skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ime fairphone is good enough hardware, but the software and experience is a trainwrek despite their best to emulate the iphone feeling. given they only sold a few thousand of each series, i would still count them very much as "small effort"
Apple’s market share is growing, not eroding.
Really in us it's Samsung and apple, and Samsung is content just matching Apple's price for it's flagship. Wonder why we don't have a phone market like China with all these phone makers.
It seems to me that the term "equity" triggers a lot of people. As someone who only sees it as a positive term, can you explain the skepticism around this? I understand that there are quite a lot of controversial things related to racial justice -- many of which do seem to be clearly controversial -- but I don't understand how this relates to the idea of equity. I would appreciate an explanation. (I'm not looking for a heated conversation here, just trying to understand different perspectives!)
> Here's the fun part: Google considered suing, but recognized that this would trigger the Streisand Effect and let him off the hook.

Well, their strategy worked because I’ve never heard about this book.
You can't just get a smaller loan every year.
Bitcoin mining in US surges above China after crackdown
That is the issue with any guest language, because it is impossible to hide the platform, unless the language is so constrainted that is practically useless.

It is a hard to swallow truth, but guest languages really require understanding of the underlying platform.

Another example, no matter one's opinion on C or JavaScript, mastering them is a much more confortable life on UNIX/POSIX platforms and browsers than trying to pretend they aren't there.
Blitz is getting tons of traction. Thousands of businesses all around the world are using it in production including Algolia and GraphCMS.

Over 400 new projects are being created every day.

Keep in mind, Blitz is still pre-1.0, so there's a lot of folks wanting to use it that are waiting until 1.0 (expected by end of year).

But overall, it's only 1.5 years old. Getting massive adoption just takes time.
You did not offend me(with the first post) and I did not downvote you. I just explained, why you received negative feedback - basically missunderstanding. But talking about missunderstanding: I understand your last comment as snarky, unwarranted sarcasm. This I would downvote.
In those situations I usually just write some throw away code so the application loads up in the desired state
Not that those people don't exist, but the whole "I bet those people are going to have this reaction" is just as much political bickering (and therefore conversation poison) as the behavior your predicting.
It is backed by an association (for a lack of a better word, the e.v. part) and the awards usually get some press in Germany, at least in the tech/computer/... realm.
Is it necessary to constantly lie about what kind of lockdowns various countries had?
There is something to be said for migrating to where one's efforts and beliefs are compatible with the prevailing governance.
I used open BSD for a little while. It's very simple, clean, and elegantly designed. If you're looking to learn more about Unix, then you'll have a lot of fun with OpenBSD.

If you want to use it as a daily driver, you're probably going to run into some headaches. That being said, if you're willing to put in some time, learn a little bit and forgo some software here and there, you certainly *could* use OpenBSD as a daily driver. One really cool thing about OpenBSD is that the OpenBSD devs use the OS as their daily driver.

You'll likely keep hearing about how good the OpenBSD man pages are. I always thought this was a weird thing to mention and make a big deal about. But holy crap, the OpenBSD documentation is amazing. Reading it has definitely made my own documentation at work significantly better.

The downside? There are a couple. The biggest two are that, 1) you're not going to find a lot of the software you might normally use; and 2) The performance is not great and battery life is not very good.
There's tons of competition in terms of products, but Apple wins on marketing every time. They are able to charge a massive markup by leveraging their market placement as a luxury brand.
Not at all. This is backed by https://digitalcourage.de/, which is a pretty well-established association
I didn't read your username at first, and about 3/4 of the way through I asked myself, "Wait, is this Matthew Green?"

Just letting you know from here on out you'll never be to pull off a nom-de-plume.
If arrays are separate types, pointer arithmetic becomes redundant: you can't add one to a pointer to get to the next element anymore. That would remove an entire class of problems.

Pointer to array would still be a thing, of course, but it would always only point to the _array_, without the ability to manipulate it to point to another part of the array.
So, because the DoD uses a lot of energy, we should be okay with the energy a speculative asset consumes?
> a CS prof I once had always insisted we dropped permissions and capabilities as soon as we were done with them

Only once?? Doing this should be muscle memory for working devs.
"Failed Windows update affected robot sniper dogs, 35 dead."
Just yesterday I witnessed my friend type a url into the google search bar (on the results page). She found what she was looking for, so I guess that's alright.
Not from pointers, though.
I'm surprised, I found clojure even while I was a pretty much total beginner programmer fairly easy to get into, via clojure for the brave and true at least was very good for getting the basics.
Absolutely! The first time I heard of Electronic Arts was from Archon in the early 80's. It's a positive association, and I thought the name "Electronic Arts" was pretty damn cool for a video game company, maybe even bordering on pretentious. I lost most interest in PC games as I got into Linux and open source, but for me EA had a generally positive connotation due to Archon.

