skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they do https://bgr.com/2019/05/31/iphone-11-rumors-leaks-vs-android... AND https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-use-teens-2018/

>He works in IT at an unnamed company, and his team noticed something crazy: of the 500 employees at the company, only 8 of them chose to use an Android phone. Everyone else — all 492 of them — chose an iPhone over Android phones. It was because they didn’t want to be “green bubbles,” a reference to the fact that iMessage chats in the iPhone’s Messages app use blue bubbles while SMS chats are displayed with green bubbles. Forget all of the great advantages iPhones might offer, iMessage is the main reason all these people wanted an iPhone. 98% of the employees at this company went with Apple over Android, and for the majority of them, it was mainly because of a single service.

If people didnt "throw away the key" services like Google ID, Microsoft ID, and Facebook ID wouldnt exist. Centralized OAuth providers are here to say, even if a lot of us on HN dont like them. You want to get into your tshirtclub account after facebook locks your account, too bad!
In spreadsheets (excel) and notebooks (ipython/rstudio), having the data bundled with the code is a feature. It provides reproducibility.

> a destroyed formula can go undetected for a while...

That is a problem in methodology, not with the tools. There are many solutions that do not require abandoning spreadsheets.

For the destroyed formula example, you need tests. Simple example to do that with a checklist: if you are doing a SUM(), require that the employee ticks a box saying "all the number were highlighted when clicking on the SUM formula".

For the out-of-sync version, you need a central repository and another box "I retrieved the latest version from the xx repository, and this version was: ... "

Then require that to be printed and signed (accountability), and you'll see mistake disappear.
Russian Military’s Astra Linux Adoption Moves Forward
It’s entirely possible I’m being naive about this I think that’s a fair criticism. I do also think that it’s equally naive to attempt to block any single company from developing this technology. As long as there is profits to be made company’s will develop facial recognition technology. This is why I mentioned regulating it’s use.

In general, once the proverbial genie is out of the bottle I don’t think you can put it back in in today’s world.
Oh wow, so it’s actually a thing. What kinds of responses do you get from drivers when you talk to them afterwards?

Thanks also for mentioning the term ‘punishment pass’, googling this led me to some interesting blog posts.
Did the Boko Haram or ISIL kill their own in-groups?
Microsoft PlayReady DRM still the only way to play Netflix in 4K on a PC, correct?

I guess there's no reason not to include Widevine as well, but it's funny how this means the new Microsoft Edge supports features no other Chromium-based browser is allowed to use, including Google Chrome.

Getting rid of DRM in general is fine with me, but I don't understand why the focus on Widevine in particular given that its availability is relatively less restricted.
There's a fairly close to zero chance he serves any prison time. As the article notes, sentences under 2 years are typically suspended in Spain.

Interestingly, this leniency is how many of the big footballers got away with tax evasion convictions.
Sounds familiar. My 12 year-old self probably did misunderstand 歹徒。 After hearing the first part of the sentence, I remember being pissed for them showing me this ridiculous footage with that righteous tone of voice - I couldn't even remember hearing the second part.

I think I was fed up with this type of footages that just don't explain what actually going on. Same negative emotion arises when 新闻联播 started every night about who visit XYZ, did whatever great job, blah blah blah BS.

I don't have that kind of emotional reaction to these types of footages anymore. Benefit of no longer being a teenager, I'm used to ignoring useless information. Fox news and some other mainstream media in the states are not doing much better TBH, but at least they are very competitive, and there are some useful information can be derived from their biased views.
omg her omni-talks with civil society groups are amazing. So long but SO CHOCK FULL of information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tc_5bM0zSM

Transcript in case that's quicker: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Fork-the-government-CES--AeVW9...

She was talking about this article's tactics at Open Government Partnership Summit last week, but mostly emphasized the feline nature of some of the counter-propaganda :)
https://twitter.com/audreyt/status/1134532549957394432

And for a look at how she's rockin transparency in gov, check out her log of ALL convos she has with ANY non-gov stakeholders: https://pdis.nat.gov.tw/en/track/
the lowest point of entry for the new model is -double- the price of the lowest late 2013 model

2x the price for what multiple of performance? 5x? 10x? 100x?
Hmm...Microsoft is currently valued at close to a trillion dollars and, AFAIK, the most valuable traded company on earth.
That's the point. Whether it's reviving frozen brains or resimulating consciousness, it's an entirely faith-based argument in technological progress.
Distru supply chain software for the cannabis industry raises $3M
Becoming a separate for-profit company (as opposed to a nonprofit like Mozilla) could result in some really bad things. Chrome-the-company would have to find new sources of revenue; in the process, it would likely increase its tracking, and it might end up selling info to companies other than Google, which at least tends to hoard user data internally. It may also develop even more industry partnerships around things like DRM that aren't in the interest of users.

