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For the record, I don't consider a programmer who connects up various packages designed by others as much of an engineer. A programmer who designs and codes the load managing software for an electric utility is certainly doing engineering. There's a line between the two, but it's definitely a fuzzy line.
It was such a competent piece of legislation that it was dropped by the EU when commonsense finally penetrated the minds of the 'we're paid to dream up laws so let's get on with it' secretive team in Brussels.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2453204/Be...
You're mistaking my pointing out the means as a critique of the ends. If you do not pay your taxes not only can the police take your property but they can and will imprison your person. That is the reality of the situation and I support the collection of taxes (and the enforcement required) with the full understanding of what my support entails. I don't try and drape fig leaves around it.
that sounds a lot better than having more billionaires in the economy. even though everything is very highly priced, they have to justify it at least, and give other kids a chance at their weird scholarship.
Yeah, I think it's impossible for a web page or application to really be brutalist.

Web pages, and really everything on the computer screen are a rendering of something. They don't have materials or material properties, they only represent or imitate them. So really they can never be honest to the materials. They can only imitate or evoke 'ideas' of brutalism.
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There is the part where service manuals exist today. Apple just don't give them to you.

I sense a fairy tale infinite complexity in todays devices from your post. You know that people built them
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Imaginary money you can't spend on anything, sure.

All of the time I have spent trying to build software at large, stable, safe companies has been wasted. Most of the time I have spent trying to build software at startups has been wasted, too. That's life in a field as young and uncertain as ours: most of what you do will turn out to be a waste of time.

So, what's that time actually worth? Same as what that software is actually worth: nothing, usually.
I have wanted exactly this for over a year. Thank you for making it.
If the matter was only about weakening the external monopolies, than the tactics are definitely really really bad.

The pain and trouble that this legislation would generate to Europe and to the whole world is much worse than say Google's monopoly.

I believe if the EU had an honest intention of only undermining monopolies from countries outside the EU (mainly the US), then it should find another way to go with it without disrupting the whole open knowledge concept. Otherwise, it will be truly disasterous.
The ReMarkable has, by some black magic, managed to reduce the latency by quite a lot compared to, say, a Kindle.
How can I sell in Amazon FBA if my country isn't on the list?
How can I sell in Amazon FBA if my country is not on the list of allowed countries? Will you be opening a Corp or LLC? Or with an Estonian e-residency? If there are other alternatives I would like to know them, I do not have a bank account in USA.
except with docker youre managing two userlands, the underlying host and the container, instead of one.

I've used packer a bunch of times, generally for things that dont change frequently. For instance, for creating the image the docker containers run on.
Or for one-off utility servers that are just running third party code that doesnt support docker. For the thing that id work on and deploy every day, id want something else on top whether thats docker/puppet/codedeploy/etc - probably docker today.

Some of the most business critical code ive worked with was built with packer, because the extra complication of docker added no value, we wanted as little software on the server as possible since each added thing could fail, and we wanted fast bootup times and minimal launch scripts for autoscaling.
When you buy something, you do have pretty broad rights to repair it.

The problem is, they are becoming less and less effective.

If you have no documentation or repair manuals, then it's harder to fix. An authorized repair site might know what error code 59276 means, but do you?

Apple famously started using a pentalobe screw, seemingly for the goal of making it harder for people who aren't at authorized service centers to carry out repairs. If a company uses non-standard parts when standard parts would work, this makes it harder for you to repair your own items.

In the pentalobe case, third-party vendors sprang up to sell the specialized screwdrivers, so it became less of a barrier. But imagine if the new screw were covered under patent that prevented substitutions .. and only authorized repair centers could buy the correct screwdriver.

Companies are using their rights under other laws to make it harder for you do to your own repairs. For example, farmers are turning to foreign hackers because farm equipment companies use the DMCA to prevent farmers from using anything other than authorized repair technicians from fixing the equipment. This equipment is increasingly reliant on DMCA-protectable software.

As you saw in this case in Norway, Apple wants to use its trademark power to prevent people from buying parts which would otherwise be legal

Are there any requirements would you force upon Apple in order to ensure that people have a reasonable ability "to repair any item they own or pay anyone else to do it?"

Make not mistake - it's also well-established law that the government can force companies to sell to people they might not otherwise want to sell to.
how can you place a link like this (w3techs.in)
GDPR will have a massive effect no matter where you are. The trickle-down affects are key.

Many large companies do business with Europe. Many of them are implementing GDPR-like controls and/or adopting Privacy Shield. Other US companies doing business with them must adhere to the new vendor controls these US-companies have adopted, or lose that business.

