skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No previous phones provided real convergence (not just connecting the external screen, but using desktop apps). This is also not all differences. See here for more details: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
I'll have to check this out.
Refusing to concede a fair election, using gerrymandering and electoral fraud to keep a conservative minority party in power, obstructing the political process, packing the courts as a political weapon, not to mention open racism, a cult of personality, fervent nationalism, and tacit endorsement of political violence? If you compare the rise of European facism to contemporary trends in US politics then the parallels are pretty stark.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... it is, at the least, a precursor to fascism. It doesn't happen all at once, and if we wait until it's plainly obvious to call it like it is, then it'll probably be too late. And even if you don't want to call it facist, it's out of line to compare this shit to my personal blog. That's a baseless character attack, which is a dick move, not to mention against the HN guidelines.
First the Chrome team needs to be convinced to use Rust.

They have done some exploratory work, but nothing that shows they would actually do it.

They are most likely to just double down on the ongoing C++ lifetimes support on LLVM than switch languages.
A domain name can help you keep focus.
Then when you need to pivot, you can just buy another one, ad nauseum.
Which is honestly super cool! However, I don't have an iPad, and given my use cases, I don't need/want one that much. I feel like the Apple trackpad's unparalleled touch input would be perfect if it also served as a second display... I guess the right answer is in fact an iPad, with that extra real estate for drawing.
I wonder if the impressive compile times coming out of M1 will make pre-built binaries less important?
Thanks for taking the time to share a write up on something you learned & put it on your own domain instead of Medium or something like that.

Yeah, ssl probably matters & other people will prefer a different “step 1”, but it’s cool to see people share their lessons learned & process. And it’s smart to make use of the byproducts of your work.

Many designers use a “mood board” early in their process to establish the target feel of their project. Your explanation of wanting to choose a color that felt “futuristic and brave” reminded me of that approach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_board
Many APIs can be used for sketchy things. Supposedly, that’s one thing the App Store review process is meant to catch.
It's not like every other MAX fell out of the sky. There were two accidents out of 42000 flights. 2/42000 is a decent risk to take if your job depends on it and absolutely terrible for normal everyday flying
(Chromium dev here.)

Yes, for now all workers continue to run unthrottled (shared, dedicated and service). They may also be throttled at some point, but we have no firm plans around this yet.
The reality behind "cost of living" is actually "market price". Companies having this policy don't actually try to figure out how much it costs to live in a city in an other, they just look how much people are paid for a similar job in the area.

In other words, companies with this policy pay you as low as the market allows them, without you being poached by a local competitor.
>I don’t think I’ll ever understand people that buy consoles

They are flat-out easier to setup and maintain for the bulk of the customer base. For example, setting up multiple users (family accounts) is a breeze on my PS4 and Switch, because that is a use case they pay attention to.

Meanwhile over on my PC, Steam supports sharing (family view) but it only seems to work from the same base Windows account. What the hell is the point of that; if I'm not around the kids can download and install all kinds of crap (click OK on the near useless Windows UAC prompt???). Or, I can create their own Steam account and their own Windows account and do library sharing but then you share all the games, you can't pick what subset, what to include or exclude.

Two options, neither fully solving the problem.
Thanks for the suggestion, Wim Hof is definitely on my todo list. You're right about the size of lungs and deepness of breath. It is different based on gender, age and physical size and there is no one size fits all solution.
Why should we care about the absolute risk reduction rather than the 20x relative risk reduction (i.e. "95% effectivity")? The idea of these fixed-term RCTs is that the numbers generalize to larger periods of time, right?
Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape
I'm not waiting for Apple to repent. I'm waiting for the company to be broken up.
Developers are not the only small businesses subject to Apple's 30% commission. Ebook publishers also have to pay the 30% commission to Apple for inclusion in Apple Books.

Then there are the indie musicians in Apple Music and indie video publishers in Apple TV. I don't know how much their rates are, but if it's anything like Spotify or Amazon Prime it's not much.

