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> Read-only state of the system volume can be disabled but not persistently, will revert to read-only after a reboot

Wait, what? Even with SIP off?

Can it be disabled from within the OS? Can I add "command-to-make-system-rw" to a launchd plist that runs at load on my machine?
How good is the Dual-SIM support ? Seeing the P20 Pro on that list is very promising.
My favorite part of this compared to Pylon tool on front page today:
"Why should I care to use table elements? Simply put: accessibility and proper semantics."

Accessibility for the win without extra workarounds.
You can link specific pages in a PDF too, like thus: https://www.bondcap.com/pdf/190611_Internet_Trends_2019.pdf#...
They really lost me at the whole 3 finger gesture thing. That's a very unnattural thing to do when you are only ever using 1 finger at a time for 90% of the interactions with the touchpad. Furthermore they have like 2 handed 3 finger gestures to do things like zoom in and out.... I feel like pinch to zoom is a lot more effective and natural.
The reverse is also happening and is a way bigger deal.

Resources are also being pulled out of China, as U.S. companies have spent the last several decades plowing tens (if not hundreds) of billions into China a year. It'll be a fairly large windfall coming out of China as well. To India, Mexico, Taiwan, the United States, etc.
I don't give a shit about browser brands because it's sort of a joke by now. 20 years in, and nothing changes.

So Firefox is obviously a follower, not a leader.

Firefox has made a lot of meaningless choices, and more than a handful of choices I strongly disagreed with. Each and every time, you can read the tells of those choices, and quickly understand where Firefox is situated in terms of autonomy and authority. None and none on both.

This is pretty much the new Yahoo! logo all over again. Who cares?

How hard is it to support RSS? Why is about:config the only place where meaningful toggles like JavaScript:enabled live? Cookies and tracking protection is a total shit show of user interface confusion. Fuck Pocket. And no, I don't want any shit on my new tab page.

I understand that Netscape was the browser that tried to do too much. Firefox is approaching similar territory.

The browser only needs to do a few things. Some of them are actually quite difficult, such as video and graphics. The JavaScript interpretter is nothing to sniff at. Encryption and security is especially tough.

But at the core, broker HTTP requests and put powerful settings within easy reach, and don't show me fluff or preach to me.

Chrome fails at this. Microsoft fails at this. Apple fails at this. Firefox only succeeded a long time ago, when things were simpler. Since then, interlopers have introduced terrible ideas and needless destruction.
Weird metal anomaly found beneath the moon's south pole
Not the person you're asking, but on my macbook I frequently use:

two-finger swipe right (go back)
four-finger swipe up (overview)
four-finger swipe down (change between multiple windows of the same program)
four-finger swipe left-right (change virtual desktops)
pinch to zoom in/out

The first four would be easy to bind to a mouse button, but the pinch zooming is really handy.
They fixed the app but it can be slowish to respond if you just pulled it out of your pocket. There was a period of time where I could unlock a scooter, close the app, and get a free ride.
It's also there on MacOS (mostly). Amethyst as a tiling window manager + Alfred makes for a great productivity combo. With both of them, most of the pain points in the article are adequately solved already.
IIRC, the benchmarks also don't include the spectre/meltdown patches for Intel. AMD, apparently, worked very hard to give a worst-case comparison for the most part.
I'd gladly accept their money.

My company automates things, not creates economic or political policy.
I've had very similar ideas, and think this is really critical missing feature that's holding back a lot of progress.

IMHO, what's needed is something like a document database (in that it allows arbitrary schema) but even more importantly, it needs to have some system-level indexing. Right now, applications that deal with large amounts of small pieces of data each roll their own, e.g., embedded database, because (1) most filesystems aren't capable of adequate performance with very large numbers of small objects and (2) you can't maintain an app-independent index anyway, so... These applications then can't interact with each other without some app-specific API, which is often costly to develop against (at least, compared with a common filesystem API) and with only the capabilities that the app developer sees fit to give you. Which they often have very little incentive to do--their real incentives are usually to keep things proprietary and customers captive.

