skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one of the most elaborate manifestations of ignorance I've came across on internet. Kudos for that!

Apparently you don't even know what you're comparing. In none of MacOS, Windows, Android or iOS is there a separate, standalone component that is a window manager. There is one huge OS, of which the desktop environment is a small part, and the window manager is a small, possibly unidentifiable part of that small part. Whereas a window manager is one part of a completely modular stack of software. It can definitely be perfected into something that works like those abovementioned systems (see elementary OS or Ubuntu, for example; and it's not like the "fit and finish" is there in Windows 10), but the thing is that the core userbase isn't in the market for that sort of perfection. I specifically use this stack of software (and there's way more to it than Linux itself) because I can decide what's perfect for me and still run loads of software on it wihout having to port them. Fit and finish is mine to do.

I totally understand that someone may not want to do that, there are distros for them (Android is one), and then there is Windows and MacOS, all are options. But you're criticising (some) distros for doing what they're supposed to do, i.e. being highly, even completely customisable. Furthermore, I can easily say "they look good in screenshots but whenever you go to use them, the fit and finish just isn't there" about Windows or Macs, and what that basically means in all of the cases is that I'm criticising an unfamiliar paradigm with total disregard for or ignorance of the motives that cause it to be the way it is.
"In announcing new transparency efforts or tools to combat foreign influence, Facebook included a caveat. “These changes will not prevent abuse entirely. We’re up against smart, creative and well-funded adversaries who change their tactics as we spot abuse,” Leathern wrote. But we believe that they will help prevent future interference in elections on Facebook. And it is why they are so important.”

But posing as 100 senators didn’t require being smart, creative, or even particularly well-funded. "

Ouch.

"There was one “Paid for” disclosure that Facebook didn’t approve in our latest test. They denied, just a couple minutes after we submitted it: Mark Zuckerberg."

Double ouch.
Text data traditionally seen as unstructured. Try a simple MLP.
If you inherit a large code base that is badly written AND you are planning to stick around in that company. I would strongly suggest to immediately start re-writing that legacy code even if you have to burn extra hours. Otherwise you would be doing nothing but firefighting in that job with limited control over your situation.
> what would have happened if Gorbachev had simply accepted Reagan's apparently sincere offer to share SDI technology rather than dismissing this as ridiculous when the U.S. would not even share "milking machines."

This... this is interesting. What technology Reagan was talking about?
> Yes. People such as Alexandra Erin or Flavia Dzodan regularly provide well-informed, structured and readable threads, to say nothing of all the scientists active on Twitter.

Your claim that I disputed was that Twitter encourages such content. I'm not saying that it doesn't have any good stuff - but you need to compare it to other, more verbose mediums to make a claim that the brevity that Twitter rules impose actually result in more such content being published, and that its quality is better. The first thing that comes to my mind in this context is Usenet, and I don't think Twitter compares favorably to that.

> This is presumptuous. There is nothing stopping you from providing data and sources on Twitter.

This is observational. And of course there's nothing stopping you from it. But the medium is not optimized for it, and that discourages it in practice. Again, I'm not claiming that Twitter doesn't have data and sources - only that it has less than more verbose mediums.
I have the same reaction every time I read about any cable company, and that's, "WTF are you all still giving them your money for?!"

They have a monopoly on a dying service you literally don't need at all, and most people hate having to deal with them. The pricing and contracts are antagonistic to customers. Is it just momentum at this point?
Not to be confused with ASMR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_re...
The thing is not all wealth is raw materials. While we are at least thousands of times richer than peasant herders from ancient times we don't have 17k head of cattle each.

