skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Aero Snap was originally shown off first as a Windows 7 feature when they announced it but was quickly duplicated by Linux DEs before it even launched.
That's not really a cynic, that's an optimist.
It's not inclusive, because the idea is to push a unique source of truth on those people rather than let them express their truth in their language.
I don't think you're really thinking this thing through. How exactly would they find out that people are breaking quarantine at home in time to contain the situation? Remember, this is a situation where one person failing to quarantine can case a literal exponential amount of damage, if allowed to get away with it.
Some people are excited because there's no gatekeeper taking 100 USD every year for the privilege of distributing apps on it.
Also, it's quite simple to start developing for it.

For complex software (e.g. video games) on the other hand the web is a real piece of crap: performance suck, no UDP, a certain browser is purposely a ton of useful APIs (or is straight up buggy).
I'd like to think that the Github team saw Github1s and decided to bake the feature right into Github.
Google or (worse) Facebook would have just put this in with no press release.

My read is that Apple is trying to placate governments by throwing them a bone without totally abandoning their privacy stance, hence the drive to put the scanning on the actual device so all your photos don't have to be shared as-is with Apple. That way they can encrypt iCloud but still keep the feds from accusing them (in bad faith) of being a child porn trading platform.

The alternative is to keep iCloud unencrypted and scan in the cloud, which is what they and everyone else already does.

One of the pieces of feedback they got though is that people are more okay with that than with scanning on the device. People expect that things that go to the cloud are no longer private unless you run some kind of local encryption that you control.

The reason they don't care about photos not sent to iCloud is the trading platform angle. It's one thing to let people store shit on their own devices. It's another thing to be a large scale and easy to use secure channel that people can use to share CP. The nightmare scenario for Apple would be to become a de-facto standard in the CP underworld for sharing content.

Sure people can use Tor, private VPNs and mesh networks, PGP, or many other things, but that requires a level of technical knowledge that greatly reduces the size of the audience.

Maybe a better alternative for Apple would be to add iCloud encryption but to stipulate that any sharing of content disables encryption for the shared content. That way they could scan shared content only. For unshared content iCloud is basically just an encrypted backup.
Idk about the GP, but I don't want to buy a hundred books a year (at list price) that I only read once or twice.
For me, this is a blessing in disguise. Modern UI design is to pad everything out with reams of whitespace, hide elements that no longer fit behind a "...", then remove any affordances in the name of "cleanliness". At least some parts of windows reflect a more sane design language from an older era.
It's something I really appreciate about Sega's handling of Sonic IP: as long as you aren't trying to make money you can pretty much get away with anything. I think Sonic's continued popularity is in no small part due to this policy.
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I haven't run this long enough to definitely say that it's better, but this in theory should offer more correct vim behavior:
https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim
If folks are curious about the kind of use cases this enables, I wrote a quick article last week that highlights some of the things that are currently possible (e.g. codebase walkthroughs, web playgrounds, knowledge-base management): http://aka.ms/githubdev-fun
In my opinion, Apple will break its brand if they actually go ahead and release "self-reporting to the authorities" device features.

Even if they somehow manage to make it do exactly the thing it is supposed to do and not slide into a feature for mass governmental control, I think a lot of people will loose trust into the devices they own.

Automatically scanning your stuff and reporting the bad things to the police is like the concept of God always watching. Even if you don't do anything wrong and you agree that the stuff they are watching for is bad and should be prevented, there is something eerie about always being watched and controlled.

The iPhones should mind their own business and leave the police work to the police.

That being said, I would be O.K. if the scan is performed on the device upon physical access by the authorities. You caught someone, You have enough evidence to investigate the person, you are allowed to search his/her home then maybe it can be O.K. to run a fingerprint scan on the phone to look for evidence.
This reminds me of the Gladiator movie scene after the first death in the colosseum “Are you not entertained!!”

The grotesque disinformation internet is a mirror of our humanity.
How dangerous is this? Could we end up creating something indestructible like Japanese Knot weed except worse?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28403727
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Huh, I never really thought about the possibility that Apple would implement both schemes. I don't think they will go down that path, though. Why: Cost and complexity for Apple would be somewhat higher and the surrounding discussion about capabilities (abuse of the client-side system for other things than CSAM scanning) would persist just because of the existence of client-side scanning. Let's see how this story continues.
Shipping costs make this probably a bad idea.
It would be way too easy to scam them. Pawnshops need to validate the quality of the item and determine if it’s legit. Most Pawnshops will also sell on ebay.
+1! I've been working for some time on a dynamic ranking model for a crowdsourcing feed. Would love to see other examples.
hyperoptic 1gbps here. been with them for 4 years now. very happy. no issues, everything is up all the time.
I always assumed that Maine was the king of power outages.
reality's a bitch isn't it

at the point Scotland has voted out (if it ever happens), then the UK has no longer has any interest in what Scotland thinks, and will be as difficult as the EU was in the Brexit negotiations
If someone says "The trend towards smaller cars suggests trucks and SUVs will cease to exist.."

