skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well you listed several things which are proxies for the quality of the iOS experience, a significant amount of which is a direct result of the more curated app store. It's popular and a status signalling object - but it wouldn't be if the core experience was bad. Many people just follow tastemakers and don't know at all why the thing they "like" is better or worse than anything else, that's fine, but they're still doing so ultimately because of quality.

The app store moderation isn't the only dimension of the quality of the ecosystem, but it has a significant effect.

I have a mild preference for android, but it was more or less just luck which landed me on an iPhone for my current phone. It literally came down to which one I could acquire quicker after I destroyed my old phone before an extended out of state trip. The Pixel I bought is still in its sealed box because the shipping was delayed while I literally picked up an iPhone from the Apple campus store at the last minute before my flight.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273247

This has driven me insane in 10.15.7. If my ISP has intermittent connectivity, macOS starts beach balling. To prevent this I have to shut off internet.

The catch?

Shutting down the network requires suffering through multiple beach balls. Every single mouse click or key press invokes a beach ball. Everything goes away the moment internet is connected.
An open letter to Joe Biden
Yep, but one can type slower and cannot type faster, so it's a kind of backwards-compatible system.
I really enjoyed the article.

But does the site really need those obnoxious popups if I need anything? Similar to those chat windows?

I didn't even bother reading what it wanted I dismissed it immediately. Worst part after dismissing it it scrolled me quite a bit back up.
> Popular vote destroys any shred of state sovereignty that remains

Popular vote will only remove state sovereignty if the majority of people are aligned with that, at which point yeah, it should be done away with.

However, the reality is that people generally do agree that quite a few laws are state-level, not federal, and so even with a popular vote for federal laws, states would retain the sovereignty they have now.

Your reply there seems like a drastic overreaction. If we voted on our president via popular vote, we would have had a few different presidents in recent times, but I doubt any of them would have reduced state sovereignty significantly.

States are still free to set their own taxes, run their own police as they see fit, etc etc.

Basically, I don't think the popular vote would vote to repeal the 10th amendment, so it seems silly to say it would "destroy any shred of sovereignty". Especially since in this election, the outcome would have been identical.
What sort of weight are we talking?

I'm wondering if the stories we hear from more experienced weightlifters like you are because you were pulling, say, 400+ lbs. I don't know, but I think the danger probably goes up exponentially as you cross a threshold of average physical tissue capacity. My all time DL max was 405, and I generally pulled around 365. DLs only made my crappy back feel better.
Lots of cables going through Singapore & Johor (Malaysia) - really hard to make out any details. I've dealt with abandoned cables in the area and the map doesn't look very accurate. Would have liked to be able to zoom in more.
What about this tech-agnostic version: citizens have a right to deprive the unrelated citizens from accessing their communications using any means. Note that this includes E2E encryption, whisper, face-to-face private conversation, rubberhose encryption, noise insertion and steganography all in one.
>forced sterilization

I don't think it's accurate to say Trump supporters were OK with this. We had headlines about that happening in Georgia earlier this year. There are many issues at play here, but this seems to be a result of a horrible deranged doctor rather than some kind of forced sterilization program. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-hysterectomy-doctor-wasnt-...
> Apple has created an exclusionary economic zone and put 50% of Americans in it. This is unprecedented.

You say this like Apple did it at gunpoint. They offered a superior product, and people bought it.
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I've recently started using VS Code and my favorite feature by far is Zen Mode. It allows me to focus a lot more, takes away a lot of the distractions I get from my million open browser tabs and other apps trying to get my attention.
This sounds like a good task for ragel http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
> writing is so slow.

This is the core idea of stopping and writing. Forcing your brain to slow down to a certain speed so, it focuses whether it likes it or not.

I do the exact same thing as the article suggests and my coworkers sometimes ask why am I doing this.

My brain's brakes malfunction sometimes and this is an external brake to stop and restart gracefully. It works wonders.
> I know they had a press conference at the Four Seasons in Pennsylvania, did anything come of that?

Yeah, funny thing about that...
to give a bit more insight; it says essentially, imagine a deck of cards at a casino, shuffled by machine 50, 100, 500 times. That's what the ballots are like shuffled through the USPS....homogeneous....there's no cream rising to the top of the bottle, and there's no stacks of Kings or Aces lodged all in one spot because the system (mail) shuffled them.

There should be no discernible patterns of any kind.

One for you, two for me, two for me, two more for me, three for you, one for you, one for me, two for you and so on, all leading on his graphs, towards a very straight line.

