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You hijack my rather focused and narrow comment and try and broaden it to a much wider set of problems. Not a respectful discussion technique, partner.

Of course we should have the right to repair. And of course many Apple users aren't okay with everything Apple does -- or you thought we were all mindless worshipping drones? No. We buy Apple because it makes the most sense for our needs. That's all there is to it.

But tell me, what choice is there out there if we want alternatives? No, really. Don't give me theoreticals and "if we could only do X...". We have Android and iOS. Nothing else. Sailfish OS is very niche and not everybody likes Sony's 2-3 devices that the OS supports. W10 Mobile is dead. Google and all Android OEMS actively sabotaged any and all open-source efforts -- mostly the ROM community -- mainly by voiding warranties if you touch a single byte in the bootloader. Even the rootless unlocking techniques are attacked on a regular basis. It's a furious battle and the OEMs won.

So don't tell me Android is much better than iOS because it's very obviously not. Historical factual records show that Google is very keen on the walled garden idea as well -- and I hope you are aware of the Google Play Services situation and that "the vanilla Android" (AOSP) gets less and less useful with each release and that more and more functionality is sucked into the proprietary, closed-source, binary blob that's Google Play Services.

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Again, what other choice of mobile ecosystems do we have?

Android's supposed increased freedom is periodically strangled away (normal file system is soon going to be a thing of the past, for example). Looks like a pretty classical bait and switch, don't you think?

Oh, and the ability to side-load apps is only useful for the 0.2% of the populace that are tech-savvy users. For everybody else it's a huge security risk.

I understand you're not OK with what Apple does -- trust me, I hate their guts for some of their policies as well. We really don't have a choice nowadays though. Apple just seems like the lesser evil compared to Google.
I didn't get a tax cut, my bill went up.

This is just anecdotal but I have no regrets about being anecdotal in response to bald hyperbole

> Every. Single. One.

I also object that a number of arts programs that interest me have gotten budget cuts that seem (though the government is large and opaque) to outweigh the money saved by the tax cuts I've seen other people get.

I really don't care about what portion of my out-of-pocket expenses go to the government, I care about the size of my take home - so when taxes go slightly down and cost of living goes up I'm unhappy. And for me, everything went up (and my salary isn't stupid high either)
I’m interested in the answer to this question for a variety of definitions.

One time uber’s UI glitched out causing an unwanted purchase and their customer service refunded me a day later. Could I have just sued them instead of trying to reach customer service?

Could I sue them for something I thought they did with no reasonable proof?

I’m wondering if there are limitations to abuse not for the purpose of extracting wealth from a company but for attacking the arbitration system.
Data point, $250/visit, SF Bay. I had great insurance, so it was between 60-90% covered, though out-of-network so I spent plenty of hours on the phone with insurers trying to get them to do their jobs.
Then you haven't taken into account noise building up in every half inch of a cable that leads from the clamp to the instr-amp. Or do you advocate clamps with built-in ADCs? No objection then, as long as the wires carry digital signal but for the fact that this would cost so much it isn't funny. One might as well stick to off-the-shelf PLC-style rail-mounted IO modules and shunts/transformers then.
not necessarily. e.g. java runtimes can expose debugging ports when needed that operate on a custom protocol.

or you can just build gdb into the container and run the process under gdb, then attach to the tty.

or you can debug from the host system where the container's pid namespace is a descendant of the root namespace and the other namespaces can be accessed via /proc or unshare.
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Isn't the prediction too low? My (unsupported) prediction fitting a smooth curve in the graphic is
https://imgur.com/a/ykeIxPm
> You DID consent to this use of the information in your email when you signed up with Google as your email provider.

No, I (not the original poster) didn't. I signed up with a Gmail account years before any of this existed, and I never would have guessed they would do what the original poster is concerned about. At no point was I informed that this type of stuff would start happening. I figured it out by reading a lot of tech news that the average person does not. As such, I've moved away from Gmail, but there are probably millions of people who aren't OK with it, but don't know it's happening.
It was however not consistent town-town; noon was set locally by moving the arms to the "noon" position when the sun was overhead....something that varied from east to west.
Interesting comments about the suspension. Several models of motorcycles use belt drive and they have both front/rear suspension.

BMW uses them on some of the F models, Buell’s where all belt drive and I think all Harley’s use a belt transmission.
These are all interesting questions. I've been following some of the stuff on Shadertoy, and I think that points the way. Most is 3d, but not all, and in particular there's a lot to be done with distance fields.

I've been thinking about blur (and mentioned some approximation techniques), but it's expensive in any context. Maybe if we think in shaders instead of the blur tool, we'll find a visual palette that is both fresh and efficient.
I know people who have done LSD and said it was one of the most life-changing things they ever did.

