skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can disagree with Apple's policies, or the principles and reasoning of others. And I'm sure some of those people are these mythical, awful virtue-signalling hypocrites that people seem to hate so much. But what makes this virtue signalling/hypocritical rather than a values-based decision?

Maybe you think Clearview is fine to offer the service, but there are people who disagree based on moral, ethical and practical arguments - and this action seems in line with Apple's stated privacy concerns and prior enforcement of their enterprise distribution agreement.
"Managed ecosystem" is just a euphemism for restricting freedom.

> They'll happily sell you a different computer with more freedom.

Not one that fulfills the same purpose. Macs hardly fill the same niche as iPhones. If Apple sold both restricted and free iPhones at the same price, no one would object. Then customers would have a choice rather than Apple deciding what's best.
That is also my experience.

Outside games, most modern Windows applications, specially in the areas you mention, I have also seen WPF/Qt, with plain old Win32 just as glue for underlying OS APIs.

There are still some odd ones that keep doing MFC, or enjoy a mix of Delphi/C++ Builder.

The only old style C Win32 applications I have seen in the wild during the last decade tend to be surviving applications from the 90's, done by companies not so much into Windows C++ frameworks.
You don't even need C++. Even with Python, Node or PHP, a basic MySQL and Redis installation on a simple Debian server with a little tweaking, you can serve huge amounts of dynamic traffic with a $50 dedicated server from Hetzner.

It'll certainly take less time to manage than Kubernetes, that's fore sure.
Putting money into buying weapons puts money in the elite arms company owners pockets, and the politician lapdogs pockets by extension.

If you can work out how supporting food stamps can make those same people filthy rich, and maintain their hegemony, then I'm sure they'll go for it.
Show HN: Fjump – navigate the web faster utilizing Chrome's tab-to-search
Perhaps Founder Effect is what you are after?
Imagine if browsers had evolved with Postscript instead of JavaScript.

Adobe would have a stranglehold on the market instead of Google.
Each time. Annoying, but bearable for something I use once a day...
The Raspbian images by design support all versions of the Pi, back to the original. The developers have stated they don't have the resources to maintain separate 32- and 64-bit userland images, but provide the config.txt option to at least enable the 64-bit kernel.

If you want a 64-bit userland, there are other options besides Raspbian. You can also try an in-place arch change from Raspbian to aarch64, but I imagine that would break some things, since the Raspbian-specific package repository only has packages for the armhf arch.
Well, I have some questions now:

- Is it necessary that the document should take the whole screen?

- Is it possible to render a PostScript document in different sizes and resolutions?

- Do any people today read PDFs on their screens? If some do, are all their screens the same size as a sheet of paper?

Anyway, that was not the spirit of my comment. I meant, doing design in HTML, CSS, SVG and then working out again, all from the beginning, how to convert the document to a printable version of professional quality, is more work than writing PostScript for both, even if some configuration necessarily differs between screen and print.
This is a simple tool I build over a weekend and I use it regularly since. I hope it gets more attention now (this is the second time I'm posting it here).
The fact that ChromeOS had to gain Android support speaks loudly about what might win in the end.

If Fuchsia ever gets released, I bet ART will replace Flutter.

It is already being ported to run on Fuchsia anyway.
The growth factor [0] is quite noisy around the critical 1.0.

The number of active cases has gone down from 60k at Feb 17 to 40k today.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/...
I live in London. The main reason for this is that government generally doesn't allow buildings higher than 3 stories. Everyone wants to live in central London but there just ain't enough flats. This situation is somewhat similar to the zoning thing in the US. Supply is lower than demand, so prices go up, who would have guessed?
It's way thinner and full of holes. It's not so much about the skin on your cheeks, but your mouth, eyes, nose membranes. And even if you just dirty your cheek, the contamination might spread elsewhere with further touching. Think about this: How do you take drugs? Eye dropplets, oral blotters, snorting.
I would think that the expected behavior is "if you don't know what this is, close the app manually." But yeah, it's only a mitigation.
I don't know what the infatuation with markdown is beyond web publishing. Wysiwyg documents have been a solved problem for decades. Use what works on your platform.

