skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's certainly the implication of their text. It is not a legitimate conclusion. Given the premises "Apple has made a decision X" and "Apple has made billions of dollars since making that decision", you cannot conclude "the decision has made Apple billions of dollars". We cannot accept "All wood burns, therefore all that burns is wood" but "All of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan".

Lots of people disapprove of Facebook's data practices, yet they still run several of the overwhelmingly most popular social networks. Apple could be in a similar position: producing an otherwise excellent product that has a limitation people tolerate.

The fact that Apple makes billions of dollars is not evidence that every single decision of theirs is the best decision for their profitability. In order for their profit to be used against the argument and comfort of a certain Hacker News commentator, we need some evidence that the revenue is because of, not despite (or unaffected by), the decisions that made the random Hacker News commentator unhappy. At best we can conclude that the decision is not such a howler that it's cost them their market viability, but perhaps if they'd made a different decision they could have owned the entire smartphone market in a way that Windows used to own the desktop OS market.

(Another logical fallacy implicit in the argument is that a decision made by a powerful person is more worthy of respect than another decision. I must admit these kinds of reactionary values are extremely far from me, and I am shocked and uncomfortable to find how common they are.)
Another option is to just ignore the RFC
Kind of makes sense though? Teslas start at 30k, and you’re not paying them for the fancy bodywork.
I agree, though have to add that it adds stumbling blocks to people that don't come with the implicit knowledge (that was a matter of course when everything worked with floppy disks). I have seen people start the application directly from the disk image always, and accumulating mounted disk images that they don't unmount/delete.
Yes, in practice I've found the exact same thing. Either use an email validation service or be more restrictive than the RFC. [1] Also prompting "Did you mean bob@gmail.com?" when the user types "bob@gmaail.com" helps a lot with human input errors. [2]

[1] https://www.mailgun.com/email-validation/

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/mailcheck
The Mode 6 pseudo-3D renderer (ZX Spectrum)
976px x 549px is a standard size the BBC use for images to be displayed on desktop computers. 976px x 549px would be half a megapixel. The BBC most likely resized the image they obtained from the NCA down to that res and prob threw some jpeg compression on it just as a matter of course when publishing the image to the site.

While the focus would play a huge part, an iPhones camera (ok the phones were Android Based, but the res of an iphones main camera hasn't changed since the iphone 6s, which is what 5 years old by now? So its not unfair to say the phone model could easily of had just as a camera with just as high MP) is 12MP. So right off the bat the image you are looking could easily have 24 times less pixels in it then the image posted to the system, and thats before you throw in compression that could easily smooth out the fine detail of a finger print.

EDIT: The BQ Aquaris X2 (which seems like was one of the models used on the service) comes with a 12mp camera. Even if the phones camera was disabled so the person had to manually copy the picture to the phone inorder to share it just means the picture we see on the BBC site could easy be just a shitty compressed of the orig that was shared.
Do you know what sites do that? I have my own domain and I haven't seen anybody do that. The obvious solution is to configure your mail server to only accept usernames before the '@' that adhere to some rule which only you know. Like checking if it is a palindrome or something obscure like this.
I watch multiple corp's mail logs extensively, this is not even remotely a common thing.

Worse, I know at least 5 or 6 people personally, which do catch all. It seems like a very poor method to reliably catch spammers.
The US has the highest rate of incarceration globally, with about 21% of prisoners in 2015 despite having only 4.4% of world population. 639 per 100k is a pretty high rate. The 2nd ranked OECD country for incarceration rate, Turkey, has 335 per 100k.

Despite the high incarceration rate, the US is ranked third in the OECD for homicide, fourth in rape, eighth in robbery, sixteenth in assault, thirteenth in burglary and tenth in vehicle theft in the OECD. The US generally also jails people longer than most other countries; the ratio of people in prison to people who get convicted per year is much higher than in other countries, and those weren't the first "tough-on-crime" laws by any means.

And so for the highest imprisonment rate in the world, amongst the OECD the United States is still amongst the top half of the 32 OECD countries for every category of violent crime. It's not like these are short-term effects either, we've been jailing people under three-strikes for a generation going on two. It's pretty clear evidence that a high rate of imprisonment is not actually reducing crime.

https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/crime_stats_oecdjan...
You’re going to need to show me the RFC(s) that specifically mention bounce tracking is for the convenience of marketers. Or maybe give up on every practical aspect of a technology defined in RFC(s) being covered by those RFC(s). SMTP seems a particularly bad example if you expect to be able to write a useful program using only the RFC(s), since every MTA has a whole host of workarounds for non-spec behavior.
They have already in the past. Taken hostages from Lebanese boats.
Anne Frank: Her Life and Diary (Het Achterhuis)
What does that even mean? We shouldn’t support them because it requires more work?
> You could save the file somewhere else, and drag the file (perhaps from the icon in the title bar) into the folder.

