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> Russia or China where the Apple submits to government requests to remove certain apps - leaving their users unable to run them at all

If an iOS device doesn't support the software they want to run, why would they buy an iPhone? Would you also complain that you can't run Microsoft Word on a PS5?
Show HN: Clientless (zero download) remote browsers for personal use
Clone the repo of the community edition here to try it out: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinder
This is great… right up until I go to a recipe and all the BS comes flooding back.

We do not want your life story recipe person! We want to cook dinner!
Just downloaded the game and I love it. Also love that it’s built with Godot. Nice work and congrats!
Same. I know I'm probably just being a grouchy crank, but I wish there was a "Awesome Not Electron" list featuring only true native apps. I've recently migrated back to Linux after 10 years full-time on Mac. I am often looking for an open source replacement for something, e.g. Apple Notes. I cannot believe how many "native" note-taking apps there are and how few of them aren't a shell wrapping a web app. At this point whenever I'm considering adopting a piece of software, I first check if they have a "native" app for all three major platforms (sometimes plus web), and if they do, I take a peak at the git repo. If it's mostly written in JS, I assume it's an electron app and de-prioritize it on the list of options.
> It'll prevent this kind of attacks completely

It won't. The same approach works just fine in your build specification or other config files. And it doesn't solve the root of this problem, which is that you are compiling source code you don't control and don't audit closely into your binary. Sneaky text is not the only way of getting malicious code through code review.
The reason engineers are paid more is that they're a safer bet for moderate(to high) value creation, while actual science is not guaranteed ROI in any reasonable time frame.

The reason science has a higher social status is probably because most passionate intellectuals agree that it is indeed nobler and more important work to discover fundamentals and increase the sum of human knowledge than to increase profit margins of multinationals.
Many of the best people in IT are there today, because they got curious about how stuff worked, experimented with it, broke the rules, and learned from that. This curiosity needs to be encouraged, not stopped.

The young generation in IT already has issues because many of them don’t understand files, and many of them can’t even use a computer anymore.

They grow up with tech all around them, but because all of it is closed and proprietary and restricted, they never even try to look behind the curtain.

We call ourselves software engineers, then we also need to take on the ethical responsibility of our actions just like engineers do.

If you contribute to this culture of closed technology, you are just as well at fault as developers of DRM tech or Android SafetyNet.
Question to anyone that knows - I know that actively "imagining" movements/activities is neurologically _very_ similar in many ways, which is why it works here for BCI. Do these "imagined" thoughts develop muscle memory?

Anyway, assuming they do, I'm not sure if it'd be a real advantage over physically swyping with your finger (for those that can obviously) - it seems like they'd be roughly equivalent?

Actually that'll be my second question - how is this system affected by things like tremors?

I'd suspect they originate from your brain in which case your "mental movements" should have the exact same quirks and limitations as physical movements.

The end game of course is not needing to use the movement system to interpret information.
Yes, just wait until we can do the reading with on-skin electrodes or micro-needle patches.
I was involved in some great research looking at the difference between how artists and non artists look at images. Eye trackers heavily used.

Outcome: artists are more likely to track away from obvious points of interest. So in the case of a portrait, the artist might be looking at a brick by the subject's feet, whilst everyone else's gaze would be fixed on the subject's eyes.
A guide to bien pensant.
DRS your shares at computershare.com
I'm trying to sound out a generalization of the idea, where liberaility creates the opportunity for outlier upside, provided it survives long enough to recieve it, and assumes outlier downside is somehow mitigated. There's a gamblers ruin analogy there, and markets staying irrational longer than you stay solvent variation in there somewhere. It reminds me a lot of what I've heard about VC portfolios as well, where the incentives all point to just getting exposure, and YC's startup school and other accelerators are a way to do a startup without the friction of making a company. Maybe it's related to just applying the Stopping Problem to anything with an exponential distribution?

Generalizing this could be really useful, even if it creates the 4chan of venture capital.
Should we just start flagging submissions like this?

While I'm sure I have the same reaction reading this as most other people, and I did think that exposing things like this have some value, posts of this type of content nearly always devolve into the same comment threads, over and over (and I've certainly been guilty of feeding that fire).

I'm actually glad this was posted here, because I didn't otherwise know about it and I thought it was an interesting read. But these types of posts always produce a dumpster fire of commentary.
Had to give a thumbs-up for the Sir Terry reference.
A new and simpler deepfake method that outperforms prior approaches
It’s typically referred to as a wash trade or a wash sale.
The average uninformed retail investor is obviously going to be drawn to investments which are seemingly obvious, making their friends rich and which have low barriers to entry.

