skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real problem here is that land warfare itself is changing too rapidly for anyone to really get on board with developing and scaling a CAS weapons platform.

I read military writers on Quora and the general sense is that it's going to be the Army and Marines that are going to form the backbone of power projection on land. The Marines are shifting their squad composition from 3 teams of four and a leader to four teams of three. One of these squad member's only job is to operate the proliferating tech tools that's becoming available to individuals.

So it's not even certain what capabilities CAS is going to need to have in the near future. Everyone's talking about loiter time, and certainly, that's really helpful, but what about the squad's soon-to-come drones? If that doesn't make the need for loiter obsolete I don't know what will.

A squad with a reconnaissance drone and portable mortars can do a hell of a lot without having to commit an aircraft. What will they need that aircraft for? Carrying weapons that the squad can't. Cue the fighter-bombers.

I can see why the Pentagon isn't chomping at the bit to spend boatloads of money on something they probably won't even need half of by the time they're done.
I don't think it's controversial to say the decisions are rational and helpful, as long as you remember to include "to certain entities".

Winners:

•Manufacturers of Steel, Aluminum, Electronic Components in US.

•Consumers of goods under retaliatory tariffs (pork chops are now going to cost Americans a little less because the Chinese aren't going to import as many).

Losers:

•Consumers of Steel, etc., including manufacturers of assemblies, and retail consumers.

•Producers of goods for export that are subject to retaliatory tariffs.

If you look under "chicken tax" you'll see these kinds of battles are neither new, nor did they ever completely go away.

It's widely agreed that more Americans will lose their jobs from these policies than will be hired, but if we're somehow at full employment, that might not bear out. I don't see that happening, but if you believe in magic...
Indeed. However: much of the system is now based on FOSS; and given user upgrades have been free since, what, Snow Leopard in 2009?, there’s a case for them open sourcing the OS and saying “derivatives are fine provided no trademarks are used” or something like that.
NTFS actually has support for proper symbolic links, which are not the same as junction points. I come across this confusion fairly often and I'm not clear why. (`mklink /d` is what you're looking for, and do note that this is different from `mklink /j` in meaningful ways. Do note these commands must be run from an Administrator shell prior to Windows 10.)

[EDIT: Also, reading GP, it looks like their issue is something about VirtualBox support for symlinks, not Windows support for symlinks. Symlinks are enabled in Windows by default, so they'd only have to do something special if they were on a domain that disabled them in the group policy--but in that case, they wouldn't be able to turn them back on themselves on a reboot anyway.]
Ben Thompson at Stratechery may not have been the first to suggest this, but he has made a strong argument that Apple should spinoff the Mac business. Either to a subsidiary or to a 3rd party.

I see a lot of risk and potential downsides, but with each new disaster of MBP released or eternity between updates it becomes more attractive.

The tight integration with the iPhone (phone calls, messages, handoff) might suffer and that would be painful.
I really liked it, but walked away since the "mining client" controversy. Has anything changed since?
Thanks for sharing this! I really felt like it must be older and more common than critics claim.
Same camp. One of my thunderbolt ports just died, and the screen itself is glitching more and more frequently. I'm praying that it hangs in there long enough for Apple to produce a machine I actually want to upgrade to, and that feels like an upgrade without compromise. If it dies before that happens I'll be reluctantly shopping for non-Mac hardware.
I've used 2 new touchbar Mac for work since early 2017. When it came time to replace my ancient personal 2011 MBP I ended up just spending the $2000 for the "new" 2015-era MBPs that Apple still sells. While it's a bummer to spend that kind of money for a 3 year old spec machine, I still prefer it over my work machine with that dreadful low profile keyboard and useless touch strip. If things don't improve come next upgrade cycle I think I'm going to just find something that runs Ubuntu reasonably well.
This is great, thank you. Are you able to say what company you work for?
Cryptocurrency startup TRON has acquired BitTorrent for $140M
After reading a bit about the history of tax in the USA, I was surprised to learn that in the very beginning federal government was mostly funded by tariffs.

