In Zendesk, you get an Halloween pumpkin emoji instead of a thumb up. I always wondered if it was an annoying easter egg or a bug.
Readit Newsantpls commented on The plague of emoji insertion in French docs bibelo.info/en/the-plague... · Posted by u/bibelo
antpls commented on Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares github.com/ProtonMail/pro... · Posted by u/julienpalard
Some years ago, I evaluated Protonmail as a replacement for my personal gmail account.
When came the steps "can I easily move from this service?", I realized you have to _pay_ to export all your emails from the service. They make it super easy for you to open an account and receive emails, and then makes you pay if you want to get a copy of your own data.
I contacted the support to tell them it is likely illegal under European Data Privacy laws. They replied I can still export email for free one by one if I wanted to... (which is obviously not a valid answer when you have 5000 emails)
Then I looked in Swiss laws for a similar clause, and found that Swiss laws doesn't give users of online services the right to easily and freely get a copy of their data. It was a law proposal at the time of my research.
So yeah... Your data is so secure in Switzerland that you don't even own your data !
antpls commented on Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro store.google.com/magazine... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Sadly seems as though the headphone jack has been permanently removed from the entire Pixel line. Really a shame, will have to try and make my Pixel 5A last. Any good Android recommendations that still maintain a headphone jack?
What happened to the proposal to fund production of a reasonable-size stock Android phone that was going around a few months back? Did anything come of that?
I was also worried about it, but then I learned about the USB-C to jack adapter cable. Look on your favourite shopping website.
That should buy us 2 or 3 more years of wired headphone, and let the wireless tech continue to improve.
antpls commented on Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/c... · Posted by u/sm4rk0
I'll take a counter approach. it makes sense to install firefox via snap.
firefox breaks if you overwrite its files. therefore installing "normall" via dpkg is bad while firefox is in use (especially on a multi user system). running via a container ensures that the existing running processes don't break while allowing you to upgrade and have any new instance get the new version.
there are reasons to dislike snap, but the usage of containers (even as simply a packaging mechanism, not any form of isolation) can improve user experience.
Same, I have been using snap to run Firefox and Chromium for about more than a year (personal usage, not professional), and rarely had issues. I had one issue regarding a feature like WebGL or a file picker, but it was solved after 5 minutes of googling, and it was about running a single command line to give more permissions to the snap package. This way of distribution works quite well for big applications with many dependencies that you want to be automatically updated without fear of breaking some shared libraries.
I also feels more confident trying new applications with snap. I know I can easily install different versions and uninstall them without breaking the system.
antpls commented on Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/c... · Posted by u/sm4rk0
I've been hearing good things about modern Fedora as an alternative "boring" operating system. Maybe now is the time to make the switch.
Question regarding Fedora : I tried it in a docker environment. During some googling to troubleshoot issues, several results were found on the Red Hat commercial support website (so, not accessible). I'm afraid that a good part of advanced/niche documentations and knowledge base for troubleshooting is behind Red Hat commercial support. Is that the case in practice?
antpls commented on Belarus referendum approves proposal to renounce non-nuclear status reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/maury91
https://www.nhc.no/en/five-facts-about-the-referendum-in-bel... :
"The amendments to this article will make it sound as follows: The Republic of Belarus excludes military aggression from its territory against other states."
Either Lukashenko will tell Putin to remove Russian troops from Belarus, or Lukashenko is breaking the new constitution of his own country.
It's interesting that SIMD came to the mainstream 25 years ago and compilers, our apps and PL tech are still quite far from effectively utilizing it outside nonportable manually coded SIMD aware compute kernels in glorified assembler. There are some exceptions like ispc and GPU languages like OpenCL and Futhark (GPU people say "cores" when they mean SIMD lanes!)...
SIMD instructions as we know them today do not make a consensus among the actors and architectures. See : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-To...
That makes them harder to implement in compilers and in turns to democratize SIMD.
There is an article on the web explaining the purpose of SVE/SVE2 ("Scalable Vector Extension"), which is supposed to be the successor of SIMD on ARM : https://levelup.gitconnected.com/armv9-what-is-the-big-deal-...
Extract : "[...] the addition of SIMD instructions has led to an explosion in the number of instructions, especially for x86. And of course not every x86 processor will support all these instructions. Only the newer ones will support AVX-512. The beauty of SVE is that the same code will work for both the super-computer and the cheap phone. That is not possible with the x86 SIMD instructions."
There is also a Java proposal to use SVE as the way of doing SIMD in the Java world : https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/417
The same principle will be extended on ARM to matrices with "Scalable Matrix Extension" : https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architecture...
We can speculate that everyone will migrate to ARM / RISC-V at some point, or x86 will have similar instructions.
antpls commented on Settings are not a design failure linear.app/blog/settings-... · Posted by u/tommoor
No one mentioned video games settings?
It's a solved problem there, have profiles : "Low", "Medium", "High", "Ultra High".
They allow for a quick start, then as the user is more aware of the feature, the user can tune the predefined profiles themselves.
You can have independent profiles for each independent feature : input profiles (keyboard/gamepads), graphics profiles, audio profiles, etc
For example, on a Google account, that would be a single drop down list with those options: "Private and no personalized experience" (everything turned off), "Private with personalized experience", "Public"
antpls commented on Advent of Code 2021 in pure TensorFlow – day 1 pgaleone.eu/tensorflow/20... · Posted by u/me2too
Good reading ! It would be interesting to have other similar challenges, such as Euler, solved in idiomatic Tensorflow and Pytorch. Also some examples of more complicated state-of-the-art algorithms, such as sorting/graph/trees algorithms reimplemented in these frameworks.
It would be a great introduction to these frameworks for people who never touched anything ML-related, leaving the neural network content to later in the learning process.
Learning how to create differentiable algorithms and neural networks would be easier once the way those frameworks work is understood (ingesting data, iterating dataset, running, debugging, profiling, etc).
If you are starting with neural networks or differentiable programming, learning both the maths and the frameworks at the same time can be quite overwhelming
What's shocking to me is how little Apple management understood of what their actions looked like. Really stunning.
For a company that marketed itself as one of the few digital service providers that consumers could trust, I just don't understand how they acted this way at all.
Either there will be heads rolling at management, or Apple takes a permanent hit to consumer trust.
HN's Point of View doesn't represent the PoV of the 1 billion active iPhone owners.
Most people won't have any idea about the meaning of "hashes" and "databases". Not everyone is trying to actively fight the system and shit on everything, most people just want to live happily with their friends and family, they won't care that Apple scans their devices.
> "Either there will be heads rolling at management, or Apple takes a permanent hit to consumer trust."
Oh god ! How wasn't all of this obvious to the top Apple management, but so obvious to epistasis! Damn, thanks man for correcting and leading Apple to the right track !