The absence of these two capabilities makes "the unix way" where "everything is a file" an impossible data model for these types of applications.

IMHO, the right data model is probably some combination of user (UUIDs or strings doesn't matter) and content-hash indexing with versioning and conflict resolution similar to Git (and CouchDB).
I keep an extra Yubikey in my bank box, next to my other backup keys. The only account I'd be locked out of is Twitter since they only let you add 1 token (my primary).
How does google control the content? Signed exchanges, for example, give the exchange controller less control over content than a CDN.
I understand this is about banning women because of testosterone levels. Wouldn't a more straight forward argument be "stop the sexism, we're all humans, let's just all compete"?
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AWS only supports a single U2F key at the moment.
Thanks for pointing this out.

I find the Windows UI to often have infuriatingly poor ergonomics, especially when it comes to mouse usage. For instance, why the heck put that closing cross button so far away on the right, which will build you some arm pain quite fast ? Why are some overly used buttons so small ?

When I watch people that are not used to keyboard shortcuts use Windows (explorer for example), I'm quite terrified at their painful, and consequently slow, mouse-based workflow.
Was there some Vatican-equivalent Islamic body that commissioned a hit on the CH offices? No, it was a terrorist cell that wanted to attain both easy publicity and make life worse for European Muslims.

"Legitimate" mockery would have exposed the absurdity of terrorist groups recruiting petty criminals and elevating them to a noble "jihadi" status because, well, nobody else had as little to lose.

But that wouldn't get any media coverage, nor would it get props for "upholding free speech", in a country that outlaws Holocaust denial.
Most of the critics seemed to be about pita caused by layout methods in general when rendering them on variable size screens, and not necessarily the Pylon methods themselves.

I agree with you, I think this is clean and easy to use.

Personally, I've stuck with Bootstrap for quite awhile now. It's not perfect but it's pretty good, well documented, and I work to keep it simple. So I don't really use a lot of what Bootstrap does and that's why this project appeals to me.
> If Earth wouldn't dominate the space in which the Moon moves

My point is that "dominate" here could mean different things, and the Earth does not dominate all of them.

Specifically, the fact that the Moon's orbit is always concave to the Sun means that the "acceleration due to gravity" of the Sun on the Moon is larger than the "acceleration due to gravity" of the Earth on the Moon. In other words, the net "acceleration due to gravity" of the Moon is always towards the Sun, not towards the Earth. So the Earth does not dominate in this way.

The "sphere of influence" you mention is based on tidal forces: the tidal effect of the Earth on the Moon is larger than the tidal effect of the Sun on the Moon. So the Earth does dominate in this way.

> the Moon wouldn't be in orbit around Earth at all and the Sun couldn't perturbe this orbit (as you even stated yourself)?

No, that's not what I said. Whether you think of the Moon as orbiting the Earth or the Sun depends on how you define "orbit" and what you are trying to do. If you define "orbit" according to which body the Moon is accelerating towards, on net, then the Moon is orbiting the Sun, not the Earth (see above); in this sense, the Moon and the Earth are in two closely matched orbits about the Sun.

And my point about the Hayabusa spacecraft and the asteroid is that, if you calculate the "acceleration due to gravity", you find that it's similar to the Moon's--the spacecraft's net acceleration is towards the Sun, not towards the asteroid.
Taking that moral stand should also go for other things I believe, like not buying oil from Saudi Arabia and as a consumer, demanding to know where the gas you are using is coming from so you could make an informed decision.
I agree that convenience is required, but hosting has an inherent cost to it, which can't be ignored. Similarly, maintaining software (any software!) has a cost to it, which we do our best to ignore, but which in the long term needs to be taken into account, otherwise we end up giving our data to corporations which offer "FREE" hosting and software.
Have you seen current gen Macbooks? Their touchpads are huge.
While I don't like the emphasis on gestures for navigation, the whole central info panel bringing different info into once screen is nice. I also appreciate the use of tagging for file info, but I can't' see it replacing file names anytime soon. The Mac has file tagging and I rarely see people using it.
And even before that there were just random land masses on the blue ball, clearly not earth.
Even if you think direct democracies are the best, how do they scale? As a group (or society) grows, there are simply too many decisions to make for everyone to participate in every decision.
PAKEs are --- in this context --- simply a mechanism to authenticate with a password. They're phishable the same way an OTP token is. More importantly: they're irrelevant. No mainstream web application would be able to deploy them for the foreseeable future.

