skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1000% agree with this post, wow. I can’t believe this is controversial.. it’s a disaster. I dread opening the mobile version of google docs, sheets, or even Notes for anything more than a grocery list.

The problem is the target audience for this is business customers, and particularly those in management, so it’s a small market. ICs aren’t up and down as much between meetings and can largely stick to their desktop setup. But the manager’s life is one of constant movement, reviewing and making comments on things, drafting, editing, tweaking, etc… and usually in blocks of time where it doesn’t quite make sense to sit all the way down (unless you’re really good at calendar management, which.. also sucks on mobile!)

> fixing text editing isn’t seen as important enough in the war between Android and iOS.

I think there’s a group of people for whom this would make all the difference. It’s just not your typical consumer.

EDIT: and before you say “sounds like you just want a tablet” - I don’t! A tablet is the difference between lugging around a briefcase with me everywhere, or not.
The internet underground in the late 90s/early 2000s was absolutely full of Australians. I feel like I hardly encounter them anymore, for some reason.
> no undo

It works fine, you just need a keyboard what would allow you to send Ctrl+Z.

Yes, there should be a menu item (at least in a pop-up) too...

BTW, there is a API to add your things to that pop-up (like for searching providers etc) so there is a chance you can make it.
Older equipment is often air gapped just because it really had no reason to be networked, and even if you DO want it networked, it's relatively easy to air gap.

It's the new stuff that is all "cloud based" that will have real problems in 10 years.
The biggest problem with a total lack of moderation is stochastic terrorism. As a response to gp mentions, people attacking fiber optic cables for “causing covid” is a problem that can’t simply be refuted logically.
I was curious, so I calculated what this distance would be in kilometers. At 2 degrees lattitude (lattitude of Ecuador), a difference of 0.5 degrees longitude translates to 55.6 kilometers.
if you want to completely block 'misinformation' you have only one option: premoderation.

lets create special goverment commitee that will read all messages before posting and block any 'misinformation'
Windows uses unicode because NTFS uses unicode instead of efficient ascii.
What’s stopping them? You can learn to program with free information from the Internet. How much more ideal does it need to be?
That is what happens if you are innocent. An irony, because you wont make a deal so you can roll the dice on justice.
It's a pointless endeavour when there are those who'll believe religiously in bunk regardless. I spent a considerable amount of time during the pandemic refuting a "data scientist" on Twitter whose forte was misquoting BMJ articles and producing misleading charts based loosely on real data. Didn't change a single mind even when I could show it was bleedingly obvious he was full of shit. What's worse is he knew perfectly well what he was doing, and I'm certain he also owned a copy of "How to Lie With Statistics". I now wish I had spent that time on something more productive and left his followers to believe whatever they wanted to believe.
Right, but this is disputed land, not unclaimed land.
How can a socialist system exist that is not inherently authoritarian? If someone refuses to follow the coordinated economic plan (e.g. contributing to a welfare state) then ultimately the state will have to punish them somehow.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on"
You can use UI4ETW[0] to capture an event trace when the mouse freezes. You may need to install the Windows SDK or Visual Studio to interpret the results, though.

[0] https://github.com/google/UIforETW
I recently bought a PineTab2. Its a pretty rough around the edges experience (hardware is fine, but Plasma Mobile is still lacking compared to Android) BUT with the case with a keyboard it is far better for writing anything. Not as good as my desktop, but a lot better than most mobile devices.

I usually use Whatsapp web and the Signal desktop app at my desktop when I want to write more than sentence or two. A physical keyboard makes it so much easier. For example, I left making my comments here today until I sat down at my desktop.

If you must use a phone for typing more than a tiny bit, buy a keyboard for it. Even a little bluetooth keyboard is a lot better.

I am tempted by phones with keyboards. I used to have a Blackberry a long time ago and there are Android phones in similar formats.
Just dropping a comment to say congrats for getting something up and running and that it's nice to see somebody doing something for the elderly and those less technically proficient.

Here in the UK the same problems exist regarding general ease-of-use, scams, and ability to navigate tech in general: and we also have a signficiant (and growing) problem where government services and support are all being moved online, with seemingly little support for those who find modern tech difficult to engage with.

Though my gut feeling says you may struggle to build a viable long-term business around this: I really do hope you succeed!

Personally I think governments and institutions need to radically improve things for the non-techies amongst us and those who find it difficult, whether cognitively or physically, to engage with tech in the first place. Right now it seems that the default assumption is that everybody is perfectly fine using a website or app, and if you're not, you're out of luck!
The price reflects the availability of the product and the willingness of the customers to pay. What more do you want?

