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The Google and Apple app stores and support services ought to be regulated as public utilities. Because they effectively constitute a duopoly regarding apps for mobile devices.

That would prevent them from arbitrarily refusing to provide services and list apps in their stores. They could refuse, but only for permitted reasons, and with a clear appeal process.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas has a pretty clear explanation.[0] The top DDG hit was an ancient law review.[1] It's probably outdated, but makes an interesting read.

0) https://www.puc.texas.gov/consumer/complaint/Rights.aspx

1) https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

Edit: I mean, whether you're a residential customer or a business, public utilities (electricity, water, sewer, garbage, police, ...) can't arbitrarily refuse service.
I believe iOS 13 will ask if you want to cancel a subscription when you uninstall its app...
In Dutch we have a verb that feels suspiciously related to this: uitwaaien - "uit" means "out", "waaien" is the verb for the wind blowing. "Uitwaaien" means to take a walk in rough weather to let the wind clear out the thoughts in your head.
Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
+1. Sentry is amazing. We self host although they stopped shipping updates for over a year until recently. I'd pay for saas if it was up to me, tho.
From the article: "Nations with allies thrive, and those without them wither. Alone, America cannot protect our people and our economy. At this time, we can see storm clouds gathering. A polemicist’s role is not sufficient for a leader."

This is a true statement, I just hope the damage done can be undone. We are stronger together than we are alone.
Douglas Harding’s Experiments in Seeing
I'm more interested in who will run as VP on the Dem side, I'm still waiting for a Biden/Oprah ticket
EPA to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
I have an older S1 and it retracts its keys.
They can't call it that. But they can call it... Incognito. Plus then you can just tell the cops: "i was watching xhamster all night.. see my phone was in porn mode (you know incognito is called porn mode)"
Maybe they don't want to deal with how shitty a graphical desktop environment is on Linux. I've largely given up on Linux with the exception of the terminal because of this. There are just too many graphical quirks and glitches.

I know that Linux is merely a kernel but I wonder how things would have played out if the kernel contained some form of graphical environment. There are so many competing environments that you have massive choice but also nothing that really works well either.
Branding is an important solution to the problem of validating product quality

Yes and no. Any number of brands now is coasting on quality it’s not had in years, it’s made in the same factory in China as the “knock-off” version and just gets a different sticker on it.
There's also davmail
Not to nitpick too much, but wouldn't the function expecting an interface be a much better fit for a case like this?
Neither. The architecture performs well independently of weights BUT all weights must be the same e.g. Same network works well when all weights are 5.0 or when all weights are -3.0
This. As an iOS user / developer who isn't too familiar with Android, I also don't get it. Either these reports are lacking, and there is in fact a vulnerability being exploited down the line, or Android is completely broken. I find it odd that this important detail is being ignored in the reports/discussion.
This is a great start and far more than most people do. The other thing that most meetings fail at is having someone run the agenda. Someone who keeps the meeting to the agenda, prevents people from getting off topic, makes sure the discussion is pushing towards the stated purpose. The problem is that no one generally wants to be the "bad guy" and they just let the meeting happen. It is also true that sometimes the meeting might be to review a document but people will show up without having read it. This is a waste of everyone's time. But the meeting runner doesn't want to break social norms and call people out. "So you didn't prepare for this meeting Mike, so your time is more important than everyone else's time who did read the document?"

In the end, it is about culture. You have to decide that these things matter. You can have productive 5 minute stand-ups or non-productive 60 minute stand-ups. You have to build the expectation that the point of all meetings is to get on the same page as a team or to make sure you stay there. Most meetings do fail at this.
What does America have against vacation?
There seems to be confusion about what hardcore gaming means?
Competive Gaming, high-end user experience or bragging rights spec based enthusiasts.

My benchmark would be the XBox One X, which is perfectly capable of 4k 60 fps gaming with HDR and Atmos, try to get that stable running with any PC, good luck. That's 400 for the console and in total under 2000 if you need to get an additional OLED-TV and Atmos-enabled-speakerset, which are not exclusively gaming budget.

The only shortcoming there is the absence of fast current generation NVMe mass storage and RTX-enabled GPU.

Reasonable high end PC gaming is possible well below $2000 or even $1000, even $500 will get you decent performance for even casual competetive gameplay.

The priceyness of gaming rigs setups comes from the insane demand of getting an edge at 4k 120+fps in FPS-shooters. That bracket can't be conviced by any streaming services physical limitations for the next 10 year or so at least.
The science-based benefits of reading
I have a 2017 Macbook Pro and love it, and have never had the keyboard issues. This is the thing: there are millions of happy Macbook Pro customers that don't hang out on hacker news.

I then spilled wine on my keyboard, they replaced the top case and it, still no problems.

