skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Kid on the Web: A Study on the Prevalence of WebAssembly in the Wild [pdf]
> it will protect against ISP and state level observations of DNS

DNS yes but IP will be observed and censored eventually.

DoH is not effective against gov censuring that's just propaganda.

So why push DoH so hard? Because it moves DNS control to developers
I used acetylcysteine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044191/

This stuff helped very well.

Depression is a biochemical problem in your brain. It needs a biochemical solution. It is impossible to rationalize your way out of a depression. You cannot cure a depression by choosing behaviour.

Thinking about gyroscopes will not enable you to walk a straight line when drunk! Trying to cure a depression by choosing thoughts or behaviour is futile.

Also have a look at Amber O'Hearn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxeVU-vT3Q Her mood disorder went away when she changed her diet.
Just wondering why I got downrated. Lenovo and Dell had documented spyware on their computers.

We also know cisco and other American companies worked closely with the NSA and put backdoors in their software and hardware.

Yes, Huawei is close to the Chinese government and there are definitely issues with that. Yes, they had spyware on some phones. Still no documented case of spyware on their computers :)
Most phones are terrible. Why does a user expect anything other? Just use a computer and leave the personal tracking device at home.
2 cents. I use any computer that has a keyboard,terminal, network n ssh. Windows is the most terrible os, yes.
It's not a problem of price, it's one of approval. There's a long road in the US to get regulatory approval for a surgical procedure that involves injecting a semi-permanent substance. Putting a compliant car on the road is a cakewalk in comparison.
I've spent more time fighting with brew and the third party package manages than I have with issues in Ubuntu.
The Spartan-6 has a DDR memory controller built in.
This was a pretty good article, I’m surprised it came from the History channel. I guess there’s a big difference between the TV channel and their online presence.

The thing that seems crazy to me is that so many of these people believed it was ok as a Christian to kill so many people. I know killing has happened for thousands of years in the name of Christianity but it just goes to show how many Christians are Christian in name only (not much different today, I’m sure).

“But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Eliminate all the bells and whistles and then pay extra to put them back in.
Tried them all over the years.

Then I bought Triplicate from mbtype.com and since then it's been my mono font of choice in everything. Nothing comes close on HiDpi screens
That looked neat.. but also impractical. Way too slow.

It's interesting that it came from Finland.
Probably referring to the glass back.
116F is really hot for water. to me at least, a hot tub starts feeling uncomfortable around just 108F.
So you should try Publii CMS. It's a good use case for this. Very “client oriented”. It can deploy static sites to Netlify, Github Pages, FTP, and so on.
No remote and required installation of a mobile app to control tv? That IS dumb.
It’s archaic. The analogy isn’t well served by using women and sex as an example, and I don’t really see why someone needs to hear about touching women in ways they don’t like when all they’re talking about is a shell configuration.

This probably would have gone down well back in the 60s, but we’ve hopefully since moved on from comparing women to objects, and comparing how we treat women to how we treat inanimate things.

Personally, I downvoted because the author’s attitude to women has absolutely nothing to do with discussing good alternatives to laptops.
Or, if you need the power and don't mind the size/weight and price, P-series.
Yes it is a strange metaphor but language like “I might stumble a bit and touch her in ways she doesn't like” is rapey and comparing women to config files is just weird. The whole comment feels like it is objectifying women
I'm also interested in that and collected a list recently:

* System 76 Oryx Pro (aluminium, official Linux support, US shipping, flaky hardware, poor battery)

* Prostar Clevo P960 (rebadge of System 76 Oryx Pro)

* Huawei MateBook X Pro (aluminium, good Linux support)

* Razer laptops (aluminium, no good Linux support)

* Chuwi LapBook Plus (aluminium, good Linux support, poor battery, poor CPU, cheap)

* Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro (aluminium, good Linux support)

* Purism Librem 13

There was a HN thread recently about Huawei MateBook X Pro: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21170765

And also one about System 76: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21216195
> No reason you can't get a real certificate, to ensure that your device talks to the server it intends to.

You'd have to get a certificate for whatever domain the device wants to talk to - a domain you very likely have no control over.

No sane CA will give you a cert for that. The whole point of the PKI is to keep MITMs from pretending to be domains that they actually don't control - which is exactly what we'd be doing here.
System Architectures for Personalization and Recommendation
https://youtu.be/nUBtKNzoKZ4
That's just like your opinion, man
Official Ubuntu 19.10 ISO and Direct Download Links Listed
I think the title is pretty self explanatory as to the questiom the article intends to investigate; and if it summarised the findings it might undermine the readers motivation to read further.
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> “I might stumble a bit and touch her in ways she doesn't like, but overall we get the job done and nothing is broken afterwards.”
Oral contraceptives were illegal in Ireland at one point, but you could get a prescription for other medical uses such as treatment for irregular menstruation. Allegedly, at that time, Ireland had Europe’s highest rate of irregular periods.
and the current people in America often says 'go back foreigners' .. whereas they themselves were the outsiders.. the current generation of America should allow talent and should not create rules to restrict based on religion or belief system.
Something weird is happening with this.

