skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California in the past week:

* Newsom gets slapped by a judge to not issue anymore EOs
* Newsom gets caught at a large party in Napa
* Newsom gets a stay on previous order
* Newsom orders stay at home order with curfew after talking to Saudia Arabia about it

https://recallgavin2020.com/
I think if people knew the real size (in every sense of the word) of tech companies, they would understand the urgency in breaking them up. It is beneficial for every one on the planet. Competition is good, no competition is bad.
Back in the day http://eye4u.com had by far the most amazing flash animations of any site I'd seen. I don't know how they did it but their animations were next level for that time period.

Apparently some of them are on youtube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aT4wt0fmGU

https://web.archive.org/web/20041126020223/http://eye4u.com/
> I don't see how a curfew will do anything to stop the spread of the virus.

It isn't a curfew in the usual sense, its a ban on nonessential in-person interactions during a certain time period. People are permitted out of their homes during the period (to quote from the order [0], "Nothing in this order prevents any number of persons from the same household from leaving their residence, lodging, or temporary accommodation, as long as they do not engage in any interaction with (or otherwise gather with) any number of persons from any other household, except as specifically permitted herein.")

As for how it is expected to stop (or, rather, reduce) the spread of the virus, again, quoting from the order: "This Limited Stay at Home Order will reduce opportunities for disease transmission with the goal of decreasing the number of hours individuals are in the community and mixing with individuals outside of their household. Every intervention to decrease mixing of households is critical during this unparalleled increase in case rate rise of about 50 percent during the first week in November. In particular, activities conducted during 10:00pm to 5:00am are often non-essential and more likely related to social activities and gatherings that have a higher likelihood of leading to reduced inhibition and reduced likelihood to adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures (e.g., wearing face coverings and maintaining physical distance)."

[0] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/lim...
I do appreciate some of the men in my life and so yea..I will wish them so today.

Happy International Men’s Day, Men of HN.

How do men celebrate their special day?
Apple Silicon is good for everyone. If it succeeds, it shows other businesses how powerful ARM can be.

Apple does not need to dominate the PC market to make money. What they deliver pushes other competitors to improve.

I, like the commenter I've replied to, can't believe that we're even able to frame a processor power shift like this in a bad light. It shows companies they can build something big without x86 - that's good for hardware in the long run, irrelevant of whether it's Apples variant or not.

It's our responsibility, as enthusiasts, to make sure legacy lives on. Plenty of people are building emulators, making home networks with old hardware.

It would be much easier if Copyright/Patents expired shorter after the big money has been made. Things should become open source to let everyone in after the inventor has reaped the benefits of their creation.
> They refuse to hire a woman, black or Latino developer explicitly.

I appreciate that you are making a specific accusation. Could you provide online evidence that would support it? This would indeed change my opinion of the project.
Courts have already stepped in many times, including the US Supreme Court.

There is over 100 years' worth of case law upholding a state's right to restrict movement during emergencies[1], explicitly including pandemics.

This curfew in CA also allows people to go to work, walk dogs, take care of medical needs, etc. It appears to be mostly targeted at going out and drinking.

Considering we all share the same hospital systems and scarce medical resources, it's reasonable to expect people to uphold their end of the social contract by giving up a few months of nightlife.

1. https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/publications/yourab...
My 8 year old and 5 year old girls spend literally their entire allowance on Robux. They would spend literally the entire day playing if I allowed it. The developer toolset is crazy strong too, I bet they're not even 10% of the way with their market penetration.
Same way it does right now (and many apps did it for years): it'll open your default browser (Chrome, Firefox, whatever) and wait for it to return the oauth token to it.
Does this mean Google is explicitly repudiating web standards and refusing to interoperate with any browsers except the ones they approve? Or is there more to it than that?
Game console emulators simulate entire chipsets in memory that have nothing in common with the underlying hardware. This approach doesn't perform nearly as well as virtualization, of course, but it would be enough for preservation purposes. What's stopping people from doing that with legacy Apple architectures? Is x86 just too complicated?
Fantastic service! I also have thought of offering this as a side project, but I'm glad to see someone else get to it first so I don't have to. Also loving the website layout. No muss no fuss.

One question I don't see answered: If I go the rent-to-own route, then what's the monthly price (for use of the VM and to pay the colo fees) after I've purchased the drive? $5? And is there a price cut if I want to purchase the drive outright in one payment instead of split monthly?
It is a curfew - please stop saying it's not. You are spreading misinformation.
Will this block sign-in on Tesla's browser and Youtube app?
Why would a court step in? This is and has been law for decades.

Federally the government has explicitly ceded emergency movement control (curfews being one form) to the states citing pandemics as a form of emergency.

