skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This N = 173,426 social science dataset was collected through the collaborative COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey – an open science effort to improve understanding of the human experiences of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic between 30th March and 30th May, 2020. The dataset allows a cross-cultural study of psychological and behavioural responses to the Coronavirus pandemic and associated government measures like cancellation of public functions and stay at home orders implemented in many countries."
I believe there might be a hidden message in the decrypted text itself. The reason I think this is that there seem to be filler words added to otherwise ordinary language. Example "I hope you are having fun in trying to catch me". Nobody would use the word "in" at that location in the sentence. If you ask me, something slightly more advanced still remains to be uncovered.

(prior to Dave solving this, I was also taking a crack at trying to solve this puzzle https://twitter.com/BlockJon/status/1292555925564395521)
How many intelligence departments do we have? Like 16 of them? Let's just get rid of 75%
The FSF's time has probably passed. However, free software exists independently of the FSF, and is as important as ever.
Opus is the de facto codec for phone applications, other than you know, the publicly switched telephone network which is still mostly stuck on G.711 and only finally rolling out "HD Voice" G.722.
The article doesn't make any claims to the quality, you could reencode the same video to quicktime or mp4 with a similar final size depending on what quality settings you use
I would place money bets that this will go about as well as Trump Steaks or Trump University...
One VM per app would need a lot of RAM. Maybe one VM for Linux/Android, and one for iOS, would be a decent compromise. We'd still 'waste' some RAM, but isolation between different Android apps could be handled by cgroups/namespaces.
As a developer I don’t want people sending my app spoofed data.
What if that backdoor was in firmware like ME or PSP or another baseband layer?
Where are you at that dog food has gotten 100% more expensive (or where are you checking?) It doesn't seem like it's gotten that much higher for me just checking Chewy.com.
Sounds a little like what Firefox OS was trying to do. They had a great idea, they were just too far ahead of their time.
Looked at Noteplan, and no pricing details are anywhere (webstore nor App store listing). Apparently requires a subscription and there is no free functionality. Hard pass.

I would even say that it shouldn't exist as a free app on the App store.
What about all the women who have come forward, talking about what a massive creep he is?

This isn't about some technicality about what he said, but a culmination of 30 years of horrible behavior.

It takes trivial research (check Twitter) for the many personal accounts from women who will never get close to him, and have been driven from the industry by both him and the people who have protected him.
That I think is almost entirely false. People don't use Linux because it is free (as in beer). People for whom cost is the primary concern can pirate Windows, buy cheap versions from online stores or install a legitimate version of Windows and never activate it(Microsoft makes it really easy these days). Heck already probably millions of people are using one of these options rather than installing Linux.

I have been using Linux for 10 years or so and a lot of my friends/colleagues use Linux and we use Linux because software for which we are paid to work - works best on Linux. I don't think beyond college students, professional programmers using Linux mind paying for software (I pay for several!). Most of us know - there are warts and all but I have also used Mac for 5 years and my wife uses Mac for her work and it does not look like fun wresting with brew everyday.

The problem isn't that people aren't willing to pay for software - IMO the problem is, Linux is really difficult to support, because of Linux Desktop being a continuous moving target. So, application development for Linux is hard because the base is continuously changing but no company has managed to invest enough money/resources to make the base stable. And given small Linux marketshare, resources required to make a stable base is astronomical (Like google did with Android).

So, It is a chicken and egg problem. Linux can't attract large install base without a wide variety of application software, but companies who have tried supporting Linux application development have burnt themselves in past (and why bother given small Linux install base) and hence nobody has incentive to make that solid base.
Yup sorry, typo
I remember feeling like cross compilers for handheld devices were silly in 2006 when I had a Zarus. The only reason not to develop on your Pinephone is because it's in your pocket and you can't be bothered to pull it out and hook a keyboard up.
Ingest would be a better choice
> What you may be missing is how hard it is to actually create a good take home

The biggest issue I see are people underestimating the setup time for "simple" projects. You're a big software company that doesn't start new projects regularly, I'm a developer at a big company that doesn't setup new projects regularly, why do you expect me to remember how to setup "professional quality" projects in a couple of hours?

A simple console app might test if I can code, setting up a new MVC project with authentication, unit tests, IoC, etc is testing how well I can google shit I haven't had to setup for years.
It would be slow and your laptop would sound like it’s taking off
Not defending the post you reply to, but while well planned communities can require close to car free, the modern life is such that people are aware of - and cars enable easy access to - the greater world much more so than otherwise.

They want to see sights 90 minutes drive away. 3 hours drive away. And be home again that night.

