skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On an unrelated note, is KDE or Gnome better for high DPI screens?
Google seems stuck in the Xerox Parc trap. They babysit a bunch if twenty something kids while they daydream but they don’t have the tools or drive to mature those efforts into product roadmaps.

Only google is in the uncanny valley. They go far enough to get people engaged a bit then cancel or reimagine the projects (or people wander off and their replacements have different theories?) and so instead of having no product or engagement they get just enough to draw negative attention, pissing people off who thought something good was going to happen and never did. Like Fox Networks with Joss Whedon...
> * The aggregation system you’re using is pretty good, but it still sometimes misses and groups stories together that are not related.*

Yes, I agree. The aggregation system works fast at scale but needs fine-tuning for accuracy. This is very much something we are working on right now.

> For myself, I’d actually like to see the ability to customize the news sources — maybe bring in some sources you’re not already using, and leave out some that you are.

Personalization of news sources is definitely on our roadmap. Can you cite some examples of sources that we're not already using? We'd love to increase the diversity of new sources to bring in different perspectives on the same issue.
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Hi, it's using Oracle's default client sqlplus for extracting data and spool it in flamegraph.pl-friendly format to disk. And then the script runs flamegraph.pl to turn this data into a .svg chart and opens it with your default browser.
Though if RPM is a requirement, Ubuntu isn't going to work.
Might make a good addition to the "Known Issues" section or somewhere else. Just somewhere to indicate all the little points of human intervention.
Great concept! I really hope this catches on.
Latin America Could Be Closing Its Veins with a Digital Tax
What is lacking to qualify Go as a "real" language?
An example of a hard to render situation (not just for path tracing) is visualizing caustics on the other side of glass, since you can't connect paths directly to light sources or the camera. (S[SD]*S type paths in path tracing notation). If it begins or ends with a diffuse reflection then it's _relatively_ simple to form a path by starting at the other end.
Maybe, but weak-ass payback since it's so obviously dead wrong.
Tech people like options. It seems like everyone else wants it to just work well enough, and work out of the box.
I started a webview project some time ago, and I see some people using it in their projects - https://github.com/zserge/webview Basically, it provides some high-level APi over a native system webview (WebKit or IE, depending on the OS).
Public sector employees don't get social security benefits because their employer doesn't pay payroll taxes. So be sure to factor that in.
>For more coverage of race, sign up here to have our Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox.

Not related to the article. But I cannot believe this actually exists.
Yup it looks cool - I actually mentioned it in my post too with a screenshot.
Yes. Here it is :

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/apple/airpods-wire...

They have most truly wireless earphones, but the OP Bullets aren't on there yet.
Grafting and cuttings are a form of sexual reproduction.
I'm no fan of the i9 series at all, but if you have SIMD-heavy workloads (especially anything you're willing to port to AVX-512), those CPUs actually make a lot of sense price/performance wise. It's a fairly specific niche, but not necessarily a tiny one.
The KDE spin is community-maintained, so it's not like Red Hat can yank funding from it or something.
Before switching to MacOS I used Linux on my desktop for a decade.

KDE has always been the one with the better foundation, except that ... it never worked ok.

Every time I tried it, it had a ton of issues that would make me go into this rabbit hole, trying to fix it via endless configuration options and it never worked. And the migration from KDE 3 to KDE 4 was a complete clusterfuck.

Whereas Gnome always lacked configuration options, people always complained about its state, but it kept compatibility and it worked well out of the box.

The Linux desktop never took off due to immaturity. Microsoft did not abandon Windows, they didn’t rewrite from scratch, every release is basically an iteration of the previous one and Windows 10 for example is simply an iteration of Windows 7, which was XP with some lipstick on it. Same can be said of MacOS.

In open source however people just want to work on the new shiny all the time. As soon as something with more sex appeal comes along, people move to it.

The desktop Linux is freaking horrible and obviously what people have been doing in the last two decades doesn’t work. So yes, let’s corporatize it, let’s make it boring and reliable. Because people want a working desktop, not freaking widgets.