Clearly there are factors affecting the willingness of competitors to provide a cheaper offering, you just listed them.
The driver. With qualcomm I had signal issues, connectivity issues. With mediatek it works well so far at least but I think the intel Linux driver is the most mature one.

Unless you want to run an access point of course, I have no idea abou that.
The issue is that "learning styles" as a phrase is overloaded. If you've read about the debunked theory of learning styles, and you hear someone use that phrase, you think they're talking about that, and they just haven't read the same article (headlines) you did. But, the phrase makes sense when used for something else: simply a description of what methodology an individual uses to study. The best solution would be for people to read critically and determine what the author intends by that phrase. I mean, that would be the solution in theory, but it's never going to happen. So, the more realistic solution is to just never use that phrase unless you're repeating that it's been debunked.
No, but an early wireless midpoint between nascent wifi deployments and really shitty WAP in a world before data over cellular networks was Ricochet Networks. Frequency hopping over the public bands of the era (900MHz mostly I think) it was able to give decent wireless internet in the mid 90s to those of us living in supported areas of Silicon Valley. When laptops were a new thing and public wifi still years away it was fun ‘work remote’ in some corner of a coffeeshop when everyone else was chained to office desktops.
Base pay O-4 plus San Diego BAH for O-4 with dependent (adjust this for tax advantage), plus BAS, plus sub pay, plus sea pay, plus annual 40k COBO (and maybe add 1500 to that because it's 50k, then 40k repeats for the next 5 years.)

I'll have to do the math later, but it's pretty close to 200k, before any consideration of other benefits.

Edit: for the San Diego case, it's 209,000 before counting any tax advantages; 230,000 if you do some basic back calculations on BAH for federal income tax and payroll taxes; and it's actually even more tax-efficient than that, when you consider that you can be a resident of a state with 0% income tax. All this to say that monetary compensation has diminishing returns from a retention perspective.
when I first ran into the utf8/utf16 etc a lot of windows stuff was "recommending" utf16. I see quite a few windows text editors default to it.

After a day or so of testing and trying it with various different SDKs across different platforms I settled on utf8. did everything needed, compatible with ASCII, all the functionality of 16 none of the _absolute insanity_.

looking back, these kind of issues are why its now some 20 years since I wrote any windows software (rather than porting linux/mac stuff or just using cross platform VMs like Javascript, Lua or Java).

MFC..... Oh my.... I actually feel sorry for the poor souls that still have that in their life.
You sometimes get the stereotypical esoteric forensics experts, who tour the country saying they have some special ability to identify bites or toeprints or whatever. I pretty much agree with you there; their methods are unproven, there's very little reason to think they can actually do what they claim, judges simply shouldn't let them testify.

This case is harder. Medical questions about what happened to a victim are often highly relevant, and doctors are legitimate, credentialed experts qualified to speak on that topic. If they believe based on their training and experience that suchandsuch symptoms mean blunt force trauma, how could a random judge evaluate whether they have enough scientific backing to say that?
True, but personally for me at least it is easier to find bugs in neatly formatted consistent code than something written in multitude of styles.

It is kind of like "pattern matching" on the error patterns.
I sometimes view security firms as I view Wordpress security plugins. Back when I did Wordpress consulting I went through most security plugins and realized they were pretty much scams. Obfuscate some names and hashes and show some checks. They would run as part of your app, so your servers would need to be beefier. But you’d soon realize putting your server behind a waf, and hardening your server and db and generally following best practices got you 100% there. But novice developers felt very safe with these plugins and every website I fixed that had them was a mess. They didn’t understand what the plugins were doing, only that they showed green checkmarks. Security firms like to show green checkmarks.
3D Touch capable models (6s to x) had actual pressure sensors embedded in the screen assembly, which meant there was another input channel (how hard you pressed) that apple mapped to an extra commands, like a right click. To highlight text with it, you could press slightly harder anywhere on the keyboard and that would start cursor movement mode (like holding on the spacebar on newer models), then, with the cursor on the word you wanted to start highlighting from, you pressed a bit harder and it would highlight from that word on until you released the keyboard.
Sovereignty is clearly possible without defense as long as everyone around you acknowledge it, like all the European microstates listed in other comments.

You don't need deterrence if there is noone to deter, which is the case iff any newly established states are established with a consensus of their neighbors.
Sexism and agism may have come into play too. “Creepy man, probably a peado” type thinking.
Generally you merge main into your branch to resolve the conflicts there, then push to make the PR. Sometimes it's easier to rebase, sometimes easier to merge your main. The frequency of one or the other being more useful/easier often influences the accepted workflow.
Unsustainable working conditions and compensation is already tanking the economy. I agree with you that work stoppages carry negative externalities, but we're not comparing it to a vacuum, we are comparing it to the, again, unsustainable status quo. People don't jump into a picket lightly.
Any Blackberry that had a trackball\trackpad was great at editing text - because it had the cursor movement and text selection cleanly separated from the touch screen.