Will these other indie producers get a break too, or is it just developers?
Buying an Amazon FBA Business: A Step-by-Step Guide
If you live in the US and are advocating for this be careful what you wish for. It could lead to your 100-200K per year salary being cut to well below 100K to equalize across all engineers including those in low cost areas such as China and India.
I'm considering hiring a coach to improve my soft skills. The problem is finding the right person. Do you have any tips on how to find such person?

Edit: software -> soft

I mean stuff like better communication, goal setting, learning strategies, negotiation skills...
most black market fentanyl does not come from diverted prescriptions. the only thing this would do would be to prevent physicians prescribing fentanyl in cases where it's the ideal drug for pain management.
You could say the same thing about Linux. Standardization is helpful - there are so many companies with an interest in chromium it’s not just a google project anymore it is a huge community project.
The Electron competitor is called the Web platform.

Just write your application in Django and start the local browser. Use Web APIs to trigger interactions with native APIs from Python code.
The full quote is:

> I believe there's a big advantage to this "micro-bet" approach of launching many tiny businesses, and then sticking with the ones that become successful.

The full quote changes the context. From what I understand, he sees it as a way to validate business ideas with small amount of effort.
> In reality companies had to pay a premium in order to demand that an employee lives in certain geographic area so that they show up every day in a certain office building. Depending on the location of the building, the premium can be very high.

100% agreed with this. I personally see no issue in paying a premium if an employer is asking for something extra, like being in a specific location, or working odd hours, paying a premium is reasonable. There are many reasons why a company may want someone to be on-site in a specific city; this applies if the city is SF, or a small city.

The issue that I personally have is when location is not a factor, but is still factored in to "location dependent pay". Pay someone in SF more because it's important to you for them to be phsycially present? Sure. Pay someone in Oklahoma less than someone in Austin, despite the fact that neither of their locations makes a difference to their work? Now you're openning yourself up to implicit discrimination and "unfair" conditions.
Congratulations! This is fantastic.
macOS OCSP “Telemetry”–Explainer and Mitigation with Noise
My take on the whole Apple OCSP saga, and a possible mitigation method. Love to hear your thoughts.
Apple Halves Its App Store Fee for the Smaller Companies
Testing is tattooed on my forehead
Thanks for the great intro. I do segregate my network using vlans now to isolate things like my printer which I don't trust and also my guest network. I also isolate my wife's devices as I don't generally trust Windows being behind my firewall either.

I'm currently wrangling with a good solution for selectively routing certain traffic via one of multiple VPN connections I have on my router.

I'll look into rdomains to see if this may help my situation if not only to make it more simple.
First Evidence of Parasites in Dinosaur Bones Found
One of the old Opera mobile browsers (Mini or Mobile) worked in a somewhat similar way.
Product requirements document – what is it and why is it important
So I cannot speak to ofono, but modemmanager largely does support MMS, with two exceptions:

- The APN for mobile broadband needs to be the same for MMS (modemmanager does not have support for multiple APNs yet), and

- "transfer-route MT messages" aren't implemented (which some carriers use for MMS, but it is not clear for me to how).

The larger issue is that there is no stack on phosh to support any of this. I proposed a couple of ideas of how such as stack would work on their git site, but I don't have the time to impliment it.

From what I saw with scapebar, it does not have native support to send picture messages (MMS), does not recieve picture messages, and did not have a way to send a group message (MMS). I am admittedly not familiar enough with ofono to know what works or how it functions in the stack. However, there is MMS support in the patched ofono stack below:

https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/
Often overlooked in the discussions about privilege and equality is the discussion about how citizens of different countries are given different levels of access to the same jobs.

Like, I’m a US citizen and have basic programming skills. Not long after college I landed a software engineering job and I immediately have access to markets like SF or NYC, all I have to do is pack up and move (and it turns out I don’t even have to pack up, because relocation packages include it).

