skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite fascinating to read about mobile crossplatform projects beyond React Native/Flutter/Xamarin and the old Cordova/PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium efforts. There's a surprising amount of them out there- Kivy isn't even the only one in Python, there's also Beeware (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaPzlIJ57dk) and PyMob.

The question is, who actually uses these projects? The people developing them? Hobbyists? Language diehards? If you're a large company that just needs LOB apps, one would assume one of the aforementioned projects (or Delphi) would be sufficient. Who uses NativeScript, Ionic, QT on mobile, or obscure stuff like Sencha, Alibaba's Weex or Codename One?

RubyMotion at least has one famous app:

http://www.rubymotion.com/news/2014/04/08/rubymotion-success...
I'd enjoy some numbers on the environmental damage of laptop versus desktop consumption.

My desktop is 6 years old with an i7 CPU (high-end) and 750Ti GPU (entry level). My monitor is a 24" 1080 Samsung bought new in 2009 for ~$120 at Frys if I recall. All in all, this package cost me $1,300 (there was a sale on the i7 at purchase).

I use it heavily for photography, occasional video and audio, and I'm currently playing Fallen Order (released Nov. 2019) with Medium+ settings (Texture is high) loading from a SSD bought in 2016. There is admittedly some weakness in the gaming department, but otherwise, zero issues. But I do think I'll buy a used 1660/2070 GPU and monitor in a few months to upgrade.

I have an iPad Mini 4 I use when traveling and going to coffee shops and that pretty much always fits my mobility needs.

Too many people are buying $1.5k+ plus laptops that they don't maximize usage of, then chuck away in 3 years because they either die due to the compromising form factor or because they want an unnecessary upgrade to browse the internet.
My last laptop is also a ThinkPad but X61s (the last one that had the IBM logo)... I'm not using it that much because I don't move around but I replaced the drive with a 30GB SSD like ten years ago and installed linux. Also had to replace the heatpipe + fan (because of more and more noise) but still works great!

I would actually recommend people use a Raspberry 4 now a days, and just bring the pi or have one at each location if you don't need security... and have screens/keyboard/mouse at all places (remember to use the same keyboard everywhere). Working on trains is not really constuctive as you cannot do deep work there anyhow!
That probably has more to do with the fact that "history of video games" style retrospectives skew heavily towards arcade and console releases rather than computer games. If you are into retrocomputing, of course flight sims top the list of the most important titles. There are some systems for which a flight sim was the only graphical game ever officially released. For others, like the IBM PC, flight sims were a benchmark of compatibility in a time when compatibility didn't have a set definition -- vendors who could get the PC releases of MFS and Lotus running on their machines had a pretty solid claim to being "100% IBM compatible". So they are a critical part of the history of the platform.

As for whether "the kids" are rediscovering them, they don't appear in classic game compilations (which, again, skew console-y), but retrocomputing YouTubers like the 8-Bit Guy and LGR rekindle interest in these titles. Inasmuch as young people are interested in classic computers, they will come across these old flight sims.
Robots are more efficient at work, they are easy to specialize (they do not need studies, just a program and its parts are made to measure for the job) and they consume less energy than human beings, so that should really be our future, intellectual humans and worker robots.

Food forests would be a quick early solution, the long-term solution would be the creation of vitamin supplements that contain all the necessary nutrients at a low cost and faster compared to what it takes to grow plants.

> "and let others determine if it is working or playing" (quote in your web page)

I do not distinguish between play and work when I do research in mathematics, but I have to work as a programmer because mathematicians are starving in Latin America (It is a phrase to say that they do not earn much, for those dumbasses who do not understand the joke and downvote me) and worse someone like me, 19 years old, without work experience nor university degree.
At a certain level, firing someone says more about the fire-er than the fire-ee, especially for executives and overpaid salespeople.

The appearance of a sudden desire to embrace, family, fishing, early retirement, etc is usually better for all parties.
There was a time when society relegated women to pursuits that frequently deprived them of many opportunities to invent. Fortunately, society has changed.
Technically, older than the web. Unless you were born in the 60s or earlier...
I wonder if this weakens their "security" argument in the appstore walled garden case.
I used to think the same way. But now that I see how pervasive a force racism has been in America's history, I have a different view. Now I think it's worth asking both questions: Is racism really at play? And given America's lasting, endemic racism, is there reason to think something makes it absent in a given case?

A couple of the books that turned me around here: Kendi's "Stamped from the Beginning", a history of racist ideas. And Loewen's "Sundown Towns", a look at the wave of ethnic cleansing during the Nadir that happened across America. I had known about the Tulsa Massacre, but what I didn't know was how common smaller-scale events were for decades.
I'm kinda the opposite. Modern music (to me) seems to be largely consisting of artists who cannot sing and have no tone to their voice, relying excessively on autotune and copious amounts of other digital tweaking of their voices. Playing any instrument other than a guitar seems to have vanished. Sadly, nobody plays a trumpet anymore (see Chicago and Herb Alpert). No synthesized horn sounds remotely like a trumpet and a skilled blower.

