skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple had a good run. I'm in a twist. I don't like Windows or Android and Linux just isn't there on the desktop. I made the switch from Windows/Android around 2012-2014 and it was a relief. Now I hate all their new hardware. They have really let down their professional users. Every owner of a new Macbook has one of those flimsy and ugly port extenders hanging off the side of the machine just to get a basic set of ports, and the butterfly keyboard is god-awful. I can't type on a keyboard that hurts my fingertips.

As for the iPhone: I'd like to keep my home button with TouchID and my screen without the notch. I'm not sure what to upgrade to when this iPhone 7 Plus, which by the way cost a fortune, breaks.

Apple seems to have crossed a line. They're no longer selling good products at a premium. At this point, they're basically milking their customers. I hope this backfires severely for them.
Brave doesn't have a unique User-Agent.

"Removed Brave from the User Agent HTTP header to reduce fingerprinting"
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/blob/master/CHANGELO...
Sub-100% market share in a populated country still means that a lot of people are using alternatives. That is why it seems absurd to break it down by country in order to declare a "total" victory. I sometimes use Firefox in the US - that fact alone says you cannot say it's "fully taken over" in my country.
It renders most websites I visit (reddit, Facebook etc.) fine enough. It takes a long time to start up, however.

One really bad point about it is that on MacBooks, it seems to use up the battery charge really fast.
What if demonizing “waterfall” pulled the rug out from under our Agile?
You must not have been anywhere near the tech community for, oh, the last five years or so... :-)
$9.00 for a lightning to 3.5mm headphone dongle. Yes, I paid. But didn't like the experience.
Reddit and HN provide what I call “false novelty”. It’s a torrent of new information and entertaining images, but none of it really provides any sort of lasting impact beyond the first 5 minutes or so.

When you do new things in the real world, these become major events that anchor your memories and sense of time. You can probably vividly remember some vacations, concerts, your first kiss, and a thousand other novel life experiences very vividly. But while Reddit feels novel in the moment, in the rear view mirror it is just a featureless void of “Reddit was here”, with no strong memories left to justify the time spent.
My father had to catch and release a bat which flew into our house a few years ago. Even though he wasn't knowingly bitten or scratched, our GP still recommended he have the vaccine just in case.
Music Engineer Compares Streaming Quality to Original Master [video]
I have noticed that too :-). That's one problem with Google: On the one hand I think they should be restricted but on the other hand their products are just very good.
A thread on Reddit complaining about Apple dongles!?!

Big news indeed.
I bought my 27” iMac 4 years ago, it’s out of all it’s warranties but when the hard drive failed a few months ago they waived the cost of replacing it. They scraped charging for MacOS upgrades years ago.

I had some system performance problems a while back and their phone support talked to me immediately and helped me through the troubleshooting process very clearly, again after I was out of warranty. No charge.

ICloud is a bit expensive so I don’t use it, but there are plenty of alternatives. I use Dropbox and Google Drive. I can see the convenience being worth it for some people. Let the market decide.

Apple gear is pricey, but I’ve never really felt nickel and dimed. I know some people have bad experiences, but for me once I’ve bought their stuff I’ve got excellent and quite generous after sales support.
If you're not already active, get a cheap gym membership and force yourself to go for a few hours a week. I'm not talking about the meat-head bodybuilding sort. You may enjoy it, you'll be healthier for it, and you may meet others there which share interests.
The norm in the context of 8 bit home micros.
>Well, the free storage is for your account, not your device, right?

Well, it _should_ be taking account your devices, which are also tied to your account, right?
It's very good. Brave Browser is also quite good.
>There is a SINGLE driver of price for a is product: how much people will pay for it. That’s it.

