skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re (b) they appear to "fly" just like any other small piece of stuff, just moving with the air, so I imagine it's more "there doesn't appear to be any need to explain it".

They, dandelion seeds, appear to fly like other cotton-y plants do (eg heather [1]). I wonder if they creates these vortices too?

I'd guess not as their structures aren't regular and they don't have the weighted 'drop' to give stability?

[1] https://oregonstate.edu/dept/nursery-weeds/email_pubs/thistl...
Also, when the phone is upside down (reading in bed), or traveling etc. Scary to think of all the things that could be gleaned.
I've been an "Election Judge" twice in Chicago. I administered my polling location twice. After voting ends, we physically collect the votes and transport them by our own vehicles to a polling location to be counted.
Agreed. I understand everybody's got biases, and that many in media lean left. But doing pretty stuff like that, clearly intended to score a few cheap points, might turn many people off some truly high-quality content.
I'm not believing it because. 1) I'm not afraid of the experts. 2) They obviously are wrong in this case, as you can see if you take a look to the photos. 3) Yes, I have a better explanation for the marks. One that does not involve magical tetrapods digging in narrow spaces with unlimited degrees of rotation in the shoulder.

An expert is somebody that has done any possible mistake in a field. They commit mistakes all the time. This is just part of the journey and nothing to be ashamed of.
Facebook hackers wanted to sell ads not influence votes, claims report
The Web Bluetooth API asks you for permission every time. Like every new web standard like it. It's still something many users will blindly click through but at least there's that.

At least this doesn't seem to be a priority feature for Mozilla yet. MDN doesn't even have proper docs for it. So I'm a bit thankful for that, for now.

As for Facebook and the accelerometer, I'm presuming you're on Android, so you can definitely blame Google for that.
It also depends hugely on context. A well placed "you might have a point but you're acting like a dick" might bring a discussion back into civility, but then you also get people trying to shut down a discussion that they find uncomfortable by focusing exclusively on criticizing incidental word or phrase choice.
The battery api was removed from Firefox for this reason, it was only used for tracking unfortunately.
Excellent article, thank you. Thinking back to a few discussions i've had regarding the current political landscape with 'the opposition', this (albeit oversimplified) method checks out.

Thanks again. Of course Adams has his own political bias but at least he appears to be trying to bridge the gap here.
Considering pretty much all board and video games are manufactured in and shipped from China, this probably means they're all going to become more expensive. Yay.

It still might be a good thing overall to do away with this treaty, I don't know, but this is probably not going to be great for those industries.
Maybe not a wide use case, but the first thing that comes to mind is for people who work outside an office (law enforcement, for example) to collect data on their device as they do their job, then have a way to upload it into a web app when they return to the office, and not be sending it over a more public network while in the field.
Yes, I would assume that if the US isn't part of the postal union then foreign post services have no way to send letters and parcels to the US anymore unless and until they negotiate service deals with US operators.

The same should apply for sending letters from the US to anywhere else in the world.

The Wikipedia page on the Universal Postal Union states:

"Prior to the establishment of the UPU, each country had to prepare a separate postal treaty with other nations if it wished to carry international mail to or from them."
Nice, might come in handy soon. Bookmarked.
I have some oldschool hardcore Apple fanboys that did the same in the past couple of years.
Who could imagine, 5 to 10 years ago, that such trend would exist today?
Aside -
It also lets you install progressive web apps onto the desktop. Has anyone built PWAs, and if so, why? Do they work cross-platform/mobile well?
I’m in the same boat. I have an old style Mac Pro. Maybe I can just install an SSD to speed things up, but it’s a slow dog now.

Buying a iMac that can’t be fixed really is a horror. This guys failed just after the warranty. There is no excuse for Apple making things like this.

https://youtu.be/yKD682dBbSQ
> liberals think in terms of fairness while conservatives think in terms of morality

i don't think this is a very accurate characterization. for one thing, fairness itself is a moral value. however, i do think liberals and conservatives tend to have different moral systems. in broad strokes, liberals tend to have more of a utilitarian perspective, while conservatives tend to be more deontological.
the Web was far more pleasant when it was about hyperlinked documents and not this cloud-computing-inspired frenzy

It was also a lot less useful though, as it was mostly about consumption. All of the creating happened elsewhere. People made things on their computer in other apps and then published them to the web. Now though, the web platform is shifting towards being a creative place in itself. People can make and share things entirely within a browser. I'd think that's a significant positive change.
I did not say that was may thread model. And yes its not very reassuring but it is still important.
There are many reasons to chose Mac or Windows. I would expect an article about why someone switched to be more nuanced than price.

