skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Lots," eh?

Every laptop I've ever owned will run with the battery disconnected.

Except the Macbook, of course.

The simple fact of the matter is that Apple routinely makes design decisions that are not only questionable, but compromise the usable life of the device in the process. And keep repeating the same mistakes over and over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8

Having reduced or nonexistent performance after removing the battery was never normal. It's bad design. Period.

https://www.engadget.com/2008-11-22-macbook-and-macbookpro-s...
>It seems like Texas, as a whole, has decided to commit economic and political suicide.

Not really, corporations don't give a heck about rights or principles, only regulations and laws.

Corporations verbally obey and pay lip service to the moral fashions of the perceived memetic majority, that's the user interface.

The backend is a ruthless optimization engine maximizing a very specific utility function and caring for literally nothing else.
I actually have quit amphetamines this week due to side effects. I feel like I can't function without them, but they're making me unwell. What a dilemma!
I am neither the authority to define "encryption at rest", nor am i saying "encryption at rest" is good wording in this case.

But from my understanding, "encryption at rest" is not disk encryption.

If you have a database with disk encryption, once the disk crypto key is entered an attacker could try to "do hacker stuff" and exfiltrate the WAL files.

If you have "encryption at rest", the WAL files are written encrypted and are decrypted on read. An attacker may get your WAL files, but they are still encrypted.
Looking back in time at backing up with Time Machine
There was 7 year gap between 3 and 4 and they're catching up.
They are not disadvantaged by it, as they get access to the same deals that they had in the past.

The only different is that now, some companies, have the ability of no longer having to pay large amounts of money to a multi-trillion dollar company (apple).

That is a win.

The fact that less companies have to pay many millions and millions of dollars, to one of the most valuable companies in the world, is a win.

And small companies, still have access to the same exact programs that they had before.
Does it support HDR on Linux?
Yep, here is the Neptune hexagon... same pattern, same process

https://slate.com/technology/2014/05/neptune-voyager-images-...
AI cannot “write its own code.”

Also a human with the social skills of AI is not qualified to make software.
A look at local Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador
My father has been working on his accounting software (he's an accountant mainly) since Delphi 1. He might be the only single user paying for the enterprise version. Or maybe there are dozens of them.

Whenever I speak to him, he raves about whatever the new version of Delphi is.
Yes, it is very obvious if you look at the face: the width is the same before/after, but the height is different (smaller before than after).
GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data
You should read the article. To sum it up: the web beat desktop apps because traditional OS were not designed for a networked world.

The iPhone however was designed for a networked world so it didn't have all the limitations of desktop OS.

The web wasn't designed for a mobile world so it had a lot of limitations: hard to do a good UX, passwords to type on a tiny keyboard, no offline mode (or so complex to use that no dev do), URL vs app icons...
With Covid, I've noticed Yelp, Google, and Apple all have untrustworthy business hours. In some cases all of them were wrong with different times. They all provide ways to submit new hours; some ask for a picture, others let you type in the hours. I know with Apple I'll get an alert a week or two later when the data is accepted. I've done this in multiple countries. So it's not just a US-centric focus (may be a Euro-centric one, though).
I just came back from holidays in Denmark. It was wonderful! No mask wearing anywhere. Around German and Italian tourists some wore masks and refused to take the same elevator, but overall it was as in the good old times. Back in Germany I still have to face the sceptics, refusing to vaccinate or even test, and nobody is checking the vaccination or test papers.
> a market for another payment system that has easy cancellations but charges ~5% instead of 30%.

I’d happily pay for such a system if I could *trust* them to continue acting in my interest by not leaking my details or interest and actually cancelling subscriptions without pushback from the provider (say, will the free version still grant access to my files).

I don’t know many players that I would trust with that and that are big enough to not be intimidated by providers.

