20 weeks, which is a great perk. These days nobody seems to differentiate from maternity vs paternity leave, which is a great idea because, aside from the value it provides fathers, it also gets rid of the idea that the mother should get more time because mothers should be more involved. (alas, you can argue that it ignores the physical sacrifices the mother makes, but as long as there is parity by raising men's leave up rather than reducing a woman's leave, who can argue with it?)

I don't have kids but I've often thought if I could get 6-12 months off for having a kid it would change the equation from impossible burden to work around to actually a pleasurable experience to learn/grow/bond/etc.
It's not about desks, really.

Sufficiently-small-form-factor computers become "AIO enablement dongles", in the sense that you can stick one to the back of a monitor or TV (much like a "compute stick") and now that monitor or TV is an AIO PC. People use NUCs in that use-case quite a lot.

Sufficiently-SFF computers are also used as kiosks, for POS systems, and other embedded use-cases. This isn't really the "pitch" behind the Mac Mini, but it's something the NUC is quite good at.
I believe the reason was they needed Metal support, which older computers could not provide.
The industry is, to a degree, cyclical and prone to fashions; CLI was everything in the 80s, then went out of style in many circles in the 90s and 00s, and now is coming back into style in more circles. And with each new wave we get new variations and fun things as new people hit the old ideas with new perspectives:)
Yes it’s not really up to us anymore. Viewing corporations as a non-human actors under capitalism, they will do it out of profit motive. Individuals may resign or shape the style of results but the progression is inevitable barring collapse or radical alteration in the structure of modern society.
I doubt this will work for Mojave, since I believe everything was written using Metal.
Right on the money with the 'not globalization'.

But the part about conjuring up new jobs out of thin air - that's probably never gonna happen.

With advancing automation, there will never again be as much demand for 'labor' as historically. We've been in a bubble where industrialization still had a need for somebody at the switch. But that's ending, and for good.

In the easily-forseen future, there will be diminishing use for labor. All those with only labor to bring to the marketplace (i.e. most of us without access to capital or goods), there will be no place in our capitalist system as it stands.
Erlang is not remotely based off prolog. It shares the syntax because it was first implemented in prolog.
I disagree that its difficult to “productize” open source
SFMOMA and Net Neutrality
I agree. I've given talks on pretty math-heavy ideas but they can still usually be explained visually in a way that is significantly easier to understand without losing fidelity. I love LaTeX and Beamer for pure text/math, but once you want animated slides, or even including videos/gifs, PDF gets flaky fast. Keynote and PPT are pretty powerful tools.

(also, the 8-bit guy is great!)
Link doesn't work in EU.
If you just want to get the device get it from ebay.

The global shipping program is really great for this IMO; you pre-pay any taxes due (just VAT for laptops IIRC) so you don't have to deal with extra waits or paying a ton for DHL/whoever to collect it from you. The seller ships the item to a distribution centre domestically, then ebay check it and handle the international leg.

There's a good chance you'll end up saving compared to buying locally in the UK even after paying for shipping and VAT on the whole thing. Have done it with my last couple of laptops and wouldn't hesitate to do it again.
I’m not even sort of interested in what Twitter’s heavy-handed definition of “healthy conversations” are.

I dare say they’re acting well outside of their wheelhouse. Their job is to provide a platform for discussion, not whatever that mess of corpspeak I just read is.
It's not a perfect match, but Asana can be pretty good for GTD. Web app on desktop, and the mobile app is starting to mature.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/25/twitter-p...

They’re a profitable business, and became one in three years less than Tesla, without the need to tackle a hard problem like manufacturing cars.
You just told a fellow human being you wished there were fewer people like him/her. Rephrase, maybe?
I think the AST is easier to see in erlang.
If you use a static site generator like Jekyll, you can host a site for free on github pages.

(Blot looks as easy to use as other static site generators)
It's not related to RN but you touched on something with NPM that made me realise that, for some reason, I never trusted its `update` command. If I wanted to update a specific dependency to a new version I would take the `apt` approach and just install it again, or tweak the version number directly.

Contrast this to how I've approached it in, say, Ruby...I'm very confident in blindly running `bundle update` and checking the diff to see the result.
"$1 loaned for one year at -10% means, after 1 year, you get back 90 cents."
Isn't a goal of startup to grow? You lock yourself into a model where you compute spend is 10X that of your competitors
you not gonna get very far.
If any entertainment company is known for taking old myths and putting a new family-friendly shine on 'em it's Disney!
But how would he get caught again? Let's say he starts a legitimate tech support business. I don't think there would be any connection between his new business license and the FTC. Nor his tax returns. I think the ONLY way he could get caught is to break ANOTHER law and end up before the FTC again.

Otherwise, I can't see how the FTC would have any idea what he's up to. It's not like businesspeople register with the FTC.
Do dust storms only occur on planets with an atmosphere? And does their severity depend on how dense the atmosphere is?
Additionally, equal paternity leave is a great thing for women's rights too. When employers will see the same leave for their employees when they have a child regardless of gender, then there's less of a rational reason to discriminate against women in the hiring process.