skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The structure of your website's data is less important than its moderation process. High quality online communities tend to have strong, well-defined moderation policies – Wikipedia and Stack Overflow are good examples, as are HN and certain subreddits (eg AskHistorians).

Regardless of the technology behind a website, online communities without strong moderation tend to die over time as low quality content crowds out everything else.
heh.

> failing to address pending scalability issues

How is that not related to not getting enough funding and resources?

And yes, having scalability issues means moving too fast - the _business_ moving too fast.
Design and advertising are used to make devices look obsolete when they're actually still perfectly good to use. Consumers choose to buy new devices instead of repairing/upgrading their old devices. Devices become harder to repair, making repairs more expensive. Consumers repair even less.
I'm lucky enough to be on Android One, so the only contact point I've with Android OS is the notifications and every now and then the settings app, everything else I've replaced, from the launcher to alarm application to the browser.

People care of iOS mostly because they're forced to interact with iOS bundled apps daily and well, if you compare those bundled app with the mess that's on non Android One devices Apple comes on top, but there are other choices.
Census Data Shows Thousands More Moving Out of LA, OC Than Moving In
I think the US military budget could be cut and still retain most of the capability. Ask a general which bases to cut and they will tell you stateside bases that are in expensive areas. The most useful bases are the ones that are overseas. The conflict of interest comes as congress is responsible for budgets and no senator or rep will ever willingly part with a base in their state.
> America did not elect this administration by a majority of the popular vote.

This is technically correct. Less accurate, but implied, is that a majority of voters wanted a different president. That may be the case, but the evidence is not sufficient to confirm or reject it.

First off is that turnout is very low relative to the number of eligible voters. Secondly is that the electoral college and states' decision to only do "all-or-nothing" apportionment means that it's a totally rational decision to stay home if your state is not close, since your vote has no chance of affecting the election besides the value of signalling that opposition to the consensus exists.

If Lessig's scheme [1] works out to break the winner-take-all apportionment, we could at least start to see some meaningful turnouts because the battle for a single electoral vote can be a close contest. More likely to succeed by less interesting (because your vote does not contribute to a single outcome but just to the collective) we have the interstate compact [2], which this year has made good progress towards achieving a majority.

[1] https://equalvotes.us

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
Uggh. RedHat has a long history now of replacing working stuff with half baked, regressed-by-design replacements.

I’d really like to have a working Unix environment, and Linux stopped being that for me years ago.

More conservative alternative distros keep bit rotting due to upstream (usually RedHat induced) breakage. (SystemD, Wayland, DBUS, PulseAudio, Gnome 3, kernel API brain damage, etc)

Does anyone know of any alternatives? Is there a distro/foundation that will actually support open source Unix moving forward (BSD, maybe?)
Maybe fail fast should also include ... fail cheap?

>Lots of once-hyped companies live on the “Remember this?” spectrum. On one end, there is a cluster of fast flameouts — the Yo-Ello-Peach-Meerkat-Stolen-Clinkle-Secret-Color coterie.

That makes me think someone should create (maybe has) a start-up graveyard for folks to peruse.
There is nothing special about 2019 though. For Americans, the US war machine was always something vague and remote that sucks in money and spits out veterans who need to be taken of.

However for many of those who live outside of USA, overseas where the US military operates, we understand that power vacuums are very potent and if not for US, some other country will fill the void, with soft or hard power. It’s not just China and Russia; its also Turkey and Iran, for example.

We don’t have much for a frame of reference, but I’ll tell you that the this era of Pax Americana, spanning WWII until today, has been, more or less, heavenly. Free trade and democracy have been sprouting everywhere, and under the US military umbrella and peace keeping, many nations were able to divert resources into developing their societies, not worried that they’ll be plundered by some aspiring empire.
Now, I specifically clarified that I wouldn't call it a problem.

Issue is not a weird word in development.

There are a lot of actual big problems with your reasoning, but there are more productive things for me to concentrate on.
Zulip and a very big disk.
I think this mostly works for the US. But in Europe with the hole GDPR thing I guess there there is more then just me thinking that we did right in rolling our own, because having to switch would have been a lot of work.
I had the pleasure of participating in the synchronous live-stream of the course and loved it.

Looking forward to the release of v2 of the library that was prototyped during the course!

Roadmap: https://forums.fast.ai/t/fastai-v2-roadmap/46661
I'd encourage you to do it...

And then build this. https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/mobile-sigint-hacking-on-a-c...

Companies have been putting radio transceivers in all sorts of devices, and almost all of them are insecure piles of rubbish. Yet because the tools to analyze them have been nearly non-existent, I designed and built the RadioInstigator.