Markdown is fine until you realize you would like to have figures, images and tables.

I don't want to spend my time over trite details of a text based markup when I could spend it actually productively.

At that point it's way over easier to use a text processing document of choice (word or open office). I say this as a enthusiast of text based markups over decades from Latex to Markdown.
Has there been anything published about corona virus cases per ethnicity? Or many confirmed cases of people of non Asian ethnicity getting it?
The hard work is done by Skia, implemented in C++.

ART is able to do several nice optimizations, including vector instructions, and uses a mix of JIT/AOT with PGO.

Kotlin is performance enough, hence Jetpack Composer.
The data indicates that most cases are in fact mild to moderate. Please don't spread misinformation. There's enough people stirring up a panic already.
I get an allergic reaction to any rationale that includes the tired phrase "easier to reason about". That's on my bingo card right next to "promote synergy"...

Now, I'm not inherently against having small modules for small tasks, but I'd much prefer if those are used like sprinkles on a more solid foundation. So a small Perl module on CPAN? Sure. Your whole web app consisting of small modules, turtles all the way down? No, sir, no.

It also means that you've got plenty of build systems, it's incredibly hard to change the output of all your dependencies to not-ES5, it's way more frequent that one developer introduces new dependencies, possibly duplicates etc.

Sadly there's no decent way out. JS is getting a new syntactic feature every second Monday, but no big std lib movement is out there that I'm aware of. Sure, you probably wouldn't want to fit the Go/Python/Java core lib into a browser, but for the backend it would be quite nice, and would make tooling for the frontend less fragile. (And to be honest, even frontends are approaching mid-tier desktop UI complexity; otherwise we could've and should've stayed with jquery)

I don't need to be able to reason about single modules independent from each other often. I need to trust the whole system enough to not lose sleep over it.
PostScript does take a lot from Lisp, too. And (kind of) Smalltalk. 'DonHopkins has posted a lot about it on here; I really love hearing him talk about it:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Updates Tested (Thermal Performance and Optimization)
According to David Sinclair, there are some things that are likely to work:

- Lots of exercise

- Diet changes

- Intermittent fasting

Wikipedia about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Andrew_Sinclair

His book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_-_and_Why...

Podcast about this (you can skip the first 8 or so minutes of ads): https://pca.st/rpnecpmb
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I was diagnosed Celiac in 2008.

I recently moved to Boulder, CO and wow is life easier here: Everyone knows about and understands Celiac Disease. There are hundreds of restaurants with options in the greater Denver area, many of them 100% Gluten Free. I basically use this app many times a day: https://www.findmeglutenfree.com/

I just went to the 4 year celebration this weekend of my favorite Brewery: http://www.holidailybrewing.com/ - which was the nation’s first 100% Gluten Free Brewery. Had two different IPAs there today, and they had three gluten free food trucks in the parking lot today.

This place is like a celiac oasis! Love it here! Also plenty of grocery options, locally made breads and pastries. Though the ‘cake’ (literally) goes to http://www.mariposabaking.com in Oakland for best gluten free pastries - Been visiting them for over a decade. Was just there this week. Amazing!

I’m recently divorced, and sometimes it was a struggle eating at home with my ex-wife who was not gluten free.

I’ve traveled a lot to countries where they didn’t even understand what an allergy was (Ecuador was the worst).

These cards are a life-saver when traveling to countries where the language is not your native tongue: https://www.celiactravel.com/cards

CVS Pharmacy has “Gluten-Aid” pills which use a natural enzyme to break down gluten - I always carry these pills with me, and if I'm in a questionable food situation, maybe cross-contamination concern... I take the pill. Helps get through questionable days and allows for more travel.

Until you gain a comfort level of how to know whether to trust food/restaurants, you may wish to look into a gadget: https://blog.nimasensor.com/ which tests for gluten in food.
That’s the big age old irony of this orange site. Some say Musk is cool and others say ’Hotz was cooler’ but both say outlandish claims and yet still create something real which is better than vapourware. However, for drive assistance software today? Tesla and Commai are both still considered as unsafe.