So.. Extra tariffs will bring extra tax revenue. Will federal government cut income/corporate taxes to adjust for it? Or perhaps any paid tariff can be written off of tax bill?
No you don’t, no it’s not, no they weren’t, and no they aren’t.

Apple has never had a majority market share in any segment. Ever. There was a time where they were popular in Japan and where they were popular in the creative fields, particularly print, advertising and film because of a few specialized applications (Quark, Final Cut, etc.).

They ended up popular in college campuses post iPod and popular with developers in the 2006/2007 time frame after they switched to x86 because the combination of x86 and Unix made for a pretty developer friendly box.

The new line of hardware has its problems, but that’s always been the case. The current line has a high failure on keyboards, the previous line had a problem with delaminating screens, the line before that thermal problems.

They are selling more today than any other point in history and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down.
Of course people would still want to travel. I don't know how to put this nicely but not everyone is a recluse.
Careful about mistaking accounting for economics. If gas taxes were lowered to zero, could Uber increase their share of the ride payment by the current tax amount, without harming their relationship with the drivers? If so, then Uber is paying that tax, not the drivers.
> In the experiments we use the following versions of the languages: Erlang/OTP 19.0, Go 1.7.1, Scala 2.12.0 with Akka 2.4.12.

These are pretty outdated, it would be interesting to see numbers on the latest versions. I'd be especially curious to compare with Erlang/OTP 21.0 (coming out today) as they did a lot of optimization work on the attributes tested in this benchmark.
Maybe he'll get back to his South African roots, go full zef, and start dressing/acting like Die Antwoord.
I need to start selling shovels.
Food spoils and we can't predict how long a war will last.
Beware. There's a whole lot of "start an e shop and get rich quick" bullshit out there.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/117-the-worlds-most-ex...
Looks like that is at 0 latitude, 0 longitude, so that might be a result of bad input data.
Personally I'm in love with my MacBook Air.

Any similar ultrabook alternative at $950+-?
Yep. And no 32GB because they just had to make it 1mm thinner.
I understand 50$ goes far in small towns than in NYC. That said, shouldn't voters consider a proposal based on its merits than solely from a tax increase viewpoint? Sure I'm paying $50 more in taxes, but if it means not having to use my car as much, then it is a win, isn't it?

Handing out gift cards is a shitty move even if all their reasons against the project made sense (which it doesn't). These should be settled with educated, sensible debates rather than who has more money to spend.
qBittorrent is much better
Space Invaders was launched forty years ago today
>Have you never found a cool channel on Youtube that has enjoyable content?

I subscribe to a dozen Youtube channels - mostly educational - not just "cool". My question/point was about Instagram. Not much educational value from a photo of a girl in a bikini at a pool ;)
ARP was unsuitable for anything except ethernet and ipv4, and would have needed to change in an incompatable way no matter what. I dont see why replacing it is a big deal.
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What a ridiculous statement. It's over 9% of their (giant) business, it would be a Fortune 500 company itself if not part of Apple.
I've read the first two results on google and it appears it's strictly related to gender-neutrality. As far as respecting the desires and rights of people who come up with labels for (more than) themselves... I can't.

Someone demanding me to blanket treat an entire culture is dehumanizing every interaction with a person from that culture (and it makes each interaction tainted with ideology). I also can't respect someone who thinks they have the right to speak for an "identity" that crosses many cultures and national boarders, or contains millions of people. [1]

Let's reverse the roles. Would you feel comfortable if a white activist (assuming you are white) you do not know, who has never spoken to you before, and comes from a different country or background than you, is demanding the country/world to treat or label you a specific way? What if it was a male? Or female? Or Catholic or atheist? Democratic or republican? Blue collared or white collared? Has children, or doesn't? [1]

[1][1] A single word can be heavily loaded from a political or justice oriented ideology, and cause people to subconsciously distance themselves from people they interact with due to subconsciously projecting that ideology.