That trust can be misplaced: God knows I trusted the NYTimes for being a nice company, but their unsubscription process was horrific, demanding to call from a US phone number (guess what: it’s really hard when you are not based in the US) and then refusing to cancel a non-US subscription if you do…

After dealing with that too much, I genuinely only trust Apple to do it consistently. I might trust Google too; I’m hoping that data scientist at Facebook know to model the brand impact on retention to argue it’s financially preferable to let people cancel… Even companies where I lead the analytics team and where I made the case passionate for instant cancellations, it was such an uphill battle. And it was lost again as soon as they thought I turned my back, because of some middle-manager obsessed with their short-term number.
Interestingly the Android app just got a complete redesign. I assume a redesign of the website will be coming too.
Have a look at PLASMA:
https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA
I think the phrase 'proofing yeast' in bread making has the same connotations - you're testing that the yeast is still alive.
Added other post now. It's good to be curious, and asking questions.

I don't say that you are, and online person could be anyone saying anything (ie. to troll). For educational purposes, test can be tried to learn about oneself: https://www.idrlabs.com/psychopathy/test.php

I scored 1.5% less than average.
I love the etymology of the name:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28489873
Mandating vaccines is an indirect solution the real solution is to have more at risk people to TAKE the vaccine. Whether or not mandate is the right strategy is another question. It is almost probably sure it is the wrong strategy but fines and mandates are the only things our politicians know how to do
Lot of potential theories here. Allow me to offer one of my own: it's our physical posture and ergonomics. When on the desktop, you're usually sitting down in front of a desk after deciding to set aside some time for the express purpose of doing something on a computer. A small wait for the UI to render is tolerable. But when you're on a mobile device, it's usually the the thing you're using to kill time while you're waiting for something else. Delays are a lot less tolerable.

Another thing: on desktop, the burden of task switching is lower -- you click another tab while the page loads. It's literally just another instantly responsive click back when the thing loads. On mobile, it's a slightly slower, more involved process as you tap and hunt for icons.
Thanks. I hadn't realized he was such a snitch.
> The problem with Ubuntu is - when it releases their latest version, it is already shipping a couple years old software versions.

That is quite a dramatic take and simply not true.

It maybe fits somewhat for Debian Stable (that has a freeze of 4 to 6 months), but Ubuntu bases off Debian Unstable (sid) and sid is very close to the Arch experience - I know because I use both a lot.
Granted, Ubuntu adds a bit of a delay due to QA and all that release fuzz a rolling release like Arch does not has to care for, but if an upstream software release happened one or two months before an Ubuntu release it's really likely to be included in that release.

> And for pipewire, wayland, mesa and other desktop related things you want to run the latest version at all times.

Meh, in general I agree with the sentiment, but there are also regressions that hurt running into, and if you have HW that was released over a year ago it may not matter that much.

> This is one of the major reasons why Valve chose Archlinux as a base for their new SteamOS version for Steam Deck.

Not directly, they could have used Debian sid for that, and the fact that SteamOS 2.0 is still on Debian 8 (newest is 11) also shows that they did not try to go for the latest releases until now. I'm working on a Debian derivative and we just backport things ourself if really required, it is a bit of work but not that much (we're definitively orders of magnitudes smaller than Valve) - especially as the Debian unstable/sid repo is quite up-to-date and thus we often can just take it from there and base on that anyway.

But actually Debian and Arch Linux are really close anyway, I do packaging for both (but neither a DM nor Arch trusted user) and if the software is not awful to package in general it's quite the bliss to do for both, there are also lots of parallels, even if often slightly hidden. So I won't care much; may even try out setting up Debian Sid once I get my Steam Deck :)

FYI: here's some good background read regarding all this from a Debian developer whom also works for Collabora on the Steam Runtime:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/07/msg00214.html
You don’t use Gmail, Google Docs and Maps, Outlook, Youtube? My wife uses a transcribing web app called Otter. All the fantasy map authoring tools I’ve used recently (for TTRPG use) are web apps, like Inkarnate. Arguably even Facebook, Reddit and LinkedIn are really more web apps than web sites. On mobile most people would use an app for all of these services, on desktop they’re mostly tabs in a browser.
I would blame the developper who built the payment system — although, I’m sure if they don’t include that, they loose the sale of their solutions to restaurants.

