skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Specifically, your entertainment or gaming app inappropriately references the COVID-19 pandemic in the metadata or binary. Entertainment or gaming apps that directly or indirectly reference the COVID-19 pandemic in any way are not appropriate for the App Store.

What does a screensaver have to do with COVID ?

Given the incredibly sensitive situation everyone is in with vaccines about to be rolled out I can understand why Apple would be wanting to prevent misinformation.
Seems Google has them cached still: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.flo...

These are pretty bad passwords as well, even though I guess it doesn't matter that much if there are no individual user accounts anyways.
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> if desktop ARM becomes mainstream things could settle fairly quickly. It's less of a technical problem and more of a "why bother?" problem.

This is exactly right, but I fear the incentives have changed and we'll never again see something like the x86/IBM-compatible/Wintel world of "standard" inter-compatible systems.

As you say, it's a "why bother?" problem, and no manufacturer will want to bother: Apple has no interest in making it easy to run other OSes, Microsoft wants to sell you "Windows Surface" devices, not general-purpose computers, corporate buyers want a "secure" locked-down environment with a signed bootloader...

Are there any powerful stakeholders who benefit from interoperability?
Also

"Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?" -- Ellen Ripley
To me it's one of those "How heavy is a rock?" questions. In a particular instance, I think anyone can answer it about themselves. But in the abstract, it's a lot harder.

Some people have issues with many or all things, and can easily answer 'yes'. Some people have no real issues and will easily answer 'no'. But there are a ton of people in the middle who have problems with certain situations and it's not an easy answer.

If you could answer "yes" without having to worry about repercussions, I would recommend that anyone unsure just answer that. But sadly, that's not the way the world works.
Ok I admit some of those are tough to defend, but it's worth pointing out that in the old days most musicians that recorded albums had significant organic validation of their art through live performance. You have to assume these guys http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/stuffparty.jpg had been successfully entertaining audiences for years and likely making a good living of it - and were probably pretty good musicians too.

Today, putting out an "album", as well as producing sophisticated album art is so much easier, but the true test is, can it touch the audience artistically and emotionally? Not always the case!
"Current PCs can last for decades" this might not sound as an advantage for PC computer producers. Surely they would prefer mobile devices model in which many people switch device every 2 years.

I bet there are some higher ups in Dell, HP counting how wonderful it would be to force people to switch to the new model more often. Or maybe even sell hardware subscription.

This would be terrible for the environment, but who cares (never heard Tim Cook or Bill Gates going on the stage and saying, hey, we have a new fancy model (i-whatever or Surface), but your 2 years old one is also great, so keep using it, this would be good for the environment).
Optimizing where items are stored to facilitate ease of access while also not overwhelming an aisle is also key. fast moving merchandise can change across a year. besides the handhelds using light to indicate where an item is has benefits over some systems which rely on audio clues
I was talking about the ear pads of my Beats Solo. These really should be exchangeable.
I have the same issue. I pretty much only use the noise cancellation on planes where it doesn't have that effect for me.
One time IAPT refused to help me because they believed I will be suicidal if they continue (it makes no sense). I had to pay for private treatment, because they were useless.
Now we need an ARM processor that can compete with M1. Seems that Apple caught everyone with the pants down in the PC industry. Microsoft SQ2 processor that ships in their $1400 Surface Pro X is almost 50% slower than M1.
I haven’t see any credible evidence. Neither has the Justice Department. I wonder if it’s possible that a president who has a history of lying dozens of times a day is lying again...
Not any more. Stockholm (and Sweden in general) has problem with rape:

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-r...
Ask HN: Joining a new company as a mid-level SWE, what tips would you give me?
Hi, I am 28 with 5 years experience working in finance as a tech person. I am going to join a tech company as a mid-level SWE, what are your suggestions/tips for having a successful career in my new job? What should I look out for? What is the most important thing you can think of?

By successful I meaning climbing up the ladder and becoming a mid-management instead of IC.

Thanks!
I may be getting old but over-ear headphones still look weird to me outside. Besides the look I do not like not be be aware about the world around me.
They mean that there are other much larger sites like Facebook which does take payments which has literally, literally, 1 million times the number of cases of those illegal types of things getting reported on their site.
The text at the very end of the article explains more. It appears Wittgenstein wrote a dictionary for children he was teaching in Austria after he left Cambridge, these illustrations were created for the first English translation of that dictionary that is recently published, also noted here:

http://moussemagazine.it/paul-chan-drawings-for-word-book-by...

