skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize how great upgradable components really are until recently. I had a 2.5 year old Lenovo laptop with a fast processor (i7 at 2.8Ghz). Upgraded the RAM to 16GB and replaced the HDD with a SDD. The thing now runs way faster and feels brand new.
>decent terminal

https://github.com/felixse/FluentTerminal is the closest I've found to the feel of the Mac one.
NEWS: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.26.3
TBH this would be a good thing for you, as the developer, to do - "we added 5 lines of code and now it searches for a specific title" etc.
Although if your app is removed from Google Play, they'll happily still display AdMob ads in your app while telling you that you can't collect the earnings because your app was removed from Google Play.
Facebook (as in, a social network) is already dead, it's just that nobody pulled the plug yet.

They have no people to expand to, no new opportunities to monetize the platform. All they can do is squeeze out every last penny they can from the existing user base.

What was the last memorable feature that was added? Stories in like 2015? Facebook (the company) has moved on (to Instagram and WhatsApp), users are less engaged, the content is slowly moving away. Nobody creates a new product and thinks "we gotta have a Facebook presence" anymore.
>I have strictly no idea what business the Rockfellers were in

Standard Oil - ExxonMobil, Chevron Corp., and BP own big parts of that business now.

And lots of other ventures, mines, real estate (remember this Rockefeller Center thing, plus half of NY), etc.
A Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore
I just took a look at Apptoide, why does everything have some sort of coin associated with it.
Does anybody else just close the tab as soon as they see any mention of Bitcoin etc?
Since my coworker got me fired just because I rejected her advances, I am now very careful dealing with women.

She leaned on me while talking to me with her top buttons open, would run her hand over my hair. Joke about me being gay and then I ignore and ignore because I've a girlfriend and I didn't find her attractive because of her bossy/controlling attitude even though she was just my coworker not a manager.

I usually don't make my co-workers friend. I just do what's assigned to me and if I see anything we can improve, I offer suggestions to my manager.

That was the first time I saw guys siding with a physically beautiful woman. They didn't know a thing about me yet sided with her.

Now even when any woman asks me to meet, I ask them to either text me same or email me.
Personally, as an iOS user, I do not want the App Store opened up at all.

Currently, I can go to the App Store, install any app, and be about 99.9% confident that the app will do me (or my technologically illiterate mother) absolutely no harm.

This is something I value highly, and am happy to pay the “Apple premium” for.
Prof Haile-Selassie? Is Haile-Selassie a common last name or has he anything to do with the other Haile Selassie?
The World’s Forests Will Collapse If We Don’t Learn to Say ‘No’
There is, however, a phenomenon called "reverse racism" where privileged members of a majority try to complain about things like affirmative action or diversity outreach.

The idea that there is a discrimination against white people in "traditionally white" countries is absolutely ridiculous. Ethnically motivated violence, for example in the US, is also quite one-sided.
The list doesn't only specify which domains users can register, but it is also used by browsers to determine what constitutes "same origin". This is related to security so even registrars which don't allow the general public to register these domains, it is very much in their interest to add an entry to the public suffix list.

For example, the maintainers of .ac.uk should very much care about the owner of "foo.ac.uk" not being able to set a cookie for "bar.ac.uk", which is partly what the PLS is used for!
TS is probably the best solution to JS problems today. And something like project Deno may even push it one step further.
> I mean, the obvious way to make the bread last longer would be to pump it full of preservatives

You can use sourdough, which is also "pumping it full of preservatives", just ones that are produced naturally right in the dough while it ferments. Sourdough bread takes more time, so it would make sense for it to be more expensive. So it makes sense for cheaper bread to go stale faster.

AFAIR if you go into a French bakery and order a "tradition" instead of a "baguette" you get a baguette made with sourdough.
YouTube TV Review: Channel Lineup, DVR, Local Channels, and More
I think you still need to use Fuse for exFAT on the BSDs...

That might eventually change with the recent patent grant.
I don't look at taking detailed feedback notes as micro-managing, but rather as a way to make sure employees get valuable, specific feedback.

As an example, if my boss said, "hey, you're not really doing that great," but didn't offer specific examples of how I underperformed, I'd be frustrated and not likely to improve. If she said, "Last week at the product meeting, I noticed you were staring off into space and then had to have a question repeated. Are you okay?" I'd be a lot more apt to open up a conversation about things that are bugging me.

I guess I take notes so that my feedback can be specific and not general, not so I can tell employees exactly how to do their jobs.
Sygnum, Switzerland’s first licensed cryptocurrency bank, plans Singapore entry
A set of tools for teaching and learning computer science
Outline VPN, by Jigsaw (a Google/Alphabet subsidiary), is an open source tool that allows you to set up and manage Shadowsocks VPN servers with very little effort. There are clients for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux. It's designed for organizations, but is also easy for individuals to use. Configuration is automatic.

https://getoutline.org

Outline integrates with DigitalOcean (easiest to use), Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services. It also works with any other Linux server host.

