skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just looked this up for the UK, and noticed that there is still a single national paging network. I use pager at work, but, as you say, the network is limited to the site.
> I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that their guiding principle with this was as it is with every other portable device they have now - make it as small as possible and let people extend it if they want

Here I am, desperately clutching my nearly-obsolete iPhone in my small hands, waiting for Apple to return to this principle and make an iPhone that I can comfortably use one-handed again.
Backdoors into iPhones already exist, here's one that was used for a while, before Apple closed it: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cat-mouse-fight-fix-e...

If you think that is the only way into an Apple device, and that police or even nation states are now helpless against the mighty "hack resistant" iPhone, then you may be interested in this bridge I happen to have for sale.
AstralCodexTen (formerly SlateStarCodex) has discussed this here - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/link-unifying-predicti...

He mostly points to this post in LessWrong - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JZZENevaLzLLeC3zn/predictive...
Palm Pilot? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmPilot
First thing I thought, who would skip over Podman?
> in theory, since Google controls the OS, it can also make it lie to you

Google controls Android, but it does not control every other OS and every piece of hardware.

If someone downloads an apk with their own custom Google Play client, running on their own computer, they can check whether it was tampered with. In the past a tampered apk from Google servers would have been signed by wrong key (because the proper key is controlled by developer), pointing to Google as culprit. Now it will be signed by "developer's" key (shared with Google), creating plausible deniability for Google and US intelligence services.

> "Super Secret Messaging App" asks the OS to load encrypt.so, its custom encryption library, and the OS can deliver a no-op library and say "Here it is!". The app wants to check the file's hash, the OS can intercept the hash method's return value

This sounds extremely labor-intensive. Who will write all those no-op libraries? Who will pay for it?
Does anyone know what's the current consensus about PCG vs xoroshiro. I remember that the xoroshiro author had several complaints about PCG but I don't know ifhe is right or if he was just being salty.
> Nothing you paid for or created is being held hostage here.

Nothing paid for sure but what happens when an auto update removes a feature you relied on previously? it's completely in their right to remove this feature from their product, it's their product, but it feels very disrespectful to potentially automatically remove working code from my machine unless I pay up.

I actually think the two sides to this argument completely come down to whether or not you see this as a "dick move" or not. I see it as a dick move, they have every right to do it, but now I'm looking for alternatives as dick moves usually predict more dick moves in the future.
This is a fascinating idea and not something I've ever heard brought up. Do you think the authorities would allow a length of wire with a current passing through it to be erected in their city?
The one Shaq is hawking.
Yes, xor can be used as part of this — see the paper[1] and code[2]. The idea is that you're generating a random shuffle of a sequence, but you can do it in a way that doesn't require storing the entire shuffled sequence. You can ask "what's in position 4" and it will return "item 1".

[1]: http://pcgworkshop.com/archive/mawhorter2019anarchy.pdf
[2]: https://github.com/solsword/anarchy
That’s how the fission tech works in some versions of Civ.
Yes, mostly if you try to use voice recognition though. Example: arrows vs arose, picture vs pitcher etc. https://mobile.twitter.com/cybergibbons/status/1388416763549...
(Pedantic) you probably meant (OCI) container images, not docker images.
> 1. So why did you mention laptops? Seems like a false comparison.
Linux laptops have a proven track record of being supported for >10 years. Since the GNU/Linux phones also run mainline Linux, they are effectively the same kind of devices.

1. No they aren’t. The hardware is different. Laptops are not the same as phones. It’s a false comparison.

They may run the mainline kernel, but they certainly don’t run mainline distributions usefully.

PinePhone isn’t even considered supported for consumer use today.

It’s sold for developers and most users say it doesn’t even work as a daily driver

2. Is the Nokia 900 supported? It’s not obvious. What makes you think it is? Even you used a ‘?’.

3. Why is this relevant?

Anyone who wants one can buy a PinePhone or Librem.

