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Given Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have shown they're against federated messaging the more pertinent question for me is "can it work?

Will anyone other than geeks switch from Facebook, et al..

You'd probably need some legislation to force those running large communication platforms to open their protocols and allow federation before there can be significant progress. I really can't see their being political will for that at present.
I'm seeing several people asking what RDF is useful for. If you're curious, I use it for basketball analytics: https://github.com/andrewstellman/pbprdf

Here's an article about my system, pbprdf: https://www.zdnet.com/article/nba-analytics-and-rdf-graphs-g...

And an example of its use: https://gist.github.com/andrewstellman/4872dbb9dc7593e56abdd...

Here's an example of what the RDF files generated by pbprdf look like:

Here's the ontology, which defines the vocabulary it uses: https://github.com/andrewstellman/pbprdf/blob/master/generat...

And this is what the data looks like:

<pbprdf/games/2017-11-29_Warriors_at_Lakers/230> pbprdf:shotPoints "3"^^xsd:int ;
pbprdf:shotAssistedBy <pbprdf/players/Klay_Thompson> ;
pbprdf:shotType "26-foot three point jumper" ;
pbprdf:shotMade "true"^^xsd:boolean ;
a pbprdf:Shot ;
pbprdf:shotBy <pbprdf/players/Stephen_Curry> ;
a pbprdf:Play ;
pbprdf:forTeam <pbprdf/teams/Warriors> ;
pbprdf:inGame <pbprdf/games/2017-11-29_Warriors_at_Lakers> ;
pbprdf:time "10:23" ;
pbprdf:period "3"^^xsd:int ;
a pbprdf:Event ;
rdfs:label "Warriors: Stephen Curry makes 26-foot three point jumper (Klay Thompson assists)" ;
pbprdf:secondsIntoGame "1537"^^xsd:int ;
pbprdf:secondsLeftInPeriod "623"^^xsd:int .
I'm 26 and the iPad Air and iPad mini do not appeal to me but I own an iPad Pro and I am enamored with it. I use the iPad Pro at my full-time job as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. I get a lot of mileage by taking notes on it in OneNote and preparing/reading documents from the other Office apps. I also use the iPad to listen to music with Spotify (my headphones have trouble connecting to my work PC). Outside of the office, I use the iPad as a second screen for my Windows Laptop with Duet (https://www.duetdisplay.com/), reading books, web browsing and more Spotify.

My major complaint with the device is the poor IDE support. I think I would love to be able to use it with Visual Studio Code as it is much easier to carry around than my laptop and I don't need the powerful laptop all that frequently. It has basically replaced all of the functionality of my laptop except for my development work.

Hope you find that helpful.
They're typically toys for the technically inept. Larger screens than phones to allow larger fonts for hard of seeing with a dumbed down interface for those who can't use computers very well. It fills an important niche filled with very young children and many older people.

For anyone like us, we're probably going to be ok with a phone and a laptop.
Do you do any reading? I use my tablets most of all to read papers.
If everyone has to use corporate email addressees they could just take over the emails temporarily to reset the password. If they really cared they could do so without the user ever knowing. They could also put language in their employee handbook or contract saying that you have to give them your password and fire for refusing... however, I fail to see how any of this is an issue since this is the company Slack and they have the right to see how people are using it.
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powertop --auto-tune

Does it for me.
Is anyone able to clarify the Pencil compatibility? This article specifically lists the 1st gen:

> Apple Pencil (1st generation) is available for purchase separately for $99 (US).

So Apple are releasing new devices not compatible with their newer 2nd Gen Pencil?
Well in some cases it was because conventional hardware caught up. When I arrived at my first job in 1998 we were using Symbolics Lisp machines. Two years later we were using TI microexplorer Lisp cards that were hosted in a Mac IIFx (something like [0]). When I left, two years after that, we were running Procyon Common Lisp on the IIFx itself, with no Lisp co-processor. The old Symbolics machine was booted up occasionally, and in fact had the best diagnostics for the climate conditions in the server room. If the air con failed, the Symbolics would send temperature reports to a remote console before gracefully shutting down while the Sun workstations would just overheat and randomly fail.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/Vw5agg5
I use wordpress

> where dealing with mathematical symbols and highlighting code is not tedious

It will render LaTeX and will perform code syntax highlighting

> I would like to reach out to a wide variety of folks including developers, ops, technical managers etc.

