skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't need to happen in a day. China has a gigantic spatial advantage here, and as their navy gets stronger and ours doesn't (or, worse, gets cannibalized and weakens), influence shifts. It's a good bet that as this trend continues Taiwan's choices will align more and more with Chinese interests and less and less with US interests.
Here's a short read about why it'd benefit nearly everyone reading this here to unionize...

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/why-95-perce...
Inspircd is pretty easy to set up (as a server). Hexchat is a great client, Weechat is great for a commandline client. If you have server access you can also set up Kiwi which is a webclient, making it easy for those with less tech prowess to connect.
Sorry, but the use of atomic bombs here is a red herring; there have been just as many casualties in the fire bombing of Tokyo, and many more casualties in conventional bombing of cities in Europe. Such is the nature of an all-out war, and the atomic bombs prevented an all-out incursion into Japan which would have turned them into rubble.

Calling the last 70 years "bloody and violent" is the definition of the lack of historical reference I've been talking about in my previous post. In any historical comparison, it's been a period of unprecedented peace, quiet and prosperity; that aside, most of the conflicts of the post WWII 20th century have been supported encouraged by USSR on the other side. It's not just USA unilaterally attacking sovereign nations.
> The problem becomes where he would go (that is, what he would build) next.

I think you mean, how would he top this. Why does he need to? Why can't he just ... pull a Woz and kinda tinker around?
For something like IRC? Yes. The service is dead simple and one server can handle thousands of users with modest hardware and without breaking a sweat. A completely unfamiliar sysadmin could set it up in an hour or less. Since it's probably internal, there's little need for public services (nick/channel registration, etc).
I’m worried that, with core dependencies like X11 being abandoned, the writing is on the wall for the hold-out distributions (I run Devuan and OpenBSD mostly).

I get that it doesn’t make business sense for RedHat to maintain parts of the open source ecosystem that will never drive consulting or support revenue, but that doesn’t change the fact that I want a computing environment that just works (including software that’s been stable for a decade, and isn’t constantly ported to the new shiny).
You can now pay $200/mo for cable and still be forced to watch un-skippable ads for on-demand programming.
Wow, that is ridiculous. I guess there´s an unmet need for coworking spaces in Boston then :)
Evernote came a decade or so after Microsoft's OneNote. Evernote did make Microsoft improve their product though. It seemed as Microsoft was improving OneNote, Evernote started to go backwards.
Thank you so much, the ny times seems to have my number whatever i do but this works.
In a defacto two party system with both parties agreeing in general that a large military is needed and see interventions to topple governments as a time honored tradition.
> Apple's "Notes" application is a well known unreliable piece of shit.

Since the big update a couple of versions ago Apple Notes is one of the better note apps. Syncing works great, and it has been far more reliable than any of my forays into Evernote.
>I guess all of my work was for naught since this seems to cover some my needs for user and ssh key provisioning.

I just finished setting up JumpCloud to manage SSH keys and logins on all my AWS instances.

Oh well.
a real hero
Virtualizing Python Application Environments
The SM-6 is anti-air and anti-ship. It has the option to add GPS guidance to it (SM-6 Block IA and the newer IIA), but it is much more expensive as a Tomahawk and is generally not used for this case. A Tomahawk is around $1.4 million per whereas the SM-6 Block I was $5.6 million per and the newer full rate production version (Block IA and newer) is $4.8 million per.

For reference, the Hypervelocity Projectile (made by BAE Systems) that Railgun fires comes down to a unit cost of $86,000-$90,000 per shot depending on what source you read. So ~$90,000 per railgun shot gives you ~53 shots from the railgun for every single SM-6 when it comes to cost. This is entirely game changing from an economics perspective with similar capabilities. By lacking rocket motors or being explosive, it is also much safer to transport so you can likely pack more ammunition onto a ship.
"everybody is capable of improving anything if only they were given more education than they are now and cared enough to study"

Is probably more accurate. You can bring a horse to water but you can't make them drink. It's impossible to know but it may be that those who are willing to be educated already have been and those who are left are willfully ignorant or have low enough intelligence that education isn't possible.

As society becomes more complex, greater and greater numbers of people will be unable to successfully interact with it. What we do with them is a unsolved problem.
I'm a mouse user (who actually really liked both the much maligned mighty mouse and magic mouse), but when it came to track pads, I hated that Apple didn't have physical buttons for the trackpad.

My hand eye coordination on trackpads has never been great (and I'm not getting any younger), and I've always had issues with taps as clicks.