Why would someone who wants a GNU/Linux phone buy an iPhone?
Uh, you’ve been happily using docker for years and have your entire infra built on it, only to have the company suddenly decide that auto update is a great idea and break your stuff all the time?

Like, it’s not ransomware, but it’s not as if you can snap your fingers and move to something else.

Even if you can, that seems entirely counterproductive for the Docker company.
Oh I agree. I was responding to "A linux phone is simply unthinkable" that is ridiculous and blatantly untrue.
The only 'transgression' Cuba's done is its unwillingness to be a US puppet state.
For future reference, https://web.archive.org/web/20210502132217/https://cybergibb...
Unfortunate to see this use the history api incorrectly to the point that it prevents you from hitting the back button and going to the page you came from.
It absolutely has to do with being wealthy. Where a wealthy person can afford to spend $500 on a phone, someone not as financially comfortable has no other options than to go the "financing" route. Yes, the price ends up being similar, but it is much more possible for modest people to spend $20/mo for 2 years than $500 on the first day.

This is a well studied phenomenon that wealthy people who can afford to pay everything on day 1, buy in bulk and all end up paying less than poorer people.
At the risk of sounding rude, that all seems kind of sociopathic?
> Supporting older versions is hard

No one is forcing them to support older versions, this is a red herring.
>> first principles examination of Libertarian axioms.

First principles of libertarian axiom is not the Non-Aggression Principle as many believe, in fact there are some serious flaws with that [1], libertarianism is more accurately stated as having a foundational principle of Self Ownership [2], from this the non-aggression principle can be derived however like with many other things non-aggression can not be viewed as an absolute, if it is then every breath you exhale is an act of aggression....

[1] https://www.libertarianism.org/blog/six-reasons-libertarians...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9srplWe_QQ

>> The role of the state in a Libertarian framework is to protect individuals from such unwanted force by enacting force onto the aggressor.

That is an extreme over simplification of what a libertarian framework is, and stated in the way you have could betray the libertarian principles as it seems to have with in it a justification for the initiation of violence, something that would counter the libertarian ideology
I'm confused. Yes, normal consumers can probably figure out how to put detergent and rinse liquid in. But what percentage of customers is going to be able to overwrite an i2c EEPROM? It is DRM for almost everyone.
It requires the app for two factor authentication. Even when using the website I need the app in order to perform certain operations.
>The concern is that Amazon may just drop smaller sellers since they would not be collectable

This is the hard part with business. If you make a product, you are responsible for it. If you sell a product, you are responsible for it. If I sell a dangerously defective used lawn mower at a garage sale, I'm responsible (yes hard to prove).

One of the dangers of too much growth is that your liability can out run your profits in a way that puts the whole business at risk. Historically, it was hard to make a new product and get it on the shelf... retailers required certification by a consumer products testing lab and would have to have indemnification AND proof of insurance where the retailer was a named beneficiary. Even though all of this is likely in the fine print at Amazon, one has to wonder if it is verified and audited.
- For some Linux distro the setup is not as easy as with Docker

- Someone relying on Docker only features like Docker compose
My transverse carpal ligament remembers.
Battle of the Biotech Unicorns: CureVac vs. Moderna [2017!]
This feels like a post-hoc rationalization to me. Of course it was less ready, and then more ready. But exactly how much of a gamble was it?

The upside is immense even considering just existing diseases, but we are really bad at pricing things that improve the status quo vs prevent bad things.

The theory, assuming a delivery mechanism is found, is rock solid---"if not when"---and I therefore wouldn't call it a gamble.

