skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple are slowly migrating to solutions that feature USB-C at some level, even if they keep Lightning on the phone itself. That's because EU authorities have signalled that they know Apple are taking the mickey, and will continue making more stringent rules until Apple play ball. E.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58665809
You need per capita not total. The population is much larger today. This is pure clickbait.

https://www.aier.org/article/are-covid-fatalities-comparable...
I agree that Apple won in court here, but I think they're losing the public perception game pretty badly.

I've never been a big Apple fan - and I speak up about it on various forums - up until about two years ago, no one really cared.

These last two years... The Anti-Apple sentiment is hitting HARD. Frankly - It was always an abusive company ("my way or the high way" seems like it could be their company motto), but now the products just aren't that good, and it shows.

Maybe the M1 devices will buy them some time, lord knows they need it after the cluster fuck of a computer that is the latest 16 macbook pro (work issued, it's the worst laptop I've used in the last 12 years).

But the phones are WAY too expensive for what you get - the UI is dissolving into a mess, the laptops are losing all the power user features that got folks interested in the first case, and the privacy-centric "User first" approach they market so hard is visibly turning into a pretty clear charade.

My prediction - This is going to be a pyrrhic victory. They're going to fight tooth and nail to hang onto this revenue stream (which is clearly simple rent-seeking behavior), and it's going to taint developer and user opinion across their main market. I personally went from "neutral/negative" on Apple to "Will not touch with a 20' pole - will not do business with or develop for"

Even at work - We have a large group of developers now asking to be issued something other than a macbook. I find that pretty damn telling.
If it’s not Facebook it will be another home grown crud app. Slavery in Middle East is an open secret. All middle class families have a servant or worse a child trafficked from poor countries like Bangladesh, India as bonded labor.
USB C's physical form is likely to remain stable for years to come. There seems to be plenty of room to evolve the cables and device capabilities while retaining physical backwards compatibility.

I mean, USB 4 can already do up to 40 Gbps, and upcoming versions of the standard are said to be going to 80 Gbps[1]

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16858/intel-executive-posts-t...
> We can't solve collective issues

Unless practically everything (food, transport, education)... becomes a collective issue and no space for individual liberty is left.

Honestly, I'd rather live on 1 degree warmer Earth with 1/100 of regulations/subsidies than the opposite. And this is my vote, yours is yours.

> If the food you eat has global externalities

Everything has externalities. Pesticides have externalities. Mining base materials to do just anything (a tractor to farm land, materials to build a house) decrease amount of nonrenewable materials, which is externality. Many meat substitutes are packaged in plastic materials made from oil.

There just must be acceptable level of negative externalities.
Most of Motorola's devices are unlockable, too. I run LinegeOS without Google tools on an $80 discount model from a few years ago.
Apple has until 2024 to conform, but by that time it’s likely the iPhone will be portless.

Interesting is that the older iPhones they sell which at that time would be something like iPhone 13/14 will also need to have USB-C.
>The Spanish flu was previously the disease event that caused the biggest loss of life in the United States; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 675,000 Americans died during the 1918

That's great, now do per capita, the population has, what, tripled since then?

>U.S. deaths make up roughly 14% of the nearly 4.7 million fatalities that have been reported worldwide in this pandemic to date, even though the country’s population comprises only about 4.2% of the global population.

Might this have something to do with testing? And are other countries using irresponsibly high PCR cycle thresholds for detection? While we're on the subject, why has the CDC recommended a lower Ct for vaccinated patients? Doesn't that just guarantee that a vaccinated patient is less likely to test positive, regardless of the efficacy of the vaccine?

>The heavy toll the pandemic has taken in the U.S. is due to the country’s inadequate response early on

Making sure to blame the previous administration, very nice. Meanwhile our numbers were comparable to many (most?) other first world countries, per capita. And this doesn't say anything about the role of testing and case reporting postmortem.

>Comparing events that happened more than a century apart has its perils. For instance, the population of the United States in 1918 was a third of what it is now.
Didn't stop you from writing an irresponsibly sensationalized article, did it?

>But modern medicine is far more advanced than what was available in 1918. Now people whose lungs are under attack from Covid can be put on ventilators

I think its an open secret that the aggressive ventilator use early on in the pandemic killed more people than should have been saved.

Im getting really tired journalists opining on the pandemic, totally ignorant of the laundry list of assumptions regarding infectivity, lethality, testing sensitivity/accuracy. Two years in and its still nonstop fear porn. Meanwhile the survival rate is 99.99+, even higher if you're under 50 and not obese.

But hey, don't forget to take your third "safe and effective" booster! Even though the CDC just admitted on live television that the so called vaccine does not prevent infection or spread, consistent with multiple preprints which showed similar viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated. But somehow we are still justified in mandates and passports...

