skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an interesting glimpse at a period that lives on the edge of my consciousness. I was 3 at that time, but I remember going to rallies with my parents a few years later. I also remember tanks and APCs parked all over Vilnius after the events of January 13th, 1991. The amount of respect, gratitude and admiration I feel for the people who drove the independence movement forward is difficult to describe.

And then, every once in a while I meet somebody from Russia or some other post-soviet state and hear them longing for those "long gone days" or ask me "is it really that much better for you now?".

It is. Much better. Sure, we have problems. Social and economical ones. But at least they are our problems. And we have the freedom to solve them on our own.
Thriving as in their own miniscule segment destined to remain marginal. Definitely not apple target market.
> The US has a massive advantage [...] in that many of the best and brightest from across the world want to come to the US

And it's really, really actively fighting against it:
electing Trump (and the consequences with it) is not the least they did in that perspective.
Well yeah, but don’t you think this is exceptionally hard with a touch screen?

Didn’t microsoft try to do this in Windows 8 with little icons in the corners? The problem is that little icons provide only marginally more information, if at all, than the existence of the corner of the screen.

It’s a very hard problem and Apple works on it. They have abandoned previous standards on discoverability because of the inherent limitations of a touch interface on a small screen.

Sacrificing discoverability for usability is the right choice.

I think one issue is that some UI conventions have not been settled on, so I often have to look up how to do something on iOS.

The most recent example of this was “shake to undo.” After looking this up, not only did I learn how to undo typing, I also learned why I would occasionally get these inexplicable warning windows asking if I wanted to undo!
Yeah, no idea with Synology. When I was originally looking at NAS solutions, they (and QNAP) just seemed expensive for not much product.

Went with FreeNAS instead, as I was already very familiar with building systems, it's based on FreeBSD (OSS), and it gives better tuning on the higher end.

Doesn't have as pretty a GUI though. ;)
@Sir_Cmpwn do you have some insights to share on this? What are the conditions that make you most productive, and what conditions make you the least productive?
It seems rude (like if I told you to drop off a package at my back door and you put it by the front door), but I given the existence of RFC 5233 I don't see how this would be "data about me I haven't explicitly given you".

Also, if you try to mail people based on GeoIP data, you're going to have a bad time.
Wasn't this reported two months ago?
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300393/tesla-fiat-chrysl...
It still has the surrealism that I have seen from other generators "On May 26, a group of young women celebrating a bachelorette party in Okinawa turned to karaoke in a public laundromat for an impromptu session. They were surprised to find that, instead of the karaoke system they knew, the floor was covered in a thick layer of the highly prized fur pelt of Nadeshiko, Japan’s national sashimi"
If aerospace get computers like this, I'd love to hear where I need to be applying to. We're running on Windows 7 machines with i5-2400 CPUs, about 4GB of RAM, and integrated graphics. All our CAD software is run on a grid system, where we access e3, Altium and Catia via a remote server. The engineers are all on hardware about 7 years old.
The reliability comes if the tool is mature -- it doesn't matter whether it's a collection of CLI scripts or a big web frontend. In any way, it's clear that "a bunch of scripts" will remain the opposite of a big framework such as Ansible. But it doesn't neccessarily need to be worse. Equipped with a good documentation, it might be much better tailored to save the administrator her time.
The experiments themselves should be conducted on fully logged public infrastructure so that it impossible to miss anything out. This final log would include the inputs: shell commands/git repositories/Dockerfiles, training and testing data; important intermediate data: Docker images and trained models; and outputs: tables of numbers or what have you. This way, the whole thing is vouched for automatically, and the editors don't need to do anything.

It would be a big change, but this is actually possible, and it would make things easier for everyone down the line.
iCloud leaks?
Yes you are correct. You are allowed to use the Lichthupe (or the normal horn as well) _once_ when indicating that you are going to overtake. But that's only for situations on single lane roads where there is already enough space to overtake. You are not allowed to push other drivers around it is only for signalling that your overtaking maneuver is about to happen.
>A doomsday future is not inevitable! But without immediate drastic action our prospects are poor.

So, what you're saying is: Unless we (immediately and drastically) change our behaviour, it's a doomsday scenario[0,1,2]...

Doesn't that make it inevitable because it seems that nobody has or is changing their behaviour drastically enough - any time in the recent past or the nearest enough future - to prevent it (based on projections)?

