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I've been using a PinePhone for about 18 months, since the battery life on my OpenMoko was abysmal (fair enough, considering I'd been using it for over 10 years!)

I'm running the default Manjaro + Phosh it came with, and upgrading through pacman. The phone functionality works fine (calls, SMS, phone book, etc.). One annoyance is that menus in Firefox don't display correctly, which makes addons like uBlock less useful :(

I've also been using the hardware keyboard, which extends the battery life comfortably, and makes it much easier to do long-form writing (due to the physical keyboard itself, and not having an on-screen keyboard wasting space). Unfortunately the keyboard battery no longer seems to be working; I'm not sure if it's due to a kernel update, or a hardware problem (I may have fried the charging circuitry by plugging it in wrong!)
>Facebook have tried but never succeeded in owning the platform, it’s the biggest risk to their position.

They're certainly trying their hardest with the Oculus Quest, and they're doing a good job of providing the cheapest headset out there, and arguably the best in some ways. I wouldn't count them out of the picture on that just yet.
I some countries FB is the Internet and provides "the Internet" through FB. That is quite some gate keeping there.

Someone getting into your FB account can ruin your complete social life, if you were relying on FB too much. Could also ruin your job perspectives and thus financial security.

Not merely annoying. Self-inflicted mostly, yes, but definitely serious.
You are living in a home that would otherwise perhaps still be occupied by the people (or their families) that were taken away.
A golden cage is still a cage. No matter how comfortable they make your life, we can not look only at the services they provide, we need to also look at the restrictions they impose.
I gew up close to Nuremberg and like to take a walk to visit the dead whenever I'm there, as well as check out various Nazi grounds which ...are just part of our history. My family is also of polish origin (I was born and raised in Germany) and I've spent time in Cracow and Munich,so I make points of visiting the memorials whenever I visit friends there.

My perspective is: this isn't only for the dead, it's also for the living. This can happen again if we do not make a culture of remembering, and of not shying away from the uneasiness. It should make us feel uneasy that our neighbours, our family, ourselves might have participated in the holocaust, or fallen victim to them - that everyone involved was normal people. Having some parts of the land of the living dedicated to this when not even a century has passed is a small price to pay.

And as far as prices to pay go, Stolpersteine are literally the least possible intrusion. There would be a similar stone in the same place, the Stolperstein is simply made of a different material and burns the reminder into the city so that holocaust deniers and their ilk have a harder time. And like the name implies, the point is to not have a sanitized, dead, tucked away safely memorial "respectfully" shoved into some corner of a park - where it can be safely ignored.

"Never again" is not an empty slogan, or something that will happen automatically (as we can see with genocides and ethnic cleansings around the world continuing since then) it's something that we all have to work towards. The Stolpersteine are part of the Erinnerungskultur and in my opinion, some of the best parts.
On the other hand, you can choose to not use Apple and your life won't be affected at all. I don't use Apple at all and don't feel I missing out. Apple doesn't have any network effect.

If FB goes nuclear on me, I will lose the main platform to discover local events (like gigs, festivals, meetups and such), pretty much the only social media for a hobby of mine (photography) and the most popular messenger used by family members (ok, I could probably convince them to move elsewhere) and lots of local group chats (multiple attempts to move those group chats on telegram ultimately failed). Most of it is irreplaceable because FB killed off most of the competition.

Compare it to Apple where you can just use Android and forget Apple exists at all.
Apple only controls my phone and playlists in the Music app (from time to time I export them to have a backup, but only because the Music app is absolutely dumb in syncing).

From my example, you can see that you have a choice about what you want to be controlled by Apple.
If the goal is clear, and the rules are clear, the knowing-what-to-do-level can be relatively high. As an example, a typical game can be won with executing on the set rules with skill. You can measure the success of your actions by looking at the outcome. This seems so obvious that I don't think the author would argue against it.