In RiscOS, drag-n-drop saving was the norm. You were not presented with a dialog, just an icon you could drag wherever you wanted the file to go. To me, this seems like a much more logical way to work with the desktop folder/file metaphor.
Correct. But that's one of those hidden features that someone has to tell you about. Not intuitive certainly.
All things lie on a spectrum: there's no binary "was exposed to testosterone in the womb", nor is there a binary "their physiology is changed or not". See, for example, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190318151730.h..., a paper which purports to show that females who shared a womb with males tend to have some of their life outcomes pushed towards the testosterone end of the scale.
> 4. Having used Jira and Azure DevOps, scheduling tools still don’t seem great. The PM I work with prepares a schedule in excel with me every quarter and we revisit it every few weeks. People look at that like 5x as much as they look at our planning tool and it takes like 1/10th the time to edit or less.

I've a suspicion that in an ideal world, reporting/planning tools for management and day-to-day task tracking for teams would never touch in any kind of automated way. I think the desire for an automated chain all the way from ICs up to reports to higher management makes those tools suck both as reporting/planning tools and as tools for coordinating the actual work. I also think it'd be damn hard to sell that vision to management ("you want to make it harder for us to see exactly what everyone's doing at any time, and introduce a step designed for someone to fudge numbers or lie to us?" 1) Yes, and 2) They're already fudging numbers and lying, you've just pushed that step all the way to the bottom of the stack, at a cost to actual productivity and team-level transparency.)
That's a terrible approach, plenty of valid, legitimate non-spamming domains use catchalls of arbitrary length for all sorts of reasons.

Additionally, sending a test email like that might also get the sender placed on a black list for triggering a spam trap inadvertently.
The worst thing is there's always people commenting:

Why are you reinventing wheels?
Why don't you just use Unity?

These trigger me every time.
Lack of competence and title inflation at all levels. Interview culture that doesn't reflect real world demands.
How performant is chromeos? I'm thinking of getting one as it is basically linux.
I had a similar thought. There are a couple complications, though.

1) a lot of people moved in with friends who still had power (e.g. if they were on the same circuit as a hospital), so in some ways there was more mixing of households, in some ways less

2) the actual testing for covid-19 came to a virtual stop, so the data on cases was skewed

Having said that, one week after the snowpocalypse, there was no visible change in infection rates one way or the other, which does tend to suggest that human behavior was not having much impact.

https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/covid_stu...
Why Oculus will dominate VR market share
Chernobyl did not kill three million people.
Try Command + Option + V to paste and delete the source file (cut and paste).

I remember this command was I implemented a few years back and I think it was to reduce chances of unpasted files from disappearing or something.

In fact, opening any menu and pressing option reveals many secondary functions.
my Aeron is about 12 years old and still going strong, a very good investment.
"we" ...

Humans aren't responsible for the actions of their brothers. What they're doing is wrong, but its not a we. perhaps you were looking to make a call to action? a link to the contact points might go a long way.
Answered elsewhere in the thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/lz3rj1/why_d...
Great UI work! If you want printable flashcards for offline study, you can get some here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AWSCertifications/comments/j8nhu5/f...
> The whole window system is very different from everything out there. The app does not die when you close the window.

But that's one of my favourite things about it!

I remember one time when I had to use Windows after being away from its window-based paradigm (rather than an application-based paradigm) for several years. I had a single window open in Sublime Text, and I wanted to close that window then open a new one. So I closed that window, then instinctively reached for the menu bar to select 'Open Project'. Of course, the menu bar was no longer there, because it was part of the window I just closed. And then when I opened Sublime Text to get the menu bar back, it re-opened its last open document, which was the window I was trying to get rid of.
I purchased a lightly used Steelcase Gesture a few months ago. I had been using an Ikea Markus. It relieved all pain and discomfort I was feeling. I should have made the purchase sooner.
It depends upon where you are validating email input at.

For the initial email input, your logic works fine. Once it is applied downstream in a process, it begins to get messy. Someone might do an incorrect email validation that happens to block emails that you have already accepted or which you are importing from a valid source. Someone has already given the example of a login field not allowing them to use the email they signed up with. If such upgrades occur later in a projects life cycle, not only might you have to spend developer's time, you may also have a production outage.

Personally, I suggest using some, even if imperfect, validation when gathering the email initially (for the reasons you point out) and then not validating that information any further.
I read it. As far as I could tell you were saying that intervention was sometimes worthwhile because the Soviets are evil?

