skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if I misunderstood some of the differences, but I was trying to simplify it and trying to be helpful by explaining what I read about both.

I'm not trying to promote either, and I don't use either as I don't have any pixel phones. However I thought of buying one and as such I looked into the differences.

I didn't realise you now had sandboxed play services, but to be honest I would trust MicroG a lot more than Google, even if it's sandboxed :) The only way I'd want to interact with Firebase is for push notifications, I prefer MicroG's way of handling location by the way, with its location plugins pointing to really open sources. Play Services are still closed-source google components that I don't want on my phone.

I was not saying that you don't care about privacy. I just wanted to express that I generally see GrapheneOS pick the security side over privacy if there is a choice to be made between both (and only then). And with privacy I mainly mean big data tracking from the likes of Google.

I didn't mean to attack you at all. I have no side in this conflict and I'm sorry you feel that way. See also how I said in my original post that GrapheneOS has security as Priority #1. How is that a bad thing??

If you look at my other posts you will see I praised you for promoting security features that were incorporated into AOSP after you had initially developed them. I was just trying to present the situation as I understood it. I didn't realise it was so adversarial.
There are many different types of laughter, but no-one is naming them because it "kills the vibe" or "ruins the moment"
> Does that mean we shouldn't support anything?

Op is pointing out what a universal evil Apple's scanning of personal property at scale is.
The solution is for law enforcement to show evidence of a crime to get a subpoena.

If you don’t think it works, check out your local list of Megan’s Law participants.
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Have a look at Microsoft's PowerToys Display zones. It allows you to split up your monitors into zones which you can then drag windows into to make them snap. I have a few zones configured for 3 windows and 2 windows and swap between them when appropriate.
Mid 6 figures annual income would be around 500000. The figures depict the digits not the zeros. I would think 500.000 annual income in Cyprus would be extremely high.
I have always seen the second monitor as “extra” space and not to be used equally. I previously used two 34” ultra wide (21:9) monitors with one centered and one off to the right. The left half of the extra monitor was basically reserved for slack and dashboards and the right half of the extra monitor was seldom ever used.

I still use that setup for gaming,
but I use a single Pro Display XDR for work now and I think the only time I might miss the extra screen space is probably Zoom
> 1. Vote with your feet - Put your money in the pockets of the people aligned to your values.

This is impossible. Just like modern democratic voting, you don’t get to vote on an individual policy. You vote on a bundle and that bundle almost certainly includes policies (or in this case “features”) that you don’t agree with.
There are plenty Chinese students unable to renew their visa to the US for 'national security' reasons.
I see, I had a really limited vision and understanding of what you meant by "platform". That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
I always wonder about one of the greatest contradictions in economic liberalism.

Employers complain about lazy workers.
Citizens complain about drug addicts.
Poor people can't manage their finances.

The contradiction lies in the belief that all people act rationally but as soon as someone behaves in a way you do not agree with they are automatically assumed to act irrationally.

Lazy workers are irrational but nobody stops and wonders if there is a rational reason for them to be lazy.

Drug addicts are irrational but nobody stops and wonders if there is a rational reason for them to take drugs.

Poor people are irrational but nobody stops and wonders if there is a rational reason why they can't manage their finances.

Really, what has happened is that rationality has been redefined to be subjective success and irrationality the failure to achieve subjective success. In other words, we did a simple language trick to praise the winners for winning and blame the losers for losing.
It's not just "increasingly real time knowledge" though.. The number of disasters are actually up.
Couple of professors who are unfriendly to black people got fired too, not saying its wrong, but its not that different in this case. Someone got offended, someone got fired.
And winter tires are just as terrifying on ice.
The Mona Lisa Thought Experiment
Imagine you are John Doe, an extremely wealthy art collector. You have just found out that the Louvre Museum has decided to auction off the Mona Lisa. There are two different ways this pans out in two parallel universes.

Case 1
Here, the painting is auctioned off in a standard way. You win the bid and you agree to pay $1 billion dollars to buy the Mona Lisa. Louvre hands over the original to you. You can now choose to do whatever you want with it.
In the place where the painting originally hanged, a plaque states that the painting has been sold off. It, however, makes no mention of your name.

Case 2
In this universe, a machine exists that can create exact replicas of products. It does it in such a way that the original and the duplicate are indistinguishable. For instance, if the Mona Lisa was duplicated with this machine, things contained in the original such as (for instance) Da Vinci’s fingerprints and DNA would be copied exactly onto the duplicate. In other words, it is scientifically impossible to determine the replica from the fake.
Louvre decides to create 100,000 copies of the Mona Lisa using this machine. Due to a mishap, the original gets mixed with the replicas. There is absolutely no way of knowing which is the original anymore.
Louvre now decides to conduct an auction. If you win, Louvre will put up a plaque stating that you, John Doe, are the original owner of the Mona Lisa. They will give you the option of taking one of the copies home. They will continue to hang a copy at the museum. And they will sell the remaining at their gift shop for $1 apiece.
We can never know if the original is hanging at the Louvre, was picked by you, or by someone at the gift store for a dollar. But a plaque will always exist at the Louvre stating that the original Mona Lisa belongs to John Doe, thus ascribing ownership to you.