Nerds like talking about how their login secrets are protected in hardware with Yubikeys, but that's not the reason why big sites deploy U2F tokens. U2F tokens were standardized and adopted as a phishing countermeasure.
Social credit and trust has a way of naturally propagating. Trust, beliefs, even world views are more often "caught" than deliberately and carefully chosen -- to the detriment of many. All it takes is a few liars with the appearance of trustworthiness to spread false beliefs very widely.

Note, my comment is not about Troy. Security-wise, I think the trust he carries is well-deserved.
> In one case study, a company was able to provide a new software feature every 11 seconds.

The big company referred here is certainly Amazon - this is public information that we shared a few years ago (when I worked there).
Experimenting with interfacing and desktop technologies is a massive, thankless and risky job. Anyone who tackles it is a braver person than i am.

I've been using comps since the early 90s and as far as Desktop interfaces are concerned, there have been 2: Full CLI and Windows/Mac/Gnone/Other Clone. Touchscreen mobile has had a similarly homogeneous "evolution". Current OS frontends are fiscally optimal, not operationally so. That is to say: as soon as a company had a reasonably usable interface, everyone copied it instead of opting to fundamentally rethink the landscape.

Hats off to hackers and designers taking on this challenge.
> a lot of what you can invent is already owned by your employer by law

I recommend § 18 and § 19 of said "Gesetz über Arbeitnehmererfindungen". They state that inventions that are clearly not done on the employers payroll (to paraphrase this) are so called free (you have to enable your employer to make that call and you could dispute him, if he tries to claim said invention) (§§18).

But you need to enable your employer to use said (free) invention with reasonable terms - but you dictate the terms (§§19). Your employer can dispute the conditions and a court of law then has to decide.

So clearly this law does not enable your employer to claim nearly every invention you could make in your free time.

At least as far as my understanding goes. But I might be totally wrong here. I am somewhat out of my experience here.
I was about to pick one up last year but held off, figured my bike was collecting too much dust. The Xiaomi m365 was the standout though. The air tires make a huge difference in comfort. I'd actually get sore with the hard rubber wheels on the other segway models I you scoot for distance. Plus if you brake hard they get flat spots and start thudding, ruining the ride. All the companies have a couple different models in circulation, try them out before you buy!
woah. Is that a universal thing or is it browser-specific? I've never seen that before.

edit: ah. Yeah it doesn't work on my phone (Pixel ... 1). It downloads the entire PDF and then just dumps me on the first page.
Do you also think that CDNs are bad, since you end up accessing content from the first parties?
>The KKK flourished when local and state government turned a blind eye.

Local and state governments weren't turning a blind eye back then, they were turning a hooded one.

>The NRA of the 1960s is not the NRA of today.

I'd agree with you there, while they were just as politically insidious, it seems that back then they had some kind of remaining tether to reality.
That is indeed a good summary of the 3rd graf of my comment.
Microsoft outpaces Apple, Amazon, Alphabet; stock soars to record high
My college uses Duo and it has no such restriction, if you tried this recently and couldn't add more than 1, it is probably set by LastPass/1Password.
The Big Story of GDPR One Year Later
When I was a teenager, I used to really hate overlapping windows. If I'd known what a tiling window manager was at that time, I probably would have switched.

