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The forced reboots meant there was no happy path in Windows 10 for me.

Xubuntu did me for years but I hate the new snap thing that happened to Ubuntu so I assume that will happen to Xubuntu too.

Debian Testing seems to be the way to go now.
Unsafe Swift, WWDC 2020
> Probably not the best attack to lump together rioters and protestors. And I thought all the rioters at the protests were white supremacists trying to start shit anyway; don't you want to track them?

What exactly are you going to do with information about who is starting the riots, turn it over to the police? Are they going to arrest the white supremacists who are more or less on their side in this debate?
It comes from many different places and is cross-correlated at many levels. From credit card purchase history to social media to phone location data, across multiple agents and brokers throughout the data market. See: Data Breaches, Crisis and Opportunity (ISBN 978-0-13-450678-4)
A fellow Raleigh-Durham-ite! The Microsoft store in Southpoint is/was indeed pretty great... But, the Apple store nearby always has much more traffic.
“Decolonization” is, as the article observes, usually an attempt to eliminate the influence of western institutions, culture, and thought. That would be a huge step backward. It would be cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Restitution is a separate issue. I think it would be fair for the British to return wealth they expropriated, but I’m not holding my breath. More to the point: I wouldn’t trust anyone who advocates “decolonization” to do what’s the best thing for the country going forward. I’ll stick with the British colonial legacy rather than invite a new wave of intellectual colonization from western left-wing universities. If the developed world wants to destroy itself with those ideas, let that be their problem.
I think it depends on the recipe. For baking, I find the scale easier: add flour, hit tare, add sugar, hit tare, etc.

For a recipe where ingredients go in at different times and require different prep, and measurements are approximate anyway, weighing is more trouble.
> you can't change content that the user is currently looking at without any interaction done, unless that's to be expected from the user

I think it’a more realistic to say that there has to be some latency bound in any user interaction. Clearly the result of any action is not instantaneous. Search boxes are tricky because the user isn’t sure what side effect typing an additional character will have - it could not refine the search or get a whole new set of results. If it’s not indicated to the user when the operation completes, then they can assume the former and then click at a bad time.
It is incredibly hard to buy laptops with LTE. Either they're not even stocked in stores or they have to be shipped direct, sometimes depending on the vagaries of the countries and providers involved.

Source: 11 years at Vodafone doing mobile broadband for enterprises in a previous lifetime. It was MUCH easier with PCMCIA cards, let me tell you...
Ha! I wonder if the seagull incident was a subtle way of giving away the author is full of crap ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This works great from the new Windows Terminal (using PowerShell 7):

Invoke-RestMethod http://wttr.in

For some reason they recommend that early in the readme, but not down in https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in#windows-users where they discuss various issues on Windows.

EDIT: I see now that lzybkr already suggested using the even shorter alias `irm` for `Invoke-RestMethod`. Nice!
I had a like experience.. but uh..when do they close the sale? To me they seemed so try-hard that you couldn't actually think about 'buying something', you know what I mean? Like an apple store (for a non-owner) is purely a low-pressure sales experience. You walk in, you see products you might buy and you can use and see them in a great environment.. but the MS store? They didn't even have pure confidence in their own products (due to fear of upsetting partners) that they sold 5+ competing brands that you could buy instead of a Surface. from there it devolved into a best-buy-like 'whichever computer you want!' instead of 'this MacBook Air is our right computer for you'. They lacked focus.
I'm choosing to interpret your comment as satire ;)
Yes, I'm not complaining, I find it interesting and educational seeing the issues raised and how they handle customers (they're my customers to). I'm sure if I raised it they would have me out quicker.

Though I would say I haven't experienced the five minute notification, every time was longer than that, again though, not complaining, I find the whole experience entertaining - the lights, the choreography, the cast of characters - best mall experience.
Very often, it’s the phone networks which are selling our location data to these brokers. There is virtually no regulation on this, and for phone companies it’s basically free money.
Indeed reality is catching up faster than they thought.
Scaling Yourself: Meeting Hacks
Even if you’re asymptomatic, the coronavirus can do damage
Reminder: OKCupid is owned by Match Group (also owns Tinder, Plenty of Fish, BlackPeopleMeet, OurTime, Twoo, match.com, and others), which sells their entire profile database (unredacted(!), with full names, sexual preferences, locations, and photos) to data brokers[1].

Very few services are immune from this. I learned recently that Airbnb (YC W09) actually sells your chat logs[2] and stay history(!) to data brokers, which can be used for stalking or kidnapping in the wrong hands.

Coinbase (YC S12) is also one of the companies that sells your activity log (including IP addresses and timestamps, which amounts to a location tracklog) to a third party without your explicit consent (other than creating a Coinbase account).

1: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59vbp5/shady-data-brokers...

