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Hardly anyone minds the typing feel of the current or recent generation ThinkPad keyboards. What many of us lament is the loss of the classic 7-row keyboard layout like the T420 had. But that ship sank years ago.

I've made my peace with the new layout, but I do miss the old one.
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> Washington Post asserted that “Google’s web browser has become spy software,” with 11,000 tracker cookies observed in a single week.

I wonder how many of those come from the Washington Post.
I feel like evolution of a species is way too simple a process to claim it has a conscience. I believe if you simply combine variations (from either mutations or cross-breeding) along with “survival of the fittest” you essentially get evolution. There’s nothing more magical happening. Each of those processes is extremely boring and entirely mechanical.
Socratic is powered by MathpixOCR :) https://mathpix.com/ocr
Words like Potrzebie and Furshlugginer will forever be stuck in my head.
Sad. I’d love to get a complete collection of the German translation (which was as least as awesome as the american version). Anyone know whether this exists ? You could buy the entire US collection on CD for ≈$40 a while back (still can: https://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-MAD-Magazine-50-Years/dp/B...)
I'm grateful that Apple at least prefixed this. IIRC, between iOS 11 and 12, Apple added a Contact class somewhere within their standard set of frameworks. I was maintaining an app that used CoreData as a store and did not have prefixed Core Data entity names. And of course it had its own Contact class.

Long story short, I started building against the newer SDK and the app started crashing in the most oblique way possible. Prefixing the entity and class name solved the problem, but I only stumbled on that through a combination of luck, intuition, and half a day of banging my head against a wall.
We could break down each of your personal accusations: some of them are fair and some of them aren't. But you don't really care about any of that. You're not trying to make a point here beyond, "you're hypocritical and therefore your obsession over privacy is unimportant."

The only thing worth saying on that topic is that it matters very little what you (or anyone else) thinks of me, whether it be good or bad. I don't even judge myself that way; I only care about trying to be better tomorrow than I am today. Anything else is a waste of time. And certainly, my response when I encounter hypocrisy is to try and fix the hypocrisy. Not to throw up my hands and say, "well, I guess none of it matters then."

The above out of the way, I want to try and engage with the deeper argument you're making in good faith.

What you're missing here is that all of the business tracking and personalized profiles you bring up as the real problem are using the exact same technology as these read receipts. The point is not that read receipts are the worst thing in the world (although I think they're unhealthy and they show a lack of respect for the person you're communicating with). The point is that they illustrate the broader pattern of tracking in a form that regular people understand and emotionally connect with. That's a good thing.

The other thing you're missing when you talk about criminalizing homosexuality and prohibition is that pervasive tracking is a tool that allows powerful people to oppress less powerful people. Pervasive tracking outs people's sexual preferences, it allows companies to illegally target individuals based on protected characteristics, to advertise to people at their most vulnerable moments, and to exclude them from opportunities that they would otherwise have. Far from being a nothing issue, privacy is fundamentally tied to people's ability to express themselves without fear and to hide from companies, governments, and even individuals that want to harm them.

Fixing personal email tracking has a pleasant side effect of also fixing the tracking that happens in both phishing and corporate emails as well. Like you quoted:

> I understand that sometimes the specific triggers that make people care are stupid, but my response to that is never to ask people to care less. It's already hard enough to make people care about things.

Yes, sometimes people can be encouraged to care about things that are actually unimportant, or even outright wrong. But privacy isn't unimportant; privacy is an essential tool to help protect individuals and marginalized groups from mobs, governments, companies, and individuals that don't have their best interests in mind.
Another thread has already been opened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351571
If only there were 1 based PLs.
He was an abolitionist as a young man but unfortunately he became more of an apologist as an elder man.
I don't mind being an early adopter for a revolutionary new phone or smartwatch.

But an early adopter for something that could kill me? Umm...I'll just wait for the tech to mature.
For years I lived in FreeBSD world - servers and laptops. I was fighting the good fight and rationalised that having to only remember one location for network services was a win.

