skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Especially because the pharaohs exaggerated their victories.

Ramses II exaggerated even his defeats, that is, he claimed that as his victories. For example the famous wall relief of Ramses II slaying the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh. https://www.memphis.edu/hypostyle/tour_hall/ramesses_ii_scen...

In reality it was a terrible defeat and it allowed the Hittites to limit Egypt sphere of influence to no further West than Canaan.
Making 100 transistors silicon integrated circuit chips in your garage
I spent a bit of time watching the sessions after this years WWDC. I’m primarily an Elixir developer but have wanted to try Swift for a while, so the introduction of Actors felt like a good point to jump in.

My enduring impression after learning Swift Actors is that a LOT of additional complexity is introduced because of reference types. The data inside an Elixir process is just that: data, but the possibility of the data in a Swift Actor being a reference to a class suddenly makes everything complicated.

Regardless of the technical achievement from a compiler perspective I found that Swift’s Actors didn’t map well to my understanding of them from Elixir/Erlang and that they weren’t a net positive for solving the kinds of problems actors are suited for. I’ll concede this is all very personal and subjective though.
> Just how fucking hard would it be for Apple to let me choose my own font in Safari?

Technically not "let me choose my own font in Safari" but you can set a user style sheet which overrides fonts.

https://kgrz.io/safari-custom-user-agent-css-overrides-using...
I've never really thought of "bug" as being very idiomatic (at least, no more than other words).

The origin of the word "bug" doesn't come from the insect sense of the word. Bug has roots in a word "bogey" meaning devil. You still see its remnants in words like bugbear and bugaboo.
Sorry, which term(s) in German is(/are) used for "Human Resources"?
Mmm, not sure about the numbers here. If you're a young, healthy person, Covid is not particularly dangerous. If you're a young, healthy, inner-city black man, police are actually very dangerous. Seems to me very plausible that the chances of dying in a police stop are higher than dying of covid for some demographics.
What is "surveillance capitalism"? I remember in my country when we had "socialist" in the country name we used to have a huge surveillance system called "state security" (Securitatea Statului, in Romanian) and I figure surveillance and capitalism can coexist, but they are independent.
Maybe that:

- being late (acting in "autumn")
...looks/feels similar to

- being on time (seizing the moment at the right point, in "summer")

...but has a nasty bite?
When you happen to can’t circulate the preferences window due to it’s false, you would possibly want to perhaps additionally very effectively be working an Electron app love 1Password 8.
I’ve extinct AgileBits’s 1Password for bigger than a decade. I’ve instructed it to guests and household alike. Over time, password management has changed into more overall, and this descend’s working-system updates will enhance Apple’s constructed-in password management plenty that it’s all most folk will ever need.

https://www.myaarpmedicare.fyi/
It’s not a new trend at all.

Cross-platform app frameworks have been around for decades.

One of the nice things about writing native on Apple, is plugging into the latest tech. Not always a big deal, but there are some apps that use that as their biggest selling point.

Also, if we are doing low-level stuff (like Bluetooth connectivity), the app framework can be a very stubborn gorilla.
> In Spain, it takes 5 years before losing tax residency after you've left the country.

Do you have a reference? I have never heard about that (which can happen, spain has many rules) and I doubt anyone holds to those rules but it would be good to know. I had a business in spain and as a foreign tax resident I tried to do everything by the book; the locals laughed in my face for declaring taxes at all. The system is so complex and unfriendly (the fines are high and there is world wealth tax which has fines that are probably not even legal in the EU; there are legal cases going on about it) I doubt anyone can follow the exact rules, but I tried (and probably paid way too much because of it).
China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies (2018)
SwiftUI is terribly immature, the moment they decided to pit it against Electron, they had already lost.
We're pretty much just beta testing it for Apple.
Hmm, sounds easy! :-D But isn't, you need to keep track of fake users somewhere, which is another attack vector for DoS.
Such an extensive interview and not a single question on Julia - it's a shame. I would love to hear Mr. Gosling's opinion on the language.
Chaos is the extreme dependence on initial conditions. The three body problem is significantly more chaotic than a two body problem. Welcome to chaos theory!
Arguably, Agilebits just focuses more on enterprise customers now. The interesting thing about enterprise users is that you don’t care that much about UX anymore. Your users have no choice and software is bought by management based on some metrics and marketing demos. We, macOS users, are just not the target audience anymore.