2: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-...
this music is fantastic! Congrats on the success.
When I was in a high school busking band, we went to the local mall to make some money playing Christmas songs. We set up in front of the Apple store and within 10 minutes we’re kicked out by security. As we were leaving, someone from the fledgling Microsoft store told us they had a stage we could play on in front of their store the following day (our first “paid” gig, they gave us gift cards). The joke was on us though as it was an outdoor mall, and the temperature didn’t break 20 degrees. The guitarists fingers could barely play, but it was memorable nonetheless and presented a clear contrast in how the Apple store vs Microsoft store treated young buskers!
The Hardest Problem in Computing
Did anything happen to the soldiers (and their officer) shown killing civilians in Wikileaks' Collateral Murder video [0]? What about whoever ordered that drone strike on a wedding [1]?

0. https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/

1. https://www.newsweek.com/wedding-became-funeral-us-still-sil...
An aggregate 3M support QAnon as followers or members of FB pages and IG accts
A few years ago, my friend and I launched our own publication on medium because we were very into comedy/satire. The Onion was the pinnacle. For a couple of months we met every morning in a coffee shop before the start of our respective jobs, around 7;30am and just brainstormed.

The biggest thing to me was that I learned that motivation was something that could come after you force yourself to wake up early and just get started. There were many days where we decided to not show up and skipped the days. The rest of the days that we did show up, I never ever regretted them. We came up with some hilarious ideas (at least to us) and would just sit there laughing like idiots in the coffeeshop.

We eventually launched our "publication" on Medium, and it of course fell flat because there needs to be a level of marketing and consistent effort for years before you have a dedicated following. But, those few months were some of the most creative months I've ever had in my life. I loved it. Was it a huge success? Not in the least. Was it even funny? No idea, our friends thought the articles were pretty funny, but other than that, it made it nowhere. If anybody wants to check it out -- https://medium.com/thedailylemming

After reading this article, though, I think what OP wrote is sort of not what I imagined. Sitting at home alone churning out ideas to some faceless email for a name on your resume is not my idea of creativity, I guess. I like the concept of sitting at a table and just sort of ping ponging ideas until you get something that is amazing. Of course I can say that since I'm not an actual writer and I can do this on the side and be picky and choosy as much as I want.
Ask HN: Tech Related Twitter Accounts to Follow?
I notice that many people of the tech industry are heavy Twitter users, from CEOs of big companies to startup founders and hackers. If I want to get a sense of what topics people in tech are talking about this week, which Twitter accounts should I follow?
Google’s Phone app could soon tell you why a business is calling you
I do. I enjoy the entire album experience, and tend to enjoy artists that make fully connected albums more than others. Tool, Arcade Fire, and Pink Floyd are great examples.

I don’t need the physical media though.

Why? Probably something about renting vs. owning that’s always driven many of my decisions on spending money.
I normally purchase a vinyl which comes with a digital download code for mp3/FLAC. But I will still normally just stream the music.
Agree! I used to walk through the store in Century City at lunch to see what was new in laptops, headsets, etc. They often had classes or lots of kids doing something on the computer. I made a few purchases there including a Surface tablet for my son that has been a great piece of hardware.

Maybe this is the opening for someone else to come up with an experiential computer store. I hope so.
My laptop is from ~2006. I can still run OpenBSD and Chromium with ~15 tabs open, and play videos well up to 720p, 1080p is wasting HD size because the screen is smaller than that.
I think there's a misspelling on your pitch page - "aren’t these two frends adorable? the book is too!"
Foreign competition is a problem because employees of the domestic company vote (the foreign company doesn't have a large back office of voters). Thus the domestic company can vote for things good for them bad for competition and bad for the country. Two companies means that the thing voted for is more likely to be fair because a number of good for one ideas are not possible with the other opposing it.

Note that many of the things good for the domestic company are bad for the country overall. However non employees are not individually harmed as much as employees are individually helped. Thus most voters won't oppose the bad regulations.
Possibly because Apple sells ~250 iPhones and three iPads for each Surface sold.
Show HN: Gamified Pomodoro Timer
The average human attention span is 8 seconds. With the rise of social media, youtube, netflix, etc. We get everything we need instantly with our phone. It's impossible to consistently stay off it, so much so that it begins hurting our relationships and work life.

Regular pomodoro timers are boring. Why not add an avatar that you study alongside with and give experience to? A collection of over 200+ items to collect, and a cool UI that makes it feel like more like a treasure quest than a pomodoro session.

Appreciate all the support and would love your feedback!

link: focusbyte.io
Felixge/fgprof: Sampling Go profiler
Some of the ideas we've built into Prisma are certainly inspired by tools in other languages and we've looked a lot at LINQ and the C# ecosystem in general as we designed Prisma!