I mean price is a valid reason too, but not very insightful.
People have written this article for 25 years. I think it’s surprising they keep doing it.
My first guess is 2012 lacked easily accessible hardware accelerated h.264 encoding on the host and the cheaper clients lacked easily accessible hardware accelerated h.264 decoding. Now you can find hardware accelerated decode in your $20 IoT device.

Also I don't think your statement that bandwidth hasn't really gone up is true. https://www.statista.com/statistics/616210/average-internet-...
But it’s still there in plain sight. I’d hazard a guess that this may be the first time a solid code reviewer looked at the code, and spotted it straight away*

If you wanted 10x better, you could throw in some code that exhibits undefined (but known on major compilers) behavior, or super subtle C issues. Even a simple if statement in C forces all kinds of wonderful promotions and type conversions which can truncate, wrap, and drastically change values in ways that even most C developers aren’t aware.

I encourage folks to go check out the “underhanded C contest” before suggesting that this bug is a backdoor.

*The person who found this, Peter, is indeed insanely good.
Those are not incompatible sentiments.

You can think centralized distribution is a problem and still think the modern web is a bad solution to that problem.

A problem is that the web is being used for both applications and documents. I don't mind if an application I explicitly launched as an application asks to make Bluetooth connections, but I would mind if a blog post did that.

I think there's a lot of value in web applications, but I really don't like how it interferes with the non-application web.
I'm employed by a county EMS agency, and we see this all too often. Everyone wants a 5 minute 911 response time, even out in the far reaches of the county. The county has a population of about 45,000 people and is about 1000 square miles. The small towns out in the east part that generate maybe 10 911 calls a month want us to station a 24/7 advanced life support ambulance in the area, yet continue to vote down any sort of tax increase to pay for it. We can't even get them to contribute donations in lieu of tax increases for the service. As a result, we really can't go ahead and just do it because we literally can't afford it. state/federal tax revenue is low enough as it is and medicare reimbursements for EMS are awful.

You're right.. there are a lot of people that just do not believe in paying for any public services. A lot of "healthcare should be free for all" types that will not entertain the idea of paying for it through taxes.
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> FWIW the battery api was first specified when people were still hoping that building phone widgets, launchers etc would be done with web technologies. For such usage, having battery api access in a standard way was of course a necessity.

And it was done by Mozilla people working on FFOS, specifically. They had no intention of exposing it to web content IIRC.
Perhaps many small dandelion apertures could be used in a larger chute (not necessarily the whole surface), rather than trying to make a single large seed-chute.

Perhaps I should have tried to patent that ...
> These same questions apply to Bluetooth. Already, such a terrible standard when it comes to privacy. And now, random websites can grab control of my radios? With JavaScript? Nothing wrong can happen with this, for sure!

No, this is usually not how new features are being used in the browser (see geolocation). Websites won't be able to scan your nearby devices without asking for permission, and it's up to the user to accept/decline it.

I'm actually quite excited over having Bluetooth accessible in the browser. That means that we could build P2P applications that works in the browser, that works even when not connected to a wifi and can talk with nearby computers via Bluetooth, something that has not been possible before (FlyWeb was close at achieving something like that as well)
> [...] I could look around the picture by tilting my phone. When the fsck did this become a feature? Why did nothing ask me if I was ok giving Facebook access to my hardware?

To be precice, by using the device orientation API offered by the browser, Facebook has no access to your hardware any more than it has access to your display hardware by utilizing the DOM API to draw on screen or access to your cellular radio by making a TCP connection.

Whether the browser should require your permission (per site?) to use device orientation API, that's debatable. Anyway, that's up to the browser implementation.
People can make and share things entirely within a browser. I'd think that's a significant positive change.

Forums and blogs don't count? Those were present long before this "turn browser into OS" trend started.
How kind of them to ask! It has all the charm of someone walking up to my house at four in the morning, and knocking on the door to conduct a survey of which radio stations I listen to.

It shouldn't be asking, ever. The answer is such a hard no, it makes me wonder why they even tried.
Did they change it?
Or just uploading fitness data from a device that's not paired with a phone.
Installing as app works great for our PWA:
https://editor.construct.net/

> Has anyone built PWAs, and if so, why? Do they work cross-platform/mobile well?

Works cross platform great. Construct 3 is a sophisticated productivity app, although it works on mobile devices it's not the ideal environment to get lots of stuff done with it.

Coming from a Windows native app, main advantage in developing a PWA is that it allows easy cross platform support (Chromebooks especially good for educational markets) and much more agility in developing compared to say a native app.
Just another run off the mill "I'm not getting another mac" complaint article.

1) Introduce myself by explaining how emotionally attached I was to the first Macs I bought

2) Complain about price

3) Complain about price some more

4) Did I mention price?