Not going to happen..
has been but plugged here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bananamafia.dev

(does that pun work?)
> We carefully place limits for things like race.

Oof, that isn't even close to what the civil rights act was designed to address. Conflating this with that would not go the way you'd likely want.

> This is more valuable than the time lost.

Something so true that it has to be compelled by law!
Regardless of the larger conversation, why do you think that adding friction wouldn't stop people from engaging in an activity? I mean, generally speaking A/B testing is used to find the path to most engagement and doesn't get this kind of pushback.. but as soon as you want to make something harder you get people saying "but that wont do anything". It demonstrably does! 'trivial to circumvent' in a world where people regularly have the experience of being called out to plug something in, when "have you checked the power button and power cord" has been a common trope for over two decades!

I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts but to be clear my focus is on this very narrow, nigh nitpick tangent.
I highly doubt they’d offer a choice like this. 99% of their customers won’t know what these terms mean.
When we talk about cores on a device we usually think of the application processors that'll be running our own code. But any modern SoC will have tons of other cores. Things like controlling voltage and clock speed, the security enclave, the baseband processor, Apple's matrix co-processor. Since these only run Apple's code switching over the ISA can be done with relatively little fuss compared to the x86/ARM transition. And since each of these is essentially only running a very limited range of firmware they can benefit far more from a extensible, customizable, "only pay for what you use" ISA than the application processor would. I'd also expect Apple to be making their own private extensions for their specific use cases.
Long-time user of BetterTouchTool here, which implements this feature as well. If you just want the snap functionality they also offer this as a cheaper ($2.99), stand-alone version with BetterSnapTool[0].

[0] https://folivora.ai/bettersnaptool
Maybe I am just dumb, but the terminal is not working for me. How do I run commands in this?
Easier by Germans of German blood in Germany. Prior gaining monopoly on power, they were the armed opposition on the streets.

By the time Nazi occupied France, the Germany was dictatorship for a long time. There was no moving anywhere on that topic. And it is absurd to use occupied territory as argument on this point.
"without being a weirdo" -- Seems like shyness or shame is preventing exercise? Someone at my last job actually went jogging every lunch where the weather allowed. She wasn't perceived of as weird, just dedicated and others thought "Wow! Good on her!"
Apple to Delay iPhone Update That Could Scan Device for Illegal Content
More: it doesn't remember window size, takes up to several seconds to apply a custom background to a group chat, and requires a measly 1.1 GB of memory (3.6 GB of real memory) to fail to do all that.

This is the failing of both React Native Desktop and of the Facebook Devs that couldn't even make a rather primitive chat work properly.
“Force them to write heavily templates C++ code, they either learn how to read pages of comprehensible error message to diagnose one little typo, or they can’t do their job and are forced to look for a new one.”

When I did C++ we sometimes made little competitions for the smallest change that can produce the craziest error messages. On the other hand I always found it extremely satisfying to make one little change that removed thousands of errors and warnings.
Should look at Vue with the composition-api layer, there's close to zero boilerplate.

A store in Vue 3 can basically be:

export default { state: readonly(state), ...setterFunctions }

It doesn't get more easy to read and streamlined than that.
We are likely a week and a bit away from new iPhone releases—a good bit of damage control at play here.
I think it was obvious from the beginning that it's trained on GitHub code, so it would be surprising if it was better than the average code on GitHub.

In any case, if Copilot can generate code as well as the average programmer without supervision, that means it can already take the job of 50% of programmers. A more useful metric though is how many programmers can a person using Copilot replace by having greater productivity?

Also, in how many programming jobs does security matter? In my job for example it doesn't matter at all.
And if you believe that, you'll believe anything.
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I thought that was EBay?
If you're obese and develop a heart disease that's a direct result of personal choices. By your own logic they should be denied service as well.
>My read of history is that religion is only ever overturned by a stronger religion

There's gotta be a valve somewhere. If that were true, how is our current culture (or at least the culture of '85 to '05) more liberal than the right-wing Christianity of the 50s?
NetBeans is the best free and open source IDE, at least for PHP.