On the other hand, I don't know enough about the biology to speak to the difficulty and uncertainty around delivery mechanisms. Can we get more info on that? I suspect it wasn't too uncertain, though "oh, we change this base pair a bit and the immune system doesn't care" does seem like a relatively unplanned discovery.
Or longer frequency i.e. shorter wavelength?
For better or worse, it's not the importance of a disease per se that drives innovation, it's money. So assuming that hair loss is the kind of problem that would get people to spend money, then we might see some progress here.
My favorite theory (I think from an HN comment?) about Havana syndrome is simple poisoning. It fits the observed symptoms better than magic, wall-jumping microwaves.
No, many of them are not. As an EE who does his own supply chain mgmt at a startup, I've been in crisis mode for a couple of months now. Some components are not available at any store, at any price, for the next 6-18 months. Had to make design changes to roll out prototype hardware.
There's three models:

1. Pay for updates (or "Enterprise" features), which implies there's extra value to be had moving up (the new leased car every 2 years model)

2. Pay for extended support after official EOL (the "does anyone know Cobol?" model)

3. New version, support DD-dates for older versions, stuff may stop working and you are on your own (That Windows ME box with all your MP3s in the basement)

This situation is some sort of forced #2. I don't know of any company that has done this without still offering #3.
Isn't OpenBSD at the 500k'ish mark using CVS?
Apple is going to court with Fortnite, and it could forever change how apps work
How about a small notepad made of paper? What would be the benefit of a "pager-like device" over it?
They didn't just put out Docker with a sign up that said "free stuff" though. They actively solicited the users; they told the community "Hey, use our software, you can trust us". If you do that you do have an obligation.

It's like, if you beg your friend to let you give them a lift and don't show up, you can't turn around and call them a "choosey beggar" because the lift was supposed to be free.

The response in that thread isn't _remotely_ reasonable, of course you can't make a developer tool like this auto-update.
Epic-backed expert says Apple’s app store profit is as high as 78 percent
I’d you don’t have a lot of financial resources, and work a low paid job, you also tend not to have the time resources to explore the option. It comes at a high transaction cost.
into, say ..... common block libraries?
> Here I am, desperately clutching my nearly-obsolete iPhone in my small hands, waiting for Apple to return to this principle and make an iPhone that I can comfortably use one-handed again.

I've been using the iPhone12 Mini for months. It works great, one-handed.

I have heard that it has not sold well, and may be discontinued. That would make me sad.
Yes, that's why they went looking to verify that hypothesis and lay out the mechanism that the virus acts...
>Don't think god needs to rest.

Except for that one time, you mean.
> After years of playing down the reports and failing to provide proper medical care for the victims, Washington is now clearly alarmed at the implications of the attacks.

An important reminder to anyone who thinks that putting themselves in harm's way to do jobs for the US spying apparatus is a good idea. They won't even care for you when you get injured on the job, sacrificing yourself for their cause.
That's the majority Hacker News kind of opinion "Sales or the CEO fucked it up for the engineers" but another likely explanation is that the main source of frustration (forced updates for everyone) came from the engineering side because most developers hate maintaining older versions. Then someone said "you can't do that to enterprise customers, they demand to pick their own versions" which resulted in this button for the paid version.
I sometimes wish HN had a way to summon one of the apparently very few sane and effective people at companies like Google, so that they could at least feed stuff like this into the internal task list for future attention.

One can hope it happens, but it would be nice to know, and facts indicate it does not happen enough.
> If you haven't even mastered sending a plaintext email

Surprise, I've had a few of my patches accepted and this statement is just thinly veiled insult, if I ever saw one.

Have you ever heard of pull requests? Pull requests are 10x easier than adhering to lkml's email rituals.
I'm not suggesting we remove signing, just that Google use their own signing key for apps they build.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi... well, we've been taking some baby steps towards being kernel-agnostic. That's one way to tackle this.
Very curious as to why you moved away from ConEmu. Can you share the motivating factors? Anything to be concerned about?
Deckware – A 224-bit entropy extractor
Doesn’t look like it would be easy to replace docker desktop with this? The big convenience part is that you don’t need to manage your own VM to run things in.
You _are_ making it up.

I have many family members who are in the medical profession in Israel. I have been behind the desk on Shabbat in Shaarei Tzedek Hospital (the "Haredi" hospital) that accepts incoming patients.

