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>I think what it's really trying to say is, "You can't pass laws saying overseas companies have to share their source code if they want to sell software or SaaS in your country."

Your interpretation seems reasonable. I'm guessing OSIA
and the Linux Journal are interpreting it like this:

>No Party (e.g. GNU GCC) shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party (e.g. Australia Atlassian), as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software (e.g. GCC), or of products containing such software (e.g. GCC), in its territory.

The "such software" is misinterpreted as referring back to a hypothetical "GCC" instead of "Atlassian".

Your interpretation would be more like:

>No Party (e.g. USA) shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party (e.g. Australia Atlassian), as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software (e.g. Atlassian), or of products containing such software (e.g. Atlassian), in its territory.

With that interpretation, the text is a response against China and Russia demanding source code from USA and European tech companies. E.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=china+russia+import+share+so...

If so, the worry would be whether countries would use the ambiguous wording of CPTPP as a way to ignore copyleft. Ignoring GCC's license wasn't the intention but it becomes the side effect. Organizations like GNU don't have an army of expensive lawyers to fight companies in Australia, etc. I have no idea if this "abuse" of CPTPP is a realistic concern.
For what purpose were these items added? It looks like a direct attack on open source otherwise.
>> "It teaches children their rights AND their responsibilities and connects them with people who care and can help. It invites their parents into the discussion and is sensitive to cultural and family values," she said.

> This seems ...honestly pretty reasonable and well thought out to me.

As someone who has changed a few diapers in my day, it's one of the most idiotic things I've ever read.
Docs did not tell me what exactly is obstructed - yes they said he might soon be fine without an operation because his head will grow.
Why can't she just use a newer MBP 13? Is it because you don't like the anti-consumer build, or does she have an objection of her own?

Basically, for a consumer (non-business, non-gamer) who just needs a laptop that works, running software they are familiar with, I don't see a reason to avoid new Macs.

I understand that the anti-consumer builds are annoying. But, for a non-tech-geek who will likely never upgrade internals, what does it matter?
I’d love to know how you know that.
Unless you compare the latency to a live broadcast, you'll never know how bad the latency is.

Most P2P systems are terrible, which makes them pretty useless since you can hear who scored from your neighbor seconds or even minutes before you see it.
I don't see them as competitive with ARM and RISC-V.

The last I heard of MIPS was some Chinese-fabbed chip that used the unencumbered set of MIPS opcodes--probably MIPS II--and a mostly-GNU OS to build the only computer on Earth (at the time) completely free of patent or licensing restrictions. It sounded like a stunt then, and I haven't heard anything about it since, so it probably was.
I can understand that.

For me, typing full html is no longer an option. Even with emmet I’d have to read it, multiple times, with all the markup syntax poking my eyes.
May I ask what's CQB?
Such a requirement has positives and negatives, which are dependent upon point of view.

From the position of a free-trade agreement, it would be a statement of trust. We trust you enough to be our partner that we won't attempt to claw open your citizens' code if, in return, you don't do so to our citizens' code.

Entering such an agreement might be unwise, should a counterparty turn out to be disreputable or irresponsible.
And this is worth $200/month?
This is an important reason why testing your backups is a critical part of backing up.
I live on glacial till, can confirm it's a huge pain to dig through, just in my own backyard. Drilling holes for anchors, I spend more time prying fist sized rocks than drilling. Which is incredibly difficult in a four foot deep, ten inch wide hole.
Agreed! And, to me, record/replay is still pretending like it's controllable, b/c even if you decouple for replays, records will always be a PITA.

My depressing solution is to just not even try to automate tests against the upstream system and instead invest in test builders/DSLs that make mocks/stubs on both sides as pleasant as possible.

And when bugs slip through, make sure to update your stubs/mocks on both sides to prevent the regression.

To me this gets the most agility and reliability, and will be a test suite that developers don't hate 1-2-5 years down the road.
Your iPhone in VR Goggles?
I mean couldn't one say that a lot of sys admin jobs have been automated by VM's, further by containers and other automated deployment tools? Read somewhere SRE at Google are responsible for a ridiculous amount of computing power per person. Albeit could make the argument that those levels of scale would be impossible to achieve without those tech so maybe not really count.
What are some well paying non-startups that are not FAANG?
The jaggies on the product page image hurt my eyes.

Excellent computer though, can also be VESA mounted to the back of a monitor, something that you would never be able to do with an Apple product. Also very easy to open the box to put your RAM + M2 + SSD in, again something Apple would never make easy for you.

