skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For every failure like G+ or Allo, there's a success like Google Photos or Duo.

One of these is unlike the other. The amount of money invested into the ultimately-failed G+ is mind-bogglingly immense.
Given that the content is only available with Javascript enabled (ie. code served by Libr gets run on my computer), it's closer to an application than a website.
I wouldn't try to racialize this. I'm also not convinced our (whose? I'm guessing you mean USA's) mostly white middle class are the ones frightened of and complaining about fake news, microaggressions or being triggered. Those seem more like Bay Area sensibilities and concerns than Middle America's.
>And Office is very much under threat. If you work with young people you'll notice they tend to prefer G Suite apps over Office - most likely because Google has done a great job getting their software into schools.

It is not. Many are switching to Office 365, those who tried GSuite in Enterprise are moving back.

Young people may prefer GSuite, but then they learn the whole world is built on Excel. Eyes opening for every generation of people coming into work how multi billions dollar of revenue dependant on Excel and no one wants to touch it with a ten foot pole.

There were once kids were using Snapchat and said only old people use WhatsApp. I laughed and replied yeah you are right. Then they left their fantasy youth and join the real world, look at what they use for business? WhatsApp ( Or WeChat in China ).
I worked for Ibm Websphere 1998-2002 in those days. I supported Aix, HP/UX, Solaris 8, and 4 rpm based Linux versions. Our job was to do nightly builds and test on each OS with DB2, Oracle etc. HP/UX and Aix were menu driven and painful for automation. Solaris was much more fun to work with. Redhat, SuSE, Yellowdog and mandrake were the linux distros. No yum to handle dependencies. I remember working on bash a lot to handle package dependencies.

One day I got an Itanium from Microsoft. It was fun to play with. Sadly I was forbidden from opening the server. It was so alpha that adjusting the clock would kill the server. It never went very far due to being so alpha.
Oh, forgot to mention a funny thing about Sparc machines. It was trivially easy to accidentally halt the system by sending a break from the console. That's accidentally pressing one key on a serial console. I remember some company selling inline serial filters for $100 each.
We've met "peak cement" in 2015. What does that mean? We don't know yet...
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2019/01/what-happened-i...
Cost, but they keep some of the PCRed DNA around and could do it for all their existing client base in the future, for free if selling what they can of the data begins to outweigh the cost.
To name and shame some culprits (the one's who have shame, I won't name java because I won't expect them to care)

1) Mozilla

2) Gnome

3) Gimp

4) GPG

5) Thunderbird (Why is there a sep directory and not under .mozilla)

6) mplayer

I guess one reason why this occurs is that it's easier for to be carelessly cross-platform this way. Except you'd expect better from mozilla, specially because they store Windows stuff very well inside %localappdata%
Alpha was excellent. Definitely a missed opportunity. The 164LX here running Tru64 is a great system, proving the chip could really work in all kinds of settings.
Doesn't the standard just put everything in /home/user/.local anyway?
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The Deep Roots of Fake News
The boomers did everything they could to construct the housing supply and ensure their children would be unable to afford to live near them. Hope they enjoy their blessed property values!
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Gaze tracking isn’t necessary for this. You can track how long a user stopped scrolling through a feed on items classified as X, then build confidence by comparing the frequency of stops on X classified stories over time.

Also, for really weird stuff, it’s probably enough to blackmail a person just by showing that Weird Thing appears in their social feed in the first place.
Most UK communities have had problems with "travellers" who are identified as "gypsies". These are groups that avoid paying taxes, are associated with unlawfulness.

When "gypsy" groups camped in my village as a child they destroyed an area of woodland, left it strewn with litter and faeces. The kids came to our school, threatened people, disrupted lessons, etc..

Now, as an adult, when "gypsies" come to my town they cause masses of damage to the environment, again with the litter everywhere; petty thefts increase in the immediate area, etc.. There are designated sites, but they get trashed, the facilities ruined. And these are people avoiding contributing to local taxation - often materially wealthy (owning several expensive vehicles, mobile homes, etc.), not poor at least.

It's nothing to do with being "gypsies" it's antisocial behaviour, not paying taxes but causing large costs; not respecting the environment, particularly leaving mess; not having regard for the property and freedoms of others.

Muslims - I've never met one I didn't get on with. But, the more I've learnt of Mohammed, and having read the majority of the Koran and Hadith: I refuse to accept Islam or pay any respect to its founder, he and his invention are truly anathema to me.
I agree it's a scam but even if my HO insurance would coverage accidental damage, I'm not making that claim. I have to pay the first $500 no matter what, then my rates will go up.