So I go back to artists that were great in the 60s and 70s and look for other albums of theirs - found a lot of stuff I really like that way.
It usually says “No MSG added”
I don't think RISC makes software more complex, rather the contrary. You need to use more instructions to do the same task, but they are simpler, more regular. Especially when writing compilers, RISC is actually a nice target.
It seems like a fairly slam dunk argument that at very least they can't be trusted to do it of their own accord.
FWIW I adore Gnome 3 too. I very recently switched to Linux from Windows 10 on my gaming PC (my last experience with Linux was with Mandrake a couple decades ago...), and of course I had to try every DE under the Sun. None quite works perfectly (for me) like Gnome 3 does. But that's the beauty of it: there's a choice for everyone!
What's the relevance of the open bug report to what I wrote?

For the record:

* I'm running Debian bullseye

* I'm running Gnome version 3.38.2

* I'm running OBS installed from apt: version 26.0.2+dfsg1-1+b1 (64 bit)

Given a poster on this thread boldly claims that "Wayland is already done and ready," I'd say my setup is more than recent enough to test whether that claim is indeed usable in practice.

Lo and behold, when I run OBS I get a blank screen staring back at me.

If I log back in with Gnome running under X11, OBS works just fine.

It's wonderful that the issue is being addressed, and I thank you for your work on it. But my point is that Wayland+OBS working together is a litmus test. The fact that the two are just beginning to play well is a big red light to me switching away from X11 any time soon.

Anyway, that "done and ready" quote is really the source of my frustration. If I have to set an arbitrary timeout after a "loaded" event to get it to work properly, "loaded" is a probably misnomer.
No hate on ffmpeg but you can do this with mkvmerge as well.
I think what you might be getting at is that having a minority of people with mental disabilities increases the overall diversity of thought within our species, which can sometimes prove beneficial. However, any given mental disability may not be beneficial for the individual.

So one explanation is that natural selection has found a balance that yields benefits for the group.
Whilst some details of the attack are still under wraps as Apple is still working on a fix, there is a considerable amount of detail under "The Attacks" [0].

The initial vector appears to exploit imagent, to cause the download and install Pegasus, in most cases. This is likely because imagent runs under the root user.

[0] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hac...
This article title feels mangled.
that’s my favourite part
Game of Thrones is medieval fantasy, and as the second-biggest medieval fantasy series of all time it will have a significant impact on people's perception of the medieval time period.

I think that claim is pretty uncontroversial, which is why I didn't provide "evidence" for it, and also I get the sense that I'd be wasting my time in arguing with you about it when you throw out silly pedantries like "oh well dorne is based on palestine".
This is an idea that should be explored more fully. The downside is that it will make information technology a much less freewheeling and innovative field.
Yes, "tuning for criticality" was the paper I was thinking of ! But I'm afraid I'm a dilettante when it comes to neuroscience. I basically just know the basic theories about consolidating learning during sleep.
Senate Panel Rebukes FAA in Wake of Boeing 737 Max Tragedies
Supercell has their office in that building now.
Seems very niche -- you quickly leave the Zoom/Teams space and enter broadcast production.

Have a look at vmix [1]. That is broadcast production, and they offer a service called VMIX call [2].

There is a limit up to 8 callers in the Pro version.

[1] - https://www.vmix.com

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMz6dZn7VOc
A site that doesn’t use ads!
> it is really simple to create the basic "database". You can start by using the dictionary data structure that comes with whatever programming language you're using and slap a web API on top of it.

Better yet: do it in C. There's no "dictionary" object type so you have to make it yourself. You'll soon learn a whole bunch of fallacies about how those "dictionaries" actually work. After you spent a good deal of time doing that, you can switch to authentication/authorization, logging, storage, tracing, API management, resource quotas, and a raft of distributed computing issues.

I recommend basing it on Consul, it has a better general model than etcd.
> as well as the related concept of Theory of Mind.

On the topic of theory of mind and ASD, I think this is quite an interesting read: "Empirical Failures of the Claim That Autistic People Lack a Theory of Mind" – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959478/

"We conclude that the claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind is empirically questionable and societally harmful"
It's sourcing as in finding the source (where the herd was), as opposed to using some antique ivory for repairing a piano.
Yes, thank you for pointing out natural != healthy, and likewise artificial != unhealthy. People are too quick in general to assume one way or the other on that poor heuristic and ignore the evidence.