We're just now seeing radio-fuzzing and other attacks. And I'd expect that this area is going to explode in the coming year. SigInt is now in the hands of the average joe and jane. Devices that relied on security as 'cant easily get the gear' are no longer secure. It's now just a matter of time.
you obviously never refactored/debugged an old and massive code base written by people of various competency level...
Not the OP, and I would not have put it like the OP did, but I can't help but think of the tariffs put in place on memory chips back in the late 80s. In fact, I had to Google the date to make sure I got it right and in doing so, I noticed articles saying that Trump is comparing what he's doing with the tariffs that Regan put in place. Those tariffs had the effect of completely destroying the last of the US memory chip production. The parallels are kind of interesting.

I actually have no good insight to add as I have no idea if the tariffs that Trump has put in place will have the desired effect. I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess. I think it's an area where even an expert can embarrass themselves by claiming that they can predict what will happen -- and I'm definitely no expert. It will be interesting to see how it unfolds, though.
It's sad that maintenance mode != dead. They should have put X-Windows out of its misery decades ago!

What's actually sad is that its replacement, Wayland, didn't learn any of the lessons of NeWS (or what we now call AJAX) and Emacs.

They could at least throw a JavaScript engine in as an afterthought. But it's WAY too late to actually design the entire thing AROUND an extension language, like NeWS and Emacs and TCL/Tk, which is how it should have been in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently:

+ used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming.

+ used PostScript graphics instead of DHTML and CSS for rendering.

+ used PostScript data instead of XML and JSON for data representation.

Designing a system around an extension language from day one is a WHOLE lot better than nailing an extension language onto the side of something that was designed without one (and thus suffers from Greenspun's tenth rule). This isn't rocket surgery, people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

>Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39...

>If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles — but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. - Marus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation
I really like the distinction Crystal makes here, which is that values on the stack is usually inferred, whereas values on the heap is a lot more explicit (though inference can be applied to some level there too, in initializers). It makes it nice to work with while at the same time encouraging reasonable amounts of thinking about memory layout.
A Second U.S. City Has Banned Facial Recognition
Not necessarily better than IRC, but email is a pain.
Congress wants to fund the military, especially when their are bases in their own state. That means lots of dollars taken from elsewhere in the country and spent in their state.
They're still being sold with lead-acid batteries because they're cheap, and they're good enough for those applications. LiIon batteries are significantly more expensive, but if the application requires that performance (like EVs), then that's what you use. No one cares about having a golf cart with a 100-mile range.
I am curious how you justify your position by looking at few members of the team. Trade is a complex issue and Trump single handedly is jeopardizing this sensitive topic by openly declaring trade wars with multiple nations in open platform like Twitter. Where were those members when that was and is still happening?
I'm not even sure that's all that true. Wayland is still missing a bunch of things that people desire from X or other OS's display systems.
huh? KDE Plasma 5 works well, GNOME and KDE are considering/merging nvidia proprietary support (fuck nvidia, btw)
I think what may have triggered people here were the absolute terms (can’t remember ever having to do “maintaining” after the initial setup).

In this forum you'll be hard pressed to find someone who thinks it's a good idea to leave a cloud-based (or any internet-facing, really) server completely without maintenance for any significant period of time.

If you had said that usually it's as simple as checking in every now and again to reboot / make sure security updates are installed / check functionality and that it's a manageable burden which is worth the effort you might have gotten a more favourable response.

Edit: or if you had automated it to an acceptable level, maybe some more information about that.
Sigh, thanks. Should have read it all.
Rust Views Tradeoffs
They should call this sort of event a 'Slackening'
So you don’t use open source
Okay, how many node package managers do you think there are for the npm registry?

Bower? Nope, it used github.

Entropic? Nope, federated as an alternative to npm Inc's monopoly.

JSPM? Nope, it loads modules directly off the web.

Pnpm? Ah, yes, this one is actually a replacement for the npm client like yarn although with much less traction.

So we have npm, yarn and pnpm. Compare that to apt, aptitude, apt-get, dpkg, synaptic, gdpm, gnome-apt, dselect, wajig, PackageKit, kpackage and gdebi. Sure, most of these are GUI tools or somehow build on low-level tools like apt-get but the point is that "Linux doesn't suffer from fragmentation but JS package management does" is absurd.