I think what the author is talking about is the space where things become so complex that it's hard to attribute any action to the outcome or, even worse, you can't even realistically measure the outcome.

Applying this to your penalty kicker: Sure, you practice, you get better. But so does everyone else. The question then is: How and what to get better than the other guys? Why does one guy succeed and the other doesn't? Yeah sure, because they hit the ball in such a way that it enters the designated space – but how do they set themselves up to accomplish that? How many of the 24 hours you have in a day do you spend kicking the ball from the penalty point? How much of it is recovery? When do you get up? Planing and theory? Mental strength exercises? Food intake? Massages, strength or balance workouts?

The failure is simply defined: You did not hit the ball in such a way that it entered the goal. Sure – but why? How do you adjust your routine in such a way that next time it's going to be better, relative to everyone else, who is also trying to improve?

In reality it's obviously more complex even still, because there is no "penalty kicker" in football. So to become the best possible soccer player, how much of your time should be allocated to penalty kicking at all? And then how does your penaltykickability scale while working on the other stuff that you are also looking at?

And then, when we are exiting game space, it gets really complicated, because all of a sudden it's not even clear what winning even means. In soccer a win is neatly defined. It's usually not the case in the real world. Is it a win to provide health care to all? Is Bitcoin a win for humanity? Is it a good goal to get people out of poverty or is the goal something else and we trust that this will be a side effect of that goal? You and I might agree on an answer, and then there is millions or billions of people who don't, in theory or at least in practice.

It's messy stuff.
Which control are they taking away from you? You choose to use their service and yet you complaint because they don't allow you to use it as you see fit. As far as you know, the web client is not as well developed and maintained. I can't fathom where this sense of entitlement comes from.
They are being squeezed by Apple. They are used to be the one squeezing others, not the other way around. Even though Apple stands to gain from this, I am glad they are using their weight take on Facebook.
> - I like the lack of E2EE. I just like logging in and having access to all my chats. I don't have to be with the same device to be on the same chat.

You can do that with E2EE as well. Proof: Element/Matrix which btw has excellent bot tooling and alphanumeric usernames as well...
You have to remember that after WW2 Europe was destroyed.

This is how socialist politicians came in. Before the war socialists were the enemy, after the war they were the ones who had to fix the mess and stop communism.
Read enough twitter threads, and you find people for whom eating morning cereal can be severely debilitating.

In my opinion, people are able to learn to deal with uncomfortable things in their lives.
Quite right, where I live, among the people I know, Apple have maybe 95% of the market. That’s obviously not true globally or even nationally (I’m in the UK). But it does lead to carelessly forgetting the size of the Android market share globally some times. Thanks for the nudge!
Holiday scam warning over 'fabulous' Donegal home
Theoretically possible but practically impossible, and one of the reasons that NFTs and DeFi will probably never be adopted on Bitcoin L1 unless the protocol changes.
Ask HN: Job opportunities using applied mathematics
What job opportunities are there outside of academia that use applied mathematical modelling (optimisation, statistics, PDEs, designing a mathematical model for reality, etc.) on a day-to-day basis, and what kind of salaries can one expect?

I am aware of data scientist/analyst in various industries, machine learning specialist, operations research, and working on physics simulators in visual effects/computer games.

Are there any others?
"You can actually do horizontal scroll by holding shift and scrolling the wheel."

Yep, that is helpful. But note that this is no universal standard. But most mainstream applications and browsers have it indeed implemented. Useful for big pictures etc.
> (REST, SOAP, gRPC, connecting to RabbitMQ etc.)

This hasn't been my experience (for Delphi anyway). There's a pantheon of various components for Internet protocols available that work well, I have used REST and SOAP amongst others. If there's a library with a c or C++ interface then you can connect it to Delphi. Lazarus I have less experience with, but likewise can interface to anything.
> Apple is not in control of your credit cards

Maybe OP was referring to https://www.apple.com/apple-card/ ?