So there shouldn't be a stack of ballots that suddenly burst on to his graphs leaning heavily to one group or the other at any given time....but there is....in multiple states, all happening in the wee hours of the morning.....and all happening on the 4th.

And in each state, they all (on the 4th), lean Democrat.

Discernibly. And with one sole exception, only in those states.
The problem isn't that people are posting "Hey, I'd really like to use GIMP but I'm still waiting for feature X", the problem is the accusative nature of the comments.

The top comment that started this thread definitely had more than an accusatory aftertaste to it. I can't find the story/interview right now, but GIMP is literally just something like 3 or 4 guys working on it in their spare time.

For a lot of folks, GIMP is a fine photoshop alternative, even for more advanced uses. Is it perfect? Obviously not. But remember, it's just a bunch of devs in their spare time. Don't like it? Then don't use it, these people really don't owe anyone anything. How many devs are working on photoshop full-time? It's fine to point out "unfortunately GIMP isn't quite there as a 1-to-1 photoshop alternative, because [...]", but IMO it's important to do this in a way that doesn't crap all over the dev's best efforts.

I worked on a few projects where people felt they had the desire to come in and say that I "must" implement feature X or Y because "commercial product Y has it". Like, mate, I'm just this random guy with a day job and hobbies outside of software that occasionally works on this. Glad it's useful to you, but you don't tell me what to do. It's probably not your intention, but these kind of comments come off as really shitty.
Blog discussing what it is and how it helps in handling preemptible nodes better in GCP

https://medium.com/rapido-labs/preempt-the-preemptible-59b57...
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> Developers have no choice but to developer for Apple and that means that whatever Apple says, Apple gets.

Developers absolutely have a choice. They have one choice if they want access to Apple's customers.
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The Wikipedia article has curiously been edited by a throwaway Wikipedia contributor around the time the GitHub repo got published:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benford%27s_law&t...
Building the First Line of Defense to Ensure Airtight Information Security
WhatsApp payment is step-1 of many, that would make jiomart the Indian super-app, like wechat.
The longer I've being doing web development and design the more I've come to appreciate the simplicity of imprecision. One line of CSS I've come to love is this:

font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";

It's not pixel perfect, and it's not always pretty. But it is consistent, loads instantaneously, and always feels familiar to the user.

Of course, it's quite a different way of thinking about design versus a more classical approach, and I think it's often overlooked by designers for that reason.
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Did Zen and the Art of Motorcycling Maintenance make the cut.
This reminds me of the importance of specifying tolerances on engineering drawings - I once received an excessive quote for a part (several hundred dollars for a small, simple Aluminium widget) and it took a while to figure out that I'd not added tolerances and so they had assumed I needed it exact to the micron. I added the tolerances in and the price dropped to $70 or something.

Clear communication is so important!
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Please don't be snarky in HN comments and please omit personal swipes like "Once again, you are making things up." We're trying for curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you many times not to break the site guidelines. You've continued to make a habit of breaking them. I don't want to have to ban you so would you please fix this?
Anecdotally, I have noticed that leg blasters (shitter squats in local slang) end up detrimentally affecting my balance. I never had this issue with deadlifts.
It would be more helpful to phrase this as “For me, I find running for an hour really helps me focus immediately afterwards”
I was curious, so I looked it up -- it seems like fish is about 25% protein by volume at most, so that's ~40g or 1.4oz; definitely not a ton.
why is this front page hacker news? and believe me, I know who pu la is.
You're quoting the second interview Trump gave about Charlottesville[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25019361
Of course. However stating this as an absolute is what I am taking umbridge with.
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People in population centers tend to think similarly due to a similar environment. What a city desires in the nation's leader does not necessarily align with rural voters. You must see the danger in a few, albeit large, groups having the majority of the population.

Say LA and New York decide that a communist leader would be best for the country. How the hell do residents outside the cities stand up against that in any way but force.
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Its far from over. Has anyone compared the people on the legal team that Bush used to beat Gore with the current Supreme Court justices?

4D chess. Thats how he plays.
I think this construction is not so simple.

How would Apple let other app stores and make sure they are secure?

Will they review apps stores? Will it be rules for what an app store should do? If so, the is this the kind of app stores that people want as alternatives: app stores which follow Apple rules?