While there is likely still a limit assuming economic growth must stop entirely is overly simplistic. There are many areas where the limit is research - drugs themselves are fairly cheap to manufacture but expensive to develop, test, and set up initial manufacturing infrastructure - but once done the expenses are marginal. Essentially to continue growth we need to work smarter not harder - often by increasing efficiency and decreasing input needs.
Revealed: How Much Does It Cost to Create an App Like Snapchat
i think it favors musicians more than gamers. gamers operate digitally in many cases, with buttons that are on or off. not true of the thumbsticks ill conceded. but musicians often execute much more nuanced movements as far as pressure and placement are concerned. i am biased as a guitarist.
Remarkably, the same in Los Angeles
The point is to disavow the GP of the notion that the UK state is trying to do anything but generate more income for itself by illustrating some of the more recent utterly disgusting decisions the UK state, as an organization, made.

So:

Fairness - Nope

Fixing competition - Nope

Altering the market - No

Incentivizing European offerings - Nope

None of this is a goal. Another example linked to is that the UK state is an organization that has been known to use violence to kidnap child abuse victims, and lock them in with other sex offenders, then afterwards refuse so much as acknowledging that might have been a wrong decision, when the inevitable happens.

Such an organization, I'm sorry to say, can be reasonably assumed not to have the interests of you, or me, or anyone but itself, at heart. It's on the side of big companies and tax law is just driving a hard bargain. It is very much not about making their own job harder by doing such things as massively increasing the number of people they need to negotiate with (otherwise known as "competition").

But go ahead, down vote me, of course the state is the epitome of all that is good of the universe. I understand that if that were to be a flawed way of seeing things, social policies start to sound a lot less like they're helping, and much more like they're cynically designed to increase the abuse suffered by the "helped" people, and prevent them from finding actual help, get out of their situation, or find redress. This shows you a new way of thinking about social policies and why they're made. Anti-child abuse laws are about encouraging child trade (and with that, inevitably, abuse), and preventing at all costs any means those kids might want to prevent the state from harming them further, and above all, to eliminate any legal redress such children might have against the state, at the damage done by it's agents to them.

Of course, one can easily make the determination about these policies. Find a few homeless, find a few now grown adopted children, and find a few that look smart, and ... ask them.

We all know what view they will have. The irony is that usually people turn those opinions into "see ? We need more child care/job programs/homeless assistance/...". A method for preventing those very programs from inflicting future damage as was done on these people is never discussed.
It seems like after Reddit exploded trying to catch the Boston Bomber, the insane velocity of content was nerfed to prevent hivemind comment. I don't know if any data is available on how things have changed though.
> mIRC by default would not auto-accept .INI files, there was a blacklist on certain file types that would be rejected, with INIs as one of them.

Was that a reaction to the problem described in the GP? Especially in the 80s/90s, defensiveness like that was probably to solve an existing problem.
Yes, 2x75% Windows had come to my mind as well. At least the new swiping guestures let you switch between two full screen apps quicker.
For the terminal client, have you tried "Blink"? I found the keyboard reasonably well working, you can even remap caps-lock to ESC. As it uses mosh to connect, it deals also extremely well with connection cuts (especially when the iPad hibernates the app in the background).
According to Reddit, NUCs mostly have mobile processors. NUCs with desktop processors like the latest Mac Mini tend to be more expensive than the Mac Mini.
If you have a cablecard based system you can often get a network tuner like the HD Homerun Prime and do away with the company's cable box altogether. It's what I did, and I'm pretty happy with the results - through Plex I have unlimited DVR and the ability to watch on any device. Channel switching is still slow, though...
How to get churned users on the phone
I don’t think the audio quality of the mic on a closed laptop is going to be something you’d actually want. Plus it likely only applies when the machine is entering sleep?
"Zero" drives are the ones that when you lose them you have zero data.

"One" drives are the ones with a copy.
We desperately need alternative social networks, but there’s a certain minimum income required to host them I just don’t think you’d reach with consumers. App.net tried almost exactly the same thing in 2012:

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/app-dot-net-its-not...