And you can purchase the book here:

https://bookshop.org/books/word-book-9781943263240/978194326...
Lol this dude reminds me of my parents who wouldn't let me walk ten blocks home at night in my tiny ass Canadian home town because of how "dangerous" it gets after dark. Never mind the crime rate is literally an order of magnitude below any of the various American metros in which I've lived (and walked home after dark in, never experiencing any issues).

Some peoples' perception is entirely driven by watching too much local news, and yet they somehow convince themselves they or their friends have personally have experienced all of this. Hook them up to a lie detector and it would draw a perfectly flat line as they spin their tales.
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great info, thank you. Sorry for the wrong guesses on your job.
You can get help if you start doing subject access requests and hinting at starting legal action due to inadequate help.
It's banned (not just in France) because there is are existing laws against face-covering and religion is not above that.

There is also a perfectly rational thinking behind a reciprocity of rights: if you can see me but I can't see you then we're not equal.

There are also fierce debates around the role of women, ensuring equal opportunities in society, and the fact that ideology (whether religious or not) should not remove citizens from their rights and duties.

Of course, any of this is always open for debatable, and it is debated, at length, politically, socially, philosophically and these issues are always in flux, between those who want more restrictions in the name of greater freedom for all, and those who want less in the name of greater freedom for all.
They never claimed that Android vendors aren't facing similar issues.

No, but like many here they couldn't stop bleeting about Apple.
> I found that I like to scribble and underline, and draw

I use Goodnotes[1] on my iPad for my notes in which you can do all of that. Works great for me.

But i can understand that a digital solution is not always a better solution for every situation/lifestyle...

[1] https://www.goodnotes.com/
Freedom of speech is not a right to other people's property: you have no right to force any one to publish what you want but you have the right to start your own newspaper,tv station or a web site and publish whatever you want.
YouTube is private. It's owners have the right to decide what is on it and they did. This is not a violation of free speech as some comments suggest.
I don't think it's a reasonable argument to put people oppressed due to their race with people who want their smartphone to work a bit differently at the same level.

> if you run a business, you have to serve everyone, end of story

This isn't even true! You can deny service to anyone for any reason as long as it's not a protected characteristic! Apple already cannot deny your app based on your race.

If a restaurant doesn't like your attitude they can ask you to leave. Can't Apple do the same?

> Again, how exactly does that inconvenience you, personally?

Because the smartphone gets worse. Less locked-down, less simple, more complex, more avenues of attack. More expensive to make and maintain.

But why does anyone have to justify why they don't like it? I think 'I don't want to do this' should be reason enough for Apple to not do it. As long as they aren't impacting people who aren't their customers it's their business not yours.

> no one is imposing anything on you

Yes you are you want to impose that Apple change their software to suit you - it's selfish.

You want it your way, I want it my way. Hope can we resolve this? How about we let Apple choose who to market to?

We can't make it a legally protected right to have products designed for people's random whims.
For a long time I thought that this was the case for me too and stuck with passive noise cancelling headphones. Then I tried the Sony 1000MX3s and didn't experience that issue, and I realized I had only really ever tried the Bose QuietComforts before. If you haven't already, it could be worth trying different brands to see if the issue persists across different noise cancelling systems!
Agreed!
The mainstream media has no problem with disinformation, it only has a problem with democratization of disinformation.

With social media more people have access and some amount of power as the $billion media entities, and the old guards don’t like it.
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At the bottom of this page you can see the regions (and future regions) https://fauna.com/features. Since Fauna is inspired by Calvin we are not dependent on clocks like Spanner to deliver global consistency and can run on any hardware. Currently, each database is automatically distributed so your lambdas would read from the closest location. We are working on region selection in case you want to avoid the overhead (arguably small latency overhead thanks to the algorithm) of multi-region.

Latencies can be found here: https://status.fauna.com/
As a long fan of Fauna (who now works as a dev adv for them after following them for 2 years) for me what was the most attractive is the combination of features without compromises. Scalability/distribution without losing consistency, relations and powerful indexing (e.g. best of NoSQL and traditional databases combined). I was also attracted by the temporality aspect personally.
> What does a screensaver have to do with COVID ?

One of the modes ("hacks") it provides shows animated viruses bouncing around the screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJDxZXbO8mY
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It's also untrue. Many execs at companies moved up the ranks there and they probably did it the same way, by pouring their extra time into their jobs.
That is true, although it's worth saying that (if I'm not mistaken) outside of patents we don't really know what the micro-ops do i.e. RISC possibly isn't the best descriptor.

