skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's no instant feedback on whether sending a message worked

> So I get less control of my attention with email

Exactly what I wanted to reply. There are corner cases where an asynchronous medium forces you to multitask.

On top of that, email was is not meant for threaded, group discussion. NNTP was: you can organize groups, access and search past discussions before you joined them, and run a decentralized/distributed service without fiddling with domains, DNS, DKIM... in comparison, email is kludgy.
My smartphone is used mostly for the combination of checking emails (if necessary sending a quick reply that I'll follow up on later), and predominantly as a portable entertainment device.

I have setup SOME trusted contacts (mostly family, skilled coworkers who understand decorum) to pierce the DnD veil.
Like the Lapdock for the HP Elite x3?
You need inspiration to cook a vegetable?
It's based on a long history of xenophobia and subjugation; this is the country that sent its Japanese citizens to concentration camps with the blessing of the Supreme court during WWII, and which needed special guidebooks to help African Americans find diners/hotels/gas stations/etc willing to serve them on road trips up until fairly recently.

Plenty of countries deal with xenophobia and racism, but it always feels a little different in the US because as endemic as it is, people do ostensibly agree that it is wrong and strive to call out and condemn it.

At least, I've always thought they did...
i agree, just because a few remnants of a civilization continue on doesn't mean it didn't collapse. perhaps they are confusing collapse with complete, absolute annihilation.
I would never use this myself.

But, the older people I know have PCs that sit around collecting dust and that they are not at all comfortable in using. But they do have phones that they use every day to communicate via text messaging, email and Facebook.

This seems like a good solution to bridge the gap for them on the occasions where they are interested in a desktop experience as it provides a familiar environment using the phone OS and removes the worry about managing or navigating a desktop environment.
I love my Pebble for the same reason and I'm really dreading when they will become hard to come by. I already lost one Time Round to a swelling LiPo and nothing else has a similar form factor.
I often listen to everything informational (not infotainment) on 1.5 - 2 thw first time. It's harder to scan audio than writing and I don't have all day to find useful stuff.

Sadly many things are video/audio nowadays
It is faster. It lacks a compelling use case for me. Quantum breaks the productivity tools that make Firefox the best alternative for me. It flat out breaks Firemacs and Menu Wizard.

More importantly Quantum broke my Greasemonkey code. It looked like an ordinary "upgrade bug." I went to fix the upgrade bug. Objects created by Greasemonkey code are no longer accessible from the developer console. That kind of sucks but the fix is not that complex so I open the built in editor. I save. Now more code is broken because dependencies can't be found. I roll the code back and save. dependencies still can't be found.

I installed Firefox Extended Support Release [1] along side Quantum. Reinstalled and reconfigured my addons. Copied my Greasemonkey files to the appropriate location and now I am back up to productivity. One thing I have noticed is that Firefox ESR is much faster than the last version of Firefox before Quantum. I thought Firefox seemed to be getting slower for the past few months. I think it was and that's part of why Quantum feels so much faster.

I hate not being able to trust Mozilla. But after this, I trust it less.

Faster != more powerful

Quantum is closer to the sort of thing that concerns Stallman. It takes power away from users. It has hard coded non-overridable keys. It impedes users from modifying the Javascript running in their browser. It only reflects industry practice. There's nothing best about it.

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
>blah blah did it first

Tablets had been done before without success, then Apple released the iPad. You don't have to be first to market to win. The failure of others in the same segment is not a predictor of future failure.

Execution is everything.

I was already doing this in 2013 with a Nexus 5. I had a wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless display connection, wireless charging, and Linux for Android running Ubuntu. It was terrible, because all the wireless things created lag, it was like screen sharing on a bad connection with someone in Asia. I bought a slimport cable and it was still terrible. USB 2.0 simply didn't have the bandwidth to push FHD display resolution without artifacts.

I see USB-C in the bottom of that stand. If that's USB-C 3.1 gen2 then it has 10GBps and enough bandwidth to push 4K at a decent refresh rate. I see the potential to have a wired keyboard and mouse using the monitor as a USB hub. This is already a much better solution than has been offered before by other companies.
It feels weird that more than half of the highlighted apps are from Microsoft, which had its own implementation of this
This is in some ways more despicable than almost everything the Trump administration has passed so far.
The competition for phone dock is from cheap laptop or desktop. Also, phone dock requires monitor and keyboard which is extra expense. Most people would choose laptop before full desk setup. There are also all-in-one computers and compute sticks that provide cheap alternatives for someone who wants simple or portable.
> I'd like to simply have the same view of data on all my devices, with probably my phone acting as a central source of truth in terms of identity and carrying around a hot cache of important data. But I don't just mean using dropbox everywhere.

