skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure friendly is a word I would use to describe Iran, and Saudi Arabia would exist with or without American support. The US-Saudi alliance is rocky at best, and only exists because the Saudis have oil, and largely persists because Saudi hates Iran, which is important to the US because of their strong alliance to Israel. You have to choose sides in the Middle East, and the US chose Israel. Everything else flows from there.

The US is an enabler of Saudi nonsense, but the Saudi state is not being propped up with American resources. They would be powerful in the region regardless of American support.
I personally find much easier to fully understand the implications of a security vulnerability that can affect me and my side projects. I'm a full time front-end dev and I do not follow security news explicitly. If severe vulnerabilities have dedicated home pages then it's easier to spread awareness and more people end up sharing the same resource thus keeping people updated easily
Thanks. Had to do some reading to understand that, made more sense once I learned the phase-neutral voltage was the supply voltage / sqrt(3) not just divided by 3. Then I started reading about wye configurations and now it's time to stop.

There's a marvelous video somewhere on YouTube showing someone splicing a _live_ conductor while dangling from a helicopter. Can't find it now. Yours still gave me the willies though! Horrid big deadly snakey things. Ugh.
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Oh god, good old n900... physical slide-out keyboard, touchscreen AND a stylus. Maemo rocked too, a solid debian-based OS. The hardware resources were a bit lacking, but -- best smartphone ever. And i'm not exaggerating.

A modern-day equivalent would probably be gemini by planet computers, but I still haven't gotten around to getting one.
Hopefully somehow maybe while they are in there they might do something to fix the nasty system lockups I have seen when starting both time machine and carbon copy cloner backups since switching to APFS. I'm assuming it is related to having >5 million files, but haven't figured that out for sure.

The symptoms are the system becomes almost totally unresponsive for up to 5 minutes to the point where you can't even drag and drop an existing window sometimes.
Because historically the old mac pro was a more than a 6000 dollar toy that only the rich and studios purchase. Apple is basically pissing on all of their old mac pro fans who are getting priced out by this update.

I think the "this is for studios" argument is just an excuse to make up for the fact that Apple completely missed the mark with this new refresh's price point. If Apple _really_ wanted to create a flagship desktop to appeal to studios, they would have not used the mac pro's name, they would have created a new brand for the SKU to reflect that its target audience is different from that of the mac pro.
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That's how I felt watching the presentation. It very quickly became apparent this was not a machine for me. I don't work with multiple 4K video streams let alone any instrument mixing or 8K video.
You can disable it for now, but there are already some companies building their entire websites in AMP like independent.co.uk.

A better solution than AMP would be to only consider raw page speed, and then use a neutral schema markup for whatever extra features Google wants to display in Google Search.
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The mitigations section of the paper discusses memory encryption
On the one hand, this cat knows how to screw up marketing hardware/software ( Be, Inc! ). On the other hand, he's literally talking nonsense about a compute platform that is targeted at studios.
My theory (no evidence) is that the whole recycling movement has been completely counter productive since most of that material has been shipping abroad to countries that are poorly regulated. Had we just stuffed it into landfill (we have no shortage of space to take care of it, despite what the media says), we would be fine.
Ah, so you weren't asking a legitimate question, you were just baiting.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158002

Seems like it impacted VIP Go? https://lobby.vip.wordpress.com/2019/06/11/503-errors-and-av...
Definitely not, it's a bug - not a redesign.
It's kind of funny how bland the other icons are compared to the browser icon.

It's kind of striking how bland the other icons are. I just did this exercise. I rapidly scrolled the article, and I can't tell what those other icons represent.
The tiling mechanics[1] looks very similar to our gnome-shell plugin: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM (we also allow vertical tiling and mixing floating windows)

To my knowledge there's no any other tiling window manager that implements this mechanic(?) Ie. traditional tiling WMs force all windows in a workspace to fit within the monitor.

This mockup (and paperwm) organize the windows in a non-overlapping strip that is allowed to extend beyond the left and right monitor edges. This allows for a nice spatial map.

Say my monitor has room for two windows but I need to use 3 windows. With a tiled strip this workflow is quite nice: (| indicates the monitor edges, AA window content of window A, etc. ^ marks the active window)

C|AAB|
^^
<switch to prev window>
|CAA|B
^

A tabbed tiling achieve something similar: eg. put A and C in a tabbed frame, but then it's not simple to view A and C at the same time.