If Apple will not review app stores and let them be installed than how are they secure? What stops a malware to be presented as an alternative store and then allow installation of a messenger while saving user and password from users?
Is it only a few tweaks and controls short of being a handy basic 2D fluid-dynamics simulator? I've used this [0] but the UI for barriers is really frustrating.

It would be nice if there was something web-based that falls between the extremely basic and things like SimScale

[0] https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/fluids/
Okay, here’s a non-media non-partisan source. What I’m linking to was written in 2007. This seems prescient:

In the aftermath of a close election, losing candidates are often quick to blame voter fraud for the results. Legislators cite voter fraud as justification for various new restrictions on the exercise of the franchise. And pundits trot out the same few anecdotes time and again as proof that a wave of fraud is imminent.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trut...
The article does not explain what the value of pen and paper has over a digital note pad. It just declares it has one. However, I can sympathize. I teach drawing and design. Of course, most of my students were raised on digital media. For some, their first experience drawing was digital! I have a lot of trouble explaining to them the value of pencil and paper.

In “Personal Dynamic Media.” (1977) Kay, Alan and Goldberg described a computer as a meta medium: a medium that can 'fake' other media (my synopsis). I think we are always aware of this when working digitally. There is something in us that is aware of the essentially ethereal nature of the digital. I'm not sure that is the right word though.
When innocent people are murdered in their homes, who would you say are more moral? The people protecting the murderer or the people seeking justice for the murdered?
I dont know if you realize, but the way you talk and behave here is doing nothing to strengthen your argument.
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This reminded me of a hypothetical situation I thought of.

There's a town of 1,000 people. They have an election. One person wins by 100 votes. It is later found and proven that 99 of the votes for the winner were fraudulent. Who should win then? Who should be elected?

Clearly a lot of fraud went one way. If we look at it probabilistically, then the other candidate (the one who didn't benefit from fraud) should win, because most likely there were other votes that were also fraudulent. And yet, by electing the other candidate, you are ignoring a couple votes that were never proven to be fraudulent, which begs the question: exactly whose votes were thrown away and what is the justification for throwing them away?
I'm doing all my work lately on Kubuntu.
It's such a fantastic operating system, and very large part of what makes it so good is Dolphin.
SK's situation got a lot better with the new wave of personal banking (Toss, Kakao Bank), basically playing catchup to China.
or let's say there's a batch of 100k votes and it's split 90k Biden votes and 10k Trump votes (in Democrat leaning precincts). In any random sample there should be a 9:1 ratio meaning that out of 100 randomly selected votes ~90 will be for Biden and ~10 will be for Trump.

The larger the sample the more likely the actual count is closer to the 9:1 ratio. Any deviation from that ratio will be made up as the count goes on. So in the most extreme case, if 90k in a row were all Biden and there was a 90k spike, the next 10k should spike for Trump. That never happened because after the 4am Biden spike, the count went back to "normal" ratios.

To use the casino analogy imagine if you're at the roulette table and it comes up red 100,000 times in a row without black or green ever being called. That is statistically improbable.
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It's an even more extraordinary claim that widespread fraud did occur—a claim Trump was making in advance, before the votes were even cast, and continued to make, as expected. What I'm seeing from most media outlets are not claims that it didn't or couldn't occur, but simply that Trump is making the accusation without any evidence. Add to that the fact that he's been claiming fraud before the election even started, and it's pretty clear this was his strategy all along to cast doubt on an election he expected to lose (just like in 2016).
> Popular vote destroys any shred of state sovereignty that remains.

No, it doesn't. It doesn't even remove unequal, state-based voting power, which is greatest in the Senate, not the Electoral College.

But direct popular election of the President doesn't impact state sovereignty, which is a matter of Constitutional limits on the federal government and guarantees to the states, which the states control changes to via the amendment process.

> Why would states remain in the union if California and New York forever dictate the direction of the country?

Why would states remain in the union if their citizens had only an equal voice?

Why do California and New York remain in the union when their citizens are denied an equal voice, and the states whose citizens are given a greater voice consistently drain their resources?
I'm an Android user for the same reasons. I don't understand the argument that locking down the iPhone somehow makes it more secure. If you like the locked down model, you can use Android and buy from the Play Store and I'm sure the vast majority of Android users (in western countries) do just this.
Maybe we could create a network of "mutual defense treaties" where nations would come to the aid of another if their fishing rights were attacked.

