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One of the biggest problems is the lower-level chip vendors, who often require NDAs and won't allow their code to be shared publicly. The device maker has to comply with this or find another chip, which may not be available in sufficient quantities or at a realistic price point. The chip vendors don't necessarily go out of business, even if the device maker does.

Considering the global impact on security, this is an area that would make sense for regulation. At some point, the chip vendors should have to release their code to maintainers. I'd even be fine with limiting this to after the chip goes EOL! Perhaps it could come with guarantees reducing patent infringement risks, which may be where much of the vendor reluctance comes from.
Hey! You are right, I'll be adding that. Thanks!
Not sure about non-US law. In the US, you would need to register as a federal money service business (MSB), as well as in all 50 states (it costs about $150k in state level fees to do so). In addition to this, it is (from my research) incredibly difficult to find a bank that is willing to touch you with a 10ft pole. When they are, they usually charge high account maintenance fees (one bank told me 10k / month) due to the increased record keeping they need to do.

I agree that there is a massive need in this area. It is total non-sense that every online transaction costs 30 cents + 2.9%. I think it is very much a reason why the whole internet is still ad and tracking supported. It is not possible to bill people near the true cost of computation on an incremental basis.

It very quickly turns into a money launderer's dream. So I understand the regulations, however, they are incredibly burdensome and feel anti-competitive (re: banks). The best thing to build it off of is ACH, so if you go this route you're looking for the cheapest ACH provider you can find. It does make sense though, one ACH charge on the deposit and one on the withdrawal, which enable a lot of (free) transactions in between. It could save a lot in the fixed costs (the 30 cents part).

I'm talking to a lawyer next week about some exemptions to see if a C2B play makes sense in this space. P2P is hard (in terms of regulations) and you're probably best served by cryptocurrency. That too may fall under MSB laws, so it is best to talk to a lawyer.
> This is crazy talk.

Quite succinct and accurate. I have to admit, reading my own words, I do sound like a crank.

So, let me give a more nuanced view. I think the probability of an all-out nuclear exchange is still quite reduced, but if the capability gap between Russia and the US extends considerably, this probability will increase from the current infinitesimal level to a non-negligible one. Other events that were once considered unthinkable (DJT, Brexit) have come to pass, so never say never.

With that said, how can we get to such an extreme event as a nuclear exchange? I think that whenever there is a military crisis in the world (Iran threatening to resume uranium enrichment ?) the POTUS asks his advisors for options. The spectrum of options ranges from PR spin machine, to diplomatic pressure, to military operations. All options will have listed their pros and cons, their best, base and worst outcomes. They will be judged in isolation and weighed against each other. After this careful comparative cost-benefit analysis, the POTUS makes the decision.

Now all things being equal, if the military gap between the US and the opponent is larger, the armed response options will comparatively have a better cost-benefit ratio. The more impenetrable the ABM defense becomes, the more the military option will look like the better deal.

Now the vicious cycle is that, as the military option is chosen more often (how long did it take DJT to send an aircraft carrier towards Iran?), the more tensions will appear, and the more crisis situations will emerge. Some of them will be de-escalated, but some will escalate to various levels. Sometimes cool heads will prevail, but sometimes the grown-ups will have left the room already. One day Russia might do something that would trigger Nato's article 5 [1], and the US will have to respond. You could say that we've been in many situations like that in the 60's, 70's and 80's, but the military gap between the US and the Soviet Union was never close to what it's now, and what will become in the coming decades.

Ok, ok, but nuclear, you say? Well, the US has dropped about 100 bombs in Nevada, just 60 miles from Las Vegas, and it was no big deal. A few (hundred) small-ish nukes going boom in the middle of Siberia will result in some condemnations from some pacifist organizations, but as long as there is some reasonable casus belli and minimal civilian collateral damage, people will move on quite soon.

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/explainer-nato-articles-4-and-5/2462...
lol, I don't disagree in this case, but that makes ZERO sense in general
For Starship, there's absolutely no way a human could fly it anyway. Even if it weren't fly-by-wire, a human could not control the drag fins and the engines precisely enough to land safely. Even on Crew Dragon, which will (hopefully) fly in the near future with crew onboard, there isn't a hardware joystick. If the vehicle fails to the point where the computers aren't working, your only option is to deorbit. These spacecraft weren't intended to be flown manually.
Revision of history, wrong, and insultingly so. This post is a rewrite of serious graphics history. Read Foley Dan Vam, forget this tripe.
And even truly failing there would be irrelevant. Spruce Goose flew once, yet Hughes isn't a failure. Goddard developed his engines alone and didn't get too far - after initial successes, but he's not a failure at all. You just have to push enough to get high grades - possibly even once, after which you have that "mark". Not too many know what Max Plank did beside quantum hypotheses, but his name is on scientific centers.
I like the essay but it fails to realize the goal posts are not fixed on the field. General purpose computing is alive and well and cheaper than ever, you can build the equivalent of a PC/AT for about $50 in parts.