Would a NAS from Synology or QNAP offer what you're looking for?
It's Mayak. A far better story[1] by AFP about this matter names the village of Argayash as the site of highest ruthenium-106 concentration, while simultaneously managing to not drag in the obligatory 'russia hackers attack democracy' angle. This village is a short distance from the main processing facility of Rosatom's Mayak; site of several nuclear disasters and countless lesser failures.

This is a media handling process. Rosatom previously denied everything. Now they're acknowledging a little, but denying any culpability. Next they'll hint at some industrial problem, not very severe. Then we'll learn it was rather serious and had a body count and maybe local evacuations. So forth and so on.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-confirms-extremely-high-re...
It could be a monopoly on ideology too. There's a precedent for this. Back in the early days of broadcasting, NBC was broken up into NBC + ABC for having too much control of public discourse
Samsung is trying to figure out the market interest on running Ubuntu directly on the phone. I saw it working at a convention and they directed me to sign up here to beta: https://seap.samsung.com/linux-on-galaxy
Bits conceptually rot, an unmaintained system will eventually fall apart. There isn’t just tech debt to think about, but tech depreciation.
Many of the newer laptops aren't very heavy at all. My Macbook Air is aluminum and can fit in a small backpack/messenger bag.

Unless you just want to not be carrying anything.
- Development tools (Visual Studio...)

- SQL Server

- Video games (Halo, Minecraft...)

- LinkedIn

- Hardware like mice, keyboards, hololens, ...

- Probably many others
It's a product of the inherently cut-price / amateur nature of the medium.

Give me a well scripted well produced drama, comedy stand-up routine or documentary and I want to listen to it at 1x.

Everything else is information sparse ad-libbing off of semi-improvised material re-hashed from books and articles then strung together with conversational back scratching. Or the one dimensional drone of someone reading from a book/script.

Is slow-core a thing yet? Audially ram-packed soundscapes lovingly crafted over months of careful layering of complementary edits that rewards the patient and attentive listener with hours of meat-speed re-listening. Sounds a bit hipster tho.
You might be interested in upspin.io. It's by some of the people involved in plan9 and/or Go.

It's an ambitious project because ultimately you need to coerce all the apps with valuable data to export to or be compatible with upspin to realize the dream, so to speak.

However right now I've already found it useful for storing my personal files and media and I've enjoyed reading the codebase.
Perhaps I am biased because although my English is quite decent it isn't my native tongue.

I'm not sure if we're discussing the same thing here. I am talking about learning.

Yes, there's also a lot of people who believe speed reading allows them to read quicker. Sure, it might seem that way, but does the information stick? Do you think anecdotal evidence to test if information was learned counts as evidence?

Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski didn't mention your proposed learning method in their Learning How to Learn course [1]. They also debunked speed reading in that course. If your proposed learning method works well, they should incorporate it in their course. However, it seems to go against the principles of chunking and overlearning.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
In my experience, those people don't need or care for the "desktop experience"; they are perfectly content using their iPad (or other tablet) as-is, or at most, using a Bluetooth keyboard if they do a lot of typing.
Expressivity, Trainability, and Generalization in Machine Learning
They're already building for about 5K workers in the Seaport (Boston) with basically no parking for them as I understand it.

Boston metro housing is constrained and traffic coming in, even off-peak, has gotten sufficiently worse that I come in less than I used to. And when I do come in via commuter rail I see that it often is standing room only even from fairly far-out stations.
That's not quite what mindfulness does in the long run. It actually reduces gray matter density in the amygdala, which is associated with immediate stress response. These changes are permanent. Therefore, it not only helps you "handle" stress, but also causes situations to "cause" less stress in the first place. Check out https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-t...

Also, you do not actually need to practice an hour a day to get the benefits. The above study has participants practicing on average 27 minutes per day.
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Yes, at least one dyed-in-the-wool Democratic operative is now attached to this scandal. And yes, at this late date the only realistic alternative is that the seat goes to a member of the other party. I would hate to be a Republican partisan in Alabama right now, and if I were I'm genuinely not sure how I would choose to vote. That's different, though, than refusing to consider the allegations because they're politically inconvenient. It's possible Roy Moore is a creep. It's also possible half a dozen unrelated people are lying. There's no reason to think those must be equally possible, and there's certainly no reason not to think that one can't make an educated guess as to which is true.

To shift political gears somewhat, our legislature is currently engaged in a debate about tax reform. One party claims the currently proposed plan will cut taxes on the middle class. The other party claims that the plan will raise taxes on the middle class. That's a question of fact, and both positions can't simultaneously be correct. The thought process you engaged in above can be applied equally well to that situation regardless of which party one favors, but it's guaranteed to make at least one party's fans wrong.

