skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Apple is holding the web back"

Nope, Apple is taking care of it's customers and protecting them from Google's ad exploitation.

"I feel it may be a similar fate for Apple, and for similar reasons, unless they change their attitude towards the web"

On the contrary, if Apple allowed this web Wild West that Google is advocating, then the users would have incentive to switch. This move from Apple actually ensures that things run smoothly on Apple devices.

It is not about "power for web developers", it is web developers being lazy to self-educate and learn other stacks.

There is skill called "desktop development" and it does not entail Electron.

Luckily Apple is not gonna let that happen with the mobile apps and the PWA.
This company claims its air filter kills the virus too.

https://cleanairexp.com/
India and China recently ended up at war. 20 Indian soldiers died and an undisclosed number of Chinese soldiers died during a primitive battle with Kung Fu sticks and stones. There's an agreement on not using firearms in conflicts and that has held up for some 60 years. There's no reason to believe this would be an all out war anytime soon.
Does this imply there's a radio frequency that's not dominated by retirees? ;)

HF feels considerably harder to get into. If you're a city dweller your only antenna choice is probably a magloop. VHF has options for things like satellite and ISS contacts, and the fact that it's local makes it seem a bit more relevant and community-driven.
Jan 2020, not 2018. And commit history indicates quite a bit of activity.
Depends the country you are in, a lot of countries have interoperability exceptions, so while a hackintosh might not be legal, something like this would.
And I would really like something similar for my microphone - a physical switch. For camera I can glue one myself, but for mic it is not possible :(
> If the bill was meant to be secular, it could provide asylum for everyone suffering religious persecution, regardless of their religion. It clearly is designed to exclude muslims.

Here is the document in it's entirety - http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/214646.pdf.

Please point out the relevant sections of the document where it is stated that Muslims will not be allowed to apply for asylum or that Muslims will not be granted asylum.

It just accelerates the process for certain groups of people that are in more grave danger in the area. There's nothing wrong in that. Just because some groups are not mentioned for the accelerated process does not mean that they are excluded from the entire process.
Parent said it's the web developers who argue for PWA, I just stated why they have reasons to do that.
That is jan 18th, of this year.
Not only Americans. Vietnamese people view white, Western people very favorably, since they generally look up to those developed nations (and their citizens).

And yes, part of the reason is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
There's a pent up demand in India for cheap iPhones. Most of the phones manufactured would be for domestic market. Local manufacturing would provide better pricing to compete with Android market in India.
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Off topic, but your comment made me think of the way my view toward restaurants has changed.

If the pandemic has taught me anything, it’s that restaurants as a concept are just kind of terrible and unnecessary, at least for the bulk of the world’s unremarkable places.

If a perfect vaccine was distributed to every person on the planet right now I wouldn’t be back to visit 95% of restaurants out there.

During “lockdown” I learned to make all kinds of food and way more interesting, higher quality cocktails than 95% of bars and restaurants have, for a fraction of the price.

I learned that my restaurant visits were there to satisfy an emotional desire, and they didn’t even do a great job of that.

I learned that the desire for a “quick meal” is a farce, that homemade food isn’t really a time sink for someone deep into the habit.

My future restaurant visits will be way more sparse and deliberate. I’m going to be holding restaurants to the standard of making something that I literally can’t make at home without going to culinary school and apprenticing under a master chef.

It isn’t a noble act to support your local business if the business isn’t meeting your needs, and at this point I’m not sure how my local dive is going to be able to adapt to my modified needs.
I agree, but if the brute majority is not used well or if it is used to further individuals motives than the collective then they are not good.To practice Democracy, is the ability to question the usage of funds. Also dilution of institutions is quite worrisome even the supreme court judges have said this.
Pure curiosity. I tried it a few years ago, I think because he posted something about keeping his identity secret and I was curious how hard it was to find. Then again with these recent articles I did some basic searching.
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Others have already mentioned several reasons that would justify their choices. I completely understand why a company of Netflix's size has half a dozen different databases.

