skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe Microsoft could add support for chrome extensions in mobile edge like they have done on edge desktop
The World Science Festival has a slew of episodes on the flow and illusion of time: https://www.youtube.com/user/worldsciencefestival/search?que...

One of the thoughts I've been having recently about "human time" is the effect that the observance of changing seasons and the circle of life over an evolutionary period has had on how humans think about things like time and permanence. Unfortunately I don't have anything particularly insightful to say other than I've been wondering about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Meanwhile, Bernie's IT team is wondering why they're now flooded with 404 requests...
I think he got it wrong when he quickly ruled out IMGUI, as you can use it to create a small app with next to no dependencies. He complains that you need to redraw your GUI at 60 FPS, but this is wrong, you should be able to draw with it only when needed.
I am a big fan of Nuklear. I can write a tiny C app that compiles on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android with it. The look and feel of Nuklear can be something you don't like, however.
But manufacturers getting faster and faster in pushing new phones in the market at the same time.

There is no real return on investment in fast Android upgrades (which only cost money for them). There are also other risks (things will get slower, things will break).

It's all about the money.
The distinction being action taken towards other members on the one hand (the making of threats) and convictions (being PoC, LGBTQ, Nazi) on the other hand?

What about convictions that compel action (Jihadis, Jehovas, militant atheists, Nazis) it might serve to eject people of those convictions because it should be expected they take those actions.
Thanks for the thoughtful and thorough explanation!
Many unstable countries can directly tie their current tribal problems (a major source of war and strife in Africa) back to colonial policies. It's not an excuse, but it is definitely partially to blame.

Let's take the DRC since the article is about them. When King Leopold claimed the Congo Free State, he introduced a regime where atrocities were common-place. It was infamous even by colonial standards. When it became the Belgian Congo (1908), the worst crimes stopped, but racism/segregation and forced labor were still commonplace. After independence (1960), they elected president Lumumba. Looking for international help to stabilize the new country, Lumumba was turned away by the US, but got an agreement from the USSR to provide aid. Upon hearing this, the US set up an embargo to prevent Congo from receiving any of the arms and then supported a coup by Mobuto which led to Lumumba's murder. Mobuto, supported by the anti-USSR powers, made himself fabulously rich and ran the economy and government of the DRC (one of the most resource rich countries on earth) into the gutter. In 1997 Kabila's rebellion pushed out Mobuto and there has been war and rebellions for the better part of the past 22 years. Given its rich resources and poor government control, other nearby African nations have encouraged the conflict so that they are able to profit from the resources (most notably minerals into Uganda and Rwanda). The DRC never even had a chance to establish a good government

Everyone is responsible for their actions and history isn't an excuse, but it's pretty easy to see how a history of resource exploitation and human rights abuse encouraged by western powers has led directly to a country full of resource exploitation and human rights abuse. African colonies are not ancient history.
The word 'illusion' should be removed from every dictionary. It's one completely unspecific, indeterminate and misleading word and most subjects or patterns of discourse in which it appears have the same properties.

The title of this post also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

Just searching for "* is an illusion" returns

- consciousness
- choice
- spacetime
- the world
- physical reality
- certainty
- memories

It makes me feel disgusted.
Hm, interesting, I thought this would be more about how these companies define "active user". For example: is a user with the app installed, logged in and running in the background considered "active" that day, even if they don't actually launch or really use the app? If you send them a notification, even if they don't click on it, are they 'active'?

Normally I'd be cynical and say it's in the company's interest to be as loose as possible how they count 'active' so the MAU/DAU (monthly/daily active users) numbers are high, but if you are looking at ARPU (average revenue per user) then a lower MAU/DAU means higher ARPU. What's more valuable?
its not hype if the tech is real.
What control does Android give you that you want? (I’m legitimately asking: is there an immediate pragmatic reason, or is it a principled stance against walled gardens?)
This is why Google is devoting more and more resources to the Fuchsia project: to replace Android with an operating system that supports over-the-air (or WiFi) updates like iOS does and Windows Mobile did. It's the only way Google can effectively fight their fragmentation issue: get everyone to upgrade to the latest OS version.
The future of cybersecurity: Your body as a hacker-proof network
I think that socializing firemen, policemen, and mail has done some good
I'll add to this one: Markdown is perfectly capable of using numbers as ordinals. What it's not capable of—bizarrely—is using letters as ordinals. You cannot have the following:

a) foo

b) bar

c) baz

You have to do that manually. And it won't indent, or re-number automatically, or anything else. I don't know whether Gruber thought "I'll get to that later" or if he isn't the sort of person that ever writes a/b/c/d/e lists, or if he figured it was too hard to adapt the parser for it, but the result is that you can't do that in vanilla Markdown, which means you also can't do that in documents published in Github.

