skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unresponsive = the app’s main event loop is not processing events

> an app can break in a variety of ways which won’t involve blocking the main thread

I’m not saying you’re incorrect, but for the vast majority of users, any input that doesn’t yield an immediate response = unresponsive.
On HN, moderators edit titles that are misleading or linkbait, as the site guidelines ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

It's a linkbait trope to use "you" in a title, because it grabs attention whether the topic has anything to do with the reader or not. That's why "you" is headline writers' favorite pronoun. Combining it with a pejorative ("you have no idea") makes it even more sensational. That's definitely the sort of title we edit.

When we edit a title, we look for a representative phrase in the article itself that expresses its point in a more neutral way. That's what a moderator did in this case. The language comes from the article's own summary of itself: "After all of these years, I finally came to one simple conclusion. With all due respect: we are completely clueless about how long things should take." Reading the article text to find how it states its own conclusion, removing any residual linkbait (such as the superlative "completely"), and making that the title instead is the best way we've found to correct titles that break the site guidelines.
Well, you just wrote that and people are reading it and I seem to have no recourse as you describe. Which is it exactly that you are advocating for?
You can disable IE11 under Settings -> Enable Windows Features from what I remember
If you crash on a motorcycle, i’d guess your wrist is not the biggest concern of yours.
I recovered from being sexually abused as a child in part because I actively sought out protective male friends.

I've long believed the antidote to "bad men" is "good men." In contrast, a lot of rape victims simply conclude all men are evil and it becomes a barrier to recovery.

I think they don't know another way to feel safe. It seems like the safe bet to them: just don't trust any men.

That wasn't my reaction.
Another "IE required" datapoint:

I recently had to buy an Authenticode code-signing certificate. The only way to download it was to add it to the browser certificate store and export it from there. And the only browser that the vendor supported for the add-to-store operation was IE.
It sounds like you should try to upgrade to a modern employer.
And that's another reason I wear a danged tie, so people can recognize that I'm a little different from the hoi polloi eager to please their managers with feature after feature and ticket after ticket -- believe it or not I'm an extreme programmer in the strictest sense, perhaps not a 10x but definitely a 1% mind body and spirit is geared towards computer science believe me, another reason I wear silk, as a nod to the engineers who came before me and worked on the enigma or the Apollo space mission
No, it isn't plainly treason. This is the definition of treason:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

Did the NSA levy war against the US?

Did the NSA give aid & comfort to the enemies of the US?
I will never understand why tech companies suddenly let non tech people step up as CEO.

It always failed (failed = does not continue on the same trajectory; at best is stable and in the long term eaten up by more innovative companies).
If a bug is related to a specific feature, it could get added into the feature. If it isn't, it could get added into a separate list, pushed to a board or get added to a sprint for it to be worked upon.
What kind of zero-day does this protect against that wouldn't be blocked by an at-launch-time update check like most regular software uses? If anything, at-launch-time is better because Keystone's last update check might have been 2 hours before the 0day patch came out, but at-launch-time would check immediately and notice.
My mother had that exact same experience with her Nexus 5x. Things kept on shuffling every 6 months. Ever since I’ve got her on iOS, she’s been happy and I’ve been happy. I don’t even have to ask her to update to the latest iOS. She does it automatically and generally is able to find her way through. Never so on Android.

Apple wins in that regard - stability, consistency and reliability in daily use. It’s boring in a way for tech enthusiasts but wins in the eyes of people for whom their phone is just another tool which needs to work when they need it. They’ve no inclination to fiddle around with things nor a desire for a changing UI.
Sorry. I am dense. Maybe you were raped by a man.
if the watch could be paired with an iPad I would be more willing to buy into one. currently it still is just an accessory to an iPhone and for me that removes its desirability.

