skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no problem with the technical underpinnings. Or rather, I think (almost) every programming language today is kind of lousy, and the choice of Vala doesn't scare me off any more than anything else would have. No platform in the history of computing has made a great choice for its primary language, so I can't hold that against them.

When a platform gets the user experience right, developers will figure it out. Developers complain endlessly about JavaScript, but they want to target the web, so they made it work. Or Objective-C, and the Mac. Or C++, and Windows. We like complaining, but a non-ideal programming language really isn't a blocker.

The issue I have is that I don't see a great user experience here. This new brand of "consistency" just looks confusing to me. Every possible UI control -- from window title bars to tabs to buttons to lists to labels to text fields -- is a plain gray rectangle, with the same color and border. Am I supposed to figure out everything from context? I don't have much confidence that I'll be able to learn a new app, much less write one that other people will be able to figure out.

The metaphors, where I can find them, make little sense. I don't know why I'd want to "flick through" a grid, to select from a list. How is this better than scrolling through a list? They seem to be blindly copying parts of Apple's systems, without understanding why or when Apple made those design decisions. There's so many obvious rip-offs of macOS here, it's sometimes hard to tell if it's meant to be a parody.

And for some crazy reason I just can't get over the lone word "Applications" sitting in the corner of the screen -- the only word anywhere. It looks like a mistake. At best, it's clumsy. My steering wheel doesn't need "Steering" printed on it.
how else would well connected people become rich?
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2017/02/19/on-problems-wi...

>There are currently 179 unreviewed patches in Vala’s request queue. The oldest patch there is 2,556 days old, so we know that it’s been seven years since anyone has cared for the outstanding patches. Any of those discouraged contributors might have eventually turned into Vala maintainers if only their patches were reviewed. Of course, most would not have, but if only one or two of the people who submitted patches was an active Vala maintainer today, the project would be in a significantly better state.
> If you can see how media depictions and general expectations so severely shunt women away from science, is it really so hard to understand how the focus and programs promoting women in science may be having a negative impact on men wishing to go into science?

Hi, yes it is hard to understand. If you are a child and you see an example of people of all backgrounds working together to do science, including people that look and behave like you do, and your take away from this is "Welp, I clearly am not welcome here." then you need mentoring help from an adult to prop up your self-esteem. If you are an adult and you see an example of people of all backgrounds working together to do science, including people that look and behave like you do, and your take away from this is "OOOOH I AM NOW OPPRESSED" then you are either pitiable for how far off the rails you've gone or are now pushing a motive distinct from leading your people out of the inhospitable land where talent and ambition are primary.

> So, hell if I know how to even determine who is right here, though I suspect nobody is or ever will be

Nobody is... nobody is or ever will be right? Listen, here's my motivating principles. I believe in the equality of opportunity. I believe we live and die and have a responsibility to leave the world more just and free than we found it. I believe we're working off partial information and even with the best information any attempt to leave the world more just and free will, inevitably, do a little bit of the opposite. That's why we should leave wiggle room for future generations. Now, access to opportunity in this particular discussion is limited owing to a systematic preference for a subset of humanity, shutting or pushing out the otherwise talented and ambitious from science and mathematics. It is entirely possible, though I argue not probable, that by pushing for a world in which all people from all backgrounds can do science if they have a talent for it is going to somehow have dystopic results. I know for a fact that our current approach of letting in-group dynamics and selective representation act as a filter of otherwise talented and ambitious people is actively dystopic. So, move along the gradient. Move from "absolutely very bad" to "very, very unlikely to be just as bad but also in a different way".

In passing, I will also note that your comment and grandparent weight a hypothetical bad equally with a demonstrable bad. I reject this weighting.

> And neither of you has to be wrong.

Seems like pretty dichotomous positions to me.

> Or fix themselves.

The grandparent should absolutely fix their heart.
Not sure how I missed out the "Ask HN", thanks for reminding me.

Regarding the DNS, have you run into any issues with people using your DNS server for DoS amplification attacks?

Also would you be able to share which DNS server software you are running?
That also means screen recording is going to be just as or even more painful than it is on X11. Not really an encouraging thing for gaming, streaming and video-making on Linux and that's a huge pity.
I wonder how price-insensitive people pursuing the 'best burger' are.

They've probably made a trip to go eat it, what's another $5 or $10?
This is really exciting. Great write-up, and I'll be following with interest.
Give them iPads (or Android tablets) + a wireless keyboard.
Livescribe makes/made a product that did this. I used it back in 07-09.
I think once you know 2 (or 3 if the 2 are as similar as, say, Java and C#), picking up new ones is comparatively easy. New paradigms can be challenging (looking at you, Prolog and Haskell) but quite doable.

However, if you resent being forced to learn a new language, or if you are more of a copy/paste developer than someone who really understands what you're doing[0], yeah, a new language can be a very challenging barrier.

