skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about the context.

Modern PCs have an external monitor in addition to the main one just to extend the area. This one, because of its placement especially in the semi-folded form, would unlikely to be used just like a normal display, because of their position and rotation relative to the user, that one sees in front of their eyes, so additional software measures would be needed to make use of that space efficiently to, say (making it up), keep app windows on the main area but move shortcuts, desktop items, widgets to the bottom area etc.
That game really does build up mouse skills. I remember playing it when I was 5 and having no idea what the rules were - I just liked to click all the fun little boxes with the cool numbers and bombs.
The official name of China is “People’s Republic of China”, PRC.

Taiwan differentiates by using “Republic of China”, RoC.

Still confusing, but technically different, purposely so.
I'm just going to put my tin-foil hat on for a second.

Not entirely sure how I would feel about Amazon having control over a machine full of sensors that can physically move around within my home.
I own a Neato D6, and I'm very happy with it.

As others have said, suction isn't as good as a regular vacuum. But what makes it great is it can do its thing while I'm away. I'm quite lazy and hate vacuuming, so there's no way I'd do it manually more than once a week. But the bot does its thing daily, so my house is generally cleaner. It also has a rotating brush that makes the carpet much fluffier than the regular vacuum, and seems to be better at pulling out hair.

Navigation-wise it's not too bad. I have to remove wires, socks and similar from the floor, or it WILL get tangled. The only thing which is a bit stupid is that it doesn't seem to know its height, so it can sometimes get stuck under things. But I've put some 2 mm wood blocks under that shelf, and now everyone's happy.
Why not put "US" on the shipments instead, as it's closer to the truth?
MS has a habit lately of backing lots of standard proposals that fizzle and go nowhere.
Microsoft always was big on identity with Active Directory. Obviously, they jump on this as soon as possible to call more shots.
The limited tech-info they have[1] says they can go up to 300mm thick depending on insulation needs.

1: https://vantem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/VA_B03-TechPan...
It looks to me that this is only shipments from Taiwan to China

> Apple has asked suppliers to ensure that shipments from Taiwan to China strictly comply with Chinese customs regulations after a recent visit by senior U.S. lawmaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei stoked fears of rising trade barriers.

Am I missing something? I do not see a requirement that all package from Taiwan say they are from China.
Does the list of obstacles these things avoid include pet accidents like poop, cat puke, etc? Cause we have a pukey cat and a robo vac might make things much much worse.
>That's like saying "Your physical health is defined by your BMI, case closed."

No, it's like saying "Your BMI is defined by the following formula, case closed". This is treated as a technical term by economists, with an actual definition. But it also has a more ambiguous colloquial use. Personally, I think the media should use a more quaint, wishy-washy term like "slowdown" and leave "recession" to the economists to define as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.

>NBER has published work going back 40 years that demonstrates why a simplistic measurement of contraction duration is flawed.[1] Just like your physical health, economic health should really be measured holistically across different aspects.

Or yeah sure, call it "economic health". Even better, throw a "holistic" in there and it will forever remain in the realm of the squishy soft sciences.
> Old homes were overbuilt.

Except when they weren't. For example, brick foundations that preceded reinforced concrete haven't held up well. They generally all need to be replaced at great expense.

> Old homes are built with old growth wood. This can’t be had today. This wood is incredible and is naturally rot resistant.

As you say it can't be had today and there aren't enough old homes in places people want to live to make it matter.

> Taken care of it will last many hundreds of years.

But the whole point of old growth wood is that you don't need to take care of it as much since it is pretty resilient to getting wet.

It's newer wood and manufactured materials that often need more care since they are less resilient.

Also, prewar homes use huge amounts of energy for heating - which is a big reason the old growth wood lasted: it was being blasted with heat from the inside the whole winter, so condensation got dried out (the people too).

> Plastics. They really came into their own during WW2 and found their way into construction because they work for awhile and are dirt cheap. So we have cheap windows, cheap siding, flooring,

There are incredible fiberglass and UPVC windows being made today by companies like Marvin and Schuco. Yes, there has been a history of poor quality manufactured building materials, but some of the most reliable components today contain plastics.

> Buy a pre-war home and invest in it. Keep the original windows and restore them.

The reality is that people buy homes for location, and the period of the home is a usually a secondary consideration.
> And basically everyone here is choosing cheaper Chinese goods so we're all complicit too.

You mean big corporations and their greedy shareholders choose for us?
Pretty sure I remember Firefox 2 having an orange RSS button built in. This would have been 2006 though, the golden age of blogging. I can understand if they removed it, most high-traffic personal blogs started moving to social media by around 2010-12.
meme tech
This is more typing, but if you append -site:pinterest.com to your search, it will hide them.
There is this human convention about "can/cannot" that assumes the reader is able to figure out the nuance of it.

