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Just installed on iOS - also, dont forget that almost any subreddit is an RSS with /.rss

SO http://old.reddit.com/r/hackernews/.rss works. And yes, it looks great.

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I'd like the ability to turn off thumbnails, select smaller thumbnails, and select font size in settings.

Would be great to have more control over the view, for some sites/feeds I want large thumbnails, for others I want zero thumbnails.

When I click on the feed's : menu, for share, open website, mark all as read - a check box for display thumbnails would be nice - myabe allow for feed labels, so I can show all "tech" labeled feeds for example....
It would be extremely helpful!
Unlike today's nostalgic retrocomputing, I fully expect any recent Apple product to be impossible to use in 20 years. Can't contact cloud server to verify application. Can't download first-boot software upgrade. Can't register your account.

So your future market is purely people who will continue keeping the thing in the box.
Another way to think about this is that L1 is the result of centrifugal force, which is a 'fictitious' or apparent force.

A 'fictitious' force is an artifact of ones chosen frame of reference. Under general relativity gravity is also a 'fictitious' force.
It is hard to believe that a company with the expertise of Adobe in graphics programming (Photoshop, Premier, After Effects, Illustrator) cannot build a vector design program.

Adobe XD was almost there, and they made some great decisions in nooks and crannies usually forgotten - like bringing in Chrome rendering engineers to build a subset of HTML and CSS for the plugin ecosystem.

While there are hundreds of little decisions to be made - from the runtime, text rendering, gpu vs cpu rendering, to how shadows are rendered and line heights are determined - none of these are engineering problems beyond the ken of a good team of systems and graphics engineers and designers, the likes of which Adobe has in spades.

The attempt to acquire Figma for such an enormous sum itself felt like a serious decision making mistake, and the final nail in the coffin is the complete abandonment of vector design tools.

I would pay good money to read the insider account of the corporate politics inside Adobe that led to all this.
If they file for bankruptcy, they cannot legally destroy the data. The data is a salable asset, the law requires them to preserve it so that it can be sold and the money returned to creditors. And many of the promises they have given about it's use can and will be broken by the trustees dissolving the company.

The thing you need to consider when you give data to a company is not "will these people misuse this", but "once these guys go bankrupt and sell the data to the highest bidder, can it be misused?". See, for example, how if your company holds a large mailing list, it will typically be sold to a spam operation for a few bucks.

The minimum standard for giving serious personal information, like your DNA, to a company needs to be that the company receives a limited-time license to handle the data for the purposes they need to provide the service, and absolutely nothing more.
Yeah, it sure wasn't obvious from the very first thing on the page where it says the letter started with "Garry Tan was right", I'm surprised you were able to figure it out after just a few minutes.
Virtually every supervisor on the current board appears to be Gen X

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Super...
When I was in college, we would take a "J-term" in January, where we took only one class but would do multiple class sessions per day. Like maybe lecture in the morning, lunch, then come back for lab, and then work sessions / break out discussion in the evening. Squeezed a full semester class into the month. Obviously this is not easy or perhaps even possible as an adult learner with a job, kids, responsibilities, etc. If there was some subject for which I absolutely had to quickly develop proficiency, I'd set up some kind of a focused schedule like that - lay out a curriculum plan, set aside scheduled time each day, set an end-date by which you can assess your progress.
I would give this consideration to anyone who is receiving borderline threatening, discriminatory language from an upset mob.

A better question to ask yourself is why Jewish people seem to continually end up in this situation: on the receiving end of antisemitic abuse.

Political stuff pisses people off, but people who are pissed at Jew can always just trot out the antisemitic and dehumanizing statements... Such threatening comments have proved credible enough of the time to make the person on the receiving end really second guess about their safety.
You must be purely talking economics if you think the Democrats are globally center-right.

If you have a few minutes of thought to the ~200 countries that 8 billion people are living under, like China, India, Russia, Japan, Iran, Nigeria, Indonesia, Poland, Phillipines, Turkey, and their policies on immigration, LGBT, drug use, freedom of speech/press, you would quickly be disabused of any idea the US democrats are center-right.

What I think is that steeped in a Western European leftist bubble, 95% of the world is right wing to you, and you’re confused on where America stands in that spectrum, forgetting about who’s currently been elected in the rest of Europe like Sweden, UK, Poland, Netherlands, Italy, Hungary, Serbia, etc.
I’ll say a good field is an island in an ocean of bad fields.

Look at hep-th. If in 100 years people conclude there is no evidence for supersymmetry and extra dimensions something like 90% of that field will be “not even wrong”. There is so much of the drunk looking for his lost keys under a lamp. I mean, there is a huge industry in 2-d gravity where it is possible to calculate things but gravity doesn’t attract in 2-d so the line between that and Newton’s apple is unclear. I’ve talked to astro-ph refugees who think that current theories about accretion disks are “not even wrong”.