Which is why we've moved our document chain to Asciidoc. :)
That style of notation is more of the "paid for" notation we're all familiar with. Something you'd find in a tab book along the front row of shelving at record stores (remember those!). For those of us who were in the internet tabs heyday: this was a delicacy - among simply things like having correct notation.

The whole point of tab is it's shorthand mentality (As I'm sure you're aware of). It can mean whatever you want it to mean. I grew up learning guitar on a tab system created by my teacher, which I've never really seen duplicated before, but was based off of chord diagrams (even for non-chords).
> It's a Smalltalk-y (ish) engine covered in a C++-y (ish) frontend language.

That sums it up quite well.
> it's conceivable their arguments may extend to widening current law (or college policy, since most discussion on the topic takes place in the context of universities[1]) to take into account microaggressions

Terrifying
I recommend checking out Mailbox.org or Posteo as well. They are much cheaper, and Mailbox.org allows for custom domains, so that's a definite plus.
I'm just going by what I have read. My ex cofounder was subscribed so I read it quite a bit. Found it to be very biased neoliberal but then again I'm interested in ideas that fall way outside the Overton window of the democrat and republican political sphere. Democrat and Republican are essentially siblings. They're not that different in that they both aim to use capitalism and the power of the nation state military to exert influence and assert dominance.
This is what I've done for years now, best thing since sliced bread.
I guess this site is relevant here: https://xn--ls8h.la/ (<pile of poop emoji>.la)

But apparently most TLDs don't support emoji URLs yet.
Except remember when he slept in the factor for a month straight and worked harder and longer than everybody?

No one has put more blood sweat and tears into Tesla than Musk.
Three years is a long time. I've taught bootcamps where I had to do it in 4, 6 or 12 weeks. Three years is luxurious.

Here are my initial thoughts:

- For a timeframe this long it's less "let me teach you" but more "let me guide you in your own learning." If you view this as only imparting knowledge I think you will burn yourself out.

- I would help them formulate a curriculum, keep them on track and make them push themselves. Anyone can learn a lot in three years, but with your guidance they hopefully learn 2x, 3x, 5x or even 10x what they would have learned alone. Ask yourself this every time you check in with them "How can I speed them up? What can I teach them now that will save them time?"

- I would periodically check in and asses what's been learned and what's left to learn. I would also reassess if the curriculum is working or needs tweaking. I would be open to changing things up periodically. Maybe one year is project based work, maybe another focuses on reading classic texts. Three years is a long time to do one thing.

This sounds really fun, good luck and have fun!
Using strings for tokens is probably not how you would ever do this in C. Make the tokens enums.
Since it looks like so many of the claims about Scruton were simply fabricated, why haven't there been any consequences for Eaton? Heck, why doesn't Scruton sue in UK courts, given that Eaton has clearly admitted that his conduct was malicious in getting Scruton sacked. This would be regarded as libel even in the U.S., where First Amendment protections on the matter are quite strong.
Flutter is implemented in layers. The RenderObject layer looks very much like a traditional retained mode UI. It's possible to write Flutter entirely at this level, nobody forces you to use the Widget layer above it. The Widget layer is basically React-style, where the API looks fairly similar to immediate mode, but it uses caching and diff computation to reflect everything into the retained RenderObjects below it.
I suspect a lot of it is people keeping phones longer too.

Hypothetically old phones could get updates... but it doesn't work that way, does it?
Works pretty well on iOS and desktop using the bridge. Has been my main account for about a year now.
I like the ending

"It’s sad news for everyone involved, but maybe we don’t need an expensive Wi-Fi-connected machine to do our simple chores for us. After all, now we have Marie Kondo to teach us how to fold fitted sheets."
This is definitely a problem but in practice it's not as dire as this article makes it sound. So many of the essential pieces have been factored out into the support libraries and independently upgradable components that Android devices actually get more regular updates in some respects than iOS devices do.

For example, I have to update my entire iPhone OS to get an updated web browser or photo library or keyboard. Google can update all of those every day without a reboot.

As an iOS developer I can't use new OS features until all my users have upgraded. As long as what I need is in the support library I can adopt the latest and greatest for Android right away.
Doesn’t Android already support OTA upgrades?
Hate speech detection, and language complexities of the Global South
> dying in their early to late 60's - almost always due to heart disease, liver failure or some sort of cancer

In a "Death and Dying" psych class I took in university, the professor remarked how we went from dying from infectious diseases to dying from lifestyle issues.

I'm not sure how true or false this is, but when one isn't going to die from the flu you might live long enough to die from consuming too much bacon and alcohol.

I'm interested in learning more about this idea.
Everybody gets blamed when they make bad decisions. No different for the CEO.

Its hasn't been considered reasonable to earn 100's of thousands of times more than most people. That's kind of the definition of excess, and is used throughout history to illustrate societies gone haywire (despot kings, religious wealth in the presence of poverty etc).