EDIT: This doesn't even go into there being at least three popular mutually incompatible package systems for Linux (Arch/RedHat/Debian) and every distro having its own registry (or "repository").
The greatest advantage of writing is that it exposes your own thinking and ideas as sloppy and confused.
The Essence of Apple’s Decision
Is Hadoop Dead?
1. Download Tor Browser Bundle
2. Connect to the Tor network
3. Download a user-agent switcher in the plugin store in TBB
4. Change user-agent to "windows, chrome"
It should be against the law to make non-repairable electronics. The world is literally about to end and we cannot afford to sacrifice everything on the altar of some sort of platonic notion of beauty.
Afaik the radiative cooling element should not point to the sun for good performance. On the other hand you want to have your solar cell pointing to the sun. So at least one of them doesn't perform well.

Eg. on a building with tilted roof (prevalent in Middle Europe ) one would like to mount the former on the north side and the latter on the south side for good performance. Unfortunately the article does make no mention of it.
There are stacks of US companies that have made a significant entry into China:

* Coke
* Starbucks (the largest one in the world is currently in Shanghai)
* KFC
* McDonalds
* Pizza Hut
* Domino's Pizza
* US movies regularly make as much money in China as they do in the US.
* General Motors sells more cars in China than in the US.

Have they put in place limits that they are legally allowed to put in place based in WTO rules? Yes.

Part of the reason that AWS has two separate companies is because China, the US & the EU have laws like the CLOUD Act, GDPR and CDPR. It is easier to keep all companies seperate or at least siloed which is what most large companies do.
But why would market share matter if the browser is more than capable of handling whatever content a site serves. I don't see this relevant to the issue.

I think the fact that Firefox doesn't announce the device's model in its UA could be a factor so some sites fall back to their lower quality version by default but it sucks that we can't force the higher quality version.
> If GitHub is unavailable, the repository itself is unreachable.

If a central repository is unavailable, a decentralised version control system should continue to function. If developers are creating fragile tooling that centralises a by-design decentralised service, that feels like a flawed decision.
If it's a temporary outage, eg. network loss of a datacenter, email is not lost. It will be delivered with a delay, tried over and over again, until the timeout limit is reached. Due to the async nature the delay is not a problem.
Distributed Denial Of...Slack?
Only if somebody uses a human generated number (as done in this case). If it's genuinely random then it could take humans quite a while.
Run a virus scan after clicking on nashahg's link.
Bitcoin awareness is soaring in America says new report
> lack of Wayland for the VideoCore 6

What?

Even VideoCore 4 with the Mesa vc4 driver supports Wayland — since it's Mesa, of course it implements GBM and whatnot. I've used Weston on an RPi3 with Arch Linux ARM.

For VideoCore 5/6, IIUC the only driver is Mesa v3d, even better situation, of course everything should work, and it will always work since no proprietary crap driver would ever get into people's hands.
Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China
NASA’s restored Apollo Mission Control is a slice of 60s life, frozen in amber
what are the implications of making this change to auto_master, beyond risk mitigation (i.e. to everyday use)?
> and wouldn't explain why to the teachers.

Looks like they thought to ask him, but a kid's parent will be able to extract better info out of them.
You would think that the space for text documents would be negligible to the point that it would make more sense to count documents against the quota.
I'm pretty sure the occupants of the Chinese concentration camps didn't climb a fence to get in there.
Amazon, Google, seem far far worse. I wasn't intending for my post to me representative, just that the CF outage is recent and affects me more personally than the others atm. Also, I had zero expectation my comment would actually be read, this is quite a surprise.

If it's any incentive, if the status page had any inkling that something was wrong, I'd be first on here posting "omg their status page is real".
"its not hard to see how $10-100 billion or more of other peoples money mostly being burned"

Creative destruction is both a weakness and a strength though.

Yes you have billions being thrown at the wall and seeing what sticks, but some of it will stick, and based on past experience will more than offset what fell to the floor.

The Hedge fund you mentioned, if you're right should be very successful, that will attract more money, until eventually there will be too much money going into these underfunded areas.

You seem to be complaining about essential features of capitalism, on one level you may be correct, just like observing that eating too much pizza will make you fat, but just like the fat, it's an inherent 'feature' that you can't really fix.

Ps
"I wouldn't say there isn't investment in new industries/tech upstream, but that it isn't in anything at a point that's driving consumer demand/profits"

Much handwringing has been had complaining about the short termism of the markets, investing long term is good, yes ideally there should be a constant pipeline of new products, I don't think you can write off the industry that there isn't though.
Globalization is simply an extension of the US global policy. Democracy and free trade are rewarded. It’s not a coincidence that globalization speaks English and builds on American infrastructure (such as the very internet).
What if they decide to say that anyone selling to China is not allowed to sell to the USA?
The railguns can be used to shoot down missiles. Interception is a matter of speed. If railguns are faster they win and we are back to fighting with bullets.
Google and Facebook et al stores and processes PII on non-customers, without informed consent given from users.

