skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The macOS Finder still displays Windows machines on the network as CRT monitors showing the BSOD I believe. I’m not in front of my Mac now so can’t check.
The international banking system is coordinated by the SWIFT network, and all inter-bank messages are encoded in EBCDIC. If you transfer money between countries, or get statements from a broker, chances are it lived in EBCDIC at one point in it's journey.
That Word doesn't work (well) in Linux is a big reason why I still have Windows on my home computers.
There are (at least) two kinds of dependencies:

1. Complex libraries and mechanisms that you couldn't (or are complex enough that you wouldn't) make on your own.

2. leftpad.

The former is worth using in many situations. I would not make any kind of network protocol implementation myself in most cases because, while I can, I don't have time to do it correctly (vice hiring a proper expert or purchasing/using an expert made implementation).

The latter is the garbage that causes problems, for various reasons. The ubiquity, for instance, of this totally trivial package broke a lot of other systems when they could have been replaced with a very small (and easily shown correct) bit of your own code. The other problem is that they are opportunities for corruption of your system. The more dependencies you have (direct or indirect via transitive dependencies) the more attack surface area (poor code permitting an attack) or potential for others to insert attacking code (the code isn't just insecure, but it's actually the attack itself).
If Sundar decided to fight this (I'm not saying he would), then Google would probably file for an injunction to quash the request. No arrests, no raids.
> last time I checked, SpaceX wasn’t promising 80% of its rockets would work back in its early days.

Is your criticism that these places are making false promises, or:

> “Move fast and break things” doesn’t work when the “things” are humans, not code and technology.

RCTs and placebos work exactly this way. People literally die to help us learn what does and does not work. We lost 8-9 months of COVID-19 deaths because of a system that needs to go slow, and yet had experimentation regimes that still put participants at risk.

I don't know of any verification method that doesn't require some degree of risk for the participants, but I'd love to hear one.
If this works for you: I've found that it's good practice to mount root as read-only once your software configuration is stable, and try to use tmpfs for everything.
Uneditorialized article title: "Australia Covid update: as most Victoria restrictions lift next month, ‘vaccinated economy’ to stay for 2022"
Do you have any recommendations or a shortlist?
> This notion that Apple just bullied everyone out of 5nm is not backed by fact.

In the context of laptops, its true. Neither Intel or AMD has chips being built on TSMC N5 or a comparable process. AMD is on TSMC N7, and Intel is currently on their own 10 nm process, moving to "Intel 7" with Alder Lake which is getting formally introduced in 2 days.
1969 here, and my Mom used to yell "Hey you guys!" exactly in the style of Rita Moreno when she wanted us to come in for dinner. Back then of course, we would go outside and play all day or after school, so we'd inevitably be down the street somewhere...
Ensuring user privacy _from you_ can be an effective defensive measure for small companies who cannot afford to mount a meaningful legal defense.

"Here's all the data we have, officers. We don't have the keys. Good luck."
I believe it's web based for cross platform. So equivalent to Google Meet and with similar UX limitations.
Yes. If you use iCloud Photo Library then CSAM is scanned server-side.

Same it has always been and no different to every other service.
This comes from the company that still shows non-Mac PCs in the network as CRT monitors, showing a blue screen of death.
UK likes to put your full name on bank cards and spend a long time to convince Lloyds to put my initials + last name instead.

Why would I want a random user in a shop to know my full name?!?
The oddly fascinating piece of trivia from all this is the following: voicemail has more protection ( requires an actual warrant ) than your internet searches.
Scientists make breakthrough in understanding how penicillin works
Nope - not client-side, but server-side, it's been there for, like, half a decade.
cloudflared service itself has been running fine. If there were other issues, such as connectivity, then I don't know. Didn't experience any.

OTOH, I'm beginning to migrate to pfsense and pfblockerng at home. So, it is possible that I may retire my pi-hole at some point. Currently I'm running both as I transition and test.
Kalashnikov's autobiography is worth a read if you're into small arms. Most interesting to me was his description of how competitors for a large acquisition were tested.
I still don't understand how Microsoft reinvented itself. Did they manage to sell some very large and entrenched companies on Azure, or what?
Only if you have no sense of humor :).

Reminds me of how hugely offended some people were that the icon for a Windows PC in Mac OS X’s network browser was a blue screened monitor.
You shouldn't think it's just the Search. Google also owns Chrome and Android.
> EC2 micro instance on AWS running StrongSwan

Just curious, how many captchas do you solve with this setup daily? Or even IP bans?

I did exactly the same thing once and it was so annoying.
I'd go even further. As long as you want to communicate your ideas via code it does not matter whether you work with juniors or seniors. You want to limit the cognitive strain caused by unnecessarily complicated code.
While someone with experience in solving a larger-scale problem could certainly be expected to solve one at a smaller scale, the result might be too costly and complex for a company that is not Google to build and maintain.