> And for photos and music, and even passwords there are alternative services, no one forces you to use Apple provided ones.

Apple has a real tight lockdown on what gets published to iOS devices and ships defaults built to the OS so I don't really buy this argument. Microsoft got punished for way less back in the day (eg. IE bundling vs being forced to use webkit for your rendering engine...)
Both companies are cut from exactly the same cloth - e.g. for a closer example of how Google behaves in an identical way we can look at Android which has OS market dominance and uses that to encourage/force everyone to use their app store and services (e.g. you also nerf your phone without using a Google account, the average user will struggle to install alternative app stores).
These TTS models are not related to Kaldi, they are based off PyTorch and TorchScript.

There can be made a simplified version, with ONNX models (or plain Torch jit) maybe and some outer logic, but we did not do it yet for lack of incentive.
I think that’s why they have gone all in on VR, it’s the only platform that’s still up for grabs. I suspect they are quite worried what Apple will come out with when they enter the market.

However I don’t believe the market in VR/AR is as large as they think it could become. Unless I’m missing something obvious.
This may be a little deceptive depending on how you define "a properly connected real-time neuron simulator". Can it form new connections? Can it grow? Does it metabolize? Can it die? Etc...
> I am not sure, what can be more simple than 1 LOC invocation + minimal imports.

Let me make it "embarrassingly simple" for you:

/bin/bash text_to_speech.sh file.txt file.wav

Also, I'm not entirely sure what "out of scope" mean?

Do you mean you run your software on computers that can't run bash?

Do you develop machine learning algorithms on your phone?
TFA is "The Fine Article"; essentially this HN submission.
DAG is "Directed Acyclic Graph"; a graph with directed edges and no cycles.
where are all the anti crypto and web3 comments?
"I don't use it as a daily driver" (from the article)
It also shows, how fearful they are of becoming irrelevant in people's lives. They try to entrench themselves everywhere they can, but if Google disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't even notice for quite a while, except for web pages not showing up in uBlock Origin as loading Google trackers.
> If you speak up about this, you are branded a clueless NIMBY resident or even an anti-Semite (there have been a few of such cases in the Netherlands).

Working as intended then. The stones are victors' propaganda meant to terminate any critical thinking related to the mythology of WWII necessary to reshape the occident into what we have today.

Nevermind the very real threat of international Jewish communism in the maelstrom of Weimar Germany. Do not question the destruction of national sovereignty post-Nuremberg to form "international law" (i.e. world gov't). And don't even think of criticizing anything at all to do with the ethnonationalist Jewish state of Israel and the endless aid and support the west gives them. These are borderline illegal thoughts in Europe.
The State of WebAssembly 2022
FloW and Rinne are the heroes of Vita homebrew. They basically saved the device after Sony dropped support suddenly.
I have to switch between C and C++ from time to time depending on project requirements. I can agree that it is far from ideal and probably makes me a worse programmer in both languages. So I can 100% agree that the two should be considered separate. In fact I strongly recommend practicing only the one or the other exclusively.
Here's my two cent counter-argument. Captialism is the biggest ruthless killing machine, whatever form it takes: nazism (Hitler was put to power by German industry/bourgeoisie), fascism (Mussolini advocated for State/Capital unification under "corporatism"), State capitalism (USSR was not very different from a people's perspective, with salaried work and gulags and political police), or ordinary liberalism (French republic orchestrated the colonization and slavery of many folks, even long after slavery was formally abolished, under the form of wage slavery).

Yet there's little memory of those massacres and injustices, except for casualties of war who get the whole triumphant nationalist ceremonies to spit on them. Maybe a plaque for the dead workers who built a mountain road/rail, or for the victims of the Commune of Paris/Lyon/wherever. It's very discreet, when it exists at all, when it doesn't fall into the narrative of the State.