It lacks some nice features and improvements that PHPStorm has, but it's pretty good overall. There are a couple things that NetBeans does better than PHPStorm, though.
Windows Terminal colour dialog

My response upon seeing that was "WTF! That looks ridiculously amateurish!" It almost feels like it's trolling me. Even the labels somehow manage to have a different size of font than the rest of the dialog, something a noob in the 90s using Visual Basic drag-and-drop to create dialogs would not produce without expending (considerable) additional effort.

Ironically, Win32 has had a much more full-featured and standard dialog for choosing colours since Windows 3.x:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlgbox/color-...
I'm pleasantly surprised Apple backed down on well... anything. Especially this.

However, macrumors has probably the most user-hostile gdpr modal I've encountered.

1. I used it on my android device. The modal popped up, I gave it several seconds to load in, everything seemed stable, I go to tap the settings dialog and... up jumps the modal and registers a click on the accept button.

2. Want to go fix it after the fact? Go to the footer, find the privacy link, find the link in the middle of the policy, now you get the desktop modal on the site.

3. Everything shows consent default off, so all good right? Nope. Expand out the toggles and you'll see under the "Personalised ads" a set of more granular toggles.

4. So toggle them off and you're good, right? Nope, each of them you need to tap into and get to a new screen. This new screen has two modals, one for consent, and one defaulted in for legitimate interest. One screen per sub modal, and the only way to go back to get to the others is to click "Back" in the top left, which leaves you at the root of the flow.

I have seen this particular modal on or two other sites, and finding yet another layer to bury the controls in seems to be a new "innovation" in this regard. Hopefully they're one of the sites targeted by noyb's enforcement complaints.
I'm betting a sizeable group has images from the database. They don't know which images are known, I think. But the fact that it's nearly trivial to circumvent does make me wonder.
The reason the app's learning course doesn't look so much different from traditional SR programs is probably because your notes don't have a rich structure yet. As your notes get richer, you'll see their structures reflected in the learning course.
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The plan is to stay up to date with Unicode emoji releases, and add extra ones (unicode [1] and original [2]) as they are designed

[1] https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode
[2] https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-openmoji
The issue I take with laws are that laws are usually slower to change, and even changing areas from one designated type to another.

As you can see, the land and real state market changes. Things used to be accessible, today many people flee to barely legal situations just because it is too expensive otherwise. What used to be desirable in one area might change over time, and punishing the first ones to try seem too harsh to me.
You're missing the fact that a team can have different specialisms. It doesn't have to be each individual can do everything.
> People like me who sold their IPhone are a drop in the bucket

I doubt it , they will bring this up again very soon , if they cancel it, they’ll get very bad press too.

And second, a company that once shows its intention to breach your personal privacy while disregarding its user’s best interests altogether.
Wont hesitate to do it again.
Here’s another data point since it’s not always as simple as “remastering”.

Nintendo released Super Mario 3D All Stars for a limited purchase window between Sept 2020 and March 2021. Super Mario 64 was included in its original 1996 glory, included a low frame rate, 4:3 aspect ratio, low res textures (iirc they were slightly improved). In fact, Nintendo’s bundle was literally a N64 emulator running on the switch.

At the same time, a group of reverse engineers had decompiled the original ROM, converted it to readable C, and added many improvements: 60FPS, widescreen support, high res textures, etc.
Most notably, the project allowed them to compile the source code to native Switch architecture, which greatly improved performance and power consumption.

Most enthusiasts would agree that the “fan project” is objectively a better experience.
That's not an argument but an example. You associated linters and scales saying that people hate them because they tell the truth. My argument is that the truth that these tools express is limited. A basic scale can only tell you if your weight went up, down or stayed the same. It's a useful information but it lacks context and can be misinterpreted if taken alone. Same thing with a linter. While the linter is supposed to encode best practices, code doesn't exist in a vacuum and had a context. For every linting rule, there is probably a certain number of good reasons to break them.
Do we know what ISA Chinook uses? That is, could is already by RISC-V?
Parts of Europe, Australia & New Zealand are examples of well regulated markets and these issues would not crop up there; besides the engineering staff in the above mentioned countries would not participate in perpetuating this now well-known issue.
Our program can feel "huge" for now. Especially on ios. We're planning to work on it soon.
Presumably the article is referring to the contentious CSAM feature.

Article Text:

Apple Inc. [US:AAPL] said it plans to delay and make improvements to new iPhone software that aimed to identify and report collections of sexually exploitative images of children, a move that comes amid backlash from critics concerned about the erosion of privacy with their devices.

