skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sendmail is deprecated. That was the first Unix service I ever learned to configure. This is kind of the same feeling I got when I heard music I grew up listening to on the classic rock station.
There wasn't a year after the global financial crisis which started in 2007 when one or more major banks were not involved in some major scandals, even after all the bailouts and "we'll behave from now on promises": Libor fixing, FX fixing, HSBC money laundering, UBS helping rich clients evade taxes, and so on.

I can't think of any other industry where year after year the same 4 or 5 actors are involved in major scandals, yet not one single senior executive goes to jail.

As the US general attorney put it, they really are "too big to jail", and they behave accordingly.
Nah, I think the real danger is when they find others who re-affirm their convictions.
I love waiting for a website to load twice. Once for the placeholder graphics, then again the real data.
I don't know if Apple changed the shape for AirPods (they look very similar to the EarPods) but the AirPods stay in my ears so much better, it's night and day. I've been attributing it to the weight/tug of the cable.
I don't expect Apple to pioneer anything in smartphones. I expect Apple to pioneer in health, home automation, anyone-can-play content distribution, robotics, non-ridiculous comfortable VR/AR, conversational AI, and customer support quality.

These are all open product frontiers, and the next+++(+) iPad Pro is going to become increasingly irrelevant unless Apple develops a strong lead in at least some of them.

You can see the movement being made in a few of these, but there's no evidence so far of any likely game changers in the pipeline - just slimmer and more minimal hardware, with a few OS tweaks.
Elon Musk – Next Recession Could Claim Ford
After seeing Jim Cramer mention on camera the idea of putting out a false Apple rumor (example given in 2006 was "The iPhone is being delayed"), I'm less inclined to write off conspiracies in this regard. Don't know that it's a full-blown Conspiracy™, but the financial incentives are there for the right people.
3 Reasons Why API Management Is Dead
If Windows were open source I bet you would have people forking Win7 or WinXP and many non tech people use the familiar thing then be forced to use the new shiny thing some designer thinks is best.
In the past, TechEmpower benchmarks only ran on Linux, so their benchmarks for .Net actually used the Mono project's implementation of ASP.NET, which was slow.

That's why the increase was so significant. If they were comparing ASP.NET Core with .Net Framework on Windows, the difference would have almost certainly been much smaller.
"The money was used to buy [...] as well as to pay for the Hollywood blockbuster “The Wolf of Wall Street.”"
Gold.
Not that odd: Qt, the toolkit KDE is built on, originated in Europe at Trolltech. There has always been a pretty clear split where European companies (like SuSE) built on KDE/QT/C++ and American companies went with GNOME/GTK/C.
> with the colors red, black and green.

These are the colours of the flags of Kenya, Malawi and South Sudan. I don't know which preceded which but the Rastafarian flag colours (gold, green and red) seem more common.
I don’t think this is fair to say because they have been writing like this for nearly 20 years. Getting Real and their blog predate Basecamp.
diamond necklaces and Birkin bags as well as to pay for the Hollywood blockbuster “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Najib Razak,

what an ironic movie choice
Of course. My point however was that freelancers/entrepreneurs aren't the only ones who struggle to obtain healthcare.
How is a platform that let's you say anything uncensored intolerant? If your definition of "tolerance" is forced censorship, then I don't think you would do so well in Karl Popper's proposed society.
Two RT trips to Asia might barely meet the minimum tier for miles, but most (all?) airlines now have a minimum in dollars spent, as well. For example, for the first status level, United requires 25,000 miles and $3000 spent with United (this means code-share partner airline flights don't count).

One year, I flew RT SFO-Singapore (16,000 miles RT) and SFO-Tel-Aviv (10,200 miles RT). Due to getting a really good deal on economy tickets, those two tickets were less than $3,000 total and thus I didn't get even the most basic status level.
>The fire department isn't profitable.

I doubt that. Especially combined with home insurance.
Not really. Not unless they have my DAW (mixing software), and the plugins I use on it. There's a lot more to mixing than just relative levels. It's kind of a black art that takes years to learn. I've been at it seriously for a decade now, and I feel I'm just beginning to get good (although I've gotten lucky in the past, it wasn't because I really understood what I was doing).