I agree with the author that ads and nazis are the problem, but you need a viable business to compete with free (ad driven). Selling microblog hosting to consumers is not that.
The current cell phone infrastructure and the phones themselves really suck for talking to people. This is why, I think, kids don't talk over the phone. Not because they really prefer texting over voice but that live voice sucks. The smart phone is a bad shape for catching and producing sounds and the cell phone network has high and variable lag, dropped calls, many "Can you hear me now" moments, the "I can hear you clearly and think all is well but you can't hear me" problem, etc. So people don't do most of there communications with voice and eventually you see people texting each other in the same room. It really is a problem that has not gotten enough attention. I recently brought back my landline so a least 1/2 the communication is on a good system for talking when I actually want to have a conversation with someone over the phone. Its great but why does it cost $30 a month for just unlimited local calls? Only someone with quite a bit of extra resources would have one.

Business have landlines and/or low latency internet to handle quality voice communication. Most families these days don't.
Decent for tape, or decent in general?
This article should be switched to an alternative that doesn't have restrictive geofilters or removed.
CNIL asks the “school 42” for its surveillance system to comply with the law
"Oumuamua appears to have originated at the Local Standard of Rest (LSR), which is the galactic frame of reference." Is a very interesting side-note
Apologies for not making a distinction. I was referring more to business documentation and software development. I failed to see the obvious uses in art and design.

I see that it would be useful in the field, but don't you find the lack of a second screen an issue? I always like to have my file browser and palettes away from my main work area.
Possibly in the hopes that they could focus more on the classes and grades required to get them into med school.
Having a "backup buddy" you can swap drives with once in a while is never a bad idea. Encrypted backup drives can save your bacon if you're ever caught in a bad situation.
Let's assume you're from N'Délé, in the North Central portion of the country. Let's also assume you've got twice the national average in wealth, or about $800 USD.

Which of those methods is "reasonable" for you to use as a tourist. The bike is clearly out. You can take a ferry across the Mediterranean once you get to it, but that's a whole thing. There is no train and buses would be...a lot. A straight car ride is 104 hours, or just over 4 days each way. And again, you make $804 USD/year.

Is OP's example helpful to the conversation: IDK, possibly? But the idea that it's reasonable for a tourist might be a bit much. IDK, who am I to say what's reasonable for people who make less in a year than I do in about 3 days.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/n'd%C3%A9l%C3%A9/venice/@25....
Or not even 4k, I'd be good having something that matches my phone's selfie camera.
I can't view this because I'm European, there's no box for me to even pay if I wanted to. So, yeah.

https://outline.com/FGRxsT
If this is how it works, enforcing this ... would end the web. How much thought was put into that ?
It doesn't come with the Touch Bar, just Touch ID as an independent key
This article is mostly about overcrowding but another important consideration is carbon footprint. The carbon footprint of tourism is a big blindspot in the "liberal" mindset (speaking as one). On the one hand travel is supposed to be good and healthy for your development and the broadening on your mind.. Anthony Bourdain.. listen and exposure yourself to cultures.. etc. On the other, air travel is 100% fossil fuel based. Flying to Europe from SF is like driving coast to coast in a gas car.

We could use a healthy backlash against the idea that everyone should strive to fly around the world. Sustainability must come first. This is a bitter pill for us "liberals" to swallow, I think.
In the US, cable companies are generally the only source of high-speed internet, and they sometimes charge a higher sticker price to provide internet-only service vs. bundling with TV service.
My employer buys my computer. Doesn't matter to me how repairable it is.
I nicknamed one we used during the Ebola epidemic (tight deadlines, lots of people working, etc.) "The Wall of Madness".

There were tons of

## JOHN: DONT RUN PAST HERE, EVERYTHING BROKEN

comments.
Also, rich folk could have every room of their houses be on different planets, so that their only interaction with a planet could be that they go there only to poop in its ocean.
>Worchestershire

Please don't hate me for this, but I'd like to respectfully correct you, with a bit of info on pronunciation that I hope will assist you in future.

I'm a Brit, and in England there's a town called Worcester (usually pronounced "wuster" rather than "war-sester"). It's in a county called Worcestershire (usually pronounced "wuster-shuh", sometimes "wuster-shire", but the "wuster" bit holds).

