skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android seems to be growing inferior to iOS in almost every way, which I find sad. I prefer to root for the underdog.

* Privacy

* Security

* Efficiency

I have a personal Android S22+ and an iPhone 13 mini. The iPhone gets better with every update, whereas there's always something funky going on with my droid. Every update does something weird, fixing one thing and breaking something new, and managing to offer no significant privacy improvements.

In fact, today it is Samsung, the world's second largest phone vendor (outside of China), who is the one getting hit by data breaches, leaks, and hacks on an ongoing basis.
The power of the word "racist" (like all woke-words) is that it has lots of definitions, which the speaker can slip between depending on the needs of the moment.

In this case, the two definitions and their purposes would be:

Definition 1. "One not actively working to create equal outcomes for non-white groups (even simply being neutral/disinterested is racist in this definition)". This is the definition of racist in the popular How to Be an Antiracist. This would be used to attach the word to the target.

Definition 2. "One directly and intentionally harming people of non-white races out of conscious and deliberate hatred". Basically the KKK definition. This is the implication that's attached to the target, after definition 1 is used to "stick" the word onto the target.

It's an amazing "stick and stab" tactic that, somehow, we haven't yet developed cultural antibodies against.
I think IDEs killed UML. You can look at a model and understand a system, then try to translate that to a code base, and try not to lose anything in the translation. Or you can just use an IDE and find all these things that UML tells you directly on the code base, and do no translations.
Make the work visible. Transparency enables others to help.
This is such a bad misunderstanding of causation. Modern buildings suck because modern city planning sucks. The buildings look like they do because developers have to follow the asinine rules thought up by a bunch of bureaucrats, who are just responding to fear of being yelled at by thin-skinned people who are easily offended. So basically everything except tasteless copy-paste buildings are illegal.

The system is so bad it’s beyond tragic to the point of farce. There are better alternatives (search for the CNU Charter Awards for examples), but very few have been able to break through the regulatory slog.

Every city has done this to itself.
I prefer to root the underdog
This sounds even better. I was imagining a similar idea where for every point in the Bezier you have a normal that can extend both directions by a specified amount. The smoothness still requires some interpolation which shouldn’t be too further from normal Bezier interpolation.
> There's software to help with designing these plans, which I guess must use parallel curves under the hood.

Siemens PLM / D-Cubed PGM component is one example of such software.

It's used for the offset function in the sketcher in Siemens PLM own NX/SolidEdge and also in SolidWorks.

> PGM automatically generates valid 2D offset profiles on points, lines, circles, ellipses, splines, general parametric curves, and offset curves.

> Gaps that arise between adjacent edges in an offset loop are automatically capped using a choice of capping techniques. Offset edges that shrink to zero length/radius, and any intersecting geometry is automatically trimmed, including self-intersecting offsets, offsets ellipses, and splines.

https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/products/pl...

Disclaimer worked on the predecessor of that code as D-Cubed from 1995-2000.

As a side note, historically, in the Cambridge (UK) school of 3D mechanical CAD, BRep modeling (Parasolid, Acis) the approach to offset (aka parallel) surfaces (and later offset curves with the PGM) has been procedural - thus an offset surface is a pointer to an underlying surface plus a signed offset value. Accordingly, there would be no conversion to Cubic Béziers - all the modelling operations would be made to work with the procedural offset directly. Pretty much all exotic geometry had to be procedural to meet accuracy requirements - that is before the introduction of "Tolerant modeling" in Parasolid around 1992. So, for example, a Rolling ball blend (ie. a constant radius fillet) surface was procedural and had pointers to offset surfaces, which were also procedural. The advantage was accuracy, but the disadvantage was poor performance.
You mean the skill of complaining?
Nothing matters until the "check clears"
Most popular mobile OS in the world is the underdog?
> Having good thumbnails and tiles is just marketing

are you seriously going to pretend that optimizing for the most cringy thumbnails , because its a race to the bottom on Youtube, is marketing?

this is a ridiculous take.
Oh. I see. Yes, framing this as using GitHub as a (micro)blogging platform makes it make much more sense (at least to me).
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Business owners worried about baseless accusations funded by megacorp educational institutions?
The sad thing is that even with 2GB an Android device can't reliably multitask without forcing background apps to sleep and purge data. Devs only testing on flagship phones means that a lesser pocket supercomputer results in unnecessarily poor performance.
Archived: https://archive.ph/e69QV
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In terms of UX and mindshare, Android is the underdog.
No, as you can't influence the outcome of the measurement. So both parties reads a bit, which is random, they just happen to be opposite of eachother. No useful information is transmitted.
I switched from KeePassXC to Bitwarden (self hosted with Vaultwarden) a couple years ago. The experience is considerably better, the BW iOS app is great, and the Firefox extension also works reasonable well. I could never get integration in either case to work as well with KeePassXC. I'm confident if BW pull any real nonsense, there will be a fork of the client, and there's no reason for Vaultwarden to go away...
I would love to see such a case go in front of the new court. We might get lucky and overturn Euclid.
I used to bring up openvms running Motif on a vax through xfree86.
Laughable. If you have some following on youtube you are not giving away your content you get ads and sponsorship money from it. They are already getting paid for it and the proof is that there are a growing amount of full time streamers or content producers.
This video clip of T-72 loaded with soldiers on top running away best illustrates current russian course of action

https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/156828261637305958...