I understand the author gets paid based on writing articles, so maybe it makes sense for him to squeeze out 2000 words on the minute differences between cell phones.

But certain people at my work will talk to each other about the differences in their cell phones for hours each day. Differences that I think 90% of humanity wouldn't even notice, let alone have the motivation to mention.

I don't know what's going on with average people's brains where they can pour so much attention and energy into something as fundamentally boring and unimportant as the row of black pixels on a phone.
So you flagged it because you don't like it. eg to stop other people seeing it, rather than just ignoring it and moving on?
It's still rather clumsy though, if you go too fast from typing to touchpad you have to wait for the delay. If you set the delay to be too quick, you will get wrong clicks. It's more a question of palm detection, and the Linux touchpad drivers are not great at this.
These people need a real hobby. Tech 'journalism' is masturbation without the payoff.
> as much as the effects of superior sponsorships.
> likely there are hundreds of factors more important

The more detailed NYT analysis linked in the OP did account for those kinds of confounding factors, and still found a 3-4% difference attributable to the shoes. If you can find a flaw in their analysis, we'd all love to hear it. Simply ignoring that analysis in favor of guess-work and hand-waves isn't persuasive.
Why would a company choose someone who doesn’t know the stack they are using over someone who does? Let alone 6-12 months.

Knowing the ecosystem, best practices, frameworks, etc takes longer than a few weeks.

Sure I could learn Java or Swift in a few weeks, but does that mean I would be a competent Android or iOS developer?
> sometimes light blue and dark blue are two different colours

I believe it's so in russian

> some languages consider pink to just be lighter red

This is interesting. Here in the UK pink is generally described and accepted as light red, but I've always considered it to be a separate colour, and I met someone who mentioned he though the same, so it's not just me.

There's light red but to my eyes that is qualitatively different to this https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/shock...

Any other views? Perhaps someone with knowledge of chromatics can better resolve the question.

thanks
Perhaps the mild cognitive dissonance caused by the choice of reference points.

Possibly also cross-domain projection of various strongly held views.
Thats a looot of reef!
Artist creates deepfake birdsong to highlight threat to dawn chorus
Is the Wi-Fi Alliance designing these broken protocols on purpose (such as to make it easy for law enforcement to crack them when needed) or is it the nature of Wi-Fi authentication that makes things difficult to protect?
It was never brought forward for standardization and quickly got replaced by protocols that were. While it used UDP or TCP 443 it was a custom protocol so clients had to implement it manually and you couldn't run an HTTPS server on the same port (without modifying the HTTPS server/load balancer). It also relied on a separate certificate infrastructure.

Shortly after DoT and DoH came along as standardized proposals with fewer NIH issues and more interoperability. DoH also has the bonus of looking like standard HTTPS traffic to the resolver. Technically e.g. Google could host DoH on google.com/dns-query and it would be hidden in the deluge of HTTPS that already goes to google.com.
Somewhere I saw a version of Inconsolata with the slashed zero. There was a site at one time that collected all the Inconsolata permutations in one place, but I don't have it offhand.
Two examples:
1. No drainage system (like in X and T series)
2. Screen hinge becomes loose in less than a year (anecdata)

Edit: in order to remove battery, you have to remove the whole bottom cover.
There are a bunch of things that designers could do in this case; the iPhones 1 though 5S were all magnificent and functional.

I suspect that Apple has identified that the phone will be kept in a case so the visual aspects can be ignored. Many of the uglier choices (like the uneven back surface) make sense once there is a case around the body of the phone.
One of the more fun/creative things I've done with code involved playing with Artificial Life. I put up a repository here: https://github.com/secretGeek/robots-versus-electric-sheep

This was a C# program (with a winforms frontend) that simulated several life forms interacting, and included a simple genetic algorithm. It was a lot of fun to write and tinker with.

"Two species, the blue robots and the gray sheep, wander around a paddock, competing to eat grass."

"They can breed only with their own species, and their offspring will inherit genes from both parents (with some mutation possible). Genes control the animal's inquisitiveness and other characteristics."

"It is strangely mesmerizing."
Maybe instead of not using DoH, we shouldn't use Google.
> force-route 8.8.8.8

Yeah static IP routing is an option - for both nameservers and nefarious servers. That is, we may just have to resort to using IP blocks.
Louis Rossmann made a video highlighting a lot of the engineering problems with Apple laptops. His whole business is about repairing Apple laptops so he has all the reasons and incentives to defend Apple and downplay their issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8
“Urban birds ... have been found to sing higher, louder, and earlier, putting them at risk of predators. Near airports, blackbirds sing for longer and modify their song. Research has shown the chorus starting 23.8 minutes earlier in those environments.”
I think about this how I think about insects: you can call them ugly, but it's the best form for the job (ecological niche).