Here's an example. I listen critically to a lot of mixes, in order to learn from them, so I hear flaws everywhere. One badly flawed classic song, to my ear, is Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat". It's extremely sibilant on the vocals. Listen to it on bright-sounding headphones, and every S sound in the vocal is shrill and hissy-sounding. Adjusting the level won't fix that. I want to run a de-esser on the vocal. And it's not a knock on the mix in general, which is mostly gorgeous, lush, classic 1970s Abbey Road sound. 98% of it is magic beyond my meager skills. But oh god the sibilance.

edit: I should add here that individual tracks, solo'd outside the context of a mix, can sound really weird and wrong - they get manipulated to blend into the whole, not to sound great on their own. For example, I high-pass most guitars at 250-300hz, even though the low E string is way down at 82hz. The reason is to get them out of the bass space, freeing it for the bass guitar/synths and kick drum. So if you solo the guitar, it can sound thin and wrong. But in the mix, you'll never notice the difference - but you'll hear clearer bass.
Hearing friends talking about flaking, I would say it is a very common theme. I would also think, that you may not want to meet up with that person, because either not in the same city, or because you may match with a lot of different people which also may change over time.

I also thought of it more like a self-validation thing, a source of more information, recommendations, etc. What you would get back may be an online conversation or a feed of relevant websites.
I very nearly did that ten years ago. I had been at the same firm from age 23 until 38 and had started at a very junior level and had advanced to the most senior possible level in that time. I made a horizontal move to another firm and the 90% pay raise I got put me in the mid range for my JD there. It is nice to make a lot more money. I would say the first thing you should do is get out debt and or save a year's pay. Then go on a really nice vacation. It is easy to spend a lot of money every month without setting definite goals... and it is even easier to become depressed when you spend all that money and it doesn't have the effect that you want it to. Better to build something and have something to look forward to. Just my two cents.
Devil's advocate here. Unless one works at Twitter, how would one know that they haven't proactively restricted some?

Both can be true. They can proactive restrict some (which we never see, because they're restricted) and they also restrict when they see an issue.
>The money was used to buy a Picasso painting, diamond necklaces and Birkin bags as well as to pay for the Hollywood blockbuster “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

A scam that funded a movie about scams? True life is stranger than fiction.
Why did the three women not get arrested for filing false police reports? Especially for falsely claiming that the man had a gun. There have been many, many reports of what happens when the police arrive on scene thinking there's an armed person for these women to not know what could happen. Also, accusing someone of being a pedophile and participating in drive by shootings?
Wait a second, if it all relies on the camera, sure you can't read a book with your natural camera - your eyes - alone. But with xray for lead based ink for example, book scanning would be well awesome.
Study oF Google Data Collection Comes Amid Increased Scrutiny Over Digi Privacy
Xamarin isn't based on the .NET Framework. It is based on Mono which is in turn already consuming a lot of code from CoreFX (== .NET Core) and that share will only increase over time.

Source: I'm working on the Mono BCL+Tools team at Xamarin/Microsoft.
MSBuild was introduced around .NET 2.0 after Ant's introduction in the Java world.

Before there was a project format, callable with devenv command line tool.
That's definitely a shame. It's filed under "Bloomberg Opinion" though (with a disclaimer at end about it being opinion of the article author).

P.S. it's even worse that the hypocrite fans don't callout when the paid-for praise happens without disclaimer. And that happens way more often.
Before federal student loans it was possible to attend University on a part time wage. It was hell, like it always is when trying to improve your socio economic status. But possible, unlike today.
> And this is why they will fail. RISC-V suffers hugely from NIHS and would have no chance against any competition in a real market without that artificial hype. They need to get better.

I'm sorry but that is nonsense. An ISA (unless its a utterly terrible one) simply is not what determains performance.

RISC-V will be useful for performance because you can make a good cores far easier then if you used any other ISA. RISC-V is well optimized for performance and future standard extensions will give the micro-architect a lot of options to make performant chips.

Furthermore, why do they suffer from NIHS? The whole ISA is quite literally designed to be a relatively conservative design that specifically build on the knowledge gained by others in the last 30 years. Its the exact opposite of NIHS. The only NIHS is that you are complaining about is that they did something new at all.

> The fully GPL licensed OpenSPARC T2 is more advanced than anything RISC-V has to offer even though it is ten years old. Why reinvent the wheel when you can build on top of existing solutions that has proven itself on millions of machines including two top 100 Computer clusters.

SPARC is now owned by Oracle and only SPARC V8 is an open standard. The OpenSPARC T2 is v9. Do you really think its good to start a new revolutionary compute project on something so strongly tied to Oracle?

You are aware that some of the same people who helped design SPARC also designed RISC-V. You can listen to their explanations of why they didn't want SPARC, specially not for a what is designed to be a universal ISA.

> This is also true for SPARC.

No its not. SPARC is not a modular ISA in the same way RISC-V is and the RISC-V believe that a modular ISA will be needed.
Redhat have added new filesystem support after a .0 release. For example, they added XFS to the kernel (without xfsprogs) in RHEL 5.2 and added the tools to the base repo in 5.4, then officially supported it in 5.6.
But there was no good way to edit .csproj files without an IDE and you needed to edit them for every source file you added (or moved).