Yes, they should fix the keyboard. But I don't think they've screwed up as badly as people think.
It's super subjective.

I have two Thinkpads that I use frequently. One is a T520 with the traditional Thinkpad keyboard and the other is a Yoga S1 with the island keys. I prefer the newer keyboard (island or chiclet keys) by a mile.

I ended up looking for a similar desktop keyboard and ended up with the Logitech K750.
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From my experience, Anything that launches subprocesses is slow on Windows.
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This suggests you do not understand what "monopoly" means.

Apple's iOS model is a feature, not a bug. If you are unhappy with the app rules there, or with Apple being the curator of what's available, then iOS isn't for you.
> As I see it, supporting Linux on a specific use case is not a sign of wising up, but a desperate concession to try to stay relevant.

Those are really the same thing, "wising up" and "trying to stay relevant".
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When tracing across microservices, the approach we took was to embed a request id in the incoming request headers, then use it in every log line and propagate it on to other microservices as they are called.

Helps is see what happened across the whole system.
Each architecture is tested multiple times against different samples of the shared weight

From the paper :

(1) An initial population of minimal neural network topologies is created

(2) each network is evaluated over multiple rollouts, with a different shared weight value assigned at each rollout

(3) networks are ranked according to their performance and complexity

(4) a new population is created by varying the highest ranked network topologies, chosen probabilistically through tournament selection
I've always noticed Targets to be cleaner, better lit, and have more employees available to assist than Walmarts. I also have read many times that Walmart forces manufacturers to cut quality to meet certain price points for products sold in their stores, whereas I haven't heard anything like that about Target. This makes me trust Target more, plus their website doesn't allow resellers.
Huh? I'm sure I've yes long file names on vfat formatted disks for years...
Every online newspaper's comment section?
This was a good essay: well-written, cogent, and thought-provoking.

I know there are a lot of folks that want to take this essay and bash it into some political points. I think that's probably part of the problem Mattis is describing; our desire to make social media hay out of whatever we're given.

He does have a point about current politics in there. It's hidden quite a bit. His larger point, though, is about how instant communication is changing the nature of how governments work. Presumably that's what he gets paid for: understanding and projecting current trends through a historical lens.

I don't know what the solution is. A big part of the problem is that nobody much wants to talk about the generic situation. There's no clicks in it. Instead it's pitching rhetorical softballs to people who are already on your side. Congrats to Mattis for being able to walk through this mess and still come out looking okay. He's doing better than most.
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> They're reducing the price to zero for the parts of their product to which business is now irrelevant and for which free and open collaboration is now more valuable than secrecy and proprietary ownership - and good on them for it.

And possibly bad for them. See Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement [1], by Gwern.

> Joel Spolsky in 2002 identified ... the pattern of “"commoditizing your complement"”, an alternative to vertical integration, where companies seek to secure a chokepoint or quasi-monopoly in products composed of many necessary & sufficient layers by dominating one layer while fostering so much competition in another layer above or below its layer that no competing monopolist can emerge, prices are driven down to marginal costs elsewhere in the stack, total price drops & increases demand, and the majority of the consumer surplus of the final product can be diverted to the quasi-monopolist.

This move is good for IBM. Not clear what the repercussions will be for other players - even open source developers.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Complement
> In the end, these devices do ship with Windows, which has privacy problems anyway.

It does, but those are "theoretical" in comparison to the degree Lenovo stooped on, it doesn't excuse Superfish at all. Windows isn't a free for all platform, yet.

> All this is moot, when you put Linux on it, which was the context we were talking about.

_That_ time. I'll copy a response I provided two months ago as Lenovo on HN has become a seriously annoying groundhog day for me:

I can't know that whatever harmful and irrational environment that led to Superfish in IdeaPad won't affect ThinkPads in the future. Even in the most generous understanding where IdeaPad is a different, physically separate branch of the company, and Superfish was an act of incompetence and not outright malice I can't be expected to keep up with the insider intrigue of the company to notice any changes that could negatively affect me. More importantly, leadership is still responsible for setting irrational environment that lead to Superfish, whatever that environment was. This is a multi-billion dollar company, there is no excuse for such incompetence.
Funny. My boss, who has a Lenovo X1 Carbon, was just telling me how envious he was of the far superior keyboard on his wife's brand new Apple laptop.
> There's no "threat of tribalism". We're living in tribalism.

I understand the point to be "tribalism is great, but we should be one tribe dominating all (or most, with our allies, as long as they are aligned with us) the other tribes". I didn't see any general call against tribalism. "Defending our way of life" is pretty much that: "the tribe's way of life".
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I'm highly technical -- 30 years in dev -- and I prefer the curated, controlled environment of iOS for my phone because I have zero interest in sysadmining my telephone.