it was taken yesterday in the vicinity of Balakliya while ru telegram propaganda accounts still claimed full control of the situation.

Today same propaganda ru sources claim Izyum is safe and secured, meanwhile WarGonzo, one of ru mobile fake news factories on the ground openly admits to be running https://twitter.com/BVasylchenko/status/1568333811213033476

The thing is there is nowhere to run, UKR forces disabled all bridges and river crossings in the vicinity. There are video clips of ru being blown up on barges and sank armor in failed panic crossings.
I dunno, I watched two professional architects not be able to estimate a beam size for a 16’ span without mocking it up in autocad. This delayed us like a week in design iterations, and cost me probably $2000 in architect hours. I own a book inherited from my grandfather that just told me the answer. A 72-year-old architect who helped with a later revision of the project also knew the answer off the top of his head.

That’s not to say I would build the house without doing a proper structural engineering analysis and simulation. But not being able to estimate feasibility without doing the full simulation is a real problem.
> In essence, any action that you are likely to repeat many times in a program benefits from object oriented programming because it centralizes the code in one place and is abstracted away when the time comes to use it.

This isn't really the unique benefit of OOP. Plain functions also centralize code in one place and allow you to avoid writing repetitive code.
And in a month or two the new hotness’ll be something else built on top of Mithril, or something “like Mithril but a bit different”.

Good frameworks are good, and I love a good hobby project in some new hotness, but ecosystems, developer tooling, backward compatibility guarantees, large corporate backing, developer conferences, and community are what makes frameworks adoptable are what makes them stick.
A good point but you were quite literally the opposite of what most people mean when they talk about food cravings. You were starved!
3Blue1Brown and channels of the like are the ones I gravitate to. Unfortunately a lot of things on YT are based on bad news and exaggerations selling better than more reasonable content
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I don't feel too bad for them and their $36 mill.
I just hope that the use of metadata is enforced using AI the same way copyright is being enforced. I think a better approach would be to corral/wall-off this learning content sub-platform, similar to how kidsyoutube is walled-off. I wouldn't mind typing youtube.ed or edutube.. or something else. The value of youtube would be in the big iron behind it, so the front-end can be anything, as long as it's policed to comply. Example of it not being police. I make a video and I call it "Trump's documents classification". I then use the metadata to insert words used in FBI classification and voila..
Isolation tank! Didn't even think about that one
Apple has literally proposed using the phone you bought and paid for to spy on you and report you to the authorities if you do bad things. While they backed down from that plan, they went out of their way to make it clear that they were only backing down temporarily. To suggest that iOS is ahead in privacy is ludicrous.

I'll keep buying phones that only use cloud services that spy on me, instead of spying on me directly. At least that's somewhat defensible as it's not my hardware acting against me.
since when the most profitable company on the planet gets called an underdog? words have no meaning anymore?
You can expect YouTube to take a fat percentage (30%?) far beyond what alternative monetization methods like Patreon.

Good revenue stream, especially if they can get partnership deals with schools or other educational institutions. Imagine YouTube getting this sort of "guaranteed" revenue, like publishers do from textbooks, but getting schools to foot the bill instead of students; great business model.
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I was watching Succession and the outro played a song with the words "JH Blair" ("Which Side Are You On?"), which led me here.
As the creator of Boot.dev, I have every reason to dogpile on these articles bashing boot camps. Don't get me wrong - there are plenty of shitty boot camps out there, and I think online platforms are, if not a better alternative, at least a better starting point for many people.

That said, there are some good boot camps out there that are doing good work. We do need a better way to protect uninformed consumers from getting scammed though - not sure what that looks like yet.
It's not just the look, it's the location and function. There is no lot too out-of-the-way, secluded, or on a major thoroughfare too much for a copy-paste 4-plex.