Then I took a second look. I realised that I was spending waaayy too much time getting the laptop usable (usually wifi) and not going enough using it

I bailed for ubuntu and I cannot remember where the network confit is and hate the GUI but I have stopped caring and I just do my work

Sometimes I feel dirty.
(sigh) that;'s exactly what I am talking about. I drove a Tesla (not 3, it wasn't even out yet). And you know what? I was not impressed. Sure, it got nice electric torque, but in every other regard, from fit and finish to UX to dynamics to practicality for my usage it was at best unimpressive, considering the price, and at worst just bad. And didn't Elon, in one of his hissy fits with a supplier, drop the cooled seats option -- something you get in a $30K Hyundai?

That's exactly why Tesla fanboys (and Tesla, by extension)_ aren't taken too seriously -- no, Elon is not Lord and Savior, and Tesla is not the Second Coming. It's a car, with some nice properties (if you want an EV), some serious shortcomings, and with some greatly deceptive marketing around pricing, savings, FSD etc.
New form of logic. Need help. Not theory, have working models
I created a calculator only using the scripting commands in the video game Counter-Strike, bind (for input) echo (for output) and alias (for the logic). Bind is to connect keys to a command or string of specified commands, echo is to output text to the console, and alias is a command that allows you to create a new command out of a string of specified commands. Basically, I can do math without using math. This is pure connectionism, where there are no values, no logic operators and no measurements in the logic. It is purely making, breaking and using connections and nothing else.

A readable-online version of the paper (no download, unless you want a Word copy) https://app.box.com/s/4plplfbrhwr9qflosp8tir00r0pf1467

You can also find the paper here, but you have to download it to read it: https://github.com/johnvlilley/Stateless-Computer

I suggest you start with the simple version of the calculator that does just add and subtract: https://github.com/johnvlilley/Stateless-Computer/blob/master/calculator_simple.cfg

And the complex calculator has much better inline commenting: https://github.com/johnvlilley/Stateless-Computer/blob/master/calculator_complex.cfg

I am interested in taking some of the logic, perhaps the most complicated part - the grenade throwing script, and visually re-creating it in Minecraft. This part of the logic performs the permutations of a math question I came up with and was answered by using the ancient Chinese Pascal's Triangle in a new way. It is similar to the question of how many combinations of 4 hats on 4 pegs you can have, and I just had to count the pegs as part of the permutation where they did not.

I desperately need help writing the paper, it is obvious I never have written one before. I can't offer any money, because I plan to put this in the public domain. I will certainly give credit where credit is due, though. Please contact me at johnphantom@hotmail.com or the more reliable johnvlilley@gmail.com
Yup, sorry only realized after the fact :|
Ask HN: An iPhone-Based BBS
1. Anyone ever see anything like a BBS that ran on a mobile phone? I ran a web server on Android a few years ago and made a sort of Telnet BBS...but not pro.

2. What comes to mind when you ponder what it would look like. What could it do? What would be different for being based on a phone, and what would be the same?

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Releasing BadgerDB v1.6.0
Nacos Configuration Center
The Tucker Business Model: Why the Feds Went After Preston Tucker
It seems to me that MAD was an older generation's magazine that didn't do a good job pivoting to a new audience.

Looking at the cover in the link, it already feels 30 years old. (The characteristic MAD face evokes old-timey Americana in a way that feels nostalgic more than current.)
ggVG

I typed that into Notepad and it did exactly what I expected: it displayed 'ggVG' in the edit window. I can even save it to a file!

Thank you for the tip.
Nonsense. gcc constexpr are totally broken (at least in C, C++ not so, compared to LLVM), llvm has a much better jit than gcc's, and llvm would not touch GPL with a ten foot pole.
> It's validation that a "sacred cow" has been cooked into tasty burgers.

Or that you’re being a jerk.