What Cory misses is that when we were building CP/M machines and IBM PC clones, there already was a big pile of computers that were locked down so that somebody else could make money off of you using them. I went to school at a time when you were allocated a fixed number of kilocoreseconds (kilowords of core you could occupy on the big computer charged on a per second rate) and I had my kit Z80 system and felt very superior.

Computers got more powerful and now the one that was sold to you has the more than the capabilities than the one where it was already proven you could extract value for using it, so people continue to extract that value. And when their extraction is sidestepped, they work with computer makers and software makers to regain the upper hand. The goal posts moved.

What has also happened is that the backbone of what used to be the "personal computer" market was people who were more fascinated with the computers themselves than with the software they might run on them. The manufacturers worked to appeal to the tool users, the architects, engineers, and others who understood the value of computation for their job and so they were willing to invest for the right tools. There are a lot more of those people then nerds who like computers. The goal posts moved.

Today's "computer" market is not really about computers, its about a platform for consuming digital products. Whether it is entertainment, or navigation, or gaming. That you could run a compiler on that thing and make new programs that it could run is nearly incidental (and certainly insignificant) to the market who buys it. The goal posts moved.

We have reached the point where general purpose computers are these $35 and $50 things for people interested in computers and for no one else. Even when people try to push them that way.

I don't believe there is an assault on general purpose computers, what is happening is that thing you called a computer before is what back in the day we called a TV and a telephone and a radio and a record player, except all in one package that runs all day in your pocket. It has a computer in it but it isn't a computer in the original sense of general purpose computing. There are lots of general purpose computers, and there are now FPGAs that are easily loaded with general purpose computation. You just can't run gcc on your TV.
Every piece of advice listed is great but it's twisted to sound ridiculous. Believe it or not, you can do a lot of things yourself.

- Buying raw food from a grocery store and cooking it yourself can save a lot of money

- You can jog outside or do push-ups and many other exercises at home for free

First make sure you're doing all that you can to support yourself in the future before you blame "the capitalist overloads"
What features in SQL Server Enterprise do you need? More than 24 cores? More than 128GB of RAM?

I ask because SQL Server Standard is significantly cheaper when you're using CALs instead of unlimited connections. Ten servers fronting a SQL Server Standard install is $3K, which at a large enterprise is often within a director-level's discretionary equipment budget.
You do need to sign in to Firefox sync on each version if you install both as 2 unique applications on Android don't share each other's data.

On desktop front there is no problem connecting current and nightly to the same sync account and indeed same profile directly.

The sole annoying thing about nightly is that it naturally updates frequently. It's quite stable and gets legitimately useful features faster and let's you disable signing and run locally built add-ons. I use it as my primary browser on Android and Linux.
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Was Jobs really, though? I thought he was a nearly completely absent father?
Regulation, in particular rules on sourcing along with uncertainty of permit timelines, are a driver for labor expenses: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/San_Francisco_Cons...

Intuitively, how is it that Seattle can afford to build high rises while San Francisco cannot even though the selling and rental prices of a high rise is meaningfully greater than that of Seattle? Shouldn't all that Seattle capital just move to developing in San Francisco instead?
And Paypal!
ITT: "she has ugly knees, would not hit it"
Hi! I think you may have repeated what I said in my comment, that the letter "a" stands for different things. Although they do the same thing: they are both atomic (in the sense of concurrency) and automatic (in the sense that you do not have to explicitly retain or release objects).
Careful, you’re bringing facts to an opinion fight.

The parent is wrong, and is cherry-picking data. Seattle rents may have gone down “recently”, but they’ve been amongst the fastest-rising rents in the US until about a year ago. They’re far higher than they were a few years ago, let alone a decade ago.

Also, saying that prices are lower than San Francisco is utterly meaningless. San Francisco is a different economy. It was more expensive than Seattle twenty years ago, and it’s more expensive now. You can’t make the comparison without controlling a bunch of variables.
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Yeah I agree- firmware as a service doesn't exactly capture what Project Mu is trying to do. But the point is, firmware should be easy to update as any service rather than some huge monolithic codebase that was forked the master (TianoCore) and then hammered on until the platform booted.

In a perfect world a product would ship with perfect bug free and secure firmware and it would never need updates. And ideally, manufactures would allow for users to more easily install their own UEFI/firmware onto their device but that brings in some added challenges of security.

Since developers make mistakes, updates are currently the best solution we have. Making those updates more affordable to service, making the changes transparent to the end-users via OSS, and making it easier to apply those updates are all things Project Mu is trying to accomplish.
> Even if the answer to these questions is "no", the fact that I'm asking them is the barrier to entry.

