skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KaiOS was forked from Firefox OS, and it's currently installed on over 150 million devices, mostly in India. Unfortunately, it's closed source.

https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-26-kaios-third-mobile-opera...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90457544/kaios-most-innovative-c...
I can't but hope that this means that Search Ads will be going away. But that seems quite unlikely if they say they were doing it before…
> One should absolutely, 100% make a good faith effort to learn the language of any country you intend to long-term reside in.

This is a good ideal but as an expat currently living in East Asia, reality doesn't always match the ideal.

1. Some languages take a dedicated effort to learn in any meaningful way. For example, unless you're a language maestro, you're not going to pick up Chinese with a casual effort. If you're working, have a family, etc., you might not be able to make the kind of concerted, consistent effort required to become proficient.

2. I've been to places where if the locals know you speak the language, they will treat you more like a local, which isn't always a good thing.

3. In terms of having serious conversations, keep in mind that language ≠ culture. In some places, the biggest barrier to overcome is culture, not language.

Also, in my own experience traveling and living abroad, there really isn't a "fly-by-night foreigner" stereotype that's applied uniquely to Americans. In fact, as an American, in lots of places, locals will be really interested to talk to you because a) American pop culture is so well known globally and b) they don't encounter Americans nearly as frequently as they do nationalities who tend to travel more than Americans. For instance, in much of Asia, pre-pandemic there were a lot more Australians and Europeans than Americans.

In lots of places, your "standing in the community" will be based on socioeconomic and residency factors. For example, where I live currently, the fact that I'm American, have residency through business ownership, live in a luxury apartment, etc. affects how I am perceived more than my inability to speak the language.
Check out Elementary. I won't suggest switching distros entirely, but maybe you can get your hands on the trackpad parts?

I just switched and both the Dell trackpad and Magic Trackpad worked flawlessly at a macOS quality level. Superior to Windows, but really macOS (and now Elementary) is the quality bar.
Apple could ban the SDK.
Yes but you likely have to sue them and spend a ton of money trying to collect. I am not sure if it is considered worth it, especially given that many would have just spent the money.
Even if you assume that the money will come, you would have lost the opportunity cost of the money. Also in the meantime, if you had a mortgage on the property, you would have to make up that income on your own which is a double opportunity cost. In the meantime, inflation is running over 5%.

If you look at SF apartments, you will see many landlords who are selling at what seem to be low prices. Of course, SF and the surrounding Bay Area are affected by remote work as well. It doesn't seem to be a good time to be a landlord in this area?
That doesn't matter, it's just a matter of time before it crashes imo.
My comment got 3 downvotes. I'm devastated. I'm not looking at your comment. Not interested.

I have formed an already solid opinion on Joe Rogan. I'm 35 years old, I don't you to help me form it.
I was on a bit of a nostalgia trip during the pandemic and put together an old PC last year to play some games I remember from the 90's. (Ones that don't work on Windows 2000 or newer).

Took me forever to remember that putting a CD drive as the IDE master and a hard drive as the slave was a recipe for pain.

Side note - I was able to get MechWarrior 4 Mercs running on Win 10 64 bit through a ridiculous amount of hacking and dgvoodoo. Was pretty hilarious seeing a DX8 game working with shadow play.
Raiders of the Lost ARC
Green threading is multithreading right? Isn't Javascript singlethreaded? I would assume adding multithreading would break tons of code that relies on it running singlethreaded.
> Microsoft also has a policy called the three EEEs, in which they first Embrace something ("open source" software), they then Extend it (wsl, github, sponsoring linux foundation), and it's only a matter of time until they Extinguish it. Lastly, if they loved open source so much why is Github proprietary, which leads me into my next point.

WSL, GitHub, OpenAI (including GPT-3, Copilot and Codex) are all Extend phase products.

