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I feel like big tech has realized that it is not a war worth fighting.

All of the investment here is upfront. Ie. Laying down infrastructure and these cable companies hold greater political influence on the current government, one place where IT companies are particularly weak.

It just doesn't make sense. There are easier and higher ROI problems that they would rather solve.
I know the basis for Mr Assange's support is 1st Amendment protections of a journalist. Does someone engaged in subtrafuge such as this pervert journalism?
I think that the most plausible way that Category Theory is going to improve your life as an engineer is that it will sneak into the way your tools are designed.

You don't personally need to know about the Yoneda lemma to benefit from a better designed programming language whose type system was informed by algebras of types, allowing it to leverage exhaustive pattern matching.

With that said, learning about techniques used in functional programming that have their origin in category theory (maps, folds, algebraic data types, monads, monoids, etc) can allow you to think about how to solve problems (even in non-functional languages) in ways that can be more "natural" to the problem, in that the abstractions used resemble the problem description more closely. That ability to decompose difficult problems in new ways can definitely make you a better engineer.
Neither of the ISPs that I worked for had legal barriers that I noticed (especially in Rwanda), the barriers that I did notice were physical capital, as you mention.

You do raise a good point about "viable business", what I was trying to communicate was "a business where both the business and the customer benefit", and as you pointed out, that's not what "viable business" means.

I can only speak from my experience here, and my experience was that the financial constraints on both of the ISPs I worked for were such that many, many compromises had to be made. For example, the ISP in California used consumer-grade hardware, so the ARP tables would fill up after about 48 hours, so we wrote scripts to reboot the routers every 24 hours - this killed all active TCP/IP sessions and stopped service for about a minute. The ISP in Rwanda only had a ~3mbps satellite link, so we set up a transparent proxy to ignore HTTP headers and aggressively cache data to increase the apparent throughput.

These kind of compromises stand in contrast to similar work I did for a community college, where we didn't have to make compromises like that.
Or maybe they didn't want to support both Bluetooth and USB data communication. Or create user confusion if it didn't act as a USB mouse when plugged in?
Falls from far less than that height can kill. If it is safe to be at 10 feet without that equipment, then it is safe to be at 1000 feet without that equipment. IMHO, the cutoff is just what the construction industry was willing to tolerate. The whole thing is a lobbyist battle between the construction industry and the safety equipment industry.
Those are good examples actually. Basically, if someone really latches on to a "just be yourself and don't think about it" philosophy, they're cutting off their only source of feedback that could help them grow and mature socially.

It's a good approach for someone who's already developed those social skills and wastes a lot of time second guessing themselves, but it's a terrible approach for someone who's really immature or unpolished. It gives them carte blanche to dismiss all conflicts and disagreements as being someone else's fault.

I've known too many people who will formulate vast and complicated worldviews to explain away all their personal troubles, before they'll ever consider looking in the mirror and admitting that they might be able to improve some things about themselves. Example: incels and redpillers. They will change their view of the entire world before they consider changing their view of themselves. Someone who habitually blames everything on other people is unlikely to ever perceive their own faults, and may even embrace them rather than grow out of them.
I already am.
I wonder is there some wavelength that is not regulated that can 'override' legislation? Or another type of transmission. Mesh networks come to mind but I'm thinking better.
Yeah they run a fork of varnish 2 with inline C disabled, and a number of custom extensions (surrogate keys, tables/dictionaries, etc.) -- as well as likely customizations to support their massively multi-tenant deployment and more

Add in the necessity of porting vcl for all of their customers, and the prospect of upgrading varnish is obviously pretty daunting.

I suspect they'd rather focus on their new webassembly-based configuration solution, rather than try to keep up with changes in VCL
You heard about when FBI tips various national EU police and together they go and arrest the hacker on EU territory, right?

One example:

> Five individuals have been arrested as part of an investigation into two major ransomware families - CTB-Locker and Cerber - that spread across Europe and the U.S. in recent years. All suspects were arrested in Romania, Europol announced Wednesday, as six properties were searched as part of a major global police operation involving the FBI and the UK National Crime Agency, as well as Romanian and Dutch investigators.
I would take this article with a big grain of salt. It uses "26 states" as a headline figure, but seems to categorize any sort of regulation on the process by which municipal entities deploy broadband as an improper "restriction." For example, look at California:
> California state laws do not prohibit municipalities from offering broadband service, but up until to 2018 they did prevent “community service districts” (CSDs) from offering broadband unless there was no private company willing to offer service in the area. CSDs are independent local governments formed by residents of rural and unincorporated areas. CSDs were also forced to lease or sell their broadband infrastructure to any private telecom company that enters the market.