I support "local living without cars as much as possible", but I think cars are here to stay for most of us.
Show me any popular torrent using the word "DIVX" to refer to that.
If you want to see bald eagles, go to Juneau. They almost outnumber people there.

https://www.juneautours.com/bald-eagles-in-juneau-alaska/
I think concluding that "everyone" hates GNOME is hyperbole when people who like GNOME are less likely to post about it than someone who has a problem with it and that regular users who make up the majority are not ones who frequent these types of forums or are ones commenting on the issue tracker about this.

I think the only way to properly understand the topic would be to do surveys across different demographics, which I believe GNOME has done. It might feel like GNOME are ignoring "everyone" when everyone is the subset of it's users (or not of it's users) who frequent the same forums you do.
Wat. This is totally offtopic, but in the linked screenshot, https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4qInHSs_urA/YFvYMbVGmgI/AAAAAAAA4..., the border between the titlebar and the window content on the left Show Info window is, um, so misaligned it's eating into the text.

199x called, it wants its human interface guidelines back
Mostly, I think FSF's original ideas have been achieved. It is possible today to buy a machine running entirely free software. Major problem now is that such machine is either expensive or old.

It looks like the focus now should turn to hardware. The world needs a free hardware foundation today just like it needed FSF in the 80's.
pthalates!
Russia has begun spaceplane project, says Soviet shuttle designer
The article seems a little bit dismissive.

> People even want to use Flutter to make UIs, was the phone lacking in google technologies for your liking?

If a company makes a tool that can repurposed for a system not by them, then why shame people for using that tool?

> But even weirder, there's tons of people asking for Android roms for the PinePhone. What's the point? Do you believe in the church of papa Alphabeticus, the pope of the internet?

People want to use apps that the environment current lacks. Again, there's no reason to shame them for it, FFS.

> It's the community that against "the other side". It's the developers that are actually working together to make something.

And yet, this is made after scorning users for not truly wanting to use a Linux phone on the basis of them possibly incorporating software that were from Google. How can the author hypocritically call for a Kumbaya within the Linux community, when they are already indulging in gatekeeping and confrontational behavior of their own?

And at what point is this arbitrary purism satiated? Is a completely ad-less Google-originated technology like Go to be rejected? Should Protobufs be considered harmful because of where they come from? When did Google become the '90s Microsoft of '20s Linux, anyway?

> People are still complaining to other people that they have chosen wrong. This is Linux, you can do what you want with your device.

And yet the author has the audacity to question people wanting to try different things with their mobile distros, even things they don't want, such as 'Having an "one true way" to use the UI and tons of preinstalled apps.' Just rampant naked hypocrisy. Do they really want a Linux phone?
show me any popular torrent using the word DIVX that isn't actually using Xvid
He said Android or iOS. It seems like massive overkill to have a phone that can run both. Even running Android apps well is a pretty tall order, running iOS apps natively on your own open source phone seems like a pipedream. It took even Google a long time and a lot of investment to get Android apps to work reasonably well on ChromeOS.
Optical fiber could boost power of superconducting quantum computers
As you post on your iPhone / Laptop enjoying the luxury of today’s modern world which is a result of macroeconomics among other things.
This is Texas. It has:
- a limit on how much the appraised value of a property can increase per year
- a limit on how much each tax unit -- county, city, etc. -- can increase their levy
- a exemption for elderly or disabled homeowner with even lower limits.
Offloading rendering to CSS is still making the client do some work. Excessive CSS can bloat the page, hurting latency.

If you take this approach to the extreme, you should render to png on the server for display, and provide plain text for accessibility only.
Unless your company was advertising the fact they lost money on every sale(and if it was still private why would it) how are the downstream customers to know that it didn't really figure out a way to create the widget cheaper than all the competitors?
I am confused by what point you are trying to make, do you want us to live in the dark ages?
Do country foreign policy relations just suddenly disappear?

How does this plan for ending consumption work in your mind?
i seriously don't see zipping a RAW video file achieving any compression gains let alone 95%
People like celebrating their roots even if they don't feel insecure.

Overcoming shame is part of gay pride. But it was also a way to overcome marginalization. And lots of people go just to have fun now.
> I didn't understand why it's so important for it to be Linux, as opposed to any other operating system that's as hackable/customizable.

I should apologize for my response then. I'd thought you were alluding to iOS, and thought that it was strange to bring that up when discussing configurable OS's.
Why would we want to let anyone choose to cause too much strain on our resources? There's no back-up planet.
The problem is not everyone is intermittent-fasting alongside a keto diet and using red light therapy, ashwagandha, meditating, deadlifting, and microdosing psilocybin.

/s
> I coined the term Liberal Software to refer to software where the intent of the programmer is educational (liberal as in education). Any one of these three intents can produce software for which the source code is available — and that is often called FLOSS, meaning Free, Liberal, or Open Source Software.