Across the world, (e.g. Singapore, Philippines and Japan) Privacy laws are being re-written to align parts of local law to GDPR.

The US has limited privacy laws generally (e.g. dat breach notification laws in CA and MA), but has adopted specific protections depending on industry (HIPAA for healthcare, GLBA for Banking). More like likely occur.
The relationship between government activities and government use or threat of force is highly nonlinear.

The biggest chunk of government use or threat of violence is in property rights enforcement. Anything on top of that is mostly peanuts.

For example, if a local government raises property taxes by 5 percentage points in order to get the funds for better schools, there's likely no additional use of force at all. So it's absolutely possible to raise living standards without use of force for all practical purpose.

A reasonable libertarian who worries about use of force (but I'm aware that such people are so rare they may as well not exist) should be in favour of such a policy, because it increases the ratio of "quality of life per use of force".
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Were you disappointed that both the Mac and iPhone didn't have the underpinning of a Smalltalk-like reprogrammable environment?

We had to wait for HyperCard on the Mac and I'm not sure such a thing even exists on modern phones.
> I find this comment mildly irritating. The Alto apparently cost $40k [1] in (or around) 1973, which was equivalent to $95k in 1984 (or $232k today). Compare with the Mac which cost $2.5k in 1984.

Sorry, but what is really irritating is the comparison you are making. 1973 component prices are in no way comparable to 1984 component prices, and Xerox's target market and desired margins were completely different from Apple's. If you actually look at the commercial machines that Xerox developed after the Alto prototypes, you find things like the Star, that came out for $16,000 in 1981. Compare that to the Apple Lisa, which came out for $10,000 in 1983. And it is not really a fair comparison, because the Star had much better hardware in every respect. What would be a fair comparison to the Lisa in terms of hardware capabilities would be the 1978 NoteTaker, built with off-the-shelf components for about $15,000 (my estimate: https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/2012-01-11-the-perso...). The people at Xerox were perfectly capable of designing and building low-cost computers with third party components. Xerox never entered the low-cost personal computer market. In the early 1980s Xerox sold high-margin workstations to large corporate clients, and in terms of price/performance their offerings were very competitive.

If you want to say that not selling cheap mass-market products has "limited direct impact," that is true, but is also not a very insightful observation.
You are correct, and they will likely change that or face heavy fines, now that they have lost this case.
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"at least to rhyme" is very specifically a metaphor in that it does not require systemic logical matching... I don't literally require rhyming or a logical system that is comparable. It's also utterly useless for _system thinking_, which is the author's subject matter, precisely because it is at best loosely related.

An analogy, or analog, is a much deeper match in that means to transfer the understanding and knowledge of an existing system to a new target system that closely parallels that understanding and knowledge. Analog computing was literally "creating a model of the problem" that closely matched the real problem.

Agreed that metaphors are not inherently bad, but the dependence on metaphors rather than analogies is symptomatic of a lack of depth in understanding when attempting to convey knowledge.
This is an illustration of the point the author was making in the first place. You have to pick your metaphors carefully because they come with secondary aspects you tend to forget: in addition to governmental use of force, war introduces "enemies" and zero sum thinking into the decision making process, sometimes subconsciously.

It's also worth noting that war is necessarily an admission of failure -- failure of all other means to resolve a problem.
I actually have a script running on a cron job on my personal server that does approximately this. It downloads into a Syncthing folder that automatically syncs to whatever devices I might want to watch videos on. The difference is I just have a set of playlists for it to download, so I'm relying on the YouTube creators to organize their videos into appropriate playlists, which means it's not exactly "fine-grained". It's basically an 80% solution, and for the remaining 20%, I just invoke youtube-dl manually.
OK so just out of curiosity I looked at the newspaper date that Lynn is reading. "Chris Hardwick, King of the Nerds, Is Expanding His Empire" It is from April 7, 2016. Does that mean this thing took 2 years to come out or is she just reading an old newspaper? EducationLife which is on the table near her, folded in 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/arts/television/chris-har...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/saying-f...
Your pricing on the front page is super high.
Further if Europe can ask for info to be censored what happens when 100 other nations ask the same for their own reasons. Will the search index be composed only of data that is acceptable to all parties?
> We (America) just signed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act into law last month without so much as a blip from The AP or Thompson Reuters.

Blip from Reuters: [1]

Blip from AP: [2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-microsoft/u-s-s...

