skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kind of ridiculous. If it actually was true, that accessibility is not only an important concern when designing a website, but the singular overriding concern, then surely all websites ought to consist of a blank page with code like

<html/>

That's the most accessible website in the world. You can print it without paper, character encoding is no issue, RTL is no issue, you can see it when you are blind, you can listen to it spoken without connecting your headphones, even if you are deaf you can hear it spoken, it's printed in braille on the screen (or any flat surface), it works in all languages spoken and written and sign language. It really is the pinnacle of accessibility. It's even available in dead languages such as Linear A and Etruscan. Every website with any sort of content is strictly less accessible than this website (which also is as utterly useless as it is accessible).
I'd be all for everybody keeping their mouth shut. But that's not the reality. My employer feels compelled to send out emails opining on foreign wars and supreme court decisions and murder trials and the significance of gay pride month. If you want to keep politics out of work, it starts at the top.
This would change my life! FaceId protect specific Apps + Settings.

Let guests (or myself) use Google Maps, Calculator, etc without a lock screen.
The laptops with M2 chips weren’t out during the quarter being reported here. The 13” MBP was available on the last two days of the quarter, and the much more popular MBA came out in the following quarter.
729 euro from the EU asus shop right now.
This article gets the very faintest picture correct, but dear lord is it obvious that the article writer has never talked in good faith with the people they're writing about. The contempt is still far too blatant, and you're not gonna get anywhere until that's fixed.
So far the services are value add and not required at all. I have a paid iCloud account because I like syncing photos between devices and seamlessly sharing with family, and I need the cloud backup option. The other stuff I don’t have and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on.

That said, this could change on a whim…
UEFI rootkits and UEFI secure boot
> it doesn't get slower anymore

It absolutely does. I have friends running the latest Windows who still report speedups after reinstalling. Who knows what sort of cruft silently accumulates in a Windows system?

> you don't need to reboot all the time

You absolutely do. Not only do users still have to reboot, Windows has become ridiculously aggressive about rebooting and updating. It doesn't matter what users are doing, it will stop everything and spend an hour applying updates, rendering the computer useless because obviously people have nothing better to do than watch the computer reboot itself continuously while a progress percentage slowly increases on the screen.
Still got mine (900) running a low power linux and swapped the dead slow ssd to a 64gb somewat still slow drive. Not much use other than carrying on trips so if it gets stolen I wont care… its a shame to see so much good computers are thrown out while still perfectly working.
It is sporadic. I would say the date problem never occurred last year, but in recent months it has been more and more frequent.

I wonder if it has to do with my five HomeKit secure video cameras and the HomePods or Apple TV 4K acting as a hub. And the fact that my Apple TV 4K is not wired to network.
Your writing is excellent. The grammar is almost flawless (see below). Beyond that, I enjoyed your writing style as well -- strong opening, thoughtful variations in paragraph length and sentence structure, and generally concise and focused.

If you are interested in some small feedback to improve a little more: the final three sentences in the article were the only ones where I saw something that could be improved.

> I have already argued in the past that I prefer this iPhone model over any newer one, Face ID capable.

I'm pretty sure this is grammatically correct as-is. (English is funny like that...) Having said that, the more natural-sounding way for a native-speaker would be to lose the appositive and avoid trying to turn "Face ID" into an adjective. So it would be something like: "I have already argued in the past that I prefer this iPhone model over any newer one with Face ID."

> It is perhaps the closest to a perfect gadget I have ever used — no wonder, it is the third “same” device I buy in seven years (before, the iPhone 6S in 2015 and the iPhone 8 in 2017).

I'm pretty sure the verb tenses are technically correct, but the last bit is not how a native speaker would write it, and there's an extraneous comma. Instead of saying 'no wonder, it is the the third "same" device I buy in seven years,' a more native-speaker way of writing it would be: 'no wonder it's the third "same" device I've bought in seven years.'