It's also possible to define more specialized operations: When one window is primarily used for input and two mostly for viewing (eg. editor, documentation, code-artifact) I use the following setup:

|AAB|C
^^
<swap right neighbours>
|AAC|B
^^

A workspace grid (a couple windows per workspace) also gives a spatial map, but does not allow to look at windows from different workspace at the same time.

In addition we have a floating layer that can easily be toggled. Useful for windows I need access to from a large number of places (across workspaces, etc.)

We also implement touch-pad gestures to switch workspace and scroll the tiling left/right (only on wayland)

[1] https://desktopneo.com/#panels
Define "Good" to be any Decision made by you.
Do we shame Apple for misleading users? Or is this the users responsibility to know what they are purchasing?

I'm starting to side with the big evil coporations, it's 2019 and these Marketing stunts are nothing new.

I forgive people for making 1 mistake, but repeating it, blame the human.
I stopped reading when the article turned toward a history of the guy Aronson. I said to myself "Oh hell no, I'm not wasting my time reading about this guy I don't care about", I looked at the scroll bar and nope'd out of the whole article. Nothing to do with the delivery medium.
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It really depends on what you're measuring.

Plastic bags are very bad when they end up in rivers or the ocean.

But yes, plastic bags might be better on CO2 depending on where they are made and how they are shipped.

But paper bags can be made carbon neutral, which is fundamentally impossible with plastic bags.
Hmm, how on earth did they end up with a default Twenty Seventeen Wordpress theme? Somebody screwed up big.

Edit: Yep, Automattic screwed up.
That's one aspect. The deeper problem though, is that all the other products offered under the firefox brand are revenue failures, and no one really uses them beyond those who already use the firefox browser anyway.

And that also explains the move. If they had a great second product, it would stand for itself, no matter the name.

This move is a desperate attempt of saving a product that is becoming increasingly meaningless (the browser).

- Firefox Monitor is simply a copy of HIBP, so no innovation here. It's a nice-to-have, and maybe would have it's use case if it was directly implemented inside the browser.

- Firefox Lockwise doesn't have many use cases, and apparently also not many users. It is hard to know what kind of product it wants to be, or what kind of problem it wants to solve, as it is no competition for the more well known password management tools.

- Firefox Send offers a quick way to send some files. Not bad, but already offered by countless competitors.

So basically all three products are simply nice-to-have gimmicks, they are no stand-alone products and they certainly don't need a branding.

They all have in common that in the current state you can't make any money with them, and Mozilla doesn't monetize them.

What they do instead, is use each of the above services to get people to register for a Firefox Account, in an attempt to bring people into the "Firefox ecosystem".

And this brings us to the problem with Mozilla. They want to be part of the big players, but they are just a 1000 employee company.

They will never establish an ecosystem.

They will never profit off the email addresses they collect with Send, Lockwise, and Monitor.

They will not be profitable with Pocket.

Everything they do to save their brand from going under is, at the moment, a money-losing business.

Ironically the only product that is indeed at least a stand-alone product, namely Pocket, is not included in the re-branding.
I guess NTFS is also a "no go" for file storage then as well.

What about ext4? Oh wait - no file data checksums - so a "no go".

Actually, it turns out plenty of folks have built plenty of storage on these platforms - including APFS.

In particular, for APFS, apple uses ECC for all hardware, uses fletcher checksums for metadata and I believe does a copy on write approach to help handle sudden power loss events etc. It seems to be working out OK for them given the prices they charge.
With a clear hierarchy you also have more accountability.

In my company (which isn't flat but like everywhere else there is a shadow hierarchy) we have a few people who have the ear of upper management and influence decisions but are never held responsible for bad decisions they influenced. Sometimes it's really infuriating to be blamed for doing stuff you thought was a bad idea while the people who wanted it that way get no blame but can put their name on successful projects.
Incidentally, Trump is the strongest "be wary of China" voice in US politics.
This comment seems a bit speculative, do you have or is there information out there that supports this?

This is more anecdotal, but my time at a logistics company has shown the opposite to be true. Every cost increase, whether it was a tariff or increased fuel surcharge, was passed on to the next company, and to the next, down to the end consumer themselves. Every increase in vendor/supplier price was reflected almost immediately in the next invoice as our CFO instructed us to maintain our profit margins. There was even a multiplicative effect as each company applied their margins onto each price increase, such that a $100 increase in fuel costs could be double or triple that by the end.

It is possible that companies with massive margins might be willing to bite the bullet, but I doubt the advertising industry is full of companies with big margins. Perhaps the tech companies at the top, but definitely not the more numerous and smaller companies. For this reason, I find it extremely unlikely that "the end user will pay nothing". The end user will pay something, but the size of that "something" is certainly debatable.
Btw, are there actually companies that use Apple desktop/laptops?