Fair enough. The answers, for the record, are indeed "yes" (but that takes, what, 30 seconds?), "no", and (at least not severely) "no".

But apparently even non-Nightly Firefox for Android supports xpinstall.signatures.required = false, which is even less of a barrier to entry, so that's good news, I guess. While I understand Mozilla's reasoning for not wanting a bunch of people to set this and forget about it, it's a bit ridiculous that not once did they mention it aside from a "don't do this thing that we're not going to specify because it's a hack" (of course it's a hack, and it's one that got me up and running again long before there was even a fix via Studies).
Nah, but where I live is more or less indiscernible from most of the neighborhoods that I've been around in the Bay Area/SV. I'm in south Orange county. My wife and I live in new development. The demographics down here are different but the people are still new-car obsessed. Our neighborhood is a handful of young couples, a handful of other working folks, and then probably 70% retirees, empty nesters, and foreign money. My hot take is they have more money than they do sense. There's also quite a few folks who don't work because they don't have to work.

So, I have a 2004 Scion xB. It's an "Orange Box." It's really hard to miss this car. Or, so you'd think. My wife uses it as her daily driver for her short commute but it's generally parked right in front of our place. We also have a newer Subaru but it's almost always in the garage because I work full-time remote.

One day, for whatever reason I can't recall, I had the Scion and my wife had the Subaru. I had some errands to run at lunch that day. When I got back home, someone had parked in the spot that the Scion usually occupies, in front of our place, and so I parked two blocks down at an open spot on the street. Someone was home where I had parked, had somehow managed to have never seen this Orange car that'd been parked on the street for the last 600 or so freaking days, and had decided that the car and myself were _clearly_ out of place.

So, maybe 30 minutes go by and I get a text to check out the Facebook group from one of our other neighbors that I'm friends with. This person had posted a picture of my car along with something like, "This person just parked their beater in front of our house and then took off down the street. We're thinking about calling the cops. Does anyone know who it belongs to?" So, I get on there and told them I live 5 houses away from them and question how they've managed to literally never see the bright orange car parked on the street anytime in the past ~2 years. And I said something like, "I like this car, I don't think it's a beater!" They never said anything back.

This is a very quiet, very safe neighborhood, where many, many people are around all throughout the day. There's been a single break-in the entire time that we've lived here that I'm aware of. I had thought about selling that car, too, but thought better of it and we decided to keep it. If people are going to judge me for having that car... Well, fuck 'em. I park my beater in front of their house all of the time now on principle.
Depends on the workload and the # of cores in the POWER9 chip(s). The Socionext has 24 cores!

Edit: Admittedly only massively parallel workloads will be faster than the POWER9, and only if the POWER9 has limited cores. A bit of a stretch for most use cases.
Chelsea Manning released from jail with expiration of grand jury
Slowly replaced over the course of 10,000 4-hour software updates.
Disagree with the simplistic conclusion.

Before I make a long comment, please spend a few minutes to take a look at this video and make your own conclusion:
https://youtu.be/GrKA4D_8ngY?t=382
This is definitely a deceptive title.

It implies Google is working to make sure third party Linux distros work reasonably, presumably by backporting their fixes and mandating OSS drivers, and easy dev mode support.

From what I can tell, none of those things are true.
Superperm: Distributed search for superpermutation combinations
I wanted to try chrome os a month or so back with android and linux support enabled but had hell of a time. Google seems to be very restrictive on where they get to run with all goodies. Google chromebook partners weren't even allowing experimental features to be tried on their platform so had to pick an Intel NUC to have the freedom.

It all worked out fine with fyde os(chrome os flavor by a chinese company recently acquired by neverware) but with some tinkering to reset language to English and to disable fyde os sync/login with google.

I have stopped using chrome due to privacy concerns and would never use chrome os with a google login. It was just an engineers itch to see how i can break free from restrictive hardware platform and get it working.
What I find really galling is how farmers bury corn in the ground every spring when there are clearly millions of people going hungry up here on the surface.
How to Use Gitleaks to Prevent Pushing Sensitive Info
That's not inherently accurate.

You can do inline generation of LetsEncrypt certificates with bucket-name-specific CN/SAN.

The fact that bucket names could contain characters which are wholly invalid as DNS labels is a bigger issue.
More details in these series of tweet by Greg Egan [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/gregeganSF/status/1126639564192243712
Where is some good starter docs on all of the different ways to write a Windows UI app? I can't keep track of WPF, UWP, WinForms, WinUI?, winRT, .NET Core, .NET Foundation, .NET Standard
>good thing about Hacker News: while breaking stories make it to the front page, so does older content worthy of discussion.