What will eventually happen is that the market will run out of greater fools and the obviousness of Crypto as an investment in the future of finance will be brought into question.

At this point the userbase of Crypto will shift from speculators to genuine users and its real value will be better understood as individuals and companies focus on useful products and services rather than pumping meme coins to uninformed investors.

This imo is a classic bubble. I've been saying this for years though and will likely continue saying it for a few more years yet. But I have little doubt that in the long-term that what we're seeing in the Crypto space is unsustainable.
>Yes, we do. People from all over the world write software too. They should be able to use the words they know in code

My native language has non-ASCII characters and I do not expect nor do I want to be able to type them outside string literals. Specifically for the reasons stated in the blog post, among others. Writing in my native language is far, far down in the list of priorities as a professional coder, when security / compatibility are there too. Suggesting that non-native English speakers have to be able to code in their native language also would suggest that non-native coders do not take security / compatibility seriously, which would mean that they are unprofessional. I'm pretty sure that it's not your intention to suggest that, but that's kind of how it comes across. With all the problems eliminated by the use of English and ASCII, it would strike me as amateurish to not use English and ASCII wherever possible.
and dancing to the rhythm, the voices were chiming and the bodies - wet with sweat - moving in harmony as the beats filled the emptiness in their lonely hearts and for a moment - a fleeting moment - they felt the joy and freedom they all had been searching for so long.

Oh, sorry. You got a point?
I'm kind of curious why they haven't tried to bring Go to more domains. Back in 2015 I thought by now they'd have released a framework for building Android apps in Go.
Yeah. Seems like a really speculative benefit to squander goodwill over. I already have a pretty strong knee-jerk reaction to going-fast | limited-quantity-remaining | zomg-hundreds-of-other-people-are-looking-at-this manipulations. Guess I need to add sold-out to my list of smells.
Question: wouldn’t the Mount Everest be among the driest places on earth because it’s top is above the clouds?
Fair but this is the thing we all do wrong with estimates. I've come to the following system that I think works well and captures the uncertainty.

Estimates are given as the following choices: hours, days, weeks, months, quarters. You never give a number tp the units. These all mean some "small number of X" where X is the list above. Then if Product has a question like, "Why would Z take weeks?" then you can have a discussion about the complexities and the task can be further refined and/or split into multiple things and those can be estimated as above, rinse and repeat.
> In our experience non-ASCII characters are pretty rare in code. Many development teams chose to use English as the primary development language

Is this true for the whole world, or just Europe/US?
Or just let a user remove a domain from results.
"I'm not a gangster. I'm a businessman, and my business is crime." --Bobby Cummines
> In this case, the man – called T5 in the study,

i wonder if it's a coincidence?

https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/t5.html
Does anybody know why AMD is picking Italian city names for the EPYC line?
That crazy looking chart (except maybe the push timing loop at the bottom) can be implemented with 100 lines of branching if statements. The 20 or so questions it asks probably can be answered by querying ~3 simple APIs (user preferences, channel preferences, thread preferences). The only complicated thing is the push timing loop.
> When asked about reports of boisterous drinking and drug use by employees at WeWork functions, Mr. Neumann said that “we had a fun culture.” He said that as the company grew, its culture should have matured as well: “I think that could've happened sooner.”

Is there a company (with more than a few people) without excessive drinking and drugs?

Moreover, is there any such thing as "companies maturing"? By my personal anecdote, the older/larger the company, the more decadent are the parties (just as I'd expect in a place where a lot of people make a lot of money).
I find it distracting/annoying to follow the article with so many unrelated inline prompts to buy/sponsor/whatever they are selling.
Is Intel planning to release future CPUs with AVX-512? Didn't they remove it from Adler Lake?
I feel like if we got a perfect transcript of our internal monologue, we’d all be shocked at how much we think but instantly forget.
That was indeed interesting, that "for every bad contribution prevented, seven good ones never happened".

However, while it is easy to measure, I'm not convinced that "number of good contributions" is a valid proxy for "quality of discussion" or "quality of content".

For example, some of those good contributions might have been repairing the damage made by bad ones. And on a less heated/combative forum, users may feel comfortable consolidating multiple small contributions into fewer but more well-thought out contributions. And perhaps even the good contributions that were prevented were (while good) on average lower quality than the ones that remained.
I think patrolling is ok. The problem starts when they start stopping people to look for drugs especially. I still remember when marijuana was illegal in LA. You could walk around in rich areas, smell it everywhere, but the cops wouldn't constantly stop people and raid houses like they did in poor areas.