My first thought is, holy hell. I'm pretty happy. I don't want to "find out" I have the wrong career/partner/residence/etc. So, I hear ya.
Progressive taxation makes sense, the fact that this tax law did nothing about the cap on the payroll tax should be the ultimate indicator.
My guess is that the benefits of the 30-60 minutes 3-6x a week you spend in the gym far outweigh any of the negatives of elevated CO2 exposure. You know when a gym has poor ventilation which means that's not a gym you want to be at.
I grew up in China and have lived in the U.S. for 10 years. One of the reasons that I moved to the U.S. was because of the fear for censorship. It’s been getting worse since 2005. I don’t think the country is heading towards the right direction and I think it is repeating some of the mistakes it had made before in history.
GraphQL discloses internal beer consumption
Uber having sole choice over the arbiter would go against my explanation being the right one. Biased selection of the arbiter is also a reason why (AIUI) such a contract wouldn't hold up in court.
When unlocked can they access the data?
4:30 You thought the Canadians were polite? The Japanese Mafia provided humanitarian aid nationwide.

and I love that
Also related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N400_(neuroscience)
Yes, I think it makes sense. I even think internship shouldn’t be a student only program.
I think you are correct in why they put the extra effort in, but the criticism is they should be doing this anyway, for all the ads. Not just because the target audience for a specific keyword is more vulnerable to scams.
The Fed, the ECB and Japans central bank managed to "lol nvm" trillions dollar, euro, etc into the economy without impacting inflation at all. If there was such an easy quick fix for inflation then those institutions would come knocking at your door and beg you to help them.
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On every distro in the past, i’d do sudo passwd. Always worked. No idea about Alpine.
I had never considered whether anyone had continued dividing time beyond "first minute" and "second minute", but apparently yes, there have been partes miniutae tertiae too:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second#Trivia

One natural way of adapting this into English would be "terce" (like the religious service), although I guess we could also just call it a "third" -- about 17 milliseconds.

According to some stuff I was reading last week, this is just about the smallest time interval that a human being can learn to notice in many contexts, or just about the smallest timing accuracy with which a person can learn to react to an anticipated event. For example, it's about the timing accuracy needed for a frame-perfect action in a NES speedrun. So there is a human use for such a small time interval!
Moving Day would be nuts.
Valuable to whom? What if they're old trees but not suitable for lumber products, but are perfectly fine shredded up into chips and thrown into furnaces?

Without protection everything's a useful asset to someone.
> I’m particularly interested in the rendering quality.

Shouldn't the rendering be done using oversampling? E.g. instead of 100x100, you render on 400x400, then scale back down to 100x100 to get the best result.

One of the problems is that anti-aliasing creates pixels which are half-on, e.g. at the edge of a line or polygon. Now if multiple edges meet near a certain pixel, then rendering the polygon(s) will touch a "half-on" pixel several times, and as a result it may receive the wrong opacity.
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Sorta, it's also a broken political system. Polls about whether we should increase the stringency of background checks prior to gun ownership are overwhelmingly in favor of increased checks but nothing happens. In this case it's not a populace being tricked into expressing an interest in policy that harms them - it's politicians just outright ignoring the populace.

I agree about the way this is going and, well, I've emigrated, I hope the rest of my family follows.
Seems unfair that someone making 11x what another person makes used to pay 25x as much as them in taxes but now pays 40x instead (i.e. 550k vs 50k)
It's odd that the article, which briefly addressed a few ethical issues, did not address the ethical issues regarding the underlying cause of the problem; namely, women using sperm banks.
Having lived through the entire history of free software (well, Free Software with capital letters, anyway) it always comes back to this: Software freedom is fundamentally valuable only for developers, because only developers can use the freedom it gives. (That's pretty much the definition of "developer"—someone who can modify software.) Users get value only as a side effect of this developer freedom, because a developer builds a product for them.

Free Software originated in the hacker community—which is a community of developers developing for developers. It's always struggled to extend those values in a way compatible with the rest of the world. Notice that developer tools like GCC or Linux are the big success stories of Free Software, whereas end-user tools like OpenOffice or GIMP have always been kind of…meh.
> its traditional geometry pipeline isn't suited well for curves or analytic coverage-based AA

I actually don't agree with this: Pathfinder shows that analytic AA works quite well with the GPU rasterizer. You simply use a floating-point render target with additive blending to sum signed areas. In fact, as long as you convert to tiles first, which both piet-metal and Pathfinder do, vector rendering is actually a task very well suited for the GPU.

