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Wirecard CEO Markus Braun Arrested After $2B Goes ‘Missing’
Do many people care about phone CPU performance? Sure, it needs to be good enough, but after that it's really far down on the list of things that matter.

What matters to everyone I know is screen size, camera quality and that a really small selection of apps (messaging, maps, email, browser, bank app) work well. Raw CPU performance is only a very abstract concept.
You don't seem to understand, that under capitalism, mostly any work or study has to be backed up with money. Doctors don't become doctors a different way a reporter becomes one. What they teach you in universities it's not whay you end up doing. A reporter doesn't mean to do bad when they start studying, neither does a doctor. The results are totally different.
Surely you'd agree that "trying to be pseudonymous but not taking it very seriously" and "being published in the new york times" are substantially different things, no? One can do the former and reasonably not expect it to lead to the latter.
I think it is more likely they are going after him over his support for Steve Hsu.
Exactly. The main problem is MSM with corporate money behind it. Getting things wrong is normal, getting things wrong intentionally (or recklessly) is malicious.

There are many. But they're difficult to find and get into. My favorite is http://www.noagendashow.com/.
Most Big Tech companies have offices in other rich countries like Britain or Canada.

You will have a ridiculously high salary rather than a garangutan SV salary, but it's worth not getting stuck in a Bay Area traffic gridlock every day while worrying about whether you'll be allowed to go back to the country after renewing your H1-B.

Years ago made the decision to stay permanently the European Big Tech office which I was going to stay temporarily, and I'm much happier for it.
Siberian town in arctic circle hits 101°F (38°C)
I guess because one can't just reuse hardware. They cant just take iPhone GPU, make it 5 times bigger and get 5X more performance with 5X of power budget. So more likely they'll just gonna sell laptops with GPU performance closer to iPhone which is not at all impressive.
First off, nice work!

I always thought it is better to mix client/server rendering; the 'everything client' or 'everything server' both do not work for a large number of applications. So why not mix them. Unfortunately not much out there battery-included that consistently supports that model.

I did not dive into IHP (I heard about it as the RoR for Haskell) but, after reading the introduction, I'm probably going to get depressed when I hear how you do the inevitable client-side stuff here; there is a really good opportunity to mix them as there is HSX and you can compile Haskell to JS. So there should be an opportunity to appoint, where supported, some (parts of) a page as serverside/clientside.
Larger rounded corners, taller toolbars, and more padding within sections all further reduce the amount of actual content you can display. If you look at most of the before/after screenshots, there's clearly less information delivered within the same amount of screen space. That's nice for a touch interface perhaps, but it's counterproductive for a computer.

And making toolbar buttons all monochrome outlines does make toolbars have a more consistent appearance, but that actually makes finding the button you need more difficult. The differences are what we notice, and later what our brains automatically key on when we need to actually use the interface.

Less than half of these changes are arguably worth having. The rest seem like marketing saying, "We need to be fresher, guys!"

Using a new interface can be fun because of the change, but that fun quickly wears off. Then we're left with the realities of the interface. That Finder window is going to be much less useful in the real world with real file/folder names that are longer than 12 characters wide.

This is a UI for casual users. It might be good for grandma, but it's less good for people who need to get work done.
The reference to dependence on system integrators tells you all you need to know.. they will never have some 5-click signup process. Probably each new customer presently involves a fuckton of multi-vendor custom engineering over stupid timescales.

I've never heard of financial software that didn't suffer from this, so it will be interesting to see if they manage to eventually streamline it.
It doesn't take too much imagination to see how easy it would be to write a hit piece.

Scott writes eloquently and in depth, but the news is not about either of those things. Scott has written a few times about problematic issues which have surfaced in recent months and it would be very easy to write "some people say that Scott is ${label}" with just a bit of superficial quotes. Today's climate of online mob justice in partnership with click bait news would not go well for Scott at all.
Market share and attractiveness aren’t necessarily related. A Kia isn’t as attractive to its target customer as a Mercedes but outsells it because of price.
Relevant to today's news of similar doxxing of Scott Alexander, author of Slate Star Codex (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416)
> Jackfruit does not have a "jagged sheath" (that's durian).

Durian's spikes are pointier, but you can call both of them jagged.
I'm currently paying for Superhuman, which is $30/month. I really really like it, though it's not even a full service like hey (it still depends on Gmail). I'm working on an issue tracker that is heavily inspired by Superhuman [0] but even if I wasn't, I still strongly consider shelling out the cash because the user experience and the pace of feature development is awesome. They're saving me time every single day and that's worth some money.