Realistically, the industry is still immature and now at the assisted-driving level and unfortunately some users still conflate that with ‘self-driving’ due to the industry’s own hype of achieving level 4 self-driving capabilities. Tesla and Comma.ai directly tell the user to keep their eyes on the road, whereas the others do not, yet Tesla drivers keep getting killed. The same is possible for Comma.ai and I would consider both software as unsafe for now, but those who don’t instruct the user to keep their eyes on the wheel as very unsafe.

But they are at least aware of this. Some users however...
I can print the same PS file to different printers (inkjet, laser, dot matrix) and (subject to resolution constraints) obtain similar documents from each device.
Sorry, but nobody has ever shown this safety aspect to be anywhere close to true. But everyone is taking it as a gospel. Musk said it, so it has to be true, right? Never mind that there are no independent data to support it available, except what came from Tesla (who has an obvious vested interest to show that their systems are safe).

It also ignores that there are pretty much no self-driving cars on the market with the exception of some buses running slowly on pre-set lines. Cars like Tesla are not self-driving, their systems are level 2, maybe 3 at best (i.e. human always in the loop, ready to take over immediately). Then there is Waymo who is attempting for level 4, but those are still research prototypes and not commercially sold vehicles. Same with Uber. And both still have tons of issues.

So based on what are we concluding that this is going to be safer, exactly?

Given how poorly regulated the automotive electronics industry is, how opaque all those boxes are and how fierce resistance are the manufacturers putting up to even attempts to have these things opened up for inspection and certification (similar to airline industry), this is a completely ridiculous stance to take.

Especially in the light of recent scandals like Toyota acceleration problems, Tesla's autopilot crashes, Dieselgate, cars that can be hacked and disabled through their infotainment systems (Jeep ...) etc. - all of these were essentially software and electronics issues, often in much simpler systems than safety critical ones. Companies are unable to get even something like a car radio right and you want to trust them that their car won't kill you because of a memory overflow somewhere or camera misreading a stop sign? Only because a manufacturer makes such claim, with little to no verifiable evidence?

Is this the manufacturing culture that is supposed to solve the safety problems on the road? Good luck with that. That is wishful thinking while ignoring both the evidence and past industrial experience.

Even that airline industry which is much more heavily regulated, inspected and supervised than anything automotive has large problems - just look at the 737 MAX debacle.
Self driving shuttles / taxis could work well with fast rail for that sort of journey. Not sure the exact situation in the bay area.
> If you think Phillipines or Indonesia worked, I think you're wrong. Both have systemic corruption, massive structural issues and lingering left wing and Islamic rebellion.

Both of those countries would have had systemic corruption and massive structural issues either way, just as they had before. U.S. intervention doesn't really figure into it. Anyhow, the goal was to stop the spread of communism, not lift people out of poverty.

The genocide of "communists" (i.e. Chinese and other outgroups) in Indonesia was absolutely abhorrent and a gross moral failure on the part of the U.S. But from the perspective of American geopolitical interests intervention wasn't a failure. It almost certainly wasn't even necessary, either, but that's beside the point.

Non-intervention has its own problems, too, as exemplified by Cambodia, Rwanda, and Syria[1]. Intervention vs non-intervention is a false dichotomy. To reiterate, context matters.

[1] I've said before on HN that I think Obama's refusal to directly intervene in Syria showed exceptional leadership, notwithstanding his about-face; indeed, because of his about-face. But that doesn't absolve the U.S. of its sins for having created the conflagration in the Middle East that resulted in the Syrian conflict. What Obama finally accepted, but everybody else refused to admit (including his own advisors), was that the U.S. was politically incapable of making the necessary commitments. Had the U.S. been capable--i.e. if the context were different--then greater intervention would have been the correct thing. What makes his decision so profound to me was that he accepted that reality at a moment when denial was easiest--when everybody felt it was the morally righteous thing to do (and arguably was), everybody wanted it, and when after it inevitably led to more bloodshed nobody would have ever blamed him, neither contemporaneously nor in the future.
PLSE Seminar Series David Tarditi “An Overview of the Checked C Project” (2016)
Coronavirus pandemic threatens to knock $1T off global economy
> if the Markdown file is not near the code in question, it's a 100% guarantee you've wasted time writing it because nobody is going to read it.