You know what 'Extinguish' looks like? I'll tell you:

The best developer tools on the market are on GitHub and all of these features become free for everyone which starves the paid competitors out and everyone runs to the new Microsoft platform and is locked in.
Thats the reason I never wore any rings or necklace, or co.

You never know, when you suddenly need to move fast.
Would that require running a separate server locally? That's all kinds of non-techie hostile :(
Bar keeper’s friend will shine it back up nicely!
There must be some data, or at least people knowledgeable about, how often eviction actually leads to homelessness, and how corona has spread amongst homeless. For instance, I was evicted once, but I didn't end up homeless on the street. I would guess this is pretty common for evictions- people have to move someplace cheaper or back in with friends or family temporarily.

I think some suffering alleviated now is likely just being postponed in another form (common among social welfare programs imo). The moratorium isn't sustainable in the long run and will discourage people from renting/maintaining property leading to less housing eventually.
There was a great comment by
joe_the_user on hn responding to this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261573

>Government by threatened legislation is much worse than government by actual legislation. Legislation is public, Legislation can be opposed, legislation can be reviewed by the court and so-forth. Allowing yourself (and your users) to controlled by threats of legislation is allowing democracy to be discarded.
> so you don't get ripped off like an ignorant foreigner

Interesting framing
Apple will finally let devs tell users about non-App Store purchase options
It is, for all practical purposes, impossible to buy an actual tungsten ring; all sold as "tungsten" are really just tungsten carbide ceramic. Really-pure elemental tungsten is not difficult to machine, unlike common tungsten alloys.

A company near Los Angeles, American Metals, will sell you a 0.99999 pure tungsten boule for a few $thousand. You can ask for it to have a nominal (e.g.) 22 mm outer diameter, and slice it up and core out a collection of rings. The boule melt pattern on the outside is really appealing.

You can sell the rest of the rings, then, provided you can find a way to cut through the noise of the $2 tungsten-carbide hawkers. You might be tempted to paint on a design with resist and electro-plate gold where it isn't.

The scrap you cored out is pretty valuable. Maybe have the cores cut out as discs, instead of just drilling, because the "swarf" would be really hard to melt! They would resemble very heavy, thick coins; you can use a CNC machine to mill designs onto them, if you like.
We have already allocated enough money to pay the entire rent debt in America now. Purportedly its around 20 billion dollars.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

50B has been allocated but some states have actually distributed as little as 5% of the money allocated to them.

The total cost to the economy of the disruption of millions of households is probably more than 20B especially considering we have already allocated funds for the matter.

>I have been seeing a lot of headlines lately about how it's incredibly difficult to find workers as economies are reopening. If one has a job, they should be able to pay rent, in theory.

Theory is often different from reality.

Someone may not possess the skills needed for a reasonably paying job and may not even be able to make ends meet on what is in the offing. Even if they can make ends meet they may only be able to barely do so while owing several months worth of rent ensuring eviction when this becomes possible. They may be unable to earn more than the cost in child care they will incur given present conditions. This is especially true if they don't feel safe sending their kid to in person education.

Obviously you don't intend something as silly as why can't Samantha go back to work for 400 a week while paying 340 a week in day care and somehow use the 60 a week to pay not only the 1500 rent but the 6000 backlog but if you really zoom in on people's lives you might find your assumptions fall short more than they fit.

The idea that people of modest means are just milking the government while not bothering to pay rent because clearly this gravy train will never end is ill founded.

People like that either trying to stay afloat and pay their bills or are puking up their cheerios worrying about being homeless and having nobody willing to rent to them even if they can pay.

We shouldn't evict anyone who is presently applying for funds and paying in good faith and we ought to figure out a way to distribute the funds that are already agreed upon.
I do project organization in excel, which is possibly close to what you're thinking, but I really don't like doing formula editing in excel when I can just do it in python. It's personal preference tho.