Worst case, my insurance company drops me and I have to scramble to find another company since lapses in coverage lead to all sorts of issues.

Still, I'm not buying the store's insurance on a TV. I might buy it on my teenager's phone or laptop depending on price and coverage.
Wait what? I grew up in Miami: the answer is always yes.
Which is especially sad as supporting the standard described in my post is a non breaking change if you are still going to read the old location of the configuration and data files as well.
Your comment is weird to read because you say it’s fine because “these things move in cycles” [created by debt, tax, and monetary policy] and the article describes why the system that generates these cycles is “encumbered” and lacking in strength.

I could imagine you may not understand the cause of economic cycles. As you say in the “real” world, you only notice the lived experience of macroeconomic policy, which is what matters from a governance perspective. That’s why politicians talk about “kitchen table” issues to keep popular sentiment but govern through a seemingly backroom set of central bank, tax and trade policies.

It’s not complicated to see that the GDP will grow proportionally to the deficit growth and shrink proportionally to deficit cuts. That extra money is borrowed from the future and injected into today, goosing GDP.

Then the debts get expensive as capital gets tight, interest rates rise and the weakest businesses go under, contracting spending and destroying money as cancelled debt, tightening capital more and consumer confidence. And them the economy shrinks again.

It’s great when the central bank is buying the drinks but the party will end when their credit card is maxed.
> I’m assuming they’re charging more than they payout on average

You are approaching this wrong. Yet, they charge more than they pay out, on average. But they charge everybody, and they pay out only to small percentage of people. The point of insurance is not making profit for you, it's to cap your losses to predictable small upfront payment, instead of large ruinous random loss at random moment in the future. Yes, if you can easily afford the loss of everything in your household, then insurance makes no sense for you. But if losing significant part of it could be ruinous, by paying a small sum upfront you avoid the possibility of being ruined. The thing you are buying is limiting of the losses.
At the rate things are going, may be Microsoft will even open up their Windows kernel, leaving many of the Windows user land and UI proprietary.
Thank you for your clear critique, would you mind clarifying the Google leapfrogged by MS statement? I don’t keep close tabs on Azure.
"There's so much crime that no amount of crime reduction will eliminate it"

"There's so much corruption that no amount of anti-corruption drives will eliminate it"

"There's so much alcoholism that no amount of alcoholism reduction will eliminate alcoholism"
I definitely hope we can keep Oregon 'green'!

> I hope Portland will continue to be a beautiful city for my children to enjoy.

To bring it back to housing, Portland might be a place your children can enjoy because they could actually afford to live there, unlike much of the bay area.
It’s quite complicated. For example, in economic studies of taxi services there’s a well-known “round trip” problem with rides that go from an urban center to a relatively less dense outerlying area. Around NYC this might be a ride from the financial district out to a far out region of Queens or something.

Once you drop off the rider, you’re less likely to immediately pick up a new rider in that random outlying area, so there’s some “return trip” extra cost built for everybody, in terms of paying the driver to get back to a place with a lot of passengers, the driver spending time to get there, and society bearing a zero utilization period for the driver to get back.

As a result, this typically makes prices for these rides go up to reflect all these built-in costs. And naturally this reaches some equilibrium that reflects what people in the outlying area are really willing to pay for the convenience, and somewhat weighted by the natural demand for rides there.

But one criticism of Uber has been using investor capital to artificially reduce those costs down to levels totally unsustainable in terms of the actual demand and built-in costs. Essentially taking a loss to artificially over-service those areas, leading to huge increase of zero-utilization return trips and huge losses to cab companies that don’t have investor cash injections to artificially suppress the real prices in an attempt to win monopoly market share like Uber is trying to do.

This is just one issue, and there are many more involving ride supply, driver pay, smart pricing, business pricing, etc.

All these things combine to create a really complicated situation for the TLC to genuinely ensure that drivers are paid fairly and companies like Uber don’t just use investor cash injections to skyrocket unproductive “rides in waiting” floating around to artificially make rides more available for market capture.

As a result, very simple policies that do not dig into operating details are unlikely to succeed at all and would be easily gamed, especially for larger operators.
I think saagarjha's point was that an even simpler standard would be for the creating application to use file metadata to annotate the files. And a simpler standard is generally more likely to be followed, especially if it's unilateral.