Now you don't have to edit them as often (wildcards for files), they're easier to edit by hand (because they contain almost no clutter) and there are also command line tools to edit them (like dotnet add package).
I'm sorry but I just don't buy it. The only one of the Big 3 that is in danger in the next recession is Chrysler. If you remember Chrysler has been bailed out by the government twice! The only thing they've got that would sell to a third party is Jeep. I suspect Elon is settling a score here.
Curious... is this fraud? It's certainly duplicitous, but are laws being broken?
Hope it helps. Talking through stuff like this is high value.

Your turn one day.

One of us will hear the bell ring at the school of hard knocks.
Re: the subs of accounting firms, you are absolutely correct. It's not totally unheard of for those firms to switch between affiliate firms as they become unhappy with the relationship.

They basically license the brand out, whether they're willing to acknowledge it or not.
I just upgraded to Fedora 29. Text scaling slider is gone, now you can only pick between 100% and 200% scaling. Cant understand what would drive this "simplification"
Last I checked, most of the top Qt/KDE developers were not based in the US. That might be a factor - historically speaking it certainly was.
This is a good article that explores many of the angles involved.

Deplatforming is a dangerous step for a free society, especially when so much power is accumulated in a few platforms*

The big risk is this: when only a few entities funnel so much societal discourse or control our communication infrastructure or process payments, those entities making arbitrary decisions about who they serve has similar impacts and risks to the government imposing similar restrictions through the law. These companies should not act as a moral police and should not impose their own personal governance above what is minimally required by the law. Nor should they rely on the judgment of an angry mob to make decisions.

Case and point, take a look at Medium blocking Gab, as referenced in this article. Gab's _statement about the shooting_ is being blocked? That is ridiculous, and unacceptable. And we should not patronize such businesses.

* Spare me the tired arguments that these private companies have a right to not serve customers at will. That seems like self-serving cherry-picking, when in other situations the same folks would be against granting freedom of association.
There is no paradox of tolerance if we're exclusive talking about the tolerance of speech. Even the most abhorrent words are still just words and do not inherently exclude those that disagree with them. /pol/ and Gab are filled with right wing extremists, but the platforms do tolerate left wing extremists as well.

The paradox of tolerance only applies when talking about actions. A group that is actively excluding others through discrimination or force may need to be removed to preserve tolerance. Speech does not exclude anyone - if the listener chooses to leave because of it then that is the listener's prerogative (as opposed to, say, being subjected to violence or discrimination).
You are ahead of me! Thank you for the example :)
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If that's all you're after, I'd direct you to the STM32 NUCLEO-H743ZI. 400 MHz ARM Cortex-M7, 1 MB SRAM / 2 MB flash, and an absurd variety of peripherals, on a board with an Arduino-compatible pinout -- for $23.

https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/nucleo-h743zi.html
- no generics. Without generics you can't build reusable data structures or algorithms that are type safe. The only ones that are available are hard coded into the language.

- lacking sum types (enums), which is why you have to explicitly check every return value with if err != nil. Sum types enable useful patterns like Maybe, Either, etc.

- general wackiness, from a computer science perspective Golang bakes a lot of special cases into its semantics that could be handled by including fundamental types. If you want to do multi-value return, the sane thing is to use a tuple, which is a core data structure we all learn about in CS undergrad, and use that as a return type and have functions return a single value. This is how Python and Rust work. (Tuples are also useful in many other contexts). The Go way is to have a rule that a function can return multiple values from a function and receive them at a call site. It's not pattern matching, and its not tuples, it's just a special case that defies the mathematical model of a function (a mapping of a domain to a single codomain).
Python 2 was deprecated in RHEL 7.5 at least, maybe earlier[0]

The news the submitter thought was interesting is about 90% down an excruciatingly long webpage... maybe linking instead to a story specifically about this news would be better?[1][2]

Here's the release note tidbit:

"KDE has been deprecated

KDE Plasma Workspaces (KDE), which has been provided as an alternative to the default GNOME desktop environment has been deprecated. A future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will no longer support using KDE instead of the default GNOME desktop environment."

[0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde...

[2] https://jriddell.org/2018/11/02/red-hat-and-kde/
Multitouch was an Apple invention. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1036701/US7479949.pdf
Yeah, I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu on my Linux box and immediately experienced a large amount of lag every time I opened the app launcher, that combined with the sheer bulkiness of everything made the desktop feel almost entirely unusable. Unity was miles better than the new Gnome (and the old Gnome miles better than Unity ever was). I migrated to KDE after discovering they fixed the majority of issues I had early on in the KDE4 release.