Too bad that ship has sailed. I still miss my Bold every time I try to edit text on IOS
Oh, so you won’t work to provide something for free, but you lament that someone else also won’t work for free. I see.
All I would say to Zach, other than appreciating his efforts on this, is to not give up, and to be in it for the long haul. The Elixir community needs a different flavour of making webapps other than Phoenix.

It was a bit dishearting to see drab[1] development stop once Phoenix Liveview took over the mindshare.

[1] - https://github.com/grych/drab

EDIT --

Sorry - adding in that drab's author suffered a major health issue - https://github.com/grych/drab/issues/205#issuecomment-795137...
It works for me, thanks!
Clearly you know that there is a difference, so, for you, what is the difference between moderation and cenzoring?
linux uses utf8 for display of filenames but, the paths themselves allow non-utf8 byte sequences.
This is fascinating to me

Your contacts are all in disparate systems?

Do you have any desire to consolidate them?

Is it normal for you to understand that Alice is a "Facebook friend" and Bob is an "Instagram friend"?

With regards to linkedin I imagine these are all "professional friends" - are your other friends able to be put into clean buckets like linkedin?
The key is getting software curated and designed for the device.

If you run a P4 with modern distributions of linux, you're likely in for a bad time.

But if you take the time to customize a distribution of Linux for the hardware, you're not going to have much of an issue.

The biggest problem by far is the modern web browser is an absolute bloated pig.

https://www.sevarg.net/tag/raspberrypi/ has some hints and tricks.
Onionshare for your non tech friends or mobile works great IMO. Otherwise croc or wormwhole are awesome
Alexa is the best frenemy I’ve ever had
When my wife was super pregnant and overdue, friends were consistently asking for updates. I made a website called "is<wife's name>stillpregnant.com" and put a very very minimal website there. It was literally just route53 and cloudfront in front of an S3 bucket.

But that meant I needed to make updates from the hospital with my phone. I mean yes there were probably better options but I was a bit busy at the time to think of them.

Let me just say that writing raw HTML files using textedit for Android was not a great experience. It's just not the right interface for making complex text.

Maybe LLMs will help with this, allowing us to describe what we want at a higher level, through voice or text. But God help me I do not want to try to write valid HTML on a phone (after being awake for 35 of the previous 36 hours).
Yearly reminder that Nokia perfected the slideout keyboard on their N900 model over 10 years ago
I agree with you on the point that free speech (and free societies in general I think) require a culture of good faith participation. You only get nice things when everyone is more or less civil.

The problem is making the tough choices of what to do about uncivil discourse or bad faith actors who are not interested in upholding civility for the sake of the society. Unfortunately there are no easy answers which leave us with a lot of bad or difficult options to choose from.
Especially negligible versus the trip to the file system you are setting up for.
All this effort may not appear to be inexpensive, but the savings in power consumed for cooling could offset the manpower invested. Are there figures that can be compiled to illustrate the costs and benefits?
Circulating offers for paid and guaranteed press coverage are NOT valuable, verifiable media placements.

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The musical monolith is no doubt dead at this point. Much improved distribution of music in the last decade means now people can listen to what they like, not what the radio DJ happens to like. Which means it is much less likely that the population will converge on a shared music experience.
And criminal law and procedure doesn’t care about precedent as much as it cares about finality. Which is really backwards.
> You have a great sense of enthusiasm for the story and you have clearly put a lot of effort into it. What I recommend as your next step is that you work on refining this into a form that matches the expectations of people who professionally read scripts. You can do that by attending X class, or Y workshop, or reading Z books/scripts/whatever. Mostly, you can do it by reading lots of scripts, and writing even more - so I encourage you to keep writing!"

I see what you're trying to do here (soften absolutely brutal feedback), but I personally hate that style.

Trying to be candid about feedback that is very much not candid is dishonest and gives its receiver false hope that might be unwarranted.

Also, feedback like this is unclear. If I received this feedback, I would be thinking "Was my piece good, but could be better if I take classes? Or did they hate it? If they hated it, why aren't they telling me?"

Just say the fucking thing.

