skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That turns out not to be true.

The newer low-end models have various changes from the previous high-end models, including case changes, but also other hardware. The original low-end iPhone SE had the plastic case with the hardware of the 5-something - but a smaller display. The iPad mini had the guts of an iPad 2, except it was a smaller device, requiring a new motherboard and display, and it had a better camera, too.

Similarly, the 2017 iPad was closest to the iPad Air 2, just a bit thicker with more battery, but it also had a new CPU and brighter display.

That pattern of component upgrades and size changes continues, and as the GP mentioned, Pencil 2 support (magnets and charging) hasn't trickled down to any non-pro devices yet, in spite of new releases to those non-pro devices.
Licensing and economic aspects aside, I think it would do more harm than good from security perspective. Malicious actors will start finding and exploiting 0-days at much faster pace than benevolent actors can (a) find them, (b) patch and (c) get patches applied to the userbase.
No, it'd be more like 3.4 million people protesting stuff. And yes, if 3.4 million people globally cared about something while the other 7.4966 billion didn't … I wouldn't expect to see much motion on it.

As a point of comparison, there are roughly 3.4 million Venezuelan refugees, 3.4 million worldwide deaths from waterborne illnesses, 3.4 million people in the U.S. along with epilepsy, 3.4 million people on food stamps in the U.S., 3.4 million people in the U.S. with a bachelor's degree in psychology …
Users do the flagging
The "moderation" part of journals, the editorship and peer review, is already performed virtually entirely by volunteers.
I'm almost certain that it would drift into the same landmines of uncertain copyright and derelict ownership that plagues attempts to revive old abandonware games.
Yes, the exponential decrease is sufficient, but not necessary.

Of course, you are putting an exponential decrease into the present value calculation.

To give a truly non-exponential example: summing up 1/n^2 also only gives you a finite value.
Unfortunately, maintaining it requires somebody who is familiar with ksh or bash, and they are tools with Byzantine syntax by modern aesthetics. They're also more firepower than needed for the problem domain of building and maintaining deployments---they have features one doesn't need and require library support for key features in the deployment problem domain.

You can code a deployment solution in c++ also, but it's not recommended.
But Adobe apps run on Windows with AMD, which means they custom build/compile their apps for each OS ( which is perfectly normal ) and since Apple only deals with Intel CPU's it's understandable.

Maybe it would be better to check for CPU capabilities at runtime and have a more portable app, but what do I know, obviously Adobe PMs will not pay the cost just so some mutts can run hackintosh.
If its a PR trick, its one that makes the FSF look stupid to anyone in the know, and a zealot to the rest of humanity. It's not a good call.
True, but this is balanced by the fact many audits miss parts, and at least being opensource means it's quite likely to become the target of automated fuzzers and vulnerability scanning tools.
Same here :D
I use Nextcloud[1], a self-hosted, platform-agnostic file sharing / personal cloud app. It's FOSS and is super easy to set up through Docker.

Whatever file I put onto it is available on iOS, Android, a browser and WebDAV. It also supports camera upload.

Germany recently switched to Nextcloud[2] to share data between agencies and as a privacy-respecting alternative to G Suite / MS.

When I upload a .doc to the platform my iPhone can open it within the app. Same for PDFs.

[1] https://nextcloud.com

[2] https://nextcloud.com/blog/german-federal-administration-rel...
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The "Address Book" vs. "Contacts" one is a good example. The one that hits some of the non-techies I know is "Drive". More than a handful of people I know still confuse it with Maps. They are going to drive to the next town over, and want directions, so obviously they look for Google Drive.

I'd guess 99% of the population associates the word "Drive" with cars and driving, and 1% associates it with "internal storage" yet what did we geeks decide?
Can’t believe it’s been 10 years. The iPad launched my app development career. My girlfriend at the time (now my wife) bought the first generation iPad for me so that I could finish developing an app. I felt that I had missed the wave with iPhone apps, and the iPad was a new opportunity. The result was Polychord.