I have 2 questions:
1. If you were willing to pay $1 billion in case 1, how much would you be willing to pay in case 2?
2. Why did you choose this amount? Why was it higher/lower/the same?
I use a 55" curved 4k TV for my monitor and it fantastic. 1 or 2 windows right in/near the middle for what I'm working on. 2 terminals off to the left for building code or grepping. And whatever else to the right. I rarely use the top portion because its uncomfortable to look up, but the space is there. To watch full screen videos I just roll my chair back a little.

It really brings the desktop UI metaphor to life. Everything about Gnome is wrong for this setup but I use it anyway.
I know, it's a disgrace - apparently here in UK a lot of people buy PHEVs because they have a much much lower tax rate for company buyers, but obviously you get the tax discount whether you plug it in or not. So some people just....don't. Which as you said, actually means poorer fuel economy and increased complexity for zero reason. I absolutely think that those people should lose their tax discounts entirely.
..and it seems like these guys got more power than the politicians.
That's not an immediate problem. That's a long term problem.

What are you going to do? Incarcerate them for life? If you let them leave before they die they are bound to roam a neighborhood.
I understand what you're saying, but I'm not making a mental mistake, and I'm not confused.

I'm working on something which takes the -mode out of org and builds something meaningfully similar which isn't wedded to emacs.

> But you shouldn't say org "lives in an editor"

Except it does. If you want to use the org format in any sort of full-fledged way, you're going to be doing it in Emacs.

Which, ok, it's a platform. But it's a platform which is a text editor, comparing it to the JVM only goes so far. The JVM is a bytecode interpreter, Emacs is an editor which has a bytecode interpreter. Yes, it's possible to run it headless, no, it isn't pleasant or fast, it's not designed for this, people don't, good luck embedding it in something else, and so on and so forth.

You seem to be taking the old joke "Emacs is a great operating system which just needs a good text editor" a bit too seriously here.

Org-mode is a bunch of things, and one of those things is a text format. That text format is too closely tied to emacs, it's simply hopeless to reimplement it in anything else. If you don't believe me, take a look at the spreadsheet functionality!

Which is a pity, because another one of the things Org is, is an intriguing and powerful approach to literate programming. One which I expect would be much more attractive if it didn't require one to use Emacs to employ it.

You're welcome to integrate headless emacs into your CI if you're so committed to thinking of it as a "platform much like the JVM". I've found it simpler to take as many ideas from org-mode as possible, and just build from scratch.

But I'm not ready to release my code yet, and until I am, I should spend more time writing it, and less time talking about it on the orange website.
In Eastern Europe the average car age is 12 to 14 years. Average, not max. Most cars run on the streets around 20 years.
They don't believe that people misunderstand how it works. This is marketing and PR speak for "We are going to do this and we are going to push enough tech jargon out there that most people won't understand nor care about the difference".
I don't know why this is downvoted, you are absolutely right.

Prosecutions based, essentially, on community suspicion are what lead to countless black men being wrongfully convicted of the rape of white women.

Police embracing cutting edge science like DNA sequencing is what allows unreliable antiquated evidence like (gasp) eyewitness testimony to be given it's proper weight.

Perhaps people consider DNA evidence to be "good old-fashioned policing" nowadays but it was within people's lifetimes that it was as new was quantum computing is today.

The sooner the "good old fashioned policing" meme dies the better.
Yes, somehow when it comes to slave states, people tend to focus on the lifestyle of the slave masters rather than the great heap of humanity living in squalor to support them.

In context though, I wonder if serfs really had it better. They still had no freedom to move, and in the early Middle Ages there was no appeal granted to serfs under a tyrannical lord.
Pavement does not absorb rain water, and causes flooding.
Pavement causes heating, and raises local temperatures. More pavement, the greater the additive effect.
Pavement replaces vegetation and black soil.
The results should be pretty obvious.
Skipping the whole CO2 debate, and just look at that.
Yes, as a society we are giving up privacy for convenience.
Yea but 'orange man bad so it's okay as long as he's not the president'.

On a more serious note since it's inevitable going into politics, the fact that some people call this 'Unintended consequences', like this article, it's very wishful thinking at best.(By the way things would have not stayed much better if Biden hadn't won, maybe different approaches.)