It's still early days. We'll see what will happen when the DPA's and the courts have fielded a few high profile cases.
“Hidden Consciousness” Could Predict Recovery for Brain Injury Patients
I know you can in Discord, I'd be shocked if Slack doesn't let you do that. checks Settings

Yes, you can mute a channel and suppress @everyone and @here if you want. Still friggin nuts that a chat service can bring a modern machine to it's knees.
The US is not running a network of concentration camps.

A hundred thousand illegal immigrants per month are being caught crossing into the US through the southern border.

No other liberal democracy - from Canada to Finland to Japan to Australia - would tolerate such a flood of illegal immigration. Not even remotely close. Canada freaks out when a couple thousand illegal immigrants cross into its territory from the US in a given month.

Holding illegal immigrants in detention facilities, because there is nowhere else to put them until they can be processed, is not the same thing as a concentration camp. Claiming that they're the same thing is a gross abuse of the term and its history.
From what I've heard, container ships with their super shitty fuel may dwarf the pollution of the entire automotive fleet and probably plenty of industries.

Then, a good bet would be to assail the country that contributes the most to consumerism.

As a bonus, this would take out a large portion of the Southeast Asia pollution.
Or at least a way to force users to pay a fee whenever they use those features.
OP originally linked it to some breathy MIT press release which said

"New AI programming language goes beyond deep learning General-purpose language works for computer vision, robotics, statistics, and more"
https://news.mit.edu/2019/ai-programming-gen-0626

I'm pretty sure most sane people agree this is a giant pile of meaningless marketing horse pookey, which is par for the course with MIT these days. That's what I was responding to. And characterizing it as "like stan" is a lot closer to descriptive than anything in that article. I picture whoever writes this stuff for MIT as wearing tap out t-shirts with neck tattoos.
The Unix philosophy has been abandoned at this point. What advantages have we really gained from it? More gaping security flaws? Unnecessary centralization is pushing the old Unix admins who laid the groundwork for Linuxs success into BSDs and other alternatives, and the Linux kernel will likely rot as a result. Could we consider this moment the peak of Linux development?
> It’s lose-lose.

The size of the losses aren't the same, though. Saddam was by no means a benevolent Dictator, and he had plenty of people disappear, tortured and executed. But not nearly anywhere close to the number of people that died because of the Regime Change campaign.

And don't forget: a dictator usually keeps order. A civil war, ISIS roaming through the no-mans-land etc is much worse than a cruel strongman.
Open source is not a service.

You can compare it to public domain work. They are free, as in beer, because their creator is long dead or chose to put them there. He's not gaining anything in return like companies are.
I meant to say "no better use* for capital" but alas, it's too late and a I can't edit the above
nitpick: the C++ style is in most cases

auto string = std::string{};

(old school being just

std::string string;

)
No, it's up to regulators to fix market failures like this one.
Random darts beat hedge fund stars – again
Just yesterday I was musing that if I were King of the (World|Company) I'd want an open-source Slack-alike that I could just drop into the Cloud of my choice and operate entirely within my private network, subject to my own access control just like other internal services, and with full access to all message histories in whatever database-like thing it uses in its Cloud. Sure, I'd still have a SPOF but it's game over anyway if my Cloud goes dark.

Is there such a project, and if so does it have any traction in the real world?

(Oh and ditto for every damn thing Atlassian owns. Yikes.)
Keanu Reeves speak for those who have no voice shirt
Hold a piece of toilet paper to flush, then drop it when bringing hands to ears.
I think OP was thinking about commercial players who do not like to upstream their driver code. This might be for copyright/GPL reasons, or for trade-secret / code obscurity reasons. This is impossible with linux drivers. To quote from your link:

So, if you have a Linux kernel driver that is not in the main kernel tree, what are you, a developer, supposed to do? Releasing a binary driver for every different kernel version for every distribution is a nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface is also a rough job.

Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we are talking about drivers released under a GPL-compatible license here, if your code doesn’t fall under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, -snip-).

Thing is, this excludes quite a lot of drivers from getting into the kernel. And that kind of sucks.
Yes, it is well known that unrestrained capitalism is bad. Next?
We should start working less to prepare for automation
Oh, we're definitely in agreement- conceptually the same, implementation details of a few orders of magnitude different.

Mostly I was replying to the idea that "hey, we've known how to do this for 100 years". Sure we have- conceptually. We knew that batteries/electricity + magnets could implement the same pattern as "chemicals exploding". But we sure as heck didn't know how to make it practical.

That's why it's 100 years later and very few of us have either electric cars or rail guns.
It wasn't so much the lack of computerized management as it was the lack of connections to the rest of the outside world.