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pepsion Rubio says El Salvador agrees to accept any US deportees, including Americans

certified uh oh moment

pepsion Do you think Apple will move to their own a chip for their next computer?

I think it wouldn't be a stretch to see at least their non-pro computers using an A-series chip eventually. I'm sure there's at least an internal build of Mac OS for Arm machines right?

Given their affinity for AMD graphics, I wonder if a desktop A-series processor could have a built in Vega GPU like the Intel chips? The i7-8809G has a Vega with 24 compute units which should be decent for light video or photo work. Notebook Check doesn't have much by way of directly comparable info for the Vega M GH and the A12X Bionic's GPU.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Vega-M-GH-vs-A12X-Bionic-GPU_8...

https://ark.intel.com/products/130409/Intel-Core-i7-8809G-Pr...

pepsion Ask HN: A large tablet for PDFs?

Agreed on a refurb iPad Pro or even Surface depending on your needs.

pepsion Developer solution to be used with iPad Pro?

I really like Blink Shell, Charles Proxy, and Pythonista. One nice thing about Pythonista is that you can trigger scripts from Shortcuts (neé Workflow) which has come in handy for hacky workarounds.

pepsion IBM secretly used New York’s CCTV cameras to train its surveillance software

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II

Hmm....

pepsion Ask HN: Older Hackernewsers What are the things you used to be bothered about.

Getting my tiling window manager setup just right.

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Previous threads on the event haven't gained traction and have been flagged/killed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847327

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847471

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Earlier threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847327

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847119

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News4Jax reports several fatalities: https://www.news4jax.com/news/shooting-at-jacksonville-landi...

Polygon has more info on the tournament and some reactions from players via Twitter: https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/26/17783924/madden-tournament...

pepsion Ask HN: What is the best HN client?

HNCute is my personal favorite, I don't use a non-browser or mobile client.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hncute%C2%A0a-pret...

pepsion Ask HN: Why is russian election hacking so easy to identify?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/microsoft-fancy-bear-lawsu...

pepsion Ask HN: Is it legal to ask for personal information without reason?

Seems like a very misguided effort to comply with COPPA since the site content is likely geared toward teens/pre-teens.

I clicked the "enter" button without selecting a year and the URL changed to https://www.j-14.com/?age_gate%5Bbirth_year%5D=&age_gate%5Bc...

I would assume the better way to notify users is the way other sites have an alert bar at the top or bottom with their cookie policy.

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This is, pretty fucked up online content.

pepsion (BBC iPlayer) Trump: Is the President a Sex Pest?

YouTube link for those outside the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB0IpYuYzk0

pepsion My favorite apps on F-Droid

Haven might not be in the main F-droid repo(?), but you can add theirs to install it. It’s also on the google play store and the source is available to build it yourself.

https://guardianproject.github.io/haven/

pepsion Unannounced changes to the Nano codebase

Oh, I was worried this was about the Nano editor but it's about some cryptocoin nonsense. Whew.

https://www.nano-editor.org/

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No - the public Slack community for Ghost is shutting down.

pepsion Ask HN: What are your favorite podcast *episodes*?

The "Farts and Procreation" episodes of Comedy Bang Bang.

pepsion Ask HN: How to self-learn ML?

Pay $15 for a decent amount of starter material in this Humble eBooks Bundle.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/artificial-intelligence-b...

pepsion Ask HN: Why is not allowing iMessage on Android not an antitrust violation?

Why is not releasing Mario Party on Playstation not an antitrust violation?

Certainly seems like anticompetitive behavior.

pepsion Ask HN: Open source microcontroller hardware?

SiFive makes an Arduino compatible RISC-V board.

https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive1/

pepsion Ask HN: What do you like and/or dislike about HQ Trivia?

The Peter Thiel money.

pepsion Ask HN: What Microsoft Visual Studio do you use?

Visual Studio Community 2017 is free!

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/

pepsion Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Shoot-Out: ASUS Strix and Zotac AMP Extreme

"Pricing $599 MSRP -- Currently $969 On Amazon"

When will our suffering end?

pepsion What Yahoo is doing these days?

Living(?) inside Verizon's Oath, with AOL, HuffPost and Tumblr.

https://www.oath.com/our-brands/

pepsion Ask HN: Does startup use MLM?

Grindr seems to be doing pretty well with lots of MLM.

pepsion What the worst-performing investment you've made?

In my case it was a last minute decision before moving - "oh, are we packing that?" I think the Coinstar fee was less than 8-9% at the time and I'm not sure if they offered "fee-free" digital gift cards yet.

pepsion What the worst-performing investment you've made?

A very big jar of pennies that I had for years that I dumped into a coinstar machine.

pepsion Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review

The Ryzen 7 2700U and Ryzen 5 2500U have integrated Vega GPUs.

pepsion Diet Coke Rebrands

I love it, almost as wild of a read as the "gravitational pull of Pepsi aisle universe" document.

Also it's just super great how they call diet Coke a "sparkling beverage choice" a whole bunch of times instead of cola. Coke has this signage like "balance what you drink and do" in stores as if Any significant number of consumers will be able to offset their delicious corn syrup drinks with water and a bike ride instead of slumping back in a cubicle at the end of their lunch break.

I do enjoy a coke life (with stevia) and Pepsi max (more caffeine than mountain dew) from time to time so obviously I'm not immune to this marketing and will definitely keep an eye out for that new mango flavor. (whoops I just remembered my username; I've no association with the soda industry whatsoever.)