skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Point is, you can't just fire that traffic into the nether / to domains you don't control from IoT devices. Those providers will happily cut off your automated traffic.

Which reminds me:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15911501 TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/tplink-aggressive-ntp
Hardware acceleration is disabled by default because many graphics drivers suck and will break the browser if hardware acceleration is turned on. You can just go into the settings and turn it on (and then off, if you have problems).

Chromium disables hardware acceleration by default for a wide swatch of graphics drivers too (including all Nvidia GPUs).
Anyone know why she chose RiseUp.net for personal email?
Hi, I'm a recovering information addict. My particular outcome that I optimized for is to learn to sustainably coevolve with information, something I am and am immersed in, according to the perspective that all existence is information.

Inefficiency is not the same as adaptability; it is a strategy for adaptation & one that's more sustainable than perfectionism.

What you subjectively call slacking, I call rest or emotional avoidance. Rest is extremely undervalued in this capitalistically enslaved world; people are literally working themselves to death or debilitation. Emotional avoidance is highly promoted in America; escapism is the norm for those who distract themselves from their emotional growth, whether it be via video games, binge watching stuff, following and debating politics, or just learning things. I'm not saying those activities are bad, btw...simply that people are using them addictively to avoid working on themselves & we can see it reflected in social media all over the place.

Slacking to me: remaining the same person I was 3 months ago. If my personality isn't changing, I'm certainly not growing.
I was in the back seat of a car when the co-pilot tried using Apple Maps to navigate in the Seattle area. I don't know how many times it'd pipe up with "Turn right on ____ Avenue" when we were in the left most lane, almost at the stop light, with 3 lanes of full traffic to our right.

There was pre-action mention of "Turn right in 500 feet". The driver was so frustrated with it, I finally turned on Google Maps and made the co-pilot turn off Apple Maps.

On the interstate, Google mentions "In 2 miles, take Exit 17 to Middleton", "In point 5 miles, take Exit 17", and "Take Exit 17".

Additionally, I don't know if it had the lane indicator Google Maps puts up at the top [1]. You could feel the tension rise in the car as we tried getting to the various destinations throughout the week.

[1] https://www.techlicious.com/images/phones/google-maps-screen...
1. Nobody got laid off at any of the publications that wrote the stories in that image.

2. The reporters wrote the stories based on actual events. None of these pieces are "takes" recommending this. They are reported-out stories.

3. They didn't start the initiatives that led to the stories. If you've got a problem with it, go criticize the people that started these initiatives to assist these communities.

4. There are also initiatives to bring journalists into these areas to better report on them. https://thegroundtruthproject.org/call-applications-appalach...
This isn't very surprising. C compilers have developed all kinds of low level optimizations over decades, trying to extract the last bits of performance they could. In contrast, JIT compilers for JS focused on recovering missing type information through type inference and other low-hanging fruits.

It's also the case that there's a lot more pressure on JS JITs to produce code fast, and so running multiple passes of low level optimizations was not desirable in a web context. This is somewhat bad news for WASM: better low level optimizations could mean longer compilation times. However, AFAIK, Chrome has been working on caching compiled code, so you may only have to compile WASM when it changes (or when you reinstall/update your browser).
I may very well be and thank you for pointing that out. I honestly couldn't tell you the difference between those organizations without something like that link. But was it "BuzzFeed News" that got the layoffs or just "BuzzFeed"?

I think you'd be hard pressed to find many people who could separate BuzzFeed from BuzzFeed News. Hell I'm actively looking for those distinctions now and it's more confusing than I would have expected.
> Seamlessly sync data between devices without ever thinking about it. If used, we only store a limited amount of your data and will encrypt it in the future.

Will encrypt it in the future? Who is trusting a finance app that stores data in plain text on some random serve somewhere!?
It doesn't scroll quickly, it's very easy to read and verify, even for my beat up eyes.

I'd be very interested to see that math, because it's unlikely that's accurate. You can get a few characters at the beginning of the address relatively easily -- the rest is in heat death of the universe territory.
I've never had any issues with it locally, and in fact I like it better than Google Maps in a lot of subtle little UX ways BUT I live less than 10 miles from Cupertino so it'd be crazy if they weren't really accurate here. I was in China a few weeks ago, where Google Maps is blocked, and was very impressed with the quality of the maps even in quite remote areas. Having access to reliable English/Pinyin maps in China is a new experience for me. On the other hand, in my travels to Mexico and even some rural parts of the US, I have seen a lack of detail in their maps compared to Google's.

The Uber/Lyft app dependency on Google is surprising but probably shouldn't be. I wonder/hope it's different on iOS?
I used to have a lot of problems with Apple Maps, but they've gotten a lot better over the years.

That said - there is a lot of feature parity that Apple Maps does not meet Google Maps on (i.e. - searching for something along your route is near impossible on Apple Maps, whereas that's a natural seamless integration on Google Maps).

