skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, it doesnt hook the OS file handling routines? it actually manually rescans the filesystem?
The old 9th gen iPad still had a home button, fun colors, and a totally square screen. This update removes the home button, brings rounded display corners and colors and a new processor. And brings the non-Mini, non-Pro iPad into the same design language as the iPhone and the Mini/Pro iPads.

There might still be a fingerprint sensor in the lock button, though.
I would rather Mozilla put their time and money into actually improving on the things they _used to_ to better than Chrome and IE, like building a vibrant and diverse community, listening to their users, focusing on giving the user control over their own browsing experience, and being first to market with privacy features.

It feels to me like they just ran out of either the will or the engineers to do the hard innovative stuff and are just trying to turn Firefox into their own UX art project at this point.
Liquid (LCD) retina (high resolution)
Brave browser can block them. That's what I did.
They keep on pushing on the power of the iPads. Out of curiosity, does anyone really use their iPads for something they’d consider really compute intensive? I find that the best use of a tablet is reading and watching videos. Any time I want to do anything complex or computationally intensive I find a laptop to be much more efficient, both in terms of the OS flexibility and better input devices.
I saw it - it didn't help their case much:

>Search ranking and censorship are entirely different things. We make our results useful by ranking spam lower.

They're only different things if the ranking decision is based on relevance. If you de-rank something based on political agenda, that's censorship. But hey, it looks like they talk about that:

>We are not ranking based on any political agenda or my (or anyone else's) personal political opinions. We are also not assessing any individual news stories.

Why did the initial tweets say the opposite? Are they conflating "russian disinformation" with spam?

Frankly it reads like the PR hit was larger than they expected.
Voidtools gives security warnings in my browser, fwiw.
Interestingly the Apple Pencil "hover" feature doesn't require a new generation of Pencil — this works on the 2nd Gen.

Overall, this looks like it is clearly aimed at creators. I have the 2018 Pro with Magic Keyboard and have zero interest in upgrading to this model. Honestly I almost wish I could trade my Pro for a Mini, since it's more pocket-able, and I mainly use my Pro for demoing my startup's technology.
The branding has gotten so confusing

As far as I can tell this is the exact same design the iPad Air has had for a couple years now, but "iPad" (no descriptor) is a separate product, which until now still used the old-school form factor with the physical home button, etc. So this design isn't new at all for "iPad the line of devices", but it is new for "iPad the budget-tier iPad"

...but even with that information- is this model still worse than the Air somehow even though its design has been updated? In what ways? Is it just slightly less powerful or something? Or did their positions flip? Why didn't they just drop this model, making the Air/Pro duality consistent with the MacBooks? Are they going to drop the Air instead? And most importantly for folks who haven't/can't research the technical details: "the iPad and iPad Air look identical [and have names that don't tell me how they're different]; which one should I buy??"
Why would people go work in an office, when you can just work from home? Can't put the genie back in the bottle.
That's an interesting statement. Are there still people on here who define hacker as a bad thing, instead of someone who wants to take things apart to see how they work?

Is tech still counter culture now that it pervades every place in society? Is it still okay to completely shirk the law now that many tech companies, for all intents and purposes, write the laws?

These are interesting questions to me.
Whoever edited the title of the HN submission somehow made it even more misleading than Mozilla did. The original HN title was the same as the Mozilla article: "Privacy online just got easier with today’s Firefox release"

https://web.archive.org/web/20221018134430/https://news.ycom...
I'm surprised they didn't also discontinue the iPad Air.
The Computer Scientist Who’s Boosting Privacy on the Internet
> But the reality is that growth only works when you build on someone's strengths.

Respectfully disagree. Growth comes from going beyond what you're comfortable with.

Also not sure this is "ungrowth" and more a general misallocation of human capital. Good bosses are proactive, yes, but that doesn't mean randomly messing with team dynamics and roles like you're a chemist trying to find the philosopher's stone.
Since the first sentence is an outright fabrication, I don't hold much hope the rest is any better.

https://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/21-countries-r...
My iPad Mini (or is it an Air?) from last Xmas has USB-C
> Researchers have the answer

According to the article they don't "have the answer" at all - they have a couple of theories:

> The study's authors say it's possible that, in reading, teachers unconsciously reward students exhibiting traditionally female behaviour, such as quietness and neatness, which make teaching easier for the teachers. Another theory is that inflated grades in mathematics are a way of trying to encourage girls, who are often seen as weaker in this subject.
They're seriously trying to replace laptops.
Please don't act condescending. The problem of induction is well-known, and is closely related to what you are discussing here. I agree that science can't literally prove any hypothesis is true in the same sense that mathematics/logic can; but we also can't jump from here to considering inductive reasoning an entirely useless tool in the search for truth.