I would argue, that the current company is only a shell of the former Agilebits, which honestly cared about users and their needs. But such is the nature of big business, it appears.
It’s not really feasible to separate noble gases out of the atmosphere in a building HVAC system.
I started a thread on what specific actions we can take to avoid Apple and other big tech in future. While it did not gain much traction, I am hoping there are at least 1,000 people in the world who think like me and over time we will be able to influence more people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157281
I notice no response and yet downvotes. Parent claims there are "ridiculous barriers to entry" implying patent thickets by the "semiconductor industry we have today" or something along those lines. I can't help but notice no further explanation was provided to substantiate parent's claims.
Also see AllChars:

https://allchars.zwolnet.com/

This was universal functionality on the DEC terminals that IBM adapted the PC AT Enhanced keyboard layouts from. It's a standard feature on Sun machines too, and can be turned on trivially in Linux.

So there are many implementations.
No, I made a mistake in saying that. As the sibling post stated, it's just a representative sample.
BPF Isn't Just About Speed (2020)
> I don’t like the idea of a forced standard

> Even Apple uses USB-C on iPad Pro’s. Apple should just switch to USB-C everywhere out of their own volition and be done with it

They should and everyone will be better off, but they don't want to. Hence, regulators will force them. What's the problem here?
Canada’s biggest bank rolls out money management app for kids: Why it matters
All these big companies have the same awful mentality. Google just had a staff meeting where they announced that all workers must be vaccinated before August 31, or they get fired.
The murky world of dolphin therapy
Coming from a non-physics background, I would like to know how would this help us in predicting the future trajectory of a three-body system? How does it improve over the current solution techniques?
Ask HN: Are you reconsidering your upcoming Mac purchase?
Exit via Cirrus Logic.
While still being controlled remotely.
It was not a hash collision. It was a false positive. The way the hashing solution works doesn't really allow for a false positive except in extraordinarily rare circumstances.

It matched a man holding a monkey full clothed as a CSAM image, direct from NCMEC's database.

He encountered a 20% false positive rate while running a moderately popular image service, with an admittedly low sample size. It's still evidence, and given NCMEC is immune from oversight, FOIA and accountability, it's concerning.

Also, the fact I know there are false positives does not stem from that post. I know it independently, but since you asked for a source stronger than "just trust a random internet guy", I gave you one.

He's not the only person making the claim though, others throughout these threads with industry knowledge have confirmed what I already knew. If you're asking me to reveal how I know, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. I'd rather be accused of lying than elaborate.
> …Apple's reputation and user trust

This is the time to make a donation to a foss project related to the Linux desktop. Off the top of my head, there is Debian, Ubuntu, mint, gnome, plasma, the fsf, wine, or other projects that could use contributions of code or cash. It adds up and could help one of them hire an extra full timer if enough people set up recurring donations
are those patents part of the 3G/4G standards? I mean getting yourself a piece of patent portfolio of a widespread standard which everybody has to implement - that isn't plain trolling, it is extortion.
> which would require development of a lightning to female USB-C adapter

They already exist - I've got one in a little charging kit that I got somewhere online. Tiny USB-C cable, C-female to Lightning, C-female to micro, USB-A with female-C, IIRC.
Why would anyone want a password manager to have a desktop app at all? I use Bitwarden on the desktop exclusively through the Firefox extension – nearly all the time specifically through the tiny popover window in the corner of the browser. Can't say I ever want it to have more UI.
We’ve been a 1Password for Business customer for about 3 years. But we’re looking at moving to something like BitWarden because it has true SSO support, while 1Password doesn’t.