[2] https://apnews.com/d22a0de1f9434490b938ec1db8e149ef/Budget-b...
Ask HN: Do the number of views on your YC video matter?
My YC application video (as a solo founder) got just 1 view from California. I'm just wondering if there is a correlation between the number of views and the chances of getting accepted.

1 view could be "this guy is a totally awesome, just call him for an interview" or "wtf is this, straight reject", haha. Anybody that got called for interviews after just 1 view in the past?

I mean, I could just wait for 4 days to find out, I guess.
I vaguely remember writing question marks over equality signs when one was using an equals sign as a proposition.
A necessary monopoly. Without it, service would not be universal.
Looks pretty nice for Linux based network device development, but I'm going to bet the CPU performance is in a tier well below a Coffee Lake Core i3 8100. Not really in the same category as single socket, narrow (two systems in 17.5" 1U chassis width), 8, 16, 24 or 32-core Xeon or EPYC.
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Well, that's exactly the thing -- GMO by itself means pretty much nothing in regard to dangers or benefits. But the anti-GMO crowd isn't interested in them, they don't want GMOs to begin with.

Aren't there any newer articles about GMO-research coverups than these? For all its worth, I did see one study, and it was the kind I would have gotten an "F" for back when I was in high school with advance biology classes. And it is interesting to note that while in the US it was hard to find leaded gas even in 1990, it was the only kind sold in USSR where concerns of TEL manufacturers or patent holders would be of no consequence. And it was phased out much later, too.

IP and patent discussion is probably off-topic here, but if GMOs do what they are said to do, what it the problem with Monsanto having their own licensing terms on it? And so far there are good indications that they do have benefits and no well-designed studies showing dangers. And appeal to authority as a logical fallacy or not, I find the idea that all 100+ signatories (including some who, judging by the year when they got their Nobels could not care less by now about Monsanto's alleged threats) are either scared of or paid by the Big Agriculture to be an even greater conspirological fallacy.
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> Yeah, I think it's impossible for a web page or application to really be brutalist

Bare HTML with no styling (inline or CSS).
This is a big point of confusion. A background check will check the court records, where your convictions will still be listed (unless protected from disclosure e.g. California background checks generally don't show convictions > 7 years https://www.goodhire.com/california/background-checks).

A real con artist can just fake someone's ID, for them it's pretty trivial.

The issue is less than 1% of convictions ever make it to the Internet, and those people currently will be stigmatized forever, unlike the other 99%, unless they have this mechanism. Google's plea was 'we will self police, but we won't tell you how. We will ignore court orders, because we choose to'. The court objected to that approach.

If you are convicted of new crimes, no matter how long ago, then your sentence may be significantly increased as a repeat offender.
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I think he means 7H of interviews in total in order to find the right candidate for the position.
I just found this... Can people chime in with their perspective?
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So Google is finally admitting they are not at an actual email provider, but creating their own closed wall service.

Glad I’ve moved to fastmail.
If you are doing raw number crunching you shouldn't be using python in the first place, the whole idea of python is that it makes it easier to write better algorithms lowering your big-O, or use python for the lightweight orchestration and call into native processing libs or external processes such as numpy for the heavy lifting. Same goes for distributed computing which is becoming much more popular; asyncio, await, and other improvements from py3 makes it easier to write fast and robust distributed code, improving your overall application performance.
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In English there's a difference between a raw, rough person and raw, rough concrete, but there's a clear etymological link in using brute/brutal to describe them both.

It's similar to the way 'crude' can be used to refer to a person or oil that hasn't been through a refining process.
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the righteous indignation of the jilted tax payer.

I'm sorry, what?

Are you somehow asserting that the tax payer should not be righteously indignant about the money they ostensibly worked hard to earn and then turn right around and hand over to the government going to the coffers so they can acquire a technology that will probably (historically) be poorly implemented and maintained by what is probably (and also historically) a severely underpaid tech department, and probably become completely irrelevant once Apple catches wind and changes how their devices are secured?

I just don't understand the tone of a statement like "righteous indignation of the jilted" coming from someone who serves the public at the pleasure of someone elected by the public and whose salary is paid. by. the public.

Sorry if this sounds a little aggressive, but I'm legitimately more than bothered when I see members of law enforcement carrying an "I know whats best for you, John Q Public" attitude when said member of the public raises an eyebrow of incredulity about actions, especially expensive actions of law enforcement.
San Francisco was one of the few places in the world to try to address that with it's 'ban the box ' initiative. Crimes must be relevant to disqualify a candidate. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...
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>Subaru doesn't brick my car if I put in a non-subaru stereo.