This ignores hyperlinks. Why not use in-code comments for explaining nuts-and-bolts matters (for example, to explain strange-looking platform-sensitive code using #ifdef), and use links to wiki pages for descriptions of high-level design decisions?
# Motivation

The idea behind it is quite simple.

Chrome offers a quick way to search websites, for example, by typing "you" and hitting Tab Chrome offers to search YouTube (assuming you've visited YouTube before).

fjump.to utilizes this behavior and offers a quick way to navigate to web pages.

# Usage

Go to fjump.to, create a command by:

a. choosing a trigger, "jira" for example

b. assigning a URL for that trigger, https://my-company-jira.atlassian.net/jira/software/projects...

Now, you can type fj, hit Tab, type jira and Enter.

fjump's index.html will load, it will execute a short script that looks for the command trigger within your local storage, if it finds one it will redirect you to that command's URL, otherwise, it will offer you to fuzzy search other, similar commands you've defined.

Hope you find it useful.
Why governments around the world do not invest in pandemic preventions?

Wouldn't it be better to invest let's say 100 billion rather than losing a trillions?
On the Samsung Galaxy you just install Samsung Internet and from within it you can add AdBlock Plus (and most of the other adblockers). They are delivered through Samsung's apk store.

It saved the mobile surfing experience for me (was using chrome on the mobile before)..
Just a heads up, the number of reported cases is not the actual number of cases, not even close. Reported cases only come after positive testing, and testing is extremely selective and limited by healthcare capacity.

A friend who works in a hospital said that they can only request a test if the patient is bad enough to need intensive care. And even then the request may be denied.

The case count doesn't mean anything anymore. The world's healthcare systems don't have the capacity to track the spread.
How many Windows applications have been created in the last five years at all?
He never identified as a liberal, even in later years. He consistently called himself conservative. He accused the Republican Party of becoming liberal.
Evidence that doing something great doesn’t need to be through startup-capital-based systems. One can build and study something that can be of great importance to humanity without its core values being tainted by money.
Two Israeli WordPress Tweaking Startups Got Funded
Ghostcat (CVE-2020-1938)
Well it's not changed that much, The Battle of Teutoburg Forest (9AD) was basically massive powerful army thinks it can win anywhere, guerrilla tactics (and maybe some luck) show that's not how war works.

History, repeating; make your own aphorism.
> If you don't box all your closures, functional programming in Rust gets tedious quite quickly.

Somewhat true, but argument position and return position impl Trait have made that slightly nicer.
Looks good and am glad that editing text works on mobile (so many of these struggle with predictive text, even Google CoLabs's text boxes gets stuck on that)

However when you go to add a hyperlink on mobile, it's not adding it where the cursor is, instead adding it at the start of the current line.

Am seeing this on latest Chrome on Android 10.
Programmer art ,doing everything on the UI thread, and not caring to read books like "Filthy Rich Client" usually are big contributors to that bad experience.

And there is hardly any difference between using something like Swing Material UI widgets or the typical Android app, other than programmer skills.
Being Smart
Someone taking a verbose format for writing text and adding feature and feature to it until it supports UI applications? Jesus, that's a horrific vision.

Hope something like that will never see the light of day.
I just found this article by Don about HyperNews and related stuff:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-g...
Parts of the Xen Hypervisor, Docker TPC/IP stack integration with the host OS, and the MirageOS are written in OCaml, it looks pretty much systems programming to me.

Likewise, there is an endless amount of compilers in research written in OCaml.