If Chrome could somehow be forcefully split off into a decently funded nonprofit, I'd be all for it. I'm not sure that anyone but Google could make that happen, though.
That whole book is fascinating!
Without question

The sub relentlessly breaks the rules, raids other subs, never engages in good faith, spreads racist propaganda, serves as a breeding ground for white supremacists, is incapable of civil conversation. Like the president they worship they are toxic to community

And instead of banning them the admins engage in silly games like manipulating their comments(one of the admins changed db to change one of their comments).

They've poisoned many subs. For instance it's incredibly rare to see an Immigration story in /r/news without the comments making you feel like you're in the middle of a kkk gathering.
Sounds like we should just make housing free, then, and avoid this problem altogether.
QuickDraw debuted 35 years ago. QuickDraw GX was 24 years ago. Etc.

You're saying that MacOS has been around a long time, which is true.
Location: San Diego, CA

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: I would consider relocating for the right opportunity.

Technologies: html, css, sass, js (es6+), react, node, graphql, apollo-client/server, postgres

Resume: Available upon request

Github: https://github.com/kyle-villeneuve

Email: kylevilleneuve@gmail.com

I am open for hire, contract work or freelance projects right now. HMU. I am very interested in joining a well capitalized startup.
Im always fascinated by program shortcuts almost no one knows about. How did you learn about long pressing in safari?
out of the box maybe
I believe it. In the mid-90's, my brother and I took our Mom's Mazda 323 hatchback up to 130 MPH on a US interstate.
Location: Dallas, Texas
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javascript (Typescript, NodeJS, Vue, Vanilla), Go, Python, C++, Kotlin, SQL (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite), MongoDB, Redis. Learning Rust, Jenkins.
Résumé/CV: https://teksavvy.tech/res.pdf
Email: joseph.nakonecznyj@utdallas.edu
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Full stack + all the nuts, bolts and intangibles (from server provisioning to interpreting the vision of stakeholders). Constrained by class schedule, so remote strongly preferred but on site is workable if schedule is flexible. Personal website still very much a WIP, but see resume link. I like challenging projects and learning new things.
Insurance won't cover tests without the "allowed" ICD codes for it. It's silly and just another part of the bureaucracy making things inefficient.
If you don't have to use MacOS. PC from large OEM will cost half.
> since when did interest in our constitutional rights of free speech become a "right" thing?

Confusing government regulation of private parties to prevent those actors chosen exercise of the right of free speech by way of not actively using their resources to magnify the reach of your favored actors speech with “free speech” is a “right” thing, and one diametrically opposed to Constitutional free speech.
What about Mac Mini + minimum viable ssd (256-512GB) + eGPU + decent SSD like Samsung T5 (budget) or X5 (high end) ?

After today's announcements this is what I am looking at. The only problem I see is that current eGPUs do not support the 5k thunderbolt monitor, with exception of Blackmagic (but like most of apple products those are crazy expensive and non-upgradeable).

Until that 5k monitor situation is solved, I am stuck with iMac. I tested various 4k monitors, and somehow I find the 5k Retina (1440p) to be sweet spot for daily usage & development.

Edit: Funny thing is, if you count the $$ for above set up, you will find out it costs as much - if not more - then similar 2019 iMac. So it probably does down the the question - do you really need that top-of-the-line GPU from AMD (which isn't that fast anyway)? It seems that buying iMac that you can still sell for 50% of original price after 2-3 years and simply getting new one with specs bumped might be the same result as being able to update your ram/gpu/ssd/monitor

Seems that iMac truly is the sweat spot for most "pros" that want a desktop.
In the UK we call that "elephant racing". Deeply annoying.
But it does have a camera app! And nobody ever looked cool taking a picture with an iPad.
Ending the tax exemption on aviation fuel in Europe
If you think that pools and golf courses should only be available to the ultra rich then sure. If agriculture is part of those tiers it would result in a massive increase to the cost of food.

I don't think we need to do anything so extreme, just charging by usage will result in regular water users paying less overall, and heavy water users paying more.
Here's an updated list of job openings: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/leantaascom
Great. I guess also you need to use apple machines to remember the email address and any password for you. Sometimes they ask for it.
$1000 for a monitor stand is the pinnacle of arrogance from a brand.
Yep. Ubuntu lost by several orders of magnitude. They lost me with Unity, which seemed like something overly fancy which wasn’t required. Had they gone for stability instead of UI, they mighy have kept the users and developed a more suitable alternative to macOS.

