jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Physical remotes are better, particularly if your hands are dirty (like during eating). A physical remote can be used easily without looking at it and it can be cleaned later easily too. Though it's also true that a lot of remotes are difficult to handle.

What we need might actually be a single remote for everything.
Once replied to, a comment can’t be deleted, but still edited for two hours from creation.
You’ll be able to hang it in your virtual home in the meta verse. And visitors will be able to see its “authentic” (authority x certifies it).
My guess here is that the image isn't fake per se, but it's missing the context.

I'm guessing the "original" is much higher resolution than 16MP. Google Photos' "high quality" being always limited to 16MP, my guess is that the comparison shot is between what I'm guessing at least 60MP or even 100MP image vs (downsampled) 16MP.

For more sane comparison of what "high quality" does, I find:

https://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-Photos-High-quality-v...

i.e. unless you have a camera with substantially higher resolution than 16MP or you're a professional photograph (or equivalent amateur who cares about subtle pixel level details), high quality is good enough for all casual photographers , which is basically 99% of us including myself.
You can use A Better Routeplanner to plan out some road trips in the ID.4 (and other EVs). It's a good way to see if a particular EV will be practical for you:

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/
Heck, you could just use a license plate reader and get the same result. Not really “secure” but I’m okay with less than robust identity verification to buy a McDouble and some happy meals.
I just bought the TV I wanted and never connected it to the internet, never ran the "setup". I use an AppleTV 4K which has all the streaming apps you want (Netflix, Amazon, BBC, Pluto, etc.). For local media I use an application called MrMC ($6.99) which is a Kodi port to the AppleTV that allows you to mount Samba/NFS (https://mrmc.tv). MrMC even supports using a SQL backend for keeping track of your media (like Kodi). I just run it in on a jail in my TrueNAS setup. Every TV is the same, every time someone starts MrMC everything is in sync. Nice and simple.
That's just really nice.

I used LaTeX for two theses and loved it. It was very freeing to just worry about content and not about layout. When I use Word, I constantly fiddle with styling and with Word's occasional bizarre behavior (delete a word and the next paragraph becomes bold... ?!). With LaTeX, I spent an hour up front defining styles and a few minutes toward the end adjusting styles, but otherwise just wrote content (in vim!). I don't think I really ever ran into "OMFG, what is it doing?!" situations.

Okay, so the perfect scenario goes: ScribTex does well; ScribTex gets bought by Google; Google Docs adds Tex documents!
My numbers were steps, not alternatives.

As for your approach: I've seen that fail for locked up apps. I believe that sends a normal quit signal instead of force terminating the app.
Ask a Jewish Frenchman in 1942, an Indian Briton in 1920, or 5th generation Korean immigrants to Japan today. America may have struggled to keep its ideals alive in practice, but at least it has such ideals. And it has been far more successful at living up to them than just about any other country in history. We should celebrate that even as we strive for further improvement (current anti-immigration sentiment in America is far too prevalent, for example).
I liked it overall, but the moderator was really obnoxious. He kept interrupting the panelists to tell lame jokes...
We should probably aim higher than "not a ghetto" :)

I didn't read the article in great detail, but I noticed this:

it provides many ways to do the same thing for programmer convenience

This is not a good thing, in my opinion.

I do, however, find it peculiar that utilities like RSS, FTP and mail handling are included in a stdlib.
3) double-tap home, then hold finger on app you want to terminate. the icons in the task switcher start to dance. click the terminate button.
The thing that surprises me about this is that I took a look in at GNUStep recently and it kind of seems... unloved. I imagine Sony's had its work cut out bringing things up to date. Also, I would be interested to know how much GNUStep code Sony will be using and how much it will be re-implementing. I've heard some pretty average things about the state of the GNUStep codebase.
Relevant http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/life-imitates-xkcd-part-ii-r...
Suicide is also a good solution from a climate standpoint. If you're seriously considering life choices which directly impair your reproductive chances you already lost the game.
Cynical reply... sloppy MBA thinking.

Slightly less cynical reply... it will lead to someone’s promotion by writing something like “doubled gross margin percentage by streamlining product lines to focus on core competencies” in an annual review. Sad to say that this happens all the time.
Are they really being left out though? I understand the notion of ageism, and not at all saying it doesn't happen in software development, the point is, what if there are other factors also in play here? What if this "trend" is just a natural phenomenon?

Software Development is one of the most aggressive industries that are out there. Tech evolves daily with major trends shifting monthly. It's extremely hard to keep up!

And it's extremely easy to become "part of the road" if you don't invest heavily in your professional development by studying the "steamroller". What if older software developers are just the road, modern tech "steamroller" is rolling over? There are quite a few percent of the bright and knowledgeable older software engineers, but what about the "average" ones? Ones who got tired, have families and just don't want to be bothered with making themselves uncomfortable by trying to "keep up"? What about those who were sitting comfortably a decade with the oldest tech you can imagine that was "current" in early 2000, and now wind has changed? It seems logical to assume that a job search for those is gonna be tough!

