skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they should not in any way be without liability for wrongly suspending a user's account just because their automated system unjustifiably "flagged" them.

A legal team of 1,000+ at google is betting that you're wrong. I have a feeling they came to a pretty logical decision that liability of aiding someone flagged of terrorist activity is greater than liability of shutting down someone to whom you owe nothing.
Neither, T9 was pretty reliable and fast. That was the best method for most people.

But if your goal was to be above the average speed, the probability, even low, of false prediction by the algorithm would make you lose « a lot » of time while with no T9 your error span is scoped to one character.

Plus, for the people who typed without seeing the screen, you couldn’t take the risk to accidentally send the wrong word that would totally change the meaning of your message while an error on one character could be understood by your recipient.

But for the average user who just wanted acceptable speed, reliability and used its phone while watching the screen, T9 was the best for them.
Ah, yes, the Etherium conversion to proof of stake, scheduled for January 2020. Then December 2020. Right now, there is no hard date.
Old working devices could last for decades with it's original function or some newer simpler function. For example, I use old phones as clocks.

There are a couple of things I would like to see at device end of life:

1. A final update that disables all software related locks so I can load whatever software I want and change any files I want on the device to keep it going.

2. Access to the last version of the developer tools and documentation that can create software for the device, and for those tools to be available on the latest OS or even a frozen virtual machine containing an older OS and apps.

3. Ideally, access to source code or a new software licence that allows decompiling the software.
> Nope.

Absolutely wrong. Here's a list of countries and their various vaccine requirements for entry. Despite what you think, there's a lot of them and these requirements predate covid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_requirements_for_i...

Obtaining a passport is completely irrelevant. Countries deny people with valid passports from entering all the time. For example, if they don't have the proper vaccines.
Like a million-dollars pixel but with letters.

https://project-memento.com
> the user experience is clearly an improvement over the mess Windows 10 is

To me, it looks like another coat of varnish haphazardly and thoughtlessly painted on top of multiple layers on a crumbling, dry wall. A mishmash of ideas added on top of Windows 10, not an evolution and revolution and refactoring of what Windows is. Ah, and more telemetry and ads.
> Placing the url at the bottom is brilliant UI wise considering the height of the average smartphone nowadays.

It's not at the bottom, but within the content viewport. Browsers need a dedicated "safe space" for notifications and symbols like a lock for HTTPS. A floating address bar over the content of the website could easily be faked using HTML/CSS/JS and abused for phishing.

Sure, put it at the bottom, but not as a floating pill over the content.
1) It seems the raw databases are encrypted in `/storage/emulated/0/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Databases` so even being rooted isn't sufficient to dump them.
Same. After reading the first point my reaction was "Why would I want that?"
Of course, people are different, but I think in digital world there are much more hoarders than in physical.
My experience with HP iLO with the html5 upgrade is extremely positive, to be frank. Nothing buggy at all.
What projector do u use?
Whataboutism? We better question criteria for border crossing rather than endorsing further extension of those criteria.

The cost of travel is not coincidently high for those who have less. We will add further burden on people who barely met the financial conditions to just visit a place. And the inconvenience to the already stress inducing security procedure we face each time we take a flight.

We have been tolerating radical measures. Just try hold a bottle of water through airport security. And now we are seeing another type of radical measure: show us that you are up to date with whatever health prevention injection and tests that happen to apply today within a jurisdiction. Another straw, some camel backs are breaking , some find it manageable.
> Why does my TV need updates nowadays? My car? Do I have to download updates for my clothes or my bed soon? How about the toilet?

Those things don't all need software to exist. But good luck buying a new TV or car these days that isn't 100% reliant on software to keep doing what you bought it to do. (And I'm sure there are clothes/furniture/toilet manufacturers looking very closely at John Deere's current business model to try and see if they can turn "buyers" into "recurring licensees" of their products.)

But I think that's missing the article's point. It talks about "some old gadgets" and "each booted up successfully" and "Two perfectly good pieces of electronic gear have become useless, simply for want of software updates." - it's clearly not talking about clothes or beds, probably not cars (although arguably they count), and probably is talking about modern TVs (many of which het thrown away when the ancient Android version they run can no longer update to new versions of that apps the TV came with).

I'm not sure whether "We should mandate that device manufacturers set aside a portion of the purchase price of a gadget to support ongoing software maintenance, forcing them to budget for a future they'd rather ignore." is the only/right answer. but the article certainly eraises an important question.
Someone still needs to write those, and you'd need to be a psychic to succeed in making an immutable API that can handle all possible future requirements.