Wordpress gives you significant control over the look and feel of the blog without forcing you to write any code. Just choose a theme that will speak to your intended audience.

Lastly, my advice is to focus more on the content than the medium. If you have interesting things to say, people really won't care how your blog looks.
What's even funnier is how easily even intelligent people on intellectual websites like HN can fall for such bush league propaganda techniques. I don't know how we can ever fix this problem if even smart people aren't able to see it.
It is so weird that the iPad Air and iPad mini only support the old Apple Pencil. The iPad mini was my favorite incarnation of the iPad line when it came out, and I was considering getting one again, but I have no interest in needing two different kinds of iPad pencil.

Apple keeps creating and extending these arbitrary transition periods. The old Apple Pencil should be in the past. Instead we have an entire other generation with it now. This sucks for developers too who have to continue designing for old technology. Same with lightning ports. Now every iPad accessory needs a USB-C version and lightning port version.
Also https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47615231

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/utrecht-tram-shooti...

- There are 3 persons dead, 3 persons heavily injured and more injured people

- Police are looking for a 37-year-old Turkish man named as Gokmen Tanis

- The mayor of Utrecht says they see it as a terrorist attack and think more things could happen

- Everybody needs to stay inside
I read a comment years ago about a chef who stays that msg makes water taste like soup. So yeah, it improves the taste, but not in a good way. It's similar to drinking tea with a cup of sugar mixed in. msg isn't as bad as sugar when normalizing on how much people consume, but it's still used as a replacemment for good food.
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In Iran at least there is a reoccurring narrative that people with any connection to outside groups or people who are even distantly critical of Iran are targeted by conservative forces inside the country who do not want to move towards any kind of conciliatory position / open the country to the rest of the world and other policies. The idea is actions like this help to cement their somewhat isolationist positions / fit the propaganda of Iran under siege by outside forces.

I can't say how accurate that is, but that's the explanation you see a lot even from folks inside Iran, but generally government policy in Iran doesn't seem as unified as others and there are a lot of folks with their hands on the strings of government. You'll see someone released and it seems like a move towards less persecution, and in the same turn someone else picked up inexplicably for what seems like nothing at all. The idea being that different people are pulling the strings.
Why are you assuming that a removal of cars means there will be no mechnism that would replace its functions? Many people benefit from a car's cargo potential and their need for this function wouldn't disappear with the cars. I can't say what the particular method could be, maybe medium-sized autonmous vehicles, but I would be surprised of nothing was created.
I got my first iPad a year ago, suspecting I wouldn't use it for anything (and I'm nowhere close to 50). Turns out I couldn't have been more wrong. It's now my primary device for:

- Reading and annotating books and papers in PDF format (academic research has never been easier, I use a stylus too)

- Mounting to a tripod and recording video (e.g. professional presentations, with a lapel mic connected -- again, screen size makes it far better than a phone for reviewing a take)

- 3D anatomy app (whether you're working on massage therapy, posture, etc. -- nobody uses printed anatomy books anymore. Phone too small, laptop doesn't have touch)

- Playing video games (same games as on a phone, but so much better on the larger screen)

- Watching TV/movies while traveling (you can do it on a flight on a laptop, but it's hard in an airplane seat -- this is so much easier)

- Video calling (bigger view than phone, but more portable than my laptop)

- Doing light work in a coffee shop (writing, e-mailing, etc.) -- I pair it with the Bluetooth magic keyboard and do my work in Mail and Google Docs/Sheets -- it's way more lightweight than my laptop and just feels a bit more civilized than a big clunky laptop

It's honestly really surprised me how I can't imagine my life without my iPad Mini anymore. Turns out there really is a sweet spot between my phone and my laptop.
I can't imagine how bad public transport must be to increase your commute time by an order of magnitude. I use public transport precisely because I value my time - it takes longer(around x1.5) than using a car, but that time is relaxing, can be used to read a book, listen to a podcast or just order your thoughts. Time spent in a car is stressful and requires your focus and attention.