That is the point that I am trying to make: experimentation can bring proof to strengthen a hypothesis. Even if a later experiment invalidates a hypothesis, all of the previous experiments' results don't disappear, and any new hypothesis we formulate still needs to be coherent with them to have any value: we have actually learned something important from our thousand experiments, even if our 1001st showed that the hypothesis we had in mind was false.

Also, this is not unique to science. The same phenomenon can happen in mathematics or logic for theorems that have been neither proven nor disproven yet. We can perform numerical experiments to test a numerical theorem, and gain some amount of confidence in that theorem even if we haven't proven it to be true. We can often establish lower or upper bounds in the course of this experimentation, where we find that the theorem is True at least for some limited subset of all numbers - and this remains True and useful even if it later turns out that there exist counter-examples.

This observation is also very important for understanding why the history of natural philosophy is essentially one of continuous progress, with very little backtracking: even if induction is not good enough to know that we have a perfectly complete and consistent theory (and we will never have one), we always have something salvageable from all of the experimentation done so far. Even geocentric models with their epicycles were actually working models, which predicted the positions of planets in the next 1000 years to quite good accuracy, even if they were clearly wrong in the end.
iPad 10.9
I guess I should try to get better at asking good questions. Even if I'm genuinely curious about something, I always have trouble coming up with thoughtful questions, especially on the spot.

(I guess for me, "thoughtfulness" requires putting thought into something, and if I'm actively participating in a conversation, I can't do that. It's way easier if I have already invested time into the topic at hand at some point beforehand.)
Option C involves a large investment to convert the property into one that legally allows for residential usage and that people, with money to pay rent, would want to live in. It also blocks option A, without spending all the money to undo things, if the economic situation changes or there's a bailout. So not a clear winner versus simply waiting.
I guess ESNI was deprecated and removed from Firefox in favor of ECH (just found that out now). CloudFlare supports ESNI, but not ECH. So that feels like a step backwards.
There have never been Intel based iPads.
They might trust average EU citizen common sense to not use 4 tv at the same time. If 4 different people are watching at the same time in the same household… well it’s a win (in POV of energy consumption, not of consumerism).
> American chip bosses now fear that China could retaliate

They will certainly retaliate. The question is how. Most think they will react similarly, banning cutting edge electronics exports that could have military use.

But I suspect they will go after our weak spots. Prescription drugs, solar, lithium. I'm sure there are more.
Not a risk for laptops. I just wanted to chime in since phones are commonly used for 2FA.

Apple completely replaced one of my older phones when I took it in for a battery replacement because a previous "unapproved" third party battery replacement had been made. I assumed a restore from iCloud backup would restore the 2FA app settings but that wasn't the case (I think Google Authenticator has actually implemented exports now though). There were a few accounts that I didn't have backup codes for but luckily I was able to reset the 2FA for those accounts using my identity since I had been through KYC for those accounts when I set them up.
That's true, but this essay is written with an authoritative voice, not a pondering one. PG tends to write as if he is teaching his audience something profound. So I think it's fair to call out when he is wrong or misguided.
Other comments seem to say it's based on Webkit, but why not something like Mozilla Firefox? I stay as far away as I can from Chrome and Google, but Webkit doesn't seem like the answer. That being said, I may still try it.
I wonder why developer tools are not a priority for Apple for “pro” iPads. At this point, it uses the M2 chip so the limitations on running IDEs, compilers and other tools just seem arbitrarily imposed.
This is a side topic, but does anyone else have problems with the RSS feed for pg's essays? http://paulgraham.com/rss.html I regularly find every essay appearing together in my reader, as though they were all new again.

Apparently the feed was created by Aaron Swartz himself, so I wouldn't think there would be any errors there. But it looks like it's hosted via Aaron's own site, so perhaps there's some problem caused by it not being maintained?
The thread you've linked is deliberately misleading, refuting a strawman version of the "conspiracy theory". Everyone has always agreed that the server was intermittently available until Feb 2020. It's a particular database that went unavailable in Sep 2019, not the whole server. Quoting from a document written by the "conspiracy theorists" more than a year before that thread:

> Batvirus.whiov.ac.cn had been online for a few years, saw a version 2 released in June 2019, went inactive for a week during the second half of August 19, before becoming definitely inaccessible (out of the WIV at least) on the 12th Sep 19. It was online intermittently after this date from mid-December 2019, and occasionally until February 2020, but was not accessed from outside of the WIV after 12 September 2019.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349073738_An_invest...