Nothing about this pandemic makes sense anymore.
It has not been an excuse since 10+ years ago in the US.
I have a gergoplex this is making me want to pull out again
Mmm, I remember doing this, with select(3) for maximum portability and all... then learning that neither Linux nor Windows actually follow what POSIX says select(3) should do, e.g. how to report a socket with non-blocking connect(3) operation when it finally fails to connect: it should be reported as readable (reading from it would fail immediately and would not block), writeable (same reason), having exceptional condition pending (it has a pending error).

Nope, Linux reports it as readable/writeable but not having exceptional condition, while Windows reports it as only having exceptional condition pending but not as readable nor writeable. Beautiful, just beautiful. In the end you have to put sockets in such scenarios into all three sets and check what getsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR) returns for them, that's the portable way.
While this won't solve all problems with practical software freedom, it's still an important step into right direction, which will definitely help the free software ecosystem.

You can still buy phones with bootloader which can be unlocked, such as sony[1], but I agree that most doesn't have this option.

The fact that google's proprietary services are necessary for most proprietary applications to work doesn't mean that there isn't a value in a phone running kernel which is closer to an upstream. When you run a custom operating system based on linux kernel, you are less likely to run the proprietary google services anyway.

[1] https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/get-started/...
Yes, they do. When you say 6pm, everyone has an understanding of roughly when that is. Oops, it's early morning in India. How do you keep track of these translations? You'll just end up reinventing timezones again with extra steps.
Dont use it? Its not like Google is trying to force google meet on on you?
Or Microsoft is forcing edge on windows, oh yeah they already do it.
> ...but at least we all agree that we work 9am-5pm, wherever you are.

Do we?
>Why are we comparing raw numbers?

For the clicks and eyeballs. Bigger numbers make better headlines. This is journalism 101.
It's hard and expensive to maintain a forest for people to visit.

100 years from now, without an extraordinarily MASSIVE care fund, you would have a bramble full of weeds, with a few of the planted trees still alive, but certainly full of volunteer and other trees who grew accidentally, instead of on purpose. The memorial trees would die and need to be removed, much to the chagrin of the families, I would assume, based on how sensitive most people are about the memorials for family members that I've seen.

It's cheap to mow grass in a relatively flat field full of stones. Stones don't die, and really only need to be cleaned up every two or three years to stay looking new. Occasionally you may have to reset one on its base, if the original base is not deep or substantial enough.

Source: I sit on a cemetery board as the treasurer, and have actually planted and still maintain a small 50 acre woods on our farm.
This is very dependent on the country / culture.

In Germany, for example, a resume without a photo will most likely not even get considered.
Do they all support the high voltage modes? USB PD goes up to 20V/5A (100W).

https://www.cui.com/blog/usb-type-c-pd-and-pps#usb-power-del...
That's an epic summary of someone who totally bought into the Apple ecosystem. Not here to judge, of course, I am impressed! Wow!
Not saying it shouldn't be counted but it may not end up weighing the same in policy decisions. Would you take 1000000 life years from one age group and give it to an older one? Seems wrong doesn't it? Quality of life matters and it should be balanced against the obligations to our elderly not totally subjugated.
Very nice!!!

Care to share a bit about the tech stack?
Well, hard to tell for sure, once it has been announced by the CDC that at the end of this year the PCR tests used are not a valid source anymore for Covid-19 diagnosing [1], because among other problems, those tests are not able to provide a solid identification and differentiation between Covid and other diseases, as the suddenly disappeared flu disease.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...
yeah this sounds like "top grossing movie" phenomenon. Since the movie market is always growing and there's inflation, a top grossing movie today doesn't necessarily mean it's more successful/popular. eg. if you consider avatar (2009) which grossed $2.8B and titanic (1997) which only grossed $2.2B, titanic is actually the top grossing one once you account for inflation.
Hm? Back in 2005 I made a zoneinfo push feature in handheld scanners for a big manufacturer. The only delay in updating, should be bureaucratic.
I can see the good and bad in this. But as of right now USB C looks like the future with both the amount of power it can deliver as a port, as well as speed in terms of Thunderbolt 4, plus thunderbolt 4 will open up to not just intel if I understand correctly. Every single device in my house now uses USB C. From phone, laptop, tablet, to keyboard, air monitor, even my flashlights charge via USB C.
Reddit will only continue to harm it's own platform as they continue their uneven and inconsistent crackdown.

Maybe one day someone will make a social network that meets these people's criteria. Instead of a textbox you'll just have a radio button with the choice of "Meep." or "Meep!".
This has to be running with the ok of the government as a collection pot or he got the truncheon treatment and spit out all the passwords and the government is already running the platform.