Shadowsocks is resistant to the detection methods used by the Great Firewall, but has been steadily declining in effectiveness according to user reports on GitHub. It's still much better than OpenVPN, which reportedly gets interrupted frequently.

If you want a more comprehensive solution, you can also use the Streisand tool to set up a variety of VPN protocols, including OpenConnect, Shadowsocks, and WireGuard. On Streisand, Shadowsocks can be equipped with the V2ray plugin to help evade detection.

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

Streisand's setup process is slower and less reliable than Outline VPN's. There's no management console here, just a shell script (using Ansible) to deploy the services to a server. You are given instructions for manually setting up third-party client software (also open source) after the server deployment is complete.
Quantum Radar Hides in Plain Sight
One interesting aspect is that it takes a lot of energy building the whole compile-to-js frontend framework, yet you are also building your own service. Kudos!

I'm using Elixir and Elm, and understand why Mint happens. I'm keeping eyes on Mint, would love see a build-with-Mint page. This app is the first one!
To be exact, Google did not “delete” the app. It cannot even do that. It removed the app from its own app store. The fundamental problem is that Google’s own app store is perceived by many users to be the only way to install Android apps.

Are there any ideas about how to convince users to use other app stores?
Huawei's next phone will not have Google apps
After 13 years there are still things I have trouble finding on the ribbon that were easy with the menu. And the ribbon totally kills the menu item->keyboard shortcut learning path to efficiently activate things you use in your personal workflow. I am bitter about this one too!
Geologists/geology can be useful in identifying promising sediments with particular characteristics, like dried lake beds, of particular ages.
If you withdraw from a conference cuz of speakers skin color and gender that's racism and sexism.
And what do those competetive asian economis have? Effective regulation.

We also have it in the UK so the large monopoly telecoms provider BT OpenReach have to provide network services to rival ISP's at regulated prices.

In the current climate of fewer regulations in the US this just looks like a road to further exploitation of the populace.
Why Startups Don't Get Funded
That is true. I did not realise this, so thanks. Indeed it says mine is a 2018 model in the "About this Mac" screen.

All this time I thought I had a 2019 model because I ordered it in 2019 and it came direct from the factory in China (not from existing stock).
Neil Shubin's Your inner fish (a pretty cool book, I might add) discusses this briefly in the introduction. From memory, it's a question of combining geological knowledge with knowledge of what you want to find. Basically, you're looking for rocks that are likely to preserve fossils and of the correct environment (no use looking for deep sea sediments when looking for humanoids, for example) and the correct age for the fossils you're interested in. Now that you know more or less what kind of rocks are relevant, you can look at geological maps and find places where these rocks are exposed (and not, say, buried 2000 metres below the surface).
One of my customers told me that they use my Helpinator for this. It allows to generate a static HTML knowledge base that they update from time to time and release to co-workers. It's mosty HR inner company instructions stuff. It's not that I recommend everyone to use it that way, but it's a fun experience to know that someone uses your tool in a way you never thought of.
The world has changed a lot, and quickly. I imagine not too long ago, just having someone in another country, hanging out in cafes reading newspapers and making small talk with the other people there could have brought a lot of info. Info which we take for granted now.
Yup.

There are exceptions, though. Blender failed to make money for the studio that made it, resulting in them selling it to the community for a one-time fee, and it is now one of the great jewels of the open source movement: https://www.blender.org/foundation/history/

It's important to note, though, that in Blender's case the founder remained involved the whole way through, and I think still is. I suspect his dedication and long-term attention is a lot of why it worked out.
Apparently faster and lower power, so a boon for mobile devices, data centres etc - plus a net positive if all computation is performed on them in energy consumption globally.

It doesn't appear that they would be any more environmentally friendly to create in the first place as silicon though.
brute-force is one way to find these things
So ... only two relevant changes this time?
You should still get it fixed because the newer ones are at least a bit improved.
I have a 2016 which has been heavily used for 2 years and a 2017 from work and both keyboards still work fine. So it's not that every keyboard breaks, but I have seen cases in my company as well, but we have hundreds of them here.
Our company had ~15 Google accounts shut down the other day due to apparently the content of our emails being flagged by some kind of automated curation system.

This happened without any warning.

The problem was rectified within 30 minutes of the incident occurring because we contacted support immediately. As soon as they looked over it, we were back online, so it can't have been too serious.

It feels like Google take internal company policies and apply it to all their customers.

