skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent.

I've "had" a cat for 10 years but it's completely free (hence the quotes: I don't feel I own it at all). It comes in and out of the house at will, sleeps in the house during the day and does things outside during the night (but sometimes it also does the opposite, sleeps at night and wanders during the day).

I keep food for the cat inside the house, but no litter box; it does its thing outside -- not sure where: not in our garden.

There are other cats in the neighborhood, also walking free. There has never been a cat hit by a car.

It must be wonderful to be able to herd cats! Ours kind of responds to voice commands when it feels like it (it seems to understand "no!" mostly) and is able to make itself understood when food is missing, but not much else.
I think he was recommending it as a modern alternative?
Works fine for me in Fox.. Are you on nightly?
> 6. Every document can contain links of any type including virtual copies (“transclusions”) to any other document in the system accessible to its owner.

What does this mean? What are the different “types” of links? What is a “virtual copy”/“transclusion”? Why are these links only accessible to the its “owner” (the “its” at the end seems like it could refer to 5 different things)?
Microsoft's PowerApps is pretty neat and reminded me of Hypercard. It's Office365 cloud-only though.
I joke about this. 3 years ago I was giving conference talks, now I am seemingly chronically unemployed and homeless in Silicon Valley, working odd jobs (eg. Christmas tree lot, trench digging). Jail sounds nice.
It seems that way but nothing should be done without hard facts.
Atlassian is another company that comes to mind here.
Couldn’t agree more. I hung out on forums most of my teenage years and still have friends I talk to today nearly 20 years later. I think it was easy to make friends that way because everyone there had a baseline of common interests.
This makes me wonder. I bought an iPhone X outright and didn’t mind the original cost. But I will not be upgrading to the iPhone XS. They were able to get me to cross the $1,000 phone barrier but it almost has a negative effect because I would traditionally not blink twice upgrading every year at the previous price point.
The difficulty is you can’t very well use a cellular tablet with one hand while you’re in line at the coffee shop.
As pointed out by others, Mu is the most undefined value there is in Perl 6 and the base root for the immediate child classes (https://docs.perl6.org/images/type-graph-Mu.svg). However, most classes (both built-in and user-defined ones) don't inherit directly from it. Instead, they inherit from Any, which in turns inherits from Mu.

More info about it:

- https://docs.perl6.org/type/Mu

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28negative%29
> not the vast numbers of ignorant crypto racists the who put him in power and continue to support him.

That arguably is not a problem with Trump, but a problem with the reactionary nature of modern American politics, and the success with which the alt-right and white supremacist movements hijacked the anti-globalist sentiment behind Trump and resold it as being fundamentally about lower-class white struggle.
Yeah oops. For most, time in the market is better than timing the market.
None of that belongs in a tool for readers and writers and it won't be part of Mimix.
You should check out Endless Sky for a good open source remake of Escape Velocity.

http://endless-sky.github.io
This is the whole point of larger phones as most people need a phone to be reached. It makes the tablet market redundant if you can carry the tablet around - why would you want to?
No, the slip in this thread from discussing public image and perception to physical appearance.
If I'd give you an honest answer, I'd be downvoted to hell ;-)
May I interest you in something explicitly in that genre?

https://anvil.works is VB6, but for the Web, and in Python. No JS frameworks required! We've had data scientists with no Web experience produce MVPs with it in a couple of weeks.
Price, if supply keeps somewhat constant but demand raises I think many would (have to) choose otherwise.
I'm not a pro and loved Aperture. It made my workflow so easy and it was such a fast program. I haven't found anything that lets me cruise through photos so fast and pare them down. Left/Right arrows, Z to look at details, X to flag as a reject made running through hundreds of photos a breeze.

I'm trying to find an alternative and, quite frankly, everything I've tried is not great. I ended up buying AfterShot Pro, but I'm not terribly satisfied with it. It runs on the Mac, but it's really hurt by the fact that it's not actually a Mac application.