So yeah, today's phones aren't what you'd call "conventionally beautiful industrial design", but I'd rather have an ugly phone than one which compromises on features.

Here on HN, lots of people complain how Apple sacrifices ports and battery life on their laptops to make them "prettier", but apparently ugly Apple phones which don't compromise aren't loved either. You can't win whatever you do.
The looks of recent iPhones/Pixels/Samsungs are what make me even more of a fan of Sony's smartphone designs than I already am.

The Xperia 1 for example: https://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-...

It has a clean, simple look. Three cameras, but they're understated in positioning. No notch, just a small balanced bezel on the top and bottom. A side-mounted fingerprint scanner (where your thumb/ring finger/middle finger naturally rests). A simple, flat display with only very slightly rounded corners.

Sony has been acing smartphone design for years, by simply doing their own thing and not jumping head first into every trend. I wish they did better on marketing and software, because hardware-wise they're killing it. They deserve to be more popular.
This is a naive assessment. Imgur is running a business and with that comes all the surrounding cruft Harry is complaining about. I hate including marketing and tag management tools in my project at work but that is what the business wants.
Between the shady interface choices and the questionable content quality I have to wonder how Techcrunch and such articles end up on the front page especially on a site like HN (a community that appreciates high quality content and good UI/UX).
I have to ask, why Comic Sans specifically? Seeing as it almost universally regarded as an specially ugly font. The only uses that I’ve seen accepted for Comic Sans are for use in comics (obviously) and for people with dyslexia.
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Have you tried using your onboard video card during install and installing AMD drivers after you get in?

I’ve never actually used AMD components so maybe they make it more difficult to get the drivers or something.
naturally it is and anyone who disagrees with me just hasn’t yet enjoyed the laterally stiff yet vertically compliant joys of a real steed. Preferably with toe clips and downtube shifters.
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It's totally doable with vanilla JS. You'll just likely end up with a mess or your own framework and all the associated costs.
>In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.

I've always been a bit baffled by notions like that. How in the world one becomes a professional in a foreign programming language tech in 6 months? It feels like every modern realworld battleworn programming stack (ecma, c++2x, .net, jvm w/e) is filled with nuances and quirks which, as it turns out, an engineer _must_ know about to be able to bump revenues a little bit and to call themselves a professional. Hell, even inside _one_ stack there are a lot of special interest fields. Is every C++ programmer a graphics programmer? Can a C++ programmer become one overnight? Highly doubt it.

>If a Python shop was looking for somebody technical to make them a pile of money, the fact that I’ve never written a line of Python would not get held against me.

How? How is that possible?
This. I see that a lot of people just dismiss WordPress without knowing it — or it's ecosystem — enough. Of course that it does have lots of issues, but it's place for certain use cases it very difficult to beat.
Ain't got time for this sort of bullshit
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>If they removed the notch, literally no one would want the version with the notch, because it’s so plainly and universally undesirable.

Are we talking about a magical scenario where they have figured out how the minimise all of the hardware in the notch so that there's virtually no bezel on top? Or about a scenario where they take away the notch and all of the hardware in it? Because I'm not exactly sure how the sales pitch for an iPhone 11 without Face ID, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, speaker or front-facing camera would go. And if they just deleted the notch by making it a regular bezel, I don't think that would be a sales hit either. "The all new iPhone 11 - now without selfies!"

A hypothetical either-or scenario where the other scenario has literally no drawback is a pretty dumb one. And as far as I can tell, that's exactly what this argument is. It's like saying that no one would buy an iPhone with a 3000 mAh battery if they could get a 6000 mAh in the same packaging. But if you introduce another variable, like the iPhone being as thick as the Nokia 3310, or 5% of shipped phones catching on fire, then someone might actually go for the 3000 mAh.
> is a great contraceptive, but not in the way it was planned.

Agreed. My repeated experience has been that something about going on the pill almost completely extinguishes any interest in sex, so that whatever prophylactic effects it has are nearly academic...
I flagged it because random insults have no place here.
I once trained unsupervised character embeddings and used levenshtein distance with embedding cosine as character replacement weights. And it worked better as a similarity metric than soundex
That's because I'm not arguing with you.

It is a complex topic, and the variety of "solutions" to the problem give us a lot to chew on.

I don't personally think that's optimal - there are a number of problems US states have that nation-states don't. (Deficit financing, exclusion and latitude to make its own rules being larger ones.) Also, one cost of running "laboratories of democracy" is that some of them fail, and some of them are run incompetently or corruptly or cruelly.