If I say, "I can't walk it the street naked", I'm expecting you to understand the underlying causes. I'm not expecting that I have to explain to you that, yes, nothing prevent me physically to walk in the street naked, but indeed, I chose every day not to do it because I don't want to pay the social and/or legal price for it.

In the same way, given that tensions in the Middle East are pretty famous and that political issues between Muslim & Jews have implications in international trades, I'm making the assumption readers understand what "cannot" means here.
> Stop manufacturing in China? That's... ambitious.

Apple's profit margins are so high that they'd probably still be positive even if they did this without raising prices at all. (Remember nobody's saying they should have to move manufacturing to the US. There are plenty of countries with low labor costs that are less evil than China.)
And if your actions end up undermining an independent free press and you're stuck with just propaganda in the future, well, at least you have some rhetoric to hide the guilt.

If you use someone's work, pay them for it.
BlenderBot: A Conversational AI Prototype
> As many purchases of laptops have occurred with employees making the purchases and then being reimbursed by GitLab, a remote employee would typically be making a purchase of a laptop pre-loaded with Windows Home Edition.

Windows Home Edition is notoriously hard to secure.

This is a totally valid point. Anyone who has worked for big companies know how companies secure systems using security policies which are not available on home edition and tough to setup on Profesional license bought by user.

If a user really wants to do something on windows then I am sure they can run it in VirtualBox or VMware on their system.
This is interesting, it was always intuitive for me, like most VR controls. It's interesting to hear that it wasn't intuitive for others.
Seems like it's been a PoS for a few years.
I’m quite familiar! It still only scratches the surface. I’d love courses on type checking, incremental compilation, concrete syntax trees, query based compilation, optimization, register allocation, multithreaded garbage collection, LLVM, etc. There’s so many topics and so little high quality instruction out there.
I've been thinking of what happened with the Canadian truckers. Irrespective of whether you believe their cause, the ability for the state (Canada) to freeze bank accounts is disturbing.

With the general use of centralized crypto exchange, we just swapped two masters (Visa/Mastercard) with another (Coinbase).

Of course with private wallets, we could technically avoid centralized exchanges, but the on/off ramps to crypto (fiat in/out) with the state KYC requirements, an authoritarian state could still go after the linked bank accounts.

Welcome suggestions on the way forward. Maybe decentralized exchanges?
In your opinion, what's the single best book to read about Bell Labs and absorb lessons that can be applied to building modern innovative organizations?
Before lion battery tech, in the 90s, h2 and fuel cells were the next big thing. The way to move to a pollution free engine.

All sorts of claims against h2 tech came out, such as the "there is no way to store it!", which was solved in the 90s and before!

These relentless claims, not just about storage, but anything h2 related, were used to erode public trust. BC, Vacouver had h2 buses in the 90s!

But that all failed, h2 evaporated, and who do you think pushed an endless whisper campaign back then, with said falsehoods?

It wasn't environmentalists!

Now, decades later this junk bull is repeated endlessly, by environmentalists, who ignore the buses and cars from the 90s, and all the current vehciles, and just repeat "oh, it's dangerous and you can't use h2. how silly"

Yeah. Sure. No reason for me to be upset.

So don't blame me if you get flack, for repeating oil industry lies from 30 years ago, which were not true even then.

You deserve to be hassled for this!

And now, you ignored my comment about Toyota safety verifying their cars, as it is new tech, because they want to know.

They aren't inspecting because they have to, or because the tanks are unsafe, they are doing so out of prudence, and correct procedure.

So there is nothing to improve with the next model.
Personally I'm looking forward to an Amazon home. Ring, Echo and Roomba – I will feel well taken care of and always safe.
And yet somehow the result has been a vast acceleration in the rate of improvement of robotic vacuums. It isn't evident that we are in the right here.
My typical workflow when recording a video on iPad is: Turn on. Open Camera app. Press record. Wait 3 seconds. Dismiss "Sign in to iCloud" notification.
I loved AmigaBASIC. It was so futuristic after cutting my teeth on a Commodore 64.

I was so bummed about the move to AREXX. It was much better in many ways, like interacting with the system or other programs, but not nearly as good for writing actual code.
> Due to Microsoft Windows' dominance in desktop operating systems, Windows is the platform most targetted by spyware, viruses, and ransomware.

That may be true, but a much higher proportion of downloaded Mac software lacks code signing. Opting in to that as a developer on the Mac will carry a lot of risk of kafkaesque deactivation and, and most don’t want to deal with that. On Windows, on the other hand, it’s like getting an SSL certificate. Apple’s philosophy on the developer program is antiquated, obsolete, and has compromised the security of the platform.