/rant.
What's wrong with USB-C?

It's seen a pretty wide-spread uptake over the last couple years, and you're hard pressed to find a new laptop from any manufacturer that doesn't use it for charging.
Maybe not a small open source project but I'd be careful.

https://nypost.com/2017/05/20/paypal-sues-pandora-over-simil...

http://designtaxi.com/news/361608/Starbucks-Sues-Bangkok-Cof...

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/15-21-january-2018/formu...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nike-sues-over-copied-air-jorda...
>> I sadly gave up on the Mac. My next personal device is a Dell XPS.

Switching is a mixed bag.

I notice (at least on HN) that there are two types of people on Mac.

People who are highly sensitized to details and those who are not. If you're sensitized to stuff like touch pads, coil whine, etc., you may not find pleasure in switching to a PC, because PC makers don't spend a lot of time on those details.

If, however, you're not sensitized to small details, switching to PC is a pretty painless process.
It means cross validation. It essentially means is a way of simulating how well your model will do when it encounters real world data.

When building a model, you divide your data into two parts, the training set and the testing set. The training set is usually larger (~80% of your original data set, although this can vary), and is used to fit your model. Then, you use the remaining data you set aside for the testing set by using your model to generate predictions for that data, and comparing it to the actual values for that data.

You can then compare the accuracy of the model for the training and testing sets to get an idea if your model generalizes well to the real world. If, for example, you find that your model has an accuracy of 95% on the training data, but 60% on your testing data, that means your model is overly tuned into features of the data used to build the model that may not actually be helpful for prediction in the real world.
BitTorrent The Company isn't focused around their p2p client. They've been trying to become some form of media publisher for a long time now, but haven't had any particular big hits there.

At this point, I think the name recognition is the fundamental asset they have as a company.
> Which are, respectively, based on 4.9 and 4.11 in ports. The AMD has made large strides since then. In those kernels, the amdgpu driver barely supported Southern/Sea Islands. These work extremely well with recent kernels (much smoother than the old radeon driver). Vega cards only support graphical output since 4.15.

Yes, its currently little older, but they catching up ;)

> The FreeBSD website states that Wayland is not ready for general use. Wayland has been 'enabled' in many Linux distributions for years, but it took a long time to remove all the wrinkles.

I haven't used it, so I do not know how mature it is.

> I wonder: did you actually run a full GNOME desktop on Wayland on FreeBSD for a couple of months?

I run 'light' with openbox/tint/dzen and do not prefer Desktop Environments, besides, for me it does not matter if it runs on X11 or on Wayland as the end result is the same, but as I did not used Wayland I will stop with conclusions here.

> Linux is far more popular and most likely audited more as a result of that. So, it is not surprising that it has more CVEs. Also, the Linux kernel is a fair bit larger, supports more architecture, and more hardware, which means more surface.

Microsoft Windows is magnitudes more popular then Linux, yet it has less holes, so its not only popularity.

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/17153/Microsoft-Windows-7...
Launching VirusTotal Monitor, a service to mitigate false positives
Indeed. But I sense a more subtle message in this email than the sabotage. Don't you feel it ? It is purely subjective.
The last hope for the elephants
Interestingly for me, the annoyances of the new MacBook have faded into the background (no escape key, worse keyboard). I learned to hit ctrl+[ in vim, and don’t mind the keyboard until a key sticks for a little while.

Meanwhile I can’t imagine going back to the thicker form factor.

I don’t mean to downplay people’s issues, and Apple definitely didn’t do a wonderful job here.

But I do find that my day to day experience is net positive. Humans are very adaptable.
I think rising Mac sales are masking the problems for Apple.

From Apple's perspective, rising sales demonstrates that the criticisms are coming from a tiny discontented minority.