Then there are all the folks who tell me firewalls make no sense because there is no such thing as the event horizon (locally) but from the viewpoint of people who fall in it is a tiny difference getting killed at the apparent horizon meanwhile the nonsensical “black hole information paradox” (sorry, no unitarity = no quantum mechanics) still gets breathless and insufferable articles written about it just because somebody famous for their disability made a bet. If young people were able to get established in the field you wouldn’t see people so fixated on bad ideas.
The progressives should really pick up on the benefits of WFH and become active proponents.

WFH is the biggest equalizer of geographic opportunity, decreases physical disability impact, decreases carbon footprint, improves meritocracy, decreases opportinities for bullying and mobbing and other power play. Increases chances of mothers being able to work. You name it, this ticks all boxes.

Why haven't they already??
Agreed, I have it behind a flag because of this, in the (far) future I could enable by default if I write a type checker built-in or something. Thank you!
This is super interesting! Sort of like property-based testing, but the "property" is that the new code and the old code should have the same output given the same input.

I bet that fuzzing old, unmaintained programs leads to many, many crashes. (If the old code crashed on a certain input, should the transformed code crash too, to maintain "compatibility"?)
I was fairly interested until the last few paragraphs where it rapidly transformed into a warning about evil tech multi billionaires, their companies and parents exploitation of children online. Not that that isn't worth discussing, but I was interested in hearing more about her experience in the study as per the article title.
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https://archive.ph/Dg8wW
Thanks for your (companies) work on both this and graphtage!

Out there question:

Do you guys have any plans on releasing a tool which could be used for diffing filesystems?

eg. Run the tool, run an arbitrary program which modifies the filesystem, run the tool again and it reports on what has changed?

Using existing diff tools for this right now is clunky. I'm surprised there's not a go-to tool used by security researchers (or perhaps there is and I don't know about it).
> Note, however, that SNPs like the one you pointed out are relatively infrequent.

If you mean that SNPs with small effect sizes don't always point to useful drug targets with big druggable effects, that is possible, but this remains an open question and is the subject of intensive research right now.
I think the point is this new product is coming out that requires dev support, but they are at the same time pushing devs away with the new EU app store rules. So this is going to work against the Vision Pro being successful.
Maybe not everyone shares this viewpoint.
It isn’t a partisan hack job, the facts are just bad for Gary.
Very interesting article.

At first I thought it was going to just be a rant about website bloat and too much JavaScript. I'd have agreed with that, but it wouldn't have taught me anything. But if you keep going, there's much more.

The "Device Performance" section is interesting. I had no idea that iPhones had such an advantage. Now add to that, that the iOS ecosystem is Objective C running native code, whereas the Android ecosystem is Java with JVM overheads! Oof.

(This also explains why I especially hated QR code menus when going out with coworkers. I was using four year old Galaxy A / Moto G class hardware, while my coworkers were using new iPhone Pro class hardware. Their phones were 7.5x faster!)

I now have a medium-high end Android of about a year old. It was a huge step up from my previous phone (the one that struggled at restaurants), but from these charts is nothing special. I will probably keep it for another two years. After that, on the basis of this article, I'll probably shell out the 3x more for a good iPhone. That may be the first time I purchase an Apple product with my own money. (Either that or I'll get a dumb phone and boycott any service that doesn't accept cash. :-))

Even my new Android struggles with some things. Running Firefox, it still struggles on articles from The Guardian for some reason. Everything else is pretty good though.

Smartphones are a funny product whose price goes up as it becomes more essential. Back around 2008, I think, I got a smartphone. I then upgraded every 3-4 years. Initially they were $200. As time went on I started spending $300, $350. The article says that the worldwide average selling price last year was $430. Software is getting slower, and phones are getting more essential, faster than Moore's Law has made them faster or cheaper.

Anyway, the rest of the article has interesting data about bandwidth and more.

Finally, I like the end, where he editorializes a bit.

In conclusion, I guess, if you're a consumer of mobile apps, just get more money and buy a top iPhone (sadly). And if you're a developer, do all your testing on a two year old Moto E, unless you hate poor people.
Those aren’t the only options. “Death threats bad, but this one overblown for political reasons” is perfectly within the realm of reasonable opinion. Across the bay, an actual supervisor resigned last week due to real and persistent death threats. Yet somehow that is not getting nearly the attention that a retracted tweet is. Similarly, Scott Wiener the local state senator has been harassed by online trolls for years and has needed a security detail posted at his house. Yet the same politicians crying foul over a tweet could not bring themselves to pass a resolution condemning death threats against him by actual psychos because Wiener is not in their political faction.
Biscuits have single roots of trust too. The (superficial) distinction is that Biscuits can be verified (completely) on systems that don't hold the root keys. You can't do that with a Macaroon, but, as we explain in this post, you don't have to. I don't think we'd meaningfully gain security from Biscuits --- though we would potentially get flexibility from Datalog, and our deployment story might have been a little bit simpler.