I mean, it's not as if this realisation struck us just yesterday, yeah? We've had some time to prepare and/or give enough of a shit about this to try to affect it, right?

Also, you're expecting (almost) the entirety of an egocentric species - one that was entirely ok with the mass extinctions that it has caused so far - to suddenly, overnight give a rat's ass about the future state of the entire world and everything within it...?

They're so far up their own asses about 'x' trivial thing (compared to the literal death of the species/planet) that they're seeing teeth and loving it.

I - for one - welcome the end times.

Fucking shake that etch-a-sketch, biology, let's try this shit again.

[0] - https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/food-insecurity-index/

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/apr/13/c...

[2] - https://www.scidev.net/global/climate-change/news/put-agricu...
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write correctly tons of completely mispronounced foreign (non-English) words.

Except they're not foreign words, they're English words with foreign origins. Once a word becomes a part of the English language both its pronunciation and meaning (and even spelling) can start to diverge from its origins, without those pronunciations or meanings being 'wrong' in any meaningful way. Also since there is no standardized pronunciation guide for the English language its hard to say what pronunciations are right and wrong other than referring to common usage.
Daimler-Benz itself was created to prevent imminent death of two automobile makers
Here's one comment about inspiration:

https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1135666944273571840
American science was doing “well” in the 60’s because Europe was still recovering.

Today, the US “competes” (to some extent) with Europe for the best and brightest.
Update for anyone who was curious about that last point: I figured out how to use the simulated annealing software on that website, which allows you to use a custom mask for the characters than can be swapped. On my very first run I got a result better than QGMLWB: in fact QGMLWB requires 2.5% more effort to type the training corpus than the one I generated.

I bet a huge win would be moving the exclamation point, but I haven't figured out how to allow the program to remap shifted keys.
I wonder if the people who complain about the price here have ever worked with computers. For example, I am a software developer. It costs about 5000€/month or so to hire me after I graduate. Every workplace I have been in has given me a 3500€ MBP to write code with, no questions asked. Why? I need it and it's cheap compared to my wage anyway. Even a 10000€ computer wouldn't be very expensive considering it's estimated lifespan is 5-12 years.

For companies the cost of computers next to the cost of people is insignificant, and that is the target customer group for this machine.
Brits overstay and work in the US without the correct paperwork all the time. They don't seem to get noticed by the police for some reason.
Something like an Android clone is a conglomeration of many, many different projects.
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

Remote: Very strongly preferred.

Willing to relocate: Would strongly prefer not to.

Technologies: Very strong algorithmic knowledge, so I'd prefer to do something related. Also recently finished 2 year (~Master's level) degree in Data Analysis and Machine Learning ( https://yandexdataschool.com ) and my most recent and relevant experience is with speech analysis, but I did other work too.

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Email: yuriy@znovyak.com

I've been working on my startup, but this doesn't seem to work out very well :/. Also used to work at Facebook and Google, if that interests anyone.
Can you publish the algorithms and the method of scrapping data and let the client make the final assembly of the pieces?
> Rendering plain text markdown into multipart/html emails. [...] 80-char lines are too short for desktop displays and too long for small phones (leading to awful linebreaks), which makes me the guy whose emails never look right.

I completely agree! That's exactly the feature I requested, for exactly the same reasons, to the developers of Neomutt. I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out they were open to the idea. They got it implemented eventually. The discussion is here:

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/587
My 2 cents, as a user and not a creator.

I'm deeply annoyed with YouTube and their policy of extracting any minute of possible attention from my eyes. I watch less and less YouTube and I would happily pay for quality contents.
Radicale, it's really good for personal use. :)
"Sometimes I think some researchers think they're helping themselves keep their research proprietary so they will able to monetize their special knowledge or implementation, especially if no one else can make it work ("knowledge" (job) security/silo)."

My very limited experience says it is true.
While our team worked for a commercial company in a certain highly competetive industry, I've both read many papers describing algos that on a closer look couldn't work as described and myself was forbidden to publish anything allowing our competitors or potential buyers to reproduce our algorithms. Our team ended up submitting a paper that was turned down by a reviewer and called an advertisement for the lack of details. None of us wanted to 'fix' that by adding fake details as in the papers we had read, so we ended up not publishing anything while working on the projects in that industry.
Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina
"Europe is home to 1.64 million researchers, while the US number approaches 1.47 million. ... Europe produced 33.4% of the world's research outputs, while the US accounted for 23.4%."