(EDIT: I was thinking about this a little more because something about the sequence of words "third same device" still didn't sound quite natural. Iterating, I think it could sound even more natural like: 'no wonder I've bought the "same" device three times over the last seven years.')

> If, despite all the rumors, in five years there is a “5th generation iPhone SE” with this same look, but updated internals, it will most likely be my next phone.

This sentence is solid and native-sounding as-is. A professional editor, though, might object to the overwhelming number of commas (even though all the commas are grammatically correct!). They might suggest eliminating some of the repetitive clauses and moving things around a bit to make the sentence flow more smoothly. The end result might be something like this: 'If, despite all the rumors, there's a "5th generation iPhone SE" in five years with the same look and another round of updated internals, it will most likely be my next phone.'

I hope that's all helpful and not too nitpicky. Like I said, your writing is fantastic as it is! I'm looking forward to reading more.
"The United Kingdom (UK) is home to more Apple stores than any other country in Europe, with 38 stores in operation as of November 2021."

I bet you those 38 stores are located strategically to cover a vast majority of the population.

You're simply nitpicking. The reality is, you can get an iPhone for 0% interest. It's not some kind of insurmountable quest. You don't even need to go into the store, you can simply order it from Apple.com.
I was considering commenting how much I enjoyed your writing style as I was reading the article. I had no idea you were a non-native speaker.
In my opinion most UI stacks beat HTML+CSS.
Which is a truly horrible way to start to begin with.
HTML was never intended to be abused for that purpose.

The problem now is that a vast number of people know
web (html, css, javascript) etc and they have little
knowledge of UI libraries at the OS or library level.

The argument that it is difficult to create a cross platform
UI is not a good one.

Delphi solved that a long time ago.

With Canvas you finally have the basic rudimentary structure
needed to make sense.
The one I bought came with Linux, but some weird distro I never heard of and I doubt anybody would really want to use. So I install a mainstream distro on it, no big deal, but then the limitations of the very small screen size become apparent when KDE/GNOME fail to fit basic things like settings GUIs onto the screen.

With a tiling window manager it became perfect for me. But I think most general computer users would be utterly alienated with that Linux experience. For the windows experience to also be shitty doubtlessly hurt the product line as well, but I don't think that shitty windows experience was displacing a polished linux experience. I think ASUS was basically between a rock and a hard place.
My Eyes Glaze Over.

People have customarily defined recession a certain way, i.e.'2 quarters of negative growth'. If there were historically any other way of defining it, it would be totally reasonable to cite that now. But inventing a new way now can't be anything but a dodge.
Yeah but the deniability will fall apart when they look in your browser history and find Wattpad :-)
I mean the difference might be making money by getting work done, vs making money by cracking the interview and not getting fired.
I have a feeling the tracker used has too much filtering (saccades) to be useful in this instance. It somehow looks too calm.
Headline feature for me: it has a headphone jack!

I wish that wasn't noteworthy, but it is, so I'll just be happy.
There is another thread on the iPhone SE where a lot of people are commenting on how they miss compact phones. I suspect that is why this was submitted / upvoted. I'm glad it was, didn't know this device existed.
About two per decade by my count. And we’re overdue for the next one.
Your English is generally quite good. The one thing I'll note is that I've not seen native speakers use notation like "+10 years" in the context you do. Generally we'd write that as "10+ years" read as "ten-plus years" or ">10 years" read as "over ten years".
If you don't want your IP address exposed, watch our content in shit quality... Yeah this sounds about right for Twitch in 2022.

Does Twitch even save preferences on quality? So if you go into a stream, isn't it auto by default? Do they have a setting in preferences (I can't see it in the app, but maybe on web)? Otherwise it could auto to HD and expose IP addresses.
Graphene's superpowers could soon be unleashed
On a scale of Samsung to Google, how bad does Asus load up their Android with crapware?
GitHub has been fully committed to remote work for years before the pandemic. I suspect they’ll bring back on site onboarding at some point, but maybe not. Sorry to hear your interview experience was mediocre. They’ve been tweaking it, and not for the better in my opinion.
I had one, and I wrote a lot of code on it. There was pretty much nothing else on the market that could do web browsing in that portable of a form factor, and at that price point. Steve was somewhat right to worry about them -- in an alternate history they would have taken over as the dominant form of computing, creating a whole evolutionary tree of tiny laptops, converged with keyboarded mobile phones, at all price points and build qualities.

