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M1 can accelerate the shift of home users to Macs.

Microsoft devices are already out-fashioned by apple. The Windows UX is also subpar comparing to Apple. Now the hardware is also gonna completely fall behind.

If all the young people get mac's for their home computers, will the next generations use Windows at workplace?

Im talking about 10-20 years landscape for Windows and Office.
Lighten up. Have some fun.

Life is more than just "important" things.

Or better yet: "Important" and "relevant" things should not be limited to serious, constructive, work/society relevant things. Fun is very very important for the mind and soul.

Have more fun.
“this is the language that powers Cloud Firestore / Cloud Storage security rules”

This really needs to be stated on its front page. Right now it’s all “Hows” and no “Why”.

First question anyone looking at it asks: What problem does it solve?/What need does it fill? A real-world use case provides an easy relatable answer.

Incidentally, with existing links to protobuf and no halting problem to worry about, it sounds like you’re halfway to having a remote query language a-la SQL too.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221553413_Safe_Quer...
I'd recommend reading Michael Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" which covers the topic well. In short, "set and setting" is critically important.

https://michaelpollan.com/books/how-to-change-your-mind/
You're not missing an option - OSM simply doesn't have great POI coverage in the US yet. If you have 15 minutes free, register at osm.org and add some POIs for your local area!
It's good if you're in the US. Doesn't give localised results for the UK.
Whataboutism doesn’t work well here either.

When a company wastes their shareholders’ money, the shareholders have an easy path to sell their shares and stop being harmed by the waste. When a government wastes taxpayer money, there is not the same timeline nor precision in ability to stop directly supporting that waste so you reasonably see taxpayers seeking other avenues to attempt to curtail the waste.
But...Brave's private cdn is a 3rd party...
You don't need an antivirus on android. Not unless you're sideloading apps and your device doesn't have Google Play on it.

Notifications about phone os updates seems like a bit of a stretch. When my Windows device has updates I can't remove those notifications. And on MacOS I can't close the update window though the notification can be dismissed (at least for the Big Sur update I just did last week).

iPhone's have apps that can't be removed that come from Apple. Ever tried removing Siri? Bixby seems like Samsung's rough equivalent. Some Apple apps you can remove but then the phone's "system functionality" becomes questionable (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208094).

Seeing as android=Google, and Samsung=Note10 it's not too much of a stretch for them to bundle apps. I'd agree--it'd still be nice to be able to remove everything. But the bundleware you're complaining about, outside of the device manufacturers and OS owner, amount to Netflix, Facebook, and OneDrive. Yea less than ideal. But disable them if you don't want them there and they'll be as good as gone aside from a few mb of space. Again--not ideal, but it's hard to believe this is that big of a deal breaker.
I'm very happy with Runbox.
Even though the full-size filter would surely work with a phone camera, if you could scale it down to a form factor that clips onto the phone, I can see this selling like hot cakes. Might be one of the rare cases where influencer marketing is really effective too. Is it feasible to grind the glass at a physical scale to make that work?

All in all, very cool product, and congrats on making a living from it!
How can freedom of speech be the downfall of democracy? Surely Facebook and democracy can coexist if we get better at teaching people to think for themselves?

I don’t like the idea democracy can only survive if governments censor and remove platforms for spreading information (however false that may be).
Does anyone actually enjoy this kind of writing style where the author constantly blows their own trumpet? The introductionary text is borderline satire.
One thing which hit me when reading it, was the cache of email addresses, all to receive this 'Canadian Eyes Only' and 'Secret'.

For anyone, it creates a chain of people who are ... required? Important enough? Need to know? Said info...

There's like a few security implications here, such as, whom to apply pressure to. Some GoC department employees, on even LinkedIn for example, are restricted from indicating who precisely they work for.

For this very reason.

Even non-compliance-with-pressure tactics are a concern, for it helps to know whom precisely to attempt hacks against.

Some might say "Meh, they probably already know this and that", but things like this are precisely how they already know this and that.
So does this mean I can run GOG games on my Raspberry PI ?

(Asking a stupid question here)
Google Maps is best in class for POI search and driving directions. It certainly isn't for walking or cycling.
I'm sceptical.

> Using the mathematical tools available to him at the time, Einstein was able to better explain certain physical phenomena and also resolve a longstanding paradox relating to inertia and gravity. But instead of improving on particles or waves, he eliminated them as he proposed the warping of space and time.