Heuristics are a mental shortcut, not evidence themselves.
Clips4Sale existed long before OnlyFans but doesn’t enjoy the same success. I guess it’s all about the subscription.
Used to Be Our Playground
Maybe, but I'm not convinced. People don't just magically bootstrap themselves into incremental self-improvement just because their immediate needs are being met. My next door neighbors here in Maryland are impoverished african americans receiving SNAP and HOC from the state (basically free rent and food), and the kids are consistently truant and on track to drop out of middle school. There needs to be an element of mentorship at some point.
Yep.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's later in life. I received this diagnosis after I already had a successful career, happy marriage, and house full of kids. Not much of a hindrance, right?

On the other hand, my brother suffers a much more severe form of autism. He does hold a profession job in finance. But he otherwise requires a full-time caretaker, tons of medication and understanding, etc. No friends. He's not self-sufficient.

It's a huge spectrum.
On the one hand, you think it's wrong to suggest there's racism involved in MSG's reputation tying back to "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome", and on the other hand, you offer an axiomatic derivation of Chinese restaurants being unhealthy ("histamines") because of their "reputation for not being the freshest".
Your "clapboard" would be a series of notes played on the keyboard in view of the camera.
This is why no amount of "but apple cares about privacy" will ever make me drop the "Trust but verify" I try to live by (money allowing), even if I believe they care more than most.
Well, this guy may dispute your statement.

https://www.facebook.com/william.donadio.7

"William Daniel Donadïo, a Panamanian tailor who was born in the City of Colon, Republic of Panama, explains how he became one of the leading Master Tailor and Designer of Panamá, a profession in which he has dedicated more than sixty-eight years of his life."
Having never been in the United States in the 80s or 90s, can some explain some background here?

It sounds very interesting but I cannot bring the pieces together.
‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states
Do you have any data for this distribution? This is the first time I've heard someone suggest any particular shape to this distribution, much less that it's shaped as you suggest.
Great! Keep at it, then!
It’s not just the lack of sandboxing — iMessage uses language-level serialization of object graphs. This design is never suitable for sending across privilege boundaries. Apple should replace the format with a reasonable wire format. If this requires updates to apps that integrate with iMessage or breaks interoperability with older iOS versions, so be it.
Personally, I hope Dell makes their own screen with the panel of the 6k Apple display. I would probably grab it in a heartbeat. I would consider the Apple display, but I don't need the reference video quality and especially I would like to have more than one input on a display that expensive.

Apple, what are you thinking? People who can afford that display might want to connect their desktop mac and their laptop to it.
Thanks for offering your insight!

Slightly tangential question, but on reading the article I was surprised that it mentioned multiple anonymous submissions, given that this was a workshop at one of the most prestigious ML conferences. Any particular reason for this that you can think of?
Android Inc was founded in 2003 and acquired by Google in 2005. The iPhone was first released in 2007.

You could argue that without the iPhone smartphones as a market might not have taken off in the way they did (I don't have a good enough knowledge of the history to judge) but I don't think it's fair or accurate to say that Android was just a reaction.
Wouldn't that be a meteorite detector?
Great UI has diminishing returns that, for most orgs, are not worth the talent and effort it takes to create them. For that reason investment in these frameworks, or new frameworks at all, is discouraged. Web based approaches have completely supplanted native || crossplatform frameworks because its good enough and established enough to diminish the many development liabilities that other frameworks pose.
You need to use that PR (and the right capture plugins) if you want native Wayland support, it's not merged yet. If you'd like to help move things along, please help test from git. I can give you more info on how to do this if you'd like. Even if this is merged it may be a while before it lands in debian testing.
Humans are also naturally violent, but me saying "Hey, I'm going to stab you because I'm just human" is probably not something you'd shrug off.

In particular, what you're indulging here is the naturalistic fallacy, or the is/ought fallacy. What's natural tells us nothing about what's good. Tooth decay is natural and your toothbrush is artificial. But I'd bet you're not going to stop brushing your teeth just to stay philosophically consistent.
I’ll be back...
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School is free in the US. For university, why not send them to the EU? So you can have both tons of bay area cash and a (nearly) free university for your kids.

Strangely though, this kind of education arbitrage doesn't seem popular among americans, i wonder why... it makes perfect economic sense in light of current US college prices.
I'm consistently amazed at how rapidly technology has progressed in 20 short years. Look how long it took us to get from the Vitruvian Man in ~1,500 to barely performing surgery in the early 1900's.

This is pretty incredible.
Thanks for your question! But as I said, no one is really worried about the asymptotic time complexity of reverse mode differentiation, although there is scope for improving constants). The main scope for improvement is in the space complexity.

There is a lot of work on trying to speed up optimization, for example the K-FAC optimizer by Roger Grosse that uses second-order gradient information in a scalable way.