However, I believe that one thing that sets Prisma apart is the architecture with a _query engine_ [1] (implemented in Rust) that takes care of query planning and execution on top of which we can add lightweight, language-specific layers to bring Prisma Client to more programming languages. But you're definitely right that a generated database client is not a novel idea per se!

For example, we're already working on Prisma Client for Golang which is already available in alpha!

[1] https://www.prisma.io/docs/reference/tools-and-interfaces/pr...

[2] https://github.com/prisma/prisma-client-go
> the OS was a quick hack job

You mean Arthur? I have to agree - the only impressive thing about it was that it was written in BBC Basic. I also spent too much on an A440 (and a multisync monitor that literally made my hair stand on end when I turned it on). Still, I have no regrets. As you say, RISC OS 2 delivered the goods. By day, I was working in monochrome text mode on a clunky old 16-bit IBM XT. By night, I was in the glorious high-res colour 32-bit future. One of the finest computers even made IMHO (except for the mouse!)
I've been to MS store only once last year to buy a laptop that was on sale. It was a good and pleasant buying experience and the staff was very friendly. However, I noticed that there weren't a lot of variety of hardware on sale. I wish they had more computer stuff, like GPU, mechanical keyboards, motherboards, etc.... Imagine if they were like mini Micro-center, I'd bet they would've been a lot more popular than Apple store. The foot traffic alone would've given them some good will for MS, if that was their intent.
Cool, I was actually wondering about that.
Another possibility would be to freeze the results if the user is moving their mouse/arrow keys over the options.
Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs
While thats true, I can’t imagine the slow bleed that ptsd from working 50 hour weeks of stress can do to the human brain. It would be a surprise if you retired and weren’t screwed up after decades of that imo.
Creativity is illogical and chaotic. Things that work for one, won't for another. Trying to find reason in it might be pointless. Getting it down to a methodology might be ideal for some, but that's because they might be more logic-oriented than emotion-oriented

Ideally you should find how you can extract the most out of your intellect and use that. There's a right way and a wrong way, but not on a collective level, only in an individual one.
> Disappointing news for him and for me, although I can understand the business justification.

Understanding the business justification is why I don’t understand why people think Apple products are overpriced. Not a single other tech organization wants to provide customer service other than Apple, even one with as much cash as Microsoft. Why should I not reward Apple for putting their money where their mouth is?

Obviously, anything less expensive than Apple products makes it unfeasible to offer customer service in person and only merits waiting in a phone queue.
So instead of being comedy writers pretending to be a news room, they've become a news room pretending to be comedy writers? Now they just need to work on their embargo dates, because they've been clearly running their stories before the events.
Hiding your face is already illegal in the uk.
it motivated me to learn C.
And perhaps detriment. Nodejs apps are notoriously more difficult to keep secure because of how many npm dependencies are needed for a project and how often vulnerabilities are discovered in those dependencies.
I love the Onion. There's also an old BBC comedy called Brass Eye that was quite similar.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IEwBrJzhlg
One of my favorite games for the Atari 800 was Sid Meier's chopper rescue, this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUyebYD5UO0

Written partially in Atari BASIC... I wonder which environment Sid Meier preferred.
After inspecting the patching tool, I made a Homebrew Cask for it in order to have a basic integrity check for peace of mind.

To install the tool using Homebrew, run:

brew cask install claui/cask-public/patch-installer

To patch the Big Sur installer, run:

patch_installer.sh <drag the installer partition here>

After patching the Big Sur installer, you can uninstall the tool:

brew cask uninstall patch-installer
Show HN: HiFiC – High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression – demo and paper
Opentracing for Go Projects
They aren't going to cure death in your lifetime. you will almost certainly die of something. if you think it's healthier not to come to terms with that... well, you're entitled, but I think you'll be disappointed
Wish I still had a mac. I remember Bang and Olufsen doing some spatial audio research a few years back:

https://www.en.tech.aau.dk/news-events/news/new-lab-mimics-t...

It's nice to see it being rolled out into their products too!
Investing is not lending. Usury is a nebulous concept, one mans usury is another’s lifeline. Cicero was a murdering hypocritical prig who hated anything that would help the poor pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
We can still just copy the how and what, and not the accompanying epic novel :)

I think I managed to give credit where it is due (in the intro, at least), but about 60% of the recipes are things we veganised ourselves from whatever old family recipes we have.
This is already very much a thing that has driven improvements:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/22/705914833/epis...

In fact, there have been many such forces, technology being o a big one, which have driven many such improvements over the years. It just isn’t moving fast enough to save everyone.
Tencent’s Twitch Streaming Rival Is Hiding in Plain Sight
And shims in their shoes to hide their gait, and enclosed in plastic to hide their scent from artificial noses and to prevent shedding DNA, and they'll sneak around the sewers to hide from satellites, and carrying lead weights to hide their mass from for sensors, and foil suits to hide from mm-wave devices in doorways, and fake irises to hide the iris pattern viewed in non-visible frequencies, ...?