As I've gotten older, I've come to appreciate overlapping windows much more. I find them a really good use of screen real-estate—even on relatively large screens where I have room to spare—and wouldn't ever want to lose that functionality.

I'm not sure what changed.
"For more, read my blog post 'Window Management is Outdated'".

clicks on link to blog post

Oh hey that blog post doesn't seem to exist. Nice job.

I think I'll stick to the existing windowed interface, thanks. It's designed for a keyboard and a mouse. Which is what I have. Well actually a keyboard and a Wacom tablet, I'm an artist.

Looking at his redesign of application menus and thinking about trying to make that work for the vast array of menu items in Adobe Illustrator (my main art tool) gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Also oh god he wants to banish folders in favor of tags, too. Everyone who has a sweeping reinvention of How The Desktop Works wants to do that and they never really have an answer for how the end result would be different for managing large projects made up of hundreds of files in nested folders, and how saving something with seven tags that reproduce that sort of arrangement isn't gonna be more hassle than just saving it into the appropriate folder.

And then he wants to make it work via gaze tracking and you know I think I'm just done here.
If wave could pipeline directly to H&R block for automated tax filings it could be a really nice experience. Can't expect too much though, I just hope they don't kill it.
If true, I’m curious as to why. They call the same compiler and both support incremental compilation.
This is not true. For example, when I first moved to the US, I was unable to get a "real" credit card, much less a car or home loan.

I was effectively required to get a secured credit card to demonstrate my "ability" to repay "debt". After doing this for some time, I was able to get a normal credit card, with a far higher limit and no security.

It's a little farcical really, that my ability to pay back a few hundred dollars monthly granted me access to a credit line far in excess of my monthly income.
"A chair who asks, “Is everyone OK with choice A?” is going to get objections. But a chair who asks, “Can anyone not live with choice A?” is more likely to only hear from folks who think that choice A is impossible to engineer given some constraints."

It's funny - I've adopted a similar approach towards getting my kids to agree on something with each other. Instead of asking, "Should we do A or B or C?", and having one want A and the other dead-set on B, I ask which one do they definitely NOT want to do. Works pretty well for kids under 10...
I think you misinterpreted the graph, telegram has significantly fewer monthly active users than any of the other messaging services listed on the graph.
More "normal"? Are we looking at whether it pays "normal" or pays "very well"? Don't get me wrong, in the world of all jobs, a defense job is really good, stable, and comfortable. Good to raise family on and have balance. In the world of tech, it's barely mediocre and the lack of stock options, bonus, or any perks to speak of (often not even free coffee) make them struggle to attract the best CS talent. Google pays very well in this field.
The improved performance and amenities from better Acela will translate into more profits for Amtrak to improve the other lines that run. For Amtrak, I can arrive 5 minutes before it leaves, have plenty of space in my seat, food that's a lot better then airlines, and walk around when I want to which is so much better then the airplane experience. I can't wait for the new trains to come.
How would you prevent that? If programs can load files into memory and execute data loaded into memory as code, they can load files as code. The former is necessary for obvious reasons, the latter for JIT.

It's also pointless. If a program can cause damage by loading harmful code it can also cause damage directly.

Restricting what programs can do is a great way to prevent experimentation and hinder progress.
Ask HN : Does AWS has anything like this?
It is possible to study philosophy without putting your career on hold for 4+ years, and spending tens of thousands of dollars.
I carry mine on my key ring. No issues since I bought it around 3 years ago.
Don't they use the dollars they receive to finance the negative US balance of trade ? Is the dollar toxic ?
What's wrong with carrying your own stainless steel straw? I mean if you know you need one it makes sense to me to have your own.

Not being snarky, just curious.
AWS also only allows you to add a single device, much to my annoyance. I still haven’t found a solution for that, that doesn’t involve risking getting locked out.
Kind of like QWERTY vs DVORAK keyboard. Qwerty just works; but technically, Dvorak IS faster. The design presented is definitely a well-thought mash up of what I've come across through multiple projects with creative and cutting-edge UI/UX.
It sounds like fun when you describe it that way!