E.g., up until a while back, 32-bit ARGB as exchange format would've been sufficient, but is now insufficient to handle 10 bit channels and/or stuff like HDR. What if we get a standard for 3D images? It gets worse if you want to handle animated images as well, whatever exchange format you specify will break once a decade at least. And god forbid someone tries DRM for images again…
By deep tech, I mean getting to solve complex challenges through technology. It could be solving problems using machine learning, or a hardware product that's genuinely useful. I believe we're going to see a rise in hardware technology soon. After being in the phase of building a product to get upvotes on ProductHunt, I was trying to capture the essence of being an inventor by following a prescribed recipe, which wasn't satisfying. I ended up moving to a more business role and it's much better this way but we're barely building anything.

I'd like to play a role of an inventor and a builder of crazy technologies. Imagine https://www.noya.co/ or https://frame.work/. My only concern is that not being from a research background or a first world country could hinder my chance of doing that. Hope that made sense.
>Popoulous, Doom/Quacke

These examples, at least (the others are a bit outside of my knowledge), fit the pattern outlined above of having worse successor projects headed by a former team-member.
Actually there's no perspective or reference frame in which light is standstill (that's one of the postulates of special relativity).

So, saying time stands still for the light is a misnomer.
I prefer buying physical media.
I am partial to CDs but that might just be my age.

When CDs were everywhere, getting them was easy and
prices more competitive.

The last CD I wanted I had to order from Germany and the company really took far too much for the shipping.
(€ 15)

Once it arrived in Norway (ECC, not EU) I had to pay taxes on top of it.

Media downloads from the artist is good in that I get to direct the money directly (or at least a direct as I can) to the artist (I guess most companies in that space take a cut)

But they are easy to forget, easy to delete etc.

CDs are harder to throw out accidently.
No new surface book? Did they ditched idea of that hinge?

Surface studio "infinitely powerful" and the best cpu that MS offers is i7-11370H?
The string part of this is just "[]const u8", which is somewhat similar to "const char*" in C (except that [] is a slice and also holds the string literal's length).

IMHO for a systems programming language it's the right decision to not have a builtin string type (and instead treat strings as bags of bytes), proper string support is better provided by a library (or even better several specialized string processing libraries).
This works, until something about the image violate your expectation. To use the image example, say you have an image editor that uses the common assumption that a pixel is a 3-byte item, with 255 possible values. Lots of stuff worked this way, its sort of a base assumption around which you have to build all your other stuff. Violating it requires you to like change sizes everywhere, which may mean performance of your fancy vectorized algorithm plummets somewhere.

Anyway, lots of stuff follows this 8-bit-per-channel api. Until you use RAW images or any number of higher color depth . Then you need 12 or 16 or 24 or 32 (or more) bits per channel.
I believe most disinformation problems we face could be eradicated by reading more books. Not because the book might be 100% accurate, but because most social media debates are as a deep as puddle (not HN) and epistemologically lacking, and books prevent that and offer avenues for debates. It’s not a cure-all of course, but it gives it scaffolding for meaningful debates. The best online debates I had were on moderated IRC channels set up for that purpose.

I agree with the unskilled use of discourse and the data factor.
I think one problem is that the device that's cheaper isn't exactly advertising the fact that it will die in a year. In fact, when it is a brand new one that just hit the market, who even knows when it will die? This is the kind of thing that requires some historical knowledge which only a good salesman will be able to tell you, but if you're just buying online by five star reviews of happy customers who also bought it the last year, how are you going to know it'll die next year?

And next year, there will be a new model, so all those one-star review updates to last year's model will not be seen by someone in the market for a new one.
Perhaps some kind of filter for disinfecting indoor air.
I prefer living to not having lived. I would expect the same of most people who aren't struggling for the necessities of life. About the only seriously negative thing about it in my experience is contemplating it eventually ending. And animals don't have that, as far as I know. So I'd think an animal life largely free of pain or suffering would be a net good.
I'm a NZer and not a doomer at all, and certainly not compared to what's happening elsewhere.

It seems to me NZ's main problems are ones it has had for a long time (housing, inequality, gangs, drugs), some of them are getting better (tech industry), and the stuff I like is still good (tramping, food, environment, sane politics).
NSO has an infinite supply of exports for pretty much every platform. It doesn't really matter what you run, if you are a high-profile target and don't take active counter-measures, you will be hacked. That's not what I am talking about.