I don't know about younger folks, but when i was in school we got told so little about the history and reasons for these people to have died, when talking about it at all (good luck finding a history teacher spending more than 1 hour on the Paris Commune or the Algerian independence War). And we got told exactly zero about the living popular history of our own neighborhood and how people defied those injustices.

Whenever i find a plaque, memorial, carving or whatever remembering the past (and its mistakes) i try to take some time to investigate it, and i often learn something interesting. So much happened right around us, yet we are told/taught so little, and in the cities urban renovation driven by gentrifiers makes sure this history stays hidden and that only advertisement and store fronts remain.

Is that really the environment we want: an efficient, emotionless and pastless business machine? I personally don't want that. I wouldn't go so far as to call you a NIMBY resident, but i certainly encourage you to think or read about popular history, gentrification, and what it means when the latter tries to erase the former.

As a side note, i don't know about the netherlands, but here in France it's common for neonazis to deface the memorials honoring the (jewish or not, but the jewish in particular) victims of nazism. I agree with you it's bothersome in some sense that jewish victims are honored more than other categories of nazism victims (tsigans, cripples, homosexuals, etc), but if the alternative is to make the neonazis who'd like to rewrite history happy, i'm very happy with the current state of things.
I thought this was implemented on the OS level or something like that, as I've never not been able to use it for horizontal scrolling. I'm mostly on Linux but worked everywhere on Windows as well as far as I can remember. Maybe on macOS it's different.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Marcus Aurelius
>>> when you're held accountable by an entire country...

This is blatantly untrue.

Heck, the infamous trifecta Bush-Blair-Aznar led their countries on a war that destroyed a country and costed many human lifes, based on what we know were lies and invented data. What consecuences did they face?

And that's just an example. I can show you as many corruption cases as you want, and see how the subjects go on with their careers untouched.
I’m really not sure we should be using the word abuse in some of these discussions.
"Brave New World" is also a dystopia. The more unchecked power Apple gets and the more Apple zealots think that it is okay, the closer we get to live in it.
I meant that rationals are a subset of the reals, and while floats are also a subset of exact reals a "typical" fixed bitwidth implementation will have a significantly greater range in floats than rationals.

I don't know that it's necessarily as significant a difference as I'd first considered it to be, though.
My wife recently bought me a Pinephone Pro as a present. I liked the idea, but in practice I still haven't managed to use it because I'm stuck with basic problems.

E.g., the battery wouldn't charge in the phone. I bought an external charger, and this seems fine, but ideally I'd like a backup battery so that I can charge one while I use the other. But pine64 batteries have been out of stock for ages.
Their wiki says "The supplied battery is meant to be compatible with Samsung part number EB-BJ700BBC / BBE / CBE from the 2015 J7 phone": I bought the CBE one, but it's such a tight fit that I'm terrified of using it in case it explodes or something. I have no idea where to get a proper pine battery from. And the forums are not exactly flooding with activity when I asked my question (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16851)

Beyond that, a lot of the stuff that is supposed to work on Pinephone, turns out doesn't work in the Pinephone Pro. In particular, the multiboot sd-card demo (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11347&pid=77027#...), which I was really keen to try, because I found the 'stock' distribution that came with the phone pretty ugly and useless (to my needs, anyway). I had the Jolla phone in the past, and I was very happy with it, so I may try to install Sailfish when I get the time to figure out 'if' it's possible, and if so how ...

But for now the pinephone pro is just sitting there, waiting for a compatible battery to show up, and me to find the energy to experiment with a compatible OS, before I'm even going to use the phone for anything even remotely productive. I'm gutted.
Why is it anti-competitive when Microsoft does it but not when Google does it?

Google has the dominant mobile OS and pulls all the same tricks, and although Chrome OS isn't dominant yet it goes even further in entirely blocking other browsers by design.

> Do you see how that plus them setting the default to Bing is harmful to Google’s interests?

