skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roughly speaking, current OSs "stop" at tools for interacting with data, and the hardware behind it.

In this world where we expect internet access, I'm beginning to think OSs need to manage certain types of data more proactively. I'm trying to wrap a general point around your concerns about contacts. Contacts seem one of the data types that need something approaching OS level tooling. For me, another is "tags". I want to use the same set of tags I apply to "files" to apply to "contacts" too.

I keep hoping someone will make a rival OS that tackles this head-on. Start at Haiku, sprinkle some of Apple's "the UI isn't a virtualised office any more" UI paradigm, model a small handful of human-centric data types (like places, people, maybe individual health, too) and the access and interaction rules that support them safely and really run with it.
Could they have been pirating the books? In my home country (Turkey), there were alternative sellers (basically photocopiers) who made pirate copies of books (usually on much thinner paper and washed out colors) and sold them. They were exactly like bookstores and they'd have the books you needed in stock. They usually sold textbooks for 1/10th of the price.
Mmm tasty.

If anyone wants a backstory building up to this data structure checkout this talk: https://youtu.be/sPhpelUfu8Q He builds an rrb-tree which uses the same underlying concepts ALEX uses, just without the ML-enhancement.
Skype is a disaster...
This process produces steel where the soft layers are ~3 mm thick and the hard layers are ~0.25 mm thick. The layers could probably be thinner. My understanding is that the minimum layer thickness of this process is ~0.01 mm. The hard layers are created by rapid cooling; i'm not sure if the dynamics of the cooling process itself would create layers thicker than that.

The steel used in the traditional Japanese sword-making referred to in the article has layers far thinner than that. If a sword is 7 mm thick at the hilt, and the steel has been folded 16 times, then the layers are 0.1 um (a tenth of a micron!) thick.

Actual Damascus steel is something else entirely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel

But it's still a really cool process!
Have you ever tried to join a Cisco Web X meeting? Takes longer than the meeting...
A/B tests: the trap even the smartest people fall into
I went through most of the comment and something I thought hasn't been mentioned yet.

May be those product should not have been built with Javascript in the first place?

I remember when Chrome OS was launched, people like the blog post author were all over it. It was the future!. And I was surprised he was an Apple user. I thought Apple users cared way more, and way beyond some high level abstraction convenience at the expense of quality.

I have been working with dozens if not hundreds of companies, and none of them use Google Sheet for anything serious. It is on Excel, and if it is on the web the trend is now Excel 365.

If you demand quality, there isn't even a single App built with Web Technology that is A Class. This may change when WASM is a thing. But for now there is simply no replacement.

Lots of educations were initially switching to ChromeOS and Google. They later switched back to iPad. Why is that? There is something about Google and ChromeOS's quality that is not up to standard. And the users knows it, they just couldn't explain it. But it was crap, at least compare it to their iPad. And it has performance hit on its user. Because they were not satisfied.

This isn't to say ChromeOS cant be Good. But Google, generally speaking has absolutely no taste on quality. They are even worst than Microsoft. In Microsoft you could still see a glimpse of product person fighting with ( sorry HN ) idiotic geeks solution and then came out with a compromise. And MS Product person isn't anywhere as good as Apple's in the first place. But you see ZERO User product design in Google. It is as if a product is designed by geeks, built by geeks, marketed by geeks, and feed into their own echo chamber how great it is.

And Android now is no different to Windows in the 90s.

I never took a serious look into Google's financial, but I am surprised they are a trillion dollar company while Apple is only worst 50% more.
> causes employees' livelihoods to be directly tied to their ability to express acceptable beliefs in the correct way

You mean like how underrepresented groups regularly experience the workplace already?
Sign web content using PGP (2016)
There are too many fake account. You dont even need a phone number to create a fake account . http://textita.com
> Our word used to mean something.
> But now? How can we hold a higher ground than China when our own police forces use the very same tactics against our own protesters? How can we accuse the other side of building concentration camps when we have our own?

But we’ve had things like this for a long time. The police have acted like they do for generations, we had concentration camps for Japanese people during World War II, and we’ve always done a variety of other reprehensible things (propping up brutal dictators, destroying native civilizations, institutional racism of every possible flavor.) Frankly, I’m shocked that our word ever meant something.
Just to get a sense for the crowd: am I the only one who doesn't care much about the news industry?

Keeping with what's new in society is important insofar as having an informed population is vital for the correct functioning of a democracy. But the "news industry" is 95% gargabe and contributes zero to getting people informed. I firmly believe that if the news industry disappeared tomorrow, we wouldn't be much worse off as a society.

