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I’m glad you’re able to see it as an edge case, but part of the reason we get so defensive is precisely because people who typically cite the story don’t want to see it as an edge case.

I used “secret” with a clear intention here, because on the gender-critical side, categorical rejection of trans women from womanhood is a core belief. It follows that if you don’t believe any trans woman is “actually” a woman, that every trans woman is just a man trying to be sneaky, then every trans woman in prison, regardless of existing convictions, is a potential Karen White.

White’s rape conviction is probably the more germane data point in that particular edge case. From there the question might be: how do women’s prisons handle cisgender women with rape convictions against other women right now? What potential problems, if any, would arise if we implemented similar procedures for trans women? How might those procedures help or hurt trans people?

(This might also lead to higher level questions about the efficacy of prisons in a broader sense, but that’s outside our scope here.)

When, as trans people, we see edge cases brought up like this, they’re so often used as a means of depicting us as potential Karen Whites that, to the extent that we even bother engaging, it comes from a defensive place. I hope you can understand that I’m choosing to engage here both because I do see well-meaning people like you on this site and because I think the site needs a counterpoint to the FUD about trans people, even if I dread some of the nastier responses.
I think it's ironic how often HN discusses various software development methodologies, release early-and-often, etc. But Microsoft slowly iterating on the Settings panel over time is seen as a bad thing.
I remember seeing what looked like basically every city in the San Joaquin Valley seemed unusually highly ranked on a per-capita car theft list of US cities (e.g. Bakersfield, Stockton, Merced, Modesto), and further north into the Sacramento Valley (Redding, Yuba, Chico).

Is it just sort of size effects of California, or is there something like systemic cat theft that is a particular thing? The major cities are also there, but the crazy part to me was it is basically like, the entire central valley.
Really nice addition to the landscape. It's gonna be very useful for recent graduates, to weather the covid situation.
I find the OS to be better, FAR cleaner and more stable than what I had with past Samsung's. Really don't agree with the article.
It's become a little more extensible recently with the addition of a scripting language.

But yeah, PRs welcome!
No it isn't. We've had years of progressives screaming that private companies aren't allowed to just do as they please simply because they are private. You aren't permitted to suddenly become an ardent liberty advocate simply because it suits you when you've been demanding regulation and authoritarianism previously.
All I want is a completely new, Unix like file system. Speed sucks in windows, bringing down my patience.
I think that statement from Intel has to be taken in context; that technology is for enabling Android applications which are not otherwise executable on Intel CPUs to successfully run on Intel devices. Its not an assertion that Java-based Android apps won't be available in the app store; its just saying "these apps which are generally really hard to get running on x86, we've got those covered too".
Why is this being downvoted? It's okay to like Facebook, folks.
Surely it can - we had a guy in our office (which was in Daly City) commuting from Sacramento area, - but I don't think it is very common... at least not in technical companies, which usually allow / tolerate flexible hours. Off-peak traffic in SFBA is not that bad.
> Universities sell a financial product

> No they do not.

Then why are student loans (in the US) the only loans not dischargable in bankruptcy? If I live like an irresponsable asshole, run up credit card debt right and left, buy a car and who knows what else I can't afford and it finally catches up to me, I can just throw up my hands and say "Ok, you've got me. Bankruptcy." They'll take my fancy stuff, my credit takes a hit, and I can move on with my life with a clean slate.

On the other hand, if I try to improve myself and my community by getting educated to get a good job, go into debt doing so, and then can't repay the debt because the good jobs the university promised aren't actually there, I can NEVER GET RID OF THAT DEBT. It will literally follow me until the day I die. Why? Because Universities are mostly a scam, and the people running them know it. If they had any faith in the education they were providing, they would put their money where their mouth was and let people discharge the loans if needed. Almost everything in the modern era has a "Satisfaction or your money back" guarantee, except education. The reason is that they have no faith in the product they're selling.

>Both schools and universities bend over backwards to inform prospective students on the fit between degrees and careers.

On the contrary, there was a whole industry, the for profit college industry, that existed solely by lying about the viability of the education they provided. Thankfully those have largely collapsed now, but the ordinary college world is hardly any better. As just one example, nearly all of them trumpet the well-worn graphs showing the connection between college education and increasing income, despite those graphs being blatant lies (income goes up among college graduates because most people from rich families go to college, not because college makes you more employable).

There was a time, post WWII, that college was a no-brainer. That time is long past. And it's amazing how much of the population is still hypnotized into believing, and ardently defending, the idea that college is still a good idea for anyone who isn't already rich. Young people's futures are being destroyed. The future of many nations is being destroyed. Huge amounts of public funds are being wasted. And yet people still keep defending the scam.