I would be more than happy to buy the cell enabled versions for my parents considering what the watches can do but neither is keen on using a smart phone let alone the associated costs of buying and maintaining one
Is this based on real accident statistics?
If you ride motorcycle without gloves and jacket and crash you will have much more severe injuries to care about much more certainly. So I would doubt wearing a watch is a significant risk factor.
This wouldn't be possible if we were serious about stopping identity theft. The usage of inconsistent identity would trigger an alert, immediately dispatching law enforcement to deal with the problem. Most identity thieves would find themselves in jail within hours, so there wouldn't be many people willing to risk it.
I was referring to people accessing illegal material, with DoH being used to bypass ISP-level content filtering.
One use-case is this one: https://github.com/HeinrichHartmann/arxiv_meta
I spent a summer doing something very similar to this at a major military radio manufacturer in the mid 90s - it turned out that one of their product lines from the late 70s used an entirely custom 8-bit CPU for which the instruction set had somehow been entirely lost. However, they still had the firmware on a stack of EPROMs. So, the mission was to reverse engineer the old CPU to reimplement it on a modern DSP. Turned out that you can get surprisingly far based on a frequency analysis of things that look like opcodes ("let's assume it has two accumulator registers; that loading is the most common instruction; etc."), making some educated guesses about how the designer would have allocated the opcode bits, and then plonking a HP logic state analyser straight over the top of the 32-pin DIL to check the hypothesis. Fun times :)
Did you try backblaze.com yet?
The problem is hoping for reality to be a certain way rather than evaluating the evidence and seeing where it leads. Maybe you hope to change it to be non-biased in the future? In any complicated trait that's a complex interaction of nature and nurture, it's unlikely that all of the forces would be balanced perfectly for there to be no difference between groups.
No, afaik this was not a default optimization. There are SIMD optimizations in specific paths but I'm not aware of general low level autovectorizations before this (outside of ORC/OIL which was never generally available for JVM afaik)
That's true, but it's like a lot of little things add up. Windows 10 for example lost some of my files I was copying over from a linux drive, because ntfs is not case sensitive (by default?) and it didn't see there were two directories. So now the fear of losing more files is keeping me away from Windows.
One should also note that if it wasn't for Oracle, MaximeVM would have been yet another cool dead technology out of Sun Research Labs.

So quite the opposite of holding it back.
> They are doing what everyone else has done in the same circumstance.

We already established those aren't the same circumstances at all:

- 1st: we didn't have even 1/4 of the Indian population density when we were having the same birthrates.

- 2nd: When global warming became clear and urgent action was needed, we started reducing our emissions while India during that time already increased them by 400%, and is going to increase them by another 100% in the next decade.

It's not by keep repeating the same lie that you are going to make it a reality.
Maybe you aren't very good at using Windows?
Any company which makes money out of others misfortune - this includes gambling, military/defense, finance, etc.

I want to look back on my career and say I made a POSITIVE impact on the world somehow.
Stop Using Chrome Immediately
Particularly it has been ruled that "treason" as per the US constitution or laws is impossible unless war has been declared on a foreign nation.
Until an Apple Watch is able to work with my ANT+ powermeter it's something I would avoid taking on a bike ride.

Garmin, Whahoo and other bike computers have had off crash alerts via a linked phone for, maybe, 10 years I think. Certainly since the Garmin Edge 1000 at least. That's a better fit for me as I'd never ride without my phone in a jersey pocket.

I'd always want a screen in front of me and not on my wrist.
I would expect the strength of the effect is only one of many differences between the two.
Fun, I tried it with a regional newspapper and it doesn't shows the processing and load time in the versiones without adblock.

Also I never realized it was SO BAD without adblock

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/
Yeah. Pre-SIP OSes were affected too, so they literally just did not test this on any non-SIP version of OS X... or if they did they didn't notice that it was nuking /var. Fresh mac VM wiped after every test run and no 'did we just destroy the OS' smoke test?
What if you change it to

totalSize = await file.getSize() + totalSize;

Would it be fine then?
The PTSD thing was at best rude, so that leaves me wondering...

Which advertising relaated business are you in?
Do you really want to think and judge people/institutions in these terms (traitor/non-traitor etc.)? I doubt this is in any way helpful to find a political solution. I know that this is being done with Snowden -- but lets not resort to this level of (hyperbole) accusation -- else the sanke pit is open to everyone to be define the other side as "traitor" in one way or another.
Agreed. This “hyper growth” mindset is killing a lot of good things. Why can’t SO stay small, lean and mean? Last I knew it’s already generating descent revenues and good returns for investment. Injecting steroids to force if “grow” can really destroy its value and make look hideous.
i see those AEDs popping up around, ie in the office, train station, every pharmacy around has them. My wife is an emergency doctor, an she has clear opinion about those - yes they save lives, but in most cases, people will end up as 'vegetables' (not sure what's the proper english term for +-brain death). I only presume she meant more severe heart attacks that would normally result in death prior to emergency arriving or shortly after.

So don't expect miracles where none are currently possible. Do all you can obviously in case of need, and ideally make yourself familiar with procedures a bit, any delay will worsen the chances.
Most JP banks I’ve used work fine with any browser - I use my UFJ account regularly in Safari, etc.

Shinsei is just a crap bank, and IIRC Mizuho can be a PITA depending on what you’re trying to do.
I used Linux (Gentoo/KDE) quite a bit about 10 years ago, this year I ran Manjaro as one of my clients used that for their developer workstations.

I was severely disappointed. UI scaling for high resolution displays was terrible. Configuration still spread in a billion places, badly documented, and with the polish of a gravel road. Still no smooth scrolling, and no good remote access solution, unless you think VNC is still considered good. It's not.

Apart for some pretty logos, it felt almost exactly like the system I left 10 years ago. I actually felt rather sad that day.