Let’s say you’re from Syria and have a similar set of skills. This sounds hypothetical, but I’m thinking of a specific, real person here. You go to college in the middle east, eventually get a tech job doing operations work in the EU, get an intra-company transfer to the US, have to deal with US govt. questions to work in tech or get a bank account, and then eventually transfer to a software engineering job.

At the same point it makes complete sense that there are dense clusters of highly skilled software engineers in a few places, like SF, and if you want access to that talent pool you have to pay them enough money to make rent.
Take it for what its worth but in the U.S one could conceivably go study a "fine art" masters in a private institution and pay north of $250k for a job (if it exists at all) that would pay sub $60k. I saw someone on Twitter talk about this guy who has $300k from a master's in puppetry (lol?).

Besides the obvious first step consequences and moral hazards and not fixing the proper causes of the problem, there are more negative consequences. Think of what would happen to the idea that "the U.S is a fair lender and you can rely on them to do right by you". What happens to the world investors big and small who observe this and then imagine a day where they would do the same to their U.S Treasury loans etc?

At that point all bets are off and no one will loan money to the U.S. The U.S school loan market is greater than $1 trillion, this isn't pocket change.
Centipede Mathematics
Ouch. But also, well done on $2 mill+ in sales! What app was/is it?
Thank you for the kind words, and for the donation!
There is a pervasive misconception that you are paid for how much value you bring. In a market economy, you are paid commensurate to how much you can negotiate. The value you bring (real or imagined) is part of that negotiation, but so are other factors.

It pains me to see people get frustrated by this fact.
My point was "They can do everything a computer can do".
Thank you for this assessment. If you're as versed in other historical wars as the Pacific front, I would love to hear your assessments of Operation Barbarossa, Israel's six-day war, and the Russian intervention in Krim. All conflicts are difficult to find non-biased assessments of, but those three each have nuances that that are rippling through the years and I would love to further understand them.
(Chromium dev here)

Yes, lots of sites are written with tight setInterval/setTimeout loops, checking for modifications to the DOM, visibility, doing animations, etc. In most cases there are modern web APIs that do these things for you that don't require polling (rAF, MutationObserver, IntersectionObserver, etc). Throttling is mostly about reducing the impact of these sites. We are not trying to penalize well-written sites, and if you have valid use cases that you feel are being unfairly penalized we're more than happy to accept feedback!
That site already exists: delta.com.
For anyone who has never read Agatha Christie, I highly recommend the following:

- And Then There Were None

- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

- Murder on the Orient Express

- The A.B.C. Murders

The books are usually "slow burns", meaning they slowly build up to the big reveal at the end of the book. Agatha Christie is the master of making great payoffs though, so despite the initial slog, by the last page you are usually awash in dopamine/adrenaline (okay maybe that's a little exaggerated, but these books really do have good payoffs).
This is a big reason why I don't like the idea of the "permaweb" and favor mutability as a foundational capability.

Secure-Scuttlebutt[1] is a nightmare to me.

[1]: as-is today. I think they are working on adding mutability
Rosetta 2 is not installed by default, you are prompted to install it for the first run of an x64 app - but only in the gui.

If you run an x64 app from the command line, directly or prefixed with `arch -arch x86_64`, it will simply fail. You have to double-click an x64 .app bundle in the Finder to trigger the "Would you like to install Rosetta?" popup:

https://s.sneak.berlin/@sneak/105230913279059988

Here's how to trigger it on a blank/fresh install (where presumably 100% of the default apps are ARM native) by forcing an Apple fat binary to launch with Rosetta in x64 mode:

https://www.notion.so/Run-x86-Apps-including-homebrew-in-the...

(tldr: duplicate terminal.app, get info on the copy, tick "open with rosetta", double click it.)