If you came from a well-off family, went to college, and got a great job related to your degree, great. Understand that most college attendees are not you. Most are middle-class or lower, desperately trying to find some way to avoid working in the service industry for the rest of their lives. And most will fail, with a debt burden that is modest to you, but devastating to them.
> A plane can fly over it

Maybe it shouldn't. Ground vehicles need to purchase land to operate, maybe planes needn't have right of way over private property.

> I'm not sure you get to just throw around "me myself and I and my constitution"

You absolutely get to. Planes are operated at profit - "me, myself an I" for a private corporation.
Especially as the main outcome of environmental policies so far has been to shift production and manufacturing to countries that don't care about the environment.

Until environmental legislation pays any attention to the huge CO2 costs of the vast quantitites of consumer goods we import, I'm not going to worry too much about cows farting.
It is interesting to view as a kind of state machine though I don't know about treating it as a meme. Certainly a cold calculation. I've long thought that US immigration queues reflects the simple fact that from an individual perspective, if the average person wants to join a group far more than the group wants them to join, there will necessarily be a difficult hurdle to enter and a long line. I suppose this is pretty obvious, but an important fact of life. Also a different case of P(A->B)>>P(B->A). And highly-skilled students from India probably know better than we do how the high-tech pay rates in the US compare versus other places they might more-easily immigrate to.
I'm hoping to get an AMD PC sometime in the future. I hope this works on more than just Intel processors.
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No it doesn’t mean that. He didn’t automatically lose because he didn’t show up. The court, specifically the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, allowed the Faull estate to petition for a default judgement due to McAfee’s continued failure to respond and due to the merits of the case presented. They did not, and would not, allow a default judgment on a meritless case.
But can it run winamp-v2.92? :)
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Would haiku be the best option for the next generation of kodi players, instead of things like Linux or Android?

Wasn’t beOS great for playing media or has the playing field been leveled over the decades?
The A3020 (and the consumer version, A3010, with green function keys!) was notable for having the first ARM system-on-chip; the ARM250 contained the ARM3 core (though cacheless) together with the support chips used on the earlier Archimedes systems; MEMC for memory control, VIDC for video and sound and IOC for I/O.
It's one of my 10 or so side projects. Sadly while TreeSheets is pretty popular with users, it doesn't attract a lot of programmers to contribute (probably my ancient looking code!).. more of them would help.
To be clear, this is referring to a very specific subset of police: "crisis intervention team" officers within the 3% of departments that use a "police-based specialized police response" to mental health issues.
>Design departments trying harder than ever to justify their continued existence

Wait Microsoft has Design departments?
the goal isnt to make life fun for developers its to get consumers using significantly powered down devices from now on
I have a few older friends that struggle with tech, but have learned their phone apps well. For them, this could be a benefit to not have to learn the differences between the app and website.
I have no idea! Careful feature selection is very important. If you only have edge information, then extracting edges in both images seems like a reasonable pre-processing step.
We'll be programming in Chinese soon - https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/class...
Yes there are some remote only companies and it works for them. Like most of life it is hard to determine if they are outliers or something meaningful. I mean I could point to Yahoo, who yanked back all their remote work because people were slacking off.

Not all companies are gonna be remote only. If you want fully remote, go find a place that is fully remote. They have existed for quite some time.

Personally I think we are gonna rapidly revert right back to the mean, which is what life was like back in 2019. The idea that this last year is somehow gonna usher in a new age of remote work is… wishful thinking. Tech companies invest a ton onto their office experience. There is a reason for that.
I just want to say that I think this is absolutely a fair approach for many systems, but it sounds so radical against the backdrop of perimeter security that you're catching undue flak. You need to take a lot of care to build and design the "one layer to rule them all" in a way that's ridiculously sound, but this can actually produce a strong design if you pull it off. I didn't give this advice because I looked at where NewsBlur is today and figured they had some learning curves to get over before they could make the right tradeoffs to do it safely. If they got that much wrong with their DB, they might not know how to design a sane zero-trust network, or even how to make rational decisions in that world.

You see this "authN/authZ above all else" line of thinking in Google's security design [0], with their ubiquitous login wall. For their employees, that login wall has extra hardening - you can't do regular password resets, and you need to possess a physical security key (which acts basically as a scaled-down single-purpose HSM) and pass a suite of posture checks on the device (proportional to the sensitivity of the protected resource) to pass through it.

Then they put this login wall in front of everything, even internal services, and that tends to be OK because the system "fails closed," and the only way to access their protected resources is via physical safe rooms deep in the Google offices in which elevated privileges may be obtained.