The US is not really leading the way. It's a bit strange to "consider" Europe as a potential good place for research, it's already way ahead the US.
The research published in this case (the original word2vec paper) is quite literally not what it claims to be. It is factually incorrect. Is that really the responsibility of the individual attempting to reproduce the work to identify and correct?

How wrong should the original work be before it ceases to be a case of 'clean your own pipettes'?
>If I keep your messages encrypted in my database and your keys on another unonnected database in another building, would it then be fair to say that I store your messages in plaintext?

If you can still access them, I don't think it is fair (or maybe rather: it is misleading) to say that you store them encrypted.
At a company of Google's scale, you'd expect that they have the tools in place to rollback any operation they perform.
Now I'm interested to see, how this page looks with ad-blocker disabled.
I’d love to do this. I live in SP. How do I know which ones are safe even for someone with a noticeable gringo look and accent? Whose word to trust?
Yep - GitHub Package Registry is a set of registries. It should plan nice with as many package managers as possible
Affinity Publisher will launch on June 19th
They're just going to remove it completely:

> Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. In future versions of macOS, scripting language runtimes won’t be available by default, and may require you to install an additional package.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_note...
They had to focus on privacy to separate out from the competition. Also this distracts the focus on walled garden criticism and freedom to own the devices.
A problem is that "strength" isn't a scientific term. You have tensile strength, shear strength, torsion strength, and compression strength.

Screws have incredible tensile strength, which this article was testing. Shear strength? Not so much. Hit the joint with a hammer from above, and most screws will just snap. Nails are the opposite -- great shear strength, and no tensile.

Glue is stronger than wood, as several comments indicated, but for how long? I've had many glued pieces of furniture fail after a decade of use.

In a lot of woodworking, I use multiple types of fasteners. It's overengineering, but it doesn't fail.
This is not being talked about enough.

Have people already forgot about The Fappening?

It was one of the nastiest privacy failures for tech companies. I'm impressed with how fast public opinion can change.
Why should they? They want to sell you the Apple experience, where iCloud is fully integrated. Integration into Android will be half backed, which gives a bad impression.

Microsoft failed with their Windows mobile strategy and uses a different playbook, trying to get everything in Azure, no matter the specific client.
That is not what communism is.
>Sorry but have you heard of Visual Studio?

A sluggish clumsy bloated IDE? What's good about it? I've used it for a couple of years when I wrote directshow filters, and it was a complete shit back in a days (2015-2017).

* terrible clumsy project system, where changing a flag is a quest. As abominable as autotools.

* using non-vcproj projects is a pain, especially when you have a bunch of make files

* It's slow as hell.

* Language support is lacking. No OCaml, no Lisp, hell, even C11 is a quest.

After they've added a package manager and clang support, it became less painful, but fur from great experience.
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We are a B2B SAAS company offering analytics and marketing data. We wanted to offer our customer the ability to have a free app to interact with our service on their phone. We wanted our customers to subscribe on the web but not using in-app subscriptions.

We are unable to release this app on the AppStore until we change our whole payment/subscription/billing stack to support Apple subscription system and agree to give them 30% / 15% of our revenues on those users (this is more than we pay for AWS, comparatively).

Keep in mind that a good chunk of of revenues comes from custom plans, so I don't even know how that would work with Apple system.

So much for not forcing developers to do anything.
Because they make $100K-$300K per year, they stare at their monitor every day for 8-10 hours or so, and they want to have the best quality?

People buy $30K and $50K cars when they could do their job with $15K one just fine. And they put them in the garage most of the time. This is something they'll actually use the hell off...
This reminds me of Dasher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)

https://dasher.zone/

A little dizzying to use but a great fusion of some nice concepts. And for its target audience probably a lot more possible than a traditional keyboard.
Deb/rpm please!
Is it only me imagining some kind of scenario where, if this gains traction, suddenly 3rd party developers will have to share revenue with Apple for being able to use the Apple sign in.
The way you describe it; I would agree. You can "do anything" on Android, but this leads to poor implementations for common things.

What I'm referencing is that the OS and Apples own applications are built to support what I would be consider very sane defaults (as in, it supports me doing my own thing, without the need for plugins/modules).

My experience is that on Android I had to have many third-party integrators to get things up and working, and they were very poor quality and would run in the background murdering my battery life. (and I had to pay for it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.bitfire.dav...)