It's just like layoff or application rejection emails, or announcements that something is going up in price. Nobody cares about how "we thought you had potential, but" or "as a work family, we sometimes need to make tough decisions" or "look at how much value we've provided over the years." Everyone knows that something bad's about to happen. Just say the fucking thing.
You may experience issues with imap/pop/smtp in some parts of the world on some specific providers (i.e Dubai,UAE). That's how I rediscovered the web email client.
Quebec has enacted all sorts of discriminatory rules centered on their insecurity about culture and hatred of English canadians. Montreal is a bit insulated because it has large English and immigrant communities and less nationalist politics, but people and businesses are being driven out. 20 years from now if things don't change it's going to be the backward and insular monocultural paradise the nationalists want.
Pretty much all business software. All the stuff you never see.

Think accounting, insurance, banking payroll, time keeping, invoicing, stock control production control, resource management, rostering, and so on.
The privacy Antichrist, I guess I should have known one must exist somewhere.
LibrePCB 1.0.0 Released
Phones, sure, but there’s plenty of good productivity and creation software available for tablets. And these days, most productivity software runs in the browser anyway.
The reason this is terra nullius is because the river has moved that land around for centuries, and will continue to do so. That border attempts to follow the river but the river doesn't follow diplomacy. These people who take advantage of this fact are very short sighted and mostly bored middle/upper class kids.
Folks identified the dad as weird and in over his head, so untrustworthy and guilty. This isn't isolated, it's the norm. So, for 30 years or so the medical community had this voodoo DX to justify locking up social outcasts. And they seem completely OK with having done so. The DX sort of is not accepted anymore. But, the article describes a list of other voodoo sciences that demonstrate something remains very broken in the process for establishing facts, and we see time and time again that systems you'd think are driven by analytical rigor are really just a school popularity contests all grown up.
... based on what do you say that?
Reminds me of the case of when a man was wrongfully convicted by expert testimony placing them at the scene by hair microscopy. He spent 30 years in prison:

> In Tribble’s case, the FBI agent testified at trial that the hair from the stocking matched Tribble’s “in all microscopic characteristics.”

> In closing arguments, federal prosecutor David Stanley went further: “There is one chance, perhaps for all we know, in 10 million that it could [be] someone else’s hair.”

It was dog hair.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-judge-exonerat...
AGPL3, no thanks.

Curious if there are runtime downsides to having so many extensions installed
The Bible claims the existence of God without any evidence. As I said in another comment, I am willing to change my wording from misinformation to unsubstantiated claims as there might be a fine line that makes the Bible fall into the later but not the former category.

What would I have done is not a good question. As whom? What means would have been available to me? It seems that at least in the western world religions are in a general decline which I would want to attribute to generally improved education. And that seems also the best, albeit a slow path. So if one could have done anything, then probably better education and maybe less support by the state for religious institutions. But this is of course all hindsight, how would you educate people about things not yet discovered, how would you make them take a more scientific perspective when science was still in its infancy?
Seems like section 230 has been completely forgotten and has no power anymore.
I'm afraid the whole field of medicine moves forward by screw ups and fixes, and as such forensics are just another place.

In "Factfulness" the late Hans Rosling mentions how he spent years telling people to not keep babies sleeping on their back, based on science were people believed babies might suffocate more easily.

This turned out to be the opposite of truth, babies are more likely to die when sleeping on their belly. For years, doctors , him included, may have indirectly killed babies trying to save them.

OTOH, the unreliability of our tools makes a strong case against the death penalty, IMO.
I would have titled this Reflections on My Journey into Software Development. The author is not pursuing a career in computer science.
Isn't it UCS-2 rather than any form of UTF-16?
Learning takes a lot of effort. There are no shortcuts. To put effort into learning something, you need discipline and/or motivation. Biggest problem with learning for me has always been finding the motivation. When I'm motivated I'm switching between all the mentioned "learning methods". Also, the best suitable method depends on the topic too. And finally... I've always hated lectures, and have had a bad tendency to fall asleep... expect when I'm motivated and the topic is interesting!
So if that platform were a public square, we’d hold the government liable?

I deeply disagree with the proponents of anti-vax; and many of the right-wing positions.

And I think, for instance, removing some of the internet anonymity and breaking up tech monopolies would both be quite helpful in solving the problems we have today.

Completely shutting down discourse and not allowing fringe ideas to be discussed, however, can’t be the way.
iOS has "shake to undo", which isn't perfect, but at least it's something.
Stupid legal arguments: a moral hazard?
They are much, much better for photos. I will even say they are better for most videos chats.

They are better music players. They are better GPS nav systems.
The irony is that despite their conceptual elegance and increasing ubiquity, touchscreens are a technological dead end as far as HCI is concerned. As dim as I am on the current slate (and near-future) of VR headsets, their gestural interfaces are much more promising in the long run (though still lacking in some ways compared to mouse and keyboard).
Not sure what you are referring to, but the main buspirate interface was a serial console. It works just fine under the Linux OSX and windows.