The microarchitectural classification of a modern CPU is slightly murky, i.e. a modern x86 has a pipeline a la the first one to do so, but the way the CPU actually uses it is completely different (i.e. OoO, speculative etc.)
GP is implying that PCs will move to ARM and run legacy Windows software on the x64 emulator. Android apps compiled for ARM will therefore run natively.
If I pay 500 quid for a pair of headphones I don't plan on removing them haha
They "owned" the unceded territory for a long time. Sort of the same way gangs "own" territory in the big cities. They also fought with rival gangs like the Nor'westers over expanding that territory.
1) ~~Why is this an archive.org URL rather than a direct URL to the website, https://www.jw [[ EDIT: Don't click that. Turns out jwz redirects requests from HN to something funny but nsfw. Thanks posix_me_less. ]] z.org/blog/2020/12/xscreensaver-5-45/, when the content on each match each other?~~

2) The title seems editorialized. Correct title should probably be `XScreenSaver 5.45`. No way comes to mind to do a direct link to the content the original title (`Apple Censors XScreensaver`) references because it doesn't have an element ID.

Also (and this is my opinion), this doesn't really seem like malicious censorship. Apple's just trying to curb misinformation surrounding the pandemic, it makes sense to do manual reviews for apps referencing it. Almost being unable to release the app from an older version of macOS is stupid but this kind of stupidity is par for the course with Apple.
Does this mean that Visa will go the way of the Betamax?

I can't wait to get a slitcard for my new account in the spankbank.
I won’t make a claim about this product (might not even if I had heard them), but Apple does make headphones for a living.

https://macdailynews.com/2018/11/05/apple-is-the-worlds-lead... (2018): “When its three headphone brand categories are combined (EarPods, AirPods, Beats – an Apple company) Apple has the leading market share in headphone ownership with 24%. Sony is second with 22%, followed by fellow traditional CE stalwarts Panasonic and Bose”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/apple-ced...: “The AirPods have come to define the true wireless (TWS) earphones category, with Apple accounting for nearly half of all sales in 2019 and expected to grow to 82 million units this year, according to Counterpoint Research data. More affordable alternatives from Chinese rivals, however, have eroded Apple’s lead and the Silicon Valley company now finds itself with just over a third of the market, at 35%”
It is because of huge immigration and extremely poor integration which has lead to lots of segregation which is now manifesting in violence and crime.
Hackers, I've been working on a very simple tool for busy people like you. No more emailing yourself.

In layman terms, it helps to save time by eliminating the distractions of unimportant tasks we all get every day.

You just focus on 3 most important outcomes and get it done faster, achieving what really matters.

The method behind the app allows you to set priorities for the year, month and a week, working every day on 3 simple tasks getting closer to your big goals step by step.

It is still an early version and I plan to build more features but I believe it's already doing its job and I'd love to know your feedback.

Any comments on how I can improve the tool, or you enjoyed using it, or you found a bug. Just anything no matter how brutal. I'd love to hear from you at any time. Please comment here.
I know many people with cheap laptops running for >5 years. Vendors like Asus have stepped up their game considerably.
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Formatting was messed up, here is a google doc link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u7W-Z8hCzglUGDkZgmL7GgJPnlMQCO81rtb4go4oNpo/edit?usp=sharing
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Somehow I feel like the audio quality and build quality is not going to be as good as the companies that actually make headphones for a living

Audio quality? Maybe not. Although it probably depends on how you precisely define audio quality. I’m not aware of any competing headphones that have a feature equivalent to the directional audio that these AirPods have.

But build quality? Apple will give any remotely comparable product a run for its money. Very few companies can match Apple’s expertise when it comes to mass producing hardware products with high-end materials and matching build quality. I think it’s close to a certainty that any headphones that are undeniably nicer than these ones, will also be significantly more expensive.
This is the first I heard of this guideline from Apple.

This continues to be ridiculous. Games are art. Can you imagine if books weren't allowed to address the single most pressing issue of our time?

(Or, I guess the books would exist, but you couldn't buy them on Amazon or read them while you were sitting on an Ikea chair.)
Call me pragmatic but I think the answer is simple. If it benefits you to say you are disabled and you have a qualifying disability, medically supported, then say yes, say you are disabled. If it does not benefit you to say you're disabled and the disability is not entirely obvious to others who you don't interact with on a regular basis, then say no. Some might not like it, but if the disability is of the sort that there's some sort of contention on whether to say yes or no, then the line isn't particularly firm.
This is always hidden behind "cultural fit", if you get refused.
What's the URL for YC funding again ? XD
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> ML methods would require labelled data to be trained.