To use a very rough analogy, if you have a family and need to haul the kids to school and soccer practice, you'd probably want a minivan or small SUV. Sure, you could buy a school bus or minibus and hire someone with a CDL to drive it. That would certainly work, but would it be the right choice?
Yes, the AMD A-series would be comparable. However, they also have ultra-low-power Ryzen Embedded series. [0] Their embedded machines get down to as low as 6W.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15554/amd-launches-ultralowpo...
> I tried to convince the CEO of Research In Motion, who I worked for, that WhatsApp would end up destroying his business. He thought I was insane for thinking something so small and simple could have such a big effect on his big, important company. Yeah, well, whatever you say, man.

I remember selling every BlackBerry stock I had when I got my hands on their touchscreen phone (the Storm was it?).

3 years behind the original iPhone, while Apple had just launched the 3G with the App Store. Guess which phone (and stock) I purchased then?

Was there really no-one at BlackBerry following what was going on in the valley at that time?
See also HN's reaction to Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
This article shows why - actual performance in games isn't great. Yes, its partially held back by x86->ARM translation, but if you are a gamer, this isnt a particularly compelling system.
It's blog-/reprint-spam of the original Forbes Article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/googl...
And for that matter, data can only be processed and transmitted at a certain efficiency.
The Daily Mail is terrible, but so is Media Bias fact check. Their methodology is a joke regardless of your politics.
But then they'd have to show the corresponding person in the video call as being nothing but a floating nose.
Tesla keeps ignoring the government’s requests to fix Autopilot
>even if it’s uncouth diatribes from unpleasant people

HUGE Caveat: negative feedback is not always constructive feedback. I imagine the kind of feedback devs fear isn't

>There's this weird clipping problem with the character on this level that can rarely cause you to get stuck in the floor

it's

>OMG why can't I even move in this game, did the dev even playtest this shit?

Even if they are technically saying the same thing, the latter makes me want to discord the "feedback" as some dramatic user. Even if I ignore the language, there's not much action I can take to address the issue, whereas non-diatribe negative feedback user gave me an exact level at the bare minimum to start off at.

And it's the internet. It may not be the most common feedback, but in this day of "likes", people sure do like to hoist the latter kind of comment up for devs to see first.
I don't think it's as complicated as you make it out to be. It's just adding to the "Do not disturb" option that's been there for ages. You can still use that indiscriminate DND option and ignore the rest.

But some of us do want certain messages to breach while we're working.
That is a valid consideration. Touché.
For engineering or other pragmatic types? Definitely. For those who are used to hard reality and know how to make it fit in a nice way or move on like field sales? Often.

For most everyone else? There is often a need to provide at least some surface ‘here is why everything is not actually super terrible so you should stay’ sugar coating or it is not going to go down well.

The larger the group, the more apparent the effect and I suspect it’s due to lack of trust and/or familiarity with the speaker. If you’ve had your sleeves rolled up and been in the trenches with someone, you either know you can’t trust them already (and in which case, why are you still here?!?), or can trust them well and can see a positive outcome if it works.

If you can’t trust them, it’s just a signal that things are terrible and don’t know how terrible they really are - and what choice does someone have to anchor and assume it’s worse (or maybe a little better).
There's a web client. Non-apple devices can join calls but can't initiate them.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212619
great stuff, can you make it bigger btw? does it helps you to read better actually?
All my travel is within Europe and I stay only in budget hotels. Everywhere I have been I have not seen convenient place to charge car. Actually I have seen electric cars even as cheaper option than traditional cars when renting. IMO it's a good option for a few days when you don't need to recharge. There are limited vacation days and I am not ready spend this time thinking about charging
This is the same company that displays Windows machines it finds on the network with a Blue Screen of Death. You have to really zoom in on that icon to see it, but it's there. As a Certified Apple Fanboi(tm), such pettiness bothers me. I'd go as far as to call it unprofessional. But macOS rules and Windoze droolz, amirite?
In my recollection it wasn‘t about saving 10 cents in the beginning, but about saving 1-2$ per message, since one of the first use cases it enabled was free international texting.
That was a HUGE benefit.
All the first evangelists I knew were in long distance relationships ;)
for most topics, I'd say the quality of conversation is high, but for some topics HN is pretty much an echo chamber. Some unpopular opinions for some topics are down voted pretty heavily, and very quickly.
The BN-800 Fast Reactor – A Milestone on a Long Road
What improvements in your girlfriend's daily workflow would she say are most notable, did she mention?
We Built a Cross-Platform Library with Rust
It's just annoying when they don't have a sense of humor about their products but have a negative sense of humor about other's.
COVID hospitalization rates are 1-5% and much lower still for lower-risk demographics like those under 49. And hospitalization generally lasts a couple weeks, not more.