The 11" Air I got to replace the Eee was much better in every single way. One note is that the thin-and-long of the Air was much more portable than the chunky but stubbier Eee. It just fits better into the kinds of bags we all have. The thinness wars started then.
Something which I will never, ever wear. Apple is about supporting healthy lifestyles, not escaping from them. I see value in an Apple version of the HoloLens, but not as a consumer device.
I experimented with an IPv6-only home network some time ago. It's worth remembering that DNS64 + NAT64 only help you connect to IPv4-only hosts that you resolved through DNS. Anything that gets its IPs another way, say a BitTorrent client that gets peer IPs from trackers / DHT, or something that insists on using DNS-over-HTTPS to some other unforgeable DNS server, will be unable to connect to v4 IPs.

That said, it's not clear if these VMs have outbound NAT for IPv4 or not. If they do, then what I wrote above won't be a problem.
I find it so highly ironic that anyone truly believes this would end up better.

They would not fight over customers, in the same way the breakup of AT&T did not result in a fight over customers - only a more complete, nimble, and effective domination of the entire US that lasts to this day.

These companies are hamstrung by their size and internal cultural infighting - you will break them into much more effective units than they can culturally achieve themselves.

The typical trotted out example of Microsoft is an aberration - Microsoft did not believe anything bad would ever happen, was horribly defiant, and refused to prepare. It still bounced back anyway, to a point of serious domination again.

Meanwhile, all of these current tech companies are prepared for this eventuality, as AT&T did.
I posted because small decent Android phone is now rare.
The verb was used transitively.

Transitive verb:

2 : DENY, DISAVOW
disclaimed any knowledge of the contents of the letter
The focus on the camera here reminds me of the Lumia 1030 a bit.
We’re not there yet, but we are well on the way to becoming a third world country politically. Trump is a politician fit for a third world country. But we also had members of Congress recently abandon their institutional roles and get themselves arrested at protests. I think even Sanders had more dignity than that.
The super-clocks that define what time it is
Nah, the 901 was where it was at! Atom chip, more usable screen size, 4GB system drive that was reasonably snappy. I used that thing for years, even ran OSX snow-leopard on it for a while.
What is an Open Source Program Office and why you should have one
In 2008 or 9, I had about 20 Eee 701s shipped to the international school I was the IT Director at in Central Asia to make a mobile computer lab, outfitted some Gorilla cases with power and foam, and had a pretty decent cheap expansion lab. The downside was that our internet was a 10:1 oversub’d satellite with a max 1mb (and that was upgraded from the 5:1 256k that we had been on) and the teachers wanted the lab to do internet-based projects, and between that and the 3 DDWRT’d Linksys routers that I had scrounged from the bazaar since I had no room out of my 10k tech budget for the year that had to cover _everything_ tech for the 400 student K12 school, it wasn’t a great solution for the actual problem, but those little machines were awesome at the time.

I know for most people, phones or tablets fit that gap, but I think I would prefer an Eee over my Surface Go for casual use, if just for the typing form factor.
A helpful little heuristic that always stuck with me from a Stanford lecture by Andrew Ng was, "log N is less than 30 for all N".
Texas also should expose real time variations in rates to all consumers.
Buttery Smooth “10fps” (2020)
It's a "binary transparency" system, allowing software developers to publish the hashes of their releases, signed with their project-specific key, to protect the software supply chain.

In particular, it can protect against compromised CI systems, and attacks where different users are given different binaries which are purporting to be a specific version.

Combined with ideas like reproducible builds, and distributed code review[0], it can fix some of the single-points-of-failure that attackers might target.