That google is a bad player should be dealt with on its own. We shouldn't be using the "news industry" as a justification for breaking google up.

EDIT: In fact I had never thought about it, but even as far as keeping people informed, google is better than the "news industry". At least with google I can find links which I use as starting points for reasearching something.
> People who value the curation of their photos will take the time to do it.

Sounds like only something people who aren’t stressed from their underpaid jobs can do? Most people are kept busy and don’t have time to fit into this dark (corporate app) pattern.
Objects in OCaml are structurally typed as well.
You wish.

Norwegian politicians voted to allow police to control everything that crosses the border (edit2:)digitally. Which, in a small country like ours means pretty much everything.

Edit: they did it despite the entire (edit3:) IT industry yelling at them and Amnesty International carefully trying to tell them to stop.

That said, I guess the last word hasn't been said yet. Also equally bad things have been turned around before and for the first time in my life I feel the urge to participate in politics.
Combined with the Subresource Integrity (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...) I feel like it's a solid solution to trust webpages today. What do you think ?
'should be incapable of joining the software profession based on their genetics'

He absolutely did no such thing and this is an incredibly disingenuous representation. You can still argue he should be fired without this.
Airbus has been fly-by-wire for something like 5 decades. They did have some issues but they were solved. So will be 737.
What are you talking about? This is not about finish but quality as in things breaking down or not.

> a good electric car before anyone else had one

This motivation is sad.
Try https://mondediplo.com/ they have a list of references at the end of the articles
Modern Browser have already build in, p2p, encrypted video chat functionality.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API/...

I played around with it years ago, and it worked quite good and should have improved a lot since then, so why has no one come up with a solid solution, that does not require us to route our video calls through china, or microsoft servers?

I suppose the devil is, like always, in the details. So what am I missing?

Probably, that webrtc via p2p is hard to do for more than 2 people? But someone should have at least tried it?
> Even a single personal anecdote is good evidence when the claim in question is "basically everyone there is right-wing".

Uhm, no.

Thanks. I wouldn't be too comfortable using a community that's often accused of being alt-right/light's own polling to prove that they're not. But assuming this is true it's particularly interesting how these tendencies can co-exists within both "social-democrats" and academics (usually left leaning afaik).
Seriously though: I would pay money for a news organization that always linked to primary sources.

FWIW, in my experience, the New York Times almost always links to the original source.
The world is not this simple. There are some speech that should be protected and some that maybe should be banned. (Eg. criticism of the workplace [see also calls for forming a labor union], whistle-blowing of illegal activities ... and on the other end, maybe abusing and harassing people based on their skin color, voice, and other elements of one's "phenotype", and maybe there should be some very basic beliefs that ought to be protected.)

Both of these absolutes (full libertari[ani]sm and full authoritarianism) are doomed to fail, and even throwing them out as some nice first principles to start from seems to be borderline useless. (At least it seems the last 10+ years of politics is throwing memes at each other that have been reduced to absurdity.)
Usually Typescript. I like sqlite for simplicity. Postgres if something a bit more powerful is needed.
You mean the 'death is great' speech?
Sad to see them go and see the industry losing even more competition. Had a couple of Olympus' and was always delighted by their quality.

But on the other hand the underlying problem is quite true: Since the advent of the smartphone I see myself rely more and more on my smartphone (even tho I still don't really like that "look", but as long you don't plan to have a professional photo shooting it's "good enough").

On the other hand: the camera business seem to have stopped any evolution. I didn't see one thing in the last 10 years that made me go "what a gamechanger! I need that!"...
That's what i mean, develop on Linux, Play/work on Windows ;)
> Damore wrote an essay basically arguing women and minorities should be incapable of joining the software profession based on their genetics.

That is completely false and you should be ashamed if yourself for spreading such blatant lies. I urge anyone reading your comment to check for themselves and read Damore's essay, which was well researched, rational and compassionate, the exact opposite of the kind of libel that has been used to slander him. Damore will be a case study at some point when reason returns and people look back and try to understand how it came to be that fools and liars became the arbitrers of what others were allowed to say and think.
I hate to be that guy but I expected this from the begining. When you make a language that can only does one thing (web programming) it's destined to go into obscurity. All maintream languages are multiple-purposes. Even javascript is, thesedays.
> Of course, most of these role were filled by cis people.