Were you aware of that? If not, then you might update your priors yourself.

The disappearance of that database obviously isn't proof that the WIV did anything nefarious. It continues their pattern of zero transparency, though. That might just be the reflexive secrecy of an authoritarian state; but the nature of zero transparency is that we don't know.
> USB-C

Nice! Please, the iPhone next. Ditch the legacy and outdated lightning jack.
Previously discussed 1 day ago:

Stability AI Raises $101M at $1B valuation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33242766

(93 points, 43 comments)
If accidental reproduction of copyrighted material by AI systems is illegal under current law then we should change the law immediately so that it's not.

These AI systems are highly novel, transformative, and useful. Their development is exactly the sort of thing copyright law was originally created to encourage. If it's hindering them instead, that's a problem.

(And no, I'm not saying people should be allowed to use AI to intentionally launder stolen code; use some common sense here.)
It seems like Apple has been embracing the folks who live and die on their iPad full time or mostly full time.

I don't think I could do that now but there seems to be a sizable crowd who works that way and maybe is the future.
> [laws] differ

So does the definition of justice.

> vigilante justice

Except 'vigilante justice' and 'justice' are concepts that have little to do with each other. You might as well be talking about the 'de facto law' (like for instance the "law" enforced by the local mafia) vs. the 'de jure law' here.
Apple TV 4k
Interestingly, the 11 inch iPad Pro still retains the LED display of the 2018 iPad Pro, unlike the FALD display of the 12.9 inch.

Seems like display technology has matured and reached an equilibrium pricing state if even Apple can't justify the cost of investing in producing the fancier displays in a second size.
this sounds like a college fever dream
Math is a formal game. You can define vastly varied algebraic structures, and, as long as they are internally consistent, we could consider them "mathematical".

But the physical reality makes some structures more important in practice. Hence natural numbers, or real numbers, or complex numbers stand out among the sea of possible group structures.

Chances are very high that aliens live in the universe with the same laws of physics, which make the same, or isomorphic, structures important for them, and thus informing the development of their mathematics.

But this is not a given, of course; there can potentially be different ways to describe physical reality which are comparably successful, but which grow from entirely different foundations, are internally consistent, and otherwise work like our mathematics, but are not connected to it (yet).

Even more funny is that Gödel's incompleteness theorem guarantees that "our" (currently developed) mathematics contain true statements which cannot be proven either true or false within the set of axioms which produce our mathematics. One can imagine that these true statements can be used to successfully describe important aspects of physical reality and were discovered by aliens for this purpose, while remaining incomprehensible for us. (But this is softer sci-fi stuff, of course.)
Anyone doing Windows desktop development can definitly feel this.

After the mismanagement of WinRT, finally fixed with UWP on Windows 10, instead of improving the .NET Native and C++/CX experience, they created Project Reunion, deprecated .NET Native and C++/CX, replacing them with lesser tooling, pivoted Project Reunion into Windows SDK, and are years away of reaching feature parity with UWP, let alone Forms, WPF, MFC.

The current team seems composed by interns without experience on previous Microsoft frameworks, while the more experienced folks seem to have moved into Azure, Google or Amazon, from their twitter feeds.

Just have some fun going through the WinUI, CsWinRT, C++/WinRT, WinAppSDK, Win2D, and see the endless amount of bug tickets, measured in thousands.

Blazour seems to be the new kid in town, to the point of even trying to push it inside MAUI as pseudo-Electron replacement.

Meanwhile the other business units are focused on Web or Android.

It looks like "Azure OS" is the new Windows.
Their own evidence shows the September 2019 date is correct, and that it wasn't just flakiness like previously, it stayed down for months.
My small wish is that FF on Android supports an intent that opens a URL in a new private tab. That way I'd be able to selectively open pages from HN, Reddit or other apps in private tabs—by the way of Tasker or Automate.

I looked a bit through FF code, and there's an intent to open an empty private tab, but not an address. Alas, with my lack of knowledge about data flow in an Android app, I'm not of much help so far.
True about the hobby types. I still think it generally applies for the live-work setup though. Mostly because it seems most people don't like their jobs and want a disconnect between their spaces. Also because of professional appearances etc influencing your off-hours activities if your coworkers are watching.

Even though work and housing aren't in the same buildings, military housing can provide a good lens into this.
> What risk?