Quite disappointing to see it becoming unsupported by a major distro.
Your friend is correct. Do you sincerely think everything that is more famous is better?
Ahhhh, yes, I remember Mr. Shrem. He acquired my Bitcoin company in 2012, we signed an acquisition contract and everything, and then he just never paid me and threatened me when I tried to collect (it was a five-figure sum). And to think I'd even helped him with his college math homework.
Founder from Europe here. When I made my decision to go self-employed most people and relatives thought I was foolish. The more so, the lower your/their social class or status is.

I too relate this mindset to our safety net.

But: The upside of being employed is very little risk of anything and a lot of paperwork/bureaucracy is done for you (Healthcare, unemployment insurance, retirement, accidents, your taxes etc). You'll pay a hefty premium for being employed but then again most others do too. So going self-employed is not just a bad deal in terms of risk it is also bad in terms of non-income related extra-work you have to take on.
How can you achieve reuse (DRY) with this? Every time I have a button, if I want my buttons to be consistent and have a single place to change them, I have to like invoke a button partial that just outputs my <a> with 20 classes on it? It's a lot easier to reuse a CSS class (an abstraction) than a template of a chunk of HTML (an indirection) -- especially across divides of languages/runtimes/client-vs-server if you have any of those.
Late reply -- yes that was me :p

It was truly fun, with the right creativity it seems so easy to make something simple but addictive.
Remember the first time you had to edit the rewrite rules?
By market cap it is top 5...which is a common measure of value
How so? Tesla is worth more than Ford and GM.
I think it's well known, that Nix has a lot of implementation related problems that prevent its mass adoption. They are fixable, but only by different people and in a different package manager. By those, who care about UX and can understand that learning some weird functional programming language and its ecosystem to do basic package management is not ok, but who can still appreciate Nix's ideas.
“There’s this common trend there, that it’s getting so bad with these pipe bombs and everything.”

Spoken like someone who didn’t experience the Seventies.
This is a massive list of changes for a service pack.

Why push them all into 7.6? What’s going into 8?
I would be interested to know which specific technical skills make you most valuable as a freelancer
How do you protect against family members who have enough pictures of you to create a 3D printed model of your head [1]?

[1]: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hackers-trick-apple-iphone-x...
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If you start to follow people around in public space while yelling at them loudly or threatening them, the police will eventually stop by, id you and possibly order you to leave the place or arrest you (depending on whether you are drunk and what exactly is being said). Also, if you happen to be not in town, but in mall or other privately owned space, security will kick you out pretty soon.

Generally speaking, a lot of what goes on twitter does not actually goes on in person.
From my understanding, people are not arguing that the Valley oligarchs don't have the legal right to deplatform individuals. The arguments against deplatforming are made in other ways.

- Just like users demand feature requests, people who are being deplatformed and people who argue against deplatforming are asking to support a feature called "free speech" and "open communication".

- Violation of contract. Users invest in growing the network and influence in these platforms with understanding that "free speech" and "open communication" will be respected. But overtime, the Valley oligarchs like FB, Twitter, Reddit etc pulled a fast one on their users coming up with draconian rules that wasn't originally part of the platform.
So this concerns events that happened in Malaysia, why is the Brooklyn prosecutor office involved? Because of "The Wolf of Wall Street"?
We're not using any Web Components APIs, thus no slow polyfills are required (see my comment for how we isolate component CSS).

As for eschewing the style cascade, yes, that is happening when we isolate each component's CSS. However, wouldn't using Web Components proper have the same problem? And yes--it would be a very large task to add a dark mode, as you say. Each component would have to be visited. However, when we drop IE11 support, CSS custom properties will make this potentially much easier.

We don't copy-and-paste CSS often (remember we're re-using components and composing them everywhere). If there's enough commonality for CSS copy/paste to be tempting, it's probably time to either revisit how components are being composed (do we need to create a new component, or maybe have these 2 similar components inherit from a base JS class?), or add those styles to a top-level stylesheet and use shared CSS classes.
There is a pretty simple resolution to the Paradox of Tolerance - some philosophies can't build communities (eg, a powerful society of anarchists would be overwhelmed by the first organised internal faction to form). Tolerance is one such philosophy - as pointed out by Popper that means tolerating agents trying to undermine core values.

My resolution is that people are experiencing cloudy thinking, and using the word 'tolerance' when they mean 'humility'. To have humility is to seriously admit that, while you are ejecting someone from your community, that you might possibly be wrong to do so. A positive community founded on humility would naturally lead to tolerance anyway, because intolerance starts in a firm belief in your own views of the world being correct.
Perhaps you are right. Texas certainly would adapt rather quick.

That said, some cities are already so messed up, that cops won't respond to 911 calls in some areas. I would expect that to get worse should there ever be "thugs with drones".