Also about bootcamps, Erik Meijer makes an interesting point about "amateurs in our industry", that people who live, sleep, and breath code for 20+ years should be able to comfortably retire near 40, meaning this problem we are discussing here should never be a problem to begin with.
The last job I had was doing graphics coding for a video game, and before that it was c++ CAD programming. They’re not hard to find at all. They probably seem more rare because the barrier to entry is much higher but I think that's a good thing.
> The market is skewed as Uber runs huge losses and is operating at a loss

According to Q3 financials, I believe that is longer true for ridesharing.
After seeing these, I switched my phone and browser to search with DDG by default. Most of the time, I don't notice, although Google definitely catches news and blogs much quicker and has a bigger shopping portfolio. Other than those two, DDG has been good enough for me.
But it could take the tech jobs of programmers that don't know how to utilize ML/AI technology stacks.
I'm not going into the systemd VS sysvinit discussion. For my argumentation, it is enough to recognize bash based sysvinit has been with us for circa 20 years with no stability problems.
Mostly my gigs tend to find me. A recruiter calls me, and if I'm available (rarely), I discuss details and rate, go talk with the client, and sign a contract. This does make me very dependent on recruiters, and some recruiters are absolute scum, but there are also some good ones. My CV is out there on Linkedin, Monster, etc, and people apparently know how to find me. It's the lazy way to freelancing, I guess, it works for me. At €70/hr I'm apparently a bit cheaper than some other people here, but it's still better than what a lot of my salaried friends make.
Serious question: where do we start when we want to fight this? We made it through the industrial revolution because people stood up for their rights. I'm at a total loss for where to start. (Edit: grammar)
For all the claims of devil worship lobbed at Led Zeppelin, Satan doesn’t make a single appearance in their lyrics. Tolkien is where their real allegiance lies, with references to Gollum, Mordor, the Misty Mountains, and Ringwraiths. Moorcock, however, came of age during rock’s ascension and understood rock’s power to give electrified life to his creations. Moorcock worked directly with bands like Hawkwind and Blue Öyster Cult as both a spiritual and literary guru.

Telling.

Here's "Epic Pooh", confusingly updated with references to JK Rowling and Philip Pullman:

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953

And here's Auden's wide-eyed original review of _Fellowship_, referenced at the start of that essay:

http://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/31/books/tolkien-fellowship.h...
Yeah, the first paragraph summarized the entire article, which is incredibly respectful of the reader's time. Presumably many sites intentionally leave this out in order to maximize revenue and "engagement."
If you're having memory problems with Chrome, check to see if you have AdBlock Pro installed - it often results in vast amounts of additional memory required for Chrome[0]. I recommend µBlock[1] if you're using Chrome - it works quite well in my experience.

[0]: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/182428-ironic-iframes-a...
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh...
In the same vein, an article[1] in The Telegraph entitled "The Hobbit: How the 'clomping foot of nerdism' destroyed Tolkien's dream - and the fantasy genre" makes a few similar points.

I'm inclined to agree with them - Tolkein's brand of endless minutiae does not a good novel make. His is a world of casually racist undertones and completely shallow characters. The good and bad guys in Tolkein are good and bad for no particular discernible reason, and I think fantasy has yet to dig its way out of Tolkein's shadow.

However, I think new wave (and an emphasis on stylism in general) has done a lot to rehabilitate sci-fi. Personally, I think Gene Wolfe and M John Harrison deserve a lot of praise for pushing the genre along. Harrison's "Light"[2] comes to mind as a modern incarnation of a new wave novel that still manages to earn its sciency stripes.

1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11289765/The-Hobbit-...

2: http://www.amazon.com/Light-M-John-Harrison/dp/0553382950
You mean why doesn't our (hopefully non-authoritarian) government not prevent Americans from buying things from Chinese people?

I don't think we should be taking our policy advice from the Chinese government.
About the brick laying, I'm told that you usually do that poorly if you have no experience (unlike activities like making sawhorses etc. which require little skill). Our local Habitat chapter has experts come in for brick-laying.

In the end, 'voluntourists' are just trying to give what they think they're able to. If they aren't net negatives, I see it as a good thing because they will spend money there, they will bring attention to whatever cause, and other such things. When they're a net negative, though, perhaps it's not such a good idea. It's nice that you want to help, but sometimes what you have to offer isn't what they need.
Are you suggesting that using a programming language to write a program is surprising? I feel like they may have been designed to do that...
I'm a big fan of this: http://gitready.com/
According to Intel, the N450 also has HT.