And on reflection, while Archon was a good game it didn't have enough much depth to make it something truly groundbreaking. Maybe someone should make an updated version of the game. I'm afraid that whatever today's EA would put out would only tarnish my positive memories though.
Microsoft Abandons LinkedIn in China, Citing Challenging Operating Environment
I think we might be missing the big picture here. Apple captures 75% of the profit from handset market share. The rest is split between high end Android devices from say Samsung and low-end commodity Shanzhan android devices.

But in the Android sphere Google is clearly capturing the profits from Android devices on software.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...

In addition to profits, Google does not have to pay for the search bar to be highlighted and their apps to be installed:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...
I thought that coding was the most important part of a developer's job. That writing good, elegant, maintainable code was the value I brought.

I was wrong.

The real value is in solving a problem, and that includes the whole problem, not just the part amenable to software.

I learned I was wrong when I joined a startup that was delivering real estate data to phones (this was pre-iphone, so quite a mess in terms of writing code). I wrote some j2me, and we actually had a product that allowed someone to search from the phone for home information.

While we had the tech, we didn't have (oh so many things):

* distribution
* a business model
* full time effort from any of the founders

This showed me that there are many many things that are responsible for the success or failure of a software product/project beyond the code.
Samsung does have its stores in my country (Czechia). Very much inspired by Apple, touting flagship phones and all.
The real crime? Lockdowns didn't change a darned thing - I wish I could say I'm amazed the press doesn't talk about Sweden at all; sadly at this point I expect them to be biased and interested at protecting the current political narrative more than actually doing their jobs.

Context: https://fee.org/articles/sweden-s-top-infectious-disease-exp...
> You tell a cab driver to take you to Morton's Meats

If the cab ride was free sure, but you are explicitly paying for a cab to take you to your intended route.

HUGE difference.
It made me switch from Linux.

If it doesn't sound compelling to you, that's okay too, Linux is great. But I do think focusing on the consistency of design really is the best high-level summary of the difference between Linux and OpenBSD.
Covid No. 1 cause of death for 35- to 54-year-olds in September
How many App Store purchases matter? I’ve bought hundreds of apps over the years, but really don’t care about them. Nobody uses a lot of paid apps, and a lot of them have moved to subscriptions anyway.
TSMC building new chip factory in Japan, but warns of tight supply through 2022
Since transparency is the opposite of lack of transparency, I don't understand how transparency can have bad effects without the opposite (lack of transparency) having the opposite (good) effect.

It can't both be the case that transparency ever has bad effects and lack of transparency never has good effects: pick one of the bad effects of transparency and introduce "lack of transparency" in its place. Isn't that bad effect now gone? Isn't that a good effect of the lack of transparency?
...and that ksh descended from pdksh, and is distributed as the oksh portable project here:

https://github.com/ibara/oksh

The MirBSD Korn Shell also descended from pdksh, and it can be found here:

http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm

I don't know about the feature differences and code quality between these two; they both implement most of ksh88, and a small amount of ksh93.

I prefer mksh when I need something more than a POSIX shell.
You're literally asking "Is geography so unique that only planes in a certain geography fly a large number of planes in a certain state".
I don't know, I don't use distributions with imperative state management.
Right, so we have a number of advantages of automation that aren't captured in a simplistic time calculation like the "Is It Worth the Time?" XKCD:

- if you can do something more quickly you might also choose to do it more often

- automation can reduce human errors

- once something is fully automated it can be used as a building block in a larger piece of automation

I can think of one more:

- automation can make it easier to hand over work to someone else, or increase the number of people who are able to do it

But also one disadvantage:

- automating something can lose a human "sanity check" (for example, you could generate reports full of missing data and maybe nobody will notice for a while)

Any more?
> privileged elite class

Professors most certainly are not a "privileged elite class." They're research/teaching specialists. Your talking point sounds straight out of some right-wing website/tv channel.
~"95% of car crash deaths are those wearing a seatbelt"
Does that mean seatbelts are harmful? no.
Almost everyone wears a seatbelt, so the overall deaths are much lower than if everyone didn't wear a seatbelt.

P.S I couldn't be bothered looking the actual number up because the vaccine claim is ridiculous.
My two daughters went through Japanese public schools in Tokyo and Yokohama, and I now teach and do research about education-related topics at a university in Tokyo. My research focus is not student behavior, but I sometimes visit schools and I hear a lot of anecdotes about elementary and secondary schools from teachers and college students.