1Password has been very clear this is a feature they’re not interested in supporting, and our users have been very clear that remembering a second password and secret key for their password manager is too difficult.

AgileBits is presenting itself as Enterprise friendly, but isn’t. It has its own vision on how the enterprise should work.
You're welcome! I loved your project and the fact that it's so responsive.
> Tax residency is a very complicated matter but in general, you do not loose tax residency 183 days after leaving.

In Croatia you do - this is why sailors who spend >6 months on the sea don't pay income tax.
If something is a right, it shouldn't go away while "on company time" - even if they own the computer. You are not an object.
IPv6 is trying to do too much in my opinion. This is partially why adoption is slower than it could be.
It's not cross platform if all it does is IOS and mac. Apple doesn't want cross platform on any other platforms than their own. However, many app developers have to worry about windows, Android, IOS, Mac, Web. Very few organizations are willing to have dedicated platform specific teams and want to deal with keeping multiple such teams aligned.

Apple's strategy of raising the walls around their walled garden ever higher might at some point backfire. There's a bit of a vacuum in the market currently with react native and flutter being the main incumbents for cross platform. However both have their limitations.

The holy grail here is something that works on all platforms that does not require huge efforts to tailor to any specific platform. WASM is potentially shaking up this space in the next few years with applications like Figma offering a very slick experience that is mostly not based on DOM trees or other traditional web stuff. Other factors are the weakening of the Android platform in e.g. China where several phone manufacturers are locked out of that ecosystem. Many app developers need to cover all these bases.

I kind of like what Jetbrains is doing here with their multi platform Kotlin strategy. There are a lot of pieces coming together to target cross platform UI development in the next few years. They already took Jetpack Compose and made web and desktop versions of that available recently. Really all that's missing now is an IOS version (they already do mac desktop). And since it's all Kotlin, the ecosystem overlaps with the Android one in terms of libraries and skills needed. They are also working on a WASM backend for the Kotlin compiler.
React Native on Windows and macOS works decently well these days. The macOS port is lagging behind the Windows one, but only by one major version. There are still some third party modules that don’t work on the desktop ports, but the support is getting better by the day. I have one small app in production that supports Android/iOS/Windows/macOS and web, all in one code base. Definitely a game changer, especially with how magically good React Native Web works. I’m using RNWeb for web-only projects, it’s that good!
All great points.

One thing I’d say in regard to low-level stuff is React Native allows you to fairly easily call into native code with its native modules functionality.

I work on a iOS/Android music learning app with a C++ audio engine and React Native UI (and Unity for the interactive parts) and it works quite well, for example we call into native code for connecting to Bluetooth hardware.

But you are right, given enough developers and time, native is probably always going to deliver an end result which feels more “right” on the platform.
I was legit planning on getting a new macbook air within about the next week - but I just thought of the AppleSpy thing, and that's hella creepy.

Yes, you could make the argument that Big Corp already knows _way_ more about me than whatever new info apple would get, and that Big Corp already knows me _way_ better than I know myself (obv), but still...this seems too China-like.

Like Double XX Posse said -- not gonna be able to doot!
I keep seeing news titles about football playes like Cristiano Ronaldo and
celebrities like Shakira getting slapped with back taxes and suspended jail sentences in Spain. A complex tax system and unclear rules are just another opportunity for abuse by tax authorities.

https://m.timesofindia.com/sports/football/top-stories/messi...
>going all-in on SwiftUI

That was mistake number 1.
Just a note, adding an "e" at the end of "bug" when pronouncing is not a think in Portuguese from Portugal, I mostly hear it from our good friends from Brazil, and they've actually started dropping the "e" (at least the ones I work with).
> for a long time you would not be able to connect a brand new iPhone to a brand new MacBook

I dunno about "long time" - I got the first USB-C Macbook when it came out and I think it was less than 16 hours after that before Amazon delivered me a USB-C to USB dongle (could have been quicker if I was in London instead of Manchester, I think.)
Chademo feels like I’m about to try and charge a locomotive compared to plugging in a svelte Tesla connector/cable.

https://electrek.co/2020/04/28/chademo-and-china-release-new...
This is trivial to solve: only initiate phone calls using your own backend. get the customer to request an immediate call.