It really feels like a list battle. I’d pay $200 a year for an OS, especially an open-source one that doesn’t send my data to Amazon.
Every machine I've worked on, bought or built has had 256 or 500gb. We only run the OS/apps on the main drive. Then a second drive for scratch disk and then SAN/NAS storage for the media. It's VERY normal.
And not Comcast, Walmart, AT&T? ... I wonder why
It doesn't really matter how rural the area is - GPS works pretty well outside of the polar circles. AGPS does use data connection to accelerate first fix time, but will be accurate after that without data.
It appears to be https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/25221, which doesn't yet have a public proposal.
LA tech startup offers custom small prefabs adapted to zoning
Renders to a 640x480 CRT and 4K display without looking like crap on either.
30 hrs a week was a way to deal with mass unemployment, which the US is not currently facing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130327020843/http://eh.net/enc...
I think Apple are trying to make the point that they have invested again in this space, so they hope that software developers will also invest. The expectation might not be for an immediate switch from software developers, but laying the groundwork for something longer term. We'll see how it pans out, but Apple are experiencing pressures they didn't experience a few years ago.
Who is "we" in this scenario? Changes to antitrust legislation was largely foisted upon the public by financial oligarchs that used the new rules to cement their own wealth and power, and unfortunately for my great-grandchildren, I am not one of them.
> That’s like saying you ordered a cheese pizza for $10, the company unilaterally charges you for $1,000 and justifies that because they bring you 100 pizzas...at no point was there consideration for the modification of the agreement even though you got 100 pizzas. Similarly can FB just start collecting more data/selling to third parties by unilaterally changing their terms and justify it by saying a unilateral change in service equals legal consideration?

I don't think this is quite a fair comparison. Let me rephrase it and tell me if you still think its illegal (unethical, sure, but illegal):

You subscribe to a pizza delivery service that sends you 1 pizza a month for $10/month. After a few years, they decide to up the minimum subscription to 100 pizzas a month for $1000 (or maybe even $500, there's probably some reasonable economies of scale arguments to be made about FB). They send an email notifying all customers of the ensuing upgrade, and a few months later you start getting charged 50x more and getting a whole lot more pizza than you want.

That's still probably not a good thing to do, and I wouldn't fault you for calling FB shady if they did that. But I'm also not at all certain that that action is illegal, especially from a strictly contract law perspective.
The server sits in a special cupboard I made which has servers, a switch and storage on top, drying racks on the bottom. All the way in the bottom is a forced draft fan (meant for modern air-tight homes, low-power and -noise) which pulls the warm air from the top through the drying racks. All the way on top sits a large air filter. This keeps the equipment clean and relatively cool while using the waste heat to dry produce (now filled with mint leaves, later it will be used to dry apple, possibly some jerky, etc).

The whole is connected through our gigabit fiber to the outside with a possibility for a wireless backup connection should the fiber go down (which it hasn't thus far).

The hardware runs a combination of Debian stable with some unstable packages plus home-grown tools. I've done Debian upgrades on these servers for years, generally without much breakage. That is actually why I moved to Debian from Redhat which I used earlier (before the Fedora days) as upgrading RH was always a hit-and-miss experience compared to Debian.

So, in short: my own hardware on my own connection on my own premises, with off-site (and even out-of-country) backup in a reciprocal agreement: I run backups for my brother in the Netherlands and get to put my (encrypted) backups on his NAS.
No prevalent stack AFAIK, but add Synology and WD Nas to the list.
Nice work!

In the keynote it was mentioned that SwiftUI would work across all Apple products.

Will it work on previous versions or only the latest iOS/macOS/etc?
Linux doesn't have a revenue model... Although, doesn't Linus work for Google? There's also Blender. I'm sure we could think of a long list of others.
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I LOVE self checkout. Faster, and I don't have to deal with a possible moron (exceptions being Trader Joes and Costco). I figured when they were introduced the purpose was to get people used to the concept so the switch to automatic RFID checkout totals would have less resistance. Still waiting...
I am still scratching my head why the 'some' keyword is needed/required for opaque types.

Eg. SquareButton and RoundButton are implementations of the Button (protocol).

You want to create a function that returns the button, but you don't want to specify to the user exactly what type of button is it (as it doesn't matter).
Your function could just declare the top level protocol as the return type without needed to specify the word "some"

createPlayButton -> Button

instead of createPlayButton -> some Button

Am I missing something? It feels like the 'some' keyword is just there to help the compiler and not the users necessary

it seems like the equivalent of id <MyProtocol> in Objective-C. Basically just a surface re-arranging of names, but keeping the same concepts as in Objective-C

I feel Golang did better in this regards... (eg. not necessary distinguishing between protocols and super class-es, it is quacks like a duck, it is a duck)
When tech companies become collectible trading cards. Clearly this is the best timeline.