Adobe is out because of the subscription model. I'm willing to buy the software, and I'm even willing to periodically buy new versions when it makes sense, but $10/month forever is hard to stomach.
> But Americans hate disloyalty, unless it's a clear crime --- and even then, we don't want to reward a snitch.

If by we you mean people, maybe. But there's at least a case where the US government with qui-tam and other stuff can make whistleblower pretty rich: https://www.phillipsandcohen.com/whistleblower-rewards/
BeOS... but modernized. Haiku doesn’t hit the right notes and BeOS was so freaking amazing for its time.
New fad. Lots of sales. Market saturation. People realizing they don't need nor want the latest and greatest so don't. Market declines.

There's nothing new here we've not seen many times before.
Re-Volt Classic on iOS. It was a very high quality and authentic port of one of my all time favorite childhood games.

They released it in 2012 as a 32-bit iOS app. By the time 64-bit became a requirement for iOS apps, the publisher abandoned it and it never got updated. :(
I dont think I have ever read an article about MIT students that didnt start its headline with MIT, is this university policy of some sort?
It's an absolute mystery to me why this hasn't happened even through the open source community.

For a tour down memory lane: https://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive...
As far as I know the garbage collector in the reference implementation is only a fallback for cycle detection. The various alternative implementations (pypy, IronPython, Jython, ... ) should have a modern GC in exchange for not supporting the same C API and predictable object disposal.
It does work on FF and Edge as well.
Tablets are in an uncanny valley. Phones fit in your pocket and are good for communication, brief transactional interaction with services, and casual stuff. When I want more than that I want a real computer, which means I pull out a laptop. Laptops are only a little bigger than tablets. Tablets have the crippled by design OS of a phone but none of the portability.

There is a market for tablets but I see it as somewhat niche.
> I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow

This is a frequently heard complaint, but I can't imagine under what circumstances this would happen. I have hundreds of thousands of mails in tbird, in various accounts and folders. It's never struck me as slow. And its search (one of the features i use most) is simply fast.
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WC3, C&C and RA are getting 4K-resolution remakes soon -

https://www.inquisitr.com/5163752/ea-to-remake-the-first-two...

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/warcraft/277402/warcraft-...
Firefox 63.0.3 on Windows 64 bit does work fine.
Or better, not have any pet at all. Save the planet
Have you tried FreePascal/Lazarus[0]? It seems like a spiritual successor to Delphi.

[0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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Do we trust Intel chips are free from gov backdoors? Or that Microsoft/FB arent in bed with the NSA? I would say the precedent has long since been set.
No, Visual Basic was its own development stack direct to the OS. It had some pretty nice tooling for creating GUIs in a drag and drop manner. The last version was 6 and that was initially released in 1998.

That being said, the VB6 runtime is STILL in Windows 10, and therefore will be officially supported to a degree for at least 5-8 more years. How’s that for backwards compatibility.
Sort of. The Xenos GPU in the Xbox 360 was the first with a unified shader architecture but the 8800 was indeed the first one for PC.

If you want to get a little more pedantic, GPGPU has been around in some form as long as programmable shaders have by (ab)using graphics APIs. But unified shaders made it a lot more flexible/useful/less hacky and were definitely the start of modern GPGPU efforts.
What does data security/privacy look like?

I used to be big into those dorky digital watches when I was growing up, and I've been tempted by fitness trackers. My concerns are:

A) Is the Bluetooth connection secure? Are they taking steps to make it so the Bluetooth connection isn't easily trackable? How easy is it, for instance, for me to set rules to turn off the Bluetooth when the watch isn't actively syncing?

B) Does the watch send any data to someone else's remote servers, at all? Do I need to go through a 3rd party to get access to my own data (ie. what Fitbit does)?

