skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's beyond the pale that they require you to chat with a sales representative to cancel a subscription. To reiterate, the only reason a company would do this is because they know it will suppress the number of people successfully unsubscribing. The NYTs is using the same sort of strategy commercial gyms are infamous for, albeit in a less extreme form.

Contrast it with Netflix's model of unsubscription, which you can do at any time with a single click. They've even gone as far as automatically cancelling inactive accounts. Netflix is obviously a company with confidence in their own product, so they don't resort to any dark patterns in their unsubscription process like the NYTs does.
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> I want my machine to solve my problems and not get in my way when I am creating solutions.

That's literally why I switched to Linux in 2018, after a decade on OS X.
You should be able to have all three installed at the same time

Open up your device's settings, click on apps, and make sure Tasks.org is not there. If it is, tap on it, tap on the overflow menu, and select 'Uninstall for all users'

Then try downloading an APK from https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.tasks/ and side loading it

You can follow up with me at support@tasks.org if you would prefer
Are you a lawyer or legally trained? Honestly interested to know because you're expounding on this with some degree of forcefulness, but you also seem to have some unusual understandings of legal terms as I would understand them.

e.g.

- viewing or caching a web page doesn't require the grant of intellectual property or proprietary right - that would be me assigning you the copyright or allowing you to sell it or something;

- a printed document that uses a font is not a derivative work of the font because the typeface (vs. the code of the font itself) is not copyrightable;

- "all rights reserved" refers to all rights of intellectual property ownership under the copyright, which absolutely are retained when licensing as opposed to assigning.
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' Whois info
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You can easily see for yourself on the twitter thread that is linked in the article. There's also this tweet for context: https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1273824813270700038?s=20

They thought we weren't using the TTS permission, but we are.
Less effectively. GPT-2 and a Markov chain are both predictive models; GPT-2 just happens to be a much more complex (and, in most cases, more accurate) model for English text, so fewer bits are required on average to encode the delta between its predictions and the actual text.
Yes, and I said that intentional geoengineering may be worse than intentional. Especially when it is geoengineering beyond the scope of "make it seem like we don't exist"
`select distinct pickup_latitude, count(*) from trips` takes 241.37s.

But some of the more top level queries are quite fast.
Yes, they have spread the theme across all of their OSs but they are still distinct members of a family. It looks like they brought some of the best new features from iPad to the Mac and I see they are bringing sidebars from the Mac to iPad. Makes sense.
Debian also uses LTS-series kernels for their stable release - with their own patches on top. They don't actively backport features like RHEL does however.
Looking at the site source, it uses both React (Facebook, complete with copyright notice), Google Analytics, Google CDN for jQuery, Google Fonts, and Youtube iframe for some reason.

Perhaps these are ironic inclusions meant to highlight how hard it is to live without Facebook and Google.
As a consumer, I've never used a React Native app that I liked using. It's always janky and commpromises UX in ways that made me simply use the app less or had the effect of teaching me to "get in and out of the app as quickly as possible".
Oh yes it is. His blogroll is absolutely full of neoreactionaries, and the comments sections are a cesspit of racism and sexism (echoing many of his own views in more crude terms), even before you account for many articles he's written where he takes their argumentative points at face value.

We're talking about a guy who once put up cartoons of people making fun of nerds/gamers next to Nazi propaganda to show how they were the same. If that's where you're getting your "arguments" on workplace sexism and police violence, you're probably a reactionary.
That belief is directly hostile to critical thinking.

Critical thinking is the ability to critique - specifically, to explain what is wrong or bad about a particular system.
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Because the overall degradation. Sometimes I want 10% of 'everything', plus a new feature, plus less weight to carry around. That's practically been the only driver of my personal upgrades over the last 15 years.

And by degradation I don't mean the existing device degrades per se, but the degradation of productivity on the current device vs. new device.

At the same time, the way work is done has changed a lot for me and the people around me: heavy workloads are almost never done on a laptop anymore.
Homicide rate was 4 per 100k in the 50s, spiked up to 10 through the 60s and 70s, dipped a bit in the 80s, then dropped from 1991 to to now back to around 6.

The increase in crime in the 60s and 70s didn't correlate with more guns, the decrease in crime in the late 90's didn't correlate with fewer guns.

There is clearly something going on in the US that drives crime that is not guns. Culture, welfare state, war on drugs, inequality, segregation, failure of the family. Better cases to be made on any of those things than guns.
Seriously. Not being able to block ads with Safari makes an automatic no-go for me. Even if they make their own built-in ad blocker, you can bet they'll let companies pay to become "platinum sponsors". No thanks.
It’s too compute intensive
But police are hired and paid by the taxpayers, and the taxpayers also pay for the settlements against abuses. No one is hiring the other criminals or authoring laws to shield them from accountability.
Perhaps they got more positive feedback from people other than you?
You are free to hate and free not to use such a product.