There are literally thousands of people who would line up to make those critical decisions. They don't earn that much because of the market. CEOs earn that much because the folks at a company that can write checks, write them to each other.
Is this the first AWS datacenter in China?
Every time I visit a friend or relative who's all excited about their new voice assistant gadget, I make sure to do my best to demonstrate the potential problems with the technology.

"Hey Siri, who around here can sell me a few kilos of cocaine?"

"Hey Alexa, add a thousand feet of rope, a half-dozen ballgags, a box of latex gloves, and a few shovels to my shopping basket."

"Hey Google, give me the addresses of every ammonium nitrate seller, gun store, cargo van rental company, and elected official in a hundred-mile radius."
Upload Filter – Open-Source
Qt and wxwidgets pretty much force you into using C++ and maybe python.

If you have to deal with all that baggage, then you might as well go build the UI layer native.
> I'm skeptical exist even for you.

> work in jobs where looking like a hobo is acceptable.

> or trying to deceive others.

looks like someone needs to work on their argumentation
The replaceable launcher is a big one. Tasker was another (though I heard Google Play was cracking down on non-accessibility uses of accessibility features for security reasons?)

I switched back to iOS when the SE came out, but I still miss Nova Launcher. Especially being able to put two actions on each dock icon, one for tap and one for swipe up. So if you have something like friends split over two main chat platforms you can stuff Discord and SMS apps in the same icon and have them both quickly accessible.
True, if they're going to price under Tesla, they'll need the courage to be unprofitable until they have the volume to get positive.

Another issue is subsidies. Carmakers have enjoyed billions from the states...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-mazda-jobs-factbox...

That's not counting an $80b bailout...
https://www.thebalance.com/auto-industry-bailout-gm-ford-chr...

And what about gas prices being artificially kept low with subsidies...
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/danielle-droitsch/time-us-end-f...

So the true cost and TCO of an ICE car is not at all obvious to compute compared to an electric.
Similar to people in other comments, I do not normally fold my clothes. It is my choice and thus optional, which was my point. How much work a person spend washing depending on optional choices.

> work in jobs where looking like a hobo is acceptable

That is a bit offensive. Not everyone is a model and earn money depending on their appearance. There exist a quite large middle ground between hobo and model.
Yeah thanks for explaining it to me, I own one. I personally couldn't care less about the interior but I understand some people do. The driving/overall experience to me is night and day when compared to ICE vehicles or even other EV competitors.
I have used it for my main email account for some years now. The web client is fine, the iOS client is fine, and the ProtonMail Bridge allows me to bring it into my Mail.app.

The encryption is great and the anti-spam works well enough. No complaints.
This is Joe Biden's. Also pretty cool - https://joebiden.com/aaaa
Your pitch makes it sound like this is a desktop app that takes screenshots of my PC screen, so I was very confused on why anybody would want this. You should talk about why your product is beneficial -- skip the boring feature sales pitch until later on down the page after I'm interested -- don't make people think too hard about what you're offering. If it's for

> to make sure your ad/content is showing in the right place, spy on your competitors, track your seo ranking over time or simply archive your favorite website!

then you should clearly say that so that you immediately identity your product as the solution to a problem, and the people with that problem don't have to put the puzzle together themselves.
Indeed. And it really is about how to design a good adventure in general, not necessarily using his own development system of Inform.
This is a ghoulish exploitation of a sad man's disturbed life, with art parasites abusing his memories and life work for personal profit. This type of fame and those who glorify it should all rot in hell.
Sometimes the numbers are forwarded to different numbers based on user area code or other tactics to infer caller location.

Ie: they’re licensed to different parties in different locales.
> you have to loose significant weight which is at least -20%

I think that's an oversimplification. Roughly a third of people with T2D have a normal BMI, and most obese people don't have T2D. I mean, sure, lose the weight if you can afford it, but that's attacking an exacerbating factor rather than the root causes (which are not really understood yet).
It is if you mean operating independently, otherwise AWS is available within mainland China under partnership agreement.
Nokia was better at building phones at a profit than all its competitors until Apple entered the market. Apple changed the market for what consumers expected from phones, which Nokia failed to adapt to, and the rest is history.

Traditional automakers are, indeed, much better at profitably making what consumers wanted in 2012. It's not clear how well they'll react as expectations change, driven in large part by what Tesla's shown can be done. Being a lot better at profitably making flip phones only helps while people still want flip phones. And just because everyone was using flip phones in 2006 doesn't mean they would be in 2010.
I live by a couple of (vaguely related) principles:

a) Consciousness is just your brain trying to anticipate the future.

b) Your brain compresses (normalises?) repetition in memories. So even if day to day events happen at normal speed, the years seem to fly by when you reflect on them. If your life seems to be flying-by then maybe you need more novelty.
A large percentage of Spark code is really just assembling lego blocks. The built-in blocks are themselves all written in Java or Scala, and the performance of the code that stacks them together is negligible.