From my perspective, sales may be rising for many reasons, but these criticism don't bode well for the future. All these new Mac users will face the same problems, and that will slow replacement rate.
Standard Navy phraseology.
I was excited to try leveraging it for something useful when playing our computer game (SimAirport) but I basically hit a dead end (or at least an undocumented end) when trying to interface with it from Unity.

Within a month of the purchase I ended up having keyboard issues & returned it; purchased a refurb 2015 instead. It'll be my last Mac laptop (after >10 MBPs lifetime) unless they really get their act together.
The GAU-8 could not kill T-72s, which entered service during its development cycle.

Everyone fawns over it, but the GAU-8 only had moderate penetrating abilities against T-62s, less against the T-64.

In order to "kill" a T-62, the A-10 had to approach it from very specific directions, at very specific angles of attack. The Soviets knew this so they co-located anti-aircraft artillery with their armor units and any A-10 making a gun run on a tank would have been flying through a hail of anti-aircraft fire.

In order to penetrate a thin sliver of armor on the sides of the T-62, an A-10 pilot HAD to fire from from the side of the tank at "1500 feet away, at 3 degrees of dive, at 320 knots". The Soviets knew this, too.

What direction do you think the barrels of the ZSU-23-4 self-propelled radar-guided anti-aircraft vehicles were pointed, when moving in formation with T-62s?

The PGU-14/B depleted-uranium armor piercing round, the most "anti-tank" bullet the GAU-8 fires, can penetrate 55mm of armor at 1,220 meters and 75mm at 300 meters. There are very few parts of the T-72 that have armor thinner than 75mm.

Also, those penetration figures are for steel. Very rapidly after the introduction of the A-10, the Soviet Union started outfitting all of its main battle tanks with composite armor and additional external armor.

So at best if you pepper a tank with a full magazine of PGU-14/B fired from a GAU-8 you're probably hoping to break its track, poke a hole in an external fuel tank, or puncture its main gun-- not destroy it.

Crews inside modern main battle tanks would probably hardly notice being hit by fire from a GAU-8.

Here is the "A-10 Coloring Book", written by cold war A-10 pilots as a training aid covering how to shoot at T-62. T-62s were only vulnerable from the rear, and thin (hard to hit) slivers along the sides.

https://imgur.com/gallery/fd4sK

The T-64 was harder to kill, and the T-72 almost impossible.

Due to anti-aircraft assets being closely-coupled to Soviet tank formations it was predicted that every single A-10 pilot would be dead two weeks into a hypothetical war with the Soviet Union, and this was 40 years ago.
It would be great to have this kind of test, but often the regression test is going to be run the system on production load. Benchmarks have a way of testing something, but not quite what you need to test. The interactions between the whole system are important.

For the Netflix boxes, they're pushing 40gbps+, not a lot of the community is going to be to be able to test that, unless they have fairly expensive networks laying around.
Oh yes of course. Nice find.
+1 for mRemoteNG (although it uses Putty for SSH), but it supports a lot more: RDP, VNC, Telnet, raw sockets.
> They're so far ahead in certain areas, it's not even funny.

Honestly asking, not trying to throw punches; what are they ahead with? From everything I've seen/read/heard it's all software, and the hardware itself has stagnated or is behind by a few months/years of other vendors.
I switched from Windows to Mac in autumn-2013. I really hope that either Apple get their act together or that Microsoft ecosystem finally get the simple things such as hibernate and trackpads working properly before this machine gives up the ghost.
the OSX core/kernel (XNU+darwin) has actually been open source for a long time.
The interesting bits of the userspace (cocoa, carbon or whatever) were not BSD derivative.
It got me thinking that the 2012 line of Apple products is the last one which was actually good. Since then it was constant decline in engineering quality and increase in price. I'm sure that Steve Jobs issued a memo before his departure telling everybody what to do in the next 5 years. After a couple of years, Apple is gradually losing their mojo, again.
congrats on your success! Can we see your baremetrics panel?

