skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's just look at automatic flagging systems that currently exist, ie youtube or Facebook. Has anyone here seen objectionable flagging? If so, now just imagine that instead of your youtube channel being shut down, it's your freedom and rights.
Went to realty.com on first test. Catalina 10.15.4, Safari 13.1
Google will pay publishers for 'high-quality' content in upcoming news service
Even in full size, the naive images look much better to me.
As anyone that ever used AmigaOS would tell you, multitasking is not an excuse for poor latency behavior.

seL4[0] will guarantee (with formal proof) a low maximum latency despite multitasking.

[0]: https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf
Repairable device of decent quality can also yield much better second-hand prices, which can even drive up the value of the original product. Thinkpad laptops are a good example.
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It's more akin to file diffing. Developers are notified of any differences in snapshots. The developer can they either accept the new snapshot, or investigate and fix.
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Just make sure to send @jspash your bank details or bitcoin wallet address so he can give you the money he was talking about.
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It reaches over to Sicily and Calabria – the southernmost tip of Italy.
I was arguing specifically that comparing tech products to mechanical wristwatches is a bit ridiculous. Obviously tech products could be much more repairable than they are.
> Modern front-loading washing machines still heat to 90°C

I've read reports to the contrary (when researching current machine). A machine having a 90C cycle does not mean it heats to 90C, and for a decent amount of time.

Yes, they use less water. Which means I often do an extra rinse cycle at the end. ("Use less detergent", well, I like clean clothes)
Got ~10kUSD in the bank and working remote, move to Europe
Asymptomatic Patients Appear to Have Lung Damage and Low Antibody Levels
About the soldering part: memory prices don't plummet as hard as in 2005 anymore, so when you need more RAM, just buy it. By soldering it you also make it more robust. Most DIMM troubleshooting begins with 'reseat the modules'. And users won't place cheap modules which will cause issues and give your products a bad name.
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You're completely ignoring the flagship killer market here.

You can buy a poco f1 (Snapdragon 835) for 250$ that will perform just as well as any pixel.

For that price you can buy a new flagship killer every year.
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I wonder if there is a way of projecting this as discrimination (e.g. accusing the company to be a racist, because you pay less to your Indian/Non U.S. employees) and get activists attention.
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Measuring volume is not great for flour for the same reason, it contains very different amounts of air depending on whether it’s packed or sifted.
I wonder if this could work as a DuckDuckGo clip? You search for a recipe, and see the result right there on top, without all the fluff.
I see, I do follow that design pattern for larger switch statements or where the dictionary had to be dynamically populated (even in non-Python languages) but I hadn't considered using it for smaller switch statements as well.

Thank you for the example.
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Bitcoin for me is a "savings account". The tx fee is certainly important, but more important is the long term value appreciation. I have changed btc to other cryptos to spend them, so I pay less fees, but Im not holding other cryptos long term.
Thank you for providing all these perfect examples:

> You mean you you've never used any wireless connections to your machine?

Yes: I clicked on the network, typed the password, and it worked, always. If the machine already has seen the network, i don't even have to click, it just connects. If one of my machines (e.g. my iphone) has seen the network, the network and its credentials are stored on iCloud, so my laptop and my tablet can just connect to it. I never had to google how this works, never had to install anything to make this work, never had to change any configuration file to make this work, etc.. Same for VPNs, VNCs, corporate networks, network drives, etc.

> You've never had to set up backups or change audio settings?

Yes, I clicked on enable backups, clicked on the box that enables daily back ups, clicked on the drive where I wanted to store them, and it worked, always.

I can restore, browse, partially restore, backups with one click using time machine. I never had to google how this works. It always worked.

> change audio settings?

Yes, I clicked on the audio button, and volume worked, muting worked, all 4 sound outputs worked, always worked, etc.

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On linux, over the last 15 years, i have googled at least for days to do _each_ of these things for customers:

- can't connect to a particular wlan, corporate wlan, etc. needed new drivers, upgrade kernel, change some etc config to enable something, etc. Same for network drives, cloud drives, SMB, ...

- sound, damn sound: sound cards not being detected (hell on my lenovo yoga an update to 19.04 Ubuntu pushed a kernel patch that broke my sound cards driver: no sound card detected, still not fixed on Ubuntu 20.04 5 months later - no sound in the times of corona and web meetings - great!), alsamixer, etc files, pulse audio, .... I have had to google a lot about each of these things, and fiddle a lot over the last 15 years, on dozens of machines, for dozens of users, for hours.