Speaking of desktop widgets, this is yet another example of immaturity. Do you know how many times per week I see my MacOS desktop? Never. My apps are always on and I restart my laptop like once per month, otherwise it’s in standby all the time. Such reliably is unheard of with the Linux desktop.
Elon Musk's Starlink satellites risk Kessler syndrome
For one, it would further erode society's respect for academia. People already widely suspect that social-justice minded academics see their position to be more like a soapbox from which to preach rather than an means to carry out an objective pursuit of understanding. A deliberate campaign of exclusion of people they don't like would only serve to confirm this view.
That's fair - I have a coworker whose ears are shaped weirdly and he cannot use AirPods at all (or even the previous wired EarPods, for that matter)

It's a one-size-fits-all design and if it's a little off you're kinda out of luck. They fit me perfectly though which is one of the things that blew my mind initially. I didn't realize how many of previous fit issues were a result of having a cord that tugs when you make any movements.
Since I don't understand it remarkably well, I must be intolerant? Nice.
Good question! Could see that a conversation with that person may go very stale very quickly, but may have some other benefits?

- Great reading recommendations

- Great proof-of-competence like a 'badge' or 'degree' when hiring
I think this may be related to nvidia cards having problematic support in KDE under Wayland.
Go produces static binaries, so it isn't really needed for production environments would be my guess. Devs tend to install upstream tools instead of the out of date RHEL tools too.
What is and How Sweatcoin works,the app that pays you for walking
What can't you believe about it? That there's enough news to be bundled under a Race/Related category, or that the NYT does it?
The problem with isolation of components is that then the stylesheets are no longer cascading -- each component needs to be re-designed to fit within a design framework, and there's no CSS reuse between components is entirely copy-and-paste. Good luck re-styling anything for "dark mode" without having to hand-visit each component's JavaScript and CSS.

Plus, component isolation has really slow polyfills. None of the Google stuff as of late runs on anything other than Chrome for like a year after launch because it's too slow and broken -- everything is being rewritten in Polymer, which relies on browser support for component isolation.
I cannot imagine an iPad mini being part of the replacement of smart phones.

The thing is, I want the biggest screen that can fit into my pocket. Maybe something else can replace that need (glasses, projectors, holigrams) but whatever it is will have to be at least as portable as a smartphone.

I think the pocket was critical to iPhones success.
thats a fair criticism, i'll consider rewording (stan is a reference to a superfan of eminems, from his song stan). alternatively, you could of course explain why you think apple laptops are the best choice still in 2018(if that's how you feel), its not as if i didn't have some reasoning in my comment that you are free to clash with.
Seems like a recipe for creating a lot of people with very little or nothing to lose.
It seems so wasteful to me that all these companies are sending out cars to get streetview images of the same streets. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and god knows who else. All that fuel and other resources wasted doing the same thing over and over again. I know that commercial interests prevent them from sharing their data, but damn is it wasteful.

It seems to me that if they were to pool their resources then not only could they save money and resources, but they could get more comprehensive imagery for less money.
More background:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/how-malay...

How he spent the money:
https://thecoverage.my/news/jho-low-threw-wildest-billion-do...
As if a computer that continues running when its communication link goes down is an accomplishment?

It shouldn't be, but it seems like it is.

My Apple machines, in particular, can't stand a slow net connection.

And I'm not talking just about third-party apps. For some reason Macs are good with either huge bandwidth, or zero connectivity. Anywhere in between is problematic. This goes back to at least the 1990's, when Airports had dialup modems in them.
I’m assuming you’ve never had your earbuds ripped out by a doorknob or random piece of furniture? Lucky you.
To some degree this feels like "Fast storage turns out to be fast storage", but still, it's an interesting post and good to see some numbers.
There was nothing even remotely close to the touch UI Apple created and enabled with multi-touch.
Free speech. Anonymous speech.

Some kind of electronic notary:
Some kind of hash that verifies something hasn't been tampered with which is signed by multiple parties which keeps adding transaction on top of transaction making it costly and costly to change the hash.
Your interpretation of the comment you are replying to is far from generous and from what our standard should be.
Just go on the GNOME subreddit and you will see there actual GNOME users complaining, you will see mostly this:

- how I get tray icons working (tray icons were removed)

- GNOME won't start (an extension incompatibility can make the DE crash)

- lag when some animation happens

- how can I make the theme to use less padding (some devs are considering removing theming support completely )

This are complaints for actual GNOME users that update to latest version and have unpleasantness surprises.
Zeno scrolling
There's tons, ranging from local staffing firms to giants like Robert Half Technologies; local MSPs to giant Managed Services ops by major systems integrators.
And think, the police still believed their story because that man was black.
I took much bigger risks (changed industries, started a company, did freelance work) once Obamacare was passed. I never went without health insurance, and it was subsidized during those periods when I could least afford it.