This county has a famous sauce, inevitably called Worcestershire sauce, that often contains anchovy extracts, hence the availability of vegetarian/vegan versions.

Hope that helps.
That does not square with my recollections of managing a fleet of Macbooks with Magsafe adapters.
I've been using it for years, including with Docker, and haven't had any problems. There are people successfully using Btrfs with tens of thousands of containers, e.g.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/CAMp4zn8YUdVShFibUKCXtwZ...

Why are you using defrag daily? Why aren't you using the autodefrag mount option instead if you really need such frequent defragging?

Really anytime there's a problem in the kernel, you need to try the workload with a mainline kernel and report the problem to the upstream kernel list if you can reproduce it. If you can't reproduce the problem with mainline, then you have to take up the bug with your distro. That's the way it is with everything, not just Btrfs.

Ergo, I think asking for technical help about Btrfs on serverfault or stack exchange or even HN is weird. People having Btrfs problems need to go to directly to the upstream list:

http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-btrfs

Even weirder is the serverfault user has SLES! He has a support contract with SUSE so why post in serverfault? It just makes zero sense to me to do that...

And the github link, the OP was asked for more information as it sounded like not a Docker problem at all, and no followup response.
Agree.

It's becoming rather farcical that I may have to use Tor to browse from ... a European IP.
Further, there’s no theorem that jailbreaking will always be possible. I get the impression it’s becoming harder over time.
For me, markdown is meant to be readable even when not rendered. I could see how not having persistent graphs and tables might be an issue, but my own philosophy is to start fresh each time - I treat it like a templating language with some convenient rendering features for prototyping, rather than like an IDE.

Your last point also has an upside - it's using different engines (Rmarkdown vs. Sweave). I can write whatever HTML or LaTeX code I want, depending on what's appropriate. I wouldn't want to have to make web documents with LaTeX, nor would I want to make PDFs with HTML.
I wonder what percentage of HN readership is based in the EU.
> Seems like something we should be screening and should be something that favors gamers?

Ehhh, not so sure about that. I was really good at FPS games (played counter strike for some 10 years), and I can't stitch for the life of me. My mother who is in her late 60s however, oh boy can she stitch and stitch fast. She can thread things well too - Last thanksgiving, we were doing some threading with the turkey, and I was amazed at her threading skills. I tried to imitate her but just couldn't.
I guess there's just a lot of us around who had exceedingly terrible experience with anything IBM.
Antarctic scientist stabbed for telling colleague the endings of books
Good points. Do you know anyone who offers a Digital Ocean type of service where you can quickly spin up a machine and pay by the hour? May be useful for people who only need a machine occasionally to compile an app for iOS.
> unsure if that continues.

This. This is what is behind the so-called negativity. IBM has been an exemplary open source citizen; but it's very fragmented with conflicting internal fiefdoms which means no one can count on them continuing to be supportive.

People are reacting to the scale of the merger, the stakes involved for the community at large (GCC, etc) and what happens with most large mergers and they're very anxious.

And not without very good reason...
The beautiful thing about software is, if they don't like it, they can recreate it themselves. But yes, the incentive to show ads is quite high by the advertisers.

We tried the easy way (pay for the app) and it didn't work, now we do it the hard way (ads).
Over a scale of a few years, things add up.
I've been considering that leap for years, fear of the effort to get to a non-annoying Linux laptop always drives me back to Mac.