> Using newer mathematical tools, my colleague and I have demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe. Instead of basing the theory on the warping of space and time, we considered that there could be a building block that is more fundamental than the particle and the wave. Scientists understand that particles and waves are existential opposites: A particle is a source of matter that exists at a single point, and waves exist everywhere except at the points that create them. My colleague and I thought it made logical sense for there to be an underlying connection between them.

Link to the study (paywall) and abstract: https://physicsessays.org/browse-journal-2/product/1829-14-l...
Show HN: The hyper-focus task manager that filters what shouldn't be done at all
Working on a game engine is the ultimate (and very common) game dev trap. It's a recipe for never finishing anything as all your time and energy is eaten up trying to generalise your code to support infinite games.
I'm sad that the death of Flash will mean the demise of one of the greatest websites of all time. As far as I'm concerned, the Web peaked in 1999 with this site and it's all been downhill since.

If you can view it with Flash, it's much recommended. Turn the volume up and whatever you do, don't skip the intro:

http://superior-web-solutions.com
Show HN: LaunchAfrica – Find startup and tech jobs in Africa
This is because very little uses AVX instructions, hasn't it always been better to optimise software for the GPU rather than AVX instructions, even though they are not perfectly interchangeable.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#History), AMD's x86-64 was announced in 1999 and the full specification was released in 2000. Assuming patents last for 20 years, they should have all expired by now. For SIMD, this includes everything up to SSE2; most software which uses any of the newer SIMD extensions should have a fallback to SSE2, since older CPUs don't have these newer extensions.
Because it is very hard to build an index with the size of the web.
Unrelated question as an outside observer: how is it possible to get interactions like these as opposed to "file a feedback"?
Nobody is truly independent, and has never been. It may seem offensive to the Western notions of liberty, but the evidence is clear and Urbit is merely acknowledging the reality of the situation.

- The average people are dependent on the whims of the voting majority (democracy), or the whims of their leader (monarchy/totalitarianism)

- In addition, the average person chooses to do or avoid doing certain things, to maintain social conformity and avoid ostracism.

- The upper classes and elites are dependent on the whims of those above them in the power structure of the country

- The ruling class depends on the loyalty of those below them, so their conduct and decisions must be naturally shaped by those who they depend on to stay in power (see CGP Grey's "The Rules for Rulers", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs)

- On an international level, this applies correspondingly. Weaker countries are at the mercy of their superiors, co-equal countries must not go too far in violating norms lest they get called out on it by peers, superpowers are dependent on their fellow superpowers not punishing them and on their client nations not to rebel.

I do agree that environments like Urbit should make it easy and cheap to become independent, and free to change your "landlord", but that's a mere implementation detail.
first sentence "Gang members and drug dealers have been quick to adopt ways to screen their communications. " .. im sure this article wont be biased by any means....
Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants
Long Covid brain fog research participants reqd online study: pls circulate
No need to go into details, but how are you for usage and profitability?

I remember Gabe Weinberg mentioning on here that DDG became profitable pretty early on, so I'd be interested how easy it is to meet that threshold and how sustainable it is to create search competitors!
Decoding the Language of Genomes
Yeah, but check out large enterprises where software engineers are not the norm, common, or some times, not even present at all :-)
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I think this lets apps ignore things like quarantine and data vaults.
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From what I've read/listened to this is generally not the case. The kind of psychedelic-assisted research that's happening today uses full doses that induce a "spirtual" experience, not microdoses. I'll see if I can dig up actual links but a big source of information I have on this topic is from the fascinating and highly recommended Drug Science podcast:

https://www.drugscience.org.uk/introducing-the-drug-science-...

I remember hearing a conversation in one episode where microdose research was discussed and David Nutt, the UK's foremost neuropsychopharmacologist, said that studying full doses is more efficient from a process perspective. With such stringent rules around scheduled substances any research means a ton of red tape, keeping people under observation for ages, and so on. It's more effective to study administration of a small number of full doses than run a program to analyse a longer course of microdoses. Of course, you could probably study a one-off microdose but given the subtlety of the effects it's probably hard to distinguish the drug effects from other factors. Given the difficulty of studying this stuff at all and the belief that a full dose is necessary it makes sense to try that ahead of microdose research.

Edit: oh, quote from https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30282-8:

"The extensive use of microdosing psychedelics to putatively improve wellbeing and creativity (Kuypers et al., 2019) raises the question of whether a full psychedelic experience is needed. Microdosing involves taking—usually on a regular basis, e.g., 3 times a week—a low dose of a psychedelic that is devoid of subjective psychoactive effects. As yet there have been no trials of microdosing for any psychiatric disorder, and it seems improbable that a single microdose of psilocybin would have as big an effect in depression as the 25 mg psilocybin “macrodose” usually used. Growing evidence suggests the best outcomes from psilocybin are in patients experiencing the most powerful psychedelic effects, variously called breakthrough, peak, or mystical experiences (Roseman et al., 2018b
). [..]"