Apart from the special Mac OS I don't see how Apple could really improve on this type of product in a functionally useful way. Making it fiddly to upgrade and slapping an Apple logo on it would please the devoted but isn't really improving it.
You're mixing together separate issues, then using the balled up uncertainty in support of a (too) common assumption that only a benevolent central entity (eg God) can sort it out.

Reddit itself was designed around the idea of multiple communities simultaneously existing on its site, with a low barriers for interacting with a plurality at a time. So "backgrounds and ages" is moot.

As far as unwanted communications, then it's not like Reddit et al are actually currently preventing such things, and not for a lack of trying! This is an edge concern, and in fact can only be fully solved at the edges. Any central solution necessarily relies on post-facto punishment, which necessarily relies on attribution to immutable top-down-imposed identifiers (and if you think this sounds like a good idea, then we really have no common ground!).

I don't expect to be able to convince you, as all I am essentially saying is that the easy answers are not answers. As I said, I just hope the inevitable mediocrity that comes out of centralization is boring enough to drive most everybody to seek out places that are not centrally controlled. Or at the very minimum, that the minority willing to tolerate unsafe speech will be free to go their own way.
Do consumers really care about thin laptops or is it just that Apple (and other manufacturers) can't come up with any other more interesting ideas that they could use for marketing purposes. Light weight laptops I can see being interesting for when you actually have to move it around, or significantly longer battery life could be an attractive addition to laptops. It really seems like pushing so hard on the idea of how sexy thin laptops are just demonstrates that they are completely out of ideas. There must be something more meaningful that they could change on a laptop and push just as hard on that to convince people it is worth lusting over.
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It happens in stages. People doing low-spec 2d work like Illustrator are still on macs. That's fine, macs will handle that and it's still important work that has to be done. But eventually they are going to see the economy of doing it on different hardware through their relations with other members of the pipeline.

Once you have to crunch some 4k video or run a dynamics simulation, you switch to PC. The price difference between a mac pro workstation and a similar homebuilt is just completely insane, and four years later the homebuilt will be upgraded with new stuff and the mac pro will be literally worth more as metal recycling. There are practically no apple users in mograph anymore, even though just about all mograph artists started on mac.

Keep in mind that the people on discord and web boards or whatever are amateur hobbyists. I don't say that as a slur, it's a stage we all go through and I remember that stage fondly. In some ways it's the best stage. But they have not had to deal with economics yet. That will make them re-think their hardware elitism.
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I image that $150/mo average include cable and landline? I spent between $35-65/mo at my last 3 apartments (CA, KS, MO) for ~100-200mbps through Comcast for internet only.
> "David later wrote a beautiful tribute to his father, offering the insight that his dad "was impacted by the sense, so prevalent in our society, that depression is somehow a character flaw rather than an illness." He believes that's what kept his father, a psychologist, from seeking help, along with many others."

Can we talk more specifically about the sense that suicide is a failure? I've seen many responses to recent public suicides about that depression is a struggle and not to be stigmatized and in the same breath write suicide off as a "selfish" choice (like somehow it's a rational decision?), a choice only for someone who has given up and is a failure.

If we want people to be open and honest about what they are struggling with we can take the stigma off of all parts of mental illness.
I would agree with you if the chassis was sealed in the USB-C ones, which it isn't. A cup of coffee spill is still as fatal to a MBP as it's ever been. My 2011 ThinkPad X220 has drain holes in the keyboard. These laptops have moisture detectors to void your warranty.

Give me maintainable laptops, not throwaway ones, for the love of...
True. I overlooked the word "non" in " I've never heard of a non licensed profession being barred from "practicing"".

But there have been cases of people not allowed to use computers and whatever. I think the judges have pretty broad discretion in some cases.
I'm happy to share my thoughts. I developed on Macs for 8 years, then switched to Windows 10 for 2 years (inclusive of Insider builds).

In some ways, the transition was pretty painless. I mainly use JetBrains products, so there was very little pain in the switch there. I expected that, which is one of the reasons why I decided to switch in the first place.

However, what I hadn't predicted was how few of the quality-of-life tweaks I was using had equivalents on Windows. For example, I was using the clipboard history feature extensively on Alfred when I was using Mac, and Ditto is barely a replacement for Windows. Recording screencasts with Screenflow on Mac is painless, and Windows (at the time) didn't have a comparable equivalent. The built-in functionality for window management in Windows is not bad, but it doesn't compare to Spectacle for flexibility.

Those are just a few examples, but collectively, these ended up adding a surprisingly painful amount of friction to my development process, even when the IDE was exactly the same. I finally ended up admitting defeat and switching back to MacOS.