The truth is that many developers have taken the high road, and done the right thing, and they have been unable to make a living out of their open source efforts.

I hate that the ecosystem is so weak the OP has to resort to this model, but I have nothing but sympathy for the OP.
I think it's equally plausible that the NYT believes that doxxing sources does serve their readers. Perhaps a significant portion of the NYT's paying subscribers are against anonymity in sources? Who knows.

Not saying this is a good thing, but I think assuming that this "policy" is there to get advertising dollars is weird. Why would advertisers care?
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
> why do people feel the need to buy a new laptop every three years?

Beats me. You will often see comments in these threads about people (like me) using nearly decade-old Macbook Pros to this day.

I stopped replacing laptops every 3 (or less) years after I stopped buying budget non-Apple laptops.
Have you actually gotten the static library and compile to memory mode to work?
> in a country where there really is not systemic racism in the police force

I think you might find it helpful to do a bit of reading on systemic racism in the UK

[1] https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/cjm/article/...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[3] https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-jus...

[4] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/europe/black-britain-systemic...
I don't think that's it. HN trains its users for that by means of culture voting interesting things - because such tangential comments and resulting discussions are often much more interesting than the submitted article.
Wow, that sounds identical to the DC Solar fraud that happened just a few years ago in the US, except with solar generators. Guess history repeats itself in this case:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/01/25/dc-solar-owners-plead...
One wonders if Twitter existed during WW2 if Franklin Roosevelt would have been censored for declaring war.
I think total killings are pretty accurately reporting.

There were about 1100 police killings in 2019. This includes people shot or beaten to death by officers on or off duty. [1]
About 10% of these people were unarmed. This statistic is the one which is most likely under-reported.
About 50 police are feloniously killed per year [2]

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
[2] https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-release...
Does network filtering not rely on JavaScript now?
I'm not contradicting myself; all I've said is that patents matter across ISA boundaries, but Apple has a lot of patents.

If another company were to try this without a warchest the size of Apple's, they'd be sued into oblivion.
If you don't trust numbers from the washington post and the FBI, I'm not sure how we can expect to have a productive conversation.

That isn't to say that coverups don't happen, and numbers aren't occasionally wrong or manipulated. But how far off do you think these numbers really are?

And do you expect these numbers are manipulated even in areas with black chiefs of police, attorneys general, and distict attorneys?
As I noted earlier, they're using Google Fonts and the Google CDN for jQuery. Additionally, they're including React, which is made available by Facebook.
I'll believe their new distribution method when I see it. How will they handicap it? How will they maintain their requisite absolute control? And we won't see it until sometime next year? Hmm. (Spoken as someone who was rejected from the Rift store.)
My table has made great use of https://shmeppy.com for remote-play maps. The maps it makes are much less sophisticated (just painting color on the squares and lines of a grid). What it gives you instead are player/monster tokens that everyone can see, measuring tools, and "laser pointers" to allow participants to draw attention to a region of the map while speaking.

EDIT: also an awesome fog of war feature; how could I forget?
On a somewhat related note, I always thought dietlibc was a pretty cool project (basically trying to get libc to be very tiny). It's been a pretty long time since I browsed the code but I remember it being quite elegant.

https://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
It used to be the case I would swap MacBook parts out more when laptops were simply clunkier maybe 10 years ago (added a SATA SSD back in 2010). But lately with 16 GB RAM being fine for most developers even, NVMe SSDs being standard, Macs still being lame for GPGPU tasks besides mining cryptocurrency, and a lot of compute intensive tasks simply put into the cloud ... I can’t really say I need to do many hardware updates on a Mac besides perhaps the battery anymore. What really helps me most now is battery life and better screens to reduce eye fatigue, and that’s basically what Apple has done fairly well compared to the PC laptop market.

I’m kind of curious to see how usage goes for AWS Graviton 2 instances in the future as Apple laptops transition and there’s less friction to deploy along ARM based tool chains and artifacts.
Double-Tap iPhone to use Alexa on iOS 14
Well, GGP said that accepting donations costs money. So perhaps selling licenses is more profitable?

Also, if you receive more than a few hundred dollars, perhaps the Finnish IRS will start noticing.
> The events of the last 4 years, make it clear to me that we are rapidly heading towards totalitarianism.

Question is, what totalitarianism do you think we're headed towards? Trump/MAGA totalitarianism or Left/Cancel culture totalitarianism?
What do you mean set up correctly? And how does 112K turn into 40K taxable?
You can have one chuckle for that.
I use Safari as my main browser now due to the password generation/sharing with my iPhone. It's a killer feature for me.
Scott has been harassed by cancellers for years. It's a well-documented history, which was a serious issue for him and led to banning culture war topics in SSC-affiliated reddit section. There are still people and AFAIK organized communities on Reddit that target him. There were calls to his employers to get him fired and to friends to get them socially shunned.