Excel is an amazing piece of software esp for a power gui. But so is Python. For my work I'm either dealing with about 1k rows max... or I'm dealing with millions of rows or more, things that break excel. Or multi terra, stuff that likes a cluster.
I’m pretty sure they still can’t, since that happens in the app. The rule mentions communication outside the app.
>You're sacrifing the exact same amount when using WSL2.

Not really. For one, you are mostly fine running Linux terminal-only so it's really light and you are using less resources with Windows+WSL than Linux + full VM Windows.

Second, if you need both Linux and Windows you typically need Windows for something heavy - e.g. a Game, Photoshop, whatever, so having Windows in the VM is typically more limiting.
They are already allowed to be cheaper. This is just saying you can email people about it outside of the app.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-remove-advertising-window...

Its even worse if you buy an OEM device or get stuck with Windows 10 Home.

With Home, once your PC finds out you have WiFi, it will not let you set up the device without a Microsoft Account, and it will remember your WiFi details even if you kill the OOBE and restart. (among countless other extremely user-hostile features Microsoft has added)
To be fair, the Pi can handle 4Gbps of ethernet traffic successfully as Jeff Geerling demonstrated
Shedding (Some) Light on Mobile Browsers Energy Consumption (TMA'21) [pdf]
Simpsons Already Did It™

https://youtu.be/zzt0xBXTNhI?t=200
Mine too, but mine got deformed when I held my fingers behind a plank I was mounting to a concrete wall using a power screw driver, and didn't engage my brain safety-wise.
The parent poster doesn't want to be the only one in the country writing checks for extra money to the IRS.

The parent wants equitable tax policies that apply to everyone.
Flutter State Management for Purists
It's hard to take this seriously, since no economy in the world (that we know of) in reasonably-modern times has been a free market.

I feel like the opposite of what you say is true: as economies grow past a certain point, market regulation is essential to avoid monopolistic practices and winner-take-all situations.

If the US was a true free market, our income inequality problems would be even worse, and we'd live in a de-facto corporatocracy. No thank you.
A lot of people are in debt to their landlords due to non-payment of rent from when the economy shut down and the subsequent recession. Sure, they may have jobs now, but the "rising wages" due to the current "labor shortage" aren't significant enough to be generating an extra $10-20k for back rent for average-wage workers.

But I'm sure there's also plenty of people scared of COVID and/or using COVID as a reason to not work or pay rent and hope the whole thing works it self out.
Is that because all of the above are Electron apps?
Unless in China, unfortunately, if people filter out "996" companies there are not many decent options left.

In reality, companies in tech sectors don't declare themselves as "996", because they're by default "996". Companies that work 40 hours per week would declare themselves as "965" or "955" because it's rare and attractive.

Let's have a glance at how bad it is:

As an example, the work schedules for "FANG" companies are relatively sane. The counterparts in China would be "BATJ" (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, JD), and Uber-like counterparts (Bytedance, Meituan, Didi), their work schedule all largely exceeded 40 hours. The worse of them all is Pinduoduo, the very successful competitor to Alibaba's Taobao, they work 13 days before they get one day off (6 days on one week and 7 days on the other).

It's even uglier if we dig down to the rabbit holes:

1. Job with lower pay doesn't mean less working time, it's often the opposite.

2. "996" doesn't mean it stops are 9 pm. If a recruiter is being "honest" and says they're a "996" company, be prepared to work till 11pm for most of the days, and over midnight sometimes.

3. More often than not, the salary package IS the amount people get. There is no extra pay for overworking. People are working overtime because the deadlines are ridiculous and they don't want to lose their job, because most jobs are the same anyway and they have to go through the fierce competition process again.

4. The most toxic one: overwork for nothing. The leader of the team wanted to show his/her competency to the boss by letting everybody just sit there and overwork, even though there's no real task to be done at all!