How many Mac users do you think limit themselves to only signed apps? It’s much easier to do this on Windows (but requires a small amount of technical understanding, or is it too much for Gitlab employees?). But when you enforce the policy at the corporate domain level, you won’t be neutering the machine’s usefulness as you would on the Mac. Unsigned apps on Windows tend to be the janky ones, while the signed apps found on the Apple Store tend to be garbage in my experience.

Relying on “less malware is created for Mac” is a terrible idea in general. This isn’t the 90’s. When you are Gitlab, a high value target for sophisticated, targeted attacks, that won’t help you.

Good Security is a balancing act between safety and convenience, and Apple gets it completely wrong. Therefore I would be very cautious about trusting Gitlab’s security posture given their apparent ignorance on the subject.

From https://developer.apple.com/support/certificates/

> If your certificate expires, users can no longer launch installer packages for your Mac applications that were signed with this certificate.

> Apple Developer Program membership is required to request, download, and use signing certificates issued by Apple.

> Note: Apple can revoke digital certificates at any time at its sole discretion. For more information, read the Apple Developer Program License Agreement in your developer account.

… and many paragraphs detailing what parts of your app will break when certificates are revoked.

There are more nuances involved than I care to list in full here, though I’d be happy to be proven wrong about this.
The question isn't whether those things are nice, it's whether they wouldn't have been developed as fast in a competitive environment.

(Personally, I think just based on human nature that competition is anti-innovative in the long run, but I can't prove anything either way.)
That's a good point about survivorship bias but I do wonder about it. There are vast swaths of homes out East that are all pre-war. They're in places where people took care of the homes though and have had them updated over the years. In essence, any home is slowly being rebuilt from the day it is finished. And if you don't take those steps then the home falls into disrepair and can't really be reasonably saved.

We saw a lot of this when people wanted new homes in the new suburbs starting in the late 1940's. The pre-war homes were sold to poorer people who couldn't afford or didn't understand they had to repair the homes. They were quality homes but many of them have been knocked down due to that.

And yes, there were also kit homes and other cheaper construction. Homes with dirt floors, no plumbing, etc. My grandmother grew up in a small 3 room home with outdoor plumbing and she had 7 siblings - no one can imagine living like that today. It would be considered inhumane. So yeah, that kind of stuff is gone too.

But even the highest quality construction today pales in many ways. For instance, top of the line windows from Marvin aren't as good as the windows that exist today in many pre-war homes. So long as they have been restored, weather stripped, storm windows added, etc. That 100 year window will continue to outlive the highest end windows from today's top brands, if it's maintained.
You never needed to Force Touch an icon to delete. It has been long press since the first iPhone.

But your confusion is an example of the main problem. It’s hard to discover and easily confused with long press (if you try to Force Touch and don’t apply enough pressure eventually you’re going to leave your finger there long enough to activate long press)
If someone links to an account which is prolifically an X and tweets about X, I would assume that you might be an X. Which is to say I wouldn't treat it as a fact. It might trigger the question, "Are you an X?", simply out of interest, whereas previously I wouldn't have any reason to ask that. That's just me, I'm sure there's people who would just assume that they are an X.

>You don't need to disclaim things which society widely accepts as bad
Whether you think people need to or not is irrelevant. We know that people do it, so people obviously feel they need to do so.
I've seen people play devils advocate, or joke themselves as an X, and be mistaken for one before. so perhaps you do need to make a disclaimer in order to fully avoid confusion.

>"Why are you using X as something embarassing to distance yourself from? You think X is bad, do you? Maybe you secretly are X and hiding it and that's why it's at the top of your mind".
Or maybe it's on the top of their mind because they unwittingly linked an account associated with X.
The whole "if you don't like X you're actually X" is bizarre.

>It's those people using X as an insult, in the sense that the original person's disclaimer made it an insult and they are mirroring it back.
Sure, that might be true, but it's still true the other side is using it as an insult. It's just odd since they're insulting OP as an X, whilst acting as if they're in the position of defending Xism...

>If they didn't go out of their way to disclaim it probably nobody else would have commented on it; "I checked out the rest of the account you linked and you read a furry themed Twitter account?" "no, I saw it on a programming meme Reddit" and it would be a non-issue.
It's ridiculous for you to realise it's possible for people to make this assumption and also complain that someone made a disclaimer to avoid the extra discussion you mentioned.
Perhaps these types of disclaimers might not matter much if you anonymously posting on this site, we don't know if OP is or not though.
New York City blackout of 1977
IIRC Apple is the same way. It requires extremely special dispensation to even get a Windows VM (ex: iTunes & Safari on Windows groups).