0: https://kitemaker.co
The fact that they are saving $1 billion per year is what makes the transition possible, it's not actually the cause of the transition. They could have done the transition a long time ago if it was just about the money.
In Poland sexism in IT is still strong among some academic types. Not only sexism, but bags of other prejudices as well. I’d call it the „frustrated elitism syndrome”.
That is missing the whole point. I would even pay for them stopping it. Getting money is certainly a misunderstanding of the issue and goal. It also underscores who is the owner of the data. Remember all the copyright claims by platforms on their user content? It is not because of 5$ a year.

It would also disincentive them collecting info on me.
The Proxy icon is a seriously underrated feature on OS X.

Wish every other OS would replicate it already.
It's fine to have a standards committee with the power of suggestion. However something like that could just as easily become something for countries with dictators to use to attempt to silence reporters who they don't like so I suspect that's why there's no "governing body" just some organizations who recommend best practices. One man's "standards" is another one's opportunity to cull rebellious journalists.
Take a look at what OGC are working on.
Yes, but only for SMS messages. They are not commonly used to write phone numbers (very occasionally you can see them now, but the numbers are also written below or next to them).

In the early automatic telephone years, letters were also used in the Netherlands, France, Denmark and other countries, but they fell out of use way before most people here were born, and also they were mostly (only?) used for area codes and exchange names/numbers, not subscriber numbers.
Is Chrome's telemetry so invasive that it reports about all URLs visited? Otherwise I don't see how daily Chrome visitors on google.com would be helpful in this estimate.

I avoid online apps, I don't play a lot of games (and if I do, they're not big titles which are likely to have telemetry) and yes, I primarily use FOSS.

> (mostly because a lot of open-source lacks a centralized vendor who would be willing to pay the cost to collect and interpret that data to improve the software).

This is almost surely an element of it, but I think a respect for privacy and a general distaste for telemetry among FOSS users are more important.
The win for them is that they get to update their app instead of being booted from the app store.
I think your comment says more about you than about me.

This is useful.
If you haven't read it, I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup (archive link required now):

https://web.archive.org/web/20200419232247/https://slatestar...
But not before they announce it.
Eh, at my company we also sometimes build "pre-sales features" like chart animations that look pretty during a client demo, but don't add much in the way of usability.
I think I have not had good dragon fruit yet. That's the trouble with trying new fruit you see in the market - you never know if it is a good representative.
Manufacturing sector itself is getting transformed by automation and 3d printing and other tech. Which actually increase the efficiency of capital infused to more output, which can help improve economy overall, hence the people.

Wherever the manufacturing happens, India should lead that rather than doing it itself.

I am all for democracy, but China has proven that democracy may not be needed for economic growth, it is upto people to choose the path rather than something forced on them. I believe in individual liberty than democracy.
He already has a sort-of fictional name. He's also a public figure with a substantial following. I think for the journalist reporting on him, this is a no brainer - identify the thing you're talking about. At the end of the day, I'm not some expert it journalistic ethics - maybe they don't have to publish his name. But the notion that they're committing some grave moral offense or journalistic malpractice by publishing it over his objections seems completely misplaced. It's journalists' job to publish things over subject's objections.
Thanks for the summary.

I don't think that availability of more data than what the mainstream narrative can handle in a coherent way is new, nor the existence of people having an inclination to find them and get into trouble due to their will to point to such incongruous "facts".

The main difference, to my mind, is that we now have more direct connections between people all around the world, so the laymen direct inter-influence is potentially greater – although mainstream propaganda also gained much power in width, depth and granularity in the same time.

Yes, there are a larger diversity of data easily accessible with the internet. It doesn't necessarily mean there is a proportionally larger interest in looking at them, let alone time to consult them, digest, and synthesize.
The 4 ways to spend money[1], in this case, spending someone else's money on someone else. Likely a procurement person with no IT knowledge, who never has to deal with the painful solution, but got wined and dined by the salesman.

[1] https://investorjunkie.com/economics/milton-friedman-ways-sp...
Viddyoze Bootstrapped to £3m per Month Without a Blog
Lets be honest here. This will be a big story here in Hacker News for a few days, then we will get on with our lives. It will not spread out from that.

This is ironically how the News works. It's new - novel, interesting, unique, temporary.