I might conclude that if you're using the out-of-the-box, platform default environment, Visual Studio and Windows 10 are probably going to give a better experience than XCode + vanilla MacOS. Then again, if you're the kind of person whose .vimrc has decades of tweaks, you'll probably be happier in Linux. Basically, my view is to just let everyone do what they want and what they feel comfortable with, coexist with them, and don't try to convert/proselytize in general, which I believe is a pretty non-controversial stance.
Fantastic post. Nothing to add, other than thanks for sharing.
Liquid smoke is critical here.
So were the deaths of a million civilian Iraqis, Mr Rove
I seriously doubt that, unless otherwise stated, the FTC would do anything other than appropriate the funds for itself.
At this stage, I'm convinced Apple have forgotten how to make Pro computers.
SSDs failing, maybe not, but I gather that mechanical failures on the new MBP keyboard are also very expensive to fix.
You do realize that outside of cloud providers hype "serverless" is a tiny fraction of cloud use let alone overall use.
Just running a quick back of the napkin, because I also think that seems high:

The CDC says that there were 117 million adults with chronic conditions in the US in 2012 and there are 100 million people over the age of 65, the majority of whom (I'm betting) have at least one prescription. Blood pressure medication, anti inflammatories for arthritis, steroids for skin/muscle/hormonal issues, and on and on. That's your third right there. The issues that come with chronic conditions also tend to be more systemic so their treatments are more likely to have impact on brain chemistry leading to depression. I couldn't find CDC stats for children but I'm willing to bet it'd bring the number of people taking prescriptions for chronic conditions to 125-150 million with all the asthma inhalers, ADHD medication, and so on that adolescents get.

Obviously not all of those people are taking a prescription year round and there is significant overlap but I think it's very feasible that two thirds of the country are on at least one prescription between all the chronic and acute conditions. Another thing to consider is that some doctors will write prescriptions for common over the counter medication.
I've done very similar actions at 5 and 6am :D

I would recommend rubbing with oil before the rub, and not water. Most seasonings are oil-soluble and will work better if you've oiled them first.
how is this "hacker news"
Good summary, I share most of the points provided in the post.

Also, I think a few more things worth to mention.

Pros:

- XPS has a decent hardware (I got 16GB, i8Gen, 500GB SSD and forgot about having a few docker containers running on the background which was an issue with my MacBook Pro 15 (8GB, 2.5Gh)

- It is really 1k$ cheaper than the same config MacBook model. Apple's Retina and Touchbar are really cool, however, they still do not have 16GB 13' mac which is a deal breaker.

- Touchscreen. Take your touch bar and put it into your missing 3.5 jack plug, Tim's Team, why would I need a touch bar when I have a touchscreen; (no offense to Apple, I still own a few apples because they are nice)

- the webcam is well described, but it is not that bad, it saves a few inches in size which makes its screen look like it takes all space and there are no borders at all;

- while ubuntu became usable with Gnome desktop I almost did not notice all missing Apple's out of the box features;

- it is very light (~1kg), my backpack can be heavier;

Cons:

- WiFi is super shitty in XPS series. If you have not had any issues yet - then you have not bought one yet. It is better to replace with 30$ adapter to not have issues with differently configured routers;

- It has Windows on it and some features are not supported on Linux. For instance, I see no sense in having fingerprint scanner if it does not work under Linux;

- Be aware that screen scaling might not work on some linux machines. For ubuntu 16.04 I got windows so small so I cannot read the text. Luckily 18.04 fixed it, but still;

Overall, it is the best laptop for Linux I've used so far (Lenovo and Asus are good ones as well), having good hardware and being more or less cheap. I hope Apple will simplify ML and add a bit more RAM to Autumn's laptops, otherwise, there are no reasons to go back.
Your second bullet point, "Only allow certain queries from a document store", seems to be a major, major limitation, and directly contrary to one of the principal design goals of GraphQL.
I use it at the end of my day in a vaporized form so I can inhale less carcinogenic chemicals. It really helps to regulate my mood since I tend to have a really "jumping" mood when I'm tired. I take a dose small enough (currently 0.2g) to feel a little high and being functional for creative activities (music, walk in the woods). This forces me to take time to wrap up and integrate what happened during the day. I found marijuana really helpful to reduce anxiety. I never used weed as a miracle substance but more as a supplement to physical activity and meditation. Weed, despite what people say can trigger mental addictions and sometimes body withdrawals this is why I like to keep a tight control over it.
Oh man. Those discounts sounds like such a headache. It's hard enough considering the asks for one department already...