You put scare quotes around security, but Apple's approach really does result in a more stable and secure platform.
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Happens to me all the time now too. Even when I put the phrase in quotes it still omits words or says "search for X, do your really want to search for Y"

But maybe our use cases are the outliers, and the new search is what works for most people.
Yup. I worked on a few doomed game projects in the late 90's. The quake tools were where a lot of people started learning. Unreal was a huge step as well, as the editor had a lot better ux.

I shifted out of doing level design work, but some of the people I worked with ended up on the Medal of Honor team.
Because the level of vitriol is not commensurate with the problem? They'll replace the keyboards, most people don't have issues. (I know I don't, 2+ years in).

Nerd entitlement rage is monotonous. The latest models 4th gen keyboards are pretty much fine.
They're not super common, naturally. The first one that comes to mind is Candle 79 in NYC, which I think is at about that price point. Maybe a little below, but I wouldn't be surprised if a vegetarian restaurant of a certain caliber is going to come out at a slightly lower price point due to lower ingredient cost.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've done a bunch of that in this thread. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20826827.
Doesn't UDF work?
I actually enjoyed the prose, but his/her understanding of what a blockchain is grossly inaccurate if you actually understand the tech. Its really just buzzword laden non-sense, if I'm honest, which I'm willing to overlook for entertainment reasons.

But that aside, its pretty witty. 'Hikkikomorphically cacooned' is a phrase I long to be able to use in a sentence now.
I think this is somewhat right, but I also think that there aren't enough project based learning opportunities in school, and there certainly is not enough opportuntities to fail in school. A number of universities are implementing a limit of 3, sometimes only 2, on how many times you can fail or drop a course. So there is definetly a comply-or-die academic environment that just doen't exist in most tech jobs nowadays.

I'd love to see a curriculum where there is a class each semester that is 100% project based, where the end result isn't as important as the process.
Is Form Feed ever a character that a font renders? It’s whitespace, after all. And (hard to be certain on the phone) this “website” is likely just a text file. Maybe Firefox just does not like form feed in general.

That emacs displays form feeds as the Control character ^L (which it is) is also normal, and if you just curled the file confirms that it’s just a plain old text file.
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Tim Cook Sells Millions in Apple Stock
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To be fair, you started with arch which requires some attention.

Most professional users use Ubuntu since it's fairly polished and "just works".
So he's writing today about last year's keyboard, when the laptops introduced a few months ago have a different keyboard already?

I mean, good for him, but his complaint is literally a duplicate of what other people said about the butterfly keyboards for a couple years. I'm not aware yet of these complaints continuing to apply with the newest rev.

Obviously Apple fucked up on these, and obviously they're trying to fix it / make it right, but this particular post seems, well, uninteresting and unworthy of HN.
But fair enough that there don't seem to be too many serious contenders (as far as I'm aware, it seems some pundits are even just wondering if Joe Walsh is doing this simply as a play to get more attention/funds)
It is amazing how much of what we perceive as part of our culture and is really manufactured by personal and economic interests and we are not even aware of that.

Diamonds:

When the campaign began, in 1967, not quite 5 percent of engaged Japanese women received a diamond engagement ring. By 1972, the proportion had risen to 27 percent. By 1978, half of all Japanese women who were married wore a diamond; by 1981, some 60 percent of Japanese brides wore diamonds. In a mere fourteen years, the 1,500-year Japanese tradition had been radically revised.

Bacon & Eggs for breakfast:

http://levick.com/blog/public-affairs/history-bacon-breakfas...

Some other examples?
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Global measles cases three times higher than last year: WHO
I have a brand-new Macbook Pro. I actually love the keyboard.
I'm sick of managing 5-6 different installs of language server protocol servers. A couple are installed with my package manager (clangd), some are installed with pip (pyls), some I just have symlinked into ~/.local/bin (microsoft/python-language-server). It's overly difficult to get right.

If anyone is aware of a better way, especially for emacs users, I'd appreciate it. Is this something where docker or snapd might fit in well?
“It's pretty much going to be Trump vs Biden.”

A 74 year old vs a 78 year old. Pretty appealing options.
> I didn't see any general call against tribalism.

"We are dividing into hostile tribes cheering against each other, fueled by emotion and a mutual disdain that jeopardizes our future, instead of rediscovering our common ground and finding solutions."

The phrase "defending our way of life" isn't in the article.
He Worked with Elon Musk, Took on Amazon and Sold a Company for $3B
I worked in computer/ phone repair - given the context keys falling off should definitely be under warranty. However lacking that context (let's assume there aren't widespread keyboard issues for that model) keys falling off could be the result of "rough handling" - we can't tell if a frustrated user was pounding at their keys or not, etc

But yeah given the known widespread keyboard issues for the Macbooks...
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Pretty much everything what Apple made since original iMac G3 was Ive design and I think the biggest thing that he did was that original iMac G3.