[0] I want to be clear: most people start out with very little clue what they're doing in programming. That isn't meant as a disparaging description. I wrote (and copy/pasted) a hell of a lot of code before I started understanding the underlying mechanics of it all, and I'm still baffled by a lot of the development world (again, hi Prolog and Haskell).
> This is a common theory of telemetry but ultimately I don't think it makes sense.

It makes loads of sense, to me. It started with the Customer Experience Improvement Program, WAY back in the Windows 2000 era, if I recall, which you would see an option to enable or disable when you installed a Microsoft SDK. They clearly saw benefit from this information, so they expanded it to include the whole OS.

This collects lots of data for them, which helps them understand the usage of their products better, and a nice side benefit is that they can use the knowledge gained by organizing and inspecting this data in their "big data" offerings on Azure and in other places internally.

The greatest benefit of Microsoft's telemetry to others is that everyone focuses on MICROSOFT's telemetry, argues about MICROSOFT's telemetry, debates MICROSOFT's telemetry, endlessly, while literally 90% of the rest of the software you use (99.9% if you count software you use that isn't on your computer, like servers, routers, web sites, and so on) collects telemetry, also, even when you think you've turned it off. Nearly every game you have installed on your phone collects FAR more about you than Microsoft has ever dared try to collect, and no one knows or gives a damn because "OMFG MICROSOFT I HATE MICROSOFT

I don't care if they collect usage information from me. I truly don't. The entire Internet is trying to make me feel like I should care about usage data that originates from my computer, but I don't. I don't feel like it's my data if it truly is telemetric data about software usage.

I would use more free software if more of it were good enough to use. Of course, a lot of free software is GREAT, and I use a lot of that stuff, rather than paid alternatives.
Nonprofit Investment Committees Face Existential Challenges – Tips for Success
I chased the opportunities in finance for the money and the prestige. Once I got there, I realized that those things were less important to me than meaning in my work, work-life balance, relationships outside of work, etc. They were still important to me, just less.

I ended up accepting an offer with a more prestigious finance firm shortly after beginning work in my first job. When I quit my job, I also renegged on that offer, and remember feeling very free. I went through some depression after quitting, but it was hard to recognize it as that at the time.

I then took a strategy job in another city. I liked the day-to-day work, but was still not motivated by the industry we were in, mission of the company, etc.

I took some time off (which allowed me to reset somewhat) and then started searching for work at an early-stage mission-driven company. I was lucky enough to find one that was a good fit. I'm much happier now working with a purpose in mind, but the work is still stressful and uncertain at times. It's not my company, so I won't see as much upside in a liquidity event, but I also feel like my work volume/stress is more reasonable than the founders and I've got more freedom to leave in a bad situation. Given my early work experience, it feels very important to me to keep that freedom to move on (run away?).

Since leaving finance and my job immediately after, I've focused on the following things which have helped quite a bit:
- Reducing alcohol consumption
- Finding exercise activities that I enjoy and am willing to do several times per week
- Eating healthier
- Striving for 8 hours of sleep (which I rarely stick to)
- Meditating daily (which I rarely stick to) and with a group weekly (which I am pretty good about)
- Therapy as needed
- Seeking out mentors outside of work
- Communicating my wants/frustrations/observations sooner with people in my personal/professional lives
- Reducing work hours (I'm ok about this) and work stress (I'm not very good about this)

When I'm not doing these things, I definitely notice it. But I generally feel much better knowing the things that I can do to cope with stress, burnout, depression, etc.
It gets websites more clicks.
The Ubiquity of Smartphones
But isn't a big part of the conservatism that there is so little that can be tested at a macroscopic level? The existence of the neutron can be demonstrated with some polonium and berylium.
Jokes from the Future
>Most people intuitively have a sense of whether the software they're using is elegant, polished, and user-friendly

There is a high level of subjectivity in all these, especially user-friendliness. Polish, you can quantify with stuff like alignment, consistency etc., but for user-friendliness, I find most modern UIs, including elementary or gnome, to be quite hostile. You can stare at pretty icons and parallel and perpendicular lines all day, but how do you get shit done ? That's what most modern designs miss. And it's not just these poor OSS projects. Look at all the random apple inspired navigation changes that google added to their basic navigation in pixel 3, which you can't even change although the old code exists in aosp. TLDR: user friendliness is very hard to get right.
Early access opens for route app
Curious how you’re using xfce, xubuntu ui is very consistent, none of the issues you noted. I have used xfce as an apt-get install (chromebook with crouton) and that was very very bad.