I had thought this was part of the Marketing.

Don't they sell to high school kids going to college?
https://imgur.com/pPiOatP

The latter half of my comment deals with this - hint: I'm not opposed to people being given a chance to explain, or being charitable and permissive to all speech.
America is deploying a new economic arsenal to assert its power
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Yet another geometric sans flat art style sf echo chamber rebrand.

They all look so identical you would think its from one company and maybe even art director sketching all of these out.

What is happening in design departments? Do people ostracize you if try something different?
Well, this sounds really bad. Though on a positive note, I guess we could try a similar exploit in meatspace to figure out if we're living in a simulation or something.

/sarc but also maybe not
Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) should be a good counter measure.
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Were there no McDonald's in Iraq? Although that exception doesn't disprove the underlying point; Iraq is probably the most developed country America has been at war with since the Second World War.
In what way? I'm not sure that anyone seriously argues [against the idea] that geographic determinism had a lot to do with which two core centers of civilization arose earliest (and hence had a big head start). The criticism, such as it is, mostly relates to the fact that geography certainly isn't the only factor that played into how civilizations evolved after they got going in the first place.
I disagree with this. This viewpoint is the side-effect of Apple's lifestyle brand marketing. Apple releases a machine you can't afford and they're "pissing on you"? No, they're diversifying their product towards the high-end market they want to re/capture. If your favorite car company releases a nice premium product are they also "pissing on you"?
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Have you tried using delegated mounts? I got the impression these helped performance, though I have not measured details.
>That's true maybe when it comes to atmospheric pollution, but not with plastic waste in rivers and the ocean.

A large amount of that is waste exported to those third world countries, especially plastics for recycling.
The article stopped right before it made any analysis of the facts presented. There wasn’t an argument for us to talk about. Yours sounds like what should have come next though.
Fortunately some people ignore the standard "realistic" advice that doing a thing is pointless because the status quo is good enough.

Perhaps the desktop is adequate for you, but for some of us the thoughts come so quickly that the interface becomes an immense bottleneck. For some types of work, tmux, zsh,and a low latency terminal ease the pain. For other types of work, a highly optimized GUI is beneficial.

I welcome new experiments in user interfaces. While Neo might not be "the solution", it might bring new ideas that eventually get used in other better solutions.
For most people getting a Border Collie is really bad and just mean to the dog. These dogs are very smart and active and they lose their mind if they have nothing to do. They are working dogs, not pets.
My n900 had usb charging trouble, and i had to get a "universal" battery charger, and alternative batteries. I have even recased it - it is surprisingly user-friendly in regards of repairs. However, i'm not nimble enough with the soldering iron, so it gave way to jolla first, and finally i succumbed to s8 later on, because swapping the batteries is just an ordeal. Loved the thing madly, tho.
I’ve never been to a company that does not have a mix of pc/mac. From Fortune 500 to startups.
Can you share more on this? I'm assuming embarrassing content viewed or created?
The author doesn’t mention gaming in the article at all and I don’t think any person with decent knowledge of Mac products would assume the new Mac Pro would be a gaming machine.

What the author and many others are trying to convey is that Apple again has pushed out a premium product with mid to semi-high level components for a luxurious price — often out of reach for the lay consumer. If we take the common criticism of Apple and their products, especially the Mac Pro, it again comes down to them catering to a base but doing so by itemizing their product list. They know people in studios will use these products and pay what they must, so it’s simple: Studio A has old Mac Pro’s and just needs a new monitor, so they’ll buy the new 32-inch and put out some more pocket change for the stand that’s sold separately. But studio B has monitors and needs a new desktop, hence they’ll purchase a new Mac Pro w/o a screen.

In the end, these products will sell, not because of their future proof parts, but more so because it’s a new machine for that niche base who most likely are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to use a PC equivalent.
> There's something magical about writing code in C for these old 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs.

Eh, I'm not sure I would agree, about the 6502 specifically. It's a pretty bad match to C since e.g. it doesn't have a relocatable stack and common pointer-based operations are quite clunky despite the provision for several address modes. FORTRAN-like languages really do match quite a bit better. In a different way, so does FORTH.

Also, plenty of people did have fun writing assembly code for the MC68k, which is a 32-bit CISC architecture. It's really only x86 (and maybe VAX) that tends to be a bit clunkier.
I see, so the criticism has more to do with Diamond not taking other factors into account. Thanks.
This paper was accepted at IEEE S&P, which is arguably the best security conference in the world, so I don't think these guys will be lacking when it comes to recognition!
>Apple tends to have multiple display providers

That is only for LCD. Not for OLED, they are only from Samsung.
I'm pretty sure our grandkids will have much worse things to learn about our time.
> Btw, are there actually companies that use Apple desktop/laptops?