Apple said last month that it would introduce the software later this year through an iPhone update for U.S. users. It defended the software for many weeks. But in a brief statement Friday the company said it “decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.”
I tried VS Code for over a year and consider it severely lacking features that most IDEs had fifteen years ago. GitHub should reconsider whether they really want to be reminding everyone that MSFT owns them.
It's pretty good, although I've found it a bit funky with copy/paste/yanking.
I don't think they were nearly as bad as they were made out to be.

Also: It was meant more as an example that the 2nd provides a way to make it infeasable to practice tyranny over the US population through the military.
In fairness, it's the submitted article's connection rather than (or as well as) GP's.

> What does it mean to write a genome? [...] Pioneering synthetic biology companies such as Gingko Bioworks and Zymergen are already redesigning single-celled organisms like yeast and bacteria, turning them into microscopic factories that produce desirable substances.
I'm totally unfamiliar with Belgium. Can you point me to something illustrative? That sounds quite interesting.
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I don't know what a P100 is but I don't find a N99 more difficult to breathe than a N95 (but I do feel that I have to exert more force/pressure when breathing).

I use it to cycle and it's ignorable when cycling casually but discomfortable when going for performance. Anedoctally I don't find the extra effort to breathe to be a problem but just the saturated & hot air. So if I were to exhale each time with the mask of and inhale if it on it wouldn't be a problem. PS. I use masks w/ valves and those without one worsen this issue.
I predict it will be released in 2025 with a steering wheel for $30K.
You also won't have a nice coastline view. Money buys lack of other people in locations where lots of other people want to be.
Wow I’d at least hope for a preview of the color I’m “choosing”.
I guess the trade off here is that your data is still stored in (essentially) plain text on Apple's servers, and they (or whatever authorities) can still rifle through it at any time without telling you.
When I see "empathy" nine times out of ten I read "virtue signaling." Many people claim to be empathetic but actually that is only as deep as what they are empathising with. If it harmonises with their world view then they have empathy. How many people have empathy for the Taliban? To me having a realistic theory of others minds is useful. Empathy less so. I also wonder how much empathy is actually projection. I mean empathy is you (think you) can feel as others do but how do you know you are actually not just feeling one way and assuming the others do too.
Agreed. Good application code often contains edge case handling, build time checks, unit tests and defensive flows that handle the unexpected so that users don't wake you up at night. Why can Ops not do the same? Why can Dockerfiles / Orchestrators / CI / playbooks not also implement sanity checks on deployments?

"Ooops... deployment failed. While deploying your artifact we found the following:

- Nothing is listening on the nominated port

- Your deployment is utilizing 100% CPU while idling

- We detected an abnormal volume of write operations to the mount

Please fix these issues and re-trigger the pipeline at your earliest convenience.

Regards,
Ops."
I think if your take away is that the author is an asshole, you might want to reflect on specifically why you feel that way. In my experience as a sysadmin, in a large company that's been trying to become a user of "cool" IT in the last decade, the article is spot on.

I think for point 1, he's trying to say that application developers aren't doing their role as both dev and QA. I've witnessed the same issue where an DBA had trouble installing Maxscale on two identical servers. He was convinced that there must be something different between the two servers despite them being created from the same template, and only differing in IP/hostname. He had done no research, opened no tickets with the vendor, but instead wasted 30 minutes of my time arguing that it's not his fault. And this is common with many of the developers I've worked with in the last decade.

For #3, I don't own the application you develop. We provide you with a platform that YOUR application runs on, based on requirements you provide. If you don't do an adequate job of providing accurate requirements, that's on you, no my team.

And #4, developers don't abstract all those things away, they often fundamentally don't understand how they work at all, so they ignore them. This ignorance has damning consequences when they make blind assumptions about how things work.
You're a technical person. Grandpa would go: "VM? What's that???".
In the early days of Android smartphones, there were a lot of very basic security holes: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/root-security-root-exploi...

I always attributed it to consumer electronics company developers who'd never previously had to touch the icky internet not realizing how dangerous it was; this was the sort of mistake that the likes of Microsoft were making in the late 90s.

I expect the state of IoT security is similar; as it matures it'll improve.
I thought pawn shops were places you could sell random stuff and buy random stuff, never knew they loaned money!
Denmark is the second highest vaccinated country in Europe, and the remaining restrictions will be withdrawn on 10 September.

We also had high mask use, fairly low deaths, and fewer restrictions than most of Europe.
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