If the building rules need to be changed for sensible city development and design, then that should be the battleground that YIMBYs are focused on, rather than raucously cheering on every new development owned by an out-of-state investment group (whose board of directors--surprise!--universally live in actually nice areas) and then acting confused when the price of housing doesn't go down across the decade.
Entanglement isn’t necessary in that scenario, though. My understanding is that peaking at your penny forces the other penny into the complement state. There’s an element of causality which is why we call it entanglement and not simply spin complements. My understanding is also that causality is instantaneous, i.e., faster than light, but still cannot be used to transmit information.
Funny thing about electric outlets. I agree with you however the house we bought has a room with probably 20 outlets in it. Every three feet at bottom
and top of room!
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Do you get paid every time the word "idea" appears on the page?

Interesting process, though.

thanks
I mean, Private, Security, and Efficiency may not be so orthogonal if you consider what sort of data collection is desired for ad targeting, its basically everything. What apps are installed, which are used most, when? where? Which bluetooth and wifi devices are nearby?

Truly the data scraping could be enormous, needing resources and lots of them.
Next you’ll tell me you can’t construct a cistern to collect rainwater either.

Laws against collecting rainwater are actually pretty common.

Yes, land ownership is pretty much an illusion.
Wired motorized sounds nice. Battery powered is a real turn off.

Bathroom fan in laundry to get rid of humidity?? Interesting
While this outcome is a disappointment

What wouldn't be? They wish the truth would be erased?
GUIs lend themselves well to component-based (a.k.a. Object-Oriented Programming-based) approaches. The earliest GUIs used OO techniques. And JavaScript has VERY weak OO functionality. Or rather, the browser has very weak OO functionality. Everything is global. Any piece of code can just modify elements in the DOM as they wish. There's no modularity or namespacing. When building a big, complex, interactive GUI, it's a lot of work trying to use a homegrown approach. Better to just use what has risen to the top - React,etc.
Subjective opinion.

My wife won't switch to iOS device due to UX in iOS
People are going back to the office – except in the Bay Area
How well would TB fare as a more general datastore for tasks that aren't specifically accounting? I guess the hard part may be mapping the source domain model neatly into a double-entry accounting representation. Some diverse examples off the top of my head (and my guess): chat messages (no); logging (no); application metrics (yes, but it doesn't fit very well because metrics can trade a lot of features for throughput?); tracking inventory (definitely); tracking deployment and status of cloud resources [like k8s' etcd] (probably?).
What the Hell Microsoft
Your taste is irrelevant and can be swiftly put in the bin because people's right to not be homeless is always supreme.

The 4-plexes are actually the fault of NIMBYs because they refuse to allow taller apartments and so this is a compromise.
I don’t like flying but I think this feeling is a little extreme.

Airports really aren’t that crowded at all (other than a couple of pinch points), and just wear a mask and mind your business on the flight and you’re done in a couple of hours. I’ve flown 4 times in the past 3 months and each flight was actually quite pleasant.
Definitely not. If you haven’t picked up the skill of complaining by your second programming task (be it shell or anything else), your humanity is in question.

Honing that skills can be slow.
are there any other takes that the legal system cannot reveal?

is it common for other students to attempt to buy alcohol with fake IDs and these students were the ones stopped for it?

what I read - my first time reading about this - is that the shop owner correctly identified something sketchy was going on, and this escalated into an altercation with 3 underage patrons that the police got involved in as all 3 were arrested. The initial observation of "assuming theft" is supplanted by "trying to purchase with a fake ID", something common in a college town. How were these two things conflated? This isn't answered.

All three people plead guilty to different things unrelated to an assumption of theft, but pleading guilty doesn't reveal anything when understanding just how many people can't defend themselves in court.

The college shouldn't have gotten involved at all, regardless. This trend of "using your platform" needs to have counter-deterrents and consequences.

The people that actually boycotted and did slander-like things, shouldn't have acted without being more discerning.

But there's still something else in between that I can't garner from this. Anybody local have more personal accounts?
Hoping to put in a lot of windows on the back side. Agree i do think greenhouses look pretty good. Catch being managing the plants
Reminds of the IBM story.

They had an IT department. Things were smooth. Nothing ever went bad.

So they sacked 50% of them thinking they do nothing but hang around... and everything went to hell.

Someone can probably point to or correlate that story better.

But essentially the human nature of business is, if something runs smooth, it needs fixing.
Umm, Google also reports you to authorities for bad things

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
They seem to spar off each other. Apple is notorious for hanging back and refining new tech, Android is faster to innovate, ship, and iterate.

They’ve both got their pros and cons, innovations and derivatives. Neither are really ‘underdogs’.
Why does Cambridge teach OCaml as the first programming language?
Beat them to upping the burn rate by.. a lot, until neither of you own anything.