At the bottom line, there are still a few decent options that like Google and Microsoft in China, but the competition is even more fierce.
PineTime: Steps Counter Accuracy
A GitHub Action for setting up a complete GraalVM Native Image toolchain
The number of mortgages in forbearance has dropped to pandemic lows. I think it’s obvious that we don’t need to extend the moratorium at this point. Yes some people might get evicted but definitely many landlords are getting screwed as well.
My impression is that many of those are situated near DC?
Hmm, I'd really like to know exactly who these atheists supposedly were. And what percentage of the atheist scientists they were. But I'm not going to buy the book in the slim hope that he will actually name these atheists.

I tend to doubt most atheist scientist didn't accept the big bank because it was too close to genesis. However, in any case, it doesn't matter. That is one of the absolute strengths of science over religion. Scientific method explicitly takes human biases into account. Publishing, peer review, reproducability - all foundations of science. There are a lot of examples of the majority of scientists rejecting an idea. For example, the washing of the hands by doctors. Everyone rejected this, but in good time, it was accepted by all.

On the other hand, we have religion. It brooks no argument. There is no disagreeing or finding a different way to truth. People may do it, but the religion sure doesn't allow it, mostly.
I think there's room for both. The advantage of walking or taking a personal vehicle (car, motorcycle, or bike) is flexibility: you can depart at any time without waiting for a transit vehicle to come along.
This guy is me, I have pretty much the same setup.

I hate the latest wave of smart stuff, as it all seems mostly user-hostile.

But even without the latest internet connected, google/alexa integration etc, the microcontrollers in devices have been abused to inflict terrible UI's on users for a long time now.

We need a 'unix philosophy' for household appliances and gadgets. Do one thing, well. Facilitate composition.

For example, I want to switch some floor fans (PSC motors) to much more efficient BLDC versions. They all seem to come with LED or LCD displays, timers, remotes, etc, some even integrate with alexa ... No Thanks! I just want more-efficient and quieter fans, perhaps with potentiometer, or at least, much finer-grained speed control as an upgrade over the 3 fixed speeds I have now, which is inherently possible due to BLDC controller. Perhaps an SPI interface so I can add my own smarts if I want to.
We're weighing pros and cons of opening up direct access to underlying instances for fine tuning. The pros are obviously more control, the cons - loss of standardisation and harder to support as a consequence
If there were no empty properties, there wouldn't be any squatters. Given that there are apparently a lot squatters (in Spain), we can assume that there are a lot of empty properties.

Many cities have a lot of empty properties. Sometimes because they're derilict (and maybe the owner can't/won't repair); sometimes because it's hard to sell/rent out; or maybe the owner is just obscenely rich to the point of not caring. Whatever the reasons, this is something that shouldn't be allowed to exist. Cities are usually seriously space-constrained (by a river, or ancient walls, or roads etc). Not wasting existing real estate should be a no brainer.
> And paying people's rent for them is somehow good for the economy?

Exactly. The economy is strengthened by money being exchanged for goods and services. When people can't pay their rent, the pain goes to the mortgage servicers, and eventually the bond market.

I don't want a market collapse. I think all of us don't want a market collapse. A market collapse would likely negatively affect the affluent commenters here whining and complaining about others not being forced to be homeless.
Franchising is mostly IP and distribution depending ??
Maybe. I don't think the Linux world has made a credible commitment to support all or any of those going forward. In 5 years' time we can try to run 5 year old apps in those formats and see whether they work; I wouldn't bet on it myself.
Even if you are fine with fixing bootloaders it's also just a bit much to have to do a full restart to switch between software, and to not be able to use some things side by side.
Alternatively, decrease the need for coordination altogether. Instead of enforcing stronger department boundaries, build cross-functional project teams.

Departments are responsible for creating and curating reusable knowledge, project teams are responsible for providing value. The former does not need coordination, the latter needs way too much of it to go through formal boundaries.

In product development work, hand-off between people (i.e. different people dealing with implementation, feedback, responsibility and knowledge for the same goal) is one of the biggest wastes. Every time you pass information between people you lose a huge chunk of information and context that would help provide better value for the end user. At best 30 % of the information makes it through a hand-off, more realistically something like 10 %.