The HN guidance on commentary is clearly a large part of why HN hasn’t devolved into Slashdot, and the generally on-point and respectful discussions invite really interesting and knowledgeable people to hang around, from whom we all benefit.

I’ll admit that I’ve occasionally scratched my head over downvotes I’ve received. But while there may well be some that apply votes contrary to the guidelines, in most cases - if I honestly review what I’ve written - I’ve phrased my comment in a way that’s not conducive to productive discourse.
Stock, bonds and a small amount of cash? Maybe some in commodities?
Can NNs be corrected, like a child or a dog being told a firm "no" when doing the wrong thing? Can the conditions be replayed such that those conditions result in a different response with a human auditor providing the correct response?

I'm guessing the answer is currently no. Which is interesting because one of the early benefits touted for self-driving cars was that people might die, but a patch would ensure no one dies twice for the same reason (within reason, which is more than can be said for humans).
>Now the reality is some of those who are killed, die from no fault of their own. They die at the hands of the other driver.

That's way fewer
> If the suggested replacement is something the government operates

No. That is the exact opposite of helpful. What you need is something that nobody/everybody operates, in the style of email. A protocol (like SMTP), not a platform (like Facebook).

A government could usefully fund the development of such a thing though.
You mention an excess of mergers over the decades which reminds me of a new problem with the inverse: anti-trust enforcement.

It appears that anti-trust, which was rare to begin with, may now have been politicized.

For example, it's hard to understand why favoritism is shown to ISPs yet effort is put into breaking up large software companies. Especially in light of the difference in campaign contributions in 2018.
Not for all CDNs. Some provide dedicated VIPs which don't require SNI.

Of course, an adversary can then figure out who you are connecting to based on the IP.
When I was a kid, scientists told me we'd be going to mars within a couple of decades. According to them, it should've happened about a decade ago. Same thing for supersonic airliners, etc.
And so it begins. This could mark the begin of C++, the dynamic language. I like that.
Apple's response above was talking about iTunes, not about iPods.
The Parallels acquisition is part of what worries me. Having switched back to Windows, I can't find any VM software that runs as well as Parallels did (VMware is awful in comparison). I'd hoped that Corel's reason for purchasing is that they'd seen potential growth in making a PC version of Parallels. But if Corel has been sold, maybe the Parallels deal was just to juice their numbers for the sale.
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Driving is actually quite safe, if you have a late model car with top safety ratings and never drive drunk or distracted.
There’s also CNLabelContactRelationColleauge. Oops :)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelco...
more plant mass isn't necessarily better if it's not as nutritious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/climate/rice-global-warmi...
I inherited my Dad's Mad magazines which covered the mid 60s to the early 70s, and my Uncle's, which covered the early 70s to the early 80s, and my collection, which began in 1984 and ran to 1993. I read them all over and over. I learned about the world through the spectre of Mad, it was my primary education.

Of course, it ain't what it used to be and hasn't been for a long time, so I guess I'm not that sad to see it go. It was a different era.
This was a shift in viewpoint -- earlier in the life of computers, the hardware was seen as the really valuable part of a computer. So companies would provide the source code because that was simpler (the software was "just a toy"). But then software became the valuable component, and so businesses (as is a recurring theme in capitalism) didn't want to give away something that might be potentially profitable. And so we now have proprietary software. This shift in viewpoint by users was an intentional move, pushed by soon-to-be proprietary software businesses.
Even if Jefferson were friends with Paine, and consulted with him, it's hard to imagine that he, Franklin and Adams just let Paine write away with a blank slate. Jefferson was assigned the task by the Congress. He owned it. All of those men were prolific writers and thinkers in their own right.
I think it's more like 23% would drop if there was a cheap competing service that had all Disney content on it.
> Or that you’re being a jerk.

Sometimes that's the case. However, I've seen ample legitimate discussion following the guidelines & conducive to further discussion, being downvoted because the downvoter obviously disagrees with the post. It tends to occur on "controversial issues" when not enough "weasel words" & "neutrality modifiers" are being used.