Even better, callbacks on demand mean no hold music. Just waiting time for the call.
We store a lot more than just passwords in there. Credit Card Numbers, RSA/ED25519 keys, and it even connects to our Azure Key Vaults. Having a full non-browser UX is advantageous.
Workers are minor annoyance for amazon. If they could do everything with robots they would. This is the tragedy of automation and robotics. As soon as it becomes an option there will be massive unemployment unless we figure out a better model.
But I thought DevOps is all about “Infrastructure as Code” ;-)
Well, I guess it's hard to care about (platform-)native apps and toolkits when cross-platform apps are generally winning these days (VSCode, Figma etc.) over native Mac apps, even on macOS itself.

Plus most new apps by Apple these days are horribly bad. People say native toolkits result in better performance and features etc., but I'd take all electron apps of this world instead of Apple's absolutely garbage Music app for example. The buggiest, slowest & and least performant app I've ever seen. Worse than pretty much any cross-platform app.

But hey, at least it uses native controls?
Wow, I just downloaded that app a week ago. It's absolutely amazing for language learning.

Aside from that, as an app developer, I'm really looking forward to that bill that will hopefully weaken app stores.
No, but I am thinking more about if I should stop using cloud services, and not just Apples.
2.5 hrs with no stops in between, I guess?
a new startup called "Remote", reached unicorn status, is solving this issue by having all these entities set up on behalf of their clients.

If countries do stuff like this tho, it would actually undermine.

really hope to see other countires follow suit.
Even if you reduce it down to /48 subnets you have 281,474,976,710,656 of these, ~65k times more than the entire IPv4 space, your usual assignment to a machine is a /64 which are about 4.2 billion times the amount of the IPv4 address space, about 18 quintillion.

Thats enough addresses to give every one of the 8 billion humans on this planet, two billion /64 subnets. Which I'd say should be enough for the moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
snobbery: the character or quality of being a snob.

snob: a person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.
Lucky you, somebody already did that for you. It‘s called DNS. :P

On a more serious node: IPv6 can be short and if used right they are actually short. Unfortunately, people continue not to care about relearning their habits and treat IPv6 as if it‘s a 1:1 replacement of IPv4 (you can even see it in this threat when people ask „why would you need more than a /64“). A major blocker in IPv6 aren‘t just the IPs but that all sys admins out there are trained to treat IPs as they got used to from the v4 world and can‘t stop to think of them as scarce resources instead of applying a hierarchical approach.
and it's tourism in the off-season.
> Why is there a extremely pervasive belief in the HN crowd that there is The Right Way and every country must immediately adopt it (and if they do not, they are making a mistake)?

I can't speak for the others, but for me it's because I'm a humanist and I strongly believe governments must be, as well. I'm arguing from a perspective of minimizing human suffering and (ideally) optimizing progress and development towards a future that is pleasant, prosperous, and scientifically literate.

On the more contentious side I would also argue the implementation of a state in such a society must be entirely secular, even if there is a majority religion, because the humanist goals laid out above are fundamentally incompatible with a state religion. But as I said, that particular bias is mostly my personal opinion and could be considered outdated (maybe a side effect of my age).

That is not to say there is a single ideal country I can point at and declare that they're currently fulfilling this ambition completely. But it's easy to identify a government, power structure, or ideology where the core agendas actively move society further away from it. I understand why these kinds of value judgements don't sit right with you, but I'm not arguing for the superiority of Western culture per se.