We will stand up for Scott - but it won't really change anything, and it will be temporary. It's naive to think that what we find important for a bit will have any impact on the real world and real lives. Especially as this is literally what the News does and has done for a hundred or so years.
Anecdotal data, but you are wrong. If you count total comp FB London pays waaaay more than British tech companies and pretty much anything outside of high finance. The salaries aren't that much lower from what you'll get in Silicon Valley.
Scott is such a clear and important voice today. I really hope the NYT sees their error and corrects it, with apology to Scott, asap and Scott comes back online.
It's possible because of freeleech downloads or finding the files elsewhere and seeding them, but > 1 ratio is very strict indeed.
Paradise Lost was the highlight of my undergrad literature degree, by far.

You won't get 10% of it reading it alone on the first time. There are so many little nuances and considerations and philosophical grey areas that someone could spend a lifetime on it and still have things left to do.
> Artificial sweeteners gets people addicted to sugar, which is unhealthy.

Perhaps so. But to lump it under a sugar tax seems dishonest to me, and may provide real and significant fodder for those who fight against such tax altogether.
Licensing of reporters would be throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Yes, but I've seen a talk of him where he also mentions K, so maybe that's what GP meant.

Edit: Btw. I did my PhD at Tokyo Tech (not with Matsuoka though) ;-)
The state of accessibility (as a design goal; as, finding the point where it critically improves the situation for some, yet is beneficial for everyone) in tech is generally awful.

It's sad that this doesn't look like it's a priority to Apple.

My only hope is that I'm wrong, that the affordances are actually more than OK once you use it, and that they've done loads of usage testing and found that it works better for the majority of people, as well as those with greater needs.
Microsoft doesn't control the hardware very much and definitely doesn't control the software developers whereas Apple completely controls the former and has a lot of leverage with the latter.
I guess you mean `wc`, but this tool does some parsing for different formats and I would expect it to give you a more accurate word count that way.
However, reading “code analysis tool” I was expecting something else.

There is a screenshot of shorts in that page: scroll down a bit in that page to “New look”.

Reading a bit more carefully now, it does have some neat features, like counting the number of code blocks (grouped by programming language) in Markdown file sets:
“Tokei will now detect any code blocks marked with specified source language and count each as their respective languages or as Markdown if not present or not found. Now you can easily see how many code examples are included in your documentation.”
And there's the rub. What is "quality investigative reporting" in an objective sense, when most of the MSM outlets are owned by oligarchs, or simply "toe the line"?

In theory I would gladly support the theory of "quality investigative reporting", but the reality is a propagandist machine where opinion pieces replaces actual unbiased, adjective-free objective news.

Some examples of "oligarch news":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwA4k0E51Oo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

As a former developer who worked closely on Thomson Reuters News feed (in the 00's), I've seen how there is almost zero fact checking for the information that appears on news feeds. Instead, news outlets trust the 'upstream' feeds and then quote the reports verbatim.

To be fair, there are those who are really awesome at doing research and releasing information that are part of the MSM. Unfortunately, there are plenty others who are not affiliated with MSM news outlets and hence aren't regarded as "reporters" per-se. These latter ones are regularly attacked via "fact checking" websites as a way to discredit them.

An article on the latter is here:
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-381-who-will-fact-chec...

In short, there's a bunch of information out there and without each and every news report clearly citing original sources, then MSM or not, it must be regarded as suspect.

So for "quality investigative reporting", the actual reports must rigorously cite objective sources.
Does it really matter whom it serves as long as it improves our economy? BTW what makes you think software is not a real business? It is as essential as manufacturing now.

That has been our policy from a while. To further my point, India is still the biggest exporter of beef.
Not in some countries but it's the 1st amendment of the US Constitution that protects freedom of speech and the press. So it's considered pretty important here.
The author must have had an overripe dragonfruit - their flavor is subtle but quite lovely. not tasteless or mushy in the slightest
This is interesting to me. In central Europe, or at least my country, the serious media keep very high standards.

Basically the only people who find the largest publications "bad" here are conspiracy nuts, fascists and politicians involved in uncovered corruption scandals.

I find our independent media to be a key element of our democracy and I am worried when I hear the US media don't work quite the same.

Edit: I thought I might as well reply with our solutions to your bullet points

- Our newspapers don't force their views on their journalists. The bosses require quality and factfulness, but topics are up to the journalist. The newspaper as an organisation is equally hostile to all the politicians.

- The financial incentive is to continue to hold their image, because they live from subscription fees paid by people who view them as essential for our society. (+ ads ofc)

- If one wants power to change things the far superior strategy in my country is to do the actual politics and not to report on it.
If you haven't read it already and need help interpreting it, you can take this free course on edx.

https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:DartmouthX+DART.EN...