Additionally, and this might be just because I'm more used to Google Maps, but the UI is way easier to follow in Google Maps - it feels more natural and in-sync with my actual position as a driver. If I have to turn off an intersection, I sometimes feel like I'm guessing if it's the right exit with Apple Maps, but never have such confusion on Google's.

Lastly - and this is also certainly anecdotal, but almost always Google Maps estimates are far more accurate for me than Apple Maps. Apple Maps has several times taken me a different route than Google Maps to my work, only for it to take another 5-10 minutes than normal. I've tried it several times and it just doesn't match up.

Apple Maps sometimes feels closer to a burden to bear since I've chosen Apple for so much - I wish it worked as well dearly, since Apple tries to make you use it so often, but because of the experience I'm much more willing to copy an address and paste it myself into Google Maps than get that sweet integrated sensation I crave.
love that blog, great anti-examples, thanks for sharing!

we are really trying to avoid coming to this style of visual programming

write once, read never
This used to be possible. I know because I once deleted my email and then realized I missed something I needed to transfer, so just re-created my email again to receive that email.
I'd love to know what the demographics of this split are. I feel precisely the same way, but the success of e.g. microtransaction games suggests that it's not a universal view. Whereas for me, microtransaction games are worth either 0 or 1 transaction and then I never even contemplate further payments.

(Hating small purchase decisions might be a common view, since microtransactions are all about long-tail profit exceeding a normal purchase price. But I'm still curious what the demography looks like.)
Do you know of an email provider that doesn't work this way? Asking because I'm currently using gmail for a little project and make use of aliases and catch alls and then make and remove additional accounts as I need those accounts to be able to send mail in addition to receiving it.

Im not really interested in managing everything that I perceive goes into managing my own email server (ip reputation management and having to keep a box online 24/7)
100%

this is the point exactly
Maybe this is true today. But as the grandparent pointed out, Yahoo did release unused usernames back in 2013. Who is to say that Google won't decide to do that some day?

https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/26/yahoo-releases-recycled-us...
Yes. 2x worked perfect for me at 4k, and its the default for hidpi settings I think. When I switched to 1080p I had to manually increase font sizes (not overall scaling) because the default size wasnt sharp/readable enough. Its pretty cool 4k now works so well out-of-box on Linux. It was nightmare in 2015.
Well, the voice tells you that it is a 3 months free trial, the text tells you nothing.

Actually it is worse than that: The voice tells you what happens if you press the button, and the benefit to you (you will sign up to listen to 50 million songs, first 3 months are free), while the text on the button tells you something that is not going to happen (it says you will hear the whole song, but you won't hear music when clicking)
Non sequiturs aside, the fact that you are not the target doesn´t mean that it sucks.
I've pretty much run in that mode for years. No big problems. With Ghostery and Privacy Badger turned up to high, and third party cookies blocked, Google doesn't get much through. My phone, a ruggedized Android model from Caterpillar Tractor, has no Google apps other than the Google Play Services middleware. I've never had Facebook on a phone.

Mail is on Thunderbird and an IMAP server at an ISP. My email address is on my own domain. If I want to make something available to others, I put it on Github, or an "outgoing" directory on my web site. Documents are edited with LibreOffice. Browsing is with Firefox on the desktop and Fennec on the phone.
A few sites don't load properly, but they're marginal ones for which there are better alternatives. More often, the site loads but the ads don't, which is nice. I don't see many ads.

It's just easier this way. The junk level is way down.
> I mean QA & Testing should catch it, sure.

I believe they have been working on FaceTime Group for 5+ years now.

In 2015, Modern Family had an episode where the entire plot focused around the family using FaceTime on their iPhones --- but they had the Group feature[1]! I remember being blown away when I saw that, figured it'd be coming in the next iOS update. It didn't. 4 years later, they finally released it..then recalled it immediately

[1] https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/02/tech_r...

edit: managed to find a short clip from said Modern Family episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy3jUOBxQuI

Though in the full episode you see a lot more of the Group feature
Systemd offer a compile and runtime option to turn this option off, so it is a fair comparison.
50 an hour.
You might also enjoy Cory Doctorow's "Scroogled": https://craphound.com/scroogled.html

Though for whatever reason the formatting on that appears terrible (to me in my uMatrix locked down Firefox)
AFAIK it does reduce the overall size for equivalent code.
> For cases, 3D print one,

I know someone who 3D-printed a phone case with a consumer printer he got for Christmas, and it fell apart within a few days.
Don't know if it's related but I had pops and cracks in my audio when setting up 5.1 surround sound in Linux over S/PDIF. I messed with all the stuff mentioned including setting tsched=0 to no avail. The solution was to also set my channels to 6 in alsamixer, even though it was already set to 6 in pulse config. Another tip I read was to try disabling auto-mute in there, but that didn't work for me.
I am a big fan of mentoring by tough love. Unfortunately, many juniors stop at tough. I can understand frustration and the anxiety that comes with unfamiliar challenges. What I don't understand is the constant desire for recognition or needing to be right like a simple decision is a battle for dominance.