It's insane to me that conservatives somehow landed on the side of opposing a system that encourages professional independence and risk taking. They talk a big game about "small business owners" but make it as dangerous as possible to try and become one.
By posting here your numbers are going to tank! Have to do your next report with HN referrals removed :)

Edit: I take that back. I went to the page after writing this and signed up. Well done.
Did not know that, thank you!
From the comments I see a lot of people are confused by the headline. Apple still invents, but only for the sake of improving existing products, and not really in a way that makes you imagine what you can do, thus it's not the type of invention that matters.

There, I said it.

I made the mistake of buying a Macbook with a touch bar because I thought it was kind of cool when I finally got to see it in person. The novelty that came from this cheap gimmick wore off in a matter of minutes, even though the technical obstacles that had to be overcome must've been great.

The face-tracking cameras in the latest iPhones and iPads? Impressive on their own, but Apple has failed to do anything really fascinating with them besides using them to unlock your device or to puppet an emoji.

Apple invents only for the sake of creating additional cheap gimmicks without creating genuinely exciting products. As I fumble with the awful keyboard on my Macbook I question just how capable they are of even creating quality products.
I'm not totally sure if those graphs are really representative of that, or at least they should be taken with a grain of salt. I've been using Nix for quite a while and I add packages I'm missing semi-regularly (although many of them are minor). The metapackage database on repology.org seems to indicate that it tracks every individual Haskell, PyPI package etc that we ship, so it's actually including thousands and thousands of auto-generated packages, and duplicate versions of everything in the top-level.

I'm not sure if that qualifies for "most packaged software" (since it skews the numbers very sharply in particular directions), but I guess you'd have to define it first. But Nix is different enough that it might be hard to have any kind of straight comparison.
Which has nothing to do with innovation. You might not like it, but it’s a meaningless argument when you’re asking about whether Apple is innovative or not.

Also, good luck finding a phone that doesn’t do that.
That's completely counter to my experience.

I run my KDE desktop 24/7 in very much the way you are describing and it works very reliably.
People got trolled (blatantly so, I and several friends laughed as soon as we saw the price) and deserved it.
I'm not sure. Wikipedia says-

"A dagger is a knife with a very sharp point and one or two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon."
Most likely the fact that they’re running ancient kernel versions (RHEl 7.6, released Oct 30 2018 uses Linux 3.10, which was released in June 2013) , and have to support them for 10-20 years.

RHEL 6 uses kernel version 2.6.32, released in 2011, and will be supported until 2020.

With a moving target like Btrfs, which may have plenty of showstopper bugs left in it yet, it’s just not feasible to keep backporting these new features to a an old kernel version.

Once Btrfs stops getting major patches, and is considered stable, I guess it could eventually make its way back.
We've reverted the title from the submitted “Red Hat drops KDE support”. Readers can decide for themselves which aspects of the article are relevant; Python 2 has also been deprecated, for example.
Operator overloading?
Exactly. And he said Apple was five years ahead of everyone else, and I think he was right, or it may have even been an understatement, because trying out competing phones years afterward, they were still more clunky than any iPhone.
Sadly, there is no money in desktop. I wonder if anyone has numbers, but I doubt any of customers of enterprise distros specifically pay or care about the desktop side of things. And without sufficient incentives, this is the natural progression of desktop related things on linux. Canonical also pivoted away from desktop/mobile.
>Even Dwarf Fortress fans would object to colorless odorless gas occasionally killing entire settlements with no way to detect it.

I'm sorry, but airlocks and decontamination chambers are a key to any fortress. :)
Yes. It is all very obvious. For example, suppose a marginalized group uses the hashtag #killallwhitemen to express the disempowerment they feel from the historical weight of white privilege. This, I think we can all agree, is an expression of righteous outrage through hyperbole, not intolerance. In fact, "white men" in this context does not refer to any person or group of people, rather a self-reenforcing system of oppression and privilege. In this way, we see "#killallwhitemen" is tool of enforcing tolerance in an intolerant society.

Now suppose someone were to make an argument like this:

"We observe sexual dimorphism to some degree in most animals. Thus our prior should be that it is unlikely that women and men are 100% psychologically identical even when controlling for environment. Because of this it would be epistemically incorrect to assume differences in representation in engineering firms can be explained entirely by discrimination."

This argument is clearly reactionary and must be censored, for we know 100% that any difference in preferences, abilities and outcomes between men and women must be explained by environmental effects. To think otherwise would be exclusionary and thus an example of intolerance we must be intolerant of, even in our own thoughts.

The person making this argument should be shunned. Even raising the argument should result in immediate deplatforming and perhaps loss of employability.