The lottery ticket pruning strategies do reduce space complexity, but I think the main reason people are interested in it is to reduce training time complexity, or deployment memory requirements, but not so much training memory requirements.

As for whether memory-saving and time-saving approaches are disjoint, many methods (like checkpointing) introduce a tradeoff between time and space complexity, so no.
This is definitely a large part of the picture but it's also possibly partly genetic when it comes to the science and tech fields. I'm talking about interest and not competence. Women tend to self select out of science and tech in richer societies where they have the freedom to do so, and self select into disciplines that serve the empathic personality better. There are persuasive studies on that topic.
Generally I don't get locked out of articles. The combination of uBlock, privacy badger, and auto deleting cookies seems to take care of 99% of cases. The rest are handled by outline.com and archive. But I'll be honest in those cases I'll read the comments first to see if it's worth reading.
Where am I complaining about it? Nowhere. Just said I missed it and wasnt familiar with said play.

Absolutely no reason for you to be snarky about it.
The Chinese government fakes nearly 450M social media comments a year
It's a massive innovation killer downside. How about we restrict this to "all internet companies selling security software to governments", at the very widest?

Also: It doesn't fix the problem.
I suppose defaulting to daydream mode is moderately useful for the large portion of the prison population with ADHD.

Always been afraid of my terrible impulse control sending me to prison for one reason or another but never considered that I could just daydream the time away. Good to know.
Maybe it's because we've seen these movies before. For example, the revenge movie. Such as Peppermint, with a totally by-the-numbers plot. The twist is this time it's a female lead, but she could have been swapped out for Bronson/Lundgren/Stallone/Schwarzenegger/etc without changing a scene or a line of dialog and it would have been exactly the same :-/

Then I watched "The Foreigner", yup, same old revenge plot.
He was hired to stop the disease from spreading and he did a great job; he lopped off the infected limb. Nokia is better today because of it.

In 2006, my girlfriend at the time worked in HR at Nokia's US headquarters in Irving, Texas. The writing as on the wall and the company was preparing for a major layoff because Nokia's mobile phone business in the US was tanking. Luckily for her, she was able to transfer to Nokia-Siemens Networks. This was before the iPhone was released and before Elop joined the company in September 2010.
My family has multiple people who have spent extended periods of time in mental hospitals, I know what goes on there. But I still stick by my point
I dunno... my Grandma had to pump well water and boil it to wash clothes, prep meals for Grandpa and their 11 children (would have been 13, but one was stillborn and another died as a baby).

She was a tough old bird. Married at 16. First kid at 18. Last child at 44. Grandma didn't get a washing machine until 1970, if I recall. Had she not been there to take care of the kids and the farm, Grandpa couldn't have worked at an industrial bakery from 4 a.m. to noon. Then from noon to around 3, he'd come home and sleep, then take over work in the fields until dusk.

Grandpa sold his body in manual labor, but Grandma was right beside him.

It kind of disgusts me that a lot of modern women look down on someone like my Grandma, who built a happy home, a beautiful family, and fostered literally nothing but warm and special memories for all her kids and grandkids.
Yes, I was using it.
This is the kind of idea that killed the American medical system.

It's a bad idea to create insurance monopolies.

Unless you are a corrupt regulator, corrupt insurance company exec, or corrupt officer in the industry being targeted.

Then, you can fine tune it to maximize your take and punish the downstream customers.

Like how the American medical system works.
Things did happen with my stuff as well. I had graphics card semi failed in an unpredictable way so I just replaced it. I also had one system randomly crashing because thermal paste dried up on one ancient CPU. It is just a little annoyance that happens extremely rarely. Anything is possible and I'll deal with it when/if. Nothing world shattering here. Cloud can and does fail as well. The list of reported outages affecting large chunks of customer beats my accidental cases with the healthy margin.
Unfortunately no longer the case with the new router that has a built in ONT and (according to forums, anyways) doesn’t use the same long-lived 802.11x mechanism :(
So, iiuc, this "zero-click" hack involved iMessage and payloads apparently injected via Apple's domains and the exfiltration of data through a tor-like network eventually reaching malicious servers.

Is anyone aware of any (FOSS) software (presumably intrusion detectors or indicators of compromise) for mobile phones that might help flag or even prevent such attacks?

TinyCheck [0] comes to mind, but it isn't truly mobile. TrackerControl [1] and Guardian Firewall [2] are perhaps the closest to something like this but concentrate on privacy more than on security.

[0] https://github.com/KasperskyLab/tinycheck

[1] https://trackercontrol.org/

[2] https://guardianapp.com/
How does umami and Chinese get mixed?

Looks to me we just wanted to find racism whatever the cost was.