The hard part is that filling a path is a fundamentally sequential operation, since whether a pixel is on or off depends on every other path that intersects the scanline that pixel is on. This means that you either need an expensive sequential pass somewhere, or you lose work efficiency. Both piet-metal and Pathfinder try to strike a balance by doing some parts sequentially and sacrifice some work efficiency, using tiling to keep the efficiency loss bounded. This approach turns out to work well.
Another Bat-Winged Dinosaur Has Been Found
Wonder how many free software would be in china inside e-great wall?

What wonder what we use if majority of computer is intel based and they have a parallel computer controlled your cpu?

Strangely arm is sort of open what can you pay to develop your own total open env and ...

Any further, wonder what is open source movement is all about if not asking for a mixed environment ? It is the dying middle that might be the problem or is there no problem. Wonder.
I only met techies who cared about continuing to use a phone if they could only boot from their SD card. Regular people don't know about the option.

So consider that this niche feature you find useful is of almost no consequence to anybody.

Additionally, iPhones and Samsung devices have really durable internal storage. Almost always the battery craps out first.
My son tried to play Minecraft when he was 4, but he couldn't read yet so we gave him Blockcraft and later Roblox, both of which he can use without needing to read. That's because the interface is usable if you just click the defaults all the time, and he can clearly tell the difference between a blue button with text and a grey button with text.

Although funnily enough, his desire to play Minecraft motivated him to learn to read.

So it might be due to kids being exposed to and wanting to play these games earlier, which has perhaps caught Minecraft off guard resulting in a new generation that plays fast-following Minecraft clones instead of actual Minecraft.
It says nothing about whether it's optimal or not. You can't easily evaluate how good a UI is for expert users until you're an expert yourself, and once you've made that effort, will you really want to abandon all that hard-won skill to learn another system? I think many people use sub-optimal UIs because the short-term cost of learning a different one, which might not even be better, is too high.
It is true that is more correct (see https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder/issues/142). But my motivation is much more user interface than document rendering, so it's quite reasonable to tell the UI designers, "don't do that," especially if the flip side is butter-smooth performance.
Many proprietary programs also get used because they are good enough. Not everyone wants to do a simple thing using some UI that has grown into a Boeing 747 cockpit.

Some Windows users use neither GIMP nor Photoshop to crop an image, but rather MS Paint, which is comes with the OS, so it is "no additional cost", and requires next to no training to use.

MS Paint has vastly diminished functionality compared to either GIMP or Photoshop.
How do you know this article is not by Uber to mislead potential investors into thinking they can reduce expenses at will by cutting driver pay?

The examples in it are very selective.
> My point about autonomous driving software increasing highway capacity granting us "free" infrastructure is not to say the underlying infrastructure is free (hence the quotes). But when existing infrastructure becomes 3x more efficient due to private market software development, you have effectively tripled the value of your infrastructure for free.

The alternate way of looking at is that you will be paying 3x more in maintenance and space usage then you need to. By not planning ahead for this "certainty" you have tripled the amount you need to spend on transportation infrastructure in the future.

In the intervening 30 years, you will have had to deal with spiking demand from how self-driving cars reduce the cost of car trips. To prevent having to build a bunch of infrastructure that will eventually become unneeded, mass transit is critical to avoid wasting money and space.

We need to ween ourselves off of needing all of this road capacity with usage and congestion based surge pricing. As self driving cars begin to increase usage efficiency, we can slowly lower the usage fees charged to self driving car to further incentivize the transition to self driving cars.

> An inner-city bus ride costs $2.00 and doesn't get me door to door. The cost of getting to the bus and getting from the bus stop to my actual destination pushes that, even at minimum wage, probably closer to $5+. How can a bus compete with that?

By charging a usage fee to push riders to more space and energy efficient forms of transit.

There are also other improvements that can be made to improve last-mile transit options. My skateboard does a very good job of this and I expect to see more scooters.

I also think that autonomous vehicles have a large role to play in helping with these last-mile trips in less dense areas where the "last-mile" may be several miles or more and space is at less of a premium.

> the real-world usage (market-share) of buses and light rail is so negligible as to be almost entirely irrelevant.

The good thing is that this give us a lot of space to compensate for the increased demand for transit that self-driving cars will bring.
This reminds me of a classic blog post:

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.html

All of those old Unix programs aren't fast by being simple and clean on the inside. Old age and treachery...
> No need to pick one or the other. There's plenty of hegemony from both to go around

Indeed, there really is.

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...

[couldn't copy and paste an excerpt because it's far too long]
They showed an app like this running on a phone in laggy but real time at I/O yesterday
I'm not sure redesigning this would help because it's just a mechanism to define an ACL. Yes, it's hard to implement correctly and maintain, but that's because of the wild number of external dependencies developers toss into modern webpages. Start with basic HTML and your header just looks like this: Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'
What an interesting rabbit hole. Thanks for sharing your notes too!