After a while, one realizes the futility of chasing "karma". That being clear & forceful, according to one's ethics, in expression is far more rewarding.
I was in high school 20 years ago, and a robotics nerd, and back then it definitely didn't seem "several centuries away." The DARPA grand challenge was back in 2004.
> 18,000,000 seems pretty high. That might be peak. I doubt >5% of the population is the driver (not passenger) in a vehicle all day.

True, that estimation may be peak load. Which is why I kept the total estimate of distinct drivers at 54m instead of the much more likely number of well above[0] that.

0 - https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/pubs/hf/pl11028/c...
Yeah but isn't most of torrenting these shows illegal?
Don't forget "Poit!"
Declarative DevOps Microframeworks
Idea: A Generic P2P Network Client
So many HN folks suggest touchscreens are inferior to physical controls in cars (safety or UX wise) and I can't agree.

Bad interface design is the culprit not the device. I did not need to read manuals for my iPhone, Polar watches (touch), more complicated machines in the garden, washing machine, fridge, coffee machine nor my Tesla Model S.

On the other hand using my ventilation unit controls at home was impossible without manual (non-descriptive menu items, non-circular menu starting in the middle so up/down matters and remembering where is the entry you need when there are many of those you almost never need is painful).

I love my Model S and I am satisfied with its UI design with some remarks like "Quick Controls" content I never use. There is no bullshit, no attempts to look too fancy and hinder the experience. Complete game changer of this car is the possibility of improving UI with software updates.

I am yet to encounter the car without touchscreen that has intuitive controls.
My current list of the cars and quirks I remember the most:

2007 Kia Ceed
I do not know remember to change C to F degrees or setup clock after owning the car for the 12 years and driving it daily for almost 5 years. IIRC holding the Trip button (one of four in the main row of computer controls) changes something depending on the current context. Kids like to touch and hold buttons and I am doomed afterwards.

2011 Ford Mondeo
Alerts present somewhere in the Settings. Paring the phone requires you to push the Phone button and the Menu button. Arrows are only for cycling, Enter is useless.

2017 Peugeot 5008
Rented it for a week on holiday, physical controls. Interface design was complete mess - confusing icons, excessive layers combined with "innovative"/unique naming of menu entries etc. I quit trying to comprehend it after a while. This was one of the worst interfaces ever encountered, on par with the Ford SYNC in the latest models I had the opportunity to use as loaners.

2017 Mercedes GLA
Same holds for Audis I've driven. Graphic design is consistent and quite polished which might confuse you that the interface will be intuitive and carefully designed. Animations and images accompanying any task are definitely made for marketing purposes and sales people showing off and to hide the difficulty of achieving the tasks you are up to. Visual clues are often missing and using the control wheel was like spinning the roulette and waiting for the outcome. I believe people who drive Mercedes whole live like it and are used to it.
Btw numerical keyboard in the car, really?!

2018 Volvo XC 60
Had it only for a day as a test drive, quite good, no major issues, definitely one of the best interfaces. However the graphic design was inconsistent and this car has touch screen.

2018 Hyundai Ioniq
One weekend, no major issues for me, bad graphics design. Do not recall if it is touch based or not, but some buttons were present.
Encryption is still treated as munitions under ITAR.
> because while having source code helps in understanding and modification, it's not essential

You're right that it's not essential -- and he does mention this in most of his talks. But reverse engineering is very time-consuming and difficult, especially if you need to do it for every program you use.

So his view that software freedom requires the source code to be available to users is much more of a practical requirement than a philosophical one. This is why the GPL requires the preferred form of modifying the program be provided -- to ensure it's just as easy for users to modify the program as it is for the developers.
The only domain where I have seen this is with commercial scientific software that is designed to be run on supercomputers. This is mostly due to the difficulty of producing high performance binaries that work with the MPI implementation.

