skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, so my theory on that is that it was all Jony Ive fault. Back in the days when Jobs was still around he was a natural counter balance to Ive. He wanted everything to be not only 'beautiful' but most notably just working. Ive was great source of new design ideas for him and he was usually throwing away bad ones (from technical point of view) and leaving the god ones (of course there was some mistakes but over all it was working just fine).

At some point Ive became to have major role in making decisions of what's going in to production. Jobs had serious health issues, couldn't keep his eye on everything and finally he passed away which made Jony the guy who was making decisions pretty much on his own. I bet that trashcan MacPro, butterfly keyboards, "thinness war", sticking for too long to one design etc., those are all his ideas that he pushed trough.

Quite recently Apple realized that leaving everything in Ives hands is not that good idea after all and I have a feeling that redesigned MacPro and decision to ditch butterfly keyboards from newest MBPs was forced on Ive and that's the real reason behind him becoming external contractor for Apple. They couldn't fire him completely but they needed changes and Jony didn't liked restrictions on his design choices so they've split.

As for the future, we already saw that story in the past and as we know history like to repeat itself. In the next 2-3 years Apple products will become more in line of what users wants. They finally started to listen to people and it will result with better products, at least in short term. Times has changed and I hope that history will not repeat itself in the next step when, like in the 90s, Apple will become shadow of it's former self, trying to build products based on financial statistics and polls and not on engineering and design talent of their employees. After all we think we know what we want but in reality there will be products and solutions that we can't imagine right know and no amount of polls will give the answer to a question what's next, what's behind the horizon.
How do you in most cases prove someone is falsifying what they identify as?
both Google Play Store and Apple App Store use automated app review systems.

Translation: ITs your fault for not keeping abreast of policy changes.

Same is true for desktop app stores as well and browser plugins.

devs and designers stop whining and being irresponsible the users come first not your feelings!
Or the whole room 40 stuff in ww1 basically tracking the German High seas fleet in real time.
I'm not a lawyer, but it feels like an abuse of monopoly power (Antitrust laws)

Google sounds like they are using their control of the Android store to prevent an application being published that competes with their Google Maps Mobile App, which also offers similar public transport tracking and time-table information
I am another long-term Thunderbird user and for most parts, it just works. However, there is a bug related to Global search [CTRL+K] which has still not been fixed, and is extremely frustrating, as it breaks the function of searching all mailboxes. None of the remedies work, or rather they are temporary fixes ie. deleting global-messages-db.sqlite and rebuilding the index, recreating the profile etc.

The problem seems to be related to either the size of the database or the number of messages contained in the folder i.e. 10K+ messages. A meta thread exists in bugzilla related to (Gloda) Global search. There are also various support queries on the topic.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1201650

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541349
You can give WSL2 a try. It has speed improvements.
it seems unlikely that anybody will run against trump on the republican primary but we'll see
le cheeto man rest in pieces
> This keyboard would be, by far, the part of the MacBook Pro that is used the most by everybody who owns one, and it is so poorly engineered for the pursuit of thinness.

I think this is a clear case of over engineering, not just "poor" engineering.
A Strange One: Create Your First Desktop Application with PHP and PHP Desktop
False dichotomy; the world is not solely consist of adware and paid software.
Is this a solid guarantee? Usually on Windows a Trojan replicates itself outside of the main application it was installed through.
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/8112
Not everyone participates, some are scared probably.

The hongkongers are protesting, so in Hong Kong your minority is 100% of the residents.

Your statement is deceptive
I really like KDE but GNOME is more popular afaik.
Hmm... Maybe I'm using something from before this project was finished. The support pages claim that the latest versions have the same behaviours between Win and Mac for the features I was interested in. May be time to upgrade.
Sure, I get that. But the menu bar gets so hella crowded...
> The default assumption in science is that any phenomenon is explainable and predictable

Two points:

a) Not everything is explainable and predictable, and thus under the domain of science.

b) There's a huge (maybe infinite?) class of things that are explainable and predictable and yet aren't algorithms.

An 'algorithm' is a very specific mathematical concept with a very specific definition. It is quite possible that the brain is explainable and predictable and yet isn't an algorithm.

> ...but it's still just crunching data.

