skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once Microsoft ports Visual Studio to Linux the Windows is fucked.

That's the only reason why they don't do it.
Well, you can watch 100km from point A to point B. Or you can ride a horse. If you're rich enough, you can get someone to carry you on their back or you can buy a car to make the whole thing easier because of the technology breakthrough in transport.

That doesn't make Ford or Honda a tech company. They're automobile companies and Postmate is a delivery company.
Obama (and Bush before him) identified China as a threat at least a decade ago, that’s why the US entered the TPP discussions in early 2008, and if the US had ratified, would have been a significantly more effective strategy that would have enhanced the US’s economic and geopolitical position and hurt China’s as opposed to this, which is damaging the US significantly, and while hurting China’s domestic economy, strengthening it on the global stage relative to the US.

Trump has not been a leader, but he has definitely been loud and used a “let’s throw a tantrum till I get what I want” approach, which makes far more noise, but achieves far less.
Mars an absolute bloodbath? Whatever's going on @ Mars is going to be child's play compared to what'll be going on @ the vastly overpopulated and increasingly uninhabitable Earth we neglected while entertaining ourselves with diversions like Mars.

Earth has been in a continuous state of a global war in stasis for longer than I've been alive. The fire under that pressure cooker isn't diminishing as far as I can tell.
34% of our exports come from fuels & oils [0] and 50% of our energy [1]. We contribute essentially nothing to the problem of carbon emissions [2]. We would, at best, be showing leadership by torching our own economy which is unlikely to sway the Indians, Chinese, Americans , etc into following our lead.

We would be doing much better applying our leadership to making billions in exports and showing leadership in renewables & nuclear research. The only contribution Australia can make is finding a way to show that coal isn't the most profitable option. Mandating uneconomic experiments is not the path to doing that.

If the reef goes because of climate change, Australia was never in a position to stop that by reducing our emissions.

[0] http://www.worldstopexports.com/australias-top-10-exports/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Australi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
Calling any country that has the potential to overtake the US "a systemic threat" that must be "fought" is very dangerous.

Essentially this means that the US will try to defend their position as top power by hammering down anything they deem to be getting too big.

This is not realistic and this is how to start WWIII.
What are you asking?

Why/When MacOS transitioned to zsh?

Why; because bash became GPLv3 at some point in history and MacOS couldn’t update their version of bash. (The last GPLv2 version).

When; was catalina (just released)
ive done it myself in a way, being autistic means im somewhat sensitive to my environment, drastic shifts have seen me simply walk out at some places, its partly why im trying to shift to remote work, its much easier to be productive in an environment i control
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please stick to the site guidelines on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's exactly as the sibling comment explains: no big loss to humanity.
Mars only doesn't have anyone there the first time.

What makes you think the interaction between the first and second wave of colonists wouldn't run into all the same problems that we had on Earth?

(Not that I believe there will be any waves of colonists. It'd be easier, and have a better social ROI to make the ocean floor, Antarctica, Mount Everest, or San Francisco hospitable to human life, than it would be to settle Mars.)
Yeah, the hue rotation is really nice. Do you have a real example where it doesn't work?
Everything that exists is there because it survived. Complex systems that do not prioritize survival tend to get eclipsed by those that do.

One very effective way to achieve survival is to build your "self" out of many independent competing subsystems, and select only those that themselves survive. An individual human does not particularly care if some of its cells die; the point is for them to die, such that the overall human remains healthy (when they don't, you get cancer). An individual cell does not care if some of its mitochondria die; this happens naturally at times of low energy use. An individual mitochondrion does not care if glucose molecules are broken down and reconstituted into ATP; that is its function.

On the other end of the spectrum, an individual corporation does not care if it ruins the lives of some of its employees by laying them off; such callousness helps improve the efficiency of the organization itself. A healthy economy does not care if the individual firms that comprise it go bankrupt, because this is the only way to free up inefficiently-used resources before they drain the whole economy of its vitality.

A lot of things that suck come from competing interests across the different levels. To the corporation, layoffs are a good thing, and the share price goes up when they happen; to the individuals laid off, they're a tragedy. At the species level, evolution is what gave us the richness of biodiversity we see; at the individual level, it gives us death and fruitless competition to pass on our genes.