It's rather shameful, but not unexpected how all those massive companies that built their businesses on Linux can't be bothered support what is - in a sense - the "origin" of that success: That people wanted a decent OS with a nice GUI where we also wouldn't have to be prisoners of Microsoft, Apple, or anyone else.
> I recently gave every Linux DE an honest test drive and... it's clear that nobody really has the resources to perfect them.

That's not strictly true. The resources were (and are) there, but they have been pointlessly squandered.

KDE3 and GNOME2 were great desktop environments. I would argue that KDE3 was the pinnacle of all desktop environments to date. Polished and usable, it was absolutely fantastic to use. Great UI, great design, and having KParts embedded in Konqueror made it really flexible and extensible. I used it for many years, and took advantage of its functionality unlike any other DE. I also used GNOME since the 0.9x days, and it also became very polished, if not less sophisticated overall. GNOME2 was definitely its peak.

What happened though was CADT. All the effort expended to build up these DEs was carelessly torn down to be rebuilt in an inferior form. Today, both of the major DEs seem to be busy aping mobile UIs instead of creating desktop UIs. GNOME/GTK have scrollbars with zero buttons and sized about 4px wide; totally unusable on a 4K display. They even broke the old paging and panning behaviours, which were excellent. They have almost completely lost their focus on the desktop, and with it, the developer base which formed the long tail of contributors.

Part of the problem is that the upcoming generation of developers have predominantly known mobile UIs; they haven't fully experienced or understood the sheer breadth and depth of rich desktop UIs. The other is that with the switch to mobile devices, there simply isn't the money in desktop UIs nowadays. While this isn't strictly a bad thing, in practice it's the loss of diverse commercial inputs which has driven GNOME off the rails and made it an insular echo chamber of bad ideas.
> This is actually the reason why we will never run out of oil.

Which is how the free market prevents shortages. Whenever there's a sustained shortage or glut, look for government interference.
> Snowden's revelations proved once again that conspiracies are all false, because it is literally impossible for large numbers of people to keep their mouth shut.

That's both a good point and not so much. In the end, they didn't keep their mouths shut, Snowden spilled the beans and uncovered the large conspiracy. It's a good point with regard to "that would require a large conspiracy, and those don't work" not being a good argument against theories: there might be a large conspiracy that just hasn't failed yet.

And who knows how many more years or decades the large conspiracy would have worked just fine if Snowden hadn't leaked.
Dear Mr. Prosecutor General [pdf]
My understanding is that women didn't want to vote due to, amongst other things, not wanting to "mix the spheres" of domestic and public life, wanting the government to have no say in domestic life: https://herandrews.com/2015/03/01/women-against-suffrage/

Not voting doesn't have a huge effect on people's lives, which is why millions don't do so.
I remember, for immigration process, having to use IE to download a PDF form and install Adobe Reader to open it. Strangely enough, it also had to be opened on a desktop machine, laptops are NG.
It could be argued unconstitutional, under the 4th amendment. But so far as I know, no one's brought a case against the NSA to the Supreme Court.
Wow, that's a lot of core features. And it sort of makes sense because it's all in ActiveX, and ActiveX is not supported by Edge.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/deploy/emie-...

So an ActiveX control written in 1996 can run in Windows 10 Enterprise today via IE11. Neat... I guess.
I still use BBEdit, purchased back when it would have cost about that, and still pay from upgrades. I wonder how they stay in business? It's a great editor but they have so much competition now.
In fact, there is no clear indication that they did not act in what they perceived as the interest of the US and its citizens.

Many would disagree with that perception, and I also believe that amount of surveillance to have been wrong and counterproductive, but there hasn't been any evidence or significant hints into possible corrupt motivations.

One mustn't forget that all of this was put into motion after the 9/11 attacks, and both the Bush and Obama administrations where still working under (somewhat irrational) pressure from citizens afraid of a repeat performance.
WeWork’s fiasco validates investors who criticized SoftBank’s aggressive funding
Have you heard of that feature actually working? Fall detection is going to be _a lot_ less reliable from a phone than a wrist watch. In fact when I googled it one of the top three results is 'how do I turn off incident detection on my Garmin' due to false alerts.
Right now, no-one is competing against We

WHAT? there's quite healthy competition[1], which actually make money as opposed to We.

Granted, you don't get free beer and smarmy slogans. But competition is definitly on the market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWG_plc
12 lead ECG is just a technology. There could be other techniques. However, the Apple Watch might be comparable to higher number of leads but never be identical to the number of leads.

Except, when you wear additional bracelets at your both legs, the other hand, both shoulders and another 6 on your chest. Then yes ;). And consider the continuous cyborgization of our society, that is not that far away.

The 12 lead ECG is about detecting the electrical impulses
of heart beats from different angles of your bodies.

If you found a technology to detect these mV values from a meter away ... tell me ;) We will be rich ;)
You must not understand how cyber war works.