This doesn't help with installation, obviously, but it helps with cleanup.
SGI's Itanic workstations were pretty anaemic, too. They only looked good compared to the phone-it-in R10K derivatives they were pooting out around that time. I'd rather have had a Tezro than a Virtu any day.
> The world is doing better than it ever has

This meme is so strong on HN. Is an illusion too beautiful and easy to believe, also, it have some backup.

The "world", aka us, is an addict. And is on an overdose. The chems make see thing sooooo great.

But the world is great? Not. Is just feasting when in from of it is coming a famine, but naaaaa, RIGHT NOW, all is "everything is amazing"!
There are cleaner solutions to this- XDG being one. Thee current situation doesn't give an option to people who don't want to do things this way
Was very interested until I saw the Ashley Madison ads on your website. Could be beneficial to your inbound requests if you filter ad placements on your site :)
I strongly disagree about the middle layer. We have a lot of possible control about what's observed about our digital behavior.

Location tracking (turn off)

IP address (use VPN)

Cookies (don't allow cookies, don't browse the web while logged in to facebook, google, etc)

Javascript, browser fingerprinting (disable unnecessary javascript)

Installing sketchy apps (which is most of them - don't)

Credit card purchases (use cash instead)
Would love to know more if you have some references for this.
(Disclosure: I own a 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar whose moving parts have not had any problem but whose sound/speakers [technically moving?] has been sent for warranty repairs twice.)

Another way of looking at the Touch Bar MacBook Pros is that the design of their moving parts is so flawed the entire product could probably be categorized as defective.

This is unacceptable and made even worse by their SOP of removing posts that expose them to liability.

Apple has not had hardware problems like this since the Sculley years and I'm very worried things will get worse for their general-purpose computing devices before they get better. (iPhones, for now, do not seem to have the same show-stopping usability issues.)

EDIT: add missing conjunction to first sentence. Replace closing parenthesis with square bracket.
> When I Google something in a meeting or in front of my mother, I do not want sexual results to appear because some term has an alternate meaning.

The solution for this is to have a cookie to show NSFW content or not, and if you have it set then the content is still there but you get a box in front of it saying "you have chosen not to see this", so that you actually know there is something relevant there that you're not seeing.

> And then there are still countless sites on the internet devoted entirely to sex. Keeping them largely separated seems smart.

The problem with kicking people off the platform or otherwise purposely preventing discovery is that the lines aren't nearly clear enough as would be so convenient.

For example, sometimes sex workers need to get together with civil liberties organizations, or media organizations, or the general public. If you silo the sex workers off into their own universe, how does that happen? They can't come to the big sites because they're immediately banned, because attempting to communicate about their lived experience gets them flagged by an algorithm that isn't smart enough to understand context. But the others can't come to them because their sites are exclusively NSFW, which means companies ban the sites or employees fear being punished for visiting them on company time.

Then we get more garbage like SESTA, which the people it was supposed to "protect" hate because it makes their lives less safe, but they have no voice in the matter because companies decided the public isn't supposed to hear from them.

> And while what happened to Tumblr was very sad, I'm sure other sites will replace it... it's the internet after all.

Sure, after years to rebuild another community. But then what happens when that site gets popular enough for a major company to buy it and decide they want to do the same thing?

Having your community destroyed every time it becomes sufficiently popular is a real problem.
To what extent is either a cold shower or an ice bath similar to the cryotherapy used in this experiment?
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I always kept a soft spot for SunOS. Pre SVR4, pre Solaris. I still lean slightly BSD. :)

AIX, if I remember right - it could have been HP/UX, seemed to be the one with the most broken out as extra cost options, like cc etc.
Here are statistics showing that, indeed, rental prices are leveling off in Portland because supply has been added:

https://oregoneconomicanalysis.com/2019/01/29/oregons-housin...

BTW, anyone who wants to see more homes and more housing options in Oregon should vocally support HB 2001. Our YIMBY group here in Bend just had a meeting with our state rep about it and it went pretty well. It's a practical, market-based approach to add housing, and add to the diversity of housing.
I don't get the problem. Why bother where dotfiles are written to? GUI file managers and userland tools hide them by default. What would I gain by having them written outside of $HOME?
Kremlin leaves backdoor account in thousands of unprotected business databases
I did that once! I had a lot of explaining to do since I brought down an entire cogsci lab server in the process.
Seriously I don't get how promiscuous people complain shit censorship and shame when we are increasingly living in a society where people will cry bloody murder if they can't push their degeneracy on the rest of us and we just have to obey. Watch, someone will have a problem with my word selection of degeneracy. I should have used sex positive or some other nonsense like that.
Big O notation – let’s remind ourselves what it is once again
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I doubt OpenPower is going anywhere anytime soon, IBM has their Z chips, and opensparc is going to remain open (whether anyone decides to adopt it or not).
The SoC differs significantly as well. Raspbian works so well on official boards that this isn’t an issue, but it certainly can be with less common boards. Other SBCs may require binary blobs for certain functionality, and if the manufacturer stops releasing updates then you’re stuck with the last one they made available.
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This is not a problem. This is the design.