Last time I checked, anything related to compiler toolchains used to be considered systems programming.
> major shortcoming is that it’s not accessible enough for non-technical teams to maintain

At the risk of just mirroring my comment above:

Low-level nuts-and-bolts documentation can't be accessible to non-technical people, by nature. Documentation of high-level designs are another matter. Why not use a wiki for the documentation of high-level decision-decisions? A wiki can be accessible to non-technical staff, and it's trivial to link to a wiki page from a comment in source.

It also keeps the source tighter. It negatively impacts readability if the source is full of non-vital comments.
I live in Italy and here it's quite common so I usually don't have problems. There are gluten free restaurants, my friends understand what I mean when I talk about contamination. But I'm Bulgarian and there it's totally unknown, people even don't know what gluten is! Even doctors sometimes don't understand and people usually think I'm just making a strange diet. I usually try to explain but it's not easy because everybody thinks you are exaggerating and don't understand the damage of eating contaminated food. What I do there is try to cook for myself if possible, for example if my cousin invites me for dinner I go first so we can cook together so I can check everything. If someone offers me something I usuali ask something to drink (tea, coffee, coce) or a fruit . At the restaurant I usually take a salad or some meet explainig my problem (even if it's embarrassing sometimes). In Italy, Germany, Spain it's easy, here we have some apps so you can find gluten free bars and restaurants.
Good luck!
And remember, always bring some gluten free food in your bag when you go out :)
I kind of agree with Pythagoras there.
"Small and lightweight" is just a euphemism for can't tow for shit.

I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand how capitalism works. Apple isn't forcing anyone to buy an iPhone, other brands are available. And Apple isn't forced to make products which comply with your personal desires.
>What's good about cloud hosted POS you ask? Well they do update easily. So you are not stuck with the same system with 90s UIs.

How are constant UI changes a good thing?
Concurrent programming with effect handlers in multicore OCaml
It's not PostScript instead of JavaScript. It's PostScript instead of HTML, JavaScript and CSS. That's (IMHO) the more important point. One programming language to write and structure everything instead of a bastardized SGML plus a bastardized Java plus an ad-hoc config add-on.

I'd much rather have (a slightly saner) JS for everything than PostScript plus HTML plus CSS, if I would have to choose.
tfckyf
Well, most Portuguese students with university degree in Informatics happen to have been exposed to FP and LP during their 5 year degree (or 3 + 2 as they usually do it nowadays).

Given that most HR departments still value having a degree, that is still quite a bit of people, specially if one extrapolates to other countries that share similar attitude to universities and HR hiring practices.
Yes, you're right, I misremembered. (It came in with CPUs with the virtualization extension, so not A9.)
Ask HN: Most downvoted but 'right' comment on HN?
What is a prediction or comment on HN that was heavily downvoted, but subsequently proven to be right?
Higinio “w0rmer” Ochoa on hacker culture, hacktivism, arrest by FBI, + more
I'm a bit confused about the flat they're talking about. I thought that there needs to be 2 doors between the loo and the kitchen, and that you can't have a loo that opens into a kitchen.

Turns out that's probably wrong: http://www.extensionbuild.co.uk/can-door-open-directly-from-...
AFAK Intel used to have some kind of formal verification, either Haskell or OCaml based for their chips, but I am not having much luck with my Google-fu.
Actually the logic and windowing happens in each client in user space, which is why you can’t build alternative window managers, and Microsofts policy of compatibility ‘shims’ and hacks that allow chosen old software (and they choose a lot of software) to work on modern systems has nothing to do with it.
Wysiwyg document tools aren't applicable to comments in source.

You can't have images in source, but if you really need it you could add an ascii-art-style table. There are tools to generate these, such as https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/
I always announce to the wait staff that I have a Gluten Allergy.

This typically leads down one of two paths:
1) Them apologizing and explaining about shared fryers, cross-contamination, etc.
2) Them asking if it’s Celiac, understanding, and listing how they’ll accommodate me so I don’t get sick.

If those don’t happen then it may be a sign to abort and leave if they don’t know what to say, have to get others, don’t offer to talk to the kitchen staff, etc.