Also, Michael Pollan's book "How To Change Your Mind" goes into a lot of detail re: the therapeutic process. I'd imagine most clinical processes to be similar to the kind of stuff that happens underground now — full doses, a guide present, care on set/setting etc.
I think rust does a good job at keeping things simple in the std.

Where I get some analysis paralysis is in getting one library over another one.

Eg. I'd love to have a std lib recommended way of doing async and task execution with a thread pool eg. Async-std vs Tokyo Vs Rayon.

They're all individually great pieces of software but none of them feel complete and I always reach out for something that is not there.

To be fair I don't think this is rust specific, I think this is just the bane of OSS solutions with unpaid maintainers.

Sure, I could contribute something or fork them but it takes time.

I'd prefer to just buy in into a solution, pay a monthly fee and know that I'll get a full featured solution with a well paid maintainer.
they dont even mention bitchute as the largest YT alternative? lol. gtfo with that shit.
https://archive.vn/yEGoS
I can't seem to find anything on it. Even searching for Hacker News [1] returns 0 results

1. http://almonit.eth.link/#/results/?q=hacker%20news
I think there's strong evidence for weak forms of the hypothesis. For example, the available colour names in a language affects the way people classify colours as measured by the way they perform a task in which language is not used. See Guy Deutscher's "Through the language glass" for an overview of this and many other fun things.

There's also the whole business of how propagandists twist language around in order to influence people. How is that not an example of language affecting people's world view?
The central point of the article is that Facebook is not free. Yes you can have free speech and democracy but free speech becomes rather more difficult when its biggest medium is a privately controlled monopoly.

Fake-news and the like aren't mentioned in the article.
That's true: AirBnB hosts profit from untaxed externalities (similar to "CO2 and pollution from combustion engine cars", which Elon Musk regularly points to): The pollution with AirBnB is "noise" and "restlessness", which you don't want in a (permanent) residential area and which is/should be regulated often/mostly and probably not enough given the new business of AirBnB.
Sadly not really under active development these days :(
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If you look at his post history, you can see he has a thing for trolling in any thread about Clojure.
I checked Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

It's a bit more than "towards the right" IMHO. I don't mind this reddit community being ignored by Google Search.
The case for free speech absolutism has never looked more questionable than it does right now. Every online platform that has tried to market itself as a “bastion of free speech” has become overrun with the absolute worst of society and as of 2020 is directly implicated in multiple real life terrorist attacks including most recently in the Nez Zealand government’s post-mortem on the Christchurch shootings here https://christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/the-report

We already have rules regarding what we consider to be acceptable both in general society and in a legal context with regards to free speech so the line in the sand already exists.

Trying to wave away this debate by just shouting “censorship” contributes nothing meaningful to a debate that is sorely missing from society.

Edit: There are some interesting points in the replies that I think could be answered with some clarifications.

I think there is something that is very unique about social media specifically that should have a higher standard about it than other forms of speech. My argument is not at all about trying to force "the one acceptable point of view" or anything like that. History has a long long list of ideas that were once considered dangerous that not only stood the test of time but instead became something much more and in order to continue having that diversity of opinion is generally a good thing.

There are fundamental problems with how the economics of a social media platform function. Never before has a tool existed that allowed everyone to broadcast any unfiltered thought they had to everyone else in the world with basically zero effort.

Furthermore, they can do this both anonymously and without any kind of repercussion. That sounds great in theory as some libertarian fantasy where you might expect the "marketplace of ideas" to take care of everything and the cream would rise to the top. The reality of what that looks like in 2020 however is actually very different and I think now would be a great time to have that discussion about what guardrails we can all generally agree on that would address some of the many downsides that have come out of this experiment so far.

All of the current iterations of major social networks came pretty much exclusively from a group of people who had zero background in anything then Computer Science. At no point have we reached out to groups like sociologists, ethicists, historians, psychologists or anyone else who might have some really valuable thoughts on how to arrange anonymous social interactions in a way that might not devolve into the shit fight we have on our hands currently.

As an example Facebook was started by a guy who by all accounts is not exactly known for having great social skills where he could rate women on campus. Twitter is a platform that purposely doesn't allow for nuance. I think they were both a terrible starting point and that perhaps we should rethink what social media COULD look like from the ground up and learning from all of the mistakes we made with it the first time around.
True, but that's assuming that there isn't a local culture that develops wherever people congregate, even online.

