skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't reproduce on iPhone X in the beta of iOS 14. Though I've also never had this sort of thing happen to me generally. Safari always either does a search for what I typed it goes to the exact address I entered.
Firefox does that to fix quickly typed domains if they're not found by DNS (it appends .com and tries to load that). It's probably because form/multipart is nearly a functional URL (where "form" is the hostname, which could very well be resolved in corporate networks or through a hosts file, for example).

If you want to be sure you're executing a search, either use a keyword for Google or start your query with a question mark. A quick way to execute a search is to hit control+k, which puts focus to the URL bar and prepopulates it with "? " so that whatever you type after it is executed as a search.

I actually dislike it when Firefox does the opposite for websites like pi.hole or fritz.box. The domain does resolve, but you get redirected to a search page regardless and Firefox put a suggestion to navigate to what you typed. My address bar is not a Google search form, it's an address bar that happens to search on Google when I type something that's not a web address.
SARS-CoV-2 was detected in sewage long before the declaration of the first case
Nothing, and I mean nothing, will ever top Boniva. It helped your bones.
Why choose to work there from Europe if you have such constraints?
The quest is ~72Hz. We (the VR community) moved on from 75 Hz many years ago through 90Hz, and my Index currently does 120, with an experimental 144Hz mode.

Research (mostly by Valve I think) has shown that the higher the framerate the less the incidence of sickness. 72Hz just isn't enough.
A user story about user stories
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Been doing just fine for 10 years.
They own about half of them according to the Forbes article below, including four of the five 777s they operate.

But even if you're right it only enhances my point; there's little "scrap" value in VA; it's either an operating airline or nothing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willhorton1/2020/04/25/is-virgi...
While I have been using MacBooks as my personal and work computers for the majority of the past 10 years, I used to work exclusively on Thinkpads, and used two generations of them as my personal computers. Both of them still work and I expect them to keep working thanks to their almost unlimited repairability. While I still prefer macOS over any other operating system, I think young people with lots of spare time on their hands could benefit a lot from spending a few years working on Linux, to pick up command-line skills and general computing awareness that is useful on any platform.
"Invest in Main Street, not Wall Street." doesn't really tell me anything. Why would I be interested to only invest in business located at one street in some city in the US? Wall Street I understand to be the "business/finance" neighborhood of the US, is Main Street something similar to that but for "normal" businesses?

Seems like a weird tagline, but could also be that I'm missing something as I don't live in the US.
It is not entirely clear how it would be correct to calculate the amount of data required by a human language center to learn that much. Do you count all the random thoughts in someone's mind? What if those thoughts, and also some subconscious processess are constantly running in that network?

Input to the human (like audible words said in front of them), and input to the network (whatever data that part of the brain receives from anywhere, both from outside but also from other parts of the brain) are two very distinct things.

> gives humans a durable advantage over GPT-3-like approaches.

I think it is pretty clear to everyone involved that there are, empirically, so far, numerous very important and obvious and deep advantages that humans have over a GPT-3. This doesn't mean that GPT-2/3 aren't a tremendous achievement in AI.
Ya'll can put your money in exotic parrot stores and funeral homes. I will stick with the Nasdaq 100.
> single purpose apps that work better than monolithic apps that do multiple functions

I would argue that iphone apps are monolithic and do multiple functions. For example Booking, Airbnb and Uber all have messenger, mapping, reservation system, calendar and scheduling function...

Why I have to use dozen different messaging system? Or several maps, each with different search and overlays. I want single experience, consistent across all apps. It should respect my usability settings, theme and other tweaks.
Also not easy to stay in touch with friends, which is even more important when all your colleagues are across the ocean.
I will jump on it if we see Xcode for ipad, being able to build apps and seemless use sensors and the touch screen while testing would be a massive productivity win for some of the apps I work on.
Onboardings in Time of Corona: UX-Bootcamp
If you are a product company with a thriving community and users, you should experiment with UX Bootcamp as program to onboard new engineering hires.
Drains battery. I can easily work all day on a T480 with LTE, I doubt that a Macbook could last that long while simultainously charging an Iphone (drains very quickly when I use it as a hotspot)
Maybe a kind of argument ad verecundiam[0]?

[0] https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html
I agree the author is showing off. That’s the premise of every working-on-iPad article out there. Just cmd+f for “magical”, “amazing”, and “delight.” It’s all the same breathless descriptions of sending emails and annotating PDFs.

That said, nearly everyone who makes a donation could’ve done something “better” and made a bigger impact with their money.