Now imagine how much more of this one would get if their real name (and, by extension, address, employer, family, etc.) is published by NYT and easily accessible to anyone with rudimentary typing skills. Cancel culture is not the reason for NYT doxxing, but it makes the doxxing orders of magnitude more dangerous. And NYT must know that.

Yes, there are also random crazies. But I don't think I've read any storied about random crazies getting people fired from their jobs. I've read the last one about cancel culture doing that today. And have been reading them almost daily for a while.

> The focus should be on the Times threatening to out him for no good reason, not his personal reasons for wanting to stay anonymous.

It can be both.
This would have been more moving five or six years ago. Now though, after years of petulant "deal with it" politics from racists on the left, cry me a river.
While there's a good amount of advertising that's truthful, I think it's safe to label all (or at least nearly all) advertising as emotional manipulation, and on those grounds I try to avoid advertising.

Companies toying with my psychology in order to get me to buy something from them... well, that doesn't sit well with me.
> The main thing I miss is Spotlight search, but there are third party replacements for that.

Such as?

I've been looking for a decent launcher for Windows but all the options are pretty mediocre compared to Spotlight (or Alfred which is what I use).
I really liked amber, very similar to rails. Lucky is a bit more different so a bigger learning curve coming from raila
Original question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616331
Buying a laptop to run manjaro is a minefield. I have had some Just Work. Those were generally older laptops without dedicated graphics. I have had newer laptops fail to properly switch between graphics, rip through my battery, not reconnect to wifi after waking up forcing me to shut down and boot up every time I wanted it to sleep, have middling to poor touchpad drivers, not have the webcam work out of the box. For those who get lucky, great. For those that want to fix that stuff, which is sometimes easy, sometimes hard, other times nearly impossible without writing drivers yourself, good for them too. I don't want any of that.
I may be missing something here, but why would you need to change the stock installed tools in /usr/bin? Seems like an easy way to screw up your OS installation. And it's not like a VM where you can rollback to a snapshot or relaunch.

If there really was an issue there then you either need to file a bug and have them mainline a fix, or yes hack/shim a fix on top for your needs. Perhaps leveraging PATH precedence.
Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website
How do you know they aren't making a dent in the numbers? You don't know, and can't know, the counter factual. One anecdote though, police are doing less policing right now in cities like Chicago, and the the outcome is not looking good.

At least 106 people shot, 14 fatally, in Chicago weekend violence

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-week...
It's important to distinguish sympathy and understanding. To solve a problem, understanding is required.
> Because if Seattle has significantly higher wages, the best talent will move to Seattle.

Not if the entry to Seattle is blocked. In which case, the employers have to move to where the best talent is.
Classic mistake to allow anyone to add content to a public site anonymously
How many times do you believe that happens in a year, and what evidence do you have for that belief?
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Personal opinion here. If you trace the funding of anything on the internet, you usually get to the bottom of things. Here is an article that was published on WIRED that traces those roots. https://www.wired.com/story/freedom-from-facebook-open-marke...

I think what the site says is basically true, but also I think it's vaguely disingenuous.
It's obviously not the same, but you can emulate this with a conventional compiler:

#if 0
set -e; [ "$0" -nt "$0.bin" ] &&
cc "$0" -o "$0.bin"
exec "$0.bin" "$@"
#endif

#include <stdio.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
puts("Hello world!");
return 0;
}

It works, because by default system shell will be spawned.
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Regardless, revealing someone's real name is orthogonal to clicks or ad revenue.
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I don’t see anything that makes it less optimized for desktop. Yes, the styling joins the family look of the iPad, but this doesn’t mean that it becomes a focus on touch. Mac is still very committed to a mouse/trackpad/keyboard interaction model. I think that 11 looks good and brings in some useful features from iPad and lends some good UI elements like sidebars to the iPad. It’s a good marriage but not a merging.
Would you please stop the karma-farming spam schemes? You're wasting your time. We ban such accounts and the sites that they try to promote here, and karma doesn't help.

The comments in this thread are fine.
> I am a developer and power user ... Sure I can't disassemble my laptop and change the hardware. I have no desire at all to do that.

That's a lie. Every power user tries to get the most out of their machine, and so desires an upgradeable system. No power user likes to throw away a system because s/he can't replace its battery or upgrade its ram or hdd / ssd. At some point, everyone likes to upgrade their existing system without spending a gazillion bucks for it.