I'm not sure what kind of population density you need to make public transport workable, but it's a blessing when you have it available. There's some sample math at the end of this article(https://www.ptua.org.au/myths/density/ - technical appendix) which concludes that you don't really need that high a density(it focuses on Melbourne), as long as people actually prefer to use the public transport service over their own cars.
Hi HN!

I made this platform to create widgets out of Google Sheet data.
This is an example of the spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WvDuA_rN0aVe1dZGrWo_... and this is the final result https://updatefy.co/updates
More and more I get the sense that there is a gap in the market for a device that ticks these boxes:

Ultraportable

Stylus enabled

Fully capable desktop operating system

Ports to allow hook-up to external monitor

I wanted something like this as a frequently traveling and programming, conference hand written note taking engineer. Then I notice some of the designers in my office experimenting with iPads, Pencils, and Mac minis (seeing if they could depend 100% on the iPad for portable work). The main complaint has always been, why didn't they stick osx on this thing?

Devices that have come close, besides the iPad:

Acer Chromebook tab 10: stylus support great, ultraportable, but abysmal battery life and lacking peripherals to turn it into a reasonable laptop alternative. Chromeos though, with Linux Apps on Chrome combined with Android Apps on Chrome, now seems a powerful contender in this niche. USBC. Stylus built in.

Lenovo y500: ticks all boxes but ultraportable - thing is a tank. For now I swap between this and the x1 yoga on trips. Runs chromeos which means I take notes in onenote for Android, and program in a vscode for Debian binary or emacs or vim. Getting localhost to work kosher is tricky. USBC. Stylus built in.

Lenovo x1 yoga: not ultraportable, just a damn good laptop. Unfortunately, there's no good handwritten note taking app (at the level of onenote, anyway) for Linux, so I swap between Ubuntu or windows 10 depending on what I'm doing. Same for photo editing, which is a deficiency I forgot to mention for the chrome books. Usbc. Stylus built in.

Surface pro line: probably actually ticks all the boxes, I just hate programming in windows and haven't touched one of these that are powerful enough to run Ubuntu in a VM in a reasonable fashion. Also, the keyboard is awful imo. And, I don't know if they do USBC yet? That would mean no charging from the backup battery if so. Finally, the stylus isn't built in, which is obnoxious.

I've heard fun things about Linux on Android and other Samsung specific offerings that I'm looking forward to experimenting with. The hunt for this device has become a mild hobby.
> Their reputation for prudence and safety is gone.

A lot of people felt this went a while ago, see the rudder issues that plagued them during the 1990's and the way they subsequently tried to deny responsibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19389983
To be more specific, I'm talking about the headline on HackerNews.
Way too diversified of an iPad line up, and that's coming from someone who really keeps up with the details.

Also, hard to fathom that it took them so many years just to launch a refreshed iPad mini, just with a minor incremental upgrade. Glad to see it happened though, but it was a missed opportunity to really make a bezel-less, beautiful mini. I'm sure it will come around soon enough.
it has ai in the url,opencv/camera in the title. i think the bots may have boosted this one by mistake
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A search for "site:karmadecay.com" brings up some results. (warning: mostly nsfw)
The internal layout of the old iPad Pro was remarkably similar to the iPad Air 2 and this iPad looks very similar to the old iPad Pro.