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42503

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35463

It's interesting to compare them
According to Wikipedia the estimator is (n+1)/ns-1 not (n+1)/n(s+1) as the author stated.
This article infuriated me. No amount of aid, negotiations, or activism is going to help the people of North Korea. Literally their only hope is a large invading army.

The world had its chance to end this epic tragedy for 50 years and it did nothing. Now the madman has some nukes and all options are out of the question.

Good job world peace. Way ta go.
Should man pages be reshuffled like that?
In a typical web app scenario 10 Mbit is far more than sufficient to handle hundreds or thousands of active users. Only if you're serving up large static files (or similar) would 10 Mbit become a bottleneck, and even in that case with throttling you could give ~25 concurrent users sufficient speed to stream a video, etc.
I majored in econ as an undergrad. I have always wanted to be wealthy so I try to understand how money 'works'.
> that doesn't create material returns for their communities.

More realistically, for the elite in charge of their communities.

Its a practical problem for employment. No company complains about smart people not making their coworkers lives better; its all about "stealing from the company" by doing projects at home on their own time using their own materials, that may or may not be the feudal property of their owner/employers depending on their state of residence's attitude toward modern slavery.
Yes, you cannot do that and I would prefer that they enable these features too.

But really, for most lay people it is better, safer and convenient to just use Apple selected method - to connect everything with one account/Apple ID. And I think that *primary reason* is better product for users. Overall it is easier to control user experience if you tightly control whole platform.

I am not sure if it could be even possible to create broad and well integrated platform similar to what Apple has now, with general opennes. Is there an example of this in any other tech domain?

Counter-example: Linux desktop is nice, functional, very open but so complicated and fragmented ... and it never took off and it is staying as a niche among desktops so far.
> and of course it has the added benefit of not getting caught in machinery.

They make safety gloves for that reason. And silicone rings too.
I may not have all of the background information, but reading the open letter against the FSF board:

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

and the incidents they cite:

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

I find that the signatories seem to be conflating expressions of opinion with action, and demand extreme action in the face of a collection of statements-of-opinion which they disagree with. But even this is not the worst part of the demand: The letter is not really targeting RMS - it targets anyone who is willing to _tolerate_ RMS, and specifically the FSF board.

It is imperative IMHO that this initiative be fended off, unless you'd like an FSF - and other NGOs - which shudders in fear at the thought of making statements or taking positions which are not in-line enough with mainstream politics. And they will be sure to police each other, since a rhetorical vice by one is a capital offense by all.

And that's all before getting into RMS' neuro-atypicality; and the fact that board membership is not management of the FSF; etc. I just don't think the appropriate defense here should focus on RMS.
Surveillance capitalism saps the intellectual potential of humanity. Imagine what we could accomplish if our "best and brightest" were tasked with solving humanity's true problems instead of how to trick people into buying more crap they don't need.
>stimulus effect would far surpass any rebate from the government.

This may need some qualifiers. There are definitely people who are net beneficiaries under the current tax code that i doubt would get nearly as much from the stated stimulus effect
I asked where Marx denied spirituality, and you misinterpreted quotes based on the assumption that spirituality as humans experience it is the same as Western metaphysical idealism. The long history of mystic and traditional practices refute this assumption.
Take a look at this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_number
> ...there is less and less reason to invest time writing code in Ruby...

It seems to me that Ruby is doing just fine - the community is thriving, MRI is advancing quite rapidly. In reality people find Ruby to be a good solution.

> I question why anyone would start a new project using Ruby at all.

Actually there's a whole Ruby world out there besides Rails, even for web apps/services. I've been tempted numerous times to start new projects using alternatives such as Erlang, node.js or Go, only to find myself finally going back to Ruby. The reasons: it's versatile, convenient, familiar, and to be honest, for much of the stuff that Ruby does, and for many different uses, it performs just fine, and it continues to improve at a steady pace.

> This is not a troll, I really don't think there are significant benefits anymore.

A sweeping statement like this, how can it not be taken as trolling?
not applicable either, the code and program structures serve a purpose and the article specifically described removing parts that are not applicable.
Not sure I get it. Sounds like a cult now.
The fastest way to fan out messages efficiently between a group is through one node that is always online. I think no decentralized architecture can be more efficient compared to a centralized system.

Again, a social network only needs to know whom to send your message to and need not know about the contents of the message, If USPS opened our letters, would we argue for a decentralized architecture where we individuals ourselves drove around delivering letters in our spare time?

How were so many of us tricked into handing over so much control?
I just shell out for the thinkpad. Have a new carbon x1 on the way and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Yes it is twice the cost, but there are things to cheap out on and the things you use every day shouldn't be one of them.
> You won't find data-dependent branches or look-ups in straightforward implementations of Curve25519

As it was pointed out already starting since Pentium 4, for example, the same assembly instruction "add dest, src" might take a different time depending on the value of dest and src.