It makes things completely controllable and you know where to look for configuration files.
OS research is still active though. I see many interesting microkernels being developed left right and center. RedoxOS is trying to build a unix microkernel. Nintendo built Horizon, a capabilities-based microkernel for the Nintendo Switch. Many of Plan9's features have been incorporated into Linux. We have seL4, a formally proven kernel that is still in active development (they are currently working hard on getting a formally proven SMP component).

I don't think it's fair to say Kernel research is a thing of the past.
In a lot of cases, and I'll be specific to my ecosystem of choice (NXP i.MX), yes. There are thousands of pages of documentation and TRMs, there's an active kernel tree, the bootloading process is open and documented, there are toolchains and Yocto recipes and etc. Is it perfect? Is the kernel mainline? No in both cases. But they exist.

And regarding shields, a lot of other SBCs have keyed into the Arduino and/or RPi shield setup. I'm working with a Broadcom EVK right now that's not meant for hobbyists, and even that board has an RPi shield header on it. Pick up any recent Kinetis-based board and it's got Arduino shields on it.

But let's think about the complaints the OP presented. He's bitching about the on-board ethernet PHY and whatnot. External add-ons aren't even the topic here.
Italy is not religious at all. Everyone is "catholic" but nobody actually goes to church or leads christian lives other than meaningless rote rituals. Try to get Italians to start going to church regularly, reading the Bible regularly, etc. and you'll be met with indifference or hostility.
Conquering convolutional neural networks for the curious and confused
It's still being updated for one.
This is a symptom of a bigger problem, which is that programmer respect for resources that belong to the user is at an all-time low.

* CPU: We'll just have this web page peg the user's CPU running gobs of code because our designer wants to unnecessarily animate this thinggy or our ad network wants to mine bitcoins. (Related resource: Mobile phone battery)

* Memory: We'll just use this web framework and embedded browser that uses up 1GB of the user's RAM, for a one-window chat application we're writing because we can't be bothered to learn anything but Javascript.

* Disk/Storage: We'll just cache 20GB of easily-regeneratable internal data so the app seems faster than it is, dumping it somewhere for the user to find and clean up.

* Network Bandwidth: Our shopping cart web page load is larger than the full installation of a 2000-era video game because we have to have 6 layers of framework abstraction and taking the time to optimize/minimize it wouldn't let us release fast and "crush it" in the market!

Nobody seems to care. "Oh, Xyz is cheap, programmer time is expensive!" is the rallying cry. So let's push the cost our shitty practices to the user and make her buy more hardware.
Google is trying they best to help humanity and government to surveillance they citizens.

Why now all the hate suddenly for company that is doing this since from start ?

Like Google CEO testify "we try our best" who could say Google is evil after this comment ?
People have to admit that "Itanic" was a just name for it.
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The monoculture is a good observation. Aside from the dangers you mention, the death of commercial Unix also killed off a lot of healthy competition. There used to be, for example, lots of incentive for HP, IBM, Sun, and others to tweak hardware and software to keep at the top of TPC-C benchmarks.

Edit: Well, also the security implications of the Linux/x86 monoculture.
Billions, I'd argue.
There's a ton of innovation happening right now for machine-learning optimized ISAs. And RISC-V has excellent support for extensions.

The funniest part of Itanium for me was that it was supposedly helpful to compilers. Yet the compiler people I knew did not like to use the "helpful" parts of the ISA. The loop unrolling stuff got in the way of software pipelining, for example.

Mill is an example of a processor that's actually helpful to compilers, because its design is being led by an actual compiler person.
Manage your system. Do not expect someone else to manage it for you.
I'd rather have minimal files in $HOME than megabytes or gigabytes in a deep hierarchy under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

In reality, I have both.

In practice, I commit go the vesion control only the dotfiles I care about. And I ignore the rest.