I can find no evidence of this term being used anywhere outside of this piece; FLOSS is consistently expanded by people discussing the term as “Free/Libre and Open Source", where “Libre” disambiguates the sense of “free”.

The author may have coined a term that happens to spelled identically to a popular term, but the clear insinuation that the popular term refers to the authors hobby horse is grossly misleading and obviously deliberately so.
I think the outrage might be coming from many people hoping that Reddit holds its self to a higher bar. The other mods might like Reddit to be a site where they let their kids surf freely.
Between the rancid and racist Trumpists and blind/clueless SJW's with a mob based "justice", common sense is doomed in America.
Not everybody is lucky enough, donuts NY ?

COVID-19 impacts on child poverty

The number of children living in multidimensional poverty – without access to education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – may soar to approximately 1.2 billion, while an additional 142 million children are expected to fall into monetary poverty in 2020 alone.

https://www.unicef.org/social-policy/child-poverty/covid-19-...
Not "solve," "solution." I keep hearing this. And it has a twisted mate: "solutioning." <facepalm>
Technically iOS is the closest thing to a *BSD-powered phone, because of the Darwin lineage.
I'm with Stallman on this one. Without access to the source code of their entire server stack, there really is no way to be sure of what they are or are not doing.
The Reddit CEO has announced that the employee in question is no longer employed there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/mcisdf/an_up...

But it's such a weaselly post.

First, it admits they didn't vet her before hiring: "We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her."
Apparently, a basic google search is too difficult for HR.

Second, it says this:
"On March 9th, we added extra protections for this employee, including actioning content that mentioned the employee’s name or shared personal information on third-party sites, which we reserve for serious cases of harassment and doxxing."

OK, and they _still_ didn't check why people were opposed to this person? Still no Internet search or, oh, reading the comments people were posting?

Notice that this "protection" was two weeks ago, not recently.
TIL having an iphone is more important than being alive.
Wow that's the most interesting power point I have viewed in a long time! What a complex machine!
Come to Brazil: The SAAS
How's being a new hotel owner?
>there are many encoders of varying quality which can generate such files and each encoder has tons of settings. I don't know which encoder macOS uses but ffmpeg includes state-of-the-art H.264 encoder (x264). Simply reencoding video from H.264 to H.264 using ffmpeg can give you better quality/size ratio than the original file.

It's actually even more complicated than that. Each encoder has multiple settings on how much CPU to spend on the compression. Live screen recording (which this was) usually has the setting set to spend little CPU and get little compression. So like you said you don't need to change which format you use to get better compression, but you also often don't even need to change what encoder you use, you can just change the compression setting to use extra CPU (which might not be possible on a live recording).
I wonder how much he got paid to write this.
As a user I want a way to bypass your overly intrusive data collection on me.
> a phone that is on their side

> What people really want is a phone that they can trust to be on their side implicitly.

Absolutely! These days our computers only do things that align with big company interests. I want a phone that will obey me even if it means ruin for its maker.
>My files shrink to 6% (not a type) of their original size

typoception
have you looked into ktorm?
Don't write Linux phone apps, just write Linux apps and publish the source.
1/ I think the "key" doesn't have enough entropy to encode the text generated. This should be good evidence towards it not being a false solution. If your key can't realistically encode enough information to "pick" out an arbitrary false plaintext, and yet the plaintext you have seems genuine judging by content, then you probably have a real decryption.

Also the way the cipher was done is plausible to the time period (that is, it's something you can do with pencil and paper), and the steps seem like something a human would do.
I think the author would make the same argument that they did in reference to Romanian neuter:

> The issue is that these nouns do not behave like a fully-fledged gender. Importantly, there are no dedicated neuter endings for adjectives; instead, when a Romanian ‘neuter’ noun combines with an adjective, that adjective will be either masculine or feminine.

That is, “lo” is a remnant of the neuter but because it is accompanied by a masculine adjective (there is no such thing as a neuter adjective), it does not constitute a true gender.
Agreed, but as a user I do want this option and so the parent post point stands - the device should be on the owners side, not the app developers.
So there are two entangled issues here that I would suggest disentangling:

How do you get your changes to mmsd into the upstream mmsd repository on kernel.org? There have been commits to mmsd upstream in 2019. My suggestion would be to CC more folks on your next patch submission, at minimum: the Linux netdev mailing list, the oFono list, everyone in the mmsd AUTHORS file and all the folks who are listed as a committer in any of the mmsd git commits.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ofono/mmsd.git

How do you get mmsd into Debian? The usual procedure is to upload the package to the mentors site and file a request for sponsor bug report, XCCed to relevant people/lists, which in your case is probably the debian-mobile list, Debian oFono maintainers and any other Debian mobile related addresses (I guess Purism PureOS, Mobian etc). Of course, that doesn't guarantee that a Debian uploader will sponsor the package, but it is a good start.

https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#xcc
https://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile/

Do both at the same time, if upstreaming the patches doesn't work out, you can add them to Debian while still figuring out a way to push them upstream.
this deduction was eliminated in the Trump tax cuts of 2018
How to initialize StateObject with parameters in SwiftUI
I share your opinion. I listen to Glass somewhat regularly, almost always as background music. Its fun, though The more attention I give it the less I enjoy it.