I already have a Smartphone, I don't want my watch to act like one. I don't want to have to do a bunch of syncing through a 3rd-party server that will get shut down and sold off with all of my data someday. I'd pay a lot of money for a device that uses my Smartphone as an access-point/hub, but that largely just works offline and independently.
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It is pretty telling of just how successful Yahoo, Google and Microsoft (and others) have been with webmail that the best client for multiple email accounts available is Thunderbird. It isn't awful, it works, but it is also kind of sluggish and pauses in the interfaces all the time.
Don't worry, nobody is going to build back doors into anything for a government which can't keep its own pants from falling down every couple of weeks. They're fishing for likes, desperately wanting to "keep Australia safe" with political spin and rushed laws, just in time for Xmas.

People can already have 100% private verbal conversations in person without anyone listening or knowing what was said. In the 21st century, this full-proof mode of communication has simply extended to digital mediums via encryption. They need to face reality of the modern age, and move on.
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In the early 2000 MSFT released VB .NET (a different language and platform) as a successor, which is what you are thinking of. What the OP misses is the tooling surrounding VB6
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You have to click on the image. At least I thought it was broken at first too.
You could try Luminar 2018. Library management is coming, and it's developing tools are (IMO) better than lightroom. It's also very reasonably priced. That plus an Ubuntu vm for importing via shotwell is what I use.
Not only that, but:

"An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900."

(from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...)
The thing that makes me most despondent is, you just watch them all get voted back in next election.
You can still get close to this experience on Android, .NET, Java, Cocoa.

Because as you say, grammar and semantics (aka language) are not enough.

Hence why when I analyse how suitable a programming language is for a given project, I always consider the whole ecosystem, and not how easy it is do FP, immutability or whatever is cool this year.
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NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP

Everything about the operating system, application platform and tools were simultaneously rich in features and minimal in surface area without being dumbed down. It would have been great to have seen this evolve on its own rather than get rolled in with Apple. Xcode is so extra compared to the original Interface Builder.
Once rocket makes it to stable, I think it will be the go to choice for web development in Rust. The focus on creating a great developer story makes rocket a joy to use.

I am shocked that Sergio maintained rocket alone for so long. I would have figured there was a team of 3-4 people working on rocket. Glad to see he is getting help!
Let’s take your example of chargebacks. If you only need to use them 0.1% of the time, then they are worth a 0.1% fee, right? Now, add on the costs of procuring and carrying cash (or exchanging to Bitcoin), the cost of having to hold that money outside of a bank account and not getting paid interest.

Then consider the fact that for most transactions, you pay no incremental cost for using a credit card. Yes, that is because the merchants eat that cost, but as an individual there is still no incremental cost to you. Merchants do this in part because they get more sales, and in part because credit cards save THEM money, too - easier accounting, no need for armored car service, less theft or error by employees.

Finally, it’s not accurate to compare the chargeback rate of credit card transactions with cash/crypto. Chargebacks for credit cards are very low because vendors are on the hook to pay for the costs, and they can lose their ability to accept cards altogether. If we all move to cash/crypto, the fraud rate will undoubtedly go up. Of course, someone will then create an escrow service that gives you the opportunity to dispute the transaction, in return for a small transaction fee. Maybe they’ll even offer to let you buy things in Bitcoin and pay them back later in cash, and charge you interest. I bet they could add in a rewards program...
You're right, but this is the first time (I know of) that a government has explicitly required backdoors and forcing tech companies to download malware/spyware to their customers' devices. This new law brazenly makes encryption useless and sets a dangerous precedent.
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The only inefficiency is that they're burning a consumable to provide the electricity during peak. The rest (likely a good part of the that 40M) is going back into the economy in one way or another (construction of the peaking plants, operators margins, jobs, suppliers of consumables, taxes on consumables, taxes on profits, etc) - provided that those funds don't leave the country it should be very near to a net neutral cash flow for the local economy, only that the battery keeps more in the consumers pockets vs the utilities', hence my socialist comment - moving money from corporations to consumers. If you consider that the energy for the battery ultimately comes from the same grid, and that grid is not entirely renewable, then it's power in all probability also consumed some fuels (70% of Australia's power comes from coal I think).