Yes? Lots of them use apple laptops. More than windows from my experience.
I believe that selling a branded product that targets audience X, then in a refresh raising your pricing so much that a large subset of X can no longer afford the product is pissing on their target audience, yes.

If Apple wanted to sell a more expensive SKU to that wealthier subset of X, then it should have been a new brand instead of using the Mac Pro's brand.

I don't own any apple desktops, so there's no personal animosity on my part.
* Many disabled people cannot wash their own straws, due to both cognitive load and lack of manual dexterity.

* Stainless steel causes sensory issues for autistic people and can destroy your teeth if you accidentally bite into one. (edit: and lets also add that they conduct heat, so putting a metal straw in hot coffee and drinking out of it could seriously burn your lips)
> Seriously, people, come on — just put less cruft in your web pages. Don't load 500 trackers. Say no when the marketing guys come over and tell you to add 10 more. Tell your bosses that marketing is incompetent. Push back and tell people that adding cruft is bad.

It's politically untenable. Marketing brings in the $$$ and you don't.

So when you can point to the carousel and say "You can either have that or the trackers" you actually have some leverage to push back on marketing.
In macOS (for some number of years now) you store files in a standard folder hierarchy, and you can add tags to files. With or without tags, you can use Spotlight (cmd-space) to quickly find files.
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Yes, new windows is added as columns, but it's possible to manually tile two (or more) columns into rows after.

Adding some sort of toggle that opens new windows as a new row is certainly possible. Interesting idea to open in new row if the current column only has X windows and new column otherwise :)

This rule could also be window type specific. Eg. if the current window is a browser open in new column. If its a terminal, new row.

EDIT: Vertical tiling screenshot: https://imgur.com/g7CRfgR
One of the very nice features of RSS readers is that I basically never have to care about site UX.

Or, in this case, configuration errors.
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From page 29, average customer acquisition cost has risen by ~33% in just the last two years... they make the point on the next slide that having customer acquisition costs exceed a customer's lifetime value can't really succeed for long.

I think this, specifically, is what will spell the doom of Uber and Lyft, and potentially many of the food delivery companies -- they rely on insane growth curves to generate new investment, and customer acquisition is just so unbelievably competitive/expensive, it's an arms race that (IMO) has to collapse at some point.
> Nothing is stopping you from using a different search engine.

AMP links are everywhere now, not just Google search results.

Thank goodness for the bot on Reddit that posts replies with the actual link, for any AMP links that are posted.
> Saudi Arabia would exist with or without American support

At the same level? I have my doubts. If they weren't a close ally of the US, terrorist financing/leading stings would be going much further. Would they be able to do their thing in Yemen without US support? Or would they be a pariah on the world stage because of their acts, which are hard to tell apart from those of ISIS/ISIL? Not that I'm a big fan of the Iranian Mullahs and their backwards idea of how to run a society, but they appear somewhat moderate compared to the wahabi style.
Yes, can you tell us the best place to get to you? I applied to this position a month ago and got no feedback.
I've traveled widely enough to know that at least at tourist centers, airports and train stations, the traditional cab driver business model is built on scamming unsuspecting tourists.
Not sure where you're getting this idea, but maybe your view is being shaped based on what industry you're in?

Everywhere I've worked in the SF Bay Area and the valley (tech companies) are 100% Apple shops for at minimum their tech employees. Many of them are all Apple for sales / sales eng as well as execs (airs, usually).

Some of the big ones are all-laptops (MBPs for tech, Airs or standard macbooks for other functions) with desks that have 1-3 4k monitors plugged in when working at the desk. Other companies had a ton of trash cans deployed at desks in addition to the MBPs.

I have less work experience on the east coast, but in major east coast city offices I've seen similar.
Just hurry up with the neural interface please :). Plug that baby into the port on the back of the neck, close your eyes, and get things done!
Nice work - thank you!
Probably wouldn't work, since a lot of people get refills before they run out. Maybe glass bottles, or bottles made of paper like those insufferable paper straws?
What are the use cases folks have with super high reliability needs?

I'm generally more worried about an SSD falling over entirely - so focus is on duplication (raid with hot spare -> offsite S3 backup).
I came here hoping it was something about Svalbard. I went there a couple years ago in the dead of winter. It's an amazing place.