Actually, that sounds like a great way to start a world war.
It is something which is worked on, on several fronts. Replacing fish meal and oil with insects, mussels, vegetable based products, etc. There is less fish meal and oil than a few years ago in fish feed. Here is one example of the work. My company also just got a government grant to work on this.

https://www.skretting.com/en/settings/news/general-news/inse...
The light patterns when rubbing your closed eyes could likely be phosphenes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene) by mechanical stimulation.

Those have intrigued me for a while. I have some but likely triggered electrical stimulation. Sometimes triggered by a sound while half asleep.
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Fortunately, as media reassure us, today voting fraud simply cannot happen: you'd need a whole conspiracy of dozens of people, a real, as one could call it, machine.

This I find impossible to believe.

How hard is it to intercept mail-in ballots, sign them, then mail them in? Who knows that you did so? I personally find it very implausible that in both elections that Trump was in he produced results about 3% better than polls indicated he would. And both times alleged that the other side was cheating. So much so that pollsters are engaged with asking how they are so wrong when Trump is on the ballot.

You know the old saw that cheaters always accuse others of cheating? What does that suggest about Trump?
How do you commit fraud on the national level?
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Around 2014-2015, I was hired to overhaul and build a product design-development team. The first thing I noticed of the old team was using a "screen-ruler" app/extension to calculate pixels of the Photoshoped Mockups and translate them to HTML/CSS. It was their must-have default weapon for the front-end engineers.

I fired/relocated almost all of them except for few good ones, who were eager to move onwards.

I spent every week teaching the team, old and newly hired ones, to unlearn whatever they learnt so far. There is no pixel-mapping, no pixel-perfection. I got them to speed on vertical rhythm, modular scale, the cicada principle, et al.

My proudest accomplishments were the ability to get designers + developer + QA team configurations together in modular teams from the earlier designer, developer, QA departments.

I remember building an internal demo akin to the one in the article (Amazon.com with different view) where the sales, pre-sales, and anyone else can show it to clients to convince them that pixel perfection of what they see in the printed photoshop mockups do not make sense. So, instead of using terms such as "Mobile, Desktop, Tablets", we started using mostly terms such as "screens" and they can be small, medium, large or huge display (TV). We even did away with almost the need for sparkling shiny Photoshop Mockup prints and graduated to wireframes, and style tiles for mockups.

These ideas were applied to some prominent clients such as Car2Go, JP Morgan, DMart, Aditya Birla, MyDeposits, ZestMoney, etc.
Sounds great. Who will collect the taxes from China when they tell you to pound sand?
With Ethereum 2.0 coming out, I wonder if one of the new XR2 devices coming out over the next few years might be able to support that. Because cryptocurrency payments is one of the things that can make platforms public and non-proprietary.
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> The only place Go has a word, indirectly, is if we happen to make use of either Docker or Kubernetes.

My point here is that, this is already a big place and it's likely to increase, although Docker might be replaced sooner than later.

Java and C++ are already major for decades and don't go anywhere any time soon.
Vote rigging: How to spot the tell-tale signs (2016)
So, it's actually Plasma cells that make antibodies. Plasma cells can differentiate from Memory B cells. But, B cells can be activated by T-Cells.

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

I'm being pedantic because I think it's super interesting, not because any normal person should care about this.
This project is closed beta, so I am guessing here, but couldn't this also be used to de-anonymize users like with Google forms? I think it comes down to trust. Trust that the platform is not complicit with the feedback organizer. I see not guarantee of that provided.

People can establish trust with google forms too. For example, recipients can cross check if they are getting the same link for feedback.
I didn't expect it to last either, but it's been around a while. I eventually dug into this and realized that there is a limit of 3 apps, one of which is AltStore itself.

I think the developer is wasting his time, but it's his call. Maybe he's doing it for learning and exposure, but it seems like there must be more valuable and durable projects that would scratch that itch.
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Is anyone using it? It gets posted on Hacker News from time to time, but it's not clear it's gotten any traction.
FU in terms of Fear & Uncertainty or f*ck you？
Lawn mowers are safer today than they were 30 years ago. Still potentially dangerous. You point out to the kid: never let your feet go under there. Never reach your hand in here. Maybe throw an apple in to illustrate the effect. They get the message.

All that said, 8 might be a little young. I think I was around 10 when I started cutting the grass, but I don't really remember.
The gaslighting happening here is the accusation of widespread fraud without any evidence, based on the kinds of intentional misunderstandings tptacek spent so much effort laying out for you.
There are low cost armlets that change color when exposed to UV (they're supposed to tell you when you should get out of the sun). I imagine they would also work for UV-C.
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