Anyway, I'm glad I don't have my personal stuff hosted there anymore.
Free as in Freedom to download CentOS
Looks that way.
So you're talking about moving some servers without having done actual measurements yourself?
Not sure where you're from, but here direct debit requires setting up "direct debit agreement" by the owner of the account, that specifies account number the debit comes from, how often and maximum amount.

So you setup something like "account 123 can debit up to 100 EUR monthly" and the bank enforces that.
With cloud options available for both Elasticsearch and Splunk these days difficulty of setup / ease of use may be better evaluated from the client perspective. I’ve setup both ES and Splunk in the past few years and it’s not terribly different at lower end scale (< 100 GB logs / mo). But currently Splunk is not as good as ELK for metrics and vice verse and with the recent SignalFX acquisition that may change in a couple years but it definitely isn’t now. Also, there’s tons of options for streaming logs to ES besides Logstash including Filebeat which is at least written in Go (Splunk’s forwarders are probably in C given I swear they’ve been mostly the same since the early 2000s).
> VR will be exercise. Could be VR gyms

It s an interesting idea but about the worst situation i can think of. Not only will i be sweating, i 'll be vigorously moving , exacerbating any vestibular reflexes, shifting the headset on my head, and risking getting injured. I think anything that requires too much physical interaction is a bad candidate for VR. My idea of VR is that it amplifies any minute movement of my fingers magically. That feels empowering
Just because there is a continuum does not mean specific points along the continuum cannot be identified and tagged as distinct from all other points. There are humans and there are dolphins two different species. It is analogous to the colour spectrum, there is red and there is blue two different colours.
>but it's hard to tighten the rules after the fact.

Depends on what you mean by tighten the rules. If you tighten the rules for the optimizer by simply allowing everything to alias, that should not introduce bugs into currently well formed programs. (Except that they might be slower.)
Five Security Tips for OpenFaaS on Kubernetes
Members of the same species can procreate fertile offspring. In some edge cases this definition becomes a little fuzzy, but it is clearly more than just a linguistic construct. A mouse and an elephant won't be able to procreate even if the word "species" didn't exist.
I think this applies to communication in large teams in general. There is an amount of shared state that is quite difficult to keep syncronised among different teams. So each team maintains their own version of reality and trys to synchronise it at a particular interval. And a meeting is just one method of syncing.

People realise that the communication overhead is getting out of hand so require longer periods between synchronisation. But this lead to even more discontinuity.
Ah ok, I didn't understand.
Geologists have been studying and codifying various layers of rock and the types of fossils within them across the world for centuries. So it’s well established how old the exposed rock layers are in any particular part of the world long before they had any idea how old things are. Then as dating methods have improved we can make correspondences between these rocks and their age. So as mentioned by another commenter, paleontologists can take that knowledge of how old the rocks are, and what environment they were laid down in, and how they were formed, along with our existing knowledge of the age of various species, and their locations, and then find a likely spot with easily accessible layers from the right location and time period and conditions and they might get lucky.
Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
A link to the release notes would be preferable to the homepage then?
You are correct, but how many applications need push notifications?
Volitional Control of Vocalizations in Crows
I upvoted you because I believe there is a case for the brain not being an 'algorithm' per se. (like ... here is the code:... ) i.e. can be run on any turing-complete computer. And that is it probably requires on timing and architecture too - lots of algorithms running at the same time and being in sync with themselves, the body, the environment. Also algorithm implies something we can understand and make a complete mental model of. Maybe the brain is more like the big ball of mud software we all hate to work on and want to refactor, except in the brain case, "refactoring" would de-optimise the timing I was referring to earlier and perhaps make the brain not work at all. Let alone we all have a different brain! And the brain is self-modifying hardware/software. I think it taking centuries to understand might be correct!
You know what adds credibility to an article about tech? A shallow DOF photograph of some random source code... /s
Sorry about self reply, edit was not available.

Here's a decent paper on the matter of getting research into practice:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241518/
Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.
We probably need to actually look at what the newly open-sourced processor architecture looks like before making assumptions. Perhaps it’s got some amazing merit beyond x86, ARM, etc? Open sourcing it reveals something new and possibly better to the public.

Examine it first then make judgements on the product they are releasing not why they are doing it!
In my case, it was what I discovered after having it explained to me during a job interview why the salary I was asking for wasn’t feasible. The company straight up said they couldn’t afford on top of the recruiter’s commission. I had assumed the recruiter was representing the company, but after that experience I spent time learning about the murky side of recruitment.
I said something similar on a previous post, but more and more, it’s becoming more clear to that “open source” and “profit” are not very compatible.

The truth is simple: if you use a permissive license like MIT, you will probably never see a penny from the thousands of hours you put in, and while you are struggling and feeling drained, people who will never contribute more than a vague “it doesn’t work” GitHub issue are making tremendous profit on your back. The only way to prevent that (at least, that I know of), is using copyleft licenses like GPL, LGPL, etc.