Hoods and glasses only work if everyone is doing it. In certain parts of my town you can tell the drug runners by their "uniform", primarily pulled down hoodies and a hand down their trousers.
We've alluded to this in the blog post as well:

> We are commited to building world-class open-source tools to solve common database problems of application developers. To be able to sustain our open-source work, we're planning to build commercial services that will enable development teams and organizations to collaborate better in projects that are using Prisma.

So, your hunch is correct that later down the road we'll invest into building commercial cloud services for teams and enterprises that are using Prisma's open source tool!
Of course there is more to photography than sensor size. But an Olympus E-MD I was more expensive than a Sony A7ii that also has very good IBIS, can adapt pretty much any lens, and also has solid computational photography abilities.

The Sigma E-MD I that actually has all of the features you're talking about was almost as big as an A7. The lenses were smaller, but if you don't mind horrible apertures that you have to get on M4/3 you can also have very small and light lenses. Even moreso if you go APS-C.

The lens system also has huge pricing issues. The f2.0 zoom on M4/3 is equivalent to the kit lens on a Sony A7ii. That's a ten times price reduction!
My A7 with a pancake lens is small enough that I can actually slip it into my pocket (!)

Compromising image quality for portability at such an extreme extent is not a good idea when smartphone are so plentiful. If sensor size and optics doesn't really matter, then why not take pictures on your phone? They have amazing IBIS, innovative computational photography, and so on.
That may be the case. I rarely go inside my local mall (Southpoint, Durham NC), but on sunny weekends the Apple store was often jam-packed with people. So busy that customers had a hard time getting through the door. Sales people talking non-stop and processing orders as fast as possible. There was a Microsoft store inside the main mall building, just a few minutes away. I walked by it a few times, but it was usually empty.
“We're sorry, but this video is not available”

Checked the transcript. Luckily, it says vertebrates :-)
Very interesting read. I have never made any music but I am compelled by the idea of starting some time in the future. I have always thought that releasing music on Spotify was nothing that could ever bring in any revenue but it seems I was a bit wrong on that.

Really nice blogpost!
I have been working with integrating Prisma with Vitess and it is a very nice platform. Of all the ORM's I have been working with testing I think it gets what I want out of an ORM better then almost every other ORM. I am excited to see how it matures and I think the combo of Rust for the engine and Typescript for the userspace is really a killer feature.
And as DanBC said multiple times, that was not the real reason why they were out there. You seem to be ignoring all context for why they were out there and who organized it in attempt to equate the two in a disingenuous manner. At this point it's obvious you're not here to argue in good faith.
Apple sells 100s of phones and iPads for each surface sold. One can't just take their store model without their context and think it will be as successful. Plus you can get a surface at any store, no need to go to a Microsoft store that sells a random assortment of a computers (not just their own) where a new user might not realize a Surface is a Microsoft product.
Escaping (neo)colonialism generally means focusing on domestic ownership of domestic infrastructure, labor, markets, and supply chains, and untangling oneself from debt traps like the IMF.

It's not some crazy, scary ideological idea, unlike what elite Western propagandists have been saying.

Just don't advocate it too strongly or you might get got by paid goons, like Sankara and many other victims of foreign-influenced regime change.
I haven't had the Adobe Flash plugin installed for several years now. I can't even remember the last time I needed to use Chrome for Flash support.

My kids are in college and I don't think they've needed Flash even for the variety of archaic sites they have to deal with.
> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

– Charles Babbage

How can a dishwasher possibly be designed to discourage people from doing things to the dishes before they put them into the dishwasher?
You are boycotting people playing a 20 year old game that was made by Blizzard North, who closed their doors in 2005, over someone being banned in 2019? Why don't we just cancel every business who has ever done something we disagree with?
Fake accounts are constantly trying to manipulate what you see on social media
> you should pick and choose your battles

Well it's the same battle - it's about giving the kids access to information and an opportunity to learn coding. You can't compare that to free meals(which is of course important, but as you said it's a different battle).
Sounds like a GDPR fine waiting to happen.
Does the ethnicity data also come from phone companies?
Digging Your Talons In – New Take on Password Guessing
One of the downsides is that if you have curl set to not use a user agent, it (along with many such services) won't work.

So

curl --user-agent "" wttr.in

just serves you unformatted HTML.
Slightly related: I saw a comment the other day by someone who had somehow managed to blame Obama for the rise in violence against minorities, with the rationalization being that “we didn’t have all of these problems until Obama was in office”.

It’s a classic case of correlation != causation. Smart phones with video cameras in them became ubiquitous during Obama’s time in office. Similarly, bodycams became more commonly used by the police. That’s the difference.

This has been happening all along, we just couldn’t prove it until now.