I’m surprised that Apple didn‘t mandate the hashed email solution that they advertised when introducing Apple Pay. That felt an effective solution to your concern. It’s likely that the developper had to include that copy (honestly, that cantor is almost fresh these days) but forgot to mention that this could be hashed if you chose to do so in your Apple Pay settings.
He's probably getting a lot more error from using an AC solid-state relay (which probably uses a triac and so probably stays on until the next zero-crossing, thus a 10-millisecond error) than he'd get from using some metal-film resistors, a film capacitor, and a 555. But the Arduino has a much easier time displaying the pulse duration on the LEDs.
This is using the hashcash PoW.
The use of scrypt as underlying hash function is a rather poor choice though, as scrypt's memory hardness makes PoW verification unnecessarily expensive. To limit the damage, a rather small memory footprint is used for scrypt.

It's perfectly possible to make a memory hard PoW that's instantly verifiable, by using something other than hashcash. Examples include Cuckoo Cycle [1], and Equihash [2]. These can easily be made to use hundreds of MB in solving, while verification is memory less.

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equihash
It's two volts. You can totally use this bare-handed, no problem. Just make sure you aren't wearing jewelry on your hands.
Product Hunt – The best new products in tech
Automatic backups do not include any images or videos. They remain just unencrypted.

> Many non-tech people I know that are not aware of this have just come to terms with the fact that phone storage just runs out quicker than it did before, and old phones just lag at 2am for mysterious reasons.

Non-tech people get pissed when one smiley message is lost. So for all non-hn people automatic backups are a boon. I know this as we run a free repair-cafe - and help people migrate data from old phones.
If you look closely at the painting before restoration, you can see with your naked eye the rectangular dark frame of the Cupid painting.
The explanation is right there in the article, and it does not involve your supposed modern day hubris:

Restorers found that the central panel of the artwork, known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, had been painted over in the 16th Century.

Another artist had altered the Lamb of God, a symbol for Jesus depicted at the centre of the panel.

Now conservationists have stripped away the overpaint, revealing the lamb's "intense gaze" and "large frontal eyes".
The problem is that every one reuses the same RFC1918 space and this becomes a problem when you join them all together. For instance I discovered this year there is a electronic payments processor here in Australia that uses the 29/8 space. I'm doing a project for a large retail company that has to route payments to lots of providers. Each one has a different way of handling the conflict - either through properly registered public space, or through NATting to their own or the customers space. I did raise the issue that 29/8 was now actually routable on the internet, and maybe the provider should pick another strategy. But I don't think they see it as an issue mainly because these networks are quite closed and separated from regular internet space
> Cut out the massive extra fees to crypto middlemen and staggering environmental damage

Neither of these are necessary for NFTs; it's perfectly possible for artists to mint the NFTs themselves (thus cutting out middlemen entirely) using blockchains that don't rely on mining at all (namely, anything built on proof-of-stake).
Vaguely related: GitHub bots autoclosing issues for inactivity after a really short period, which leads to people creating yet another issue, which leads to a mess of fragmented conversations in several issues, until someone closes one issue and says to continue the conversation on another issue. The earlier this happens, the better it is.
No, it's for an edge compute platform that I'm developing for someone. So I will just provide the execution environment, not the actual programs.
> if you're coming from something like VS Code it's not super obvious what plugins account for what functionality

How do you know what plugins account for what functionality in VSCode?
Yeah, you're absolutely right. A bug in kernel programming might erase your filesystem and require you to restore from backups; a bug in handling high-voltage capacitors erases you.
Over a 10 euro/month subscription? Zero chance. Even in Europe.
I had the same experience as you. I never use folding but I thought I’d give it a shot to see if it enhanced my workflow at all. Figured that tree sitter should make it robust, but it ended up mangled almost immediately. It’s not something I care enough about to dig into deeper but I suspect whatever is going on will be fixed at some point.
Apple is in search of the next big thing – but perhaps it shouldn’t be
> I spend a fair amount of time on Zoom calls (who doesn't?), and I like to use my Apple AirPods so I can move around while we talk. I was never was able to get these or any other Bluetooth headset to work on Ubuntu.