[0] https://github.com/crev-dev/crev
Right, this is exactly what chips like the 68000 did.
Not having the Touch ID lose Apple at least one, if not more, upgrades. At least in my case. I’m on an iPhone 7 that’s definitely showing it’s age. I would e upgraded a long time ago but held off “because maybe the next version will have Touch ID back.”

Well, that never happened and I’m now in the position of having to upgrade a phone that’s starting to crash due to battery issues, will probably be out of iOS updates in September and is frankly getting too slow for even simple yet surprisingly power demanding apps.

I don’t know what I’ll upgrade to. Likely an iPhone, but which? I hate buying something that’s not the current generation but the thought of having to deal with Face ID multiple times a day leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
They are not on a path to deliver anything that could be remotely competitive.
> I for one, love the fact that I can find some old or niche game or hobbyist program, get it directly from their website, install it, and use it that simply.

That hasn't been my experience at all. I have lots of old games on my Steam account and playing them on the latest Windows turned out to be impossible. Many games don't even start due to DLL hell. I even hunted down and installed old DirectX versions to no avail.

So much for Microsoft's legendary backwards compatibility. Wouldn't it be hilarious if one day it turns out Wine is the best way to play these games?
Asking the real questions..
In the oughties it seemed like the consensus was that the F-35 was a terrible weapon (but a great way to make contractors rich). That still seemed a common view in the 2010s. Now people who get paid to make these decisions and don't have an obvious vested interest seem to be making different decisions. I don't know what changed
Kind of sad, feels like they sort of mismanaged the product line to death though. Like they even sold Optane drives aimed at consumers and like marketed for gamers. That's... not where you need something like that, it's not going to be better than any old SSD for a tenth the price, and it's not going to fool anyone.

The cool part is their random write performance with high queue depths. Really exciting in the like database-adjacent space (if you develop for the hardware specifically). But it feels like that never quite happened. Real shame, it was cool tech.
Good point, thanks. When I get home I'll update the article title to "Is the Kalman filter a low-pass filter? Sometimes!"
The "making of" article has some interesting technical details.

The Moons Calendar Implementation - https://elf.org/moons/colophon.html
but it would be impossible to google FOMO...
It's the equivalent of Microsoft Access but on the cloud. Each has its pros and cons. (vendor lock-in, cloud integrations, code customization, etc..)

I don't think there is any novelty here except for it being on the cloud. I also don't think this a no-code platform.
Hey!

Founder here, yep you're totally right, BitTorrent and this kind of application won't work as there's no outbound NAT.
It's on the todo list however.

Bu pretty much everything else works just fine, e.g. hosting docker containers, Webservers, databases..

Cheers
Ian
Very cool tool.
Almost 2 decades ago, I learnt Principles of Digital Design in the university using EWB (Electronics Workbench), then known as Multisim.

It's Windows only. Then a friend pointed me to Logisim, which also runs well on Linux. Unfortunately, the development was suspended, which lead to various forks like:
- https://github.com/lbulej/fork-logisim-evolution
- https://github.com/Logisim-Ita/Logisim
- https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution
> Why should file extensions be a thing?

They're not that important on Linux. Making files without extensions is simple and common.

Honestly, file extensions are an annoying GUI thing. In the command line you pass the file as parameter to a program, the extension doesn't matter. Simply clicking on a file provides no information to the operating system about what program to invoke though, there needs to be additional metadata. So graphical environments created this notion of file associations based on extensions to the file name.
You want to stay employed and be allowed to participate in society don't you? You need to tow the party line, comrade. Recession is defined however The Party says it is.
I really wish GraalVM would support iOS https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/373
Not sure, but earlier I looked it up and apparently Zenphones get really good LineageOS support.
That's fair, I just find that the number of people who fall into that specific source of "spending too much" makes it important to specify. Most providers bury the actual phone cost somehow, and only focus on the monthly total - normalizing people spending $100/month on cell services
You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes

Declarations and expressive argument don't work very well. People may agree, even feel it, but social media is awash in emotional appeals so feelings alone are transient. And the grammar of protest - crowds, banners, megaphones - is well understood and easy for politicians and PR types to deflect. The protests against the Iraq war were probably the largest in history and made no discernible difference to subsequent events. No matter how much people vote with their feet, incumbent politicians can defer meaningful response until the nearest election, and if there is an election already coming up then then there's abundant resources for astroturfing and other manipulative tactics.