This leads me to think that in spite of the name change, this is really the third or fourth motherboard refresh on an old assembly line somewhere in China dating back to the iPad Air 1 or 2 and first iPad Pro.
It's only needed by large, highly regulated businesses, and it only works for self-hosting obviously.
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Sounds like my experience living in Houston. Of course I'd hate living here without a car, I did it for a few months and it's ridiculous. But compared to Montreal, Sydney, Toronto, or even Philadelphia (my points of reference), this is far and away the worst living experience. My commute to work is 15 minutes, which isn't too bad. It used to be a 10-minute bike ride or 20-minute walk, which was both healthier and more enjoyable, not to mention more environmentally friendly and free. I enjoyed getting groceries every few days: picking up some produce and bread on the way home from one of the dozens of businesses on the way was delightful, and meant I could always have fresh food.

Living in suburban America (it's hard to call Houston a city in the same sense as the ones I mentioned above) is emotionally draining. Yes, there are positives: good food, good beer, cheap cost of living. However, I don't feel like I'm part of a community. I feel like I live on a small island in an archipelago of disconnected islands. It feels like everybody here who hasn't lived in a walkable dense urban city doesn't know what they're missing, there are intangible psychological benefits. Of course, these are just the thoughts of an east-coaster.
That comes with all of the downsides of significantly expanding the standard library.
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I would suspect it is something along the lines that don't expect any privacy at work unless you are in the restroom typing on your phone and not using the company's WiFi.
I'm interested to know why, since I have one and haven't noticed any difficulties in flossing.
The iPad itself is just too limited to be usable, in my experience. But the tablet form factor can work reasonably well for not-too-intensive activity (i.e. it's no good if you'll be doing a lot of data/text/code entry, of course), and the mainstream Linux desktop is starting to support it quite nicely.
My kid is 6 years old and all he uses is an iPad. I think the next generation will be using iPads and tablets and think using laptops are for old people.
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Today's environmental causes suffer from a credibility problem imposed by the mountains of failed breathless malthusian doomsday predictions from yesterday's environmental causes. I've seen the science and believe it, but the boy who cried wolf was also correct, in the end.

Please don't be a credibility problem for tomorrow's environmental causes.
This comes up a lot in these discussions and I believe Arthur better understands 6 pages of code written like that than someone else can comprehend 30 pages of the equivalent idiomatic code. He writes APL/K for a living, so making the C fit closer makes more sense in my eyes as it matches his thought process better. I sympathize with hating scrolling in how it hurts your ability to see everything at once.
Found out about this last night. I wish I knew about Pirevolume shutting down. So much local music and dumb things my friends and I wrote gone.
Sure, it's still necessary, but that doesn't mean that it needs to be promoted as the correct pattern to use in the general case.
I'm just guessing but Shenzhen might be an outlier when it comes to "regular" noise pollution in a city. Most cities would be comparatively quiet and hypersonic flights over them would be quite disturbing.
Confusing indeed. It seems like "air" now means "faster".

They introduced the "air" model (550€) to fill the gap between the 350€ iPad and the 880€ iPad Pro 11".

They should have just released it as "iPad (2019)" with the new CPU at a higher price and kept selling the 6th gen. iPad (2018).
I hate cities and love driving my truck, take that old boy in mud and have something I enjoy in life. There is plenty of these stories.

Will one give up himself to go on as husk.
This is why the Archive Team projects should be promoted... And yes, backups are important
My 2011 X220 refuses to die. It's been tossed in bags, scuffed, cracked, and burned with a candle. The keyboard is perfect. Touchpad is fine. Wifi is excellent. Upgradeability unmatched. I'm running Linux with a tiling window manager, and performance is fine for pretty much everything I want to do, including compilation. It runs super hot (80C+ sometimes), but is always way quieter than my XPS15 from work. Only complaint is the low resolution of the screen (1366x768). 1080p would be perfect for the 12.5in screen.
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It could be done more out of politeness than effectiveness in reducing transmission. It would make a lot of sense in places with a high population density.
So it's what, a week until their next keynote speech?

There's still time for them to announce a refresh of the 12" Macbook, right?
Surprisingly, there actually isn't an out-of-the-box way to jump to numbers that I know of!