I am all about mentoring people, but I do not savor working in an adult day care. The difference is whether the junior takes honest feedback and accept challenges or whether the junior wants immediate gratification. That distinction really comes down to personality and the wrong personalities are a real downer.
Seeing you across this thread as someone who doesn't just dismiss journalism! I'm looking forward to seeing what The Markup [1] comes out with on the data-driven tech-focused journalism front. Saw their managing editor talk last week and I'm tentatively hopeful...

[1] https://themarkup.org/
It's easy to disable notifications for native apps (on iOS at least) - just don't grant the permission in the first place.

The reason I feel web notifications are more problematic is the nagging aspect that I think would happen (like, for example, the 'install our app' interstitials and prompts). That's annoying enough without adding notifications to the mix.
They use it responsibly now, but that assumes they’ll always use it responsibly. And what happens in the worst case scenario, when some actor takes over who may not care for laws and constitutions?
Nvidia's PhysX engine now open-source
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hahah. I think the first time was on Hacker News actually but I didn't remember the name of the company nor couldn't find the post. Then I just googled "hire a FAANG".
Well, he got sick but for average Capone it beats doing 20 to life for other stuff.

Edit: are you really suggested that people like John Gotti and El Chapo declare income from criminal activities and detail how they made that once audited?

Stop engaging in criminal activities, I get as advice, but confess to the feds, I don't.
Some people mistake blue collar to mean middle class, instead of tradesman (ie white collar is where you don't have to worry about getting your shirt dirty). Journalism is certainly white collar work, regardless of how it pays.
Looks like it was explicitly BuzzFeed News. It was in the article. And Pulitzer seemed to make the distinction, so I'll take their word for it. I'm not otherwise qualified.

https://twitter.com/sapna/status/1088922478242615297
Chrome has a very annoying (and somewhat severe) Japanese input issue on Linux and pretty much forced me to use Firefox.[0] But I do like Firefox from feature perspectives, too.

[0]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=681389
> Why should we take away that right, just because people with funny noses don't get the same luxury?

> keeping it secret, which might cause actual harm in conjunction with the human factor

Looped.
I live in London UK, and here the idea that "high rents leads inevitably to a noticeably increased supply of more affordable apartments" is generally taken by the evidence of your eyes and wallet as so trivially false that it is not something that needs any additional evidence; it can an should be be dismissed with an unfounded statement. It is obviously not what happens.
How to explain Blockchains to normies
On my current Linux system with NVidia drivers, HW acceleration is enabled according to chrome://gpu (there are many accelerations and some are disabled, but many are enabled including Canvas and Compositing). Regardless of all, Chromium works just great, including smooth scrolling and WebGL, and Firefox doesn't (laggy scrolling, slower WebGL than in Chromium). I don't think the problem is with drivers but with Firefox.

> Chromium disables hardware acceleration by default for a wide swatch of graphics drivers too (including all Nvidia GPUs).

From what I remember reading, it disables it for nouveau driver, not the NVidia driver which works. This is supported by the fact my Chromium is currently using HW accel on NVidia without me having forced anything.

I did try enabling HW accel in Firefox and it did not solve laggy scrolling. I don't think it even really got enabled, I think it's forcibly disabled even if you try to override it.
"Anything can be communicated over a noisy channel without error" - Was something my Elec 201 professor would confidently proclaim before he would go into a lengthy aside about how amazing Claude Shannon is.

That was nearly 20 years ago.

Everyday I appreciate that statement, and Claude Shannon, a little bit more.
Sure, but if you're looking for kangaroos because of an incorrect belief that they're mostly responsible for something, and it's actually perpetrated more by mountain lions, you might actually be on the wrong continent.

Incels have killed more people than Islamic extremists in the US in the last decade.
I want the Purism 5 to be a good 1st gen phone; I am not expecting Apple-level build quality or the newest hardware. But even with what I consider reasonable expectations, I am very uncertain with purism's ability to reach them. Making even just a decent smartphone is really difficult, and purism appears to be struggling already. I wish them the best, but I won't consider the phone until monthes after laumch.
> They don't get stuck in spaghetti code

This is quite the assumption!

Bottom-up text-based programming leads to much greater complexity because most programmers don't properly model their software (e.g., with state machines, statecharts, Petri nets, activity diagrams, etc.).

But it's not entirely their fault -- code is inherently linear. Mental models are not - they're graph-based (i.e., directed graphs, potentially hierarchical). Text-based code is merely trying to shoehorn graph-based mental models of what the code should do into a linear format, which makes it less intuitive to understand than a visual approach.
Average user: "Pee pee what now?"