There is not a single group of Jews that thinks it is admirable to risk a life for Shabbat. The more the religious, the more they value life and quicker break Shabbat.

Do a bit of research in Hatzoloh and Joint Hatzoloh - it is impressive the lengths that volunteers go to, to save a life in Israel (Jewish and Muslim equally). They are active everywhere, and do not get fewer calls from the ultra-Orthodox.
Kind of like this: http://www.chitka.info/attention.html
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
Samsung announced Bada in 2010, back then not everyone new what Android is. Then there was Tizen. And Chinese had that tech export ban going on.
Because he/his company is the subject of the article?

The headline doesn't make that all that clear, but everything about the article seems to.
What are the practical ramifications of Apple harnessing every existing iPhone as an AirTag discovery device in the Find My network? (I think it's awful from a privacy and device-ownership standpoint, but let's leave that aside.)

For instance, because physics is real, it must take some amount of battery power & data transfer to collect information about nearby AirTags. Suppose I walk into Disneyland on a summer weekend with an iPhone. The place is going to be full of AirTags. Assumedly my iPhone will be very busy reporting on their location. Hour by hour, how does that workload compare to the stuff I ask my phone to do for me (e.g., receive text messages, download mail)? Will it run down the battery / chew up bandwidth caps in any significant way?
Not at all. There are a some very large pager networks in the US. As a bonus, since the messages are so simple, they have better penetration in a given area than GSM would. (I've had my pager go off in a deep parking garage for example).

Ex, here are the coverage maps for SPOK who bought out USA Mobility: https://www.spok.com/solutions/paging-services/wide-area-pag...
Have the Linux foundation ever tried anything else?
DeBeers model of scarcity basically.
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak leaves Elon Musk’s brain implant company
I thought you were kidding, but apparently not. Even worse : £320k of that revenue was from sales to Daimler AG (a shareholder) and is described as "services". I would love to understand the business model here, they've maintained £23M ish cash at hand since end 2017 but I'm not clear what the play here is...
When I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 4 to run 64-bit, the emulator I'd been using -- uae4arm -- didn't really support 64-bit compilation. Amiberry to the rescue.
Probably not. It's not the elevator that's nonkosher, it's pressing the buttons.
Tamagotchi?
> They don’t want hundreds of different versions out there. As much as people claim otherwise they will get bug reports from old versions. Anyone that’s ever supported users knows that’s going to happen.

- Make it clear that only a certain version or a sliding window of versions is supported.

- Close reports from unsupported versions.

- Done.

Other projects/companies do this just fine last I checked.
Camscanner was one of my favourite apps! I had even paid for the pro version back before it sold. Then when it sold that actually meant nothing, and now I have a "pro" app that is useless essentially.

If anyone has good alternative suggestions I'm open, I haven't tried to look as I don't use it much anymore.
What is more modern?
The iPhone 12 Mini is great. I will never go back to a bigger phone again. The lack of all day battery life is a feature in my opinion. I use it more like a fancy tool.
Sheeeit. At some point, just easier to archive the thing and start with a fresh import.
> Don't think god needs to rest.

Remind me again what happened on the seventh day?
Just my experience, three people is not a big enough sample size for most projects. You will get very biased opinions if you go with that. That may be ok if you have a very niche project and you only ask some people in that niche.
I don't understand how refilling for $0.86 per wash is better than the $0.67 per wash if you use their cartridges? Or how that becomes "75 times cheaper".
https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder#cost-show...

How does this math make any sense?

With that, the total cost per wash is:

0.62p + 0.018p = 0.638p, or 0.87 US cent!

We know from earlier that Bob Cassettes costs 48p (67c) per wash.

Therefore, refilling it yourself is more than 75 times cheaper, resulting in a massive 98.7% cost saving compared to buying new!

Huh?
I thought they solved that by replacing U by 1-methyl-3'-pseudouridylyl in mRNA vaccines? I can imagine it's not great for vaccines either, you want the immune system attack the spike the mRNA codes for, not destroy the mRNA before it can do it's thing.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
Define what's a professional gambler?