I do not want to be the cliché Linux user and recommend some config change and assert that would have been simple and helped 110%, but out of interest, did you also try something like

> Set ControllerMode = bredr or ControllerMode = dual by editing
> /etc/bluetooth/main.conf file
> systemctl restart bluetooth

(paraphrased and s/sysv/systemd/ from https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-pairing-apple-airpods-as-h... )
Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport
Only that's not how the world works.

The world works with power: Apple used their power to make strangle the entire idea of the web on mobile by putting a break on change. Why? Mobile web tech helps their competitors more than it helps them.

If Apple's own platform / APIs had had the same rate of change as they effectively forced on the mobile web, then they would be a decade behind Android.

This is exactly the same thing as Microsoft did in the 90s with productivity software. They had secret undocumented APIs which made Office a fantastic experience and non-office "meh".
Come on, to assert that a "smart toaster" is not categorically different than a laptop or a smartphone is a bad faith argument.

I think market forces don't work well in cases where you have a lot of vertical integration, and increasing consolidation.

The "just don't buy it" argument only works in a competitive market with lots of offerings. What we have in the world of computers is more of a lesser-of-a-few-evils choice in virtually every technology choice.
Because mobile phones' hardware and software are much closer integrated and closed systems than the desktop or the laptop. Bringing the web (or web tech) to phones is both technically more of a challenge and economically in particular Apple opposes it. Ceding control to the open web couldn't really be resisted on desktops.

However I'm relatively confident that the web is going to eat mobile regardless, starting with web technology and cross platform JS based frameworks gaining popularity, regulatory action against platforms, and when we're at the point where the web on mobile isn't disadvantaged any more it should be the clear preference.
You're thinking about software not apps
Nice project! There's a number of government and quasi-government agencies that I wish had end user accessible APIS.

AES encrypted responses from Amtrak's API all encrypted with the same constant hard coded IV:

https://github.com/pieromqwerty/amtrak/blob/master/src/amtra...

https://github.com/pieromqwerty/amtrak/blob/e0bc815f7ff73484...

What a waste of time and tax payer money. Might as well just make the API public and add some CORS headers. Or require an API key and have the website dynamically generate them internally with a short expiration.

The encryption dance being performed here is all theater and the acting sucks.
> That will teach me that I shouldn't have trusted him.

Then you've answered your own question re: why you might need/want "blockchain-y stuff": that "blockchain-y stuff" makes it so that you don't have to trust him.
> In fact I think it was running an earlier version of OpenELEC (not sure when they changed their name to LibreELEC -- or maybe that's a new project with the same goals?)

My exact question too. Anybody care to help us out?
Delphi/Builder have had their own problems as well. One of my competitors was suffering for a long time because they couldn't create 64-bit executables.
My RPi 3B+ turned out to be fast enough to decode most any 1080p H.265 content in unaccelerated software on LE 9.2 without problems. Sure, at high bitrates you'll see more than 300% CPU consumed - but that's when having four cores in that tiny thing actually pays off for real :)
If you look carefully you'll see this tactic all over: throw mud in your opponents eyes to slow their rate of change.

See: US banking (in the EU I can transfer cash, instantly, for free to a friend's bank account and have been able to do so for a decade), Fossil fuel vs Climate change, most commercial standard bodies. It's everywhere.
Knock knock. It's the MPAA.
Qt, GTK, SDL, Flutter...
When an IDE say it is opinionated, i want to know what opinion it have.