Recently, I ran into a somewhat similar situation that left me asking "why the hell are there five different databases running on this ONE virtual machine?".

It was one of VMware's virtual appliances running one of their products. I want to say it was either vRealize Network Insight or vRealize Operations Manager but I'm not 100% sure. It was likely one of those or something along those lines.

To stand up the smallest possible deployment of this virtual appliance, the "minimum recommendations" were something like 8 or 10 vCPUs, 32 GB of RAM, and 800 GB of storage -- and, if memory serves, this was for a single node!

Anyways, I got looking into it a bit and discovered that there were a total of five (5) separate database instances running on this one single virtual machine. I can't recall the specifics now but I'm pretty sure there were two PostgreSQL instances and one MongoDB instance. The other two have escaped my memory but I believe #4 was Cassandra. NFI now what #5 was.

On a positive note, afterwards I completely understood why the "minimum recommendations" were what they were. I would have (naively?) thought it'd be better to spread those database instances across a few VMs but I suppose (from VMware's perspective) when your customers call up screaming because their appliance they just paid six figures for is running like crap before they've even really put it into production, 1) you've got just one VM you've got to deal with and 2) the easy "fix" is to simply tell the customer to give it more resources ("another 10 vCPUs and an additional 64 GB of RAM and it should be fine!").

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>But because the User Presence detection happens in the physical authenticator it can't fake that, it does need you to press the button, tap the sensor or whatever.

Sure, there's a user present. That doesn't stop the account being compromised. Users tap that thing all day when prompted. You prompt, they tap, easy as pie.

If you're really advanced you could build a little mechanical arm that would reach out of the computer and tap the key itself.

>And the credentials obtained this way are inherently one-use

That "one-use" could be to add a new 2FA device that's under the attacker's permanent control.
That's true. The effort was very concentrated.

Those days in late 2003 were crazy. Waking up at noon to work on it for until 9:00pm, and then off to a night shift writing boring tests script stuff until the morning. And also weekends. It was like a full time job with extra hours during that month. Was full head-on stamina at age 21, and I don't even drink tea or coffee.

Interestingly, if it wasn't for the boring night shift job I had back then, I would have never found all the time back at home during the day time to do all this. And once I figured out how I want to write it, nothing stopped me until it worked.
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Um, obviously this would have been the design more than a century ago when the current school system was put into place. These days we seem to mainly do what we do because that is "how it has always been done". Tradition! You see little efforts to change things up (for example, special classes for advanced students), but for the most part you are still expected to show up at 7am, eat lunch at a specific time, go to the bathroom during breaks, leave at 3pm, sit in a desk for an hour plus at a time, etc.

I don't think there is some grand conspiracy. I think educators are not willing to go totally against the grain and absolutely throw out everything we do right now and start from scratch. For instance, school time before 9am is insane. Kids need more sleep than that. How about kids can get up and leave the classroom and go to the bathroom or go and eat whenever they want? Do we really need classrooms? Do we need dedicated buildings for school? Do we need schedules? Do all kids really need math, science, history, etc.? Just because we have always done things one way doesn't mean we have to keep doing them that way.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article

> During January 26–February 10, 2020, an outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease in an air-conditioned restaurant in Guangzhou, China, involved 3 family clusters. The airflow direction was consistent with droplet transmission. To prevent the spread of the virus in restaurants, we recommend increasing the distance between tables and improving ventilation.
Been eagerly anticipating this thing for a while now.
Originally it looked like it was gonna come out before the MEGA65 (because they had been dragging their butts for like 6 years) but now it looks like THAT's gonna be coming out first! How times change!

I hope they don't clash with each-other as they both look awesome!
Amazon walks back its order for employees to delete TikTok from their phones
Actually, that's how other countries are dealing with the U.S.
You might be right but I'm not inclined to give the author the benefit of the doubt. From the abstract, the author clearly says:

"The article further argues that ... computers are not in the world."