> In 2018, lawmakers passed legislation that removed state restrictions on limiting publicly-owned broadband networks for CSD residents. The new law enables CSDs to create enhanced infrastructure financing districts (EIFDs), which can be used to pay for public broadband infrastructure. The new law also removed the requirement to determine whether a private company would be willing to offer service, and ensures CSDs do not have to lease or sell public broadband infrastructure to private telecom companies that enter into the market.

So prior to 2018, you could build municipal broadband, but you couldn't set up a special taxing district for it, and then they got rid of that restriction in 2018. Should California count in the "26 States?"

The description of some of the other states' restrictions seem copy-and-pasted and do not match the underlying regulations. Look at Wisconsin. The article says that Wisconsin requires municipal broadband providers to include "phantom costs" in their accounting, and prohibits charging less than what incumbents charge.

If you look at the cited section, https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/66/IV/042..., the only requirement seems to be that municipalities must hold a public hearing, must perform a cost-benefit analysis, and reimburse the municipal treasury for the preparation of that analysis from from service revenues. And even that requirement is subject to numerous exceptions. For example, a municipality can construct municipal broadband without even a hearing or a cost-benefit analysis where (1) the municipality offers wholesale infrastructure to companies that directly offer service to end users, and (2) there is not two or more competitors in the municipality already.

That's an extremely reasonable set of requirements for municipal broadband, and in fact 66.0422(3m) basically lays out the "municipality builds the pipes, other companies offer service" model that folks on HN love so much. But this article deems that a "bureaucratic barrier to municipal broadband."

The problem with this sort of reporting is that it’s based on an extremely pro-government/anti-private-sector viewpoint. It doesn’t evaluate the rules on their merits, but assumes that every rule that restricts the municipal government and benefits the private sector must be bad, even if it’s otherwise a good idea. We know that’s not true.
https://letterfromyou.com/ Letter from You is a service that allows business owners to connect with their clients through beautifully handwritten letters. It's my first side project and currently talking to some larger recurring companies.
Congratulations on launching.

Yes some people could code this themselves, but others will be willing to pay for a provided service.

Just a heads up - the language in your FAQ section for the "Why is ApiChecker monitoring your website" question and answer is a little off. You might want to revise this
> That's why the state and federal governments maintain a system of talented-if-overworked public defenders.

...whose advice is usually "take the deal," because they're incredibly overworked and would rather get things over with, and they've long been jaded by the system.

It smells a lot like the prosecutors did what they always do with trial penalties - dump a deluge of charges and say "look, we'll throw all of the rest of them away except one or two if you take the plea deal." Fighting the charges in these situations often requires a reckless disregard for money and time, even in the case when you're completely innocent, neither of which can be recouped even upon acquittal.

This is such a common tactic that even John Oliver had to call out the bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_b78GSBUs
The plus operator is traditionally expected to be symmetrical, i.e. a + b == b + a. The division operator, on the other hand, is not: a / b != b / a. The fact that a slash is used as a separator in paths is only a welcome coincidence.
I've heard of it and looked at it a bit, but haven't had a chance to use it yet!
Lost your CMS-DH admin credentials? You don't need them anyway
How to Set the Default Browser on iOS
Depending on how you define SaaS: I started Tarsnap in 2006 (launched in 2008) and it was a profitable one-person company for many years. (Now it's a profitable two-person company.)

Mind you, it isn't a side project -- this has been my full time job for a dozen years. Starting a successful SaaS company as a side project is much harder.
The reason the advice "be yourself" exists, and also why older people tend to be the ones expressing it, is that the danger in not being yourself is that you may wake up one day in a career or surrounded by people that do not accept you for who you are. And you end up trapped in a life where you have to pretend to be something you're not. The idea is that the younger you start being honest about yourself to others, the sooner you will wind up away from people that do not like your true self, and closer to people that appreciate you for that true self.

This advice can backfire if your natural state can get you in trouble and cause damage to your life. A perfect example of people not being themselves for their benefit is mental health services for people with minor issues. While a person's natural state may be to be very emotional, current society frowns upon most emotions beyond happiness, so it may be more beneficial for that person to take a drug to make them more in line with other's emotional level.
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And their biggest enterprise customers are paying fastly at least 6 figures annually
Honest question, why use parser combinators?

If I need to do it by hand I can write a recursive descent parser, but I never do it by hand any more, just break out lex/yacc or antlr.

So, what have I or anyone to gain by learning/using PCs? (I'm never against learning new stuff but I have so much to learn that adding something unnecessary to that would be just dumb).