- backups, on Linux, have fun. I've set backups for ext4, zfs, and btrfs. ALWAYS had to google for hours. Every time I had to restore a backup, had to google for hours. Some times restoring did not work. Some times backups did not work. Encrypted backups do not work out of the box (Apple's full-disk encryption is enabled by default - but enabling it and having work with everything is just 1 click - on Linux full-disk encryption is a mess).

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So no, I never had to set up anything on MacOS X in the last 15 years. The things were in the obvious place, and I just used them, and they just worked. No need to even google how to do the thing, or what to install to get it done, or configure the install, or read bug reports to work around issues, nothing. They just damn worked, as they should.

Its 2020, and setting things for companies using Linux is my day job. These people would all save a ton of money by just using macs or windows machines. The amount of time their employees waste on setting up and maintaining their machines instead of doing their actual work is astonishing.
Does the gopherpedia just strip out inline links? This seems like a big trade off to me. And the formatting seems also a bit plain which makes things like source code hard to read.

Though I think this is my biggest gripe with Gopher or Gemini. I love the idea of going back to a more text focused web where the user decides how to consume content, but I really don't get the like for plain text. I still want it to be rich text, regarding formatting and semantic meaning. Plain Text just seems tedious.
You just have legally enforced spending limits.

Someone running for parliament in the UK, for example, is allowed to spend about $0.26 per voter † in an average constituency (of 72200 voters).

It's certainly not a perfect system, but it does mean if you earn £100k it's very easy to become an MP's largest donor.

† (The rules are more complicated than that, of course - there's separate spending by the national party, one free mailing by the royal mail, rules for tracking the equivalent value of volunteered professional services, and so on...)
Google has multiple services that use GPS. Location services is just one.

Example: security services bypass the location settings.
Will give this a shot later on, thanks for sharing :)

Any plans to make this work on other systems? RtAudio which you use here appears to also support Linux and Windows.
Yes. The same can be said about chisels. When I was small, I tried to use chisel to carve something. I was untrained, so I only hurt myself. The same is with computers. But should we limit access to computers for untrained people? It would make my life much easier, but I still think we shouldn't.
I was able to stop this behavior by deactivating options in Settings > Siri & Search > Safari.
What does that mean? Force clicking? You apply so much pressue that it breaks a touchscreen/touchpad so that it makes a click noise when you tap?
With gambling the winners is very, very small minority. With bitcoin/crypto practically all people who got in before 2017 have been doing very, very well.
The scores should correlate but my main worry would be the battery replacements

From that description it does seem that Apple worries about it:

> Critical display and battery repairs remain a priority in the iPhone's design.

I've seen Android phones where the replacement is simple and others where you have to take the whole phone apart to take the battery out
It's getting cheaper PER unit of utility. You can now create a lot of stuff with "no-code" that was previously expensive.
So basically it can be summed up as charity. Would that be a reasonable analogy?
This truly will be the year of WinAMP on desktop.
Rosetta2 Origins?
What do you know about Rosetta2 for MacOS 11 Big Sur? I know that Rosetta1 was using technology from Transitive, long ago purchased by IBM. Who supplied the technology this time around, I wonder.
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> I kind liked washing machines that properly heated to 90C

Washing machines sold in the EU can (we have one in the basement). But heating to 90°C is extremely inefficient if 60°C is sufficient, and it is in most cases (we are not any more using just soap for laundry like in the 19th century). In fact, recommended temperatures have fallen so much that it is now recommended to wash with 60°C once in a while to prevent mould and smell. And more and more clothes such as shirts and tresses, but even socks, have a washing temperature of 40°C recommended.

The wider issue is that energy conservation will not come by itself. Self-regulation will not give the speed of change that we need. With self-regulation alone, Americans would still use leaded gasoline which was obsolete in the 1960ies.
People in a room communicate via gestures and body language. Leveling that is tough.

That's also one reason why many people on autistic spectrum prefer video conferences over physical meeting - responses have to be given more explicit.
There is no more Perl at JP Morgan
The amount of infrastructure and equipment needed to create a watch from raw materials is an order of magnitude less than any piece of modern electronics. A single chip fab probably needs as much physical capital as an entire 1850s Swiss town needed to make a watch from scratch.
Another perspective is that by simply going to these cafés and drinking coffee (even if it's just a takeaway during the pandemic), you are supporting them financially. If a business is healthy and not wasteful (which many are), that should be sufficient.
Your comparison misses the point. A modern smartphone or laptop consists of dozens of parts. Of course, no one can fix an error on a CPU. I don't even ask to fix proplems on a PCB. But a laptop should not consist of a single PCB, but be split into CPU/GPU, memory, storage, battery. At least these components should be replaceable for a skilled worker, especially those which age with time, as the battery and ssd-storage. And of course any fan built into the device, as the clog and wear out.
What is wego? Google only seems to give me travel companies and alternatives.
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Those swiffer dusters with a bit of scent on them so as you navigate around you can feel where you've dusted better.
I used to work with your co-founder Felix. The idea isn't bad, but this feels like a direct copy of the company where we worked, StreetShares. They had the exact same "Main Street" theme an overused it a bit. The "About" page used to list the employees' favourite main street in their synopses. Even the homepage is surprising similar. The main difference seems to be the stock photos.