When we, as a polity, begin to completely disregard information because it comes from a partisan source or has strong partisan implications then I worry that we lose the idea of a shared reality. We can't convince those who disagree with us, nor allow ourselves to be convinced, if we refuse on general principle to listen to and engage with people who disagree with us.
> I just ran the detection tool on my laptop and I am running a vulnerable version of Intel ME, but I can't even do anything about it until my system manufacturer provides a patch for it.

I would carefully analyse if patching is a good thing.

Those vulnerabilities might be used in good way to disable ME and all this intel crapware completely, while if patched, this again may be impossible without doing manual chip clip and reprogramming with external device. Of course YMMV.

Here, nice read of current way, using raspberry pi and clipping ME chip while motherboard is off:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Di...
Doesn't this also open up the opportunity to value add? If the food is bland they can sell sauce packets to spice it up, sides, drinks, etc. The money they saved on food could be money they now have to spend on other things.
The error messages you get are NOT helpful in allowing you to figure out what just went wrong, so if you don't know about it there's a huge cognitive gap because things that SHOULD work just don't for no valid reason.

Denials by AppArmor (or any other ACL addition) really should have a more verbose diagnostic message AND a dedicated ERRNO that is different from the standard ones.
Mind sharing what application you‘re using?

Is there something open source that works great?
I see what you mean. For this kind of stuff, I am backering a promising lapdock called the Mirabook (from Miraxess : https://miraxess.com/miraxess-brand/).
Exactly what you are defining tho, with your mobile phone as a central source of power.
Which is yet another reason I've come to like BSD jails.
Anyone use this feature ? Also where is this region located ? ( Washington DC ?)
Stress is your internal reaction to a situation. Meditation can give you the skills to modify your reactions. What is a stress-inducing situation to some becomes just a calmly observed event to the skilled meditator. So sure, work on removing or reducing the stress inducers. But meditation is a personal super power that does not depend on anything external.
The confusing part for non-experts is that there are two "callable" types in JavaScript, functions and methods, but the language pretends that these two types are equivalent. Functions are self-contained and can be called without an object; methods depend on an implicit 'this' parameter. The fact that you can define and call a method using the syntax for a normal function call, without generating a type error, is a key part of the problem. The sequence "g = x.f; g()" should either be equivalent to "x.f()" or result in an error. Accepting both forms, but with subtly different behavior regarding implicit parameters, is bound to cause confusion.

Note that in C++ there is a type-level distinction between pointers to ordinary functions (without 'this') and pointers to member functions, so the concepts expressed above are not without precedent in "real" languages.

> To me this is simpler than any other late binding explanation I've read, for any language, ever.

The object system in Lua achieves the same effect with much less complexity, IMHO. Methods in Lua are just ordinary functions which take an object as an explicit first parameter; there is no implicit 'this' argument. Lua objects are tables (associative arrays), with metatables providing a fallback for missing keys much like JavaScript's prototype chain. The dot syntax (x.f) is nothing more than syntactic sugar for the table lookup x['f']. To call methods idiomatically you use the colon operator x:f(...), which is equivalent to x.f(x, ...) except that x is only evaluated once. Like JavaScript, Lua is dynamically typed, with missing arguments defaulting to nil, so you won't get a clean type error if you forget to pass the first parameter. However, there is no hidden, context-sensitive 'this' to worry about, and if you pass an argument fn=x.f to a function which calls it as fn(...) then the arguments will be exactly the same as if you had written x.f(...) directly—most likely not what you intended, but it is at least apparent why it failed.
But unless your insane out source your core competencies and for TLA's you don't out source your cleaners as the risk is to high.
Out of interest, why is being on Verizon a selling point?
first "ahahaha" then "sigh..."
There really isn't many other viable options if security is important to you. There's iPhone and what's left of Windows Mobile. Even the Pixel won't get the KRACK patch until December, everyone else patched it in October.

Windows Mobile gives me the feature set of a Android with the security competency of an iPhone.
> There's a winner. There's a loser. You aren't a loser, are you?

The whole world runs on this. If you catch it at the right time, you can avoid a lot of mental traps.
I know of two government approved methods for data transfers for closed networks, one of which is pretty close. You basically have two servers connected to the same disk array, and they take turns mounting it to move files onto/off it. There is of course scanning and logging and such involved.

The other (unidirectional) method is a fibre pair connection that does not physically connect the TX with the RX in one direction, and there is some bumblefuckery that pushes the data through.