It's worth noting this is a neoclassical view (if we take it to mean supply and demand solely determines the price of a product) but there are other views too (Sraffian, Ricardian and Marxian, for instance, though these are more oriented on value than price). I don't think the quick answer to the question offers enough explanatory power as to why many (most?) people in the market would pay that much for it.
I’ve started leaving DND mode on 24/7. I go to my notifications, they don’t come to me anymore. This also prevents your iPhone from being DOS’d by a phone call at any moment.
> All those small extras were really adding a little plus to the experience

I still get these kinds of extras when I buy cheap stuff from China (pouches, microfiber wipes, cables, USB chargers), and they all end up in a box never used and eventually thrown out. I already have 4-port 2.4A chargers everywhere I need a charger, I already have a million USB cables since they came with everything else I bought. At this point it's all just redundant waste.
I don't know why you're getting so heavily downvoted.

The only subtle tweak I'd make to your comparison is that Apple's rules are not clearly laid out in advance. In this specific case, Apple had previously approved the same app for literally years, without a change in the relevant rule they claim to now be enforcing. That same rule Apple claims they're now in violation of is intentionally vague — it sort of hand-waves away what behaviors Apple wants to allow or disallow location tracking for, giving editors lots of leeway to turn a blind eye or not.
This is just inflation. In 2003 when the G4 iBook was unveiled, the cheapest model started at $1099:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2003/10/22Apple-Unveils-New-G...

In 2018 dollars (adjusted for inflation) that is ~$1507.00. You can get a mid-level Macbook Pro for that now.
The marketing around “No VM” is interesting. It sounds like you’re relying on V8. What did you do instead of using its VM? Precompile? Or did you reimplement V8s isolates in another VM-less system? Or do you mean more specifically no OS-level VM?
I'm not so sure it would work out like that in practice. If the US were to default I'd expect something closer to: "Yeah, try getting this airfield; just try..."
Right so that isn’t much less than a conventional car? My Land Rover has one three-hour service once a year. Is an EV done in one hour? Doesn’t seem like a huge difference.
() => "Sartre was right";
>but also straight up price increase. Twelve years ago, when I was a student, I was able to buy an iBook G4 at what seemed like a very reasonable price for what you got. Now it feels like you can't get into a decent Mac for less than $1200.

Are you sure you're not misremembering a student discount vs retail? Because the lowest end 12" early 2004 iBook G4 launched for $1100, and the 14" launched for $1300. That's in 2004 money, that's around $1500/$1750 (respectively) after 12 years of inflation. And the iBook G4 was not quite on the relative level of the new MacBook Airs (which I assume is what you're comparing to with that $1200 number). Double thunderbolt 3 IO alone makes them far more versatile in higher power activities.

I mean your post is kind of interesting as an example of how people's memories work with regard to pricing over time anyway.
Same and it works with unlock origin.

It was a bit tougher a year ago but recent versions are spot on, I've largely forgotten it's not chrome as it just stays out the way.
>not passing financial success on to its loyal customers

Companies don't pass "financial success on to its loyal customers". They pass it to their shareholders or invest it in their future production and expansion.

>If they're not careful does this sort of thing open them up to anti-trust?

No. You need a monopoly for that (and it can't be a monopoly on your own brand - e.g. "only Apple makes iOS devices") it has to be on a general product category (e.g. mobile OSes). E.g. when MS faced such issues, they had over 95% dominance on operating systems in general.
sadly that's also my go-to query when using startpage
nicotine is harmful, though it is not the primary harmful agent in cigarettes. that said, it is an immunosuppresant and there have been studies linking nicotine with cancer.

Known carcinogens present in cigarettes: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...
The chrome is still bad. and Firefox is still and still bad.
Radxa Releases Cheap RK3399-Based Rock Pi 4 Development Board
On hindsight, his friend might XOR a known password's hash with the clear text to uncover OxC9. But coming up the idea on the spot is pretty smart as well
Building your color palette
In this instance, this observation is equivalent to saying that some of the false reviews that people complain about sound like someone's genuinely expressed opinion.
Your argument is moot when it comes to original point though, isn’t it? Can a single machine handle 10,000 containers with acceptable perfmance at load? Versus the single process handling work for 10,000 customers? Substitute n for 10k here it’s an arbitrary number.
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Ddg is worse than Google and Firefox is maybe a little bit worse than Chrome. But it's bearable 90% of the time and that matters a lot.
How far future are we talking here?