From day 1, the iPad was a great format for music making. But it’s fun to look back and remember that back then it didn’t have MIDI, and Audiobus would be some time to follow.
I completely agree with this article. The iPad hardware is absolutely wonderful, it's light, gorgeous and powerful. I got the latest iPad pro to watch Netflix in bed and it fills that purpose completely.

However, the OS running on the machine is bad. Very bad. The multitasking is horrifying. The Files app is unusable (especially if you want to access your files from an FTP server). You have to use your finger to select a textbox on the screen before you can use your physical keyboard. Copy/Paste between apps is a nightmare (mostly because of the really poor multitasking). Sharing your screen via Airplay is useless except for demoes (doesn't match the target monitor resolution, nor transform the iPad into a giant touchpad). It doesn't support multiple icloud/gmail accounts (if you want to share it with your SO). I can use a terminal and SSH to my raspberry pi, but I can't use git, bash, node, python, go or rust on it...

Just let met install MacOs instead, it can't be worse.

PS: even having a console-only ubuntu VM would make me happy at this point.
For me the biggest gap between the iPad and a general purpose computer is the lack of a sensible, simple filesystem abstraction, and the pile of janky and inconsistent UI bullshit they apparently think can replace it. My iPad Pro is great for drawing and writing and browsing the web and watching video content, which are the things I bought it for, but when I use it I don't feel in control of my data.

It's really sad, because I love it as a computing device and the missing pieces are totally arbitrary. It could offer the same user experience it offers now while still giving me the tools I need to have it replace my laptops and desktops.

I bought my mom an iPad in 2012 and she is still (!) using it. She loves it. But she has an iMac too, which as far as I can tell she mostly uses to—you guessed it—manage files. Or, at least, that's the only part of her workflow that can't be hosted on the iPad. 8 years later, that's still the case.
Take a look at what's happening with the next version of XFCE.
Mostly agreed.

IPO is kind of a sale too. (Though it's relatively easy for founders to keep control in an IPO, given the market's acceptance of weird share voting arrangements.)
> In separate civil settlements, Practice Fusion has agreed to pay approximately $118.6 million to the federal government and states to resolve allegations that it accepted kickbacks from the opioid company and other pharmaceutical companies and also caused its users to submit false claims for federal incentive payments by misrepresenting the capabilities of its EHR software.

> Of that $118.6 million, $113.4 million will be paid to the federal government and up to $5.2 million to states that opt to participate in separate state agreements.

So, nothing was taken from the personal bank accounts of the people who made these decisions, and nobody went to jail. That is to say, nothing was done about this.

The takeaway here is that you can murder people for money and as long as you do it behind the paperwork of a large corporation, you can get away with it.

The only people who pay the consequences are shareholders. Sure this incentivizes shareholders to try not to invest in sociopathic execs, but I'm not sure how possible that even is.
The Zune was launched in 2006 and discontinued in 2012. Why did that product last 6 years?

I’m not saying Office for iPad is pointless (I use it regularly, so quite the opposite!), but I do think it’s foolish to think an organisation the size of Microsoft’s doesn’t necessarily do things for obvious reasons. Individual incentives do not always lend themselves to data driven objectives.
With no MMU or hardware supervisor mode, this would be more of a simple task executor than an OS in any reasonably-modern sense. Still impressive though.
During the ETH/ETC fork replay attacks were terrible until people figured out how to make a contract that was guaranteed to act differently in the two chains; you would send your ETH to that address, providing two output addresses, and your ETH would go to one and your ETC would go to the other.

Before that was commonplace there were numerous problems of transactions being replayed causing all sorts of problems.

If someone wanted to fork post-PoS ETH, chances are they would have to do so very deliberately, with code on the new fork deliberately designed to prevent replay attacks, as was done in the BTC/BCH fork.
my wm setup has:

- keyboard shortcut for (horiz|vert|global)-maximizing

- keyboard shortcut for hide app, miniwindow window

- window shading (huge feature)

- middle-click select and alt-move of multiple windows at once
(so I can 'click click click 3 windows, alt click and move all 3)

- plus emulate appicon based on window title

this makes grouping windows and managing them much easier than anything else i've found that is still mouse driven
The iPad (and tablets in general) have really changed the game when it comes to flying. So many private pilots use e-charts nowadays: I'd love to see the sales figures on paper charts over the last decade.