Acting is about pretending to be someone else but, in any case, aren't most of these characters "cis people"?
If much of todays news disappeared I suspect we would be better off as a society. Most of it passes more for propaganda than reporting of noteworthy things that happened. Good news, journalism, we need but it is in ever decreasing supply with the modern clickbait news cycle.
I don't think that's really true. In Caddy case for example, simply it's a software space where the rivals are AWS, GCloud and Nginx. But Nginx (enterprise) came way before the cloud boom and so they had already a foot in the market.

The Guacamole case is really different since their customers will be by definition the IT departments. So, even if OS packaging was already good enough, you will still have a big chance of selling it to a big corporation.
They can but viewers don‘t execute them with very few exceptions (and even Adobe Reader has it disabled by default i think)
I hope you don't really believe that people use the terminal because it is "the hard way". That simply isn't true. There are things where the shell makes it _easier_ to do things - the most common being batch operations. There have been attempts to build GUIs around such tasks but they actually take more effort to understand than using the terminal.

Just like every tool, the terminal has its place. So do GUIs.
As a gateway to haskell?
I've been recently looking into some of the new WebAssembly based web frameworks, specifically yew for Rust[0], and I'm having a lot of fun with it. You get a lot of the same compiler guarantee's as Elm, with a familiar syntax if you're already used to writing Rust. It's still rough around the edges though.

[0]https://github.com/yewstack/yew
I think there's probably three factors:

- the majority of brand name items on Amazon aren't counterfeits. It's a big problem, but it's also a big platform, with plenty of real stock and genuine sellers.

- not all items have counterfeits. Some brands and types of products are under enough control or aren't popular/visible/profitable enough to be counterfeited. And some are just just brands anyway - nobody is counterfeiting the no-name junk brand USB cables that Amazon sells from fly-by-night operations. Plenty of people actually buy this stuff and while they might or might not get a poor quality product that might or might not adhere to environmental or consumer protection laws, it isn't a counterfeit and they might be happy.

- some counterfeits are good enough. For exampel, you're unlikely to ever notice you got a counterfeit book unless they do a bad job (apparently pretty common - I've only gotten a couple I was suspicious of, but I am very careful about buying books, but there are really low-effort garbage counterfeits produced out there that are clearly fake, up to Wikipedia printouts.) Even when they make the book out of cheaper paper or the book is badly printed, you may not have the familiarity with the publisher to know that it's a counterfeit and not just that the publisher doesn't suck.
This also happened. But there was a completely legal tier of regional editions, my guess is also that this note is there because the regional rights were transferred to someone else.
For some of this stuff, I'm pretty sure the difficulty of keeping up with it is the whole point - it's effectively a way of signalling that you're part of the right group of people with the right views and connections, and what stops outsiders from just learning to imitate the signals is the way things which were mandatory suddenly flip to horribly offensive without rhyme or reason.
Mica mined by kids in Madagascar ends up in products used by millions Americans
I built my home office for maximum productivity
Flatpak also clutters your hard disk with gigabytes of copied libraries and other data. I had to deinstall it to prevent a system crash, because my root partition went out of space rapidly - source of the problem: Two flatpak apps.
Yeah, I would say that I don't think I've joined Zoom and used it that way, its almost always either a set scheduled meeting where there is a dedicated room, or just an always up room that you join at a given time for more ad-hoc meetings.

At least part of the issue will probably be the disconnect between that style of more "work" usage and the fact its become tool at the moment for families to connect. In that regard, going through the UI as shown may be more common, and does have some more issues, though its also maybe less of a focus for a more work-focused tool.

It does seem to be decent enough for the non-host at least, where if they just blindly press the blue button on entering they'll be in the call/waiting room, which is at least fairly frictionless from a non-host point of view, and for me the bigger concern. I can deal with the UI, I'm more worried about my Grandpa or something working it out if I was doing a family call.
Yes! The build tool to use is Spago (https://github.com/purescript/spago). It uses package sets which ensures all the packages you use are compatible with eachother. It is incredibly simple to use.

spago init
spago install halogen
spago build

Halogen is now at v5 which has removed a lot of the complexity and type wierdness that was around in v4. Highly recommend giving it another spin!