On a more serious note, I hope the government gets to the telecom, oil, tobacco, military arms, and financial industries too at some point...
It's unclear to me if you were agreeing or disagreeing but the upcoming mac pro entry model is going to be more than double the price of the entry level G4 towers after adjusting for inflation. So the original commenter seems to be correct, they used to be more affordable.
True, a whole bunch of amazing things have been created in this world in the name of self-benefit. But social grace still matters, at least culturally if not for actual charity outcomes.

I also can't think of anyone less likely to be driven by self-promotion in response to some tragedy than already-famous billionaires. But everyone wants there to either be the Disney evil rich-guy villains narratives or thankless superheros.
OpenSUSE Project name and logo discussion
>Separate code and data and presentation.

This is the big one.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/chaos-engineering/97814... ;)
Legally, when not run on apple hardware?

Its not like people haven't been able to run it illegally in a vm for at least a decade. That was one of the preferred ways of running it if your machine didn't have the exact correct hardware requirements back when I paid attention to such things.
Hey, for a '1,000 pennyer' I'll advocate for your pound-as-largest-unit madness.
The new ones aren't great you need a broadcast monitor that will show how things look for broadcast and not a computer.
> The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

-- Erich Fromm

> Of course it's extremely easy to say, the heck with it. I'm just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority and do the best I can within them. Sure, you can do that. But that's not acting like a decent person. You can walk down the street and be hungry. You see a kid eating an ice cream cone and you notice there's no cop around and you can take the ice cream cone from him because you're bigger and walk away. You can do that. Probably there are people who do. We call them "pathological". On the other hand, if they do it within existing social structures we call them "normal". But it's just as pathological. It's just the pathology of the general society.

-- Noam Chomsky
Boko Haram or ISIL are not killing people in the group they are killing outsiders who according to their views are enemies. This groups do not want to form their own countries, they want to take as many existing countries as possible and force people to live by their laws. Any examples you think of will be some crazy fanatics or remnant of some medieval traditions, and even there murder will be allowed only according to some hierarchy.

> "who runs the court?", especially for a place as tiny as this

While they are tiny they'll have to use court of an existing country.
It would have been a really pleasant (and highly unlikely) surprise if Apple also re-introduced the plain old "Mac" at $1499-$1999 using prosumer-grade SKUs and PCIe expandability. Think of it as a big brother to the Mac mini - and parallel to the iMac 27". It would sell better than all Mac Pros ever sold. Really a damn shame.
FoundationDB themselves never offered one. Not sure if someone else did though.
So I guess macOS 10.15 too, yes?
The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said “Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing – is this true?” Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, “Foolish pupil – objects are merely a poor man’s closures.”

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire “Lambda: The Ultimate…” series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying “Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man’s closures.” Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying “When will you learn? Closures are a poor man’s object.” At that moment, Anton became enlightened.
This seems unrelated. What does this have to do with net neutrality?
You can't buy drives separately. Storage is almost certainly raw flash, exposed as NVMe through the Apple T2 controller.
An way to think about this is that iPadOS is now (presumably) a separate team at Apple. Each year a new version of iPadOS will come out and that team will need to have features for it.

When it was just one platform, it felt like iPad features only got implemented when the iOS team had some had spare time away from developing the clearly higher priority iPhone features.
I'm so mad I missed the window where you were supposedly able to merge email accounts. If I want to merge existing separate accounts now I have to terminate the old account, wait like a 9 months/a year(??) for it to expire and be purged, and then add it as an alias, assuming MS doesn't hold the expired account name >:C
>Unfortunately, iOS 13 drops support for iPhone 5s and iPhone 6.

That really is a bummer, I have an iPhone 6 and it's still alive and kicking.
It depends on your needs. With Scala/Hydra I routinely run my 8-core i9 MacBook Pro to 100% for quite a few minutes.

So I could definitely see more cores improving build times.
You know if you reframe it as moving to a Windows/desktop model instead of moving to an Android model that could be seen as a positive. I like that I can install some obscure weekend GitHub project to do some task for me without having to fight my own OS over it
For sure. There are some great, valid points in it as well.
Rant: But I thought the EU just wants to punish all the good US companies. Now DOJ and FCC?
Sure, for now, and maybe for years. Chrome upstreamed patches to WebKit for a while.

But the point is, they can fork, so that means Chrome doesn't have full control.
Weeeell... strictly, yes, but actually I'm inclined to think not. The tone was sweeping, not to mention disrespectful, enough that I think a broader interpretation is warranted. By claiming such articles are only worthy of being ignored the implication is clearly that the object(s) of such articles are also unworthy of interest.
The back of the monitor also looks like a cheese grater.