Even commercial crews (CPL, ATPL) are using them, and no longer have to lug around booklets.

For 'redundancy' people often don't use paper, but have multiple electronic devices as well.
Science for sale within the “product defense industry”
What is L1?
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Well, they do on all the devices we've tested the app on. What device/browser are you using?
Alternatively, we could start more worker coops.
yup, also this:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mayor-of-wuhan-epicenter-o...

oh, and this, a BSL-4 lab:
https://www.nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature.2017.2148...
Americans to Inherit $764B This Year, Mostly Tax-Free
Somewhat. It is also that providing material support and services to these companies, making things cheaper and more efficient for them to operate, prolongs the time these companies are viable and thus prolongs the harms they're causing. That kind of fits under the "association with wrongness" but it's more than just association.
It’s an $11 Billion dollar hardware business that’s double the size of the Mac.

IMHO, the biggest innovation is that an enterprise can purchase one of these interest free for ~$20 / month (no interest) and get a brand new one in 3 years through Apple’s enterprise sales.

Hardware sold as a service. $11B.

I think the focus on multitasking misses the real innovation.
Completely unusable on iPhone.
Decades of legacy LOB apps that only work on Windows. Also, ye gods, the number of intranet "web apps" that still require IE 8 and ActiveX controls.
Yeah tablet serves generally different market, but it can also meets needs of existing laptop users who just want more portable media consumption device, whether around bedroom, bathroom, or on a plane on business trip where you're likely to have locked-down work-issued PC.
Whereas I'm still astonished when I try and couch my opinions on the internet in non-absolutist terms and they're invariably taken as blunt, literal weapons.

I even stated in my first response here that "London doesn't sit still" and that it's "a bit 'too much, too quick'" that concerns me. I wonder if we forgot certain lessons from 60s architectural adventures.

As for an answer to your question - Bagleys and The Cross spring to mind.
It's a good tool for ML data labeling integrated with machine learning pipeline tool. It's open source Apache-2 license so it should not pose risk.

We were looking for replacement of openrefine, which seems to be abandoned by Google after acquisition. This might fill the gap and it's much better as it's in Python and provides SDK to be used within system.
Fair enough, but they're much harder to fake than a pitch deck. Require co-ordination between multiple businesses. Fake Income Tax returns, etc.

I've seen pitch decks where companies claim they have 100s of customers like Amazon, etc. Whereas their revenues on P&L are like ~$20,000 per year.
That doesn't really answer my question... like what informs that conjecture? There seems to be no basis for it.
Good PR how? Most of the world wouldn’t care either way.
I guess, but I think it's more that my example fails to illustrate the point well.

Informative comments cannot always be "factored out" like this. Do you at least agree that a ticket or bug #, or a link to an issue in an issue tracker, would be appropriate?
I agree with some of the sibling comments -- it's reasonably in-depth with some practical examples.

However, this sort of "content marketing by tweaking submission titles to the same blog repeatedly" posting behaviour would be flagged to oblivion if done by a non-YCombinator funded company...
Um, no. Curl-to-shell is bad.

Check this out:
https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
Or, why can't they just open source the pieces that they do own? When you open source something, it's nice if it compiles right away but not strictly required.

There are probably lots of other reasons that MS won't open source an older version of their flagship product, but this "OMG licensed 3rd party code" excuse is overplayed (by lots of other companies, too) and needs to die.
"do you assume that NGO would pay even less?"

Yeah I do actually, often people pay NGOs to be able to work under an NGO.
Show HN: Sort Spotify playlists by various features e.g., release date, tempo
I recently bought 3 ipad (and two e-ink one) as a replacement of book and reference. The ipad is great as it can be used and sync ... it works great with my MacBook Pro.