So: Australia is sunny and it's consumption peaks generally follow the temperature due to air conditioning - so build more solar and pair it with more storage (batteries) instead of investing in coal and gas burning.
Didn’t Santa Clara voters just approve a $6B initiative to support Bart service? Why do you think they wouldn’t want to be part of the system if they just voted to be part of it?

http://www.vta.org/measure-b-2016
TCNs (which is the primary thing this article is about) won't practically affect email providers, because email providers already have your plaintext emails -- they don't need to implement new capabilities to intercept them. (As an aside, I use Mailbox.org which has a feature to auto-encrypt incoming emails to a PGP public key -- which means that only new emails would be usable with interception.)

However there is now a no-warrant-required method of getting information (in the form of TANs and TARs) which has no judicial overview -- previously they would've needed a warrant. This is definitely a massive concern, but given that you wouldn't have seen a warrant previously (Fastmail would get it) this is not a practical difference to you (obviously it's a massive ethical difference and so on).

But to be honest, I actually hope people stop using Australian services and big companies start backing out of the Australian market. It's the only way our dropkick government will realise how much of an own-goal this legislation was.
Netmanage's EccoPro. That was/is a Personal Information Manager (PIM), outliner, database that was abandoned in 1997 after MS gave Outlook for free. - I haven't seen a better information manager ever since (outliners like OmniOutline or task managers like OmniFocus are good, but don't even come close to EccoPro)
>What would it take to make beef production more efficient?

Nothing. Large animals that live long lives are inefficient by their very nature. The bigger an animal is, the more of its energy consumption goes to maintenance rather than growth. And the longer it lives before reaching slaughter weight, the more that inefficiency compounds. If you somehow turned cattle into 5 pound animals that mature in 6 weeks, they would be efficient, but they also wouldn't really qualify as cattle any more and their meat would likely be noticeably different than beef.
With Android I think the case is not that they'll push updates that cripple older models; they just don't push updates at all.
Depends on the size of the tablet. A full-sized iPad? Probably no. But I used a Nexus 7 as my primary mobile device for a couple of years without issue.

Shame good-quality cellular small tablets are not really a thing any longer. Though, I suppose the new big phones are close to similar form factor. Just not quite as nice to read with...
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Quantrix Modeler is a successor of Improv. I personally love it, but pricing is quite steep.
But don't forget these fools whose pants constantly fall down can do horrendous damage as they run smack bang into the modern age. And they are unlikely to "move on". They are more likely to wreck everything, and then when they fail, try again but worse.
It looks like Labor will win next election, but that really doesn't matter. Labor voted for the bill unanimously.
* Windows Phone. Fantastic UI, and coupled with the Lumia, it was an awesome user experience.

* The old Winamp, with all the intricate shortcuts that I had memorized.

* Windows XP itself. I have been on Linux for years, and XP was the last Windows I used alongside it (for MSOffice). XP had reached the peak in terms of being able to control the desktop using the keyboard. And then the downslide started.
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Its search is excellent, but the load time of the program itself, of emails, is very slow for me, on both Windows and Linux. Then the rendering! As I scroll an email it struggles to render the content and lags behind. Same problems on release, beta, and nightly. Hmm.
I just purchased an iPhone 8 and I plan to keep this for about 4 to 5 years. My iPhone 6 Plus lasted quite well for 3 1/2 years, if you take care of it I see no reason to upgrade. Maybe the market will become completely saturated and stagnant, and Apple return to focusing on making computers.
I use the same, after Google Reader shutdown. It's a tad slow compared to GR, but works fine for me.
In re your last paragraph:

Quantum computing, cryptocurrency (Bitcoin with its 10tps vs Visa is analogous to Engelbart's GUI vs MacOS), lots of AI stuff that can kind of just barely be intelligent today, the Boston Dynamics robots, self driving cars, and last but definitely not least early DIY bio hacking / anarcho-transhumanist stuff and DIY medicine (search for Four Thieves Vinegar).