Only if you expand 'data' to mean every possible physical phenomenon under the sun, which is disingenuous. (Are hormones 'data'? Is electromagnetic radiation? Etc., etc.)
Sorry the USA did not have many spies in Moscow it was insanely difficult to run anyone.

and quoting "Aldritch Aimes" is a bit like quoting Kim Philby
NHTSA to Begin Testing Road Cars with Camera Systems Instead of Mirrors
I can't stand Emacs on Windows. Even trying to keep a simple TODO list in org-mode is painfully slow for me. I was explaining to a co-worker how amazing emacs and when I showed him all he saw was a lag ridden mess. I use it at home on my Linux desktop mostly with some python development and ledger-mode and it's amazing.
am i the only one skeptical here? the guy put 5000 hours and is paying for advertising but the app is totally free? he doesnt say anything about what could have been flagged as deceptive.
The baker down the street was the only "brand" of bread available, I suspect. Although personally knowing who is making the product fulfills a similar function to branding.
> The fact that people were willing to accept the idea that they needed a diamond is as much the responsibility of the people who wanted to buy them, as it is the responsibility of those who marketed and sold them.

They were marketing diamonds to girls in school [0], shaping whole new generation to value diamonds. How can we expect children to defend themselves against such manipulation? I find this whole campaign amazing in its reach and abhorrent in its content.

[0] "N. W. Ayer outlined a subtle program that included arranging for lecturers to visit high schools across the country. 'All of these lectures revolve around the diamond engagement ring, and are reaching thousands of girls in their assemblies, classes and informal meetings in our leading educational institutions,'"
The Chinese government openly blames the US on these "riots". Their propaganda machine frames the protestor as western manipulation to hold back China. If the US grants HK protestor asylum, that would create more fodder.

There are a few student protestor who were back home in HK over the summer and came back to the US to continue their graduate program. They are the poster child for the Chinese government on how the US sends people to HK, stir up trouble and then give them protection. They are labeled as cowards for abandoning HK and how they themselves do not believe in the movement because they fled. The Chinese media airs this to discredit the protestor and remove support.

IMHO at this stage, it would cause more harm than benefit to their cause.
It's hackernews... Many people here seem to totally lack any sort of reasonable scepsis when it comes to authorities.
Crypto-Jacking Virus on 850k Devices Cost Millions
Two people already are: Bill Weld and Joe Walsh.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-hard-to-know-what-k...
Doubtful that a clinical psychologist would grasp 300 books in a highly mathematical field. You know, next to doing his job.

I’m not saying he isn’t smart just that his conceptions about Continental philosophers stem from poor understanding and shallow reading of the philosophers’ works.
We have a similar thing called an EngD in the UK. There are about 20 institutions that do, most of them well regarded and from what I've heard do a great job at providing you industry links throughout.
brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/4e60ba14762ad17eef498ce5719aa06bc639d2b1/Formula/pastel.rb
The Walmarts I've been in recently have improved considerably on the presentation front.

Shopping at a local Walmart 20 years ago was an unpleasant experience. Junk in the aisles, which were quite narrow, making it hard to maneuver past other shoppers. Insufficient fluorescent lighting. All kinds of things that spoke "cheap". Just overall bad.

Nowadays, there's little to distinguish Target from Walmart... aside from the red vs. blue color scheme.
Who would've thought that one day we'd be thinking about the likes of Apple and Google in the same way as Kafka, and one has to imagine many others, thought about the bureaucracy of the Dual Monarchy.
It refers to all of Googles code. And in this case the possibility to run it on PowerPC servers.
John is like many of the people Ive met that have no problem conveying a lot of dense information quickly and easily and avoiding speech patterns that are overly technical and difficult to understand. Some of the most intelligent people I know are able to do that. That is a very underrated skill that I wish I had. I forever stumble on words when Im explaining something complicated/technical. Its like a cognitive dissonance that I am fighting between saying technical jargon and dumb-ing down to layman's terms. Im sure being on the other end of that it is perceived as condescending or just that I dont know what Im talking about.
ML is more like growing crops than it is about "designing stuff". Growing crops is slow, and you don't know beforehand what the result will be. However, you can still throw a lot of science at growing crops ("plant breeding" is a science), and the same holds for engineering.
I think it's Seth Godin who says (paraphrased): "people don't buy a product, they buy a story". You buy something because the story behind it is good, because it makes you feel good. And the story "you buy crap" does not make you feel good, while "best quality for the price" makes you feel like a clever money saver.
The essay is remarkably prescient.

Brooks dared to predict that thirty years later, software would still be created by programmers sitting in front of editors, painstakingly typing up code branches for all of the scenarios a given program is supposed to handle. And their output would still mostly suck, because of the infinity of possible states, mostly due to variables and synchronicity. Complexity that cannot be abstracted away.

Given how starry-eyed we usually are about even the near future, that is bold.

The web, language advances, tooling - these are quality-of-life improvements. They don't 'solve' the inherent complexity of software development, the way it was promised by CASE tools (Brooks' likely target with his essay) and countless other 'business oriented' approaches. In fact those approaches have failed so many times that they have been largely abandoned, so in recent times, Brooks' essay might seem superfluous.