It's more complicated than a hierarchy. Informal power isn't transitive, so you can have arbitrary directed graphs with loops.

It'd be an interesting experiment to build a tech startup with an overt hierarchy, where decisions were made by the person in the room with the most stripes on their shoulders. The conventional wisdom is that it would suck and you couldn't hire smart people, but sometimes the big wins are to be found in such places.
As already answered on another comment. This law does not enable an employer to claim every employees (patentable) invention. Please read the text - especially on the so called free inventions.
To clarify my understanding from the article: the browser logo continues to be the full fox, but the wider brand logo is the thing that looks like a headless tail.
Scroll down the page a bit.
I don't know if this is insensitive of me to ask, but why don't they bring their own straws? I'm sure they would be happier with a premium reusable straw than a cheap single-use one anyway. A good straw could be reusable, sturdy, and even telescopic.

Is there difficulties involved in bringing along accessibility tools like straws that I'm missing? Or is this just a case of the nirvana fallacy?
I set my Hacker News profile to `noprocrast=yes`.
What would backdooring HIBP achieve?

It's not a repository or method of communications.
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Teaching young people in Zambia how to build electricity supplies
Ask HN: How to become a driver of climatic and social change?
Dear HackerNews,

I am in a rut and don't know which step to take.

My background is liberal arts in Polish literature and history. I have got a baccalaureaute in these and am pursing a master's degree, having once wanted to become a diplomat or a curator.

While initially single-minded in my passion, in recent years I have become more invested in a variety of social issues: social inequalities (regional, racial, religious), helping domestic violence victims, improving education and securing humanitarian aid. Among those, climate change and combating it have become my primary field of interest.

I might not make a good biologist or an engineer, but I have shown promise in activism. I have co-founded and run a local youth organization. I have participated in a UN HRC session (3 weeks), as well as in last year's UN Climate Change Conference in Poland, thanks to an NGO with which I collaborated: thus I know of that work environment. I also have partial command of law. In light of these, I would not mind becoming an ecological activist, or for my career to have elements of that.

Problem is, I am lost. I feel that I don't know what is out there, nor do I have anyone to ask for directions.

In particular, I am at a loss in these areas:

1. What are the ways in which one can make a meaningful impact (realistically, not idealistically)?

2. What background is needed to get involved in that? I am ready to return to university. Which schools or majors are the most suitable?

3. What people do you know who are involved whom I can ask or whose impressive example I could follow?

4. Which people or institutions can I ask for further guidance?

All input and opinion appreciated. Assume all country, language, money requirements met.

Background information: 25 years old, female, Polish. Lives in Zürich. Knows Polish, English, French, Italian. Fledgling interest in data science.

Best regards,
Marta Szameto <marta.szameto@gmail.com>
That's how I've been carrying mine for the last four years and it's fine. I think you're more likely to lose it than to damage it. I have a second one that's identical (registered to the same services) that I keep in a safe place.
Great, does this mean we can look forward to yet another right-wing government taking power in the western world?
it's confusing only for us. for most people the browser is transparent. they say things like "should I click on google?" meaning the google chrome Icon. generally they will name the browser after whatever service is on the home page. that's the insight they are building upon
Seeing other things around the edges of your main window reminds you they exist. Reminds you there are other things you need to pay attention to as part of whatever you're busy doing.

Maybe teenage you just never did anything complicated enough to need that ambient awareness of other parts of a project.
this is normally about the point where somebody shows up waving their arms around in the air and yells "blockchain!"
Hi HN!

We've been working on this for the last two years and now we have finally launched our crowdfunding campaign: https://startsomegood.com/localelectricity/

Thoughts, feedback and potential collaborations most welcome!
Ha, that's interesting - the concept and execution seems almost identical a the project I shared [1] here more than a year ago: https://whereisscihub.now.sh/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591962