(We already need hardware-isolated secret stores, so the deloyment win is probably marginal for us, but it's a bigger deal for other shops).

Purely symmetric cryptography is one of the features of Macaroons. It's a reason cryptography hipsters like it, not a reason to dunk on it.
> What you can do is think for yourself as a dev in that team, would you stick around?

Are paychecks still coming in, and do I still have a mortgage to pay?
In the 10, 10.2, and 10.3 headers. (Also thanks! I have been vaguely wishing for something like this for years and didn’t know it existed.)
For the last few years they have had a bluetooth controller and a companion phone app. The other beauty of these is they have a data out port that is able stream the data for other applications such as overlaying the score on a live broadcast. I know because I retrofitted a sports park a while back with steaming audio/video/scoreboard data. The people at Daktronics were super easy to work with and what a super fun project.
> This is not CEO behavior

Prescriptively, you are right, but descriptively, for a particular subset of Silicon Valley CEOs, it seems pretty on-character.
When I have the experience of seeing the shape of those 4 letters, I can't simultaneously reason about "eyes" or if there is something "in front" or if there is a "you" as you say.

I just have an experience of a certain complexity, which I roughly estimate to be 100 bits or so of information.
>but did Figma even need to sell in the first place?

I've worked a company that was profitable, operated well, growing ... but were sold and the CEO said (I'll get the words not quite right):

"I fought for keeping independent and not selling, that's how I've kept that company and I wanted it to stay that way. But the offer was increased into the range where I didn't feel like I could survive a legal challenge (if it came to that) as far as my requirement to do what is best for the shareholders."

In the case of that CEO, I believed him (i'm not usually inclined to do so). I could be wrong, of course he made a lot of money, but this guy really did seem like he really did like building companies so to speak and that was more a motivation than anything else. But in his case I think he was right, he couldn't seriously argue that he could likely provide a return to investors even for a decade or more than they could get taking the offer right then and there.

It is a problem I always worry about, good businesses are there to return value to the stockholders, it makes sense. But in the face of gobs of cash they must fold.... and so often poorly managed after that and some things are lost. It's a black hole in the free market.
I agree. I'm asking if the courts do or do not.
For context, I think it's important to highlight that 60% of SF renters are in rent controlled units. The split between building affordable and not affordable housing has a huge impact on the cities "soul". It's quite literally choosing one future vs another, in many folks minds.
Sigh. Please read the article more carefully. missionlocal explicitly says it is not incitement to violence. Here are three paragraphs from it:

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But tying this potential legislation to the message Tan communicated to his 408,000 Twitter followers would appear to be a serious legal challenge: Half a dozen lawyers and judges told Mission Local that, however ill-advised, Tan’s comments do not rise to the legal definition of a death threat.

Under Penal Code 422, a person making a criminal threat must harbor “specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat…”

“It is offensive, but it is speech protected by the First Amendment,” said Berkeley School of Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “It does not meet the standard for incitement.”

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"This is a fairly standard and boring way of dressing up censorship as something high-minded."

Do you think that speech is not an act? That speech does not have any consequences in the world, and so should be free from all restriction? That's certainly not the law in the US, and you seem to be aware of incitement to violence.

"missionlocal is not the impartial jury who gets to decide whether or not quoting 2pac is incitement to violence."

Please quote where missionlocal decides that is incitement to violence. You are accusing missionlocal of hack journalism where it is simply reporting what happened. You may not think Garry Tan should get heat for doing what he did, but you should not place your ire on the journalists who are reporting what is by any reasonable definition a story within their purview.
Well at least he’s not promoting genocide in Gaza …oh
Timnit Gebru.
Money blinds. The price for those nice comp packages is complicity in the descent into neofeudalism.
You're right, thanks for clarifying. I misread it as having some causation.
> I am conflicted on this because I like to speak my mind.

> However, I do worry that there is too much criticism these days when someone speaks their mind.

You don’t need to feel conflicted. Just think of that “too much criticism” as people who disagree with the initial take as speaking their mind in response.
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The probability of flipping a coin and getting heads is the same as flipping ten coins, choosing one at random, and getting heads. Since the probability is the same, you have learned nothing about the distribution of unchecked coins.