So are there any differences in your product and SS? I assume the tech stack is much better. SS made me want to vomit. I guess this is an SS clone without the military focus? SS wasn't an original idea either, but at least they tried to put a spin on it. This just feels like blatant rip off
I fear the article suffers from the myopia of pre-conceived notions of what constitutes innovation. Every generation imagines the future to be mere extension of the present. But innovation doesn't happen that way. Technological development is inherently fractal, the obvious directions of progress are not necessarily the most interesting ones. In the 1950s, the perceived future was all about nuclear power, and supersonic flight, turned out that while we didn't get supersonic passenger planes, air travel became affordable to a large fraction of the planet because of amazing advances in power efficiency of jet engines. In the late 60s the future was going to be in space. We didn't get a moon base, but we got a global computer network that changed how people lived and worked. We got containerized transport, that dramatically improved global trade and pulled millions out of poverty. Yes, the world as a whole is wealthier per capita than it was in the 70s. So innovation not just what some government think tank or corporate strategy group think it should be. It may well be that future developments in computation come from breakthroughs in mathematics rather than improvements in semi-conductors. Innovation comes from comes from many places and its a mugs game to predict how it will evolve. The best that any society can do is to encourage as much of it as can be sustained by its level of economic development. Let chaos and lady luck determine what comes next.
I hope the clarification I posted shows in what sense it clearly is not ridiculous. Of course you would need spare parts, but the access to be able to exchange parts in the first place ist the essential part.
I stand corrected in that I do not know the current makeup of the state and federal seats in the US. The current media coming out the US implies a huge Democrat power base, at least in the power to influence company policy. I will admit that it can be hard to get an accurate gauge of this, despite browsing both sides, because my own media is very left. I assume it's my own biases that make me disregard some of the rights media.

That being said, some of the media coming from the right seems crazy. If the people that watch that have control then that's crazy news to me. America seems so familiar due to Hollywood but at the same time it's so foreign.
Technically it does support functions. They are just extremely limited.
Right he's so wise he should run the Ministry of Fun and get to decide what kind of fun i am permitted to have!

Not that i disagree with him entirely. I just believe i should be entitled to an opt-out form from his meddling.
If you are assuming that this would be absurd, that assumption and the belief system it rests on may be preventing you from seeing and understanding what is happening.

There is a long history of people doing personally uncomfortable things after checking their internal moral compass.
Hi! I built this! (Surprised to see it on the front page as I didn’t get much traction when i first submitted it :)

Anyway, all of you have a lot of neat suggestions! Please do take a look at the “contributing” section of the repo and let me know if you’d like to pitch in!
> But being trans is not defined by external validation [...]

Did i say so?

My observations and your 'definitions' are different.

> Like I said, I was simplifying, and specifically the simplification erased some identities.

Language is inherently symbolic and thus an simplification (an reduction).
This makes "Identity erasure" an very toxic concept - you are guilty of it because there wasn't a way to comply with it in the first place.

> The same person is still trans if they eventually become a passing woman.

Wow. You can't say that - that's really rude and a offense to transitioned people.
They are a woman - becoming so was the whole purpose of transitioning.
You should know that.

> and it entirely contradicts how the trans people I know define their transness.

If that's so, fine. The trans people i know don't even "define" themselves, because here people aren't obsessed with self-identity as in the US.
They only want to be accepted as Women.

> [...] they don't perceive themselves as either strictly a man or a woman. This is where you get various non-binary trans identities.

Only in identity politics.
In the outside world you get people that don't conform to various gender expectations, and the majority of them does not need to make up their mind around that being an identity.
They "can be".

> Education and normalization does more to protect LGBT people than staying silent.

Yes, but then do it correctly.
Identity politics as it is now has resulted in a large number of "shit liberals say"-outrage-memes.
People are making fun of self-identifying because it is so absurd - does "I sexually identify as an Apache Attack Helicopter" ring a bell for you?
I'm sure you have good intentions for LGBT people, but if you unironically argue with concepts like self-identification or identity erasure, people will be driven off.
I'm driven off.
Its neither how things work in practice nor how we will get LGBT acceptance in the future.