5) Windows has caught up to MacOS (which assumes Mac was ever ahead of Windows to begin with)

6) I'm an "x", and I do "y". I can do "y" just as well on Windows

7) Since I can "y" on Windows, let me bring up again how Macs are expensive and how I shouldn't have to drop that kinda of money for one
Not a use case per se but, I think it could be useful in combination with Progressive Web Apps (which can work without an internet connection) to control bluetooth devices without installing an App.
Shredding of a Banksy artwork didn't go entirely to plan
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Manufactured goods are not being sent to distributors and dealers in bulk by postal mail. That stuff comes in a shipping container. This is targeted at the typical AliExpress shipment.
I use MacOS and Windows at home. I want to switch to Windows exclusively just so I can have more control over the hardware but using my windows machine for the occasional gaming gives me enough reasons not to want to switch completely. No standout problems, it's death by a thousand cuts.
I've had it explained to me that one of the reasons that phones have gotten so large is so that manufacturers can push an increase in the battery size. While the display is the primary user of the battery, it is not a linear relationship and by increasing the surface area for the display the battery volume is increased and thus the battery charge capacity.

That little "Palm" phone only has an 800mAh battery. Smaller display and GPU would help conserve battery but not enough -- it won't last long between charges.

Which is too bad as I really like small phones.
Dear USERNAME, I just noticed we are moving in fast pace; per SAFEDRIVENOTTEXT Act, please state that you are a driver or passenger.

[_] Driver [_] Passenger [_] Not in a moving vehicle

Please be advised that per SAFEDRIVERNOTTEXT Act, it is first class misdemeanor to provide untruthful answer, and your driving privilege and/or insurance coverage can be impacted if your statement is untrue.
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Of price is the only reason, then it would make sense to build a Hackintosh. It is not a lot of work if you pick the parts correctly from the beginning.

Price is not the only factor for me, so I built a custom Linux desktop. It is much more ergonomic than a Mac for software development.
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The Clash in Manufacturing Digitalization
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I've been on a linux desktop for several years now. I use a VM for any windows dev I have to do. I should have made the switch sooner. Consider that instead of windows.
It is not illegal to walk or even drive with a bottle of whiskey in your pocket, so long as its a closed container.
>we don’t collect data outside of trips.

And it's not like Big Tech has ever misled people on this subject.
The demand existed long before the outsourcing. There aren't really labor unions in China.
What is pinkertons?
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Whoa there, I get called a 'fanboi' (you appear to have mis-spelled it) all the time, and it's because of my unwavering, steadfast, absolutely doesn't-matter-what-they-do loyalty to Apple. I mean, Tim Cook could murder my dog, I literally do not give a shit.

You can't go calling these weak fools who've switched fanboys. They give us fanbois a bad name!

/s
Also of note, American tax payers were dropping $300MM a year to help Chinese small business.
Our “CEO” secretly invested the last 30% of our funding in crypto
So many I'll informed comments on top of this submission. First, the web Bluetooth API requires a permission. It's useful for more fully featured PWAs. Even though I personally think the browser shouldn't have become an app platform, that's the world we live in now. The best cross platform solution is the one most platforms support and today this is the browser.
Having used pure pip + virtualenv{,wrapper}, pip-tools + virtualenv, poetry and Pipenv for medium to large applications, I'm going to be sticking to pip-tools for the time being for apps. Poetry is fine, but pip-tools is faster and there's less to learn. Pipenv is unbearably slow for large applications and often buggy.

For libraries, I've been using Poetry for molten[1] and pure setuptools for dramatiq[2] and, at least for my needs, pure setuptools seems to be the way to go.

[1]: https://github.com/Bogdanp/molten

[2]: https://github.com/Bogdanp/dramatiq
Some more on this statement: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27138927
All major ones.

Usually I see it happening to those lucky ones carrying boots or shoes with thick sole.
Try wearing boots or shoes with thick soles.
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It wasn't clear. My theoretical questions were to get you to answer your own question, which you started off with:

> I have the same feeling. It concerns me because I'm not sure how to differentiate between my subconscious conservatism and my instinctive backlash against cultishness and/or over-complication.
Someone I worked with once told me that putting anything he does in a good light risks "normalizing his behavior". Shows how polarized these times are.
Sure, you can wonder, but when I break it down, it’s either highly unlikely or highly clumsy.

If I were to put a backdoor into this code, I’d want the following properties:

- tricky to spot in code review

- virtually undiscoverable via current best-of-breed fuzzing

- tricky to spot in network captures or any type of IDS

This bug passes #2 (unless you’ve got a state-aware network fuzzer and panic() in the right places), but fails on the other two.

But who knows, maybe this was a low-investment effort and it paid off for some time, with a trivial-to-exploit (IE no mem corruption) bug they knew would eventually be retired?
EBay from China is now bye bye.