The US has judges and legislation to enable the NSA.

Russia, China, Iran, NK, and many other authoritarian states seek to use their power to attack America 24x7 and do so without any oversight.
My first thought on seeing the headline was that this was something out of the Cisco security group of the same name.
Thermals are indeed a good reason too. While it seems that the current MB Pro does a reasonable job with cooling the CPU, it is obvious that with better cooling you could drive the CPU harder. As the laptop is for me a mobile workstation, there is also the point that I would prefer a slightly bigger laptop that runs faster.

Which is why Apple should differentiate between the "air" and the "pro" line more. There would be a place for a 15" air, which is a slightly thinned version of the current 15" pro, and a true pro machine which sacrifices a bit of portability for features and performance.
My current dream machine would be roughly like the late 2015 MB Pro (that happens to be the machine I am typing this on), with at least a 16" screen (the bezels are plenty large on mine) and 1-2mm more thickness, allowing for good thermals and more serviceable parts. For a pro machine a battery, keyboard or ssd exchange needs to be doable by a skilled technician on-site.
And yet...

I've read this[1] yesterday on a complete unrelated topic, and I must say that "I don't buy" it's another form of not understanding statistics.

Biology is what it is and controls major aspects of our lives.

If you can be stronger of some of the biological instincts, good, but statistically biology always wins.

We can say for example that "women prefer laudanum, men prefer opium and pronstitues" is 100% a social construction.

"Women are better at social activities while men are better at competitive activities" much less so.

> Like most psychologists who study personality, Peterson believes there are five core personality traits—extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness and neuroticism—and that these traits are universal across most cultures. The taxonomy is also gendered. For example, women tend to be more agreeable than men. The traits have both biological and cultural origins and, as Peterson is fond of saying, the biological factors maximize in places—like Scandinavia—that have strenuously tried to flatten out the cultural differences. Biology is, therefore, in a sense, destiny, no matter how much people may want to deny it. To his mind, arguing that gender is a social construct or a kind of performance or—as the Ontario Human Rights Code says—an individual’s subjective experience is just wrong. “It’s not an alternative hypothesis,” Peterson says. “It’s an incorrect hypothesis.

-- Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.

[1] https://torontolife.com/city/u-t-professor-sparked-vicious-b...
Alright, it doesn't fit here then. But isn't the behavior treasonous towards the constitution that forbids arbitrary data collection. I think their defense here is that nobody actively looks at the data. I think this is bullshit.
Remember, only Apple Watch™ can save your life and your loved one's. Buy one now for each person you care about. You care about them, do you?
I bet this is a great feature (and I do have an Apple Watch), but can we please hold for a sec here? This piece reads like an Ad. Furthermore, many comments here are about "I want to see my kids grow up". Now please, calculate the odds of:

- you are in a terrible accident

- there is no one around you to call an ambulance

- you can’t call an ambulance yourself, because you are knocked out or can’t move

I think the odds for such an event are rather low. If you like smart watches, sure, go ahead and buy one. But for everybody who just wants to wear it because they are afraid: I don’t think it’s necessary for most people, unless you ride around alone in remote areas and are inexperienced or whatever.

My point is: don’t buy because of fear if your risk profile is super incredibly low.
Simplistic but it's a pragmatic way of looking at things.
SSN misuse will stop the moment companies are made responsible for all actions that result from using SSN as an authentication token.
Saying SO is “useful” is vastly understated. The developer world is filled with memes such as “coding is 99% looking up thing on SO”. World’s one of the highest paid profession is powered by SO. They have rigid community rules that everyone likes to complain but it is exactly what has kept quality standards up.
It's quite common to confuse breaking laws with treason, but that just isn't the same.

Accusations of treason at every corner hinder rational democratic discourse.
* the horror
> People being unable to get to work, trucks being unable to deliver food to stores because gas is unavailable.

The only times gas has been unavailable for a sustained time is when the government fixed prices or otherwise prevented the market from working.

For example, when there's a natural disaster and anti-gouging laws kick in, gas becomes unavailable.
Top Chinese CEOs the West Doesn’t Know Yet
oh indeed, its a pinch of salt, not ignore entirely :)
I don't understand why you are getting downvoted. What you are saying is basic economics and I guess people in here are too ideologically invested to accept it. The claim that governments foster healthy competition when their effect is the exact opposite is ridiculous.
I don't get it. The self study is the easiest part. Nothing prevents you from starting to learn these things from age 12 and up. Not even the language barrier is an important consideration. The harder part is actually getting recognized by employers when you can't just supply them with a paper that shows them that you burned X amount of years on a certain topic which employers use as a form of spam prevention like the proof of work mechanism in bitcoin. So not only do you need to study as hard as a university student but after self study you will still have to work hard to get past the HR filters.