Since the coins are independently flipped, you can assume that it’s still just a binomial distribution of size n-1 and the same p.
I think your own "partisanship" is coloring your reading of a fairly neutral and factual article. Mission Local regularly publishes stories which are (implicitly or explicitly) critical of the supervisors Tan was threatening here.
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This is the main reason I'm not currently registered to vote. The f-ers at the voting offices leaked my address without my permission, and then I de-registered and moved.

I don't currently have anything worthy of a death threat but if I ever do in the future, I'd prefer the public not know where I sleep.

Also, f all forms of KYC. Half of those companies end up getting hacked or leaking data at some point in the future.
Someone tried that - see http://thedanplan.com/ - it turns out that you can become good, but expert / world class level takes more than dedicated practice.

The truth is that the people who do not have the aptitude to start wash out before they reach 10,000 hours, making this a self-reinforcing belief. That said, you can always become better, and you have the opportunity to define your own rules such that you can become recognized in something in which is suited to you.

So, what is your goal?
As I mentioned in my first message: the startup bros weren’t particularly politically active until the last couple years. And they’ve been relatively successful since.
Adobe could have thrown $40B at it and never made a product to rival Figma because it would have been riddled with Adobe Updater, Adobe Service Manager, Adobe SwitchBoard, AdobeARMservice and all the other crap they force on their users, and nobody would bother. They get away with this kind of user hostility for software they're entrenched in, they'd never get away with it if they were trying to challenge something that's better and doesn't hate its users as much.
Over 95 percent of San Francisco's budget is directly controlled by the Mayor's office. The Mayor's office in San Francisco is incredibly powerful.

Supervisors mostly sit through the monthly televised Board Of Supervisors meeting, where concerned citizens and community activists along with the utterly deranged voice their concerns.
Twine is my new favorite RSS Feed app, only thing missing is feed folders!
Standing on the shoulders of giants – ASML [video]
Obviously we're talking about who sits where in the Assembly of post-revolutionary France.
This is probably too small to serve as an example. Back in my dorm days we used to play a lot of poker (Hold'em $1/$2), and it is pretty embarrassing to not know how to shuffle the cards by hand. Eventually I decided to sit down for maybe a couple of hours and practice shuffling non-stop. I never worried about shuffling cards afterwards.
When they bring nothing but unskilled labor to the table, how much do you feel they are entitled to? 50%? I would call that a partner and expect them to bring their own tools and skills. That is not the situation described here. So, how much should they receive?
Elon Musk Is Overpaid
>Took me a few minutes of cynical reading to understand that he did not send the letters

It didn't take me that. I knew it within moments of reading the article and it seems the vast majority of readers didn't have this problem.
Why not? Because, under the terms of use of StackOverflow, all posted code is licensed under a CC BY SA license.

You could, I suppose, add a CC BY SA acknowledgement to both StackOverflow, and the person who posted the code for every snippet of code you copy from StackOverflow in license notifications in your own project. You must acknowledge both. But you know you won't.

Instead, you will rely on the goodwill of every corporate overlord who will ever own StackOverflow, or inherit its copyright assignments for one Mickey Mouse copyright lifetime. Which seems unwise given that the current corporate overlords don't seem to be trustworthy. And seems particularly unwise now that the Millennial internet is passing away.

There was some discussion about allowing authors to post code under a dual-use license when StackoverFlow first converted their terms of use to require CC BY SA licensing. But whenever I add dual-use license notifications to my StackOverflow posts, StackOverflow moderators keep editing it out without my permission!

If the answer links to code on another site, then that code isn't covered by the StackOverflow terms of use.
Getting drunk and posting death threats on a social media platform beloved by unhinged bigots isn’t “speaking your mind”, it’s incitement.
Yep. There was one early Batman series which revealed that his father had once dressed as a bat-man for a costume party. Batman wore the costume when apprehending a criminal who had done something awful to Batdad and the criminal, seeing the costume thought it was Batdad returned to life and panicked falling to his death.¹

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1. Likely inaccurate description of the plot based on 45-year-old memories of reading the story in a library collection.
Freedom of speech entails allowing for speech you dislike and find abhorrent. Just be honest and say you are against freedom of speech, and you are in favor of compelled speech. SV types have this weird politeness shtick.
If you know that it’s a protected species you might want not to do that, even if there’s no one to see you.
> …it’s ok to belittle someone…

Did we read the same email? He only commented about how bad the code is; he said nothing about the person who wrote it.
I'm not certain that Twitter is an exempt place when it comes to threatening statements. You don't have to send it to the person in question in many cases.
Why are we not asked to donate our medical records to science when we pass?

Why are we not asked to open up our medical records to our offspring when we pass?