Why would this change the be end of direct shipping from China? Currently (rounded off numbers) the cost of shipping a 2 lb (1 kg) package within the US is about $7, and the cost of shipping such a package from China to a US address is about $2. The obvious solution would be that the Chinese shipment ends up costing $9 (current Chinese rate of $2 to the US border, plus $7 standard US shipping). The Chinese shipping would thus end up $2 more than the US. Presumably there would be lots of cases where the $2 greater shipping is offset by lower price of the item?
I only bought a Mac because I like the experience and unix utilities for programming. I still use Windows when I want to game on PC. Presumably this is the case for a lot of developers?
It's animal cruelty to open seals with shims, no matter what they're protecting.
Bluetooth provides useful features for many users, that's why.
It’s a legitimate question but it's a slippery slope. A wild horse can be domesticated, is it natural? Donkeys, and camels too, even birds like parrots and raptors can be trained to do work and be subservient to humans.

If the question is learned behavioral domestication vs bred genetic domestication...
Is a banana natural? Apples oranges grains, virtually every verity of produce at the store has been ’domesticated’. Are they natural?

Humans have been bred for group behavior, language and manual (slave) labor by means of evolutionary pressure and natural selection. Are we unnatural?

Pretty sure ‘natural’ is not the delineation we want to use
Yep, complaining about Apple is so trendy these days.
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I agree, price is very subjective. When your machine is your main work tool and you are paid reasonably well the cost of it becomes pretty much insignificant. What is important is how well it suits your needs.

I had some stability problems with my laptop and I just bought new one and gave the old one away to family because the financial loss it was causing me was on the order of the price of new one.

I would prefer to listen to what kind of problems the author had that would prompt him to switch to Windows and how it affected his life/work positively instead of just complaining that the price is too high.
> Why did nothing ask me if I was ok giving Facebook access to my hardware?

I'll let you in on a secret: Facebook is also controlling your graphics card, and CPU, and memory. Controlling as in "sending HTML that is then displayed via those hardware components".

And just like a media query can "access" your device orientation, panoramic media can adapt to the data from accelerometers.

The missing information here is the concept of "secure contexts": https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-secure-contexts/#intro. Being able to use this data does not mean that it can be send back to the server.
Forums and blogs don't count?

I've been making web things for a long time. When the grandparent posted "when it was about hyperlinked documents" I took that to mean "When we wrote things for Mosaic". Forums didn't really exist on the web back then. I'd say that comments, forums, etc were one of the first creative tools. We've come a long way since then, but there's much more to do, and it's all very exciting. It's definitely making the web better IMO.
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It would be nice if these articles were written after a long time OSX user had actually used Windows 10 for a month or two.
> As for Facebook and the accelerometer, I'm presuming you're on Android, so you can definitely blame Google for that.

Not all the sensor APIs have a hard requirement to require permissions; accelerometer data is available at a low sampling frequency in Chrome, which as far as I'm aware avoids any known attacks based on accelerometer data.
It's hard for me to believe you wouldn't be motivated by 999 million versus 1 B or 10 B. And at a certain point their not just "playing by the rules" they're at best influencing then and at worst dictating them.

And you can argue maybe the government should have less regulations because then their are less regulations to corrupt, but that just kicks the can down the road.
They're rightly concerned that it will be used like notification permissions: just one more thing you need to cancel when you use a site. Yes you need to consent, but even being asked is audacious.
Very cool. Do you happen to have any links to read about getting started? Any specific technologies (frameworks/libraries/etc) that helped out? Any lessons learned?
Save Our Brutalism
Replying to my own comment as an edit: I used 'unfaithful' in jest almost academic sarcasm, not seriously in any way.

I am always amazed at both the narrow materialism, and hyper grandiosity of these people.

'Starting his own religion' (especially based around technology!) is a massive red flag ... extreme and also misplaced egoism.

This guy is a 'jump the shark' moment for the Valley.
Dupe. Recent conversation : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231961
It's rare that these airfields have survived in the UK. Beaulieu Heath was an important airfield in WW2, but now it's almost invisible from the ground. Google Maps shows its layout quite clearly still:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8056961,-1.5015827,1429m/dat...

Worse perhaps is we're graudally losing that sense of history, of courage and sacrifice. I wouldn't want to be jingoistic about it, but I think people are unaware of what the wartime generations went through.
Why lose copy&paste? Virtualbox supports seamless copy&paste, every other VM probably supports it as well.
If Apple had not had successes like iPod and iPhone, there wasn't much left to write about.
While pipenv has garnered a lot of attention and praise for ease of use, it falls over whenever I integrate it with any serious work. Pipenv lock can take 20-30 minutes on a small flask app (~18 dependencies). And it often mixes up virtualenvs, enabling the wrong one with seemingly no remedy. I see the problems on Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu. 2018 is not the year of pipenv, for me. I'm sticking with regular virtualenvs and the manual-hell of requirements.txt. I hope it gets better eventually.