Moreover, COVID burns itself out as the population lacking immunity dwindles with the pandemic's advance. It's a transient phenomenon. The economic damage it causes would seem to pale in compairson to the damage done by severe restrictions imposed for months/over-a-year on the entire population, including the majority who are healthy and relatively unsusceptible to it.
A New Therapeutic Candidate for Dengue
I always find it funny that MBAs struggle with math and that so many MBAs aren't actually that good at excel. It seems like it is a core tenant of success of the program. I fully understand that business isn't strictly math and there are so many other dimensions of importance. However in its purest form, it is mathematical.

Then again I guess you could always buy talent to shore up your insecurities.
AlphaStar vs. AlphaStar Starcraft match with commentary
You don't need to bring irrational individual behavior into it: you can get rock-paper-scissors group cycles even when every voter has a well-ordered list of preferences.

As a basic example, imagine voters prefer whoever is closer to them on some 2-dimensional politics. 3 candidates form a triangle. Draw the altitudes to form six regions, and put a voter in alternating ones. That's a rock-paper-scissors cycle, with very simple rational voters.
Well in college I only used LyX and I never knew LaTeX and I never found it easier to learn Word's equation editor.
thank you! for your time and such a detailed response, it sounds very reasonable
Current anti-discrimination laws, in many places, make it illegal to kick someone out of where they live, based on their race, even if it was done with "consensus".

Thats what I am talking about, regarding anti-discrimination laws.
The last paragraph sums it up real well:

I know about the traditional Amish; they don’t count because they have never been wired. I’m most interested in Neo-Amish drop outs. (There’s a Neo-Amish MeetUp group, which I think is self-disqualifying.)
> I'm talking about expressly restricting the kinds of topics scientists are allowed to speak about with media, the conclusions of the research being altered by political appointees, etc.

I don't think the right is any worse than the left in this respect either. Looking at a small number of examples is not a good approach. This has been going on for decades, as I said, and it affects pretty much everything that we all think we know outside of perhaps hard science like physics or astronomy and mathematics.

For one thing, every single one of the references you give is a partisan source; none of them are from neutral observers. Arguably there aren't any neutral observers, at least none that have a media channel through which to publish. So it's basically impossible to actually get an unbiased view from anyone. The only way to really form your own opinion would be to dig down to the original primary sources and evaluate the actions and decisions they describe on the merits, based on the information the actual people involved had at the time--which in many cases won't even be available to the public for decades, so it's useless as far as trying to decide about contemporary issues. But by doing such historical studies on the handling of past issues, one can at least uncover general patterns of how governments, media organizations, and other large bureaucracies and oligarchies handle such things, which can be useful in fueling a healthy skepticism about whatever they are saying about contemporary issues. Any such healthy skepticism will be equally directed at both left and right.
Intense pareidolia a quarter of the way across, of a sci-fi warrior/genie dude holding up a weapon.
For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!
This is where the discussion turns silly, as agile/agility is not a process.
that's also a good example of how it's often mostly or partly faked through displacement as well though. your CD and DVD collection has been replaced by round the clock maintenance of the storage and transmission of that data, from the record label or movie studio through various data centers, via a number of middle-men companies all requiring their own ever-changing and complex infrastructures, through a system of caching and routing and cabling to your house, which needs to take place over and over, forever. The only dependencies for your old collection was shelving and the electricity grid, otherwise they were stamped out of plastic once and good for at least a few decades.
Ah, good point. Thanks for saying that and I apologize for my absurdity.

I nonetheless do still find it funny that people in the information age still believe in bronze age concepts used to describe the world.
Artificial intelligence sheds light on how the brain processes language
EC was probably my favorite show as a kid, at least until I discovered the Muppet Show (which is still to this day one of my favorite shows).

EC was brilliant.
I'm no mathematician, but Arrow himself said he was speaking of ordinal methods: “And in my theorem I’m assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer this one to this one.”[1] That's not to say that cardinal methods don't have failure modes, but the particular set of interdependent failures and how pathologically one or more failure of them can appear is not described generally by Arrow's theorem.

How can a ballot capturing cardinal values be reduced to ordinal ones? I don't understand what you're saying here. In an election using a cardinal method, the slate of candidates can be ordered ultimately when summing results, but that's not the same information as the collective mass of ballot data.

1. https://electionscience.org/commentary-analysis/voting-theor...
Here's a direct link to the flight demo video. Looks like fun but it only reaches a maximum altitude of about 4 m. Basically it's operating more like a hovercraft than an aircraft.

https://youtu.be/FzhREYOK0oo
What's even more sad is even if he did well in the courses; I doubt he would be hired because of his age.