I've since switched back to Windows, and it drives me nuts that all the PC laptops that follow Apple's design lead that have dropped the physical trackpad buttons. Thankfully most of the business and "pro" laptops still have them.
I was under the impression that Americans pronounced Berkeley to rhyme with berk, rather than bark? But then Berkeley Barb would suggest the latter pronunciation?
> Well guess what, that's a design decision and we live in a free market - so if you don't like it you're welcome to buy a different laptop or phone. The fact that these design decisions have been integral to making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world probably indicates they were good design decisions.

That assumes the unrepairable hardware is an isolated choice by customers when it isn't. There are a hundred other reasons why to buy a particular laptop or not, a huge one being the ability to run macos.

If you want to see actual consumer preferences then produce a repairable Macbook and see if anybody buys that. Which they did in 2006 when that was the case -- so by your logic doesn't that prove that the market has spoken and people want repairable hardware?

Relying on the market to indicate preferences works when there is aggressive competition providing every possible combination of alternatives people might want. If the actual combination that people want isn't available then all you're proving is that some people like macos more than they dislike disposable hardware, which is a crap excuse for destroying the environment.
> Free trade and democracy have been sprouting everywhere,

Well, sort of. Depends on whether or not you elect a government that the CIA approves of.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3...
This "let's make things slower, heavier, and more brittle in exchange of this small improvement" mantra is the scourge of software today.
There is so much variation from company to company within each of those titles that the distinction between them basically doesn't exist. So if you particularly care about the title - apply for jobs with that title.
If I remember correctly when I bought my X1C 6th gen recently, mainly : one ram slot is soldered and lose of the secondary/optional battery to have crazy autonomy.
I often think of the story of the guy who posted here about how his startup "failed" but in reality it just didn't bring in the massive cash flow that was hoped for.

IIRC he bought it from the investors for cheap (so they could get it off their books) and then just ran it as one guy (maybe a few more added part time later)... and it does just fine in that conext, and who knows what might happen from there.

Kinda makes me think that a lot of Unicorn style world domination or nothing, result in some business opportunities being lost if those are the only two options.
I haven’t written an init script in ten years.

It is like coming home one day, and the house has been demolished. There’s a joker in a bulldozer proudly proclaiming there was some dog crap on the sidewalk, and that he took care of it for me.
I'm excited that some of the ideas from Datomic are starting to make it into some open source projects. With crux last month and now Eva, there are now multiple options for modern clojure databases.

While there are many excellent ideas embedded in Datomic and these projects, for me just being able to persist the same data structures you're using at a repl and query for them with data is a huge win vs having to start translating types and concepts and query strings to and from SQL is a huge win.
But the NSA was never collecting data.... <James Clapper/John Brennan>
Add 2018 to the title please.
> a less competitive teacher

whats that supposed to mean?
No, NeWS didn't use Display PostScript. A common misconception. Adobe's Display PostScript extension to X11 didn't have any support for input, event handling, threading, synchronization, networking, object oriented programming, user interface toolkits, window management, arbitrarily shaped windows, shared libraries and modules, colormaps and visuals, X11 integration, or any of the other important features of NeWS.

We actually wrote an X11 window manager in NeWS, with tabbed windows, pie menus, rooms, scrolling virtual desktops, etc. Try doing that with Display PostScript.

And it actually performed much better than was possible for an X11 window manager, since X11 window managers MUST run in a separate process and communicate via an asynchronous network protocol, incurring lots of overhead like context switching, queuing, marshaling and unmarshaling, server grabbing, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15327339

You seems to have a lot of misconceptions about NeWS, and how and why it was designed and implemented. I suggest you read the X-Windows disaster article I wrote in 1993, and the original paper about Sundew by James Gosling, "SunDew - A Distributed and Extensible Window System", which he published in Methodology of Window Management in 1985.

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

Again: I'm not advocating that X-Windows be replaced by NeWS in 2019. I'm saying that Wayland didn't learn from the lessons on NeWS. And that a much better solution would be to push Electron down the stack to the bare metal, to become the window system itself.

How do you reconcile your use of WebGL and JavaScript with your distaste for embedded programmability? Or do you just hold your nose with one hand and type with the other, the way I program X11? ;)
another "but".

First "but it doesn't scale". Now "but integrations".

There will always be another "but", and there will always be a link on the internet showing that it's been done already.

"but shiny web gui" - https://thelounge.chat/

"but mobile app" - https://github.com/MCMrARM/revolution-irc

"but it's complicated" - https://www.mirc.com/ since 1995

IRC does have limits. Some. One is that to make it "modern" it needs a bouncer - that said znc is spectacularly simple to set up with it's web interface.