These are not coincidences or 'unintended effects'.The purpose for _them is clear, while it may not be for the average citizen: trace money, impose control of the industry through stablecoins/regulations/&fees/etc.What should concern more people is also the fact that covid is used politically to delve into the acceptance of these measures by the majority of the population.

Yes it's pretensed under 'protection against drugs/illegal activities/pedos/whateverthefuck' but 'remember we're gonna do it this time, we're eradicating all evil' - said every government while achieving ~nothing, always.
Disagree. At this point I'm so disillusioned with the unbridled corruption of humanity I think I'd rather see us eliminated and replaced with machines. less harm to life on the planet in aggregate.
I always thought of the US "standard" being 15K miles, although before covid-19, I averaged more like 10K, and now around 5K.

Obviously it depends on your commute, and I've always prioritized a very short commute.

Also, some people lease and have mileage limits. I have the impression that leasing is more popular in the UK, so that might affect the average.
What Covid-19 Taught the Cyber Security Industry: Security Chaos Engineering
Feet flat on the ground? How? I can do it indefinitely on my toes, with heels supporting my glutes though.
>You need to argue things that are actually happening.

No. You don't get to control the narrative by saying that. You have to discuss things that could happen when discussing things this invasive.
It is baffling how lawmakers who have so little understanding of the technology write these things into law.

Software should be protected with the same rights we have with speech. If the Wyden/Toomey/Loomis amendment doesn't pass today this will effectively censor and control the code that an American software dev would have to write to comply with proper reporting. This bill, if passed, should be taken to the courts.
You can do two things:
- fight : you will either join the establishment or have your life ruined but you won't change things
- adapt : accept the things are the way they are and make the best of the situation
In either case you can still get caught by the machine and get ground up, it has always been like that and as long as we are human it will always be like that.
Any change that will happen is generational, 20 or 40 years from now the issues that are important to you now will be addressed by people who floated up to the top and are in position to make changes.
It's unfalsifiable at its core. Predictions will continue to be alarmist and unmet.

Modeling decades out is impossible for systems we do understand. For systems we don't -- like climate -- it's an exercise in confirmation bias.
Crypto folks crying is the new sugar. ;)
Virtual workspaces could be the perfect fit for you. Unless you want to drive the displays with different computers.
In defense of Apples client-side check for child pornography
Or is it just because there are more people now? Someone posted the other day about how number of people dying is much lower than 100 years ago.
Cheerios is different product. It's not oatmeal.
I buy both oatmeal and cheerios.

You can find generics that cost much less though and are pretty much the same thing.

I tried in the UK a bunch of Tesco/Sainsbury cereal clones and they're as good as the branded ones, while costing 1/3 (which surprised me, my experience 10 years ago was that generics were significantly worse than the original).
Like I said in my post below I didn't mean to attack you. I don't even use either Calyx nor GrapheneOS.
> That's not true. GrapheneOS is heavily focused on privacy and offers much better privacy than CalyxOS. See https://grapheneos.org/features for the privacy and security features offered beyond AOSP. Unlike CalyxOS, we aren't listing AOSP features as our own.

I simply wanted to explain that you will always pick the security side if a balance has to be made between security and privacy. I don't mean this as a bad thing. It's a good point and a good differentiator between both IMO.

> GrapheneOS has https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services which is able to provide much better app compatibility, far more functionality and without the privacy/security sacrifices of microG. microG lacks the same security checks and key pinning of Play. It doesn't avoid trusting Play because the apps using Play are using the Play client libraries. microG is an additional trusted party.

I don't agree with this. I would not want any google play stuff on my phone, sandboxed or not.

> Those apps work fine on GrapheneOS. CalyxOS isn't more private and more secure than AOSP. CalyxOS includes a lot more proprietary services (Google, WhatsApp, etc.) than AOSP. For the most part, they're making changes which quite easily hurt privacy and security.

Does Calyx really include WhatsApp out of the box? That would indeed be a very negative point for me. As I mentioned I haven't used either.

> This is a highly inaccurate portrayal of what GrapheneOS provides and the decision making process. GrapheneOS values privacy and usability very highly. It balances those with security.

As far as I understand your website you do always pick security if a tradeoff has to be made. I don't think this is a bad thing. I think it's a good option. It's just not the choice I would make but it's nevertheless a good stance for those who care about security the most.

Anyway like I said in my other post I'm sorry you view my post as an attack. If you look at my other posts you will see I praised you for promoting security features that were incorporated into AOSP after you had initially developed them.
Also switching to alternative energy has a huge upfront cost in CO2 - producing all those windmills and solar panels costs a lot of energy.

If the time to turn things around is really so short, maybe that upfront CO2 explosion is not the right way to go.

Similar things hold for other things like energy neutral buildings - actually building them has a huge upfront cost in CO2.
First, there is no centralisation of power simply because WHO doesn't have any power. Guidelines are not power.