I don’t find many compelling reasons to make anything other than command-line tools open source at this point, and even then, they’d all be GPL. For me, if someone could potentially profit from the work, it makes more sense to simply charge for it. That’s still an option, and we shouldn’t forget it.
Rust is lagging behind in the performance world, especially because it lack openMP/ACC support.
I've been looking at Yoga devices, but holding one in tablet form, my fingers were groping in the keyboard on the back: not exactly comfortable. How is that experience for you?

I'm strongly leaning towards a Thinkpad as replacement for my old Macbook, also because of their excellent keyboards. The only downside is that they don't have a 17" laptop without a separate GPU.
The people listening to his speech were wealthy people, of course they were not insulted, but his clients who bought the stuff were
Uniformly hot nightside temperatures on short-period gas giants
The only worthy math teacher I came across once said "The right answer to 99,9% of the questions I will ask you in the oral exam is: it depends" while smiling cunningly. To answer your questions, the answer is "it depends". What you're really looking for however is not logging, what you're looking for is observability which has 3 pillars:

- Logs

- Metrics

- Tracing and/or APM

The above are true for systems and applications but let's talk applications. Your decision should be based on assessment of at leat the following:

- Do you have compliance requirements? (e.g. GDPR)

- What is your logs/metrics/traces retention period? (let's assume 30 days)

- What is your logs/metrics/traces lifecycle requirements? (are you going to need logs older the 30 days? If not, I'd say don't bother delete everything, keeping them around has managerial and hosting costs)

I advice to take a look at ElasticSearch:

- ElasticSearch for hosting logs

- For sending logs, metrics and tracer you can use filebeat, metricbeat and ElasticSearch APM or Jaeger.

If you are a small startup, I'd say go with ElasticSearch Cloud and use their tools. They do all you need and more.

[1]: I prefer metricbeat over prometheus/grafana because it solves the high availability headache for those who already have an ES cluster and you don't have to support (setup, monitor, manage, scale) an additional stack. You can use a push model which has it's own pros and cons.

ps. No affiliation with elastic, I just spent some time with a variety of their products and like what I see so far.
Goodbye, iTunes
I recently installed a beta of macOS Catalina to try out the new Music app that will replace iTunes. I was disappointed to find out that (1) the installer had removed the iTunes app from the Applications folder, and (2) the new UI was considerably different with some key iTunes features removed or gratuitously altered. I guess it's time to look for a replacement. Sad.
The thing that helped my understanding the most was opening wireshark and just observing.
The only mildly concerning thing about a thunderstorm in a hot weather are the lightings, which very rarely actually hit anything. It's actually nice to get some time out of the excruciating heat.
This argument can very easily be used against people who claim they love Linux and FOSS but they never really seem to be willing to part with the same amount of money other people are willing to give MS. Donating $300 for every copy of Libre Office you use would go a long way to making MS Office on Linux completely unneeded. Same goes for donating similar amounts for every Linux you install. I guess everyone's love has limits and it's usually money.

As for MS's contribution to open source you have to consider the difference in magnitude between the revenue that Office generates and the revenue that their other open source contributions do (would?). Then consider also the development effort involved.

It looks like OP just wants exactly what MS doesn't offer completely disregarding the alternatives, and I'm pretty sure they would not be willing to pay the markup for the extra development involved.
Semi auto vectirizers are the best compromise Cf openMP and also allow to multithread or offload your code on the gpu.
You ensure service by signing a mutual contract where breaking the contract hurts the party that broke it. Expecting the same from the one-sided agreement you sign with Google is like believing in the Easter Bunny.
From TFA:

> This release is mainly a maintenance release, which contains a new GPG key for GNU ELPA packages.
for many of us this fixes a show stopper bug while downloading packages from MELPA/ELPA. I was just trying to setup on a new Fedora box (emacs-26.2) and my setup kept failing on "Failed to download archive...".
> We can't play the victim card. Nobody wants a whining Batman or Spiderman.

I don't know my own opinion on this topic, but framing any form of work in terms of a selfless, uncomplaining heroism seems like ideal advertising copy for corporate exploitation. I know what you're saying which is effectively "only wear the cape if you can fly"...but the subtext could be interpreted as "hey kids be a superhero and by the way superheroes never feel pain or complain...so don't be one of those".
But that’s how these things go.

Nothing works, until something does. And the something has little to do with the actual merits of the thing, but rather, the timing and confluence of events sureounding it.

As an example, the fact that a major Chinese company was fairly capriciously prevented from working may be a triggering event that would concentrate all Chinese companies’ minds towards adopting a new ISA and chip technology that’s open.
Has anyone done a front end to apple notes? All I see are different note taking apps. None being wrappers of Apple Notes.
Microsoft Acquired JClarity