I took this course to understand what the whole fuss around 'Paradise Lost' meant. I was utterly mind-blown, learning its snide references to free will, tyranny, slavery, civil liberty, etc. in the poem. What I once thought was a retelling of the Bible, surprised me with its political nuances.
Testing New Device
I'm not saying people are losing sleep over it but it's just bad UX. If you download and install an app, it shouldn't have the side-effect of a new disk appearing on your desktop. It's obvious, ask any UX designer if you don't believe me.
mobile phones have letters on their dial pads also.
I am typing on a 2017 MBP keyboard that never broke. While I generally share the criticism it is neither garbage nor worthless. These unnecessary juvenile hyperbolisms are so boring.

The keyboards had a higher fault rate and many other issues and Apple has corrected its mistake, albeit 1-2 years too late from a consumer perspective. That's all there is to the story and the only semi-relevant competition to MBPs was STILL just ThinkPads and XPS, even with the main input device being significantly worse than previous iterations.
Why are you implying that they're going to lock down the Mac and make it some kind of iPad Pro? You'll still have complete control to run anything you want on the system. Running unsigned binaries is as simple as a right click on the app to open it on Mac. Or launch it from the command line with no prompt at all.
I am soo much looking forward to using native Slack and Teams instead of their horrendous electron apps, that even don't use GPU acceleration on iGPU Macbooks!
When "journalism" became "activism"
>Is it something about audio-visual media that we can't use it for entertainment without our brains inadvertently treating characters as part of our social circles; then we fail at recognising actors as not being their characters; ...?

Reminded me of a passage in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

"They became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears of affliction had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
Interesting to see Big Sur + iOS merging. It's the opposite of what MS attempted in some ways. MS had a completely different look and feel on the phone and tried to shoe-horn it into Windows 8 in one release, whereas Apple have gradually moved things between the desktop and phone in both directions (dock, curved icons, notifications), and gradually aligned the two.

Maybe one more release until they're merged completely.
Sure, they'll pass the $50 savings on.

You are overestimating how much a CPU costs...
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> only one camera, just a 4.7-inch display, and less than Full HD screen resolution

cpu selection is likely coming from industrialization concerns, less production line to maintain, less price per unit at volume etc, but they're going to beat that drum loud and proud for all it's worth, meanwhile the phone is cheap in area that in 2020 _do_ matter.
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Renamed from "Raspbian". Perhaps the article was written before the name change?
I know that chain of puff stores. Their durian puffs are tasty, but I agree with you that the flavour is very mild. The thing about those puffs are that even people who normally don't like durian can appreciate them, and you may fall into that category.

There are different places you can get durian puffs where the filling is basically pure durian. Of course, unless you love durian you're not going to appreciate them.
you would be surprised, but that also creates value for the store.

i worked with a company that tracks you and your facial expressions as you move thru the store. they analysed that data to show new products and move things around.
OP is quite aware of this, and it probably doesn't matter that much. He's made his point anyway.
That is deed my criterion as well: I support independent investigative publications only (and I read few other sources, haven't had TV for nearly two decades for instance).
The NYT should be seen as a tech company. The New York Times Company is a multibillion dollar multinational. One can argue that its monetisation has improved even as its audience has narrowed.

It’s not neutral. A direct competitor is not a neutral arbiter. $NYT is one of the hottest tech stocks this year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-05-28/five-t...

> One that's doing phenomenally well is the New York Times itself. It's well known that many big tech companies (or at least their shares) are booming amid the Covid crisis. But so far this year, the NYT is doing better than names like Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Of the tech megacaps, only Amazon is doing better. If it hasn't been clear before, it should be obvious to everyone now that the NYT is a tech company and a tech stock. It benefits from network effects and accelerating economies of scale like any other tech company. It's booming in the podcast space. It's got popular apps for cooking and games. It's even rolling out its own proprietary platform for online ad targeting next year, cutting off third-party players.
Meh they also lost my respect with how they treated Snowden. Killed my account for digital subscription after this editorial. He revealed a far bigger evil than anything he ever did to get the info or what was revealed. They know if he comes back to the USA he will go to prison for life without parole. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/edward-snowden-doesn...
This looks interesting, but I could not find an RSS feed for the site. Could you please add one, I would definitely prefer that over subscribing to an email newsletter!
At least we don't have to manually adjust fan speed every time WLAN resets after sleep <3
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