I personally added a "number" text object, so that I can treat numbers just like "words", and also created a "jump to number" shortcut.
>I happen to like the status quo and don't want a loud minority to "defeat" it based on their hatred.

This is certainly a valid opinion. I'm simply saying, some of us really like having viable transit options, which is opposing the status quo. To oppose the status quo we must be motivated. One motivation is to hate all the externalities of a car-dependent society.
Correct, it won't show if you change your password. For legitimate uses, you export your session keys prior to changing your password.

In Riot (the most prominent Matrix client), you need to log out to change your password. In the current version, you're warned to export your keys if you want to maintain the logs from any encrypted conversations.
Thats a different problem, and it is a blanket statement that isn't true everywhere.
Do you have a large smart phone?

I like small phones. So I own a tablet for all the personal stuff at home. I use my PC for work, my Phone for messaging and travel and my tablet for everything else. It’s really the most comfortable way of consuming.
>Neither I nor any of my friends uses a tablet for work or pleasure.

I use one, but only because it's a convenient media consumption device (e-reading, web browsing). It's entirely superlative to a phone + laptop though.

Remember when the tech prognosticators (some on this very site!) told us tablets were going to replace everything?
This is a garbage non-article.

It admits some people have sensitivity to MSG.

It doesn't offer evidence against some other additive in chinese food is making people experience racing heart.

It doesn't even consider the possibility that in the past MSG had some impurity that caused a health issue that may not be reproducible now.

It doesn't even consider how detached the long-term effects of food are (think how long it takes to put on weight).

It likens the situation to anti-vaccine, which is basically the new Godwin's Law.

It has an obnoxious air of "Science knows everything right now and anybody who doesn't believe me is anti-science."

(The problem is that studies take decades to come to a consensus. The initial studies about leaded gasoline said it was totally safe, for example. But in this case the author doesn't bother to cite a single study that supports his case! Rather he just relies on name-value and a tone of superiority)
> What would the cost be? All that would happen is that the free pages are marked as clean.

That's a minor page fault. You get an OS-level exception, switch to kernel mode, process the page fault by marking the page as loaded, then switching back to user mode. That is expensive if you do it a lot.

> but bound to be considerably cheaper than paging the page out and in again.

Yes, of course, a minor page fault is cheaper than a major page fault. But both are more expensive than no page fault, which is what happens if you just never free the page to the OS and there's plenty of available physical memory.
Yes. It says:

"hands over control...to regulated customers"

It hands over control to ANY customer, not just regulated ones. And only to those that pay the upcharge.

Just seems oddly worded.
Could the intense short lived headaches be caused by something other than glutamate? I consume a lot of msg and aren't bothered by it but I do get severe acute head pain when I eat McDonald's spicy buffalo sauce. Kind of freaked me out the two bites I had before quitting.
Agreed. I'd suggest people take a look at the "Kindle Oasis" for ergonomics. Instead of backing away from bezel, they put more bezel where you'd naturally hold it and a rear indentation for grip-ability.

The device is pricey and niche, but credit where credit is due: they deserve praise for bucking market trends and just making a device really comfortable to hold.
No. Car is not just the "culture", car serves our need. If you are young without kids, it may not make much difference for you to ride a car, or take a bus, or a train, subway, etc. But if you have a family, it makes a huge pain without your own vehicle.

If the city of future requires families to abandon their own vehicle, it is not the correct city of future. Just design a better one.
>I think the next generation will be using iPads and tablets and think using laptops are for old people.

I bet they'll replace that tablet with a phone, and continue to use a laptop/desktop for "real work".
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In the US the iPad is perpetually on sale for $250 if you look for it. I suspect it's either not selling well or overpriced.
That's the exact headline, which is what you're supposed to use.
>white flight

People have a right to choose their neighbor(hood)s. Freedom of association ought to imply freedom of disassociation. Stats show neighborhood crime correlates much more strongly with race than with education or income/poverty level. It's telling that diversity has to be enforced by government force...
There’s a middle ground between living next to a landfill and living a city that has been so completely ossified by zoning that no new housing can be built.