I finally took the dive on a PixelBook to try out, figured that at least the basics (battery, wireless, sound, video, command-line) should be less-likely to be an annoyance. However, at $1649 (16GB, i7 quad-core 1.3G, 512 SSD), it's not much of a savings over a reasonably-similar Mac config ($1799-1899).
Or was it a lighter sail, still carrying a payload?!
I would say that it's near impossible to assign a probability since this is the very first extra-solar object ever detected.
Can we download the tool anywhere?
No, I'm saying even if they didn't move, there would still be a last one to survive, just based on the time it takes to shoot them.
This iPad just looks like a plus-sized version of the SE. Except with a camera bump for some godforsaken reason (who is taking pictures with their iPad Pro?).
But you still have to import it into Photos first, then jump to the app that you actually want to work in? I wish Apple would open up some of these APIs so that apps like Photoshop could actually interact with the filesystem.
Older MacBook Pros had their microphones on the exterior of the laptop, on the left side, so I'd imagine the sound from that would be pretty decent. Newer Macs put it inside the speaker grill, I think, so this wouldn't really work.
Agreed. It took me several seconds to figure out what to do, as the scroll-wheel on my mouse did nothing. I had to grab the horizontal scrollbar on the bottom of my browser and drag sideways.

I imagine it works well on a phone in portrait mode. On a desktop with a 16:9 monitor, a horizontally scrolling webpage is... bizarre.
I mean, I hear you and I agree (I wrote the post above you after all), pricing has been a bit tough.

But since you asked, some additional background information comparing the 2014 $1300 Mac to today's $1300 Mac (which isn't a 2018 model, but rather the 2017 model and prices.)

Geekbench 4 single/multicore scores are 30% and 42% faster respectively.

The latter can do 4k resolution output.

It's almost half a pound lighter, 0.2 inches thinner and about 0.3 inches less wide and less tall. Volume is more than 20% lower.

You get an hour extra battery life.

They're definitely not major, but it did get a bit better and with minor nominal salary increases the past few years (bit of inflation), it's effectively slightly cheaper, too.

Not the sort of progress you'd hope for. But to say they're the same specs as 4.5 years ago isn't completely true, either. It's the 2017 model, 3 years after the 2014 model, a bit faster, smaller, lighter, better battery life at slightly cheaper dollars. It's underwhelming for sure, the moment we see a serious step up from that you see the price increase by $500.

(The actual 2018 model is incomparably more expensive, but then the multicore score is 2.5x as fast as the 2014 model, twice as much SSD, 5k output resolution etc, but then it's $1800)
Nice! Would love to see this, but for complex queries.
And as far as I’ve seen when it comes to jailbreaks, anything but the most obviously mechanical problem is caused by the jailbreak.
That's a hell of a premium device for doing work once or twice in a month.
Anecdotally, compensation is much more of an issue for new hires than existing employees. I've also just seen far more internal movement, both to and from our team, than I have people leaving to other companies, though our team has been growing and getting external hires too.
Agreed. Logistic regression with poly kernel or good engineering interactions can equal or beat more complex models for a fraction of the budget.

All the more power to you if a solid simple logreg model (or even no ML at all) is your first deliverable.
Can AdaNet work with CNN and RNN layers?
No it isn't. Canonical didn't pivot, they entered the space. Brand awareness is what the underlying desktop market is for, while server provides income via support contracts. But Ubuntu desktop isn't going anywhere (on the contrary, Ubuntu subsystem for Windows shows Canonical wants to embed more into the desktop market).
> essentially lying to encourage you to do something you probably don't need to.

That's the best case scenario. More often than not, advertisers are actively malicious.

By that, I mean they are attempting to manipulate people into taking actions that are actively damaging to their health/finances/etc in order to enrich the advertisers. The fact that this is so accepted by society that hundreds of billions of dollars are spent doing it each year is absolutely repulsive.
Nothing. It's still horrible. I'm glad you called it a desktop environment and not a window manager, because it's terrible at managing windows. And unlike older Gnome versions, it's hardly even configurable anymore.

You can pry my simple tiling window manager from my cold, dead hands.
You misunderstand me, I'm saying after you take out the difference in sales tax you're still left with about a $350 gap that has nothing to do with sales tax.

I've got no complaints about the sales tax.
Can IBM Wear Its Red Hat and Retain OSS Talent?
They used to as part of their quarterly earnings reports, if I remember correctly. They stopped during the latter part of WoD when by all accounts the subscriber numbers were very low (by WoW standards).