The California State Constitution states that the state and even local governments can impose curfews, again explicitly citing pandemics as a form of emergency that would trigger this authority.

https://www.caloes.ca.gov/PlanningPreparednessSite/Documents...
About 8 years ago, the last time I tried QEMU, it was painfully slow. With 8 years more development & much faster hardware, it should be relatively smooth. In general it seems like emu tech keeps up with the desire for its use.
As a counter example, VLC does support the Java-based menus of BluRay discs if you have Java and so on available.
Good reply - I’ll add that a lot of teachers recognize their kids are too hungry to learn and stock their desks with food.
Became clear to you after November of 2010? Harumph I say, harumph! It became clear to me in September of 1993!

Kids these days! Get off my lawn!
Praystation a couple years later was also fantastic
How is minecraft doing these days?
Hugging Face Transformers v4.0.0 rc-1 released
This looks interesting. Someone posted a link to that Hemingway writing app a few days ago, and I remember thinking that might be useful if there was a way to define your own rules.

I could see this possibly being a good way to make "n+7" poems, other Oulipo styled stuff [1].

See example 16: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/experiments.html
Google are playing with anti-trust fire here.
Unfortunately I tried WSL1, didn't work, and left it at that for months. When WSL2 was out, it just worked and I had forgotten by then what kind of error WSL1 gave me.

I can only recall it was a dialog box, not a crash, and that it had to do about virtualization.
It opens a google sign-in window within thunderbird for me. Interesting.
In 2020, a simple app like this shouldn't be janky in the first place.

If software engineers, at Google no less, need a mock video to understand that the UI should be smooth, then there's a big problem.
TypeScript 4.1
> Even if WebKit is not blocked, we can be confident January 4 will be a sad day for browser diversity

This is true, I hate that this is true, and I hate that there's very little to be done about it.

I use Firefox for ideological reasons, and last week got off my ass and ensured all my documents (from Dropbox), music (from Google Music / now the inferior YT Music) and photos (from Google Photos) were stored in a way I could control. My plan going forward is to use an old laptop running Syncthing as my primary source of truth for files. Email is next (but more complicated since I don't want to self-host it).

It helps me personally to take Stallmanesque approaches to managing my digital life. And if Google continues to get more and more restrictive I have the technical acumen to find or make alternatives—or figure out how to do without. But I'm worried about the growing number of non-technical users who are increasingly dependent on technology and—startlingly—increasingly less technical. People who only use Google Docs on their phone and a laptop have no reason to understand that documents correspond to files on disk that can be edited by programs running locally.

It more and more seems like the future is tech oligopoly with more and more subscription fees. What else could happen once a generation has been trained to only use Approved Tools running on Approved Servers?
given the other engagement metrics presented that is doubtful.
That's the idea
I don't know why this is here, because this requirement has been in place for years - e.g. I've hit it at least two years ago where Google OAuth didn't allow builtin old WebKit login anymore.

Instead, you need to call users' default browser (Firefox, Chrome, whatever they have) and it'll return back with the token. Just like OAuth on desktop.

It's much, much safer, because the app can't see or hijack the login process - it doesn't get access to the login form and can't phish you with it.

The utter ignorance in comments here is really depressing, what happened with HN?
The process table as well.
> Geometric algebra is to exterior algebra as inner product spaces are to vector spaces

To get from x∧x to |x|², you need a norm. And I guess linearity must break down somewhere unless that norm is compatible with an inner product. Thanks, I missed that point.

> But I guess the intent is clear enough.

Once you have u and b, you can define a = u - b.
Precisely! So picture some, however oversimplified, code which
searches a customer's orders,
determines which is a phone product id, remembering they sell other stuff which we would not want to update in flight order details on,
then updates the embedded customer address on the order.

I would like to hear some original thoughts on why this is so difficult that a human is doing this work instead.

Obviously maintaining a different behaviour for a class of product ids is painful and not beautiful code to look at, but it is the real world.
Unity is pretty damn close
Sounds like it, but I'm sure their corp dev/partnership teams will make a special exception for S&P 500's newest member!
Please don't bring a political campaign to HN.
This literaly demands that Android apps use your Firefox browser for login instead of a builtin WebView. This prevents the apps from stealing your login credentials with phished data.

Seriously, what are you ranting about here? What does what you write have anything to do with a fundamental security requirement?
Thanks for this optimistic viewpoint. Much appreciated!
Happened, but it targeted more than just right-wingers, though they bore the brunt of it. Pretty much every local political activist I know had their accounts restricted right before the election. In addition:

Most libertarian groups and pages I know affiliated with the 'boogaloo' movement caught a ban

Most of the pro-trump pages I know caught a ban, as well as pro-trump groups involved in on the ground activism

A few left anarchist groups I was in caught a ban.

It wasn't so much 'purge of the right', there's always a low-level purge of right wing pages going on, either because of moderator bias, or simply because leftists and/or liberals spend more of their free time infiltrating groups and reporting right wing content than vise-versa.