Even this notion of a prior in which you allow yourself to assign a probability to reactionary thoughts must fought, for even a very low prior can be overcome with enough sensory experience.
KDE has never been my cup of tea, but I spent a solid two weeks using Plasma on a test laptop just to see how it fared, and it's perfectly usable. That's the best I can say. There were alot of things I liked about it--the deep level of customization options, fairly good performance and not too heavy on resources, and Yakuake might still be my favorite drop-down console app--but at the end of the day I said "Okay, cool" and went back to a Gtk-based desktop where I felt more comfortable.
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they changed the face of what smart phones would ultimately become

I get that, but they didn’t “invent” the smartphone. They executed an existing concept far better than anybody else had been able to up until then, and the result of that was a complete industry change. It’s great, but they weren’t there when the first smartphones appeared - they came along with a much better implementation of the concept.

I think they’ll continue to do this in other markets as they develop.
QML is not a replacement for the QWidget system, so the classic widgets are still there.

I do not understand how GNOME feels different since you can setup KDE to behave like you want,
If Apple were to drop lightning and switch all their phones to USB-C, the rest of the industry would move to USB-C much more rapidly.

We may never be fully rid of USB-A since it's embedded everywhere into things like homes and cars, but it makes a lot of sense for USB-C to replace all the other permutations (B, mini, micro, lightning, etc) found on devices.
Maybe ask what the budget is and then propose additional choices that meet the budget. This way you save work for admin so perhaps easier to make it happen.
re: the Mona Lisa

If you're ever in Madrid -- the Prado has a copy of the Mona Lisa, made in the same studio, at the same time, probably by one of Leonardo's students. It's also been restored, and you'll be the only person there to see it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(Prado%27s_version)
I've heard that subsidiaries of the big accounting firms are essentially separate companies and really just share the firms name, I'm not sure if that's true or not but in the case of the main Wall Street firms, its most definitely is not.

Goldman is Goldman everywhere which makes this more concerning.

Even more troubling are reports that the new GS CEO, David Solomon, reviewed multiple of the 1MDB deals. To be fair its not clear if he personally reviewed them or they were just a meeting note in a senior partners meeting.

Going in GS favour is that they fired Leissner, the GS point man, when the allegations originally came out in 2016 and they self reported the incident, though its not clear if they reported it before the original incident was first reported on.

I'd imagine since GS is blaming the bankers ability to circumvent internal controls to catch bribes and kick backs, that things are about to get even more bureaucratic over there.

Speculation
Also watch for any indication of events that can tie this to the Euro zone. I have a feeling regulators in Europe would love to lay a large fine on a US bank, given how many fines European banks have paid in the US recently:)

A research note I just saw, estimated this could cost GS more than $1B in fines in the US alone.
Were you actually using KDE on an RHEL/CentOS server? This does not affect desktop Fedora users.
In my experience using both for years, Gnome has always been more stable.
Multi-monitor, Hi-Dpi support, in particular, is properly broken in KDE (while it's only half broken on Gnome).

As for features, the titlebar integration used by a few applications (ala MacOS) is a nice touch.

Otherwise it's true that the KDE experience, especially around customization, seems more thought out. Gnome's UX is nonsensical in more than a few places. The problem with KDE has always been stability and reliability. Having to reboot your machine due to crashes even once a week is enough to justify putting up with Gnome's overall worst UX.
Agreed - they had tonnes of amazing, creative talent during both Jobs eras, and they still do, but Jobs was clearly a crucial piece in their revolutionary product development. Without him, they’re not going to be knocking out products that literally alter society every 5 years or so. He’s not replaceable.

Still, I think their attention to detail and user experience is about as strong as ever, for both their hardware and software. Innovation will still come out of Apple, just not as game changing as it used to be. I think they’ll transition to being sort of a “Samsung with better UX and attention to detail”, which is a company I’ll continue to buy products from, even if it is a bit of a letdown from what they were with Jobs.
A bit of both I suppose.
Wait, aren't we supposed to always believe women?
That’s not the bar anywhere outside the US. It’s a huge improvement in the US, but it’s still a big improvement everywhere else too.
None of those are innovations, merely entering a market space that already existed. Sure, they've done that in the past with the phone...but they crafted it so well it put everyone to shame. Outside of the Apple Watch the others in your list haven't really pushed boundaries. Even the Apple Watch has a lot of gimmicks that no one uses and things like the Fitbit can easily mimicked at a much lower cost.
I've done similar work, but what really gets me is new smelly code being produced faster than I can clean up. Have you experienced the same, and if so, how do you deal with that?