Any influence (not power) they may have comes exclusively from trust. No trust == no influence.

Second, WHO cannot "denounce" itself, for the simple reason it would be against its overt mission.

The actual solution is to ensure integrity of the guidance that they are providing, which is necessary step to earn back the trust they have undermined.

When governments can trust the organization is science based and not steered by politics it can perform its mission, which is to provide guidance to countries and organisations that don't have resources to do it themselves.
Fascinating Termite Architecture – BBC Earth – Sir David Attenborough [video]
What a weird post. It seems to assume that I need to see my entire 49inch screen at a time.

If half of my windows are on one side, and the other half on the other. I’m not moving between them all that much.

Besides, I tend to drag the windows that I currently need together. It’s still handy to have other information somewhere else on screen.
Can you explain to me then why China is still building new coal based power plants? If solar is cheaper, why would anybody build something else?
No.

Free software is coterminous with open source: the source is freely available for anyone to use and modify.

The Stallmanism for "viral" software is copylefted software. Stallman would recommend you copyleft your software, but you don't need to in order for it to be considered free software.
Show HN: Preventing Mindless Twitter Scrolling on iPhone
> 1. Vote with your feet - Put your money in the pockets of the people aligned to your values.

Too bad many people have been trapped within the Apple bubble and are unable to jump ship because they have no idea how the rest works, how they get their data over there and don't have the time to do all this.

This is why Apple IS a monopolist and this is how it ends up being a problem.
For IPS there seems a big price difference between 27 and 32. I think 27 is good size.
You might want to learn to do some practice in reading comprehension: swearing in speech is not the same as swearing in writing.
"It depicted a comic character that had been altered and had stereotyped Chinese features, with yellow skin tone and slit eyes"

In the report but often neglected. This is exactly the kind of student professors don't want. Obvious bias in the field of research, and what the heck honestly. If I were the professor I would not sponsor the reapplication either.

I think the student is well aware he has a weak case, otherwise if it's so obvious that it's because of government intervention, even if his own professor doesn't want to supervise him, it shouldn't be difficult to find a new one (there are plenty, I mean PLENTY, researchers critical of the Chinese government, it shouldn't be hard to find one really), the academic field is actually quite protective towards students when it comes to undue influence from the government in general.

Also, the institute he chose to apply to focus on "«strengthen and deepen productive relations with China»". It's not like they've made it unclear. It's quite clear they want to be 'productive' with China. There are plenty who don't, so why does this student applied there? It's like researching the adversary effect of CocoCola at a instutite 'promote understanding of the health benefits of carbonated drinks'. It's not like there is no choice.
The sunken cost basically almost doomed the world by now (fossil fuel industry) so there's no way America gives up their cars (for less)
Just turn off the news. They feed on fear.
Thanks for the suggestion, however I tried them all (screen zoning /tiling apps), and found every solution wanting. I can’t remember what my particular issue was with PoewrToys, but I know I gave it a try.

The solution I have is perfect for me, so that’s not something I’m looking to resolve.

My single biggest issue are apps that consider the middle of the screen an ‘edge’. Still, the benefits outweigh the pain points for me.
> you'd deal with explicit reports

Where would these reports come from though? Without these dragnet methods, it would seem like a very simple matter to get away with owning this kind of material.
Where is my 27in OLED? its 2021 already.
The best fake hacking simulator online.
Actually cutting them down is fine as long as we re-plant and slow down the decomp of the wood (by, e.g., using it in manufacturing or building.) Bamboo's also a good candidate for this cycle. Locking up atmospheric carbon in material that's going to be around for dozens or hundreds of years is a good thing.
Many C++ code bases, especially older ones, I have seen were really trying to be their own Java. This caused them to join disadvantages of C++ with disadvantages of Java. I don't believe the result was faster than JVM and start up time hardly mattered and still was not fast enough.
The race to the bottom is happening because of inflation.
Prices rise but not all salaries do, people have less money and they care more about the price.
One lesson I learned when getting new glasses, that I hope will save someone else the hassle: Be sure to measure the distance to each of the monitors you use, from your nose to the closest and farthest points!

My new close-work glasses have a very specific distance they seemed to be good at, about 18" / 45cm. But I work at about 24" from the closest point to my 3 screens, and 36" from the farthest point.

I have to go back to the ophthalmologist and get different glasses so I'm not squinting or moving my head all over the place.
It’s time to patent patent-trolling…
I actually praised you here for pioneering important security features into AOSP :) Please don't view my comments as attacks or Calyx fanboi-ism. I'm not using either and I think you're doing great work. I just wanted to highlight the difference in approach as I saw it as a potential user when I was considering buying a pixel phone.
How come there are no Biology or Chemistry topics to choose?