If Subaru offered an alarm system in your vehicle that disabled the ignition if the system was tampered with, you'd be saying that the system worked exactly as intended. Apple didn't brick people's devices to prevent third-party repairs. The devices were bricked because the chain of trust between Touch ID and the secure enclave was broken. Users had Touch ID enabled and their phones were bricked because Touch ID couldn't verify and there's no way around Touch ID. It's exactly why the update that "fixed" the issue was an update that simply turned off Touch ID for devices that didn't pass verification.
>They might "not even be that great", but they are where all the listeners and the money are.

Thats true I think. Or maybe people just stopped buying music and Apple had to figure out another way to make money. It wouldn't make sense for them to invest in features that made non-streaming easier or more appealing to consumers. I noticed this very recently on a road trip where somebody mentioned it was going to be boring without music since they were out of data. I was confused for a second because I guess I'm the older/hipster dude, I've always thought of streaming as a doubly wasteful model where you lose battery life along with data.
I'm not a tax expert by a long shot, but I believe that here in Germany perks from your company count as taxable income. Company cars definitely do.
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While the android update-situation is a real issue, not having the latest version of android installed on your phone does not make it obsolete.

There’s almost no software that actually depends on you having the latest version.

Bad battery life or flash storage used to beyond it’s reasonable lifetime is a much bigger problem, a problem that can be solved by replacement parts, or even better: user replaceable batteries or SD-cards.
But Go's garbage collector can't traverse the DOM.
There are a lot of software engineering jobs that provide enough income for you to retire before you're fifty.
This is basically an impossible burden to bear. If everyone who had anything whatsoever bad about them on the internet decided that the tiny burden of sending a letter was a worthy use of time then fighting the 1/10 which were the most dubious would ruin google financially.

This is like a network where you can cause a network to waste a GB of data by sending a KB of data.

The only reasonable response in that situation would be to invest only the money available to fight the worst of the worst requests and blanket accept almost everyone's request to silence anyone else.

If you turn it around and make a single request take a few thousand dollars worth of legal fees and many hours of work then worthless requests which are likely to be denied wont be bothered with but the most worthy may still be seen to.
And those are often horribly mishandled.

DRM was pushed through despite objections: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-con...

SVG was all but abandoned (the full story here: https://codepen.io/AmeliaBR/post/me-and-svg)
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The notion that "OO is polymorphism, FP is referential transparency" are caricatures that annoy more than inform. Let's try to avoid that reduction.

One better reduction is OO as objects / FP as abstract data types per Cook's well-known paper [1]. This argues that the key difference is when the transition from abstract to concrete happens. The ADT approach is to do this in the "observations", e.g pattern matching destructuring. But objects do this in the "constructors", the class that gets set when the object is created.

In this view objects and ADTs (OO and FP) are competing, not not orthogonal. Concretely you have to decide whether your C function switches on a tag, or dispatches through a vtable. Which paradigm to prefer depends on the properties you want from your model: dynamic extensibility, efficiency, security, etc. are all considerations.

1: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/papers/OOPvsADT/CookOOPvsADT... (PDF!)
I don't think the limit is really an issue here. Most CS textbooks define big-O with the limit ->infinity part baked into the definition. So, this is more of an issue of different people using different definitions than an issue of abuse of notation.
>It's not incorrect just incomplete because even genuine parts would fail validation and result in a bricked device.

Genuine parts would only fail if they were installed without rekeying Touch ID. It didn't matter that the parts were genuine Apple parts or not. It mattered that Touch ID and the secure enclave were no longer paired after the hardware keys no longer matched between the 2.
Oooh, that's pretty awesome then. I was pretty sceptical after reading about somewhat "meh" results for deep learning applications a few weeks ago.
Hmm, maybe language runetimes can be dynamically linked and hosted by the language maintainers. Everyone imports the official library so the odds of the user already having most of everything cached is high.
http://archive.is/IKTvN
Did do, and it paid off: touch typing skills using a fun letter invaders (like space invaders) educational game. Not at 3 days old though ;-)
>The owner even states he in no way markets them as OEM parts.

Except that the archive.org page for his site clearly shows that his site was marketing the replacements as genuine Apple parts and that it was changed after the court case began.
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To think of a human like a machine is to become like the machines.

I think you are young. I hope you grow out of that state of mind.
Microsoft had a monopoly. Apple doesn't. If you don't like it, go buy an Android phone.
Yes, that's why I said that many things shouldn't be a crime.