It is a good part of the ecosystem.
Good point on the last one; I think we have to 'educate' researchers on the fact that they can also write their own libraries and frameworks, and they should. Even basic data manipulation utilities can be made into Python modules and distributed at ease. If something is tedious, there definitely is a way to make it less so.
honestly impressive, but yeah not very useful.
I think you’re being downvoted because you’re downplaying what they are potentially risking. They could be putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their stock plans at risk. They could be risking getting blackballed. Who knows?
It's become a platform for music production. A lot of music apps like beatmaker3 only exist on the iPad. It's replaced the computer for me as my daw system for music production.
Bors doesn't force you to rebase. Forcing the rebase is super annoying in projects with more than a few developers (I've worked on one that did).

What bors does is essentially the same thing, but automated: after all the tests have run on your MR branch, and people have approved your changes, bors does a speculative merge into master, and runs the tests on that merge commit.

If the tests pass, bors declares that very same commit to be the new master.

The effect is the same as the Gitlab option you mention, but the busy work is done by the bot.
Does that make sense from a behavioral-economic perspective? What is the scammer’s incentive to filter certain people out? Wouldn’t it be better to move more people down the “funnel” and filter potential troublemakers as they appear?
I feel like constraints are where developers get to shine. On a system with (relative) unlimited resources, many developers seem to be able to complete the same tasks. But when there is scale involved or some constraint (like 4 mb of storage) you get to find out who is willing to learn what they need to learn to get the job done.
> Cloud computing has pretty much eliminated the need/preference for OS X.

Could you expand on this bit? What need does cloud computing fulfil that used to be provided by OS X?
If only there was one standard package manager... dealing with brew/apt/[yum|dnf] and handling multiple yearly vendor releases (Ubuntu and Fedora) gets to be annoying.
2000 was pretty good. NT with a nicer interface. I was on that far longer than is reasonable.
Also gives the same opportunity to your AV software if you happen to have one.
Making the fictional company a cryptocurrency startup is lazy writing in my opinion, they are too easy to criticize. This article would be more compelling if it were analyzing a more “stealth” scam in a different market sector.
How does the withdrawal look like?

I was quoting the research quoted by Gwern here.
> It's a city, not a museum.

Cities like Budapest, Prague, Vienna have quite strict regulations when it comes to buildings. Eg. Budapest still doesn't have anything taller, than 30 tiers.

Respecting and maintaining a certain look doesn't mean it'll become a museum, rather that it has a personality and everyone agreed to keep that personality.

London, at this point, is the other end of this spectrum: no personality, no regulations on look/height/etc based on values. (Sometimes I wonder about regulations at all, knowing the case of the melted Jaguar with the Walkie Talkie: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-23930675 )
The file system if you use it is a god sent. You can share files, organised files ... not as good as lap top one but it is good enough especially if you have an macbook to arrange and tag files.
iPadOS 13 supports downloading in the background.
Not a Show HN trend I'm liking, seems lazy.
If this whistleblower [0] is to be believed, then the Chinese may be downplaying this

[0] - https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR/status/1221100970521829377
The aspect ratio of the iPad is not great for video which is mostly a widescreen format. I really don’t like losing so much screen real estate. Sometimes I prefer my iPhone XS Max to watch a video on than my iPad Air.
I specifically bought a kindle Fire 10” tablet to watch videos. Everything else on the iPad is superior to the kindle
> That certainly makes the mechanics complicated, an array of such pins is not exactly off the shelf today either, I think?

A solenoid is just a pin with an electro magnet wire wrapped around, put a spring on the pin to pull it back into the electro magnet and when you turn the magnet on it should vibrate.