Yea, I also trust a democracy of people to highlight what's important or interesting more than corporate news. Or at least, as a complement to it.
In a free market, a developer could demolish a SFH to build a tall building with lots of micro units so that low income workers could live near where they work with relative dignity.
This is the problem with Americans, banking on pie in the sky fantasies from billionaires. Meanwhile promising kids get killed in school and people die needlessly due to lack of healthcare, at enormous costs to society. Basic, fundamental stuff!
Whoa, whoa, whoa - are you saying that long time property owners should have a say in how their neighborhood and city develop? And that we shouldn’t blindly appease a bunch of people who have just moved to town chasing the almighty dollar and are pissed they can’t rent a luxury appt or purchase a home in one of the most expensive cities in America?!! You do realize you’re logged into HN, don’t you?
Actually Internet Explorer 1.0 was a rebranded Spyglass browser . After failing to get an exclusive license from Mosaic Netscape and failing to get an exclusive license from the NCSA, Microsoft does get a non-exclusive license for a browser from Spyglass, that was 'given away' with Windows as Internet Explorer 1.0 around 1994. As such Microsoft deemed it unnecessary to actually pay Spyglass. Mosaic Netscape was released in 1994, despite this factoid, in 1996 we have Bill Gates welcoming Netscape into the Industry.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120618054817/http://www.nation...

https://www.cnet.com/news/gates-draws-roadmap-for-intranet/
So you just ignore the study and make pronouncements that fit your pre-existing assumptions. It's almost like a religion with econ 101 types.
The cost of living in a lot of cities is horrible, even if you can afford housing.

I think the commute from beyond the city, where housing is more affordable and zoning more permissive, could be improved and promoted as a compromise.
Because if you make it optional then nobody does it (except you) and then you're back to square one. By mandating a 90-day expiry, LetsEncrypt forced people to automate the process -- and everyone is on the same page.

It should be noted that most LetsEncrypt tools will renew a certificate when it is 30 days from expiry, so if you run the renew script every week (or day) you're also never close to expiry.
I really hope this does not turn into anti blockchain legislation.

What blockchain can become is as yet unseen. Additionally, many monied interests represent the third parties that blockchain is poised to disrupt.
I understand, I wasn't arguing that there weren't multiple contractors, only pointing out that NASA had all of its resources making one system at a time. If we combined the space launch R&D budgets of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Boeing into one pool and focused on one system, it might go faster.
> "It's time to go back to the moon and this time stay," Bezos said.

Good, we can be rid of him down here.
more roads != less traffic.
UWP isn't being killed; the UWP API is merging with other framework APIs into a single platform API for Windows.

UWP as an API is very good. UWP as a user interface wasn't well received.

There was a talk at the recent Build conference about it, which is now available on YouTube if you want to find it and judge for yourself.
> Supply shorter causes those further up the scale of "willing to spend on a home" to have only modest homes as options

In some built out places, perfectly good homes are torn down just to make way for a replacement only the wealthy can afford. Depreciation doesn't level the playing field if the field keeps getting replaced.
> So the urban tree does die "young", but is the goal to keep trees alive as long as possible?

In an urban area, it should be. Not only does it cost money to have to replace a dead tree, but a dead (or even not-quite-yet-dead) tree runs the risk of falling over, which means damaging property, blocking streets/sidewalks, or even injuring/killing animals (including humans).
The current user may not need to have those rights if the maintenance service is installed, which allows the updater to run with higher privileges. I don't know of any reason why the recent updates would be any different, though. There may be an unrelated issue that broke "silent" updates for drtillberg.

(I work on the Firefox updater and am a Mozilla employee)
The London plane tree, a hybrid between the eastern sycamore and the american sycamore, could be an example of this. They were some of the only trees that could cope with the heavy pollution in London during the industrial revolution. Here's more information if anyone's interested: https://londonist.com/2015/03/the-secret-history-of-the-lond...

EDIT: Looks like someone also mentioned the london plane before me
Big Pharm also gets to deduct it's r+d expenses in full. Name an other private industry with that kind of a crutch....
Exactly — THE WAY OUT IS UP:

https://marriottexpeditions.org/finalmarket
nothing says luxury like Jaguars laggy infotainment ala $30 android tablet
No problem for me. The only add-on I use and recommend is Pocket. Pocket helps me keep my stuff organized, when im on the Go.
Google abandons a lot of stuff lately, but they can't pull a plug and make "go build" start failing.
It doesn't work that way because of the self-reinforcing network effects of cities. The more people in the city the more people want to move there.
> or make it yourself for a tenth of that
So 1$? What would be that? I do prepare my lunches and also log expenses in details. I would need to spend about 5-6$ to match 15$ (inc. tax) lunch.
It's a town tradition to inaugurate a tree's planting by ramming it with a car.
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It's probably not as nice as linux, but there are a lot of options for Windows / IIS

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/#windows-iis
I haven't seen much (if any) churn in Windows Forms or WPF toolkits in about a decade. Are you sure about that 3 year thing?