In the very, very distant future, I'm guessing we'll see browsers with VR functionality accessed through a headset or something. Maybe with websites actually resembling 3D worlds akin to the 'cyberspace' fiction of yore.

Something involving AR functionality seems plausible too. Not sure how it'd work, but maybe the sites you're seeing would be like dioramas projected into the real world, akin to Pokemon GO.

But that's probably a while off. Coding VR/AR setups as web apps is still pretty complicated as of right now, and the possibilities for a browser that really depends on them haven't been explored all that much yet.

For the short term... It'll probably be pretty boring by comparison. Typical features from mobile apps and desktop programs will keep making their way into web development (I'm guessing screen snapshots, ambient light mode, more stuff involving the camera and gyro sensors in devices, etc) and eventually the web will start seeing them integrated into the mainstream more and more.
So do you think you would have been harmed if actions had been taken to prevent you from starting in the first place? Do you think you’re harming yourself or being cruel to yourself now by not smoking anymore?
The article is from 2012 but I haven't found any newer better way of accomplishing this. Does anyone has experience with this or ideas of how to do this?
>What if this person had a hobby of simply collecting and cataloging information bout people they come in contact with?

Then they are a data controller.

"A data controller is the individual or the legal person who controls and is responsible for the keeping and use of personal information on computer or in structured manual files.

(...)

In essence, you are a data controller if you can answer YES to the following question:
Do you keep or process any information about living people?"

https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Are-you-a-Data-Controller...
There’s a difference between “no longer sells good products” and “no longer sells the exact product I want”.
We could slow down the inevitable if Microsoft makes it so you can't download Chrome using Edge.
I know it's kinda old but think about how many exploits are out there in the jungle.

https://www.twistlock.com/labs-blog/escaping-docker-containe...
Nine years of Go
I wish I was working in an environment where it's possible to know everything well enough so I can design something on paper. Nowadays I plug a lot of systems together and and I first spend a lot of time establishing that they really behave the way as expected. It's really hard to design something well that always gets tripped up by some external system behaving in unexpected ways.

Makes me want to go back to pure C/C++ development where you know the environment in and out.
Regarding point #3 -- In the 80's, clinicians at Kaiser Permanente recognized that success in a weight-loss program was correlated to stresses experienced during childhood. This lead to the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, using a measure which scores people on a scale of 0-10. Those with scores of >3 (factors such as separated parents, child abuse, sexual abuse, food insecurity) have significantly worse outcomes in later life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_Childhood_Experiences_...
Isn't this also the thing where university students were coerced into having nude posture photos taken of them? (And I think that dataset then got abused by a few people.)
Roundtripping Trump through machine translation
Remote Access Trojan is more fitting I guess?

Also note the article is pretty explicit that this compromised computer gave them access to the entire network. And "servers" is in plural when it talks about crytpo-mining. Likely this is how they controlled the mining operation.
Often you're unaware that these things contain firmware. They're just sold as e.g. 'bluetooth controller', but internally, there's a largish processor, a chunk of RAM and firmware in ROM mask. The firmware versioning is implicit in the chip revision.

(Of course, this just moves the problem around; it's not uncommon for a chip revision to break software elsewhere in the system.)
Hi from Buenos Aires! The population of the zone has a mixed ancestry. There are a lot of small details that still survive, like the mate. Also, there are a lot of small details in the language of the zone, the pronunciation is slightly different (or very different, it's difficult to understand some of the people), there are many loaned words and expressions.