The one advance that might finally challenge the 'no silver bullet' rule is machine learning. Not yet, given that it is still an esoteric tool for a specialized class of problems, as part of traditional software systems. But with increasing computing power, I can imagine a future where machine learning can be set to work on broader tasks and start to look like magic self-directed software development.
Those countries already have fibre - are you saying 5g is better than fibre for streaming gaming?
The Atlantic has an article out about him today, including interviews where he's extremely reluctant to criticize the sitting Commander in Chief. Him entering the primaries wouldn't fit with that.

> "The duty of silence. If you leave an administration, you owe some silence. When you leave an administration over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity as possible to defend the country. They still have the responsibility of protecting this great big experiment of ours. I know the malevolence some people feel for this country, and we have to give the people who are protecting us some time to carry out their duties without me adding my criticism to the cacophony that is right now so poisonous."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/james-m...
Wood absorbs water causing it to warp, swell and decay. Having said that, steel rebar is expensive which has motivated some organizations to use wood, as well as other plant materials, as a reinforcement material in concrete with some success [1].

[1] https://www.quora.com/Was-wood-used-as-a-reinforcement-mater...
If you do commercial SEPA Transfers, yes there are fees. If you only do push transactions (ie, customers sends SEPA transaction to you), it's largely account management fees.

The pull transaction (SEPA Debit) isn't free, you can buy transaction packets (usually around 5-15€ per 1000 transactions) as well as paying a fee on monthly cash inflow (usually around 0.1-0.3%). Honestly, it's peanuts.
I can tell you with my google daydream watching Netflix and old movies that I never got to see in the cinema is just bliss.
Apple's data shows a deepening dependence on China as Trump's tariffs loom
> roughly the same ecosystem for POWER as x86

Can a solo developer rent a cloud VM running POWER at a reasonable price yet?
Also the point the commenter thinks they're original in making is the main point of the actual article.
Emacs performance in general (not just Windows) has been a complaint forever. Back when Emacs was first launched, and machine memory was measured in megabytes, people joked it stood for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
You're making a whole lot of unfounded and unproven assumptions here!

For example: what if the current genetic diversity on Earth is the result of genetic engineering by ancient aliums?

That's a facile example, but there are serious deeper issues here. The mechanisms of gene transfer are too complex for us to explain presently, including things like viruses, horizontal transfer, etc.

You're assuming a simplistic darwinist model that we already know isn't true.
Linux's accessibility didn't get worse due to a particular OSX release though, so the way you phrased it was quite confusing. I'm not sure you're right, either. Debian seems to have had TTS and Braille device support (including during installation) since before OSX 10.3 was released.
FWIW, Linuxbrew is shaping up to be a solid tool as well.

Want to install your favorite text editor on a server and don't have root? Need a CLI utility and your sysadmin is slow/lazy? System package is ancient and you need a newer version? Linuxbrew solves all of those problems.

Heck, you could even rig up a shell script to toggle among Brew installations in order to create self-contained dev environments, synchronize with a Brewfile, and generate a Brewfile.lock.
exactly. people are noticing it with google but its all tech companies where your only point of contact is an email address. paypal, uber, facebook, steam, etc etc -- they all deny service to innocent people on a regular basis with no recourse for them. it reminds me of pre social justice movement. isnt it the business' right to deny service to anyone they want to? like all black people? actually, no.
Long time iOS user and I don’t want to open the App Store. If you look at something like the Nintendo Switch’s eShop, you can get download codes from retailers. I believe retailers get some cut from the sale. Maybe apple could open it up in an indirect way.

In the video game console world you’ve never been able to install your own games. I can’t do it with my car infotainment system either and they have a crude App Store.
How do you change everything on a system to use JSON format? My syslog (Debian) is filled with text-line entries, and I've not seen a setting to change this.
First heard that joke in the 80s, only it was for Lada
Hong Kong’s Twin Questions of Democracy and Self-Determination
The authors draw from traditional genetic algorithms (NEAT http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf ) but this appears to be one of the first papers (at least recently) where proposed architectures are not trained but rather given random weights. The authors here try to qualitatively distill the role of architecture (vs optimization) in neural net research.

The work here is in a similar vein as the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03635.pdf ), which found that deep nets (for vision) contain discriminative sub-networks at initialization time (due to random initialization), before training ever starts.

While the authors of this work on architecture search say they hope to inspire the discovery of new architectures, a more immediately striking result of their work is that they get functioning systems from doing something “stupid” (i.e. not optimizing weights).
A rare exception doesn’t change or invalidate the norm.
Still waiting for Guile Emacs to solve that.
Digital agencies are poor value for money
Sadly Zsh uses ! for history expansion so they'd all have to be escaped in that shell.
I think only the Thinkpad X1 Yoga retracts its keys, right? I haven't been able to try that one yet, but I'm certainly hopeful it fixes this problem.