Instead some things that have every day practical relevance for me:

- read-only mounted system volume that prevents me from doing stupid mistakes and accidentally sudo rm important files
- application certificates
- all executables being code-signed to prevent tampering
- built in zero-knowledge password manager with automatic synchronization across all my devices
- full hardware insulation for DMA devices on Apple Silicon
At the point your text processing utility that was ASCII capably gets a plugin to support UTF-8 or UTF-16 you've made so much of the core modular that it no longer serves the benefit your proposed them for. Replacing core plugins of a program that provide the actual usefulness of it is no better than just upgrading the program.

Modularity can be useful, but there's always a core, and sometimes the core needs a change.

And that's before we even get into security issues. Sometimes entirely new classes of security problems are discovered, and if they weren't known at the time of writing, how were the authors supposed to guard against them? How much can we fault browsers for not guarding against spectre/meltdown when they were first written and released?
Strictly speaking, for a pure right to repair, it doesn't even need to be OSS licensed.

Germany's Left Party (inspired name, I know…) is lobbying for that constellation e.g.: License can be restrictive, as long as users are given source access and permission to fix bugs themselves.
I want all of the features of Chrome like extensions, profiles, syncing, passwords, etc. That's why I mentioned Vimium; because it brings keyboard nav to Chrome, instead of leaving Chrome for Nyxt.
> The problem with this sort of "fact checking" is that its keepers are biased as well.

No, the problem is that we're not seeking facts. We're not after a scattering of data. We seek meaningful clusters of information. Being human, we often want stories built out of that information, and we find these stories much more compelling than facts.

Presumably, we all enjoy sharing good, true, informative things. So when NiemanLab wants us to "share this story," we do.
Civ 3 caused me to go out and buy a hard drive to put windows on it so I could play it, it was that good.

I played the Americans in one game, and as time progressed oil appears. I had a large empire, but no oil. My peaceful neighbouring empire however did, so I had no choice but to invade.

20 years. Great times.
*Note: Europe does not include the two largest countries in Europe in this case.
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could be interesting if there was a sort of tax on throwaway technology. something around a few principles:

a) any manufacturer who ships an electronic device that fails to be operational for 10 years will pay a short term e-waste tax every year for every device that failed to remain operational.

b) any device that talks to the internet will not be considered operational unless either it receives regular security updates and supporting backend services -or- if the manufacturer chooses to close the line of business all firmware and backend code must be released under an oss license so that end users may pick up the slack if they so choose.

some additional guarantees around media licenses in the same vein would be pretty cool as well (although it seems that all the media companies are moving away from buying the right to consume on their service to just a regular fixed licensing fee for access to everything).
Conversations are E2EE encrypted so their tool doesn't work for those.
I have jumped into several badly written ObjC projects and I skimmed the source code of every CocoaPod that I've used, and I have never seen ObjC code that used C string/memory handling "most of the time". Not even when ObjC required manual reference counting.

Except for a couple of malloc'd C arrays (as an optimization over using NSArray<NSValue>), most of it was for interop with C libraries, the same code where in Swift you'd have to use UnsafeMutablePointer.
> It would teach sight-able people how to write braille.

Is this an interesting goal? I absolutely understand why it would be extremely valuable for most people to know their local sign language for communication with those who can't hear, but I fail to see how wider learning of a very special writing system (one that anyway can't be currently read from electronic devices) would impact the sight-impaired community.
Github user @Ananas1729 (Ben Jones) found another at https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking/issues/243
> Obtaining a passport is completely irrelevant.

For most travelers, it is the only document you show at the border.

> Countries deny people with valid passports from entering all the time. For example, if they don't have the proper vaccines.

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

I have never once seen a Japanese traveler required to produce any medical paperwork along with their passport (and I have flown a lot between both countries).

Could a traveler from Japan in theory be stopped at the border for a lack of vaccination? Probably. How often does that happen? Effectively never.
In that case, we're probably (hopefully) talking about air gapped environments, like medical devices that aren't networked or internal corporate networks with very particular host access rules.

In those cases, you might truly want no updates of any kind, with which i agree - updates should always be compatible with the "opt out" approach, or even do "opt in" (like Debian has an unattended upgrades package, for example: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades).

That said, due to the world that we live in, it's risky to forgo any sorts of security updates, especially in the context of networked devices and systems!
This is all worded rather technically to describe identity alignment.

If a lot of the world operated like Wallstreetbets, we’d have more sanity. Everyone there knows they are dumb, greedy, desperate, gullible, dumb.

Now if Wallstreetbets was a serious place, then the guy who went to this school, works at that company, would have more people trying to align their identity with that person via agreeing (formation of the echo cult).