Yes, it is true that with phones and tablets, corporates like Apple and Samsung have managed to convince the general mass that not being able to upgrade your phone or tablet is a NORMAL thing, and soldered RAM and soldered SSD are the only option, but we power users know that's a lie that Apple and Samsung (and others) would like us to believe.

And that is why their marketing is heavily based to push the exact message you are parroting:

> I imagine there are a tiny fraction of users who would and you may be among them.

I can bet that even if someone is not a poweruser, and an ordinary consumer / user, they too would appreciate the option to upgrade their phones / systems and reuse it. That is why we have efforts like the PuzzlePhone in europe.
>> Freedom isn't free.

that's true. There's a hefty f'in fee.

Everyone has to chip in their buck-o-five
Excited to see this in ten years.
I don't see anything in this blog that even touches on "distributed systems are hard". Every issue in here should be filed under "Redis has no tests". If you follow basic software engineering principles, you'll find distributed systems easier to approach.
Those are not laptops, those are iPads, which weren't modular to begin with. Also, not broken, but locked, because the previous owner didn't unlock them before discarding them. Are there millions of devices that get thrown away in general? Sure. But I doubt it's only devices with RAM that was soldered down and branded Apple.

Regarding spilling on keyboards: I don't know anyone personally who does that, in my local area people don't eat or drink next to their devices. I do have plenty of people I don't personally know that did ruin their computers that way and I have replaced plenty of Apple keyboards and entire topcases to solve it. Works fine as a side-business.

Repairing is not the same as upgrading, and recycling is not the same as throwing away, and neither is reusing. The difference is important, as the solution changes with the case.

Overall, this would be more fitting in a general discussion on environmental impact and not as much one about software, the hardware it runs on, and human behaviour. If you want to solve a big problem you need to generify instead of brand it as far as I know.

To dive in a little deeper: to 'fix' this, people need to spend less time on how beautiful their stuff is, or how cool they look, and go a more utilitarian route. But since the American economy is built around the opposite and the western European one has the tendency to follow it in some aspects that's unlikely to happy any time soon. Changing people is hard, it's also the best way to solve or fix or change anything.
The idea that the Unix philosophy of "small programs that can share" is idealized in the shell "pipeline" capability. To imply that this has successfully made it into any GUI programs is flat out wrong. We're still saddled with vertical apps everywhere including within the same ecosystem.

The "Unix" on Mac is so woefully out of date that it qualifies only as a marketing label. In fact Windows is now more Unix than Mac, by far.

Round it out with a confusing disingenuous nod to "see what the hackers are using" since yeah, it's all about the "i" devices.

Obviously Apple is a consumer commercial device maker and the Mac will follow. Push 3rd party developers through the app store and a lot will leave. Look at the music industry, soon, it will be Logic alone on Mac and everyone will have to migrate.

Linux will be the last non consumer oriented OS and look for desktop/laptop versions to expand their footprint.

Right now, all these big company OSes look like ad delivery platforms and turn you into a sysadmin for their profits.
> Perhaps these are ironic inclusions meant to highlight how hard it is to live without Facebook and Google.

I doubt it. The probable story is that they outsourced their website to some 3rd party firm to build, since they're a policy organization not a tech organization. That 3rd party probably based the site off a pre-existing design of theirs that used those inclusions, rather than build a custom Mister-Gotcha-immune site.
IBM advances its Cloudant cloud database as DBaaS grows
Firefox does this too FYI
Clever. Nice work.
Well, it obviously is a problem, since the default threat level all around is insanely high in the US, where this problem is greater than in other civilised countries where the default threat level is lower.
Thanks, not all queries are optimal yet. We are going to get there.
It's awesome to see this being done in the development phase. There's so much to learn, even just from the feedback cycle between aphyr and RedisLabs.
Disclosure: I work at AWS building cloud infrastructure

> The c5a.16xlarge is the same price as the m6g.16xlarge. No cost effective difference in that head-to-head.

c6g.16xlarge is more than 10% cheaper than m6g.16xlarge (and c5a.16xlarge). It also provides more EBS and network bandwidth, and provides 64 cores versus 32 cores with SMT.

https://ec2instances.info/?region=us-west-2&compare_on=true&...
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I want to help, retweeting/sharing profiles looking for new opportunities mainly due to pandemic.

Will also try to engage other potential Twitter users with thousands of followers to do so.

My Twitter handle, just in case: @leonagano
Combining numbers, US police are responsible for ~5% of killings, and Italian police are responsible for < 1%.

On top of that, most experts say the US has a broken criminal justice system that actively prevents rehabilitation. If you count the resulting increase in the crime rate against the police, courts and jails, then their collective actions lead to way more than 5% of the killings.
> that you still have to rely on them to get the word across

The website doesn't have to rely on React, Google analytics & CDN, et al. This is a simple website that could have been written in plain HTML and CSS, with server-side analytics if desired.