So it makes sense to me that there is a perception that in poor areas police patrolling is done to catch the inhabitants whereas in rich areas it's done to protect the inhabitants.
If you want to start scanning your documents but can only scan one side at a time with your automatic document feeder (ADF), I wrote a small tool to merge the PDFs automatically: https://github.com/RomainGehrig/PDFCollate
Adjust it by half an hour then. Everyone will be equally happy, and we will keep more programmers employed.
They are beautiful places. Plus, great food.
Yes, all parts are still available although some are getting scarce/expensive. There's a UK chap who occasionally makes replicas:

https://twitter.com/Devilish_Design/status/10881650262786621...

If you want the experience without the cost, there's a 6502-Arduino hybrid you can build:

https://hackaday.io/project/26234-apple-1-mini

https://github.com/tebl/RC6502-Apple-1-Replica/tree/master/R...

The bare boards often come up on eBay.
WebKit is the engine safari uses so anything that uses WebKit should in theory provide the exact same rendering experience.
> Pray tell me, how does one contribute to GNOME?

The same way you contribute to all other Free/Open Source project:

1) Make yourself useful and demonstrate that you are able. Start by fixing [Newcomers] bugs, participate in the Matrix chat and get to know people

2) Start influencing the direction of Gnome by participating in the design and contribute to larger, architectural issues

3) Get elected to the foundation leaderboard and become a decision maker

That's about it. Three easy steps. You can start here:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues?label_name...
If You Could Code Minecraft to Go Back and Kill Baby Hitler, Would You?
Uh, yeah.
My exact case was some reporting for some project (15 people, 36 months, 1 xml per person per month), to throw into excell and draw one graph, for one PPT, a one time deal, for one project manager to show the numbers on the report.

The end project, if I didn't stop the idea, would be a black box, where you would put any number of random xmls, and get exactly what the accountant wanted with one button... so an impossible task.
Yep, pretty much (Russian here)
For paper documents I get an accordion folder each year and label it with the year. Documents from that year are sorted based on what they're for. I'm getting to the point where I should be able to get rid of stuff from ~8 years ago and reuse the folders.

When I get rid of things I shred the documents.
Actually intentionally trashing place at 1M level is criminal offense (vandalism/destruction of property) in pretty much every state, local police will most definitely open criminal case and it may even rise to the level of extradition (and UK has extradition treaty with US).

If you intentionally trash the place at a few thousand dollars level then year - nobody will probably bother other than banning you from AirBnB for life. One time we sort of trashed AirBnB (my 2 year old got hold of pen and draw on the wall and couch while we were not looking) and the only consequence was paying 400 or so in fine (max liability on listing) and stern letter from AirBnB that they may ban us if it happens again.
For paper documents, I scan then using Scanner Pro on my phone. The phones OCR has become increasingly sophisticated. But the one thing I do do is title the document when I scan it with a fairly descriptive title and month date in the title. To reduce typing and speed up the process of scanning lots of documents, I use the voice typing feature.

For digital documents, I store then in a folder.

Scanned and original digital documents all go in iCloud with categories like
- receipts
- medical (self, spouse)
- taxes
- financial (etc.)

I know you didn't ask about photos and music but to me these are also important digital documents.

All photos are managed by the OS in the cloud. I backup the photo database using BackBlaze.

Music is again similarly managed by the OS in the cloud.
His first words were "I need more computing power"
Google avoids paying £3BN in damages for Safari tracking in the UK
Ask HN: Why don't keyboards have a password key?
It happens to me sometimes that I type in my password when the terminal is not listening for a password, and so what I type appears in clear text on the screen.

Hence my question: why don't keyboards have a password key which must be pressed before entering a password, so the OS can take an appropriate action?
> because of how Finnish law works for small business owners, means they get cut off from any public health insurance

This is not true. Finnish public health insurance is residency based: Every resident has it [1]. What you are probably thinking of, is the extra occupational private health insurance, that most Finnish employers provide for their employees (so that during work days, the employees don't need to wait in line in the public health services, but can get back to work sooner after seeing a private doctor).

[1] https://www.kela.fi/ulkomailta-suomeen-sairaanhoito-suomessa
Curiosity-Based Validation
Because they're giving Intel the boot.
Please tell us more about this "mouse free life". I'm so fascinated by this!
It's clearly parody. If only.
To copy from my other comment:

My exact case was some reporting for some project (15 people, 36 months, 1 xml per person per month), to throw into excell and draw one graph, for one PPT, a one time deal, for one project manager to show the numbers on the report.