Anti-competitive doesn't mean harmful to Google's interests, it's supposed to mean it's harmful to a competitive market.
or the competitions regulators that were setup to stop another standard oil, should have come in a long time ago and sorted out this monopoly. Along with the horrifically shite ISP situation the US has.
It's worth mentioning the case of tumblr - a giant social media company that was literally worth hundreds of millions of dollars. People remember the whole "wow, tumblr was so stupid for banning porn" but forget that the reason they did so was because Apple threatened to remove all of their users from tumblr if they didn't. Apple gave tumblr unreasonable "safety standards" that almost single-handedly killed a gigantic site for the vast majority of users.

Apple should not have this type of power. Maybe they used it for good with Facebook, but I wouldn't count on it always being the case. Apple can kill entire social media platforms if they want to. IMO, it's a matter of time before they start charging an "adult tax" (that just so happens to be barely below the profits a company makes from adult content via Apple users). Maybe the only thing preventing them from doing so is regulatory pressure.
Would you be open to AGPLv3? This mandates allowing the user to replace the code with their own, and requires publishing source code to users even if it's "hidden in the cloud". (well IANAL, so don't take my understanding as a fact)
I honestly think the other way around, that Facebook is way too powerful and in a more insidious way, than Apple.

I'm coming from a Apple HW user perspective. This means that, yes, if Apple locked me out, I would have trouble using my machines. But I'm not an services user (music, TV or iCloud). So nothing would be lost from my digital life and it is elsewhere and well backed up.

On the other hand, I genuinely despair at the amount of public services (at least in Europe), community services and businesses that require me to have a Facebook account to interact with them.

The quickest way to reach a local politician might be leave a message on a local FB group. Some segments of society (and some age groups) just _assume_ _everyone _ is on FB. FB is _not_ a public service.
> the fact that females are worse at handling acute stress

Or, maybe, they just know better that enduring acute stress is a bad career choice.
Given even just Johnson’s COVID history — banned unnecessary gatherings under penalty of fines with a large publicity campaign, attended at least eight of the at least sixteen unnecessary gatherings at No. 10 (including his birthday and a Christmas party), caught COVID and almost died from it, repeatedly asserted that there had not been any party and that if that no rules wrote broken, was fined for breaking the rules, and still hasn’t resigned — I dread to think what you have in mind for Mr Sanchez.
Those are a lot more abstract though, placed in much more considerate locations (I have lived in Leiden myself), and not nearly as numerous. You can tell that a lot of thought went into the planning and realization of these.

Having an actual name on it makes it a lot more personal (which is the intent after all), and having hundreds of them all over historic areas of any given town makes it a barrage rather than a subtle reminder.
"Takes one to know one"
There's a chance you have found the miracle drug, but everything I know and have read about seems to suggest that anything which impairs your judgment is not the solution.

Drugs aren't, alcohol isn't, etc.

What seems to work is... work. Working on yourself, trying to confront past traumas, talking to others about it, opening up. You know, the sucky parts that everyone hates to do.
There are some comments now... I guess a lot of people (like me) are interested in WASM, but most don't have enough knowledge to say anything "authoritative" about it. When I read "It is a stack machine, no registers", I remembered this other article http://troubles.md/wasm-is-not-a-stack-machine/ and thought "Ok now, these can't both be right at the same time, right?". But apparently they can - as another comment here states, "WebAssembly is not exactly a stack machine but a stack machine encoding of an instruction tree". To that I say, if I can use the stack as I'm used to from other systems, I don't really care if it's a "real" stack machine. But I'm not really sure of that either...
The conscious system is so high above the guy shuffling rulebooks and slips of paper it has no concept of him. A billion years might pass for the Room to experience a second. Just as we have basically no concept of the baroque quantum-molecular-cellular machinery of our brains. There are very roughly 10^15~18 light-sensitive molecules in your eye so you can see. With our best computers it's very hard to precisely simulate a single one of them. Just ponder the insane scale.