IMAP/SMTP Were less of a problem but it always /felt/ very third party when using tools for that purpose, where google mail was truly first class. On iOS I don't feel this way at all, once I had push notifications set up the experience was identical (if not a little better with my own server due to apples SMTP servers getting overloaded).

So, you're right when you say that Android is more modular and supports stronger composibility of the system. But the experience of actually using it is so incredibly poor that even with Apple doing it's bullshit (no small phones, no headphone jack, protruding camera) I have very little inclination to go back- the "feeling" I get is that it's funnelling me to third parties, whether it be google or samsungs awful "samsung cloud ecosystem"
The value proposition is for video and 3D pros, where equivalent accurate monitors can cost tens of thousands.

"However, there is a class of users that is currently buying an Eizo monitor for $5,000 to get professional-class image quality, and Apple’s display is so much better that it’s not even close. There are also people who buy Sony reference monitors that cost more than $40,000—and Apple’s display is basically a match for them in terms of quality. By these standards, the Pro Display XDR is either a breakthrough in terms of quality or a staggering breakthrough in terms of price." [1]

But if you're a coder and like nice things and money's no issue, then, why not...

[1] https://sixcolors.com/
As @throwawayr1188, me too, I'm born and raised in Rio, and I'm very surprised to see such article on Hacker News.

No doubt, a favela can be a very dangerous place from an foreign, but I understand the fact that many people are curious to see how it really looks in its innards, despite this danger. My grandfather lived his entire life in a favela called Acari in the North of Rio, and I used to go there visit him. About 50 milles distant from Copacabana, Acari is a shit place with an IDH lower than some poor countries in Africa. But, as described in The Economist article, Acari too has a very active economy. You can find all sort of businesses in there. Of course, I'm not talking about millions of dollars businesses, but there's an interesting cash flow running inside of the favela. However it's not enough to make people rich. The life condition in favela are really horrible. Besides all that has been said here, I have to add on point that hasn't been mentioned: Favela are extremely noisy places... It's pretty common bars playing music incredible loud. Besides that, some favelas organise parties called 'baile funks'. These parties have their pros and cons:

PROS
- people coming from outside (many spend money buying drinks, food, cigarettes, etc)
- it promotes some fun for young people living in the favela

CONS
- These partie are often organised by drug dealers... it attracts some drug adds to the location, and cocaine,
crack, etc run freely
- The music in the 'bailes' uses to be extremely loud. As it doesn't have acoustic protection the entire favela don't sleep during those parties which may go through an entire week-end. It very bad for those who have to wake up to go work.

My advice, do not visit favelas... The vast majority of its population, I'd say more than 99,9% of its habitants are honest people, but this 0,1% and their war with police and other drug dealers represent a real danger for your life.
Apple sells iCloud subscriptions though. And yet you're not worthy of their privacy if you didn't buy their completely DRM locked devices where they control even the content you're allowed to see.
Amazing. The top level comment is about improving performance even when many people say it isn't important.

Someone says it would be nice to get even lower, and you say it isn't important.

Full circle in three comments.
>It's enough to do that for a few things that one finds important, but not everything

Well, something a $200-600K programmer looks at for 8-10 hours per day, I'd call important.
Moisture expansion cycle creates incredible forces, especially when the construction is used outdoors with large seasonal temperature/humidity changes. Even a wood as soft as pine can easily rip of heads of the screws after a couple of years of use. (personal experience)
it works fine on android as well, you just have to download a few clients from a store like FDroid.
I also see it as a fairly nice way to develop iPad apps.
All well and good to say such things, could you point me to a few?

I was using Android as a daily driver for over 6 months and I didn't find anything in the play store that was of sufficient quality. (DAVDroid being the closest to decent, but it ran in the background and didn't do 2-way-sync correctly etc)

FWIW I was using a Samsung Galaxy S8, and that model does not have the ability to be flashed (and I think it doesn't to this day)

EDIT: I'm wrong, there is unofficial S8 images for lineageOS as of March 2019: https://www.xda-developers.com/lineageos-16-unofficial-samsu...

More than 2 years after the phone was released though, and only for one type of S8 (Exynos). But at least it's possible now.
> That they can get away with this arm-twisting as "privacy" is to give credit to their brand positioning.

I think most EU Advertising Control Boards would verdict that Apple's privacy claims are misleading and therefore against the applicable Advertising Law.
> other than being a reimplementation in some cases.

Hmm...that's pretty much the entire difference between native and non-native controls.