If the machines manage to take over, it'll be because they manage to evolve this fractal competition within them, in which case they'll just replicate human foibles at the lower levels. (Won't somebody think of the poor software libraries, replaced by a shifting package.json?) If they don't evolve this, they will themselves remain tools, subject to replacement at the whim of their human masters.
I don't use it, so I don't know the previous behavior. But in Catalina, when I use Ctrl-Up, the desktop zooms out and a narrow strip appears on top, labeled "Desktop 1", "Desktop 2", "Desktop 3", etc. When you move your mouse over to the label, it expands into a preview.
i think it is directly related - some people stand up to (including with a risk to themselves as one can only wonder what painful consequences may come from obstructing a federal officer), some take money from.

For some reason mentioning obvious and strong historic parallels to the Nazi Germany is considered controversial here in the US - well, i come from USSR, a country which lost close to 30M of people due to the Nazi Germany, among them millions of Slavic (my ethnicity) and Jews (both are "subhuman races" with Slavic slated for 90% extermination with the rest to be enslaved, Jews - for 100%), my grandmother was a highly decorated veteran of that war, and a number of the members of extended family fought in the war too with some getting killed, and i see no reason to forget the history. If anything, i think we have to be vigilant in discovering, highlighting and fighting today anything and everything (like the complacence and cooperation with sub-humanization of a whole class of people) that back then resulted in such a catastrophe. Identifying the historic parallels is among the main tools here.
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They are humans, of course they like and dislike doing things. However, that doesn't define work. You can also dislike your work. Still, you are paid for it.
In case anyone needs a history lesson, here's a good refresher: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2277550/microsoft-to-im...

"UAC was created with the intention of putting you in control of your system, reducing cost of ownership over time and improving the software ecosystem," according to the post, which is attributed to Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development for Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division. "What we've learned is that we only got part of the way there in Vista and some folks think we accomplished the opposite."
The pivot to Asia was extremely sensible policy.

It recognised that Asia was going to be the most important region by far, and that short of a war China and likely India were going to be superpowers at least as big as the US.

Therefore the logical conclusion was to engage in order for the US to be able to influence and to reap the economic benefits.
I agree that it is clear, but I still struggle to figure out (by myself) how to do (in an awk sense) simple things like:

Filter out empty or null values:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39500608/remove-all-null...

I seem to either end up with unwieldy, long/verbose solutions - or shorter ones that does not work :)
TBH I saw this coming at the reveal premiere when everyone was boo'ing at it.
Probably? Why would that be different?
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I guess I'm behind the times. Is the Candy Crush installer still in the Start menu? Do they still randomly revert telemetry settings on updates? What was that thing I read last week about no more local user accounts? Maybe all of these things have little asterisks on them, but at this point I don't care anymore.

Chrome and Firefox are also noticeably faster on Linux than on a fresh Windows install on the same machine. Don't know WTF is up with that, but this has been consistent for years.
Yes after 5pm weekdays and on the weekend there are plenty of flat rate places for $15 or about $10 more towards the north end of town.

I just wish they'd build more parking near some of the suburban train stations. It's usually OK far from the CBD, but a park and ride strategy would definitely help at places 15-20 minutes out. Mascot and Green Square have both gone through a lot of development, are expecting a lot of new people, and still have tiny roads with no dedicated parking near stations.
While this definitely exists, I’m not completely convinced the true intensity of the Chinese exactly matches the front that Beijing allows forth. I’m confident that most Chinese are unhappy (maybe very unhappy) with the comments, but an entirely organic nationwide boycott seems a little farfetched to me. Chinese aren’t robots; there’s significant variance of opinions and eagerness about politics among them just like all other humans.

However, if the government chooses to grease the wheels of fury or even light the flame via astroturfing while simultaneously censoring dissenting opinions, they look mighty unified.