Ultimata are more effective, because they attach a price tag to a dysfunctional status quo. But they're hard to issue without leverage, and establishing consensus for traditional levers like a general strike is very difficult. Noncooperation with the impending start of the school year would probably be the most effective approach. Sadly the Guardian, like many media outlets, is good at getting people upset (quite legitimately) but not at giving them any tools with which to act thereon.
I mean, in the case of phone comparisons, what you want to benchmark is the phone with it's default services and apps (which is what people use).

If you can modify those, then what's the comparison on? How fast it boots to no apps or services running?
Right? I haven't looked into how it works (I have nothing plausible to deny :-) but the web page says it's a filesystem, so I guess it's software, it has to be installed or run from somewhere, and the moment any hint of that software is discovered (browser history to the github page?), then deniability becomes less plausible. At best, using it successfully would seem to require a level of secops that is really hard to achieve.
Unknown LinkedIn Prospecting Tactics from a Startup Marketer
VisiCorp was developing their VisiOn platform in the 1984-ish timeframe. They were bending heaven and earth to fit into 640K.

Telling their corporate customers, "Buy another 512K of RAM" would probably have saved their company and let them ship a number of world-class productivity products, and given Windows some interesting competition.

It's easy to second guess this stuff, on the other hand 512K of RAM was about $120 in 1985. We shipped the Atari ST with that much, when having that amount of memory on a Mac was pretty rare.
Predicted != predicted correctly.

AlphaFold is doing good but it is not perfect.
In a democracy, you only get the one vote, but in social media, you can have thousands or millions
I’ve got a 12 mini and I’m quite happy with it. I admit that I don’t charge it wirelessly because I have a snap ring on the back. I’m disappointed that the form factor is dead going forward.
From what I've heard, 6mo is set as such in the case if somebody gets laid off and it takes that long for them to find another job - so they have exactly that amount of raw cash to survive on for rent/food/miscellaneous.

Also medical bills tend to be twice as expensive as what you'd think they are, so a single medical incident can wipe out a solid chunk of that 6mo net.
As of May 2022, SafetyNet basic attestation works on CalyxOS by default for the Pixel 3a and later:

https://calyxos.org/news/2022/05/07/location-safetynet-fix/
It’s noteworthy to me that available memory has not increased in some time. You can find machines with more memory, and perhaps the number of classes has increased, but outside of very narrow envelopes it might be cheaper to have 2 m6i’s with undersubscribed CPUs than to try to increase the amount of cpu per core on something else.
I recently recycled an MSI Wind U100. Battery was shot, hinges gave up years ago, keyboard was in pretty rough shape. Still booted though off a budget (at the time) 40GB Intel SSD that made it feel fast.

Still chuckle that they offered the overclocking option as if it mattered on that Atom N270 CPU.

Dragged it everywhere for a bit. It was the first laptop shaped device I could afford new as a teenager. I refuse to believe it's retro.
Tell that to the people who lose videos that way. Google would consider that a cost (loss of goodwill with a minute set of people).

Idk about YouTube but I know many people whose sole copy of their treasured images is on Facebook.
That inspiration wasn't lost in Wasteland 2, where there's a "Isaac Leibovitz" npc who accepts a canticle item : ^ )
I’m sure AWS’s margins are growing on S3, but to be fair, S3 is more than just raw storage. The majority of the cost and value is the API and the ever-growing features it provides. Those aren’t getting cheaper nearly as fast as the underlying storage hardware is.