I'm not sure about the religion, but my family is from Jujuy (the part of Argentina near Bolivia) and most of the people there is officially Catholic but there is a lot of mix with the prehispanic religions, so I guess that in Misiones there is a lot of mix of with the guarani religion. (Actually, the official Catholic religion has a lot of loaned parts from the previous European religions.)
Firefox is not on par in terms of performance at all, at least on the Mac. I use it at home and at work but it just uses too much CPU for me to recommend it to anyone.
This is a short article that gives us a glimpse of how bad things currently are in the Internet Of Shit.

The penultimate paragraph: So, in summary: it's a device that infringes my copyright, gives you root access in response to trivial credentials, has access control that depends entirely on nobody ever looking at the packets, is sufficiently poorly implemented that you can crash both it and the bulbs, has a cloud access protocol that has no security whatsoever and also acts as an easy mechanism for people to circumvent your network security. This may be the single worst device I've ever bought.
Variance can increase with time without invalidating the trend. Signals can attenuate with time and nonetheless still be a signal. This is very frequently the case with longitudinal studies that track outcomes from initial conditions.
The iBook G4 started at $1100, and dropped to $1000 in 2004, for the 12-inch model. The CPI has inflated by almost exactly 25% over the last 12 years, so that's $1250 real dollars today. It would be nice if Apple drove prices down more, but for what it's worth today's machines are nicer in lots of ways.
No, this is a lot less work than conventional car would see for the same 7 years. Basically there's no need to get to dealership service.
Without fully qualifying what “easier”, “good product”, and “good experience” mean as well as delineating project constraints such as time, business value, and life it’s not possible to truly have this discussion.

Even so, I am inclined to argue that in most cases the exact opposite is true. That is, it is actually “easier” to create a “good product” with a messy codebase, because in most cases “easier” and “good product” are understood by primary stakeholders to mean business value at this moment.
Napoléon was first emperor in 1804 - if it was from then, we’re talking 214 year old debt - fascinating!
if you're concerned about performance, why would you use nightly? i've never benchmarked the difference between other people's release, beta, and nightly builds, but i know at my day job the daily builds are likely to have performance regressions that won't necessarily be fixed until beta or release.
To add a one more: the Macbook charging bricks have an MSP430 in them [1], "roughly as powerful as the processor inside the original Macintosh". It's definitely Turing complete; you may not get tons of access to the rest of the machine, but it might serve as a vantage point from which to launch power-based side channel attacks [2] (yes, you only get the overall power draw from this but that's no barrier [3]).

[1] http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surpr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis

[3] https://m.tau.ac.il/~tromer/handsoff/ "Our attacks use novel side channels and are based on the observation that the "ground" electric potential in many computers fluctuates in a computation-dependent way."
I just bought a brand new iPhone SE for about $160. It's tiny, fast, inexpensive and miles ahead of my not-that-old Samsung in terms of usability. I will probably never use its full computational capacity so there is nothing attractive about the newer, more powerful phones. It also has a 3.5mm audio port!

I agree that it is absurd to pay $800 for a phone that lacks features I want and has features I don't want. So I didn't. It's that easy.
I still get exasperated when I see a brand new product ship with miniUSB. I'm afraid we'll never get rid of these legacy ports.
A 66 ton chunk of iron falling on earth probably before any iron had been smelted by humans.

Now think about the equivalent meteorite falling today: what substance could it be comprised of that we haven't synthesized or seen yet? Maybe an exotic isotope of an otherwise common element which demonstrates some exotic properties. Superconducting at room temperature maybe.

Amazing to think about what asteroids could be out there headed our way (and not big enough to destroy everything).
Nope, we, the users, by buying these devices, tell the developers of apps that they should comply with the platform we use.
The video you linked is strawmanning the problems with voter ID in the US.