Environment is definitely the key. We don't use either of those languages but we do run our site on a dozen or so servers. There's a fair bit of coupling that can eventually add up when you run the same apps on the same servers for years
"- Amazing touchpad, no need for a mouse at all"

that's the number one. I have not seen any other laptop where the touchpad is usable.
I can’t help but chuckle that Amazon is turning into an automated central planning authority through ruthless capitalism.
I’m in the same boat; I’m fascinated by my colleagues’ ability to hurl their desktop around with macpad gestures, they’re fascinated by being all-keyboard with a tiling window manager (and occasional use of the nipple-thing when I have to click something).

I disable trackpads, as I only ever use them accidentally.

They both seem like great systems. All I know at this point is that I’m set in my ways :)
Man Who Tried to Forcibly Steal Domain Name Gets 20 Years
Ask HN: Given no network fx and commodity product, what's special about Bird?
> It's a paid extension, but it provides control over every aspect of the Magic Trackpad 2.

No, it doesn't. While it's better than the most basic support provided in Linux, it still doesn't provide support for 3 and 4 finger gestures and the existing scrolling support is fairly weak. Yes, still better than Linux, an OS that hates touchpads apparantely, but not what I'd call good at all. Barely usable yes. Passable for a $120 touchpad. Not at all.
It's decent plus you can use all the Erlang libs. Unlike Go Elixir has very nice package manager hex :)
Rather than say something snarky I would be interested to know what makes you say it is consumer-grade and should not be relied on for serious work. I use mine to run multiple businesses and my bank account suggests I do serious work.
Look at that screen, indeed: it has a 3:2 aspect ratio, which is practically unheard of in recent Windows laptops. It's good to see someone going for something taller than 16:9 (or even 16:10).
You can search for anything you need on Hex: https://hex.pm/
Haha, found the guy thats never tried an Apple trackpad.
It's pure speculation but an active reason to explain their approach seemed more plausible to me too and various of their moves with hardware manufacture could support this (although clearly they have their eye on the iPhone applicability in the first instance)
The front range gets 100mph+ chinook winds, and late spring storms dump feet of heavy snow leading to what we affectionately call "treemageddon", during which town will be filled with the thunder of trees crashing down for hours and hours. It's not an ideal environment for lines on poles.
As someone who has managed large clusters of Erlang applications, I have to say I am 100% convinced that the language you pick, no matter how amazing its design principles, has no bearing on how well the application runs. If you work for a telecom and you're actually trying to meet a nine-nines SLA, you can do it with Erlang. But if you're a start-up throwing together some random distributed app on a small budget, nine-nines probably isn't your goal, and so your application won't be nearly as stable.
http://erlangonxen.org/zerg

Seems to be down at the moment, but here's some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243360
Isn't this just the same as hoverboards last year?
Why isn't it appropriate to "cage" someone for a seriously harmful, non-violent offense?
For added perspective here's another recent review of another engineer who made the switch:

https://www.kartar.net/2018/03/dell-xps-13-aka-2018-is-the-y...
I work for the Scala Center and I'd like to comment on some of the points you make to hopefully explain how I see things from my side. You can expect my opinion to be biased but I'll try to stick to the facts.

> Haskell influence on the language, especially early on, encouraged the omission of dots and parentheses wherever possible.

This is considered an anti-pattern in the Scala community. The last library that used this at large scala was sbt, Scala's build tool, and now everyone discourages the use of infix operators.

> Haskell influence on the community encourages category theory solutions to all problems.

This is simply not true. First, there is no Haskell influence on the language. Scala is a functional programming language, all similarities between the two are just fundamental to how their type systems work and the foundations of the paradigm. Second, I contest heavily that the Community encourages category theory to solve all the problems. There are many subcommunities in Scala and many styles, but if you talked to some Scala developers nobody would agree that category theory should be applied to all code. In fact, most people don't. They just use Scala because it's a better Java that boosts their productivity.

> Scala's rich OO system (classes, interfaces, traits, singletons, case classes, implicits, etc) results in frequent design paralysis, not to mention taking a while to learn.

Absolutely agree that for someone not experienced, it may be difficult to know what's the best way to design libraries (this is more of a problem with libraries than applications). This is a big problem of Scala that I think we're solving by making the language more opinionated and being more open about what's encouraged and discouraged.

If you ask for my opinion, I think we also need to make a better job at communicating all this knowledge that advanced Scala developers learn but that is usually kept to closed circles.
Brains May Teeter Near Their Tipping Point
It can also be used to monitor a baby's respiration
Good on the SEC for clearning this out. Although i think a lot of folks wants to know the status of the numerous other instruments offered via ICOs and also XRP and other currencies.