Can't speak for how well it works on Windows though. Perhaps someone elso out there knows?
I don’t get it. So when you see a listing on amazon it’s not as though one seller created it?
Wirecard files for insolvency amid German accounting scandal
There was a study which showed that Skoda (or was it Dacia?) owners in the UK are very happy with their cars, far happier than the owners of premium cars. It confirms that happiness/contentment in a large degree is about mindset and expectations.
Add Background App Refresh to this please - considering that apps exfiltrate 4G/WiFi connectivity info (helpful to triangulate your current location) regularly to tracker/analytics scum APIs with this feature - it should be exposed as a Privacy setting, not buried in Settings. I don’t understand what’s hard about this for Apple to be eerily silent on this.
PostgreSQL: Simple counter for batch operations (2010)
No doubts that there are uses. Travelling Indonesia WhatsApp was a must (due to free basics / internet.org they were most reliable communication with local Services) and now in Corona lockdowns many shops here in Germany don't update their website, but Facebook with current opening times and offers.

However I spent way too much time on it and Facebook is way to hungry for personal data.
Well i would not call that extremism...unless they check also the Reindeer's.

And yes i wish....knock on wood

EDIT: >Amnesty International carefully trying to tell them to stop.

Why has AI a problem with checking peoples on a border?

EDIT2: I really don't see anything about that on their site:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/europe-and-central-asia...
Done the way Apple describes it this (optionally) replaces the entire login sequence. Username, password, second factor, all replaced by tapping one button.

When you register for this feature, your Apple device gives the site an ID (a really huge random-looking number) and a public key. The site associates this ID and key with your user.

On subsequent visits you do something (e.g. press "Face Sign In" button on the site) and then your device authenticates you (with Face ID/ Touch ID) and if you pass it sends the same ID, and some signed stuff about this authentication. The site matches the ID, finds your user, checks the signed stuff is OK with the public key is stored before, and you're in - no other steps and very secure.

WebAuthn can do simpler journeys that only replace the second factor or as a single factor but with the user still needing to provide their username first, but Apple is pushing developers to have this lovely journey that suits the Face ID/ Touch ID experience on an Apple product.
I was thinking the same thing. It would be very odd if it had an effect on C or C++ (even more than the effect in the original article) because comments are removed even before preprocessing. They do affect the __LINE__ macro though, so it is vaguely conceivable for it to have an effect on program behaviour.
We use a kid’s story book to align product assumptions
Assumptions - we all make them.

During onboarding at Free I read a story book that is the epitome of every product team ever.

All those little assumptions we make, might get us to elephant or snake. When all we're trying to do is get back to mum.

And while we all communicate, if that communication gets us to dad, we're still in the wrong place.
I applaud Apple for the continued privacy efforts, including finer-grained Photos access (linked by another poster in this thread: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/24/apple-fine-tunes-...).

But at the same I can't help but be bitter. The smartphone scene is very active ever since, I don't know, 2011? All the companies and shady information dealers have gathered mountains of private information.

Is this not too little, too late? This would have been welcome at the iPhone 5 release. Nowadays I wonder what difference would these measures even make.
SmartEdit Writer, a desktop app for creative writers. Not a commercial success, though the Microsoft Word add-in does sell a few copies a month. The editing functionality is unique.

https://www.smart-edit.com/Writer/

A lesson I've learned is that coolness and commercial success are not tightly connected. You can build something great that users still will not be prepared to pay for.

B2B is the way to go, not B2C.
I agree with you on this! The right column is just a waste of horizontal space after the first scroll down, as the information there was on the top previously (it's a few not-quite-important things that are wasting an entire column)..
I have to say, I've found both Google Meet and Discord to be more reliable in the "just works" department (despite neither being perfect). My experience with Zoom was a job interview where the link kept asking me to install a browser plugin, even though I already had, even if I clicked a link that was apparently a web fall back.

I think I had to use a phone dial in in the end
I had a 2014 retina 13” MacBook Pro and upgraded to the 16” last month. To me the difference is “OMG” fast.

Anecdotal evidence: I have a build script that used to take 30 seconds and now runs in 6 seconds.
How to Evaluate Coronavirus Risks from Black Lives Matter Protests
Okay, try this one out. During a Teams call, open up the PulseAudio Volume Control application, which allows the volume to be set differently for each different application. Teams calls itself Skype.
Please stop voting dumbasses in the US, it affects everyone living in countries who have commercial agreements with then
Ransomware Masking as Covid-19 Contact Tracing App – Experts Comments
If only asking if somebody had no sense of decency would achieve anything in our current world.
This is so good, well done
I think it's because 10 years ago, clicking on a PDF would result in your computer loading an external program like Adobe Acrobat, Foxit which would normally be very slow. These days, PDFs will normally load in the browser which is much faster and more convenient.