At the very least, i want to know what background the author from, what kind of language he is familiar with, etc…

The page give no info on that.
I guess this is because on the mobile device, the manufacturer like Apple, they are more easy to limit the develop of web.
Or we can say, on the desktop, the owner of the most popular browser is not the OS maker, imagine we now just have Windows, and IE....
Intelligent and educated are different qualities, in the same way that dumb and ignorant mean different things.

A person can have high IQ but no education. A person with average IQ can have a PhD.

Knowing how to unclog a drain or tune a V8 have more to do with practice and experience than IQ. We call those abilities skills, things you can learn and get better at.
Funny, 1 day ago you were an EU citizen. Very impressive rate of naturalization.
I ended up writing some scripts that automate the set up of kodi. Periodically my Android TV gives out so I have to reset it (it's an old TV). Having automated the set up of kodi has allowed me to get back up and running in minutes.
Cheat Codes of the Universe Review, Work or a Scam?
One very interesting trick when using composite artifacts is that the “color” pixels don’t need to line up - any group of pixels will produce different colors in any of the 560 horizontal positions. The more contiguous pixels you light up, the closer to white you get.
If the host system is Linux then this can be called Windows Subsystem for Linux (the same thing that WINE does).

If the host system is Windows then its Linux Subsystem for Windows.

Please do not fuck with logic.
They will simply force developers to only put payment options at the last step of the checkout process, which prevents any discount offer for one certain payment system
They did not change names; LibreELEC was forked from OpenELEC over internal disputes in 2016 or so. Both projects live on independently.
Yes, I agree, how selfish
I actually think it’s the exact opposite and Epic would have picked a fight with Apple even if the fees were 15%.

This isn’t about fees and it’s not even (just) about Apple - Apple is just a relatively unsympathetic defendant for them to fire their opening shot. As noted, Microsoft fees are 30%, Google fees are 30%, etc, and yet Apple was singled out (with those companies actually jumping onto the lawsuit against Apple too).

This is, more generally, about prying the Apple platform open, and other similar platforms like it. Remember, Epic didn’t start this suit over anti-steering clauses, the real goal here was epic getting their own third party store, which means they don’t have to pass an Apple review before being able to request permissions that let them mine data/etc. Thats a way bigger prize than (checks notes) 30% of 12 million dollars.
In the US somewhere around 50,000 children lost a parent or guardian. Couple of million lost a grandparent. I've known a higher than average number of people who lost a parent when they were children or teenagers. That's bad in a lot of different ways and has a life long impact. So I find people trivializing that to be gross and utterly appalling.
> They're too common to be interesting.

This alone feels like a good reason why people should vocally object to such annoyances. "They're common and therefore we shouldn't bother talking about them" only lets the problem continue to fester.
Betteridge's law applies as it always does. Oyster isn’t going anywhere because there are always going to be those edge cases.

Tourists who would pay large fx fees if they use their contactless cards, children prone to spending their contactless balance on sweets, those groups that get free travel anyway.
Some users may think Slack and VS Code are great apps. I sure don't.
It kind of does, but ... it also doesn't.

I've been running {KDE, Gnome} on Wayland + KMS on a box with a GTX1080 for a few months, and

- it is really laggy (sometimes the mouse cursor is choppy)

- fractional scaling is practically unusable due to all kinds of important apps (e.g. Chrome) not supporting it and just blurring the screen instead of properly scaling

Overall I can't recommend it to non-enthusiasts, unfortunately.
> for TfL there is a batch process at the end of the day which does that

Which can lead to some perplexing notifications from your bank at 0400 when it says you've just charged £N at A.N.Tube and it takes you a good three minutes before you realise it's not someone cloning your card but the journey you made 18 hours ago.
Not sure if it’s necessarily an accurate comparison, but Embarcadero's strategy of purchasing a well loved product then commercializing it to the point where the only people who would ever buy it are large organizations with a legacy of the tool almost feels reminiscent of Oracle.
Other cities have plenty of bus riders