HN, as designed, definitely leans towards entrepreneurs, risk takers, people who rebel against authority, etc. Nothing wrong with that, we just have to acknowledge it :-)
How the Python object system works
I think it's worth mentioning that DDG does not do it's own crawling, they are using Bing API and therefore don't need that much infrastrcuture (except the presentation layer).

This means that they just need to sell enough advertising (which I think bing provides / forces them to use) so basically for DDG, more visitors = more revenue and breakeven means that the traffic pays for the costs they have.
Hi! This is part 6 of my Python behind the scenes series. Each part of the series covers how some aspect of the language is implemented in the interpreter, CPython. This time we'll focus on the Python object system. You'll learn:

- What Python objects and types are and how they are implemented.
- What slots are and how they determine the behavior of objects.
- How slots are related to special methods.

I'd be glad to get your feedback and answer your questions. Thanks!
Author of the article here.

We have had some more recent conversations [0] about update control. There are also workarounds in the meantime [1].

[0] - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/re-visiting-update-control-on-the-desktop/17170

[1] - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snap-method-to-remove-auto-updates/21199
Facebook isn't "Free Speech" in the traditional sense, it is a massive AI system designed to funnel people towards controversy and lies (because it turns out controversy and lies get the highest engagement).
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So true. I joked with a friend that the best way of getting access to psychologists in the NHS is to have a TBI or stroke. When it's a "physiological" brain thing they are quick to react. It's a sad state of affairs.
I think the "Facebook bad" horse has been beaten down to Earth's inner core.

Yes, Facebook has its downsides just as any other social platform would. Yes, you can live without it. But I don't believe that the negatives Facebook has enabled comes close to the utility it has provided to society.
There article is reasonable and it just asks to apply laws that already exist. I am surprised how much false advertising is allowed on all this platforms. Chinese counterfeit products sold on Amazon, Russian state propaganda promoted by Facebook, ... The judicial system and the law need to catch-up with new technologies.
USA companies are becoming less competitive and more hostile to its own users and costumers. USA in general has an increasing image problem as many people defend to lie and scam customers. Trust is extremely important for a well functioning society and even more to do business.
I mean, I've run into situations where GATs would have been a good solution before and had to find a clumsier workaround using boxing or other solutions until now.

So I don't really know what to say to your initial question, except "this feature is useful", and that the question (and especially your answer to it) may be a bit overly reductionist.
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This. They have an app for Android but refuses making one for iOS because of the Webkit requirement from Apple.
How do they get the key?

This sounded like just the process you’d use once you have the key, but getting the key is presumably the hardest part.

So, is Signal Secure?
Apple controls the genie in HTML/CSS/JavaScript very tightly.

There is one and only one browser engine on iOS, the one that Apple makes. Everyone and everything has to use it.

Secondly, they can hobble it at will, just like they're doing now with progressive web apps. We've had progressive web apps for how long? 5 years? Safari still doesn't really support them.

I wonder why? Might it have to do with the business selling tens of billions of dollars of platform-specific applications each year? Nah, that can't be! :-)
These headline dichotomies have a tendency to be utterly false.

Even after a successful antitrust action and forced division, Facebook would likely stay Facebook, only minus Instagram, WhatsApp and possibly other current appendages.
On-prem is your trump card in case Gitlab cloud decides to leave you out in the cold.

Without on-prem, you're cut out of your source code service and will have to do a potentially hasty migration to an entirely new platform (which brings its own issues inherent in any migration project).
I like that the article starts with describing Functor as "something almost every developer knows about". That might be a bit of a stretch. I would say almost all developers has interacted with what could be called a functor, but knowing the concept is something different. In certain areas it is starting to get well known though.
Type parameters are decided by the use of the type. The associated types are decided by the implementation of the type. Type params are input, associate type are output.
> Companies like Google get huge fines when they break their promise -- even accidentally.

Source?

Facebook has used phone numbers given exclusively for 2FA purposes for targeted advertising and got away with merely a slap on the wrist considering their revenue.

Facebook also collected data for years from their trackers but only relatively recently started exposing that to users (with their "Off-Facebook activity" page), which means that for 2 years they were in breach of the GDPR by not allowing people access to their own data and incriminated themselves (by now providing that webpage which proves they've collected this data for years). They are yet to be investigated & fined for this.

GDPR and privacy regulation enforcement is still a complete joke.