Not necessarily.

One could train a model on synthesized data using e.g. blender, some programmable 3D people models with hand controls and some generic background images to paste them on.
> I never really understood the combination of noise cancellation and home use only.

WFH kids, dogs etc. AirPods pro help a lot with that situation for me.
Yandex image search is way better in my experience. At least for "search by image"
jwz.org blocks requests referred from HN.
Great question. There's no easy answer to that, nor a silver bullet.

Our current thinking is that curation is needed but from a position of defaulting to uncurated.
Yes, that's what I meant. The point I was trying to make was that just knowing server side scripting was a necessary but not sufficient condition to create a hit photo sharing app at that time, because there weren't many options on the camera at the time, and the filters were what drove the growth at that time.
He's putting light color on top of a dark color. How is that possible in watercolor?
Thank you! I was trying to remember where I saw it first, and this excellent video is it.
Show HN: Kanji Time, Japanese from Apple Watch to Mac, Built 100% with SwiftUI
You mean, kill anyone over 21 years of age? Harsh.
First entry from changelog at the top of the article:

> New hacks, covid19, headroom, sphereeversion and beats
I do not think many will disagree about circles. Having circles would make Facebook so much better, but presumably they do not think that that would make them any money.
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> The business model is to divert revenue that used to go to newspapers and publishers to themselves. And so by manipulating people in this specific way that they do, which is to keep them using their system and keep surveilling them so that they can target them with ads, they are, in the process, crushing newspapers and publishers, who no longer have any financing, particularly local newspapers and niche publications like Black-owned newspapers.

Is there any business this entitled? Imagine a bookstore owner describing amazon's business model as diverting revenue that used to go to bookstores, particularly black-owned backstores, to themselves. Somehow the revenue flows, like water, it used to flow to newspapers, and now it flows to facebook. I'm glad at least that the interview skips over bots, russians and algorithms and goes straight to the point, which is that people like matt make less money because everyone can share their views now, and people find their friends rants just as entertaining as matts.
But if the issue is only a technology or firmware issue what exactly causes it? Is it like a standing wave of pressure below or above hearing range? The mistery bothers me as much as experiencing it.
TL;DR: Kanji Time is a new app I made to learn Japanese vocabulary and kanji on all Apple platforms from watchOS to macOS.

Hi, I'm the developer of Kanji Time.
It started as a side project to learn SwiftUI and watchOS development. I released it first as a standalone watchOS app with a 25MB CoreData DB to work offline, native animations, over 10000 words and support for complications which helps to repeat kanji and words by looking at your watch throughout the day.

Now with iOS 14 and widgets I developed the idea further.
I was curious to evaluate a single code base for watchOS, iOS and macOS. With the constraints I had, SwiftUI (with Catalyst for the Mac) was the obvious choice. It was my goal to keep it as simple as possible, which means there is no upfront registration or account creation as of now. Your private CloudKit store is used to share the progress between devices (about 1-5MB usage). And it’s still completely offline capable, caches the progress and merges changes.

>Why learn on a watch?
Of course it’s supplemental and for short repetition bursts, but I think a watch has less distractions compared to a phone when on the go.

>WidgetKit:
Coming from the watch with support for Complications (ClockKit) I could reuse most of my code to setup WidgetKit on iPhone, iPad and Mac. In my opinion (as of now at least) it is the main differentiator between alternative apps and can be used just on its own to be exposed to new words and kanji.

>SwiftUI:
I have a love-hate relationship with SwiftUI. There are strange quirks for customisation of UIKit components like UITabBar, alerts, modal views. But for interactive animations (e.g. swipeable Card Stack in the app) it is amazing.
The kanji stroke animations btw. are also completely native, and drawn with CoreGraphics path animations on all platforms.

>CoreData backed by CloudKit:
When used as designed and (more or less) documented it works without a lot of custom code you have to write.
Well when I tried to sync the 25MB DB it resulted in a 500MB (!) representation in CloudKit.
So what I decided to do is to have two stores, one is the local (25MB) and the other is for CloudKit to store progress data, dates for repetition and dictionary entry ids to sync with the local store. (Through fetched properties) Now syncing is very fast and lightweight (1-5MB). But it means that I have to write merge logic when learning on different devices in offline mode, or at the same time on my own, well…

Oh, and you can test all features for free, the IAP is only for more advanced words and levels.

Really curious about your feedback!
I am happy to go into more detail in the comments!