But if you like the idea of state level fixes, by all means pull for that. There is no single right answer.
If it's me browsing the web vs the NSA I'll throw in the towel right now. I'm not expecting DoH, or any protocol, to thwart the largest intelligence agencies in the world. I'm just looking for ISPs and free Wi-Fi hotspots to get a little better for the average user.
They just found a way to play Top Trumps or Pokemon without a pack of the cards. :)

Ars Technica do it in their phone reviews too - the only measure of a phone over there is thinness of bezel. Doesn't matter about anything else.
TL;DR: By opposing laws that require a deposit on plastic bottles.
Red cameras are funky all functional beautiful. I don’t feel the same at all about the phones in this article. They try to make the rest of the phone slick and then tack on janky cameras and notches. I’d love a phone that had the Red aesthetic.
My UX303 has served me well for four years now, dropped several times, lugged it around through all climes & my only major issue right now is that it’s nearly impossible to find a good power adapter for it and the screen hinge is loose.

Negatives: Required a lot of customization to get the trackpad right on Ubuntu so I’ve got that to look forward when I upgrade, I hate glossy screens, and it can act wonky if exposed to extreme humidity changes.

It’s fast, it’s light, it doesn’t typically get too hot, I’ve treated it like garbage and it still delivers —- I’m starting to look around for a new one and will probably stick with the line, but want something with a matte screen this time for less annoying outside work, they’ve got a few models available.
Why Is the Elitist Establishment So Obsessed with Meat?
The article is to a large extent about cause and effect, that the basic assumption is that the cause may be linguistic is odd to me.
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

—James Baldwin, "Giovanni's Room"
Wasm-collector: Collects all WebAssembly modules from a given website
I evaluate what's been submitted, not something else linked from there. OP could have submitted the GitHub writeup and I wouldn't have flagged it.
How do you know what to code or whether you should even be coding at all if you aren’t willing to spend the time knowing the business and the customers?
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I've been using a Pixelbook for the past year or so.

I do like the look and feel of the hardware: nice screen, decent keyboard and touch pad, and a thin metal body which feels really solid. The silicone palm rests start to yellow a bit, but really increase comfort. Overall, I'm happy with the hardware.

The software is an interesting concept, and actually the reason I bought it. I like the idea of a minimal, verified Linux that only runs Chrome, and (WIP) Linux containers for everything else.

I've had many issues that disrupted my work, and required switching to different release channels. Obviously this is on me for choosing to use the "Beta" container support feature, but I am still annoyed by it often because somehow bugs make their way through all those channels: Canary -> Dev -> Beta -> and even down to Stable. Several times I was forced to move to a higher channel to escape a serious / disruptive issue, only to encounter different issues. And then moving back down again requires a "powerwash", wiping all your data. So I feel like I'm just being chased around by issues that should have been resolved in a higher channel.

As a result, there tends to be nothing on this machine that isn't in the cloud somewhere. I suppose that's a good thing.

Trust is another issue, entirely. I'm looking for something else. I may install an alt OS like Gallium.
As an attack helicopter lack of hellfire missiles true effects my mood.
I’ve never liked the iPhone 6-style curved edges. Fortunately the rumor mill suggests next year’s models will adopt a style similar to the 4/5/SE series, like the current iPads Pro.
I feel like if we wouldn't obsess over aesthetics, the gadget market would be a better place. Something similar goes for software too, in my opinion.

However, I'm slowly learning that wishful thinking and complaining detracts from the reality of things, like current needs that people have, and the subtle trends that lead to this phenomenon: things that you can easily render yourself blind to if you go around rejecting what you don't like.

That said, I do feel confused and at odds with the state of things in this time and place. I can't say that I have a firm understanding of the average consumer who is targeted by these products. I'd like to feel more connected with the different segments of the market. I suspect that a lot of people feel this way, but we may not be the most vocal of groups.
You might have had some exotic edge cases then because I’ve never run into this situation.

MacOS is unix-y enough to compile your own binaries like a John Siracusa does.

And if you’re a dev the Mac is still a much better platform for getting paid than any other platform (until ElementaryOS takes off...).

I use a number of really cool apps to do things I would get likely for free on Linux like magnet for window management (though that’s gotten a lot better in Catalina).

And... even though the current laptops have terrible keyboards my 2013 MacBook Pro is a bit rough around the edges it’s solid and fast and in my experience none of my pc laptops ever made it that far.

Side note: is there a Linux distribution or desktop environment that does what the Mac does with the scaling. Native res is 1440p but renders at half that to effectively give a 2x sharpen on image quality?
They don't need to have test pilots "sit around". They fly planes. Like a test pilot does.

You can apply to be one here:
https://www.avjobs.com/careers/index.asp?Job_Title=FAA+Fligh...