I think for non technical founders you skipped a very important part of the story - how did you find your initial devs and how did you figure out how to work with them? how much should people set aside for this kind of thing? that really matters.
Like someone else said in another comment, the grass is not green on the other side. I tried every windows flagship option out there from Asus convertibles to XPS 15 (still have this) and my experience was not even close to what I had hoped for. From big issues like coil whine on the XPS 15 to little issues like battery randomly dying, it seems like no other manufacturer cares about quality control and human user experience at all.

Ended up getting a 2017 touch-bar 15' pro and could not have been happier. At least with MacBook I do not have to think about the machine getting in my way while I am trying to do something productive.

The keyboard situation is bad but I am sure at one point they are going to have to do a recall or offer free repairs (Apple has done this before, look at the GPU issues).

The touchbar issue is overblown. Once I adjusted my workflows to use touchbar and customized the touchbar for the apps I frequently use I have definitely been a little more productive than my old macbook. People do not like adapting to changes.

USB C is not a problem anymore, since most of my devices are using USB C already I can usually get away with just couple of cables (usb c and lightning) while traveling.
Can you boot from them and preserve fully working UNMODIFIED system after upgrade? Nope. That is the difference in ZFS Boot Environments.

You can do that with btrfs. You can make a snapshot of the whole filesystem and set a subvolume to boot.

Another approach is taken in Team Silverblue (formerly Fedora Atomic Workstation) [1], which uses OSTree snapshots with package layering. It stores the system as a git-like content-addressed object store. So not only can you boot into any version, you can guarantee that two systems are identical by checking out the same OSTree commits.

I also used Mac OS X (it was called that way before it became macOS) and I also liked it, but I feel on FreeBSD more 'at home'.

And the FreeBSD project actually cares about its UNIX user land. I am not sure if I can say that for Apple anymore. Outdated utilities, missing man pages, dtrace unusable by default due to SIP, etc.

[1] https://teamsilverblue.org
The Uber crash was not a failure of the AI, it was a failure of the UX.

The car saw the obstacle and detected a collision, but there was no warning system to alert the driver about it.

Meanwhile, the driver was looking at a laptop and taking notes on the system logs (which they were told to do), not watching the road.
https://marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c
How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
I use asesprite. But only occasionally. I downloaded it before it became proprietary and only realized the license had been changed when I went to redownload it after updating my system. The thing is I never would have known about or started using asesprite if it had been proprietary from the beginning. As much as I get it's his project and he is the top contributed, I can't help but feel projects that start open source then go proprietary use the popularity they gain from open source developers and people interested in open source software to boost the popularity of their projects before truing to profit from them.
So now I'm genuinely confused. If it's MIT what is this other proprietary license people are referencing.

Edit: the binaries have a restrictive license, the code has an MIT license. How stupid.
That's what I wonder too. There's so much love for the machines of a few years ago with all the ports and the old keyboard. Why not just update that machine?
The fact that network security software dosent support ipv6, so ipv6 is an inherent risk is sort of a vaccuous statement, it also wouldnt support whatever replaced ipv4 either.
How many people on the team?
2.0 came out around Sep 2002 (a bit less than 16 years ago). 3.0 came out in Apr 2011 (7 years ago). Most of the components were the same between the last 2.32 release and 3.0, except for the very visible gnome-panel to gnome-shell switch. Gnome isn't a good example.
Transmission is betterst
Not a question, but some advice: you might want to add a sentence or two to that page describing what Standuply actually is or does.
I’m no lawyer, but deliberately performing adversarial attacks to get rich from being automatically and incorrectly fined feels like it ought to be somewhere between fraud and hacking (in the Computer Misuse Act sense rather than thr hackernews sense).
I guess this is both astonishing and completely unsurprising at the same time. How can one hope to gather decent statistics in exceptional situations without a simulation?