Here's an interesting Big Sur bug I noticed while doing so:

https://s.sneak.berlin/@sneak/105230920548563835
I guess the website was hugged to death. "508 Resource Limit Reached" after a double captcha Cloudflare gate.
i don't think so, a clear military attack on American soil by a foreign nation would mean lines around the block at local military recruitment offices in every city/town across the nation. Congress would have a full declaration of war signed in an hour.

Terrorist attacks like 9/11 leave doubt about who to go after and at what scale to retaliate but a clear attack on a city by a foreign state as an act of war is a different thing. Gloves would come off and the complete full force of every resource ( military, political, economic, etc ) would be brought to bear.
There are too many inaccuracies to address in this, but I do want to touch on your idea of Japan becoming a "vassal state of the US." This is out of touch with what Japan had been doing in China and Manchuria. Japan had invaded Manchuria (which had never been Japanese territory)in 1931. Japan had secured some rights from Imperial Russia to operate the South Manchuria Railway Zone. They leveraged this to expand their foothold in China and Manchuria; the Chinese government was too weak to really contest this and eventually the Japanese directly attacked China.

There's no way to paint the conflict in the region as justified. The Japanese were clearly seeking to expand their empire, after having tasted victory defeating Imperial Russia. Just because countries stood in their way doesn't justify their actions, and simplifying it down to fighting Mike Tyson isn't very critical thinking.
Nick Yoder: How I earned $50k using polling data and some Python code
Launching an e-shop with PimCore in four weeks
I certainly don't think of my approach as amoral. Rather, I think it's not immoral to negotiate down a salary based on fair yardstick (COL). Annoying, perhaps, but not immoral.

It's immoral to exploit your employees, lie to them, not keep to a contract, deny them the growth opportunities they were lead to believe they have etc. But to negotiate a lower pay, that's not immoral. As an employee, take it or leave it.

To be clear, I'd love to get a SF salary and live in an Alpine valley in Italy or France. Maybe the world will come to that arrangement. But if not, I wouldn't call it immoral.
SIGMOD conference, only been once so far (2019). I am interested in database theory and related hard practical problems though, you may not be.
Speed Is a Feature
Show HN: Free Touchless Email Hasher
We built a free client-side app to quickly and securely hash large lists of email addresses.
They are adding bindings to other languages like Python in Q1 2021 (so says their website)
Spend $0 for tuition and third year PhD student in compilers. The best decision I have made. Hated my masters thesis subject which was about lattice based cryptography.
"Equal pay for equal work" ... Says the guy putting together your iPhone in China as well.

This is going to be a huge lesson in Supply and Demand for the workforce.

And contemplate that there are zillions of intelligent people learning to speak English and who can code (and do other things) very well.

I don't think the American / Western workforce realizes how fragile their position is in the long run.

Today it's about 'remote work' but starting the moment the pandemic is over, there are 5 resumes from Poland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Zambia, and Fiji - all of whom very qualified and will work for 1/3 the cost to replace you. And I mean you. (Even CEOs and AI Researchers are replaceable, or at least, investors will believe they are).

These forces are unassailable in our current structure and in some ways it may not be good.

It may lead to further consolidation among the 0.1% as they gain more power.

And while the 'power centres' may be located in the West, but they're really just 'international zones', not really American/Western in anything but civil and legal structure.

We saw the manufacturing jobs go out the door for the last 50 years, and frankly it was a boon for 2 Billion people have come out of 'abject $1/day starving poverty' into 'survivable $20/day humble-means poverty' ... but now the same thing will happen to white collar workers as well.

The Fed Chairman, usually very demure and super conservative and orthodox, even talked about how 'we're not going back to the way it was' - it's not just remote working, it's the insane amount of debt, perennial 0% and negative interest rates, aging workforce (including China), and frankly a surprisingly conflict-free world (it's hard to believe that but it's true) thriving on trade. It's definitely a Brave New World - for those who've grown up and remember the Post WWII order ... it's kind of spooky because the rules are being rewritten in a major way.
That is excellent news for a wow enthusiast in the market for a new iMac (current iMac is a late 2013 model that runs wow just fine at lower settings).