TIA
Weird. I'd guess Brew because MRI Ruby tends to have pretty good boot times.
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Writing, Selling Banking Malware
Would you agree to build walls/borders as well?
It's also very important to completely understand the implications of "be yourself". Which is often impossible. All of this is canon fodder for the narcissistic individualism which can easily make you into a curmudgeon that no one wants to be around... which will make you socially isolated and ill.
The 6502 accesses memory on every cycle, predictably, so you can have memory that's clocked at the same rate and you're getting 100% utilization. Compare to Z80 and 68000, for example, which access memory only intermittently, and not reliably at any N-cycle boundary. There's a couple of bits about this in this interview with Sophie Wilson, one of the ARM designers: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10274619... (a good read)

I'm sure I read somewhere that the 6502's low interrupt latency was also an influence (the 8-bit Acorn stuff was IRQ-heavy, no DMA), but clearly it wasn't in the above PDF, so I've no idea where this came from :( - but this might not be 6502 influence necessarily, as the Z80's IRQ latency looks OK, maybe just a desire not to fuck it up like the 68000.

ARM SBC is like 6502 SBC, just an ADD with inverted input... so... maybe that counts?!

The 6502 influence is indeed not all that visible in the programming model or instruction set, but I don't think this is a bad thing.
How do we know they were being themselves?

Maybe Hitler's true self was being a painter, maybe the horrors of the trenches or Germanys humiliation pushed him to it? Maybe it was the rejection of not being able to sell any paintings.
I think the perceived quality of older TPs is higher, but the objective quality is not so.
This theoretical situation is precisely the one Android is in. The only difference is that Google is the only corporate stakeholder, so as they lose interest in various open-source Android components, those components simply die. Maybe the answer is to get more corporations invested in AOSP.
Yeah, I'm working on fixing it right now. The Google maps API pricing change means I have to redo most of it.
Well, a couple years back an internal PPT and videos from "the church" was leaked that documented how the church considered a legislator from a state in the northwest "in their pocket".

The legislator wasn't even coerced - he would just regularly report back to church leaders and ask for guidance on which way he should lean on specific issues.

If the church has that kind of direct influence out of state, it stands to reason they at least have a similar level in Utah where most of the legislature and politicians are Mormon.
The piece is really talking mostly about socializing or interacting with others. In middle school everyone goes through the phase where they are complaining about everyone else "not being themselves." It's at that age that you should learn the lesson that interacting with different groups of people requires tact, empathy and all the other things that make living alongside each other possible. It seems that some people, usually people with a lot of social capital, just take a bit longer to learn that.
The real tragedy is that even after having a new generation born and grown up entirely digitally and connected, we still can’t rethink copyright into something which actually makes sense based on the world we now live in.
Their RSUs vest immediately on a monthly instead of the standard 1 year cliff. I had an offer from December with a pretty generous share package that would have been very lucrative right now had I joined.
To be fair, Apple's industrial design team seem no more likely to come up with a remotely adequate sinuous strain relief channel than to put a telescopic antenna or physical keypad on the iPhone. The MacBook Air and iPhone are literally the only consumer electronics gadgets whose cables I've needed to replace due to fraying at the join, and that's with adapters released after Apple lost class action lawsuits over strain relief issues with the previous generation Macbooks.
This largely relies on the idea that pre-civilized life was preferable. And, for some groups, it was. All the women enjoying close to 0 sexual freedom and dying in child birth might disagree, though.
Most of them are actually Republican-controlled state legislatures, or were Republican-controlled when the measure passed, even if they frequently vote blue in presidential elections.
Well done. M.U.L.E. is absolutely one of the finest games of the 8-bit era, and the Atari version is superior to the C64 version. If I could spare the cash, I'd buy an old Atari and four joysticks just to have a M.U.L.E. machine.

(Luckily, MAME runs Atari M.U.L.E. beautifully under Linux.)
While beautiful, most of these pieces are primarily ceremonial or intended for generals who would rarely involve themselves on the battlefield†.

Almost all of these pieces date from after the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate (c. 1600). From 1600 to 1850 Japan experienced a stable period marked by very little real armed conflict. During this time, the samurai transitioned from soldiers to what were effectively mid-level bureaucrats. However, unlike most bureaucrats, they managed to retain all of the trappings of a martial lifestyle, including ornate armor, beautiful swords, and the occasional mortal duel. It was during this time of relative peace that these (sometimes ridiculous) fashion pieces developed, somewhat complicated by the tradition of incorporating pieces of much, much older helmets into the "core" of the helmets (one of the helmets in the OP has a core dating from the 14th century, but was significantly embellished later on).