> "identity politics" (which, to be clear is a phrase I still don't understand the meaning of)

In the US, identity politics is the most vocal view on LGBT issues.
Its core feature is the strong emphasis on self-identity and that it must be 'respected'.
How the latter happens in detail is subject to being abused as leverage to control other people.
Its only a power play if you see through it, and it rejects the normal-ness of LGBT people, segregating people into groups.

Contrast it to the other parts of the LGBT community, where people are like, normal people.
And happen to have transitioned or a having partner of the same sex.
That's as normal as chewing gum.
Nothing 'special' that needs any kind of extra things to be respected.
Just personal life choices.
Yes and no. I am all for buying the maximum memory you can order for a laptop, but Apple makes this an issue by asking a huge premium for upgrades. And of course, with ssd-storage, there is the question of wear, eventually you would have might have to replace it.
The paradox is "A standard aimed at preventing replacement will be used to catalyze replacements". Standards never enforce replacements. Regulations and Fashions enforce replacements on the basis of standards.
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> If you feel that the act is questionable

The "act" of law enforcement in general? Is anyone (a few very confused people aside) even arguing that?
Hackernews is quite random - stuff that gets no upvotes will sometimes get hundreds of upvotes the next time it's posted.

That's why they explicitly allow some amount of reposting.
Most likely not. To make cross platform multiplayer possible, they practically have to enforce the same physics timesteps on all platforms.

What most people perceive as a different feel is the input to display latency. On a TV with a controller that can easily be 4x higher than with a mouse on a PC screen.

In the early days, Microsoft did a famous study of how strongly input latency affects the way how people use office software. If I recall correction, 50ms in additional latency would lead to significantly less exploratory behavior.

And I think we all know that intuitively from the web. When a bloated newspaper site needs 5 seconds to load, you start to consciously consider if you really want to click that link, as opposed to just checking out everything slightly related on Wikipedia.
First of all, the article is very apple centeric, as if the author is completely unaware of anything outside his bubble.

Back to the article: what author kind of missed is that ARM was Acorns spinoff of the CPU business since their computer flopped.

As an owner of one, I found it interesting but the OS was really odd (for example . was the folder sepeator which caused "interesting" problems for C compilers). They also promised high performance x86 emulation using their RISC magic but failed to deliver.

Transmeta was eventually able to deliver what Acorn promised, but that came 5-10 years later.

Anyway, what finally saved Acorn was Nokia and Ericsson picking ARM up for phones due to low power usage.
Well, if you talk about naming X and whether it is reasonable, the name of X will be known to more and more people. So one side of the argument seems to loose in any case. I do think it would be better to leave him pseudonymous, if that is his wish. I can comprehend why telling a name is preferable for writers to enable readers to check the story themselves, which gives the press some credence. But I think the current climate would lead X to write differently and perhaps less controversial. Pseudonymity or anonymity can be very advantageous.
> So why would somebody immediately say "PHP is insecure"? Without any details it's pointless noise.

"PHP is insecure" is of course a bad argument to make without at least some explanation, but that doesn't automatically make PHP a good language to write (hopefully) secure software in.
I don't think even your basic desires are possible, because no way in hell you'd get the majority of states to buy in to point four, which might as well read: "Establish a Californian political hegemony and erode away a significant portion of innate state strength for 38/50 states". Couple this with the fact that you'd need to spell out more well defined, explicit version of the first and second (which you cannot do meaningfully and get a large majority of support) , and the idea is DoA.
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No. Virtualization (dividing a host into different logical hosts but executing unmodified CPU instructions, like VMware, VirtualBox, ...) and emulation (translating instructions, like Rosetta) are two different beasts.
My boss wants only Apple stuff in the company. Despite working with it for 12 years, I still hate the macOS UX. The hardware isn't bad and even looks aesthetically pleasing, but looks aren't something I find important in a computer. The UI too, looks nice, but personally I find there are some annoyances that make it cumbersome and counterproductive to use to the point where I've taken to do any serious work by remoting into Windows and Linux machines. With one exception (inserting a network cable into my Mac is the fastest way to reboot it - instant kernel panic, a known bug that was reported to Apple about 10 years ago and is still unresolved), none of the things I hate about macOS are bugs... they are all working as designed with some of them even touted as important features by Apple. A few of them I could work around - I've spent some serious money on simple utilities that make the OS usable to me - but others remain daily annoyances. If given half the chance, I'll drop Apple's software like a brick and never look back.
But there are also a lot of drawbacks of RTOS systems, no? Just searching "Real-time operating system downsides" shows a lot of drawbacks that makes it seem like a poor fit for a general-purpose OS: multi-tasking is limited, it's less efficient, and much more complex. There are certain use-cases where this is a good trade-off, but for my desktop OS? Probably not.