Everyone needs financial controls and financial accountability. No one should be able to spend without cosigners. If you set that up early, it will be in your company's blood. If you don't, you will ALWAYS have a culture of wastage.
Google reports you to the authorities, the phone you purchased from Google, but now own, does not.
I just went to airbnb.nl with my NL VPN active (I’m a US resident that was previously searching from airbnb.com) and sure enough the map prices show the actual price with all taxes and fees included when you visit airbnb.nl with a Dutch VPN active, unlike the American site. It also shows the price with all fees included if you visit airbnb.nl from the United States with no VPN active.

Interestingly, if you visit with the Dutch VPN active but instead on airbnb.com, you also see the price with everything included on the map regardless of whether the map search you are doing is in the NL or the USA. But if you visit airbnb.com from the USA without VPN and search for a destination in NL (or USA, but that might be obvious) you don’t get prices with fees included.

So it appears that AirBnB checks for either originating IP in NL or visiting via airbnb.nl to determine the behavior as of the time of this post. This is actually a great trick for me to learn as a States resident for when I want to browse AirBnB’s - I can just turn on my Dutch VPN for actual, non bullshit pricing on the map.
So, no apology or acknowledgement they did anything wrong?
Lol was just thinking, IIRC that's how org-mode came to exist
A lot of the issues related to multitask actually comes from OEM customizations. Many Android OEMs, especially Samsung, would make killing background apps more aggressive.

Take a look at https://dontkillmyapp.com/
KeePassXC supports all of that?
> To suggest that iOS is ahead in privacy is ludicrous.

On Android, you have a dad reported to the police and his Google account locked (including his Google Fi cellular plan) for taking photos of his toddler to send to the doctor https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

Apple has not done this.
You could input an image and get it to recreate it as best as possible and then output a seed. That would be interesting!
Who doesn't love Garry Tan? I've never read a single negative word about him. If he's betting against you, best watch out.

That means YOU, The City and Public Officials of San Francisco. Wake up.

Your city is messed up and smelly, and it's time to take out the trash and clean the dirt from the streets (literally).
I grew up with spectrums and ms-dos with a turbo and a reset button.

I feel sad for my kids who will grow up with iPads and Windows 14 PCs with not the slightest clue on how things are running and the OS shielding them from crashing the thing or running viruses for fun.

Same things for young lads that come out of university today with their degrees. They're well spoken and can recite algo theory like nothing but still have no clue what's underneath and why it works.

Have we reached that level of the civilisation that goes extinct, for forgetting how its own inner machines work?
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-photo-scan...

Generally search "CSAM apple" and you'll find endless articles about this.
I did this, didn't quite realize the implications when in a hurry trying to remove one password stored accidentally, or something.

Literally running around the house trying to shut off other PC's before Chrome could sync on them... unsuccessful. What a disaster!
> Google does this yet lies about their searches to maintain an illusion of competence.

I've seen this around a lot, but I have yet to see proof that it's a "lie" in any way. Perhaps provide some evidence if you have it?

More likely, there ARE 2 million results, but they're not going to show them all to you, because you are not economically able to pay them enough to do so. Now, if you want to pay Google a billion dollars, you can probably get all 2 million search results. They'll probably deliver them on gold-plated floppy disks if you want.

Anyway it ALSO it serves as an important hint that there are LOTS of results, and you should NARROW down your search. Wouldn't it be weirder if you searched for "meaning of life" and it said "200 results"?
Ask HN: How do you name your documents?
I try to have some structure in my filenames and use the convention of <base filename> V<version #> <initials> <change description>.ext. This doesn't help the problem of differentiating drafts and final versions so I still end up with things like Year End Report Final V3 BCG minor edits.docx. How do you name your documents and/or folder structures to handle this?
This is why I will never stop taking my Adderall!

(Actually, this is why I only take Adderall on days it will make a noticeable difference. The symptoms it corrects don’t need daily doses, and intermittent use preserves my therapeutic response to it AND my ability to function without it.

Use drugs wisely!)
Airplane air is way cleaner than you think: https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/about-us/air-circulation.html
...and it's all sanctioned by the government because they make boatloads of money in the process. All in the name of the greater good.
Neither will mine, but not for any rational reason. She's just an Android Freak.
Ask HN: How do I create coding training material that have dynamic graphics?
Adrian Cantrill have interesting illustrations in his training courses. Example: https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/Y4ZRxY9FR0qGQbmGSmo3

What are the tools that I can use to create such content? I am sure it is more than powerpoint
link for “iOS report photos to police”

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ios+report+photos+to+police&t=fpas...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-explains-h...
Right IPhones became a fashion accessory. I guess partial reason is that when everybody uses a smartphone you have to appeal to the masses, and pure reason doesn't reach them.

The same goes for the high fashion in clothing. Doesn't matter if the clothes are the best to wear and most protective and most resilient against wear and tear. Were' in the era of tech-fashion including wearable computing.
doesn't that (export to html) already exist as part of org-mode?