The risk is, if the US ever gets caught, then we'd significantly burn our relationships with our European allies. How is sabotaging our geopolitical position in exchange for oil companies making some extra bucks worthwhile?
There's Thread support in the Ethernet-equipped model, and I'm not sure if the previous Apple TV 4K supported Thread (I know it supports Matter at least). There's also an A15 Bionic in this refresh, but until some higher-detail games enable support for Apple TV (many already support controllers so I don't see why not), it's kinda useless.
Meta admits defeat after $400M Giphy deal is blocked by UK regulators
I personally believe we should also approach ethics from an Alien Truth perspective -- there's a lot of ethics and how we live our lives that's specific to our human being species, but we should expect the principles of human life to be compatible with more general principles, of which ours would be a special case. This really allows having a clearer global picture of ethics, and striving towards progress in ethics and human existence.
And there's certainly a push for more retraining currently although we'll see to what degree it happens.
The stage mode looks like an interesting attempt for desktop like productivity with an external monitor.
Depends on how you want to look at it. Deciding that you, as the current organizing team of a large-scale event, won't be responsible for possibly 10k people catching it on your event is also a valid choice until someone steps up who can live with that. The congress taking place is a not some sort of god-given right.
Apple has been moving towards USB-C for a long time. It's not like this is their first USB-C device. I think it's the last iPad that needed to move.
I always see people say this.

I've lived all over the country, and these problems are not unique to California, large cities, or "Libral" areas. These are problems all over. Rather than fear monger it would be better to search for and then provide an example of a city that is doing it right, taking care of the problem, an example for the rest of us to follow.

The problem (for your argument) is that there are plenty of examples of these, they're typically European amd Scandinavian cities with high taxes and "libral" or "communist" (in your view) leadership. So in doing so you would move past this stage to the next one and understand that these things are complex societal issues that need complex nuanced solutions and dialog surrounding them.
The tweet:

"Search ranking and censorship are entirely different things. We make our results useful by ranking spam lower.

We are not ranking based on any political agenda or my (or anyone else's) personal political opinions. We are also not assessing any individual news stories."

Entirely different things? Are we supposed to just swallow that statement and pretend one doesn't cause suppression - even if it isn't 100% suppression like outright censorship is?

And, if it's not political, then why did the down-ranking occur after political incident.. and the rest of the tweet is trying to minimize.
which in comparison is about half of an air or pro.
The Unnatural Future of Physics
it seems that only our instutions, or big chunks of the whole global trade system, want this war; but this this point, a lot of those systems are automated by rules and regulations and a overly complicated network that become inentelligible to the people 'running' it.

nobody that is alive and sentient (in the traditional sense) wants a war... and yet, we all see it looming.
Yep, you've just proven the complexity of this issue.
Of course it does, its competing with Microsoft by providing actually working instant local search.
True. But PG's authoritative status is weakened due to his lack of awareness no matter how you change the wording. This entire essay is weaker because of it as my opinion about his knowledge.

>To criticize someone merely for pondering about a subject they aren’t well-versed in is hostile gatekeeping.

The words "hostile gatekeeping" makes me classify your statement as accusatory and an actual attack. The Op's statements are just criticism. Harsh but valid, it certainly isn't hostile gatekeeping. In fact, PG is the gatekeeper here. He owns the site.
Yes, they moved the fingerprint sensor to the lock bottom on top
Not exactly but that wouldn't be a valid argument anyway.
Not necessarily. B wins if you depend on the value of the property for some reason or another. Commercial properties are valued based on the net present value of the rents you can get. If you pretend that you can get a higher rate than the market will bear, you can keep the valuation of your building up during a downturn. If you accept the lower-paying tenant, you lower the perceived valuation of the building. This only matters if you have a commercial mortgage... which is every building these days.

This is utterly stupid, but it is driving rental vacancies in NYC.
Your point and explanation are completely disjointed from eachother.

Javascript is not the sole domain of small executables, its not even its primary feature - hell, one of your own examples isn't even very good. Outlook loads nearly 30MB of javascript immediately when you load your inbox, and they update it nearly every other day so you end up downloading hundreds of megabytes just to read your email every single week instead of just once.
Came here to notice that. This price hike will somehow put cheap Android tablets on the map, again. Previously there was hardly a justification to get any of them if iPad was $299 — and frequently could be had for even less than that.
Anecdotally I had a misandrist/sexist teacher in fourth grade. It was the first grade where they split our maths class. I didn't fail the class, but that teacher rode me extremely hard. She did do other abusive things, like encouraging students to bully each other, and she'd throw an eraser and hit me with a ruler on two separate occasions because she believed I wasn't awake enough. She recommended at the end of the year that I was put in a lower math class and that's where I went. I didn't recover my interests in math until after college. With some irony, she cited my lack of interest in maths as a whole. Two years later I was programming, which up until high school I didn't see how that translated to the maths I learned in school.