Nobody is saying that (these are direct quotes from the video) "black people don't understand how to use the internet" and "black people don't know how to get to the DMV". The problem is that poor people (outside of a major city in the US) don't have all of the documents they need to get ID, so they need to pay several hundred dollars to get those documents and the ID they need. Several hundred dollars might seem like a small amount of money to you, but the majority of Americans cannot afford a $400 emergency -- there are lots of poor people in your country.

Interviewing people in a major city is not really a good example of journalism -- what benefit is gained from asking people who haven't experienced these problems, when we know for a fact that they exist.

(In Australia we don't have voter ID requirements at all, and no study that I know of has shown significant amounts of electoral fraud here. So the entire idea of needing ID is quite foreign to me, and I think you should ask yourself what the threat model voter ID is trying to defend against.)
Does anyone know what the actual metrics being used for this site are? Maybe it was discussed in a previous HN? I don't see in the present environment how Chrome can ever reach the kind of power IE once had given the existence of iOS if nothing else. It's not just about pure marketshare either, it's about value share (which is often the stat that companies actually care about, with marketshare only being an occasionally useful proxy measure). Even if alternate platform users like iOS/Mac/Linux who don't use Chrome were only 10-30% of users say, what percent of revenue do they represent? It's not a uniform distribution amongst the general population.

And while there remain and probably always will be quirks between browsers and standards one implements that others don't yet and so on, I don't think there is anything quite like ActiveX remaining in the modern web.
It's fun to see how <fields> start wild, people explore things as they feel. It's a jungle. Then <field> become a thing, optimization/laziness kicks in, people expect some concepts to be expressed in a certain way so they're predictable. No more jungle.
The USB-C cable the comes with the new iPad Pro (11”) is so short, flimsy, and awful you would think it was a knockoff.
It is a trade-of : they find improvements by losing precision where they believe it is not useful for their use case.
that has never worked before
"Don't need statistics just use your eyes"

Yet the statistic supports the conclusion. Just because the signal is weak doesn't mean there's no signal.
Ask HN: Notes on Lambda calculus with exercises and solutions?
I really like the exposition in http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/logic/TypesSS05/Extra/geuvers.pdf, but they do not have any solutions to the problems.

Am finding https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/andrew.ker/docs/lambdacalculus-lecture-notes-ht2009.pdf a bit harder to follow, but they do have solutions to computational problems.

Thanks in advance!
Take a job in another country; every day becomes an adventure as you navigate different cultures, different people, different customs, different cities, different bureaucracies, different governments, different foods, different activities, etc. Plus, you become a more well rounded individual. It also gives you valuable soft skills (cultural relations).

Many places offer working holiay visas.
I'm doing the same (on Android, and push notification is broken anyway on microG). Sometimes I get 'anonymous' phone calls. Those are annoying. But people who know me, know I prefer e-mail etc.
I have a serious question about the meteorite extinction case...

People talk about populating mars as insurance against a devastating meteor attack wiping out the population.

Wouldn’t it also work to create a large shock-absorbing facility on earth? If a meteorite is headed toward earth, you could simply enter the shelter, wait for it to hit, and then come back out.

Of course then you’re dealing with interrupted ecosystems, but it’s hard for me to believe that they would be worse than Mars.

P.s. I know populating Mars is considered diversification for other reasons, but a mass extinction is certainly a reason given.
A have a family member who is a marriage and family therapist (MFT). She and most of her peers themselves see therapists. This is partly because people who become (good) therapists have themselves had to struggle with issues in their lives and dealt with it by experiencing therapy.

It's also a way to be able to talk to someone else about their cases. The person they go to is themselves bound by confidentiality restrictions so they can talk about whatever they need to without worrying that patients' communications will be leaked.
I’d describe it the opposite way. The lesson learned from Wikileaks was two-fold: use digital tools well, but be aware there’s always a physical pressure point. Wikileaks became more whacky after JA was tethered to an embassy. Similarly, in this case, the potential problem is fines for the reporters working with the material, not the chance that it could disappear.
You just proved their point.