Rather, it struck me as an attempt to suppress protests and potential violence in the streets on either side of the political divide in the days subsequent to the election.
Haven't watched the video, but is it from Shariy?
If yes, then you wildly misrepresented him.
Just compare the benchmarks. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/singlecore

All the top laptops are AMD Ryzens, such as mine. The new M1 is not on the first page with 16xx but still pretty good. Esp. it's battery life is impressive, and much better than mine.
No, this means that Google demands that apps use the default browser you've set for login instead of the builtin WebKit of the device.
Windows Subsystem for POSIX was already tried. It didn't take off.
They have already done this with Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) which I use in my everyday browser. Since it can't do logins, even things like Google Groups fails auth and I'm forced to use Chrome instead of Chromium.

It is very annoying, Google announced it well ahead of time, but in general just doesn't care. They suggest the browser integrate with external auth options as if I want to customize my browser for Google auth.

They're actively fighting certain user agents with secret heuristics after having people create/need Google accounts for lots of things. Bastards.
Wish we would have known about this years ago. One search would have prevented the hire is someone that ended up costing us a ton of money. Most background searches don’t get local or state court cases like this without major expense that small businesses can’t afford.
I was wondering if Wine on Ubuntu is faster than Windows native. I found this OSBench near the end of this page (look for "Test:Create Files"):

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wine-ubu...

Ubuntu native is much faster. It's odd that Wine is so slow.. I wonder why?
Yeah, Adobe's failure to keep Flash relevant is the problem. Not Steve Jobs. It's not like they didn't try to work with Adobe.

Adobe just couldn't get it done.

This is what disruption is like. It's great that we have orgs like IA doing the work to keep this old content alive and accessible, and a platform like the Web that can grow and adapt over time.
When you are no longer a customer, they mail the drive to you.
They probably have investors who would rather they have net losses and grow top line growth as fast as possible. This is software, not a service provided by people or involving physical goods. So its hard to believe they can't tweak profitability when they want to. It could be bad for their growth, particularly if they have to monetize the game more. But that's a reasonable proposition for an investment.
On this website we can't fail to mention the connection to James Burke's Connections: Arecibo Observatory appears in Episode 3 from 43:50 https://youtu.be/eCp8h9RkaSw?list=PLf02uWXhaGRng_YzH-Ser_VEV... (skip to 47:00 https://youtu.be/eCp8h9RkaSw?list=PLf02uWXhaGRng_YzH-Ser_VEV... for discussion of the obsevatory), including in some nice aerial shots.
My theory for making platforms that make money is: facilitate competition or creation. Any platform that facilitates competition or creation is ripe for $$$.
It would be a much better ROI then converting real money to Robux. All my daughter wants now is Robux (even her allowance) so she could buy crappy 3d items in the crappy 3d game she plays. People are actually selling/buying these items on eBay like they did years ago for Everquest/WoW.
If you were able to calculate the space in the document flow for those images, I'm fine with the lazy loading. I hate when the page text appears rendered long enough that I start reading, but then lazily loaded items cause the flow to rearrange the text so that I lose my place.
I hated school as well, but I think most things we studied have a purpose. Even limits are "useless," but mind-bending enough to possibly help you develop.

What I personally didn't like was reciting mathematical rules; Being able to apply them should be good enough.
The files are the actual design files, not just a static version. You can edit, move things around, completely redo the entire composition, etc. Even the full version of Adobe Acrobat is severely limited by comparison.

In effect, these design files are the source code. InDesign/PageMaker/Quark are the compilers with a target output of PDF or some other supported doc type.
Pint and SQLAlchemy = Unit consistency and enforcement in your database
It’s a difficult space.

As long as you are looking for “free and someone else maintains it” you are going to be hopping services regularly to stay on something that has VC money to burn for goodwill.

If you host it yourself you either have a maintenance headache or a shortage of features.

Depends what your time is worth really; I use buildkite with runners on AWS for work, and it doesn’t suck.

For personal stuff it’s harder to pick.
This reminds me of people who buy powerful machines, then run the most threadbare Linux environment possible and freak out anytime the machine's RAM and CPU aren't completely idle.

I do miss the lightweight early/mid 90s web sometimes, but I have no interest in artificial constraints that treat smallness as a virtue in and of itself.
Point is... Are there any Unity memes? Haven't seen any :D
There was a suite of software developed for Unix in the late 80s called "The Writer's Workbench", described in Wikipedia as "perhaps the earliest grammar checker to receive wide usage on Unix systems." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer's_Workbench

There is another program named "Writers Workbench" which is available as an online version and as a plugin for Microsoft Word. https://www.writersworkbench.com/ It wasn't clear to me whether the "Writer's Workbench" was derived from, or inspired by, the earlier Unix software.
> * Newsom gets slapped by a judge to not issue anymore EOs

Factually inaccurate as to the content of the court order.