Re: > "As a digression, I find it amusing that the word for packing a data structure into a byte buffer is “serialization” even when it’s designed to be accessed in parallel. Maybe we should come up with a better term, as “parallel-friendly serialization” is an oxymoron."

NeXTStep/Cocoa calls this simply "encoding" which always made sense to me.
If you shop around, there are some really affordable options.

IKEA has a whole range of raw solid pine furniture (without stain) that is incredibly cheap. E.g. an Ingo dining table costs ~$50. Last time I checked, it was manufactured in Poland, and it's pretty awesome quality for the price.
I've tried a lot of electric boards and I will say the boosted board is a better board than all the rest. If they spent more developing it and sell it for more, who cares.

They got the controller design and the acceleration and deceleration curves right. You can accelerate with your thumb and the motion or grip of your hand doesn't affect your acceleration. The acceleration and deceleration are gradual and dampened, so you won't pitch yourself off the board when you accelerate or slow. You have brakes. You can even slow, stop and then go backwards. It's a safer board.

And anyway, the price is coming down.

(ok, off my soapbox)
Thanks for that info and the links! I'm curious: Did you know about this report prior to researching this particular paper's claim?
Is this really what hacker news has become ... ?
I ran into this issue yesterday, which made me go back to check my account (who read their ToS?)

I was selling a small item online, and a few people were inquiring about it. I said the first person I get payment from gets the item, I would not “hold” the item if another buyer wanted it.

Person X sent me a payment, and an hour later so did person Y. I had to refund person Y so I lost what looks like 30 cents.
Also nytimes has done several articles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-m...
That is the perfect drinking game!
Savings rates in China are astronomical in comparison. RIP
... Then everybody clapped.
But UI designers are not always in complete control, e.g. if screen resolutions are different for different users.
Looking for a Part-Time (20Hours/week) + Remote job in AI/NLP.

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Minetest is an open source, C++ clone: https://www.minetest.net/#features

Quite fast.

https://wiki.minetest.net/Differences_from_Minecraft
Citations please.

This is contrary to the figures I've seen surrounding an expanding portion of the populace below the poverty line and increased income inequality.
Maybe this article is part of the long game for open seating...
> Free Software enthusiasts can't advocate against copyright

You're right that we can't advocate for just eliminating copyright, without shooting ourselves in the foot. However, eliminating copyright, combined with, say, an obligation of software companies to disclose the source code of their "products" to their customers, or, less intrusively, with making the type of NDAs you describe illegal, would work.
A difference is that Microsoft (currently) can't render your install base useless. If Microsoft drops Windows (or core Windows APIs) your existing users can stil use your software. With Google or Twitter shutting down "cloud"/web APIs all is gone.
Ask HN: Is there a better way of building static sites than a SSG+CMS+Netlify?
The most popular current workflow for building content-heavy static sites is having a static site generator + headless content management system + deployment automation. This seems very complicated and not efficient. Is there a better workflow for creating static sites?
Interesting, wonder what their use case was?
Show HN: Open sourcing my email sending startup
Hi all,

I've posted a few times here about Maildown, a startup that I've been trying to validate lately.

Due to lack of time to focus on this, I've taken the decision to abandon the project as a startup, but to make it available as an open source solution instead. The (still very basic) github repository is here:

https://github.com/chris104957/maildown

Maildown now exists as a simple CLI wrapper for Amazon SES which bakes in Markdown and styling support, making it much easier to get transactional mails up and running in any project

Thanks for looking,

Chris
After this administration I hope we get to see some really interesting psychological studies on the sunk cost fallacy as applied to a political demagogue.
As far as I know, you basically get to choose two of antialiasing quality, correctness, and performance. The viable antialiasing options for vectors are:

1. Supersampling/multisampling. This is what you suggested. This provides correctness with coincident edges, but 256xAA (what analytic AA gives you) is far too slow and memory intensive to be practical if you supersample. In general practical implementations of MSAA/SSAA are limited to 16xAA or so, which is a noticeable drop in quality and in fact is still pretty slow relative to a high-quality implementation of analytic AA.

2. Analytic antialiasing. This has problems with coincident edges, but in most cases the effects are minimal. The performance and quality are excellent if implemented properly.

I generally think that analytic AA is the right tradeoff for most applications. Subtle rendering problems on coincident edges are usually a small price to pay for the excellent results, and designers can work around those issues when they come up. A 100% theoretically correct rasterizer can't exist anyway, because of floating point/fixed point precision issues among other reasons.
A quick Google search for cheap/free Photoshop alternatives will usually get people to GIMP in a couple of clicks. Why are you saying that Photoshop users are unaware of any alternatives? It seems logical to me that anyone in the market for this kind of software would be interested in saving some money before shelling out for PS. Am I wrong?