Remember, this tweet was on _Twitter_. Twitter is banned in China, which raises the question of how this became such a mainstream issue there organically. Sure, I suppose it’s possible that an expat reshared it on Weibo and the entire country went bananas but that seems a like a bit of a stretch to me.
You seriously think that Mars will escape that? That the overpopulated proles on increasingly uninhabitable Earth will silently watch as constant resupply launches head for Mars? I think there have been a selection of movies along those lines. :)

If it's going to be child's play, how come none of the attempts to achieve an ongoing sealed biome have been successful? Nearest so far was the Soviets in the seventies during their lunar programme.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, that will certainly be fixed. The reason is that Safari doesn't support .webm format that we are using for recording. We will need to serve .mp4 to Safari users.
Have you tried ConqueGDB? It lets you start the GDB from within your vim session and uses your vim buffers to show the current file. I recently started using it and didn't really get into familiarizing with it yet, but it seems to integrate the gdb quite well. I am uncertain whether or not you can set breakpoints within the code though.
Chromium recently crossed a million bugs. And if you count Chromium and Blink together (they're in one repository for quite some time now), it's probably over a million commits too.
I agree that each course of treatment depends on each patient's individual situation and priorities. And I absolutely believe that each patient has the right to decide their own treatment when facing such a serious diagnosis.

What I object to is someone without medical training reading a few articles online and then posting universal declarations that fasting is good for everyone on chemo, and that people shouldn't trust oncologists for some reason. Obviously that's not you.
Between this, the bit about "women are dead weight", and numerous violations of the site guidelines in the past, we've banned this account for trolling.

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I really wouldn't want to use a Linux laptop for work unless I had a WM installed like i3 or dwm, so I could completely ignore the awful trackpad. Apple may be bad at some things, but trackpads are not one of those things.
10 years ago we had 802.11 a/b/g - n wasn't approved until October 2009 and not generally available until 2010.

In your case I'd imagine these are multi million dollar machines vs a $30 bottom line home router.
I find the story of Walter Shaw Sr. even more instructive.

Independent inventor convicted and gaoled by AT&T for "misdemeanor attachment", the crime of attaching non-AT&T equipment to AT&T's phone network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_L._Shaw

More on this in the first bit of "The Inventor and the Thief" on Snap Judgement:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/snapjudgment/episodes/l...
Miss Snow Leopard too, last sane release ... everything was in a much better balance and care. I keep it in one machine as reference point to make sure I am writing good apps.
Standard containers/algorithms/iterators have some caveats like messing up the erase-remove idiom by forgetting to pass the end iterator.
Ask HN: Why are we so reluctant to use IPv6?
its been about for a long time now and weve known about the IPv4 shortage for as long. while addresses in IPv6 may be a bit of a pain surely there must be a bigger reason that its not yet become the default system

Why is it that were not using it more?
Yes the world, at least the world that matters, is made of the western countries that fought WWI.

The poppy incident is an illustration of this arrogance and ignorance of the real world.
> [...] within some arbitrary time?

It's 6 months - and you receive notifications after 14, 21, 28, 60 and 90 days. It should be possible for the backup machine to connect to the backblaze server twice a year. I think it's reasonable.
It would be interesting to know whether people living in a country with a broken political system, for example one characterized by oligarchy[1] and two eternal parties[2], are more likely to feel that it's the duty of employer to carry their political placard.

I definitely think companies have a moral duty to spend their efforts on good things, and there are many examples of deeply immoral companies.

But any society will also have political questions where people disagree, without there being a strong good/evil aspect to it. For example 'should the tax rate be 25%' or 'how should we organize our healthy system for the lowest cost / GDP'?

Forcing every company to debate these questions internally, and kicking customers off their product for violations, seems like an inefficient system.

But I think employee demand for such things will be higher in countries where they don't feel represented via the political system.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Cri...
A quick web search yields no information about how Cellebrite might be able to achieve this. Does anybody have any inside knowledge? Has anybody played with one of these devices?
You can review later by going to System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Privacy, then looking at the various permissions to see what apps have been allowed.
That's where the minimum standards aspect comes in. The problem of noncompetitive monopolies failing to innovate and actively quashing independent inventors (see: Walter Shaw, Sr., amongst many others) is a risk of this approach.
> If China is 15-20 years behind currently, I doubt they will ever be at parity.

Yes, no lesson from world history is more obvious and robust than "once in the lead, always in the lead".
> 1969 -> 2019 is lamesauce nonsense compared to the progress we got from 1919-1969

Machine perception is pretty high up there. We weren't close in 1969.
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You should see Hate-Speech more like nuclear chain reaction and laws against that as neutron traps.
Please add IE6 support
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. Seriously not cool, regardless of how bad the other comments were.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't troll on HN.
How about just making it a private "no-parking" area and then towing the wrongly parked cars into a pound and asking a nice fee to have the car reclaimed at $500 apiece?