A 100x100 grid of solenoids should cost under $100 they are fairly cheap, you might even be able to use a grid of wires and pins so they are addressable.
The better question, is there any reason for them to leave Windows?
One of these days we will annex Maine and Vermont. It's a soft, slow takeover—but it is inevitable. Did I say that out loud?
An unfortunate decision.
Laughing at the petition? That is already way better than calling it a cancer.
Also give the woman in Kazakhstan behind it the peace Nobel price.
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One big difference with the newer phones is low light performance. I have a bunch of "real" cameras but I so often don't have them with me if I haven't set out with the explicit intention to take pictures.

>I’m a hopeless photographer

Like anything else you can learn. You may not transform yourself into a great photographer but learning some simple rules and practicing a bit will take you a long way. Smartphones have limitations relative to interchangeable lens cameras. But there's a lot you can do with them.
Many older laptop batteries are simply a set of 18650 batteries wired together. I've "fixed" about 30-40 batteries. (1) Carefully take the battery pack apart, (2) Visually inspect the cells for any that are bulging or just, otherwise, look wrong -- take these to the electronic recycler, (3) charge each cell in an 18650 charger (mine is a Micro USB unit that charges very slowly), (4) test in a multi-meter, toss any that are bad, (5) put them in a low-drain device for a few hours[0] and throw out any that under-perform.

In a typical "failed battery" there's rarely more than one dead cell in my experience. And I've had packs with as many as 9 cells.

From there, it's a matter of putting it all back together. There's soldering involved, and you have to be extremely careful -- hit the battery with the temp required to melt the solder for too long and you have a seriously dangerous situation on your hands. I use two 3D printed clips and alligator clamps to hold the wire, wand and battery at distance from one another, battery on the bottom, wand on the top, wire in-between, and a 120mm fan, requiring me to only hold the cable to the wand and the length of solder.

Can't caution enough that it's exceedingly dangerous soldering this kind of battery. I originally built the rig because I wanted to improve the quality of my soldering -- I'm pretty terrible with an iron, but I made several changes after I had a small number of batteries start failing after repair and a few searches led me to believe I may have damaged them[1] with my poor soldering skills. My rig involves two 3D printed clips, one to hold the iron exactly where I want it, and one to secure the battery. The cable to the iron has a length of wax lace on it to let me pull it back up/remove the iron from the rig with a yank at a distance.

I use an alligator clip to hold the wiring in place and a long length of solder so that I can stand an arms length away. The iron "drops" in -- it's mounted on top, battery on bottom, wire in-between -- so I can heat it up an inch or so from the battery, I place tip of the length of solder in its spot and "tap" the wire of the iron to drop it into place. When I see it melt the tip of the length of solder and the small amount that's on the wire, I pull up on the string to move the iron away, wait a few seconds so the 120mm fan can cool things a little, and put a new battery in.

Goggles, gloves and a nearby fire extinguisher of the right kind are a really good idea. I also do the work in a large, mostly empty, shed with doors that, when opened, eliminate nearly an entire wall and work directly on the cement floor.

A lot of devices use 18650s and not all 18650s are the same. The one powering your drill might be able to handle higher drain than the one that came out of your laptop; don't mix those up. I was given a cardboard box full of dead laptop battery packs from the same model, so I was taking cells from a similar source each time.

[0] I use an adapter that lets me power a Raspberry Pi via an 18650.

[1] And likely made them into a fire hazard on their own.
> China has stated that they think it can be contagious before symptoms. The US has stated as of yesterday (Jan 27) that there is no evidence for that yet.

IIRC, the US hasn't seen the evidence for that yet, but they're also complaining that China's not sharing data with them. The CDC is getting its info from China from press briefings like everyone else.
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My reaction is that curl is just an aggravating factor.

The real problem is shell, or really any custom scripts in any language. Acquiring or building software should happen via well-understood reusable tools. Any time building executes bespoke code, you're reducing the maintainability of a system.

Distro package managers are one good solution, but a properly developed language package manager would also ideally not rely on custom scripts.

A contributing factor to the event-stream issue was that it was considered acceptable to distribute code minimized by _who_knows_what, rather than by any reproducible process.
I heard your opinion and I strongly disagree with it, but I'm not going to be drawn into that debate right now.