It's not uncommon at all, to be honest. I've done IT at startups where we said "Mac Only". Why? Because supporting multiple platforms is a lot of work. You need to do everything twice. All the software security done twice (and differently for each). Rolling out something new to the employee base? Two different sets of instructions. Setting up conference rooms with power bricks and video adapters? Had to be done twice (though this was a while ago, that is less of an issue now).

For small teams, it's just a workload that may not be doable. It's not like someone in IT says "I hate Windows, we're going to go Apple only", but often times a "Well, we're 90% Mac already, lets stick to just that". And yes, even with the "Apple Tax" its still overall cheaper to buy/support just macs.
Why isn't resolution front and center? Oh it's because it's "Up to 2.5K (2560 by 1920)", so still stuck in 2007.
Perhaps.

OTOH, my experience (modest n) is that a fairly large percentage of people are happy to say "Shame on Apple" for such things. Vs. a near-zero percentage are actually willing to avoid buying products made in (mainland) China, or with major components made there.

Talk was cheap long before "Performative Activism" had its own Wikipedia page.
It's actually 16 orders of magnitude bigger than a 5" smart phone... if you use a base of 1.08

There's no defined base for order of magnitude so technically you can use anything!
is that not enough for a 17"?

I don't have that many on my 27" desktop monitors and it's totally fine.
TFA quotes George Kent as saying it's not satire. The point was that there are people who benefit from others being hungry, that is Kent's position.

> “For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields?” Kent wrote. “Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.”
Ah, I got one of their Flips around the beginning of the year, wish I'd waited as this looks really cool.

Wonder how the Linux support will be. The Flip has decent Linux hardware, as far as I can think of, every feature is working other than their useless numpad-on-trackpad thing (which I didn't even bother looking into).
Remote Access Trojan - malware which, usually as software, needs to make its way to the victim computer.

Hypothesis: the people responsible for the electronic harassment of "targeted individuals" use a variant of RAT done in hardware with its own radio and working even without Internet, inserted during processor design, making harder to uncover it, but it can be done.

Consider:

"It's not technically hard to make a device that complies with the FCC that listens to nonpublic bands but then is quietly waiting for some activation trigger to listen to other bands," said Eduardo Rojas, who leads the radio spectrum lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. "Technically, it's feasible."

To prove a device had clandestine capabilities, Rojas said, would require technical experts to strip down a device "to the semi-conductor level" and "reverse engineer the design." But, he said, it can be done.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/politics/fbi-investigation-hu...
Microsoft is improving a tool included in Windows 11 to protect users from malware and phishing attacks.
I haven’t managed to find a healthy density of such folks after college & grad school. Something about the nature of employment and the responsibilities of “life in the real world” seems to interfere. Curious to see what this thread surfaces. My e-mail is on my HN profile if you wanna connect.
You get 60k? I get way less.
We called it "slug bug."
> Raison d'être of any Corporation is shareholder profit, not whatever you think of it.

There are all kinds of corporations. For example, the EFF is a corporation.
Wouldn't they still have the same licensing issues then? Maybe this is just a workstation issue and they still allow/support some Windows server OSes.
Pretty cool tech, but from the Dave2D video, the crease + bulkiness is still bad enough to be a dealbreaker for me (and I imagine many others as well).

I find it interesting that companies like Asus, Samsung, etc. frequently put out these devices that feature emerging tech, but clearly aren't ready for primetime. You would never catch Apple releasing something like this since they have brand value to protect, but Asus seems to be fine risking that in order to claim the title of "first to market".

One day this tech will be ready for the masses, and I imagine that's when Apple will release something. Why are companies like Asus spending money on marketing that "warms up" the general audience to this tech, only to have Apple come eat their lunch a few years later?
I saw this a couple weeks ago too. This could be the first time in around 40 years that they are able to raise interest rates higher than the previous peak before having to cut them.
I trust Vacuum Wars for technical reviews of vacuums and vacuum robots: https://youtube.com/c/VacuumWars

Looks like their big robot round up is about 9 months old, but they have single model reviews as well.

Edit: A little bit on why I like this review channel:

A lot of gadget reviews I read nowadays about household products are like "I like this robot it did a good job cleaning. Sometimes got stuck but not too bad."

Vacuum wars is like: "I worked 500 g of fine sand into our test carpet and ran the robot for 5 minutes. It picked up 362 g of sand which is 32% better than the average for this category and the best of the current robots that I've tried. Now, on the artificial hair test, the rotors tangled after just 50g which is a poor result for this category... "

He's set up a testing suite. He runs all of the vacuums through it. You can compare the results. It's how reviews should be.
The fact is that full-time permanent jobs declined by 77k. The bulk of new job creation was in part-time, transient positions that for the most part don't pay enough to sustain people - especially with inflation rampant. The numbers look good, as long as you don't look too closely into the numbers - my point stands.

Don't you find it curious that the article fails to mention these details? I do.