The specific quote you mention is in a larger paragraph which says:

"Computers are not in our world. I have earlier said that neural networks need not be programmed, and therefore can handle tacit knowledge. However, it is simply not true, as some of the advocates of Big Data argue, that the data “speak for themselves”. Normally, the data used are related to one or more models, they are selected by humans, and in the end they consist of numbers."

My reading of this is that "tacit" is used as a kind of dog whistle to dualists. It's ambiguous enough so that the author can claim they meant "learned" while still suggesting an underlying dualism.

Regardless of the meaning of "tacit" in this context, the author pretty much flat out says they're a dualist by repeatedly claiming "computers are not in our world" and "in the end they consist of numbers".

I think you're giving the author too much credibility that they aren't making a plea to mysticism.
Another solution I have thought about is simple increasing the amount of fresh air brought into an indoor space. Laboratories, wood-working shops and other spaces that can produce unhealthy air have extremely high Air Change per Hour (ACH)[1] requirements. It's wasteful[2] since you also have to condition that air, but it seems like a simple solution to ensuring we dilute air swarming with potential virus.

[1] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-change-rate-room-d_86...

[2] You can limit it a little bit with demand control ventilation, which monitors C02 exhaled by occupants and tunes ventilation accordingly.
I can't find any announcement from Amazon. Really hope that this is just a wild speculation. On the other hand, I've been reading some books on Manning liveBook, it's really nice to be able to interact with other readers in the comment section on the same content, and sometimes the author would chime in too. But of course only Manning books are available there.
Except there isn't any jurisdiction where Apple has a proper monopoly.
> You describe the iOS app store as some kind of zen garden of curated software, when it's full off the same kind of spammy apps that pollute other app stores

Yeah, it's disgusting.

> The purpose of the App Store was to ensure that Apple got a cut of every dollar flowing through the store

I think there were competing internal forces: a desire to milk the iPhone's success, vs something akin to an Apple retail store experience. Sadly they gave us the worst of both worlds: they freely admit shit, yet pick fights with good stuff, like Basecamp Hey mail.

It makes no sense why Apple would choose to defend this hill. Either make it a Zen garden or turn it to a web-style free-for-all.
"Can you please show me the benefit to society of cryptocurrencies?"
Sci-Hub? Wikileaks? Medical Marijuana?
There's something fascinating about a politician calling a bunch of people stupid for no reason. Like, he admits he's not good at coding, it's not like I'd take his word on tech decisions. This whole thing is so weird. You'd imagine he'd either have good taste, or try and pander to the most people. He's taken a third path, which I can't really place.
> The time is ripe for them to be replaced.

You can't replace companies that have up to 2 billion combined users and buy any competitors that get any traction at all. All you can do is legislate.
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>>> By making the filter electrically heated, rather than heating it from an external source, the researchers said they minimized the amount of heat that escaped from the filter, allowing air conditioning to function with minimal strain.
wow, interesting. I'm male but recently discovered I'm allergic to nickel after 30 years of playing guitar (electric guitar strings are usually nickel composite materials) but I didn't realize it was that common. I kinda self diagnosed it but I'm almost happy it's a common thing.
The tones used in this article sound very patronising. Maybe it's the matter of privacy being addressed that gives these "advices" a creepy tone.

I'm glad other laptops have more tolerance for accessories that are a couple of mm thick.
My thought process is that there are large populations in developing nations are so trapped in debt they can do nothing but work all their waking hours, and they would not be paid money that would permit increasing their value as a human resource.

This is a phenomenon that is happening right now, today. It's effectively the same as slavery... I'm not saying 'it used to be better', but I'm not buying the line that globalisation has removed people from being 'overworked', or being effectively slaves. Nor do I believe it ever could, without some form of government intervention.

The simple truth is, if there's a place in the world where it is possible to pay someone only to work, and nothing else, there will be a company willing to exploit that, and there will always be a country willing to exploit its population to get an economic leg-up. Even the most high-minded bleeding-heart left liberals are still unwilling to pay a few bucks extra for something that is manufactured on 'living wages'.
>But this is harder

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the attacker to be able to build a little bit of browser automation.