Or he's just plain naive:
"To avoid the risk of his PC being grabbed while he's logged into AlphaBay, DeSnake says he also shuts it down entirely every time he steps away from it, even to take a bathroom break"

This will be equalized by a discreet truncheon treatment.
Google Pack (2009)
Yes it does. By default, any Phoenix application works this way just as any other app.

One of the biggest perks to the BEAM VM is how well it handles managing state though.

Most other languages aren't designed to do this well, so stateless web apps focus on just passing information from the client to somewhere else that holds the state (database, redis, etc).

Nothing is really stateless, it's just a question of where you decide to hold the state.
EU rules to force USB-C chargers for all phones
I mean, this isn’t intended as a serious input method to compete with your full size sit down keyboard. It’s for on-the-go.
> For charging? They pretty much are [the same].

If only that were true: https://www.engadget.com/2015-11-04-google-pixel-engineer-vs...

I've had more trouble with crappy USB-C cables [charging only] in the short time that's been a thing than the entire time of micro-USB.
People buy what they want to buy. Given the most efficient would be for example peas. Does it mean eating peas should be allowed but eating grains forbidden? Or are we going to do artificial cutoff by the divide meat/plants? Why? To make 10% of vegetarians happier?
So basically an issue is that initramfs is not validated. Is it even possible to resolve that issue? If new grub version adds forced initramfs validation when run under secure boot mode, attacker can just install old grub which is still signed, but allows for unsigned initramfs.

Of course everything but /boot must just be encrypted, there's no reason not to.
I'd love to see some solutions so I can learn how you're intended to solve these.
The way we name these things was in fact recently changed for precisely this reason. I forget where I read this, but yes, this is why it’s COVID 19 and not any of the other bad names that people tried to give it. Unfortunately, names for things in the past are harder to change, because people know it as the Spanish Flu, so even if you said the 1918 flu pandemic, you’d still have to clarify which one at this point in time.
Helping People Quit
Great work. Are you planning to offer more than one design to choose from?
Are you anti winter time or anti summer time though? I am anti the clocks going back in winter and making it even darker in the evenings, but some people want to scrap summer time so the evenings are darker all year round!
This seems like the natural lifecycle.

1. There are many features that we feel very valuable to our OS, so we will implement them and ship our OS without blocking on upstream approval and acceptance.
2. Maintaining these patches is expensive. We will try to upstream as much as possible.
3. Most of our patches have been upstreamed and most new kernel requirements are lower priority, we should prefer to upstream first to reduce the cost to migrate our OS from the original implementations to the upstreamed implementations.

At no point does it seem that the decision was "wrong". Obviously carrying a bunch of patches has downsides but at the earlier points in the OS lifecycle getting the features was probably much more valuable than the downsides were harmful.
The only reasonable explanation is they never believed in this standard to begin with and just assumed they could get away with selective enforcing rules like this when it's convenient for them to do so. It would be hard to argue that the iPhone and iMessage isn't more useful than a relatively simple image sharing site like Instagram when it comes to facilitating slavery.
What are you basing these opinions on?
Why do you think UBI is a bad thing and that it would institute a slave class?
What happened to that proposed US regulation that they will mandate alternate app stores on iPhone and make Google style strong-arming against other stores illegal.

This sounds like the best solution by far. Nothing changes for Apple walled garden users and happy Google Play users. The rest of us get better choices.
Does anyone feel it is a little strange to have a government entity mandating a physical interconnect? I guess it has worked out well enough for receptacles. But on a phone it acts as a data connection as well. I guess I just wonder if in 20 years will every device still have a USB-C port on it in some odd location? No one is using it anymore, but it is still mandatory on everything.
If you are good looking, they are a very good idea.

If you old and look younger than you are, they are an even better idea since they distract from your age.
This appears simply to be a link to:

https://www.science.org/action/cookieAbsent

Which says:

Cookie Absent

This website requires cookies to function properly.
Please enable cookies in your browser and try again.

Perhaps I've simply missed the point, but I feel like you've just wasted my time.
> I am afraid it does not matter any more, at least not for practical software freedom.

These new policies allow more "cross pollination" between mainline linux and the fork used by android. Waydroid running smoothly on an unmodified kernel is a result of this.

Waydroid is important "for practical software freedom" because it allows pinephone and librem-5 to run android apps.
that's not how it should be, that's how it is. The only way cheaper devices are so cheap is by cutting all the corners they can, and turns out one of the corners people don't care to be cut is their privacy and security
I wonder what % of phone users have actually used a cable to move data to or from their phone in the last couple of years. I have, but I'm a weird nerd who likes to plug in removable storage once every 6 months or so.
My personal open source evening hacking project for the last year or two has been a Kotlin multiplatform project. It's language interpreter that runs on the JVM, Native and Javascript.