Putting all your systems on the Internet forces you to get the incentive structure right, and that can be useful in companies where "private networks" can serve as justification to weaken security - if your login page is Internet-exposed, then you simply have no choice but to make it strong enough to withstand the chaos of the Internet. There's significant merit in that.

[0]: https://sre.google/books/building-secure-reliable-systems/
This got me thinking. At what point will there be a Windows Mobile that could run Andriod Apps?
> the ability to use a whiteboard boosts innovation

Beneath this simple statement is a career's worth of questions worth investigating. Oral and written communication are just two modes of conveying information and sharing ideas. Edward Tufte, for example, has made his career in exploring other modes, neatly summed up in the title of his most famous work, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information".

Engaging the visual/spatial functions of the brain, even if you can't draw more than wobbly trapezoids and shaky, uneven lines, can enrich thinking in ways I don't think we fully understand.

I'm not sure what all the barriers are to an inexpensive shared whiteboarding tool that's as natural and effortless as a dry-erase pen on a whiteboard. Everything we have now feels unnatural without a lot of practice, is far too clunky to be worth the effort, and/or is too expensive and flakey.

I think part of it is that they begin with a draw/paint tool, rather than cutting it down to the extreme simplicity of whiteboard. Would whiteboarding be as popular and useful if you had to pick up a "draw a square" tool, then switch to "draw a line" tool? Can we make the pad/stylus for "draw lines" have better haptics and a more natural hand/eye connection?
Could it be a windows update?
Google's well on their way to replacing Android, no? I thought a lot of their announcements at events the last couple years had been about their from-scratch Android replacement.

Maybe another big company will pick it up, but if not, I don't see much benefit to the hobbyist community over the current status quo if Android gets "opened up" more but also loses 99+% of total corporate backing toward its development. Even if Amazon or MS run with it (and maybe that's what this is the beginning of?) that seems more like an on-life-support scenario than one with a bright future for Android.

Could go totally differently if major phone and tablet manufacturers ignore the New Shiny Thing and stick with Android so developing commercial software for it remains viable, I guess.
Apparently certain workflows in Okta would be hampered or prevented if third cookies were totally blocked.

https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/FAQ-How-Blocking-Thi...
Amazon's App Store and Google Play Store are distinct stores. Purchases do not carry over between them because they are competitors (in the same sense, you can't return an item to Walmart that you purchased at Target, even if they both sell it). You can install the Play Store on your Amazon devices, which allows you to use your Play purchases on the device (without jumping through too many hoops, like getting the apk and sideloading it).

This sounds like it's integrating with Amazon's app store directly so unless there's some way of sideloading Android apps using the underlying bridge to run them, Play Store purchases would not be available on Windows.
facebook says, "right speech > free speech"
microsoft's efforts to keep backward compatibility is so precise that even historical bugs that hinders window launches still work.
This was my interpretation of the statement too. Specifically what comes to mind is apps that depend on native/shared libraries that only have an ARM build and not a x86 build shipped.
The quip about Yale being a hedge fund was funny before the financial crisis and in a loose sense some of the wealthiest colleges in the US seem to behave like an educational frosting on an asset-maximising endowment.

If there are any similar institutions in the UK, they are the wealthiest Oxbridge colleges. The students at these places do not so much think their degrees are overpriced.
same in NL. until late 2020, face masks were regarded as 'fake security' by government officials. then suddenly that changed.
ELI5 how do you know it’s being downvoted?
Personally, depending on how it translates...

Instagram where I can upload photos on the desktop and tweak them.

Could use my banking app with Windows Hello for authentication.

In other words, the cases where the Android App has more features than the web site version.
Plastic is recyclable.

However, the cost of recycling it is generally more than the reclaimed value of the material, especially for mixed recyclables.

So, we have to do one of two things: either subsidize the recycling of plastic (e.g.: tax plastic packaging, send tax money to subsidize conversion), or switch back to segregated bins (downside: consumers put less material in).

Many people have been spreading misinformation that plastic "isn't recyclable." This is not true. In California, 87% of beverage containers are recycled (thanks, bottle bill!).

British Columbia enacted an "Extended Producer Responsibility" (EPR) bill that taxes plastic packaging and uses the funds to centralize and subsidize conversion of material. This resulted in the most sophisticated sortation and recycling plant in North America, located in Delta, BC, where they use laser spectrum analysis to sort plastic, shred and grind it, use high speed cameras and air puffs to sort by color, and then convert it back to usable resin.