I've worked in betting and I've seen people consistently printing millions of pounds a year with remarkable stability over the years (I was myself running an exchange).

However they may not fit the popular image of an older man addicted to horses and drinking. They're professional working at (small) companies doing that activity full time.
Or even something crazy like a quarantine room in the embassy before flown out from india...and since your alone (or other previously quarantined aussies) in the aircraft that should be no problem...but more important, if you go back are you instantly thrown into the jail? Questions after questions.

And even funnier, 66k OR prison...that's what i call fair.
AFAIK PostMarketOS seems to be working on something similar - my PostMarketOS edition PinePhone even shipped with a convergence hub:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/buy-pinephone-postmarket...

BTW, I think the convergence concept is totally valid and actually available now (although in a proprietary form) as Dex on Samsung Galaxy series devices.

Just plug the thing into a USB-C HDMI dongle and it shows a desktop interface on the display & has decent mouse and keyboard support.

Really nice for simple stuff like looking at photos you just took outside but on a big screen. And also a killer combo with the Wacom One pen display as you have your Clip Studio or Krita files all available on the big Wacom One screen yet can work on them on the regular device screen while on the go. :)

So now we just need that, but open source. :)

It could be a separate wayland session outputting to the external display with app GUI getting data from a backend via DBus. That way you could run the same up on both device and external screen at the same time while keeping the data model consistent. :)
I think that DNA methylation is a big factor in hair loss as well as hair color changes. There are other disease processes which are also driven by DNA/RNA methylation, so a treatment for any of these might also lead to treatments for all of them. (And I don't really know what I'm talking about and I hope someone with more expertise can add to this)
Australia keeping its own citizens out is heartless. Particularly during a crisis. Governments have a responsibility before all of their citizens. The responsibility for this doesn't solely rest on the government either. In a country where the highest power is supposedly held by the people, the people also share in this responsibility. That's what citizenship is about. If the government can renege on its deal, then can citizens get out of their obligation to pay taxes too?

Are you even a citizen if you're not legally allowed to return to the country?
Worrying in this thread how few people seem to realize that docker desktop is not a) just another word for ‘docker’ or b) just an app frontend for running docker’s daemon in the background.

People seem to forget: Docker is a Linux-only technology.

If you’re running a non-Linux desktop OS like MacOS or Windows you need access to a Linux system to run docker.

So docker desktop on MacOS runs a Linux VM for you under the hyperkit hypervisor hosting a Linux OS running containerd.

On windows the equivalent involves managing a dockerd running inside WSL.

So since we are talking here about an app that embeds an entire Linux OS image, the patching surface area is going to be considerable - it’s not just got to be updated whenever docker releases a new version. It’s actually a minimal Linux distribution.

This also means people suggesting ‘alternatives’ to using docker are missing the entire value that docker desktop brings to MacOS and Windows users.
A cent is not a dollar.
Union shops like UPS have the exact same issues as Amazon or FedEx (including urine bottles).
Remember when DLC was just house armor? Now it’s the entire game
What would anyone here recommend for local development (mostly on Linux) if I already have several production Kubernetes clusters?

Podman or just running a local Kubernetes with Kind or Minikube for example?

At the moment I use Docker compose.
Beginner approachability seems to be the key feature. Possibly also integration with external libraries.
I’m not sure why this got downvoted - it’s a very clear expression of a real issue, and it’s definitely easier to solve it on Linux.

I choose to use Mac OS, and I celebrate each time they take a step in solving these problems - e.g. making the menu bar hidable, but I am fully aware that if I want something better in these ways I will need to use Linux and customize it to my tastes.
> It's hilarious to a certain extent that they built the thing smaller than all the competition and bulk it up with a wad of leather anyhow.

That's essentially how I feel when I see the "Our thinnest iPhone ever" slide knowing that 95% of iPhone owners put it in a bulky case. That said, that's not unique to Apple and the phone is at least usable without a case.