I can't think of another industry that discriminates on age more than tech.
Look at it this way, if a car is involved in a drive-by shooting the police can't get a warrant to search every single home that has the same year/make/model of car registered to with that address. For a legal warrant you have to have probable cause that a specific person committed a crime. You can't just search everybody and see what sticks, that's blatantly unconstitutional.
I recall reading stories about librarians actively refusing to give, effectively, exactly the same information back in the day.

How we have fallen.
subscription models for everything.
The FDA can't mandate a vaccine. But if you think that's not the next step for the bureaucrats who can mandate such things, then I have a bridge to sell you...
I'd give them a pass for this as it's been in there since they really were the underdogs. At the time it was punching up. Not so much now.
You don't even need a traditional app backdoor to do this. The carrier can just send the message to the baseband radio itself, which has a direct connection to your GPS receiver, among other things (usually) like the camera and microphone. That means these peripherals are accessible (in theory, Snowden says it has been done in the past) even if the main app OS is shut down.
Forbes appears to be the original source and is linked in the article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/googl...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-04/biden-...

> The president knows this. He told the press that his administration had surveyed the opinions of constitutional scholars, and that most thought an extension would be unlawful. Yet under political pressure from the left, Biden nevertheless ultimately decided to issue the extension.

In other words: SCOTUS wrote words clearly indicating a ban would be illegal. By a technicality (expiration date), they didn't issue an explicit ruling. Biden did it anyway, while admitting he knew it was illegal.
> my mother only retired this year when my grandmother died of covid - as horrendous as it sounds, it was almost a blessing

I can only imagine the hardships your family endured for this sentence to come out. I'm glad things are working out for you guys and I'm sorry for your loss.
I have an ASUS WindowsXP laptop with firewire, it worked well with an iPod.
Is your argument that if they got broken up they could innovate more to ... get more people to spend more time on new products that push them into radicalized rabbit holes?
It was common in the 1980s for compilers to have arbitrary implementation limits. The C Standard even lists minimums, like 127 nesting levels of blocks, 12 pointer declarators, 4095 characters in a string literal, etc.

My compiler started out with those, but I quickly realized that there were only two actual limits:

1. allocated memory

2. stack size

It turned out to be much less code and many fewer error messages to just detect out of memory and blowing up the stack.
EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board
I thought it was only letting them know that you were currently unavailable, not the specific Focus type you are currently in.
The XPS line fixed that last year. It's at the top of the screen in a super thing bezel.
Whatsapp:Erlang as Discord:Elixir. The effectiveness of the teams might more be the effectiveness of OTP/BEAM for network applications.
the baseband radio does, so, yes. also the camera and mic in many cases.
Same here. Looking through recent release highlights, Mojave adding Dark Mode is the mot recent stand-out I spotted, and even that I don't really care about all that much.

Universal Control has potential to be valuable.
This would be a big step forward in improving accessibility for the hard of hearing.
What do you think the average Windows laptop and Android phone look like?
> Most orgs don't resemble Whatsapp; they resemble Google.

When they were a startup, Google didn't resemble Google, either.

For large organizations, I'm a fan of the "internal startup" management structure. This just means each product team should be largely self contained, but has the resources of the larger organization to fall back on.

So the leader of each product team can act like a mini-founder, defining and driving the product without being tightly coupled to any other product teams release cycle.
It gained commercial tracking because it represented a way for IBM, Oracle and Compaq to reduce development costs on their own systems, and thus started sponsoring Linux development efforts around 2000.
Replying on your other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869067)
> Freemium model: advertisement based, with a subscription fee for some extra content personalization.

Have you also considered integrating with pre-existing web monetization models? I'm thinking mostly of Coil, but also Brave Rewards/Flattr/...
What the hell went through everyone's head when they built this system?

That decision probably dates back decades and was based on the limited amount of space on a 80 column punch card. And as the system evolved past punch cards, no one bothered to update the spec because "it's always been 10 characters, if we change it now, something might break"
At least with the eviction moratorium, it was ruled unconstitutional by scotus and biden doubled down and enacted a new illegal eviction moratorium.

Seems like they are kind of picking and choosing what rules they'll follow, and which rights they think people deserve
Yes, it certainly feels like it. Leading to the prediction.

If you look through all the reasonable predictions made in the 2020 predictions threads for the coming decade, there were only 3 mentions of pandemic, none of them close to being on point, and that had actually already started. Thus, if you want to actually have a chance of predicting things, you have to go out on a limb.
It will show your contact that you have notifications silenced, not which Focus mode you activated.
Thank you for mentioning Yahoo Pipes. I loved that service!