Hand-off results in the right knowledge not being available when needed. It leads to delays and low-value trade-offs. Also finger-pointing, endless series of status updates and reports, responsibility shirking, etc.

Popular management techniques (Taylorism, Critical Chain-type thinking) lead to excessive hand-off, either because it assumes everything is perfect (Taylorism) or because it focuses on activities rather than interactions and thinks global optimum is reached through the right local optimums (both Taylorism and Critical Chain).
I've switched very recently, but searching "youtube-dlp" still got me the answer I was looking for. I will admit I've typed "you [tab]" and gotten confused why it wasn't working almost every time so far, but I imagine that'll change in under a week.
People getting evicted for back rent, even if they are paying the current month, could explain this. Although given enhanced unemployment, I am still curious why they would owe that much.
StraszFilms made a video touching on this subject : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v_Dl7i4Bcw

( he also made a very nice documentary about VRChat nightclubs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1wUg9HCODU )
Exactly. I can recommend the work for Shaolan, Chineasy, for having the basics for Chinese language ideograms - and she is from Taiwan.

Unfortunately, if ideograms is all you have in the place, it will take quite some time and effort to be proficiently integrated.
Valneva has an inactivated virus vaccine and they will soon apply for authorisation (phase 3 i think right now)
Landlords go after tenants for back rent literally all of the time. They can even get court orders to garnish wages.
BLUE_BANANA_CONCESSION = 9001
It depends on the viewer's attitude. I think there is a spectrum between the extremes "I want to watch something interesting" and "I want to watch something".

Considering that the commonly mentioned stats on TV watching show that a lot of people is watching (or maybe more accurately, keeping on) TV for hours every day, the latter extreme should be common.

In this sense, bombarding the audience with junk, or at least, pushing very hard, is a strategy that, I think, is productive, in the same sense as drug dealing strategies are.

I'm towards the former extreme, however, I'm certainly not immune from their strategy. I still feel some need to "chill" and therefore I somewhat tolerate their strategy (although, I also use it for learning languages, so there's another motivation). The irritation is building up, though.
I don't see why providing commercial applications would cause Linux to "lock up".

Say someone implements an appstore for Linux, and start selling apps. This could theoretically be enough to get commercial developers onto the platform, opening up for wider popularization of Linux. That doesn't mean you have to install that appstore.. Heck of Linux ever becomes popular, it's probably gonna be Ubuntu. If you don't like that, well, use fedora then. Or nixOS!
What are the default rates by race?
I gladly pay for stuff. That means that the developer has motivation to keep the software up to date.

Open source relies on the kindness of strangers, sometimes a project has critical mass (or a corporate sponsor) to keep it alive, others just fizzle out. Then I need to spend time finding a replacement.

For example: this is why I chose Newsblur as my Google Reader replacement, they took my money. And I haven't regretted my choice even once.

Oh and Alfred really doesn't have a replacement anywhere. I bought Soulver just because of the Alfred integration.
>From reading other points in the thread it seems like owning a home for investment in France is an extremely risky proposition.

The amount of people owning property and the size of the real estate market says otherwise. Squatting is just one of those things with an over-sized media footprint.
This was the old “interstate commerce” argument - growing extra crops for my own consumption ripples through the supply chain and impacts interstate commerce… basically a CDC power grab.

Glad it was struck down.
I've heard that often enough from a family member, often condensed into "they didn't die of COVID, they died with COVID" (which let to the obvious shot back later that year from me being "they didn't die of the vaccine, they died with the vaccine").

There is obvious borderline cases when COVID merely accelerated another disease (heart failure), but I bet in 99% of cases, the ultimate cause of death is one or multiple organ failure due to COVID.
Croatia, Istria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJldCAW0rM
This is very true, and what I mostly use lodash for these days. I also like the string utilities such as capitalize, and the utilities for dealing / getting random values.