If this would indicate other games coming to macOS as well, I can finally ditch Windows completely.
Aside from college, not much. I've read some books and done some courses and conferences but I didn't find any of them to be the least bit useful. One thing I did in college outside of CS education was a class on voice and diction which really helped my speaking. Absolutely everything I've learned to be good at, I've learned by doing. And that includes programming despite having a CS degree.
Why would it be from Greek "ploutous"?

Pluton is already the ancient Greek name for the english "Pluto" (the god of the underworld).
>Comparing this situation with a system without private property or even ability to rent, where apartments are leased by the state through your employer and you have no choice in the matter and have to wait years in order to move is a really, really long stretch.

Why is the soft touch approach of government making housing unaffordable any different, morally?
Actually, they are not. They only advise participants to get tested if they show symptoms. So it's possible that a bunch of people on the vaccine are getting asymptomatic cases.
They are going to charge the US ~$40. So $800,000 to prevent 150 cases. That's incredibly cheap, and doesn't factor in an increase of social activities.
> It's about being able to take complete stock of your life on a regular basis.

Yes! This so much! I spend time in r/gtd, and I see that kind of misunderstanding (“productivity pr0n”) not infrequently. People want a system they can use to tell them what to do, and that’s not what GTD is about. I usually reply with something along what you said, paraphrasing David Allen: GTD is not about getting things done; it’s about being engaged appropriately in your life.

My first implementations were clumsy because I wanted to get fancy with my system with sequential projects and deeply nested tasks (in OmniFocus), but I eventually evolved to realize that the book really was right. I use a fairly minimal system that hews closely to what the book says. The most liberating thing was understanding that I _shouldn’t_ necessarily plan all my future actions out. I can document things I know I need in my support material, but those aren’t next actions, and GTD is about capturing and clarifying next actions.

Another comment here mentions that the book sometimes isn’t easy reading. I can definitely agree with that. There are places where it gets into the details before it properly introduces a concept and why it’s useful. Contexts are widely misunderstood because of this. The book leads with what they are (tools, people, places, etc), and people conclude that since we’re connected almost all the time, we don’t have contexts. The reality is contexts are just filters, and they’re useful because they help you manage having lots of next actions.
almost*

No x86 virtual machines though. Apple doesnt allow emulation and virtualisation together.
Dolly Parton: Singer, Songwriter, Pandemic Savior?
COVID is symptomatic, it's a disease. This vaccine is not preventing getting infected, just reduces getting.the disease significantly. I'm more optimistic about Moderna, as this vaccine doesn't prevent me from infecting my parents.

Still, I'll use this vaccine if I can't get Moderna in time. The safety profile looks great.
Seconding this book. I took grad school level negotiation classes and this book added as much or more value when I've negotiated for pricing, salary, etc.
Good for them! That's a lot of money.
This news doesn't mean people shouldn't continue to put pressure on Apple and legislators to address the core issue (app store competition), but it's still really good news for small developers.

It should also solidly put down all of the arguments we were seeing about whether indie devs and lawsuits putting pressure on Apple and legislators are at all worthwhile. A drop in app fees by 15% is a substantial win, and the reason that drop happened is because Apple is now scared of critics, bad PR, and how that might impact future legislation against them.

The number of hot takes I was seeing about how the Apple/Epic fight benefited literally no one and it was just two companies arguing about who got to take all the money... it's very clear from this program that the overall pressure on Apple has been making a difference.

It's not so large a difference that devs should now stop fighting for better terms, but it's positive to see Apple at least partially show signs of cracking, or at least acknowledge on some level that they're frightened about the potential outcome of this fight. And there are a lot of small devs who are going to be making a lot more money just because of this minor victory.