The things I listed are at varying levels of maturity and gravity but they are all things I expect to look back upon as "wow" moments that revealed new things that will be big in the future.

I'm sure others can think of more.
the saudi’s will always be propped up to to hurt iran and help israel
perhaps put your hardware and some benchmark numbers so people can compare? if something takes 2 seconds, you might consider that "fast" and others "slow". loads of things i think are slow i realize others don't notice (or care).
> If anything, I see companies bemoaning the absence of sufficient labor.

this should be qualified with "for the compensation they want to pay".
I really liked the idea of a tablet in 2010/2012 when I didn’t have a big screen in my pocket, then new phones with big screens and great resolution arrived and I just started declining the use of my tablet. And that was not because I prefer to watch a smaller screen but because I almost never carry a backpack with me just to carry a tablet, if manufacturers finally figure out how to break the usability wall between laptops and tablets I might change my mind again (Surface Pro has been tempting).
I would use an iPad Mini sized phone, but iPads can't be used as cell phones even if they have LTE. Carriers won't activate them as phones and you can't give them a number that rings to the dialer, since the dialer doesn't exist on an iPad. It would work for me since I never take a call on my phone, I just pop in my Airpods and never actually pick the phone up.

Oh well.
Didn't it live on as webos (now in many smart TVs and printers)?
Dark mode was nice as well. To toggle from light/dark and have alnost every app follow suit was luxurious. On Android it's such a hodgepodge of light and dark, an affront to the eyes at times.

Also being able to select text from most anywhere was useful.
the problem at google is there are radical activities believing everything is type 2. there’s something to be said about solving problems internally. And in many cases no real problem exists but the person “whistle blowing” just wants to feel special or be an activist
Thanks so much, will check these out.
Outlook. Seriously.
Oh boy - I've literally just come out of Turbo Pascal 3.0A on a Z80 retro rebuild - I've hacked together some code to run a 7-segment clock/timer board I made for my Commodore 64 in about 1984.

https://twitter.com/linker3000/status/1071459121210290178
Resurrected as closed-source and proprietary, destin to be abandoned again?
* The Borland Turbo IDEs, but modified for modern languages.

* Paradox for DOS (with PAL = Paradox Application Language), but with SQL backends.
Not that this is any good, but at least in the US the state pays for the surveillance. Here the businesses have to foot the bill for who knows hoe many unending requests. If you thought it was hard to make a viable tech business in Australia before, well you can forget all about that now.

It's more like if Microsoft and FB were in bed with the NSA. And then they sent you the bill for your own surveillance. And if you didn't pay, then sent you to jail.
> Are you saying that, in Scheme, primitive operations can be applied to values of the wrong type?

Yes, that's a well-defined operation: it throws a runtime exception (which is also a value). All operations are well-defined in safe languages, that's what makes them safe.

But dynamically "typed" languages aren't type safe.

A truly undefined operation would immediately halt the program because the program simply cannot proceed. You can resolve this unsafety by defining semantics for these operations (like reifying errors as values as in dynamically typed languages), or you can add a type system which ensures only safe programs can be expressed.
Not addiction per say… But there is a great dependency with it. In my humble opinion, cannabis reward you for doing nothing. If feels wonderful and it keeps that do nothing reward loop going.
At least 4 years ago I had already gotten to the point that my phone could: take pretty good pictures and video, capably handle internet and communication, and run what apps I use (no games) sufficiently well. From then on no smartphone has offered me any new major benefit. They just do all those things a little better, but it was already good enough.
> They've been saying that user theming will sweep over the web

Of course not, it's an OS feature. Not everything is about the web.