The story is pretty simple, Ive became Apple employee around 92 so before Jobs big comeback. Back in those days he had soft spot for translucent plastics. This showed beautifully in his first serious design for Apple, Apple Newton eMate. When Jobs came back to Apple he was looking for cool designs and he felt in love with Ives designs and translucent plastics (Jobs was crazy on making even PCB look good and idea of showing that work to the clients was appealing to him). So that's how arguably one of the biggest tech bromances started.

So yeah iMac was the design that brought back Apple to living. Other most notable designs was iPod, iPhone, iMac G4, MB, MBP, slim iMacs, list goes on and on. The difference is that all those designs was under supervision of Jobs. So ideas like charging port on Magic Mouse wouldn't fly under Jobs supervision (and they didn't) but when Jobs passed away then suddenly those ideas went into production.

The story of how they met is from Jobs and Ives biographies, I highly recommend reading at least Jobs biography by Isaacson
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Somewhat related and relevant:
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-underway.html
I wouldn't claim knowledge; it's only an abstraction from local low density areas: Where I live people drive less (suburbia) than where I was raised (country side) because there's practically no point in driving 30km/19mi to do groceries if that could be done in town.

Now Germany has a population density of 621 people/mi². The US has a little less than 100. Assuming similar interconnectness (family, friends, jobs, holidays), travel distances are much larger.
There are completely non statistical learning algorithms (many at that) which is part of why the distinction is needed. Stats are definitely crucial in parts of the ML domain but not everywhere. Another related reason is just one of focus, where ML doesn't care how to get to a result, it only concerns itself with getting the result. Stats can be a tool to get there along with many other things.
A military officer participating in warfare?! How uncouth.

Were you just looking to get in a dig about US hegemony? I prefer it to Chinese hegemony, and so should you.
I don't know about his recent activity, but he does have a history of pushing conspiracy theories. Most notably he claimed the moon landing was a hoax.

That alone has put me off watching his show (as much as I enjoy hearing Carmack speak).
I just use spacemacs and it handles that for me.
By "Everything" in my post, I mean all of our own applications. Some services allow you to format logs to json like nginx using log_format[1]. For others, you may find app-specific configuration or plugins for log formatting or simply use plain grep / kibana text search.

I imagine in those cases something like logstash may help, but I don't really know as I tend to avoid logstash.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42564710/14651
For the sake of our European friends, I'm perfectly willing to say, "...you supposedly took the metro, but none of the scanners saw your face."
For what it's worth, I use this app on a daily basis and haven't found any deceptive behaviour. It's pretty annoying that now I have to download the APK from his website instead of the Play Store, so thanks for that Google.
Death star, complete with trench, with starfighters fleeing as it explodes. He was indeed visionary :)
After looking into this more I believe he was fired for a video he made about women in tech were he advocates traditional gender roles and references Sheryl Sandberg to support his argument.
The monotony of this complaint is driving me crazy.

It's really simple.

1. If you don't care about MacOS, and want a different keyboard, please buy a Lenovo Carbon X1 and leave us happy Macbook Pro users in peace.

2. If your keyboard breaks, Apple will replace it free. The newer gen keyboards generally don't break.

3. If you really can't type on this keyboard and you really love MacOS, there are lots of decent thin Bluetooth keyboards.
Microsoft has a great one. It's a small monetary sacrifice you'll need to make for sticking with MacOS. i.e. something we already do when we buy Macbook Pros ;)

I am getting tired of being sneered at for "clearly not understanding my own interests" because I like my Macbook Pro, have never had a keyboard issue, I LIKE TYPING on the keyboard, and would buy another one.

I do hope they change the keyboard radically in the next release so that the laptop posse finds another issue to rage at.
I'm feeling this way about Amazon recently.

They have become significantly anti customer.
Only back then it was true. Now it’s only slow on Windows for some reason (and maybe not universally so, though I don’t use Windows enough to have bothered investigating).
> what if the current genetic diversity on Earth is the result of genetic engineering by ancient aliums? [sic]

For purposes of explaining the last 4 million years of human evolution, it’s irrelevant whether conscious or unguided phenomena created forms even as recent as mammals.

> You're assuming a simplistic darwinist model that we already know isn't true

No, nobody is.

Retroviral horizontal transfer is fascinating, but it’s one of many mutation vectors. At the scale of speciation, the specific way a mutation arises can be largely ignored. (Creationism aside.)
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People who are serious about their tools tend not to use web apps as much.
It could be. I was never exposed to 2.X
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Totally agree. Open source software is possible on Android, but it's nowhere near the level of say Linux.