For chromebooks galliumos is very nice as well.
Opponent Modeling and Exploitation in Poker Using Evolved Neural Networks [pdf]
San Francisco has worst air quality in the world due to smoke from wildfires
Check out my response to your sibling comment.
Get ready for a world of pain if you interact with anyone using MS office. "LibreOffice" (FFFUCK I hate that name) will gleefuly just strip anything it doesn't understand in the documents it opens. It doesn't just ignore formulae that an MS Office user carefully wrote, it straight up deletes that stuff. Without notice.

OpenOffice is cancer to MS Office users.
None of this matters, not one iota. The world is choking in the filth we are creating, all while people like this pontificate about the next generation of the system that positively reinforces the creation of filth.
> but I do think calling the tax deals given to Amazon a subsidy is deceptive

I haven't read up on Amazon HQ2, but the FoxConn deal in Wisconsin contains actual subsidies. The company promised to invest in factories and the state/municipalities both cut taxes and threw direct subsidies at the project (I think most of it is in utilities like electrical/freeway expansions).

I assume that HQ2 would need some similar improvements if they are to bring in 25k+ new jobs, so I'm assuming there is a reduced-tax component and a "we will build out the city/utility infrastructure" component as well.
> Ronald Reagan fostered competition across much of the American economy.
> A similar transformation is needed today.

Reaganomics is the cause, not solution to, today’s capitalism crisis.
Maybe the open source alternatives are often not usable for any one of a million reasons that are easily dismissed by free software advocates.
> They're more ... human, maybe

I think both systems of units typical cases are dominated by human factors. Anecdotally, humans tend to use one of three scales for their preferred choice of measurement and they tend to be smaller-than-human, human, larger-than-human.

For example, the km. I see mm, m and km used quite often.. but the other bases are almost never used. A prime case for this is "what is the distance to the sun?" If you're going to round your answer then the most concise form is 150 Gm, yet most people will still say something like "150 million km" which is unnecessarily long and non-canonical, but is much more familiar to the human mind and makes comparisons to everyday experiences much simpler.

You can see this factor occur with just about every other metric base unit, even though the conveniently prefixed part of the system would be "better" for all technical definitions. Just as easily you could use imperial units and just overlay the metric prefix and scaling rules on top of them and it would be no more or less accurate or better than the metric system of units.

> Use them all you like. I won't.

I use whatever is convenient or common for the application.. if it gets complicated or I need a conversion, I use a unit-system aware language or environment to do my calculations. It really obviates the importance of the choice of unit and allows you to think about the fundamental problem more clearly along with many other benefits including conversion of units at any stage of calculation.
No matter what is suggested, no matter how much better the alternative, there will always be a group of contrary people. Look at flat earthers. Look at anti-vaxers.
Huh, had no idea this was a package. I'll have to try it out soon when I reinstall arch for the gazillionth time.
The Rust Community has a Huge Crackpot Evangelist Problem and Developers Don’t Know how to Deal with It
It's basically just Pantheon with a custom skin. You can get similarly good results using the "arc" theme and any decent ubuntu-based distro.
Perhaps but I think that point misses the underlying issue at hand -- with proprietary software users don't get any real control over the software. Even the corporate-friendly computer press reported plenty of stories about Microsoft's software which bear this out:

Microsoft repeatedly switches a flag which urges Windows users to "upgrade" to Windows 10 when users had said no.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3012278/microsoft-windo...

Microsoft forces some Windows systems to switch to Windows 10 by silently downloading Windows 10
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/11/microsoft...

This forced "upgrade" had adverse effects on some users with poor connectivity.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/windows_10_upgrade_...

Once the switch to Windows 10 was accepted there was no way out
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/01/windows_10_nagware_...

Windows 10 is quite nasty for many reasons all of which boil down to being nonfree, proprietary software. For example, it by default sent core dumps to Microsoft or whatever organization Microsoft chooses.
http://betanews.com/2016/11/24/microsoft-shares-windows-10-t...

Windows 10 ignores users' so-called "security" settings putting a fine point on how insecure they are.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-b... and https://archive.fo/2ey80

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html is filled with more references to still more stories of how Windows runs against user's security interests and control over their own computer.

So when the Privacy Company "recommends admins of the enterprise version of Office ProPlus in the Netherlands (although many of them should also be applicable to other countries) [...] Apply the new zero-exhaust settings" there is no reason to believe that one gains privacy from Microsoft in so doing. Ultimately one's control over proprietary software only goes so far as the proprietor will allow. This remains true notwithstanding user's requirements or willingness to investigate and implement whatever the computer owner wants changed.

Microsoft is merely illustrating the inherent and unjust control over one's computer proprietary software has. It is this power that is at the heart of what's so wrong with these recommendations, nothing to do with a relatively minor quibble over whether one set of users has different requirements for privacy or security than other users.
That's exactly the problem! All the viable price increases won't deter the tourists.
Not the person you are responding to, but the comment you're replying to is referencing Seinfeld, due to the name of your company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_In_(Seinfeld)
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare-Shock and Awe
Also, the statement that metric is more useful for measurement largely ignores the fact that Imperial has stuck around so long because of its usefulness in trade work.