I don't expect one-handed use from it. I'm interested in a very large tablet to read large PDFs without having to zoom, basically like it's regular A4 size paper. If that tablet can also turn into a laptop, then that's a nice bonus.

Which model do you have?
The Reactive Framework Accounting Problem
Smaller iot manufacturers like... Amazon
Our love affair with big data
It's not exactly what you see it as. Communism is failing in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping When Mao died the inland folks went to capitalism. Hong Kong because of proper capitalism and small government became a gigantic hub of success. Which made Shenzhen and guangdong blow up in size.

GDP of Guangdong in the year 2000 was around 130 million USD. Which is pathetic, there are buildings in hong Kong worth more than that. Today Guangdong is worth over a billion in gdp; because they made it a free trade zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen#/media/File:Shenzhen,...

All because of capitalism and free trade.

Then this guy took power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping

He supports communism but communism is dying.

The problem is that Trump's trade war is also not what you think it is; and the death blow just happened. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/trump...

This has actually been conceded. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/its-official-no-mo...

It's official. So chinese exports just got tremendously more expensive. People will buy less from China.

https://outline.com/j2K7ax

Greece's public debt for their crash was about 300%. Which resulted in 30% unemployment and 50% poverty. Greece's communist policies did this to them; it's about to do it to China.

Hong Kong doesn't want to be apart of that crash. Hong Kong will be used to liquidate and prolong the Chinese crash.
> The easiest way to identify a monopoly is to look at how badly a company can treat its customers and still get away with it.

The only way of identifying a monopoly is to see if they have (very close to) 100% market share.

What you're talking about is a company with market power. Incidentally, this is also what the FTC regulates. Being a monopoly is 100% legal as long as you don't abuse your market position. And you can abuse your market position without being a monopoly.

Maybe you think that's pedantic, but I think it's an important distinction. Google is not a monopoly - they have significant competition in every market they're in. But they are still very abusive in wielding their power.
Considering this is a South-American virus, I suspect that it actually is making more than most SW devs over there...
And only a few years ago, before the thinnness wars, this would have been a complete non-issue: One would just fly without the battery attached, as those were easily removable.
And the Republican National Committee has stated that they won't support anyone but Donald Trump.
One really cool trick is how search doesn't work on google maps app when I disable my location services.

Luckily you can just use the browser to work around it.
I searched for an error message yesterday and Search removed 18 of the 20 keywords (they are all scratched out as 'missing'). The only remaining keywords were for the platform I had the error on. Thousands of results that were all completely irrelevant. I was completely stunned how something I rely on could suddenly do that. What is the point?

Google's monopoly has gotten to the point where they do not care how their products perform, just so long as the money continues to rain in.
> To this end, we will be making Microsoft’s technical specification for exFAT publicly available to facilitate development of conformant, interoperable implementations.

How about their FAT patents??
It's a shame that you're being downvoted, although I'm hoping it's more because of your tone and language than for discussing alternative viewpoints.

The fact of the matter is that the theory of evolution is the best fit for the evidence we currently have available. It doesn't mean that it's "true", and of course scientific theories have been overturned in the past as new evidence has become available. So while the theory you put forward is certainly possible, I'm not familiar with any actual evidence for it. Can you point us to any?

(I'm genuinely curious and trying not to come across as facetious - apologies if it seems that way)
If I produced applications with that level of security, i would be unemployed.
Kind of like McClellan vs Lincoln. Wait no nothing like that.
Show HN: Data-viz project for ray-tracing the Moon model
Tbh there isn't much security in SEPA either. The only reason SEPA Debit Fraud is rare is because A) it requires you having a bank account with a verified address and business registration and B) the bank is liable if the vendor goes fraudstering. The bank gets the money from the fraudster or they loose it.

You can also easily block or reverse transfers either in general or for specific merchants including down to blocking only weekly payments under 50€ from vendor X if you want to be really specific.
After 3-4 attempts of 7 days over the last 1 year. I finally had it up and running happliy.
As I recall it, that was one academic cycling round one city for a month or so wasn't it? I'd be interested in a citation.
It's an unnecessary extra hurdle. Unless it's the default, it's basically not existent.
Great job a very good example of programmable editor.

Emacs had been my work horse since 2002 and never disappointed. In the meantime tried many ide only vim and emacs stayed with me. Sometimes do use nano and sublime text but then back to either emacs or vi.

All those shiny IDE based on electron, Java or C++ are just too slow to be productive be it VScode, atom or eclipse or visual studio or kdevelop. I am forced to use them due to tooling support for some framework. But I avoid them as much as possible once I have configured emacs to work with the language or sdk or framework or library in question.
> MATTE SCREEN

Some of the old thinkpads had a display where you could turn off the backlight outside and use the sunlight.