But instead everyone on WSB is given one identity, that of a dumbass. That is the same as having no identity. You can’t even align, since it’s just another dumbass you’d be aligning with.

Small example, I’m not antivaxx, but if you even entertain antivaxx, even in my own head, I immediately think ‘shit, am I trumper?’. That’s how concocted our real identity based lives are.

———

Edit:

I want to add a little more to this point. Echo chambers are formed in the presence of ambiguity, as in, there’s enough ambiguity to carve out the tribe you belong to (which is a natural human desire). It takes an overwhelming amount of evidence for consensus to form where this natural inclination is short circuited. The perfect example of this is Afghanistan, where no one can possibly rationalize the validity of that war at this point. There are no echo chambers to run to in the face of overwhelming evidence.
That's because it doesn't: https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy/
Your friend's comment about Mexico may be debatable in some ways, but it hits upon something very important for dry, academic rankings and definitions of freedom.

I myself live in Mexico and on a practical daily level, life is in many ways more free and easy than it is in many highly developed countries that are ranked as highly free. I suspect that this applies for many other countries vs. certain developed nations.

For example, During the entirety of the COVID pandemic in particular, here, in this country, the level of control, tracking and restriction on freedom of movement and other related factors was extremely absent despite a government that's actually surprisingly experienced and has been previously applauded at dealing with pandemic responses and vaccination programs (in other words, it's not a question of aptitude, but of governing and social attitude during the pandemic). Aside from the entire debate about the need for COVID lockdowns and restrictions, one could really feel the difference in freedom of personal activity here vs. the stories being made about daily life in a number of other ostensibly far freer countries such as Australia, which has during COVID and for other reasons unrelated slid ever more into something resembling an authoritarian state.

That's just one example, and not an attempt to slide into a debate about COVID, just a presently relevant case sample of the times.

My overall point comes back to what I said at the beginning: that there are formal factors for freedom rankings, but also, there are practical factors that are hard to measure but often very valid when it comes to the business of daily life. They're worth keeping in mind too, because being free is also an innately human experience, not just a specific academic datum.

Also, Mexico legally has extremely strong press freedom, at all levels. The country is however grotesquely insecure in other ways and while there are virtually no authoritarian measures against press freedom, yes, reporters often die or suffer in other ways due to reasons related to pressures from organized crime and corruption. This itself could open a whole parallel debate about practical unfreedoms and academic unfreedoms, ie: countries that enshrine the formal rules of a free society but in practice lack them for numerous informal but heavy handed reasons.
A bit of googling says that New Zealand cows eat a lot of grain in both the beef and dairy industries. Grain is subsidized in many countries.
> Google Drive which I used to back up all of my data

Google Drive is not a backup of your data. We need to help people get to know this - I keep telling this to friends all the time, hardly anyone listens.
Hey everyone,

I have been working working on a tool for the past couple of months to help developers and designers create Tailwind CSS websites using a drag and drop interface and export your code with almost any edit option with custom code blocks to help you get started.

Its called Windframe and it enables you create Tailwind CSS websites visually in a very intuitive way, preview your designs and export your code to be used else where. Windframe comes with different templates you can customize and edit in almost any way you want. You can choose to edit using classes too if you are familiar with it or use the robust edit options available.

Windframe also allows you to save your edited website or prototype and get back to it later on. You can keep updating your website each time from Windframe and export your code when you are done.

I tried to make this a nice experience for developers and designers as much as possible and I am looking for new ways to also improve on this.

So the simple steps to use windframe will be:
- Drag and drop/Click any block
- Edit almost anything on the block
-Save your designs if you want to visit it later
- Preview your designs and
- Export your code when done.

I posted this a while back on r/sideproject and it got a lot of interest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/p2da67/i_final...

So I decided to post here as I am thinking this will be a useful tool to developers and designers here.

Been working on this for a while now and hoping this will be an awesome tool for creating websites and prototypes.

Appreciate any feedback, ideas or thoughts on this. Thank you
Of course, but you generally need to hold the phone with the screen facing down (as you are supposedly hard of seeing, e.g. https://youtu.be/wueLXCbm_KY?t=45). Here you could have a touchscreen or tactile buttons seamlessly integrated on the back of the device.
Thanks for sharing your anecdote. Mom & Dad didn't give me a call about your phones not charging yet, but knowing that it's doable is a relief.

I don't remember digging lint out of any previous USB generations either. Only a couple of USB-A connectors, which were integrated to some smaller MP3 players (yes, I remember them!).
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