Since the project is an interpreter, it's easy to do performance testing between the different platforms. I just write some program in my language, and run it on each implementation.

The results are interesting. The JVM target is consistently 20 times faster than native. Now some of this is because memory allocations are so fast in the JVM, so if your programs does less memory allocations the difference won't be that great. However, if you compile Kotlin to native code, one has to accept that it's much slower.

Another problem with native compilation is that it's quite slow. I wouldn't want to do all my development using native, but rather develop using the JVM and then compile to native for the use cases that need it.

The only time I think that native would make sense is if you absolutely cannot run the JVM for some reason. One such reason would be for embedded (which would have to be ARM, since that's the only embedded architecture that's supported).
Just charged my phone with my laptops Usb-C charger, without any issue. Apart from special features like fast-charge, I'd say compatibility is very good.
Trust me, it's always a rabbit hole; with claims like "humans used to be entirely, or mostly, vegan and got our vitamin b12 from eating the dirt on root vegetables" or "if we stopped washing our fruits and vegetables we would get enough from the bacteria on the produce"
Depends very much on the country. With a photo, in some, your resume will immediately thrown out to avoid any repercussions for a possible bias that did not lead to hiring. In others, without a photo, your resume will not be read.
This is what I meant: https://www.wired.com/2013/12/better-data-security-nail-poli...
You might have a good point but changing it now would just be confusing. Historically it has been called the Spanish Flu and I assume everything referencing it during that time uses the word Spanish. I think a mention of how it wasn't actually from Spain is plenty good, there's no reason to alter the name. I think it's good that everyone knows it was historically called the Spanish Flu.
That is what is is known by. If they wrote 1918 flu pandemic more readers would be confused.
I've read on forums that if you use a really thin, small metal device, e.g. a sewing needle for example, you'll be able to dig up tons of tiny lint and make the port work like new again. You say yours is free of debris but it's possible you used thicker tools, and didn't manage to dislodge it all.
My only thought is what will happen when someone invents a new charger that is significantly superior to what currently exists.
Features for Short Text Sentiment Classification
States can opt out, but it has to be "recognized" by the federal government, which afaict requires legislation.

Louisiana's legislature voted for permanent DST this year, but it's on hold waiting for federal blessing.
Once you get past their family friendly PR, Apple has always been a pretty ruthless company. That said, Epic has also massively overplayed their hand and they shouldn't be surprised that Apple's called the bluff.
So much noise, so little signal.
Yes, LinkedIn has a resume builder: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/94034/linkedin...

I may just lack imagination, but I am struggling a bit to see the niche for the linked tool vs using LinkedIn (lower effort, consumes existing data) or a downloadable template (high/same effort, but more customizable and no leaked PII).
They could at least stop profiting from companies who openly engage in slavery and genocide.
This seems pretty obviously something to encourage naive users to find and test and get caught.
In Guix, every package is derived from a tiny set of "bootstrap binaries", that will soon be reduced to a ~512 byte machine code seed:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstra...

That means the famous "trusting trust" attack mostly does not apply. There are a few pre-compiled binaries lurking in Guix's dependency graphs, such as GHC, but they will be properly bootstrapped as soon as someone figures out how, see <https://www.bootstrappable.org/projects.html>.

Also important to note that no one is uploading packages to Guix. The CI system builds everything automatically, and you can opt out of "binary substitutes", compile everything locally, and still end up with (mostly) identical binaries.
That was my initial thought as well. But by forcing more unity in fast-charge protocol variants and by requiring clear information about required/delivered power on the packaging, it seems that they have an answer to this.
>It probably also opens us to accusations of mishandled data / bad interpretation by the company, though?

Isn't that how science works? I also don't think they're called accusations.

You work with data and you state something based on that data. Someone else may point out that some steps of the process are flawed, or the data is flawed. That's the very nature of this.
Point is, they are just plugs. You can put routes in an endpoint, it'll work just fine. The distinction is just a -often useful- prescriptive opinion by Phoenix. (Plug does not split between endpoints and routers)
Very nice! Have to point out the spelling error, losing* not loosing.
Because otherwise a car crash in a small town would be equivalent to a major terror attack in NYC, or Jack the ripper could be considered a minor offender compared to a modern day involuntary manslaughter. There is a time and place for normalized statistics, but for some situations, loss of life is something that matters.

Edit: I got the arrow of time mixed up in the jack the ripper example, but you get the idea.
You make this sound like some kind of achievment.