I'm not sure I got it either. As an argument for interventionism it was poor.
I don't much agree with Conney's position. I do think that FB is "subsidizing the cost of hardware" but I think that Apple will largely reap the rewards of that subsidy.
> the intrusive updates that guarantee I'll have to wait for an undefined time before I can get some work done

This is a common criticism but it's entirely false. Windows offers a lot more way to delay or refuse updates than macOS. When macOS wants to update, the best you can do is "Ask again tomorrow". And pray you see the popup before it reboots in 60 seconds.
Try that with an iPhone 6. Apple's position on right to repair and planned obsolescence is well known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate
Free-to-play is the future. Not everyone is on board
> After the inventions of writing and printing, digital communication represents the third great innovation on the media plane. With their introduction, these three media forms have enabled an ever growing number of people to access an ever growing mass of information. These are made to be increasingly lasting, more easily. With the last step represented by Internet we are confronted with a sort of “activation” in which readers themselves become authors. Yet, this in itself does not automatically result in progress on the level of the public sphere. Throughout the nineteenth-century – with the aid of books and mass newspapers – we witnessed the birth of national public spheres where the attention of an undefined number of people could simultaneously apply itself to the same identical problems. This however, did not depend on the technical level with which facts were multiplied, accelerated, rendered lasting. At heart, these are the same centrifugal movements that still occur today in the web. Rather, the classical public sphere stemmed from the fact that the attention of an anonymous public was “concentrated” on a few politically important questions that had to be regulated. This is what the web does not know how to produce. On the contrary, the web actually distracts and dispels. Think about, for example, the thousand portals that are born every day: for stamp collectors, for scholars of European constitutional law, for support groups of ex-alcoholics. In the mare magnum of digital noises these communicative communities are like dispersed archipelagos: there are billions of them. What these communicative spaces (closed in themselves) are lacking is an inclusive bind, the inclusive force of a public sphere highlighting what things are actually important. In order to create this “concentration”, it is first necessary to know how to choose – know and comment on – relevant contributions, information and issues. In short, even in the mare magnum of digital noise, the skills of good old journalism – as necessary today as they were yesterday – should not be lost.
We shouldn't separate by gender (which is irrelevant for sport performance using the "identify as" definition), but should simply use testosterone level: low, medium, high, based on highest level tested.
Don't you have to close the document first?
Basically every laptop is unsupported or best effort / best luck on Linux (except System 76 and the like.) My brightness control keys use to work or not according to the kernel and the NVIDIA driver versions. I configured two hotkeys to increase and decrease backlightining with X11 and forgot about the original ones. However I never got a crash because of them. Maybe the screen froze a couple of times since Ubuntu 20.04, probably a video card crash (lots of windows.)
>I guess I don't get your point, if a user wants to sideload fortnite or facebook, good for them?

This will result in a few "must have" apps being side-loaded to start, and finish with people having to reinstall their phone operating systems every 6 months; to the detriment of the vast majority of users.

Do you not remember what the computers of regular people were like in the late 90's and early 2000's? I remember pretty much everyone non-technical having at least a mild malware infestation and at least one extra toolbar in their browser.

I'm quite happy that the free market created a solution that is more secure.
Ask HN: Why does HN look sharper on Chrome than on Firefox?
I use FF all the time, but today I randomly checked HN on Chrome and couldn't help but notice that texts are much sharper and "more black" on Chrome. I find it easier to read. Is it because FF renders text differently, and is it possible to make it look like Chrome?
`git push` in cases of conflict too.
I've largely switched to writing all my tools dry-run by default. We've had a few undesirable events from tools that had --dry-run modes and accidentally got run without. Making --run or similar necessary almost guarantees it's never run without intention.
Israel signs cloud services deal with Amazon, Google
I found websites not allowing perfectly valid tlds, so maybe they could be starting not using .com in their regex. (.email)
No, that's just not true. The media repeatedly mocked even a lab escape scenario and boosted a handful of experts were favored a wild reservoir for the disease.

Our "intellectual elites" have a bad problem now with moral/intellectual fashions, which are constantly changing. Social media has considerably exacerbated this problem.
In our use it was perfectly fine, it'll run fine with 4gb of ram and a Celeron. I wouldn't want to do hardcore software dev on one because they're usually low end screens and CPUs, but as a "here's a safe machine you can't break" they're absolutely brilliant for family.

Boot time is instant, OS updates are instant, battery life is great, if there was ever "linux for the desktop" it's ChromeOS.

It's not all roses though:
full disclosure: our Chromebook is stuck on Chrome 68 so these might not apply any more.

- The file management is poor, a zip file can and will confuse it

- Bluetooth is Windows XP levels of stable, if you get a device it likes you're good, but it can be finicky.