> * Newsom gets a stay on previous order

Accurate, even though your description of the order was not.

> * Newsom orders stay at home order with curfew after talking to Saudia Arabia about it

Whether or not anyone talked to Saudi Arabia, this isn't an Executive Order, its a Public Health Order; it is not issued by Newsome, but by Erica S. Pan, Acting State Public Health Officer.
As easy as impersonating Chrome—if they can detect you, you’re not doing it well enough.
They may going to have to change that to bounce through your default browser.
Oh really!? So covid and the riots and the election talk aren't all political? You are probably the same type of person that argues you can't separate politics at the workplace aren't you?
I'm more worried about software that relies on temporal things - like internet services being accessible and running still, for example. Such external dependencies are a worry for retaining old software.
This doesn't really surprise me?

I've found apps launching login screens in their own embedded browser windows difficult to verify aren't phishing, since they usually don't even show a URL bar, and obviously, could fake it.

I can't say I disagree with the expectation you launch a real browser for OAuth purposes, though it's key they support all real general purpose web browsers.
Trading platforms using older tech (pretty much anyone not owned by the big groups) do this all the time.
It does seem a little suspect that "The Indian troops on the mountain began to vomit and couldn’t stand and eventually had to leave". They didn't shoot back sometime before "eventually"? Surely they at least had a mortar tube or something up there.

Then again, maybe they have incredibly restrictive ROEs.
How long does it take for Superman to recharge?
Nop, not really, they'll still be able to get the token back via custom URL like normal apps.
How so? I wrote only factual, easily verifiable information about him.

If someone does not want to judge by the video content alone and wants to learn more about the author, you can read the following wiki links:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Shariy
Then you might be even more surprised to find out that Foreign Data Wrappers are Postgres' implementation of the ANSI SQL standard extension known as "SQL/MED" [1], where MED stands for "management of external data".

I spent a number of years working on a data federation/virtualization engine - and SQL/MED is very much related to that.

It's actually a relatively unknown topic by many software/data engineers I have worked with, but things like GraphQL federation (example, Apollo GraphQL) or some of the more popular tools such as Presto, Dremio, Denodo, etc.) are where more advanced versions of this are today.

SQL/MED and what Postgres can do is quite cool, but just know that any time you have system boundaries you cross (e.g. between heterogenous systems), things like joins, data types, and many other things becoming a bit more difficult - or you just have to think about them more. But very cool tech.

I've used SQL/MED in Postgres, FDW, linked servers in SQL Server, database links in Oracle, and more advanced virtualization/federation engines also.

If you haven't been exposed to this area before, highly recommended as another tool to know about for the toolkit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/MED
https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/add/documents/

There is some work regarding this.
Major Super Smash Bros Melee Online Tournament Shut Down by Nintendo C&D
Why? Because of two things: you do not need to re-learn a UI (the same way people would play mods in W3, CS, etc.) and because it is hard/there is friction in starting a new game. Think about it, why do you spend hours thinking about what movie you're going to watch on Netflix just to re-watch a movie you've already watched? It's easier for your brain.
Sheepshaver runs on the Pi, so I don't see any fundamental problem. The Author genuinely seems more annoyed that the goal posts keep moving, rather than any of this actually being impossible.

There's no fundamental blocker to emulating x86 either - qemu does it, and will run up to Tiger. I'm almost positive the only reason we're not emulating amd64 is that the cost hasn't been worth it so far. And eventually, one day, we'll be emulating Apple Silicon on something too.
As much as Trump makes me want that...

We just don't have public figures in the EU who can do what an American president can do.

Trump might not be able to command the loyalty of NATO if it came down to it. But we would listen to Bush, Clinton or Obama, I don't see a figure in the EU who can address the world in this way.

When Bush said we were going into Afghanistan (right or wrong) we did it.

Who in the EU can speak on behalf of the free world?

I'm european, and I've heard we have an EU president -- but I have no clue who that is, or what it means.
The shortest answer is that it’s far cheaper to feed two families than to incarcerate one adult.

The longer answer is that you don’t necessarily need welfare programs to help people out of poverty. Rather, a more efficient system would have ‘welfare’ programs for people in crisis that lead into a series of help up services that eventually lead to full independence.

Edit - Also, fuck no, it’s not a teach a man to fish argument. We’re talking about child poverty.
This has been the same for me, although I do find for content created by others, there should at least be a monetization split.
They could just redirect the authorization to the users phone.
> The browser must not provide automation features. This includes scripts that automate keystrokes or clicks, especially to perform automatic sign-ins.

Can't Chrome do this via Chrome extensions?
FYI to any WSL2 users, in it's migrated configuration the WSL VM can request as much RAM as it needs, but has no means to free this back. There's an option to use .wslconfig to specify a limit.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166
1,500 Chinese workers build train station in nine hours