If Firefox offered a .deb for $OS on their homepage, and Grandma attempts to install it while running $OTHEROS, then likely she will either 1) fail or 2) break her system. That's a worse user experience than a .tar.gz.

Asking Firefox to maintain packages for every outdated Debian-based distro is unreasonable. Nice to have, yes, but unreasonable to ask.
> I create new email addresses on Protonmail and Riseup.net (for work and personal email, respectively) [..]

I wouldn't do that. Riseup is providing email on a very tight budget. They are activists and every free account they give out is using some precious resources. Unless you really need it for specific purposes I believe it's better to go to fastmail or protonmail for "general purposes" email needs.
Google fonts are used by all websites. And from Referrer header, Google has your browsing history.
This doesn't preclude R7RS compatibility, does it?
T-Mobile usually have no problem with custom devices. Avoid Verizon if you can.
Such a correlation is difficult to draw from that single data point. You could look at the entire business model to get a better idea but in reality it’s not about that at all. Really it’s just what would the company have to pay to replace you? If it’s easy to find someone who can do the same job for the equal or lower salary then you have your answer.

There will be a range of salaries for your job position in your market. You should evaluate your total compensation against these to help you decide if you are fairly compensated.
Visual Culture and the Acceleration of Identity Formation/Dissolution (1996)
The Idea of statebox (From glancing over the paper on their homepage) is that you draw architectural diagrams. And then these Petrinets have some kind of category-theoretical encoding. Which allows us to interpret the high level architectural diagram to a low level program, by telling what exactly the nodes and arrows do. These interpretations then fill in the gaps on whatever the architectural diagram has (like error handling, UI drawing, whatever).

This is similar to free monads, where the choice of specific interpretation of the DSL is delayed, and even multiple interpreters can exist
Apple maps has taken me to the wrong side of Tokyo more than once. I won't use it anymore. I'm in Nova now, perhaps it's better here due to more data being available? I've never tried it here and probably won't -- there's nothing Waze won't do for me that Apple Maps will.
Microsoft, like most companies, don't use the internal implementation as part of the name brand. It was called "Windows" long before it got the current kernel. ("Edge" is switching engines, too, but not names.) I see no reason they'd change the Windows name even if they decided to switch out the kernel.
Was about to make a case around how indigenous cultures work, but you nailed it. I'll go a step further:

I think the future holds for the world an emergent culture of compassionate giving. A world designed to be loving as a first principle.

In that world, "slacking" is what you do when you let out some rope. Or it's a word that old people use to signal when they're either having a flashback, have chosen to carry on judgmental ways of the past, and/or are triggered. Unless we're talking about the loving world beyond the point where all the slacker-haters died off.
Part of the challenge there is it's bigger than a public utility.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that the US nationalizes it. That leaves EU, Australian, Canadian, &c Google customers out in the cold---it's unlikely either the US or those other countries will be comfortable with continued service by a national utility to customers outside that nation. Perhaps some kind of subsidiary model could be constructed, but the details of how are non-trivial.
>Recently, Let's Encrypt has also been e-mailing people who performed recent renewals using TLS-SNI-01 and warning them that this option is going to be eliminated permanently in March.

So this is what that email was about.
People eventually get tired of giving useful feedback to unhelpful people. Maybe that's a piece of advice someone should share with sama sama.
Something extremely important to keep in mind is that, with psychological studies, many things that people assume as obvious are completely wrong after a study demonstrates it and other things, that people would never guess, seem completely obvious after a study demonstrates it.
Is trading Google cloud products for Apple cloud products really such a big change? I could see the truly privacy paranoid running away from all cloud services and running their own everything, but just switching cloud providers doesn't seem like a meaningful difference to me. OK, so now Apple has all of your data instead of Google. Either way it's in the hands of a big corporation, and by extension, the government.
> we already know, for the most part, what is there to be known

This is also what what generally believed about physics in the 1890s, right before everything exploded with Relativity and Quantum Physics.

"it was generally accepted that all the important laws of physics had been discovered and that, henceforth, research would be concerned with clearing up minor problems and particularly with improvements of method and measurement"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_physics#20th_centur...
I was in Dallas once, tried to get to the Dallas Zoo. Apple Maps couldn't get me there to save its life. I had to use Google Maps because Dallas decided to put exits inside of exits on the highway and Apple Maps would spit out the name of the second exit instead of what it was really called.
Google also hosts a plethora of standard JS libraries. I wonder how many web pages fail to work with their JS at all if you block Google?
It gets old, if I could I would wire up my desktop to charge all my devices wirelessly but that would probably fry my nutsack or worse.
Please see: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/papers/determinism-vldb10.pdf