- The device has a fixed expiry date where they stop getting software updates, this is the big kicker for me, because we had a perfectly functional machine that was a bit old that just got turned into E waste because nobody wanted to support the software any more. Shame because it was a fantastic machine. I'm hoping our Mac lasts longer than the Chromebook it's replacing
HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts
In Windows I would copy the folder path from Explorer and paste it into the save dialog and press enter, which will cause the save dialog to go to that folder.
You’re in an echo chamber. By default, iPhones do send diagnostic data, but that data can be disabled in Settings. They also upload your files in an encrypted connection (but without end to end encryption) into your iCloud backup, and that can be handed over with a subpoena, but you can disable iCloud backup or simply not pay for it.
Why did bar ends go away from mountain bikes?
Herman Miller Mirra. There's always tons of liquidation stock on ebay and they're excellent as long as you get the one with the tilt and back support features.

I'm very torso tall and wide so for me the original Mirra is better than the Mirra 2 for day long comfort because of the large back shape
It’s a good opportunity to use long options like:

—i-acknowledge-this-is-dangerous-and-i-gave-this-more-than-cursory-thought
Mysterium and other decentralized vpns let you do that.
Also, electric motors can easily reach 80%-90% efficiency, while ICE engines in cars typically get 20%-35%. Even in principle ICE engines are thermodynamicly required to be inefficient as combustion itself produces heat, and there is a limit to how much useful work you can extract from a thermal gradient.

You still need to account for the discharge efficiency of the battery (which I cannot find numbers for).

For overall energy usage, electric still still has whatever inefficiencies exist in the generator (and charging inefficiency), but those don't effect power density
>- Window snapping isn't built in outside of fullscreen mode (seriously?!)

As if that's a major future? (seriously?!)

>- Sleeping the mac does not sleep the mac, it wakes up at all sorts of times

It sleeps just fine for me, across half a dozen of Macs over 2 decades.

>- TouchID for login works....but not often enough - it constantly pesters me for a password

Like the first time after a boot/login?

>- Pressing enter renames a file rather than opens it. What?

What what?

>- The Finder is either named ironically or I'm not getting it - file paths are obscured, seeing file details is hidden behind a dialog.

And most people care about paths (as opposed to navigating to folders they created or searching for files) because?

The rest can always enabled to show the paths.

>We bought the M1 because ChromeOS didn't like our old Samsung printer and the VPN software my partner uses.

Maybe just buy a different printer instead of a new computer?

A lot of the complaints are "it's not what some other OS does".
Yes, the privacy policy issued by Microsoft to your company regarding SharePoint.
After years of the Herman Miller Embody, I moved on to the lighter Cosm and love it: https://turbo.paulstamatiou.com/uploads/2020/02/copyright-pa...

https://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use/#desk
Linux rarely crashes. What it does do is handle low memory situations really badly. Simultaneously browsers have got way more memory hungry.

I have left firefox overnight and had a tab decide it would like to eat all my memory.

Linux does have an oom killer to deal with out of memory situations but it will kick in halfway to the heat death of the universe and you will reboot first.

Oom looks just like a crash the UI is frozen however if the offender is killed everything actually is working.

The solution is a userspace oom daemon like earlyoom that kicks in before you actually run entirely out of memory and knows not to kill things like X.

Distributions ought to ship with it.
I don't use Instagram much but I do follow Tony on there. He is basically my dream life. He's anonymous enough to go about his daily life mostly unrecognized, yet a multi-millionaire (I think he's 8 figures), has a sunset/sea view house in the hills above San Diego, sponsored by people who make his travel easy (he's sponsored by some VIP travel companies that make flying out of LAX a breeze, some company sponsored a family cross country RV trip so the travel and expenses were free), he has his own private skatepark, and mentors younger skateboarders.

He's also really down to earth and LOVES skateboarding.
It was great until you had a disk shared between the large monitors at school and the tiny one you had at home. So long as all screens are the same sized and layed out the same it worked good. However any form of using two different computers and the whole thing started to fall apart. Throw in multiple monitors and it isn't possible to do this usefully.

It also only worked well when you only had a few files in any folder. If you have 100 files that are related in one folder and you can't find anything without sorting it alphabetically. Depending on how your brain organizes things this might not matter.
While I know in other countries it isn't like this, here Faro/Porto is the same airports that Qatar/Tap/SwissAir, so it isn't a difference at all.

I never travel with baggage. Even in not cheap airlines, this add 30+ minutes for checkin and pick up also

I gave examples for Portugal. All these I did a lot. I used to travel Porto->faro and back many times a week (work in one place, my son in another). There is no real option here unless you are a full anti-flight person. I took the train down to faro last week but only because I wanted to do a training and times werent compatible, otherwise I would have flown, there isn't even a comparision here
Trump boasted news networks like Fox, OANN, and NewsMax, which arguably are the least credible sources out there.

Fox lawyers even argued that the Tucker show is not "news", and should not be treated as such.

So, no, he was not right about this either. He just peddled the idea that the only credible broadcasts were the ones praising him.
How to Calculate Password Entropy?