It's definitely ONLY because of base12, but being base12 - imo - positions it far beyond metric for daily use. There's a reason why food items so commonly come by the dozen. Why would anyone prefer to build a house using a system that can't even accurately measure 1/3?
Can we please stop calling this AI!? This is well within the established control theory. Nothing about flight controls is "AI".
It’s easy to convert between units, miles and yard and feet and inches make my brain have a BSOD
You mean your parents can use your gentoo computer, or that you installed gentoo for them ? The latter sounds quite unorthodox.
Cannot see any repo. Just his email.
I agree but the parent commenter implication that an outlet could be prosecuted for printing the Steele dossier is a non sequitur for many reasons here.
I should add to the discussion somewhere that when I write code (or even do calculations) that deals with Imperial units, I just use the SI prefixes and end up with things like centifeet and kiloinches (miles are banished forever). It makes the code a lot easier and the people who are used to Imperial can tell what you're going on about.
Then why are you using Microsoft software?

"I don't trust my daughter to spend my money wisely. Here, daughter, have some money."
Commute to Jersey City or Hoboken is really fast. PATH is faster and more reliable than the subway.
> And then when the next "top N burger joints in America" list comes out that everyone goes crazy for and all the burger-tourists start going somewhere else now you've lost your local customer base and you might go out of business regardless.

Then lower your prices again to match demand. It's almost as if prices aren't set in stone.
This is Rx-only though, so the target device(s) cannot forced down to 2G.
People don't really think in terms of 10s either - that's just societal conditioning based on the usage of fingers to count. If you can accurately picture 1/3 of set, but your number system cannot, it's not really that accommodating of a system.

By the way, you can count base12 on your hands using the digits of your fingers. We just teach kids to use fingers because it's the norm.
Portland native. Had my first Stanich's burger around 1980.

All I can say is the food reviewer romanticized the place.

The burgers were good, but messy. Like the atmosphere.

Once Perry's opened down the road (now also closed) we kind of stopped going to Stanich's.
See ton vs tonne
At Facebook, Employee Morale and Stock Price Both Take a Plunge
He only has 3 hrs of work time written down! (which includes "family time" as part of the option)

11:00am family time/meetings/ work calls
1:00pm lunch
2:00pm meetings/work calls
Audible, an Amazon subsidiary, is based in Newark. I'm guessing Bezos knows exactly how easy or hard it is to recruit there.
Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then immediately removes them
Celebrity suicide on Twitter: Activity, content and network analysis
> 3.) It can only see IMSIs when a phone first connects. I don't think the IMSI is sent when making a call or transferring data.

I believe this is correct, in fact (someone please correct me if I've got this wrong?) it looks as if this open source tool being cited is incorrectly labelling TMSIs as IMSIs.
This speed camera will catch drivers on their phones from over half a mile away
FB employees react to the latest scandals: 'Why does our company suck at having
Yes I think you're mostly correct, it's all pretty arbitrary. An alien civilisation is going to need units of length, time, speed, mass, energy etc..

Speed has an obvious unit which is the speed of light (in a vacuum), which seems to be the same everywhere.

All the others are a bit more arbitrary I guess.
Manypixels: How We Got to $50K Monthly Recurring Revenue
At first I expected the subtext to be "monocultures are risky", but now it seems more like "good munitions but weak management".
Type Inference for Beginners
That is a bold large-ish declaration. Would you be kind enough to define: 1) Today's capitalism crisis, and 2) Reagonomics' role in being the cause instead of the cure?

Thanks so very much.
These downvotes are unfortunate given this statement is objectively true.
Mojave is running great for me, what problems have you been experiencing?
https://www.google.com/search?q="Google+is+the+new+Oracle"

To be fair, there was a single tweet in March that used the phrase, so it's been said once in history.
We should remember that we are currently in an ice age[1]. If climatology can be reduced to an effective engineering practice that would be awesome, but we should remember that a frozen Earth will be far worse for most human beings than a hothouse Earth. In the worst case scenarios of Global Warming, the burdens and costs will be largely born by the developed world, both in terms of geographical changes such as sea level rise as well as absorbing migrants from more southerly regions. And the developed world is up to those challenges. On the other hand, when, not if, the reglaciation occurs, it will be devastating to the entire human population of the planet. It would be darkly comical if unintentional human warming were staving off the next freezing period, and we brought catastrophe on our planet by trying to fix it. Humility is called for.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
Modern AI and the state of interdisciplinary exchange with neuroscience
I prefer 35 for general shooting and 50-58 for taking pictures of people. I have one 40mm and it is a nice compromise. I’m going to try some viewfinderless shooting with my Spotmatic today - watch this space ;-)