Integrations were never one of those limits. Just google IRC bots.
there is a flood of anti-china articles because china threatens the US' monopoly on high-tech profitmaking, and the US companies and rich people are laying the basis to protect their profits with war.
This is a financial article about the effects of an AI bubble on the economy.

While I certainly wouldn't call a technical discussion off topic, I'm not surprised that the majority of focus would be on the main topic of the article -- economics and the stock market.
I wish everybody who buys a new MacBook Pro all the best, and I hope they enjoy it. I just won’t be getting one. (The card reader was just the icing on the cake; the unreliable keyboard and failure-prone backlight ribbon cable are the main reasons I won’t buy one.)

Ultrabooks exist for a reason, and my personal opinion is that it’s a bummer that the “pro“ offering is less capable and more annoying to use for media editing than it used to be.
You don't have to wonder. It has already happened.

They are currently the best at refining rare earth metals and they are not interested in sharing it.

Have a look at the patent graph: https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/3/21/v...
As someone from Eastern Europe who would be Russian subject by now if it weren't for NATO, you have my thanks.
With this logic, should we stop working altogether to prepare for death?
Darwin doesn't even remotely resemble MacOS. It's the kernel and open-sourced user-land components. It resembles(but is not at all) a very old FreeBSD-ish system if loaded.
TIL

I had no idea OneNote even existed until well after Evernote, and I worked at a lot of places using Microsoft products.... strange.
That's interesting, this method has Google take the place of peer review. Are there concerns with the Google algorithm being unsuited to this purpose, or SEO?

Personally, I only trust arxiv preprints when I know something about the authors.
Please restore reliable keyboards, MagSafe connectors, and better user interfaces, Apple Computer!
I would propose an alternative to the article: mainframe personnel should spend 3 months with kubernetes.
And you never know what those corporations could do with the data politically. Recently there has been a lot of talk about how these types of companies seem to favor certain politics. Who's to say that they won't use this data in the future for influence?
The focus on supercomputing seems odd. x86 is not nearly as dominant in supercomputing as it is in servers. A quick look at the TOP500 shows many other architectures (top 3 aren't x86). Is there something a homegrown x86 chip would give China over top of the line Intel silicon? Does Intel have secret IP on the die that only the US govt can access?
Generally private school teachers make way less than public school ones though do.
Even if there might not that many completely new GUI apps - I do think there are - any app updated, and most of them are, are automatically based on Wayland, if they link against a current Gtk/QT. And consequently make use of Wayland.

I actually think it is the other way around: Wayland gives Linux on the desktop a whole new life as it is creating the technological foundation for a modern UI.
The sentence before the one you quote is this:

"The rest of the exam then went fairly quickly as none of the examiners had prepared any truly challenging algebra questions."

Thus, he emptied the pool of questions prepared by the professors.

Notice that your quote does not really contradict a good impression upon the examiners. The nerve wracking is self reported, as is the word ``barely''. The later comments by the examiners may be also a generic sentence they say to everybody. Regardless of your level, you can always benefit for being told to do better.

Sure, if you ask these professors today they will probably say that they were very impressed by the young genius... but this does not really say much.
> ...if it fails to live up to valuations.

Or it was the failure of the investors to gauge the potential properly and start out with too high expectations. Why should that count as company failure?
That's a good study, but I'm not sure it disentangles income from education:

> Moreover, the “divorce gap” between college graduates and those with less education was larger in the NLSY79 cohort than it was for the 1950–1955 birth cohort. In the NLSY79 cohort, the divorce rate for first marriages is nearly 20 percentage points lower for those who have completed their bachelor’s degree compared with those who have completed high school, regardless of whether they have some college or not. The gap is even greater, approaching 30 percentage points, when comparing those with a college degree to those with less than a high school diploma. Just as with first marriages, college graduates were more likely to stay in a second marriage when compared with groups that have less education.

Couples that get married after degrees have waited longer to get married than couples that either drop out of high school or marry after high school. College grads tend to earn more.

So it seems any income difference must account for bachelor's degrees and the extra time before getting married that requires.
There's an urban legend in the Princeton physics department of professors including questions in exams that they don't know the answer to in hopes that some student might crack it.

Probably happens from time to time.

I never saw it myself since I quickly realized I wouldn't cut it as a physics major there.
Found this out not long ago on my own. Wish I would have known link was so bad before I tried it.
It's OK, they fired that other guy.
I do blame them.

Google Photos should have been a frontend for Drive from the beginning. Splitting it into another storage is wrong.
Sushi. Since when has risking tapeworm infection been irresistibly alluring?
To its credit? Anecdotally, I feel like I run into way more abandonware on npm registry than on say maven central.
> Wayland developers specifically prioritize the "every frame is perfect" paradigm over performance and latency. This means there will never be an option to disable things like composition or vsync.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this terrible? Won't it mean that video games are going to be completely unplayable on Wayland desktops?