One interesting implication is that since people can view and modify the source code, patches and modifications to the software are shared.

This has always lead me to wonder if a diff file violates copyright as it includes some of the original source as context.
Fair enough, but an odd one to cite in the context of the point above regarding "favorable regulatory environment." I assumed you were talking about something in the federal law. State and municipal law has never been favorable to anything.
And when you click in Excel while it is stuck computing, does it prioritise the cell you are clicking on, or could it be that it actually does compute more quickly then?
NativLang did a video about kinship systems that is relevant here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOi2c2d3_Lk
Masada the Israeli Heroic Place
Same. It's not exaggerating to say that it taught me a healthy distrust of authority and corporate America. RIP, gang. You showed me a great many new ideas.
Is Chinese the only language with this relationship?

Also, identifiers in Apple frameworks are always ASCII.
There’s trust and there’s trust. I might trust Tom Bombadil not to murder me in my sleep. I might not trust him as a keeper of the one ring …
But you could do the performance evaluation of mathpix using your benchmark or?
They probably produce these designs because they sell better. I explicitly ordered a full screen dashboard on my skoda kodiaq (similar to vw/audio digital dash) because I like it better that analog dials.

Companies produce things that sell, so probably better to ask why consumers buy these things...
This reminded me of my love of Spy vs Spy, and I found a free archive! https://archive.org/details/SpyVsSpyTheCompleteCasebook
Maybe TM3 is a great improvement over S, which wasn't all that impressive.

But there's a little problem -- if you take all of this stuff out you end up with a car that can't even be controlled in any way. I don't think you'd be allowed to drive a car with a steering wheel but no speedometer on a public road. And all of those things are exactly where Tesla... well, sucks. Batteries and motors they do well. Probably better than anyone else at this point. I'll even believe that they figured out how to do suspensions and other automobiley things right. But fit, finish, and that touchscreen on the side, sorry, that's not impressive. And I can think of quite a few quite practical cars that can take twisties as well as TM3 for same or less money, and faster, at that. And with real buttons to control everything.
What else would you name it?
For an article written in 1997, it's pretty damn prescient. The article also isn't focused on surveillance. I would argue that modern bio-identification was at least somewhat predicted by 1984 (though Orwell assumed that humans would be doing the identification, not computers).
So it’s possible that big companies are increasing their market power by
using lobbying to capture politicians and regulators. If this is true, it’s
very bad news for free markets and capitalism. It would validate the claims
of Senator Bernie Sanders, the socialist presidential candidate who has
blamed corporate interests for the woes of American workers.

I'm not sure how the conclusion follows from the premise. The rest of the article talks about how increased regulations, rather than helping the consumer, just give corporations more avenues by which to lobby the government and suppress competition. But somehow that supports the claims of Bernie Sanders, whose platform calls for massive increases in corporate regulation? That seems like dubious logic to me.
Maybe I am missing something, but why doesn't he just do an xforward via ssh -x?
I shouldn't have to learn about the internal structure of a company in order to buy a laptop without malware.

Maybe Lenovo should have thought about their internal structure and their brand reputation before installing malware on their laptops, or maybe not (because they don't care about clients like me, they care about the 90% of bosses that buy bulks of Thinkpads and don't know what firmware is). But anyway, it wasn't a rogue engineer who did it, it was Lenovo, and in my eyes: Lenovo ships malware.
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Well an unconscious body has a central nervous system but is clearly not conscious.
Lane assists and emergency braking assists are going to be mandatory safety features in the EU from 2022. I sure hope they are not required to be always on, because my experience with Opel's collision detection has been that it's more likely to cause accidents than avert them. Like you described, suddenly losing power at highway speeds is really confusing, especially when you're driving an Ampera with the regen braking in the more aggressive mode. It will lose speed fast, and the first time it happens, you will spend several seconds figuring out that the cruise control has been turned off because the system got confused by a truck in the other lane, somehow.