The end project, if I didn't stop the idea, would be a black box, where you would put any number of random xmls, and get exactly what the accountant wanted with one button... so an impossible task.
I haven't actually seen that cycle in practice when I've been hiring. Maybe a small number of people practice a lot on leetcode, but it seems most don't. And I think it's hard to get better at those sorts of problems and not get even a bit better at programming in general. Remember the problem here is people who can't code their way out of a paper bag, not people who just struggle with exotic algorithms questions.
Hi paper author here :) thanks for the great comment. I'll add some thoughts for other potential future readers:

Generally, almost every protocol that does not do some form of traffic shaping is vulnerable to traffic analysis.

If an adversary just wants to confirm their suspicion that A talks to B, they can correlate the outgoing traffic patterns of A with the incoming traffic patterns of B. Doing this over a multiple rounds they can increase their confidence. This is something they can do on Signal or even between two Tor participants.

Note that starting with such a suspicion is easier than finding out _who_ A is talking to. In that case they'd need to either (a) follow network messages through the network or (b) collect traffic patterns from all potential communication partners. That's why Tor is nevertheless effective in hiding which websites you visit.

Thanks also for listening other anonymous network designs! There are many really interesting ones. And for some (e.g. DC nets) you can get broadcast that is only depending on the total network size and not the group size.

We chose Loopix because we were looking into mobile devices. Here, Loopix has the interesting concept of provider nodes which (i) can store messages if clients are offline and (ii) regulate access to the network e.g. against a fee to make it commercially viable. Also, Mix networks are very easy to scale up by simply adding more nodes.

When we tried to put decentralised collaboration (e.g. CRDTs) on top of Loopix we hit the problem that distributing the edit updates was rather inefficient. That's basically the problem from which the Rollercoaster idea developed.
Depends on the context of course but this generally rings true.

The amount of business we would be losing by ignoring mobile safari users is staggering. For whatever reason it's also the majority browser, I dont think its safe to assume that the users of your site using safari are equal to the percentage of the market share even.

Ignoring it is a very unusual stance unless your site/app is basically exclusively desktop.
The article claims to be from a Chicago based company, while the link you provided shows an address in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Nate Skulic is also not listed in any leadership role on the website you linked.
Transmisogyny, rape apologia, Holocaust denial, and violent threats in Scala
Thanksgiving means family, food – and plenty of harmful diet talk
The problem is their sources on living persons is usually clickbait and tabloids. If you feel like you've been treated unfairly, then there's no authority you can appeal to at Wikipedia. Even if you know an admin, they use a consensus process where if one of these anonymous accounts doesn't like you then they do nothing, and doing nothing for them means all the cruel, biased, misleading, false, and harassing content written by guys with names like Dingolover6969 remains as your #1 google search result. So what can you do other than sue for libel? Problem is you might as well be suing Santa Claus, since not many people understand what Wikipedia does, and these constant donation drives buy them an army of lawyers who'll just point the finger at the tabloids. There's no accountability for them either. The only chance you have of making a successful case is if you can argue you're not a public figure, but it's hard to make that argument if you're an open source developer. Even if you're a billionaire, it might take you ten years and millions of dollars to hold just one online tabloid accountable, only to see it sold off at bankruptcy to another head of the hydra that keeps its old harassing content on the web as read-only static content so that Wikipedia can continue to cite it.
> So why is this a problem ?

It's not a problem at all. It just demonstrates that they didn't "fight" for the feature. Not using a service that's offered to you gratis is not a problem at all.

Spreading FUD and slandering fellow programmers might be a problem.

> that's kind of up to them ?

It absolutely is. But they still didn't fight for that. Richard Hughes fought for it.
I meant acoustic frequencies in ELF, not using sound... but TARF looks amazing.
They should be hold accountable, but that did not happen and can only happen if government is strictly prohibited to influence content, even if it is misinformation. This is why the constitution of the US is pretty good despite its age (I am not from the US).

But true, maybe it didn't foresaw companies becoming so influential that they rival states. But the solutions I heard was forcing these companies to moderate content, an approach that is so obviously flawed that I cannot believe how many supporters the idea can mobilize.

Still, government misinformation is still a threat. The Russian interference story was a pretty big scandal in my opinion because it was mostly made up and worse media and intelligence agencies corroborated on direct lie. Exactly like they did on Iraq. This has Operation Mockingbird quality at least and people responsible didn't face any repercussions. Frankly, the only people that would let them face consequences are the allegedly stupid flyover rednecks. But if these people really are stupid, what do I call the others?

Is there a geopolitical tension with Russia or Putin? Sure. Would Putin try to get people in the US to fight each other? Of course! But I doubt he would have needed to do much to be honest, not because of a lack of trying.