I've never been able to get acceptable performance in a game on Wayland, but I'd always assumed that this was just because it was a work in progress and the game makers didn't test to ensure proper performance on anything but X.
I've got a t470s, it's really not that bad. Roughly equivalent to swapping parts on my 2010 MBP, you remove the bottom and everything is right there. I don't love that I only have one DIMM slot, but it's still a very serviceable machine.

I also had an x220 (I actually keep it around my office as a spare). Adding a second SSD to the WWAN slot required basically a complete teardown of the machine. The swappable battery seemed nice, but the battery in mine falls out because the locking mechanism broke.

For my use I actually prefer the newer style thinkpads. If I need to replace the battery I'll deal with the 5 screws on the bottom. Regarding the t490 RAM, it's like my T470s, one stick soldered and one DIMM slot.

I'll also add that although Lenovo is far from perfect (superfish), they do have a history of correcting bad design decisions based on customer feedback (see the t440/x240 trackpads).
No, and please don't straw-man my argument. I contend that those who can avoid such risk ought to, because each pedestrian who does so has an increased risk of getting hit.

To analogize, I believe you ought to avoid unnecessary medical treatments, because each presents some kind of risk. If, however, you need treatment, I suggest you receive it (though it will carry a risk). By the same token, if you can walk carefully and observe the world around you, you ought to. If you need to walk and cannot see, it's fine to just accept that certain things carry risk.

Hearing is arguably more useful in many situations, as it is omnidirectional. I can hear a car coming from behind me; I likely cannot see it.
> I sort of wonder what you envision this actually meaning.

I mean it to respond to the common response people sometimes give in conversations like these, which is "that's why I don't use Facebook" or "that's why I stopped using Google services". For this conversation, whether you use Facebook or not is irrelevant, they still gather your information, and in the same way myriad other advertisers (or however they bill themselves) do through online tracking. Google and Facebook are large, and have a portion that's easily visible, but they are not the whole problem by a long shot.

> If when a user tries to log in I check the referrer to see if it contains a proper URL, have I violated your privacy?

No. Noting which door a customer came into your store seems fine to me. That by default customers come in wearing the logo of the last store they visited is weird, but entirely something they can control. Having people shadowing all your customers while in the store looking and listening for tidbits they can report back on to get more info about those people is pretty creepy. As you suggest, the way to get around most of that is to dress blandly and say nothing.

Here's the thing, we're a market economy. There's a transaction going on, where we're trading away something (our information and privacy) to a company for some product, or possibly the right to view a product we might consider buying. How many people are actually aware of this transaction? If they aren't aware of the transaction, there's a name for that when it's a regular good, and it's theft (or fraud). The difference here is that most of our government systems don't apply any rights of ownership to this information, so our regular rules don't apply. I admit, they may not make sense to apply entirely, but at the same time, it's obvious that something is lost in the transaction, whether the person losing it realizes it at the time, or views it as important enough to make a big deal about when they notice.
Well put. Talk to us about Caltrain DTX and SF Planning's holding of that project hostage in their quest to demolish the I-280 from Mariposa north.
and then there's counterproductive documentation. It may have been correct at one time, but now it both both wastes your time and misleads you. This is why pushing as much documentation as possible into the type system is a win.
Only if its pushed to the correct repo. AL2 has amazon specific stuff in its repos, Ubuntu does, eventually
matrix does all that and can be self hosted - ours is.
Is this a serious question? Companies have been using email for internal announcements for decades.
MBPs could have and extra 2mm to accommodate a better keyboard and you wouldn't notice it in your bag.
Is this new? Last time I tried, Nvidia on Wayland had performance issues and did not support Optimus at all (Edit: after rereading what you said I am guessing that is still an issue.)

If it is working though I retract what I said, though it’s absurd how long it took to happen.
Partial update is not an improvement for latency in the way you're thinking about it. It's mostly an optimization for tillers so they don't have to rerender some parts.

You seem to broadly misunderstand several parts of the modern display architecture -- the goal you insist any sane window system should provide hasn't been provided by any, including the X Window System.
Time management can ruin your productivity
Slack records everything you do in an immuteable audit log. It's used by lots of finance companies as well as government institutions ( who have just as strict if not stricter rules ). Also they have lots of features to help with e-discovery, so not only is everything recorded, but getting your needed data out is quite easy.
Except communities that under-privileged will be unlikely to have the bandwidth or know-how for activism at that scale.

Unfortunately reality does not "inevitably" progress towards utopia, any more than the life of any individual does.