Like here

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPLjrMiMW2zSIMNZjjSRjQw
It never mattered to me, when it came to upgrade I always had to upgrade the motherboard as well, thus ending up buying a full PC, as in Portugal there was hardly any monetary benefit building yourself the PC vs buying a new one.
As I mentioned above, the Chinese are undoubtedly extremely sensitive about HK (I would argue due to propaganda but that’s irrelevant to the question). There is some amount of authenticity this (definitely at least 50%) and the HK protests are truly almost universally very unpopular in the mainland. That said, the degree to which this particular outrage is manufactured by Beijing vs organic is extremely difficult to determine.
AT&T later in its history, 1960s - 1970s, offered the option of uplines (touch-tone, "Streamline", "Princess", and eventually Mickey Mouse telephones) as service upgrades. So there wasn't no interest in innovation, though I'd agree with the general view that the interest was low.
Oh, I know. I use Python more by necessity than choice and
it's only made bearable by features that Guido doesn't want
to be there!

If only it had tail call optimisation, multi-line lambdas
and other features that Guido doesn't want. Then it might
be even more than bearable.
Guaranteed money is better than maybe-money too. Most operators will take a guaranteed 8 hours compared to maybe filling a spot later. Taking this to the extreme, many places here sell monthly packages for commuters.

The variable hourly-rates is also a form of price anchoring and takes advantage of sunk costs. Look at Westfield's Sydney CBD rates here: https://www.westfield.com.au/sydney/parking

Once you pay that first $35 it's not so bad to stick around and spend a bit more. Westfield has a vested interest in this since they run the shopping centre, but other local operators have to compete with this so can't be too much more expensive.
I draw no conclusions about his legal win.

But I do note that he is a scientist who worked on the reef and he completely disagrees.

I additionally note that he was pretty aggressively silenced and his livelihood taken away, "unfairly" according to the courts. I worry that this is how you get to 99% - crushing dissent through intimidation, and not debating? He says he only spoke up because he was so close to retirement age, and he was only able to achieve a legal win because of crowdfunding. Most other scientists are not in that position - the consequences of speaking up would appear terrifying.

Dunno, maybe he is a complete crank, but you can see how it might give a dispassionate observer pause for thought and a bit of discomfort.
> What if Daryl Morey had tweeted that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman?

You wouldn't see countries threatening to ban the entire NBA.

> There's no doubt he would have been fired and deplatformed faster than greased lightning...

Sign me up for a lot of doubt!
OL too comes with GNOME out of the box and there is always KDE if one wants to switch.
So what you are saying is that you don't trust the application to access your Documents folder, but you trust it with creating a VPN tunnel to keep your network traffic safe?

uhmm....

To me, it seems that if the Documents permission dialogue in fact caught the app doing anything bad, it should remove all trust for the app and the developer. It's all or nothing, really.
macOS does something similar already for file open/save dialogs: they’re drawn by a trusted OS component instead of directly by the app, and the user’s act of selecting a file grants the app permission to access that file without an additional dialog.
It's pretty neat to watch it grow. grover-mega is pretty good at grade school reading comprehension tests for instance, and it wasn't even trained on them.

I gave it this test:

https://www.k5learning.com/reading-comprehension-worksheets/...

A few caveats. I had to prompt a little extra on the 2nd question and give it a 'Because' to start off. It kept wanting to fill underscores as if it was a blank spot for an answer. There's a way to prevent this if I had time. The third question is "wrong". The actual answer is 'It would have become dark and cold if Ann and Frank had stayed later.', but I'd argue that it's rather open ended question and the answer is something that might have happened. The final question is really what makes this a 3rd grade comprehension test, it's asking the reader infer something not actually in the story, about how they would feel if they were Rover, something the AI is woefully unqualified for.

Question: What did Rover fetch in the water?
Answer: The Stick!

Question: Why couldn’t Rover catch the rabbit?
Answer: Because the rabbit ran so fast he could not catch it.

Question: What might have happened if Ann and Frank stayed later?
Answer: Rover could have learned that not all rabbits love to play with sticks.

Question: How do you think Rover felt about not catching the rabbit?
Answer: He was sore and he must have had fun later because he went in the back yard and hid out in the trees.
I stick to Debian/Ubuntu Linux. Its package manager is essentially the package manager for C++ from the beginning.