Whereas with Bach, I am always returning to him. I go and listen to Mozart...and halfway through the piece I stop and switch it to Bach. Go and listen to a favorite movement of Beethoven, and then I’m back into endless Bach. Spend a few hours enjoying Metallica or Megadeth, and then I round out my day with Bach.

Bach unifies the emotional and intellectual life unlike any other art I’ve encountered. His music is almost unbelievably deep. I’ve listened to some movements an absurd number of times, yet there is always something new to notice.
I am the one paying for the phone so I should get to pick what information it will tell you.
Look at these data:

https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/covid-19-outbreak-data/reso...

There have been 119 outbreaks at California schools in the last 2 months. That's hardly what I'd call "safe".
I know Elementary does something similar. Every time I hear about it, they make it sound like it's successful, but I've never actually seen any numbers.
I'm not even sure if most users who use Linux computers actually want Linux computers. If they do, why are there so many attempts towards recreating the macOS UI and UX in Linux, such as with Elementary OS? Or back in the '90s/'00s, attempts towards recreating the Windows UI/UX?

Maybe people also do just want general open-source computing, and Linux just happens to be the one that's furthest along, its philosophy and ideology be damned.

Personally, I'm hoping Haiku eventually gets further along to be usable as a Linux alternative, and it's fun to wonder what it would be like as a mobile OS.
100% this, I often find myself getting tripped up when reading people's complaints about the JS / React ecosystem until I remember that TypeScript and the ESLint (and typescript-eslint and eslint-plugin-react) recommended config isn't standard in everyone's projects. It saves you from a ton of these headaches.

Not that the answer to a complaint of a complex toolchain is more tools in the chain, but it's a wonderful development experience once you develop a collection of tools you really like.
That's the way it is when you depend on volunteers, they work on things when they feel like it. A solution would be to pay for a company-supported distro. Some were mentioned in other comments here.
That ship is still stuck, unbelievable...
As a user you're not entitled to the GPS Data of my phone and i'm allowed to send any data that I want to.
That was quite informative. I speak Italian fluently, but had never heard such a good explanation of why you have un uovo, but le uova.
If the device manufacturers could get their shit together and come up with some cross-manufacturer federated standard, we could easily dump the public telephony network once and for all. I’ve never been anywhere (rural or urban) where public telephone was better quality than some kind of VoIP. Even out in the boonies, data is usually more reliable than voice (at least with google fi).
Model 3s weigh about the same as a a BMW 3 series. We're talking about 100 pound or so difference.
I am an Eagle Scout, and the Scout motto is "Be Prepared". I try and make sure I've got supplies to last me at least a couple of weeks if things get crazy, and plans for what to do when my home becomes unlivable. When the winter storm hit and knocked out power in my area, we were ready while many people I knew were scrambling to find food and shelter. I guess growing up in hurricane territory also instills the idea that things can go bad for a while and you need to do what you can to be ready.

It always surprises friends of mine to see that the bottom shelf of my pantry contains a lot of shelf stable meals that only slowly get cycled through. They never understood why I'd bother keeping at least several days worth of food around, "just in case".

Things today really aren't that crazy compared to what they could be like. Things will probably trend more towards normalcy in the next few months. But I know if things go bad, my immediate friends and family will be a bit more comfortable for a while longer than many of those around me.
Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?
If so what is your workflow and what do you use? What do you find most difficult, if anything?
There is an additional joke in that the narrator's exhortations peripheral to each word all relate to that word's meaning. I don't know the poem, so can't say whether that is the narrator's joke or the author's, but it's not there by accident in any case.
And sometimes Intel will build fabs in America either way so there's no need to subsidize them.
It's not your app anymore. The user has bought it remember?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
A BeOS phone would be pretty sweet.
There's another Hackernews discussion about just that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26574077
Seeing as senators were aware of Epstein and didnt care, I don't see anything like that happening in the near future. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cindy-mccain-admits-...
Well at least DivX and Xvid use the same video format: MPEG-4 Part 2.

MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264/AVC is a different format.
German will raise you the grammatically neuter “Mädchen”, meaning girl or maiden.