I’m willing to roast the author for writing a boring article but not for their donation.
Overreaction caused the issue, not the pandemic.
> 10 minutes on average, but that's only 1 confirmation. You'll need to wait 6 before you can ship the goods. Current cost is $0.50 - so both slow and expensive. (source https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/fee-calculator/)

Oh boy, wait till you hear about international money transfers.
TBH, without context I'd be 100% certain that those posts are ironic or just trolling. Thing is, in that interview and elsewhere she expresses views typical of other Stalinists, so it's unfortunately not that.
> Am I the only one who thinks that the author is showing off here.

It is a little unusual to criticize someone who donated to the needy, just to say the donor was showing off and to point out what they could have donated instead to make a much bigger impact.

Let’s say you donated 100 Thinkpads (you should), but then you were criticized for showing off when you could have donated 5,000 meals to children who lost access to free school breakfast/lunches due to covid school closures. It’s a real issue, but you should pick and choose your battles (probably just like I should).
It's still part of the default desktop for the antiX distro (ROX-IceWM).
You’re being downvoted but this is probably more true than most people here want to admit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Thinkpadhead myself - I have “a few.” But time and again my 11 year old’s iPad “just works” while I’m hacking on my Linux and the rest of my family comes to me with various Windows problems.

As the extended family’s bonafide IT admin, I looooong for the day when business apps are so effective on iOS that I can retire everyone’s W10 machine!
There's a fine line between trying to improve an idea and cheap knock-offs and stealing an ideas and identities.

Uber and Lyft are very similar, but at least they could be differentiated. Lyft had tips at the start. The apps, sites, UX, colour scheme, etc... were still noticeably different despite offering the same product.

Also it's a little different when you work at one company, leave, and then a year later you copy their same product with little change and 0 attempt to establish your own brand.
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My Toshiba laptop from 2006 has build in cellular modem. It is pretty common.
My 200 Euro Thinkpad has a slot for a SIM card, which I use for 3G connectivity. I'm sure a newer one would have LTE, or I might even be able to replace the card in my Thinkpad to get LTE. Also, having internet on a laptop while on the go is fucking awesome (without the fiddlyness of turning on a hotspot).
They can boycott all they want small and medium-sized businesses make up majority of Facebook's advertising revenue.
Presumably they think "workers in EU timezones will have to work unsociable hours" is a more generous policy than "we don't hire workers in EU timezones"

Of course, policies like "no cross-continent teams" or "no meetings whatsoever" would be even better - but that's an even bigger corporate re-organisation.
This guy may have gotten Perl out of his part of the JP Morgan world, but JP Morgan still actively uses Perl. It’s not as big as it once was, but there are teams still developing and deploying Perl.
> The integration between FaceID and autocompletion from Keychain makes 1Password feel absolutely ancient. Never going back to that again

Huh?? Does the author not know that 1P can also autocomplete with Face ID?
Corporations definitely are people, just ones that have a legal duty and financial incentive to act extremely selfishly and deceptively.
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I'm getting 8-16 hours depending on use from my T480, and that's 2 CPU generations behind. I expect 20h+ from the new Ryzens.
Are you asserting that he copied code or graphics, or took existing customers with him? If not, then there's still nothing wrong. It's competition, it's how it works.
With the push for Universal / SwiftUI apps coming I imagine we will see a lot more apps on the mac, if developers are easily able to port and test the waters they might improve the experience for macOS.
Is just a name, but you are really investing in a single store. Like a coffee shop. But investing in retail now have a lot of risks
We give the police some slack because its a dangerous job. They are often paid quite well because its dangerous.

But how dangerous is it?

1 Logging workers

2 Fishers and related fishing workers

3 Aircraft pilots and flight engineers

4 Roofers

5 Refuse and recyclable material collectors

6 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

7 Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers

8 Structural iron and steel workers

9 First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers

10 First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service and groundskeeping workers

11 Electrical power-line installers and repairers

12 Grounds maintenance workers

13 Miscellaneous agricultural workers

14 Helpers, construction trades

15 First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers and repairers

16 Police and sheriff’s patrol officers

Source: https://www.ajc.com/business/employment/these-are-the-most-d...

EDIT: Be nice to your fellow HNer's. Also, no one could pay me enough to be a policeman.
Pluto has likely maintained an underground liquid ocean for billions of years
A couple years back, there was a hackernews post that analyzed hundreds of HN submissions and determined which times were best to post.

Some days I wish I had bookmarked that link
Yeah, but revenue figures are much harder to manipulate than "profits"...
Not using a fixed update rate is why i have to run a framecapping software on my fast PC in pretty much every game that is older than a few years.

Do not bother, Carmack couldn't get it right, Sweeney couldn't get it right, the guys at Monolith couldn't get it right, pretty much nobody could get it right. Even if you think your code works, it wont work. Floating point doesn't like operations like "thing += delta * speed", especially when delta varies from frame to frame.