My impression is that, overall, the bullying is probably not significantly worse than in other countries, but that perhaps more media attention is focused on the issue than elsewhere. There was a major moral panic in the mid-1980s about school bullying, and the media continue to report regularly on statistical trends and extreme incidents.

Anecdotally, there seems to be a lot of variation among schools. More than one public school teacher has confided to me about how different the kids are in different neighborhoods. Japan may seem homogeneous, but there’s a lot of local variation by social class. In the tougher schools, there can be fighting, stealing, and bullying, while in other schools that might be practically unknown. Private schools can be very different from public, too, and there are a lot of single-gender schools, which have their own dynamics. Certain aspects of Japanese culture, such as age-based hierarchies, may be stronger or weaker or play out differently in different types of schools as well.
Looks pretty good! I will say, as someone who programs in their day job and has been trying for ages to get into game dev as a hobby, love2d [0] has been excellent for getting started. My github has a few repos of previous attempts at making simple games (in .cpp, .rs, etc) which I abandoned from the amount of work it took.

If you're in a similar boat, I would recommend checking the framework out. Lua's a pleasure to program in and you can focus on the game development itself instead of getting bogged down in the details of rust / cpp. In fact I've been thinking lately about how easy it would be to use it for things other than games -- quick prototyping of graphical simulations, psychophysics experiments, etc.

[0]: https://love2d.org/
The amazon.com results are only slightly different compared to co.uk: https://i.judge.sh/verifiable/Glimglam/chrome_LrAiLBZiPM.png
It's a fair question considering that's been a de facto rule on social media, despite people using code words to get around that.

But I am not sure that was ever the case here on HN, so I don't know why they used the word "still".
ooc why didn't you try NetBSD? Isn't running on every little device kinda their wheelhouse?
We have real evidence the lockdowns were totally unnecessary - see: https://fee.org/articles/sweden-s-top-infectious-disease-exp...

And yet they still persist in many parts of the world.
What I find more troubling is that amazon allows unmoderated user input to appear as suggestions.
Yes I understand and the comment was using an example of heroin being illegal due to it's addictive nature as a comparison to just stopping cellphone usage. Ergo, I assume they were trying to suggest laws banning smart phones for people or limiting their usage is necessary.

My stance is that is not the appropriate measure.
The readme specifically mentions Yubikey support. Given the restrictions with Secure Enclave (no import, export, or backup), a smart card or Yubikey probably would be better.
Amazon branded items don't bother me much, personally. I've found they're always reasonable quality at good prices. I've had an amazon backpack that I used for years before the pandemic, an Amazon mouse that I've been using for years, and so on.

No, what really irks me about Amazon is when I search for something and find a thousand products of different brands that are essentially the same, none of which are what I'm looking for. Usually this happens when you want something really specific.

One example, I was looking for a moss pole to train my tropical houseplants on. A requirement for me is a pole with real moss: coco coir doesn't hold enough moisture to build aerial roots on a tropical plant. I search "moss pole" on amazon and for pages and pages I only see coco coir poles of the exact same design (I tried this again right now and I see there's exactly one pole with real moss on the first page, an improvement for now)

This phenomenon has happened to me multiple times, where my search results in dozens of brands of seemingly identical products that aren't in the least what I want. Combined the usual quality problems of these nameless brands, it gets very difficult to buy anything on Amazon unless I already know the exact brand to buy from.
https://catpics.foo
We mostly learn by trial and error. So do users need to be shielded from making mistakes?
>>It would seem that we would need to know what kind of part this is if we want to continue flying and trusting Boeing.

>While I agree that Boeing should tell us which specific part it is,

In general, it's bad business etiquette to publicly name & shame defects/mistakes made by business partners or company employees. Whether a supplier messed up a titanium part or a Facebook employee misconfigured a router, you don't call out their names in public.

Yes, it's understandable we readers would want to know all the dirty details but Boeing giving us that may also have the opposite effect: less safety instead of more.

In this case, it was the supplier that notified Boeing about the defect. If Boeing publicly outed that supplier to the press, that adds perverse incentives for the supplier (and other suppliers) to not notify airplane manufacturers in the future which creates unsafe planes.

On the other hand, it's probably good if Boeing privately notifies the FAA inspectors so they are alerted to it. Maybe they already shared that information.
How is this different from generic products being promoted at stores?
Then wouldn't there be a good use case for a performant version in Javascript? Javascript runtime is much faster than either Python or Javascript, so just doing the same thing would be a huge improvement.
http://archive.today/XnbnU
How about you start reading the actual article, rather than pushing a conspiracy theory by Just Asking Questions, that are answered in the article that is being discussed.
> Both Go and JavaScript have parallel garbage collectors, but Go's heap is shared between all threads while JavaScript has a separate heap per JavaScript thread.