This resulted in a 56% recovery rate of all rigid plastics sold in BC. I would argue that 56% needs to improve - it would be good to get over 80% - but plastic has massive CO2 advantages over other materials, such as aluminum or glass, that are incredibly energy intensive, and anything with a 56% recycle rate blatantly disproves the idea that recycling is a myth.

However, without proper public-private partnerships and good regulation, it's very hard to get high recycle rates, and that plagues much of America and other provinces of Canada, where people then throw up their hands and claim it's impossible.
To be fair, "better than Samsung's" is about the lowest bar you could possibly set
> You do not think the general public would be pissed off

This is a strawman and a false dichotomy often pushed by the industry:

1) choose between modern lifestyle and its ecosocial impact or go back to 1900. Other options cannot be discussed

2) make a mess (e.g. microplastics) and then blame/fine consumers for despite being overwhelmingly responsible for the decisions around industrial processes

e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

[as a side note, most people I know live in apartments, by choice. A lot of them have no car.]
Remember: always skip every second version of Windows!

But seriously, 10 is pretty good and is there really a compelling reason to move?
They got in trouble in the EU, that's why they had to make a version without ie > Windows 7 E
>If you value the opinions of your introverts, ask them.

This may be an uncharitable reading of what you said, but you're implying that introverts are special fragile people who can't be bothered to share their brilliant ideas.

If someone comes up with an idea, and they think it's a good idea, it's their responsibility to advocate for it. They're already that idea's #1 fan. They're uniquely motivated to get it out in the world. How can they get others to take them seriously when they can't even take the initiative to share it themselves?

Sure, maybe some people are true solitary geniuses. But that's a waste of genius if they can't effectively communicate their thoughts with other humans.
Java performance is so terrible that most of the code of the majority of apps is written in native code. Java is only used for the UI of those apps.
Actually, in some cases mobile apps are higher quality than desktop versions. Mainly because the standard for mobile is to make native apps for the platform, while on desktop everything is Electron
They tried that with Windows 8, the backslash was so enormous that I think they will be on the safe side and stick with 'familiarity' for the foreseeable future.
> I don't think they added a complete emulation of arm64, so it probably only runs apps with support for x86

It uses Intel Bridge, which is a JIT compiler like Rosetta. So, they seem to have done it for ARM64.
>Schools are controlled primarily by state and local governments, which are not universally controlled by Democrats but split along typical red state/blue state lines

This isn't reality, schools are ran by school administrators and education leadership heavily skew leftist.
This alter will get matched with your main. You might as well just speak your mind with that account.
> Windows 11 will be available through a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs and on new PCs beginning this holiday.

which holiday? Do they mean Christmas 2021?

Edit: via https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/06/24/intro...
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Yahoo didn’t pull back workers because they were slacking, it was because Marissa Mayer didn’t know how to manage, which is clear from how she managed Yahoo right into the ground.

https://distantjob.com/blog/yeah-but-yahoo-learning-from-rem...

> Which brings us to the ban on remote working. Mayer took over as CEO at Yahoo! in July 2012, so calling everyone into the office in February wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction. The memo, authored by Jackie Reses, says, ‘Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings.’ In other words, this is the old water cooler myth rearing it’s ugly head again.

> It wasn’t just regular remote workers who got asked to stay in the office. The email also targeted those who stayed at home when needed, ‘for the rest of us who occasionally have to stay home for the cable guy, please use your best judgment in the spirit of collaboration.’ For whatever reason, Mayer had decided that she wanted her staff in the offices at all times.

With regards to reverting back to the mean, I wish you the best if you’re trying to attract talent. They have options now.
Seconded. Not sure why it works so well, but it does.
This has been possible on ChromeOS (i.e. Chromebooks) for a while now and the experience is subpar. Most apps are not designed for desktop and the UX just feels unrefined. This could be fixed, of course, but on the app creators' side.

However, weirdly enough, VPN Android apps work just fine at a system level on Chromebooks. Go figure...
It's moving from electron to webview2
>While that recommendation was ignored at the time it was made, provinces are now funding it.

They've been vocal about funding it now that it's in the media, they haven't funded anything yet.
Most drone “pilots” aren’t psychopaths. They just might not realize the hazards of flying their drone without airspace awareness.
You don't, but you need to set up parallel infrastructure then that routes things in a different way.
> It doesn't seem like a great gig to me, at least financially.

To each their own, of course, but compared to minimum wage or slightly more in retail/pumping gas/whatever, I could see how $53K (to start; before overtime) could be pretty compelling.

Also, FWIW, it looks like Connecticut and New York (my points of reference) do not require a bachelors degree -- only a HS diploma or GED.
In my experience a written-first culture is horribly inefficient for exactly the kind of impromptu interactions that happen in colocated spaces.