Use a fixed time step for all updates (not just physics updates), use a high update rate like 60Hz to avoid any perceptible delays, interpolate the visible state in intermediate frames and if your game really needs immediate response (in practice this is only visible with mouse look in high refresh rate screens - other forms of input are not perceptible), do the visual change on the input event (e.g. rotate the camera when you move the mouse, play the sound effect when you hit fire or whatever) but let the game logic still run at the fixed update rate.

Consider anything else and you will have a broken game.
SwissCovid App Monitoring
It depends entirely on the geolocation database being used to map your IP address to location. wttr.in seems to use https://www.ip2location.com/ so maybe they have better mappings for your ISP. Bigger providers tend to use Akamai or similar.
> Microsoft has been continually tweaking the way the Windows 10 updating process works based on "user feedback"

I... what... where... when?

Seriously, how about just giving control to users? And btw, I still see machines were the telemetry service eats CPU. If you cannot get it to work, remove it. It shouldn't be part of an OS anyway. Don't tell me users like it, you could just offer an app in that case.

I don't get how neglected they have treated their flagship for desktop computers. Software as a service is good for my
tax declaration, but I really hate this trend.
How to Configure JMX in Spring Boot Inside Docker?
The Spring Boot framework provides the ability to monitor and manage your application by using Spring Boot Actuator. This module is intended to be used for auditing, health, and metrics gathering but it can also open a hidden door to your server when misconfigured (for example set a proper log level of your application at runtime).
This is not true of everyone.
I recently ran into input fields being autocorrected and autocapitalized at 2 different levels (disabled it with an attribute and this caused a delayed capitalization by autocorrect instead of an immediate one) by safari in the iOS emulator..

Luckily the field in question was an actual email so I could fix it by changing the type, since all the official and apple custom attributes I tried failed to turn off the correction..

I would like the security of a non-android device, but using apple products is utterly infuriating with all the damn "help" missfiring all the time.
Weird behavior on that URL. But search for ‘EN 45554:2020’ and you should find it :)
I see you are using regular formatting for code/shell commands on your comments. Not that that's a problem but just a note you can use one of HN's comments formatting tips[0] for this.

Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Linux is way better when it comes to privacy, without any doubt.

Dell is way better when it comes to hardware. Dell believes enough in their products to sell laptops with next business day repair included. It's definetly not cheap to send people to fix a single laptop in the middle of nowhere. Apple doesn't think their laptops are good enough for this to be worth it, so that says a bit about the build quality.
On the Current HEalthcare Unicorns
The subscription model gives you access to the drafts of the chapters and full book access at 8 months. For $9 at the lowest subscription grade this is $9x8 = $72 which seems like a fair deal to me when going through amazon for similar subject titles.

My experience of speaking with authors who have published books is that most of the money stays with the publisher and not the author which is a real pity. The net effect is the discouragement to write books which is counter to progress.

The subscription model is really interesting to me and I hope it makes a difference to the book publishing paradigm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street
I would simply call it deflecting responsibility.
Indeed, I guess Quora will become (even more of) a singles-fest in Europe.

My point is that as a general model, it fails hard here.
Conceptually, trust suggests we don't need to question, or exercise due diligence. I'd argue, in a capitalist system, you definitely shouldn't trust anyone! Capitalism is based on incentive.

--

So following on from this. Is the crux of these arguments anti-capitalist?

No .. it's not anti-capitalism. It's realistic. Even more realistic if you believe in a capitalism system and want to compete.

I feel that capitalism works most successfully when it provides more people with a better quality of life.

Fundamentally, there are conceptual problems with a capitalist system .. factors that lead to scenarios that are likely to lead to the system operating sub-optimally.

An example of a problem; if a corporation is allowed to grow without limit, how can new companies realistically compete?

The remedy? I guess it's up for discussion. But I think regulation can prevent the worst form occurring, and many markets have measures in place to carry out this type of regulation.

--

Why am I saying this?

Because I feel that open-source is simply a remedy to a conceptual problem that exists within our capitalist economy. It is not antithetical to capitalism.

Namely, the question it serves to answer is; how do we balance the power provided by digital technologies with the incentive companies have to exploit these powers for commercial gain?

Open-source is a logical answer to this. You could argue, we don't have the tools available to highlight any injustices contained in a code-base. My answer would be .. that doesn't mean we conceptually couldn't or won't in the future.

Closed source is a conceptual dead end - and won't lead to a better future.
If you look at satellite images of Indonesia, you'll see that much of it is now just palm oil. Most of that area was burned at least a decade ago. It would be nice if they'd abandon it, presumably a new rain forest could grow over the next century or so. But they continue to grow monocultures.
When I saw some of the example icons my first thought was what my phone will look like if all the app/icon designers don't agree on which direction the light is coming from.