†This is generally true of what arms and armor have survived from around the world. The stuff that was actually used rusted away long ago; the highest chance for survival was to have been so valuable that no one dared to actually take it onto a battlefield.
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What if everyone is an arsehole, and the only variation is the degree that they let that show?
A lot of bootloading / unlocking has been figured out by reverse engineering closed systems. It turns out Google is one of the few ones providing easy tools to do this on nexus / pixel phones, even though they didn't have to.

They still provide the binary drivers/firmware from upstream because there's no replacement for those.
It’s a building. Should we not help starving kids around the globe. A billion raised in such a short time for a building. We are disgusting.
>The "left behind" (say the surplus of men in Vietnam, far greater than in China, in any case) are obviously unhappy about the situation and blaming "China" or "America" is an easy scapegoat, but the issues are less foreign and more domestic and economic.

Regardless of the root cause, these tensions can give rise to issues that can push countries to war, or to the current day equivalent in this era of MAD.
Android EOL was after I tried it for the third and last time a few years ago. It is just crap.
FBMemoryProfiler: iOS tool that helps with profiling iOS Memory usage
Time to Say Goodbye
> Yes, he merely gave us the greatest operating system of human history

While I like Linux, that may be overstating the case
I run VoIP Spear (voipspear.com) by myself. We're doing about $5k/month.

VoIP Spear is a service for people who use VoIP. It monitors your Internet connection and alerts when you have a call quality issue.
suffice it to say: a bunch of AWS features were essentially developed for the benefit of netflix. So, while it entails some risk, ultimately, yes: it's not uncommon for a handful of customers to be the 900 lb gorillas
Curious too. I may be bias, but I genuinely like Cloudflare and all there products, because they simply work and work good.
(USA) Conservatives used to proclaim "one person, one vote".
Plea bargained. That's how its done in the USA folks. At least in over 90% of cases. The concept of having a fair trial and your day in court is a thing of the past. Amazing it took so long.
Then you're back to the question of what it means to be authentic or have true values, a question that's very similar to the question of what it means to be "yourself", and while there's usually implied guides regarding extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, it's not really clear to me that there's an absolute dividing line there, or that it's even easy to sort out decidedly intrinsic/internal values into authentic or not authentic.

I both want to play video games for hours and focus on applications of Richards Curves. I want to exercise and not exercise. I want to meet people and take care of social relationships, and have lots of time to myself. Which desires are more authentic? If one desire transcends a mere want and becomes a value, how would we distinguish that? And then, how would we distill that into meaningful advice?

Probably not effectively with the words "be yourself."
That sounds very similar to the throroughly debunked "critical positivity ratio" by Losada. The paper by Brown, Sokal, Friedman criticizing it is a great and very accessible read btw:

www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/BrownSokalFriedmanAPonlinefirst.pdf
We've only had 21 years where we haven't been at war.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-...
What are those implications from your perspective?
Fuchsia is just a kernel, if Google reimplements the Android stack on top of it as a replacement for Linux, the only apps that would be impacted would be those few that use NDK native code.
Dark matter objects interact with regular matter only via gravity. But the article seems to suggest that it might interact with itself by some other force, which may allow for "collision":

"Dark matter seems to interact with normal matter only through gravity, but, based on the way known particles interact, theorists think it’s possible that dark matter might also interact with itself. "
I truly liked webOS and even Windows Phone. I wish there was something new.
Yes, I think even building a completely self-sufficient city in a desert on Earth, with the ability to build its own equipment including computers may be beyond us at this point. Obviously it would be a lot easier than doing it on the Moon or Mars, but too much of the technology that would be needed is locked up in trade secrets.

There's plenty of 3D space available at the surface of the Earth; it's not exploited either because it's not profitable or because government rules prevent it. Who wants to live in a desert in the middle of nowhere? But they want to live on Mars? It would get old fast, especially with such a laggy Internet connection.
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If you actually read the laws cited by the article, many are completely reasonable: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/66/IV/042.... Wisconsin, for example, requires a public hearing and cost-benefit analysis before building municipal broadband, and even that requirement can be waived if the municipality only offers wholesale service and there's not already 2 or more competitors.

Broadband projects are big infrastructure projects. Municipalities are state organs, and at the end of the day, the state is on the hook if the municipality gets in over its head. (The states are also up to their eyeballs in debt and many have no hope of paying it off.) There is a real risk that municipalities will build a system and realize that they can't maintain and upgrade it in the long term.

Look at it from a different perspective. In 24 states, including some of the largest ones, there are no restrictions on municipal broad. Nothing is stopping, for example, Baltimore, from building a municipal broadband network. (And indeed, there are quite a few in rural Maryland). Why don't they do it? Because it's not easy, and it's not cheap.