Of course classified data is only transferred from networks with lower classification to networks with higher classification, never the other way.
Outrageous. What can (and should) be done to prevent this? A free society needs access to factual news, not fake news. If a monopoly controls the distribution mechanism(s), they can choose what news gets distributed. When that happens, truth is the first casualty.
Lovely name: 'Oumuamua, means "a messenger from afar arriving first"

Whether by chance or by design, the fact that it has the rough shape of a boat or rocket weakly suggests that to get here it once passed through a thicker medium than empty space. But it got through alone; collisions would have fragmented it.
That screen is probably lower resolution than the phone.
Tell HN: No company that values security can risk Intel CPUs
Seriously, not just flamebaiting.... with built in backdoors, how can any company use Intel if security is a requirement?
How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?
can't say if it's just fatigue or a valuable idea but at that point I want no more tech, I want to see people working together, even if it means lo-tech
> Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize-winning economist

Believe it or not, that understates the man. He's also one of the fathers of AI and won the Turing Award, he wrote the book (of his era) on industrial organization, and was a leading researcher in many fields, including cognitive psychology and cognitive science. His PhD was actually in political science. A true polymath.
All the time you spend on social networks, news sites and other junk food properties you should spend time reading tech docs of various techs you don't yet really understand. Just read their docs and blogs, etc instead of reading wasteful sites.

It's tough but it really feels good when you get a good streak going.
Also an easy enough fix, potentially even from within the OS itself as the RDP app prior to the multi-tasking update to Android went full screen just fine.
Jonathan Blow on Success and Ethics in Software Development [video, 4:59]
I explain it to people this way when they ask why I left the Midwest: the Midwest is the Walmart of America. It's large, cheap, and the quality of most aspects of life is relatively low (weather, food, social life, career growth, etc.). But if it's all you can afford, it's a better place to be than somewhere expensive.
Why would you announce this or any other black systems at all
Walmart Tests Emma, a Cleaning Robot, in Stores
Totally agree. Just because someone acknowledges you, doesn't mean anything.

The phrase that gets to my nerves is "bless his/her heart", which I translate to "I <insert long string of expletives> you, but I'm going to pretend to be nice because I have to keep up this stupid facade that society has created"
Its funny because these points sound exactly like the ones I've heard made by former casino developers whom worked on any number of slot machines or video poker.

In any case, I'd have to disagree and say that even though you can't escape ads or even 100% avoid the lure of electronic clicks and taps, its ultimately up to you to decide what you do with your time and money and if you cannot do this yourself, then you need to seek help.

Just because a corporation has unlimited resources committed to targeting a person with ads or tappy and clicky stuff, it does not mean they should be held accountable for people's addictive habits or tendencies, just as you can't hold any existing casinos liable for a person's poor gambling choices.
> The person who most wants to use their phone as a PC is the person who can't afford spending $4000 on the entire suite of Apple devices.

I'd love to have just one computing device that covers everything for the sake of simplicity. At times I've found myself carrying a smartphone, laptop, tablet and a smart watch, plus ton of cables and adapters... almost 10 pounds or 5kg of electronics just to cover all my use cases. Dragging that through airports for example is ridiculous.
The mailing list is valuable if OP's site wants to sell seeds.
The article you link to refers to advertising and play store revenue from users, not licensing revenue from manufacturers.
So an atheist, a muslim, a fruitarian and a futurist walk into a bar
Ummm, so first you state that "PC is too damn crufty and complicated" and then suggest that going full-Stallman would improve that, when RMS is using X60, which is essentially a regular x86 laptop? Granted, it doesn't have the IME crap and runs libreboot, but otherwise it's still regular x86 machine. Also, I doubt RMS is after freedom in the first place - it likely improves security (no binary blobs etc.), but it certainly doesn't fix the issue.

FWIW I don't think you've answered the "What to use instead, then?" question. I agree there are platforms that are much tighter on security compared to x86 (say, iphones seem to fare quite well), but I don't see how I could use that for my "regular" work. For that, I think Qubes is "reasonably secure" but hopefully it'll get better.

Of course, if your threat model includes guys from NSA/FBI/Mosad, then perhaps it's not enough. But then again, iphone may not be enough either.
did you ever consider that you might not be doing something right ?
Okay, I will reformulate my reply here since I read all the answers just now.
As I said earlier, I backered a promising lapdock with the Smartphone as the central source of power.

It allows you to plug your phone to a laptop device with a 13" screen, trackpad and speakers. I am just dropping you this here if you want more information about the Mirabook from Miraxess : https://miraxess.com/miraxess-products/mirabook/
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Microsoft's announcement has a lot "will". Amazon's has a lot of "is".
You probably are better off with a laptop or a tablet/convertible still because you can't guarantee a desk with a screen under those conditions, not to mention that the performance you can get from a phone today given it's power and thermal limitations is still quite limited.

If anything I would love to see a modern version of the Droid/Milestone I never understood why Motorola stopped making them, the Milestone was by far the best device I ever had.
Wow, this is the most clear, succinct way of expressing it I've seen so far. The beginning of a new era!
Yeah, and, to be honest, I've bought both of my phones I've had over the last few years and there's no way in hell I'd spend another $200 on a stupid dock. If this were an $80 device I might go for it but they killed it with a high price tag. Surprise surprise!