In some examples the light is coming from above you, in others it seems to come from "north" of the screen, and another from north west.
Neat idea! The fiance and I have taken to simply printing recipes on paper. It has the benefit of eliminating a lot of the cruft that the website has - condensing the printed material to just ingredients and instructions.

And makes it really easy to reference a week or two later if we want to remake it - just pull it out of the binder.
Yeah. No more hoping for a cyberpunk future where people survive in the cracks. If surveillance tech grows, we'll get a society with nowhere to hide at all.
That’s gonna be a hot domain, you already made it.
Definitely generous towards the taxman! All that extra taxable on unsociable hours...
Ar my company, which is (normally) a mixture of on-prem (at many different offices) and remote/WFH, I'm sure all of the senior leadership team have offices somewhere. But many/most of their reports and other people they coordinate with are in different offices/remote and most of them are traveling most of the time anyway.

In think the opinions of a lot of people here are shaped by small companies where everyone is on a floor or two of a building. At global companies, the reality is that people are pretty distributed and you have late night and early morning phone calls.

West Coast to Europe is tough for day-to-day synchronous communications. We don't have many people on the West Coast and are pretty much East Coast-centric (and Europe to a lesser degree). And that coordination works fairly well.
A military unit may have to go do something with high casualties in order to achieve a higher objective.
So you basically say it's not hard to design a processor (even x86), just patents prohibit it? I had always thought that at least some part of the Intel/AMD dominance was the complexity of the designs and manufacturing that even a company like Apple couldn't build within a decade.
My point was that they could just as well race the DNS lookups, right?
When I managed teams with flex hours, several parents explicitly preferred to work 4PM to midnight because they could spend the morning with their kids while their spouse worked their day job.

If the working hours are presented up front and agreed upon by all, I don’t see why this is any more problematic than any other shift work. There are a lot of programmers out there who are naturally night owls and would prefer those hours anyway.

Having direct experience with this, I can say that it’s not only not a problem, it’s a bonus for many. Including people with children.

Let the people decide what’s best for themselves and choose jobs accordingly. Don’t shame companies who don’t fit your own personal ideals of working hours.
>The Saragossa Manuscript

As a Spaniard, the usage of Flamenco chords in Aragon puts me really out of place.
Was it the low-level soldiers or the higher-ups who created the plans for torture at Abu Ghraib who were publicly shamed, humiliated and then jailed?
It's not ready yet, but it's pretty clear that that's where they're headed.
Not joking at all, I still use it daily, works fine as a machine for browsing the internet and watching youtube/netflix, with ocassional dev in terminal. Replaced the HDD with an SSD years ago and it's still very brisk. It runs El Capitan 10.11.6, which I don't have any issues with, but I am mildly concerned about the lack of security updates for it.
The photo is credited to someone else - I imagine it was chosen for beauty rather than truth. Earlier in the article there's a link to an actual bike, and it is a road bike: https://surlybikes.com/bikes/legacy/pacer
so, like every VC startup
The comment you reply to happens to hit the nail on the head. Some perl was slipped deep into some platform in the 2000s.

While client software could be python, java or C# (usage has evolved quite a bit over the decades), they ultimately called and depended upon a bunch of Perl on some servers.
It all depends on ROI. Perhaps these small businesses will give more return if they can get seed money to get started. It's an interesting business model for sure. Similar to Lending Club but for small businesses.
I dunno. I love the iPad, but my wife still works on her 2009 Thinkpad T400s 8+ hours a day.

I keep trying to buy her a new one but she doesn’t want it, it still works fine.

Thinkpads can really last these days.
On that same note Apple's auto-correction really sucks.

On my iPhone I replaced the keyboard with SwiftKey b/c I kept making embarrassing mistakes with the default keyboard.
The rest of that quote concerning user feedback reads "...which seems to be, in large part, complaints."
I think "Main Street" is referring to small businesses, which are usually outside of ordinary people's reach when it comes to investing, since most business investing is limited to "accredited investors".

Small business lending is an interesting space. Small business often fail and thus small business loans tend to have garbage rates. I'm assuming the idea is to hit people on an emotional level, allowing 'investment' into someone that you can relate with as opposed to some large corporation.
That might be coming from the tradition of mis-en-place - “everything is put in place”. The idea is that you prepare all the ingredients and have them in front of you before you start cooking. Oftentimes cooking process requires precise timing and parallel execution and you will not have a time to search for an ingredient, measure it, or prep (dice, wash etc).
Ah you might be right but I think they're allowed to have it not just do it in the normal program.

Both my (single washer / drier /and my parents (two separate machines) have an extra button that add a "second extra rinse 5 minutes after the normal one" thatwwe always use by default because the normal rinse is indeed not good enough.

Now I'm wondering if it's not possible to have a proper rinse within the norms of if having found that workaround stopped them on fixing the issue.