>not always viable in all situations.

Like what?
Your link has no mention of anything you claim. I fail to understand how this illustrates your claim that India is about as democratic as Russia, which in itself is unbelievable.
Unison directly implements the idea Joe Armstrong was talking about right? [1] ("use hashes instead of names").

1: https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/tour#%F0%9F%A7%A0-the-big-tec...
He reviewed the other computers in the Maximite series in the past. He considered the Maximites as possible candidates for what he was looking for in a "modern" retro style computer, but decided to pass on them as they weren't quite what he wanted.

Very interesting machines nevertheless, and fun to play with for retro fans.
That’s not type inference, just type propagation - tons simpler.
That’s why people are recommending unstable (sid) which is Debian’s rolling updates channel.
My Lenovo X1 has a physical slider that covers the camera. I trust this a lot more than an LED.
Dedicated server somewhere close to your office.
Off topic; I would like to know your news sources.
I'd rather take the risk of damaging my display. Thank You.
AWS is super expensive. Switch to another cloud provider.

For example : Scaleway, OVH, or Hetzner.
I was going to post a similar thing. I know the 8 bit guy reviewed it positively, and for me the CM2 is a better bet as it can run BASIC code about as fast as a 6505 can run assembler.

I know it's not as legitimately retro (in terms of chips), but that doesn't matter to me; what does matter is having an accessible system to play about with and hopefully show my son that programming can be fun and he can make games without an impossibly step learning curve (ie how I felt about my ZX spectrum back in the day).
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> I ran into some third party code with translated Japanese comments where "debadora" was left as untranslated romaji. I was puzzled and couldn't find it at first but a little search magic revealed that it is a contraction of "debaisu doraiba" which I suspected was the case. Converting this back to "device driver" is the only way to make it understandable.

Translating debadora to "device driver" is the only way to make it understandable to someone who doesn't speak Japanese.

Then again, translating いとこ to "cousin" is also the only way to make that understandable to someone who doesn't speak Japanese (and does speak English), but the goal is to transliterate it as "itoko", not to translate it as "cousin". Like it or not, the Japanese word is "debadora".
Speak to your AWS account manager and/or someone on their startup team. Give them the detail on what you’re running, what you want to do, and what/when you’re hoping to reach the next milestone. There’s usually a few different options available to them to try help you out. Including, but not limited to, working out how to reduce the ongoing cost of what you’re trying to do. “Customer obsession” and all that. It’s also just good business. It’s not in anybody’s interest to have companies running out of runway, they’d rather you were still in business and paying for compute 5 years from now.
This is kind of sad.
By commutativity of the copula, a jelly donut is a former US President. Now the remaining question is: was JFK a sweet dumpling?

(guess someone with better connections will have to ask this no-longer-little girl: https://i1.wp.com/jfk.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/... )
No, it's shocking that Apple doesn't seem to understand that their assurances do not even remotely touch what users of physical cover have in mind. A LED showing that the webcam is active means that it's too late. It doesn't matter what app is using the webcam, with permissions or not. The users apparently want to prevent the webcam to make any clear pictures. Apple just doesn't seem to get it. Instead Apple say, it's impossible for apps to turn the webcam on without permission. Ever heard of "trustworthy" apps being compromised? I have.

Apple compromises at the wrong issues. The issue is trending because of that.
There is no approach that works for all use-cases when you are dealing with time (there are only various trade-offs).

There is the tz database that is correct for many use cases. It should be available in all languages that you listed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
I've always used a sticker (black dot-shaped) or a piece of post-it note. Post-it is really convenient but it's ugly.

I still think the best solution would be to have no builtin camera or microphone. Just have something like the iSight that you manually and thus willingly connect to your thunderbolt. Works with your external monitor as well and you can orient it the way you like. It would also have better overall image and sound quality (low light, more shallow depth of field, etc.). And on the plus side for Apple and its shareholders, it's another $499 essential.