Edit: About your point of "immediately" adopting democracy, there is no moderate time span. Fundamentalist regimes with popular support, especially when they're religion-based, are usually incredibly stable because of the way consent is continually built and dissent is harshly squashed. If a country slides politically over time, it's usually not towards a secular democracy. Chances are the Taliban will rule Afghanistan for many generations.

> It just seems like Afghanistanis are self-determining to support Taliban anywhere outside of Kabul.

There is no question that the Taliban gobbling up the country is an expression of public will. I do think it's regrettable, and I strongly believe "we" should offer assistance to the few people who actually make it out. But other than that, there is really little to do but watch. It's been a long time coming.
Never said it’s easy ;) just the easiest…
One of the more important features of 1Password, to me, is its cross-platform nature.

Being able to use it on an iPhone, Mac, Android device, or Windows box, is beyond valuable. It’s a huge selling point.

So I am not that concerned about them using a hybrid app.

The biggest concern that I have, is that the poster child for Electron apps is Slack; which I consider to be … non-optimal. I dread firing up my Slack client on Mac.

https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1072503943790497798?s...
Wait.. Isn't the origin of "bug" in computer science, a literal insect stuck in one of Turing's universal machines ?
> It could be added at any time.

It has already been added. That's the point here. The phone already has the code to report its own owner. People are rightfully pissed about that.

Also, adding a one-liner of code is a lot more than a bit-flip. That's the addition of a feature, which is a major business decision. Code that already exists is a lot closer to "misfiring" than code that simply does not. Flipping a policy config, OTOH, could be "explained" away a lot easier. In fact, Big Tech does it all the time! (Remember Facebook's "Oh. Sorry. It was a bug."?)

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Please stop this poor attempt at moving the goalposts by saying, "But, similar code could be added at any time in the future! Why're you guys complaining now?!"

It's also not about where the scanning is happening, or whether that's new or old. The old scanning is not a problem, precisely because it does no reporting. The new scanning IS a problem, precisely because it does the reporting.

The former is not a problem on its own. The latter is. That's the point you keep missing.
No. It continues to just work as expected, and I trust it more than the alternatives
Please point me to where I said windows does a good job, because I must’ve missed writing that.
Keep in mind it's the big companies here that set out these mines:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8019332B2/en application filed by LG Electronics Inc
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8385284B2/en application filed by Panasonic Corp
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8411557B2/en application filed by Panasonic Corp
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9001774B2/en application filed by Samsung Electronics Co

How a patent troll ended up with them, I don't know. But you can bet the only reason none of these big corps didn't use them against Apple or other big corporations is mutually assured destruction. They would not hesitate against a small company that's perceived as threatening which doesn't have a patent arsenal to fight back.
But he said "Faster". Not "Fast"
How is Internet in Costa Rica?
Not sure why you’re downvoted. In Serbia it works like that as well.
In The Redemption of Time,
Baoshu offers his view.

It’s “only” a fan fiction, albeit approved by Liu Cixin.

It nonetheless gives a nice — and as expected — unexpected description of them.
Interestingly enough, also has no covid restrictions [NO test, NO quarantine, NO vaccine]: https://www.travelinglifestyle.net/countries-without-covid-t...

Would be great to see more remote friendly + no covid restriction places esp as other countries double down.
When Apple announced their significant upgrades to iCloud Keychain a few months ago, I immediately thought that it was unfair "Sherlocking" of 1Password. AgileBits had been out there offering a first class macOS/iOS password manager experience for a long time and it seemed rude of Apple to step on their turf so blatantly.

I still have sympathy for AgileBits, but these feelings have diminished somewhat now.
You should be able to advertise your ipv6 endpoint in the AAAA record, going direct to the origin, while make the A records pointers to Cloudflare which can then proxy back to your v6-only origin servers.
Would be great to see a similar talk about hiring software engineers. Do the studies shown even map to the hiring process?
It is a reminder that a civilization not only needs to flourish from within, but be able to protect itself from without.