It's mainly when you start writing custom UDFs (IOW, fabricating your own lego blocks) that platform interop and the performance of your language of choice become a big deal.
You can set apps to only update when you tell it to, and then use Tasker to update when charging.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/comments/al2gd4/android_9_in...
Yeah, it is a 3 years apprenticeship.

He already has some knowledge because he visited an IT focused school here in Germany and his father is a coder too.

So I don't need to explain loops, or if statements and can go a bit further in logic and processes
As someone who spent the better part of two decades at a carrier (I joined as an acqui-hire to build an ISP), I've always been fascinated by the amount of crap carriers insist on having pre-loaded (and kept working) in device firmwares.

Carriers want (demand, even) that their online portals, customer support apps and (most importantly) ringtone shops be pre-loaded on devices, and have always tied that to critical firmware drops for network defaults, radio compatibility testing, and a lot of other (truly critical) functionality that only actually exists on the device's radio baseband and has zero to do with the handset OS these days.

Source: I was one of the program managers for the flying circus that was Vodafone 360, when we tried to work with Samsung to build a vertically integrated handset like the iPhone. This sank (mercifully) without a trace, and to this day I summarise what happened by explaining that Samsung actually had two engineering v-teams: the Galaxy team and... everyone else.

And we got everyone else. It doesn't excuse a lot of what was decided, but it was instrumental in killing the service.
No, we already have AWS Regions in Beijing and Ningxia. Each region includes multiple Availability Zones (AZs).
More bloat than the old hardware cam handle.
3M is a staple in American Industry. I wonder if this is foreshadowing anything broader for the USA.
Some things that come to mind : You can replace the launcher. You have a real file system. You can side load apps. Apps can do background operations.
My god this little info blurb is getting printed, regurgitated everywhere. This article is the 14th one I've seen about this specific project.
The EU is going to make upload filters mandatory. framespot.com creates an open source alternative.
Oops, I forgot the /s at the end of my comment.
Being able to change the default apps and layout the home screen any way I like, including using a completely new launcher, are big pluses for me. Being able to drag and drop music and files directly onto my device is another. Running real Firefox and not a Safari wrapper is a big deal too IMO.

I also find Android notifications and the Google keyboard way more ergonomic than on iOS and third party keyboard support on iOS is still pretty buggy.

But the real kicker is being able to side load apps when necessary. I didn't like the idea of giving Apple complete control over what I can run on my phone when they first announced the App Store and I still don't like it and consider it a serious threat to the future of general purpose computing.
Ted Honderich (UCL philosopher) on Scruton: "the unthinking man's thinking man"
Those statistics should be broken down by new purchases and updating old devices.

At the time of Android 4.4, many people got an Android device for the first time, so adoption was high. At the time of Android 8, the market is already mature and many people still hold to their old Android 6 device.
This is really getting into the weeds here, but my partner and I (hetero couple in our 30s) do laundry maybe once a week, but it is a pretty time-intensive process because half of all of our clothes are cold-wash, half of those are line-dry, and following the directions like that significantly extends how long they last and stay brightly colored.

It takes a couple of hours a week, and usually falls to me since I work from home.

Saying some steps are "optional" requires compromises that probably a lot of people are unwilling to make; so not necessarily a meaningful way to call things optional.
He complains that this creates enormous (in term of MB) application. My users sometimes have to rely on a lousy network connection to download. It can be because they are far away (China) or on a job. My users are in the event business and often have to rely on the WIFI of the hotel or the conference center.
Professors at prestigious institutions generally make less, not more than less-prestigious ones.
The perceptual phenomenon is well known. What’s less well known is the mechanism.
I just can't believe that 10 years later I still have to have a grid and have to hide apps I don't care about in folders.
I have never liked the “make a sandwich” task. It sets people up for failure, because the teacher can always take things literally enough to make the student wrong. (For example, when given the instructions: "Take out two slices of bread", the teacher can rip open the side of the plastic bag rather than use the opening.) Some students end up with the feeling of “If I can’t even explain how to make a sandwich, how will I ever be able to tell a computer to do anything?”

Here’s an exercise (not sure where I discovered it) that I use at the community college level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meSK1rn2VbA It has the same elements of analyzing a problem, breaking it into steps, and making sure they’re in the right order; but it’s set up for students to succeed.

This exercise is very effective when you put the students in groups of two or three to work on it.
Where is the original article?
It's planned obsolescence.
Academics hide humans from surveillance cameras with 2D prints
Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
To the Batmobile
I love these.

Here's one I did in secret many years ago that's still active: http://sciencenorth.ca/kjgkjgkjg
If they currently have a European banking license, how are they not a bank?
Also the NBA drafts
Scientists pull speech directly from the brain