Unless those modern elliptic curve compensate for specific models of CPUs they run on, their straight C and assembly code might behave as if it has data dependent branches.
This is something I'm pretty sure I'm missing right now.

Since I got started in cross country running in high school, which included just the most modest of weight training, I've been interested in it. I'd often have gym memberships, and dabble with the various machines, trying to cover muscle groups.

Eventually, I joined fitocracy.com when it was young and full of active members. It was there that I learned about Starting Strength, and where the programming rewarded logging barbell activities much more than running or using a machine. Before long, I had bought the Starting Strength and began teaching myself the movements. I began with little or no weight, and using videos I took of myself to improve my form. I also paid more attention to dietary intake, and used If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) to design my daily goals for macronutrients.

The results were manifold. Of course I got stronger - barbell lifts done right are so much more efficient and effective than any chaotic routine, or even somewhat organized attempts with machines. I was visibly in better shape. But I was also naturally more confident, more in tune with the world around me. As the article mentions, I was seeing how my own decisions were affecting my life, and I would direct myself in other areas to zero in on decisions within my areas of control and concern. My energy increased and my focus improved on the job. I was able to find a healthy relationship that continues today.

However. I lost my way. Eventually the habit was interrupted and was never fully restored. Today, I'm distracted, procrastinating on a task I've procrastinated for too long already. I'm irritable and I don't want to waste my day at the office, but I'll go home, and I won't make good use of my time their either. I'll snack too often and grab unhealthy things.

Of course I'm not saying that this one habit will fix all of your problems, but it is a bit of a foundational habit, and it can leak into other areas of your life. And, of course, strength is helpful! You can move furniture and chop wood and have the bad posture on your office chair you were going to have anyway, but with a stronger back, you'll find yourself injured less often. So I recommend it, and I hope I can take my own advice!
Dark mode is my favorite and I appreciate more apps and websites adding support. Recently I've seen Slack and Perforce finally get official dark themes.

For websites that don't have good dark themes or user styles, you can use the Dark Reader browser extension to toggle it on any website - https://darkreader.org/
You may be right, I've never had to use one and didn't actually work out the equivalent rate of my unarranged one.
Not so. The physics system works on all physics components. The renderer system works on all rendering components. The networking system work on all components that are enabled for network replication.
No I explicitly was considering it a grocery? I wrote:

> 'groceries' probably accounts for a lot more alcohol
No it's not. It's a really good article. It's just different from the kind of stuff you usually consume.
Anecdata: back in the days when I was using Ubuntu (pre-Unity) on what was even at the time moderately old hardware, there was an obvious difference. Standard bootup took 20-30 seconds, resuming from hibernation took multiple minutes.

Just thinking about it on an abstract level, it's not that unintuitive that resuming from hibernation should be slower than both cold boot and resuming from sleep. When you cold boot you need to load the kernel and startup programs into memory. With hibernation you need to load the whole previous operating state into storage, which is going to mean multiple GBs need to be read from your swap partition into memory. It's not hard to imagine that on many systems the hard drive will be the slowest piece of hardware.
I believe Japan produced some computers that ran on phase. Late 50s-60s. Please correct me.
Well, yeah, but that puts all their talk about privacy in a different light. They sell it like it's a moral principle or a human right, not just what works best for them in certain Western markets.
Leaving that company was one of the best things that happened to me. It also thought me that when a company, especially a big one, blames a low level employee for a big mistake or some visible incident, there is something very wrong there. There is usually so much politics, so many layers of management, that blaming one person that does some actual work is the easiest way of hiding your actual problems.
You make a critical point, actually in light of the OP topic. The building of crypto-anarchist tools might lead to the insight that certain forms of state have little coercive power (because the tools restrict or redirect the actions the state can take), and so anarchists are okay with the state.
Hey, sorry for being off-topic.

Just wanted to say thanks for making Cydia! It feels very nostalgic to me.
No worries, I agree it is less clear than it could be, given the shift in time between question and answer.
The same structure has responded to nationwide events with more competency in the past. It's only the structure in that the structure allows for such incompetence to inhabit key offices.
Warning: You are used to intelligent people not answering the questions asked.

(So am I. That’s why I got pissed.)
I host a Mastodon instance and have posted below if anyone would like to learn/discuss more about both my instance, and Mastodon as a whole, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25697231
I just think it stinks of desperation and suspect once they go down this path it's going to be very difficult to reverse course.
I think a lot of agencies have policies, traditions, and etc to try to make them non political. Many are quite successful at it.

These aren't mysteries / 'no one foresaw' situations.
I'm waiting for someone to hack it and replace the blur with "OBEY" ;)