It actually implies that JS GC can be faster because it doesn’t require global locks and can collect garbage in parallel.
Mirror: https://imgur.com/OPVQstH
energy is a finite resource sold on a market. if bitcoin miners are willing to pay higher price for it - what's your problem?

if you want population to pay less for energy - vote for a government that will subsidize that.
Really? The fact that an uncredentialed and inexperienced young woman could raise so much money for a fraudulent company indicates that there may be some pro-female sexism in venture capital funding.
U.S. crude oil price tops $80 a barrel, the highest since 2014
Competition for profit share or market share?

Globally Apple has a marketshare of about 26%. Even in the US, Apple has just over 50% marketshare.

The fact that they are capturing the majority of the profit is reflective of business strategy and priorities.

Apple makes a lot of money from the smartphone itself. Other providers are making their money by selling out their users.

You would either need to go head-to-head with Apple on price and quality of the device and OS and distribution, or compete with Google in terms of selling out your users. Or you would need to find a back-end monetization strategy based on paid services that, so far, seems elusive. Mostly, I think, because it requires a huge portfolio of services (e.g. a "Netflix phone" won't cut it).

As an aside, I've long felt that that latter strategy could be applied in the browser market. Make a browser with a subscription-based services package. ChromeOS+Workspace is mostly there, except for the focus on crap devices and poor distribution and the never ending customer exploitation (Google's product playbook: crap sold at flea markets with AI support).

The challenge folks like Canonical face is that they try to compete with Google on price and distribution, and compete with Apple on privacy alone. So they skip out on both proven ways of making money. That's just not going to scale. Such players will always be niche players, and there are plenty of them out there toiling away without a scalable business model. Which is fine, if you accept them for what they are.
“Our society relies on having a pool of people who cannot be easily silenced by their employers.”

Those people are not tenured college professors.
I recently wanted to try adding some diagrams to a markdown-formatted README file in a Github Enterprise repo. I saw a few solutions but they all seemed to require me to roll some kind of service or automation to generate a raster image of the diagram and reference that from the markdown. There's an outstanding feature request for Github to integrate this kind of thing in their markdown rendering. But it's been languishing for years. Of course, Gitlab has had it for a while.

If Github's not careful, Gitlab will eat their lunch.

Gitlab should be careful not to make their product into "The Homer" [1], though.

[1] https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer
There's definitely something: Google, Microsoft or Amazon launching a sub $300 smartphone and an ad campaign making fun of people spending a thousand dollars for nothing extra.

It feels like FAAMG minus Google don't want to compete with each other on the consumer side.
This also likely doesn't account for post-sale profit, ie. other manufacturers might have spyware/"sponsored content" baked into the OS to recoup some margin.
> Apple has shown you can make pretty great revenue-per-sq-ft with a store. Samsung copies everything else Apple, why not the stores?

Apple has shown that Apple can make amazing revenue-per-sq-ft.
>It'd be like if Walmart came to your small town and signed a deal with the local government that stores had to carry their brands in addition to their own or pay higher taxes.

Not really? You can get around amazon's "extremely dominant platform" by setting up a shopify store. I'm not sure how that can be compared to the government forcing you to amazon.
Nowadays I feel Amazon's main insight (originally) was to test feasibility of an online searchable/shoppable version of Walmart.
> Yes, you can.

I can indeed.

apt-get install fsharp

(although it pulls in 300MB of dependencies :( )

This is great.

How times have changed!
You can get more than 100% of the profits if everyone else loses money. I do remember that being very nearly true for Apple at one point.
If both management and labor say it's not X, Occam's razor would almost immediately eliminate X.

It would probably eliminate X even if one of them said it's not X assuming the other did not say it is.
That energy has output besides random hashes.
This. I know an intellectual property lawyer and was told without a legal contract in place there is no way to assert your property rights in a court of law. Legally speaking, you own nothing.
Electric vehicles need to lighten up to reach net-zero
Lithium-ion technology offers a significant step up from the nickel-metal hydrogen batteries developed in the ’80s. These temperamental batteries were susceptible to overcharging and tended to overheat during use — side effects that could cause performance issues and damage hardware in sensitive electronics.
I've built a domain tracking tool cause I've been missing the renewal dates
Signs indicate housing market may be cooling off, economists say
C2PA is an actual serious attempt to figure out the problem of cryptographic claims over media, but doesn't attract the same type of attention because it isn't associated with blockchain boosters. That's a shame.

https://c2pa.org/public-draft/
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28851484 (548 points/1 day ago/230 comments)