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> Apple used to charge for upgrades in the past. Now they give them away for free.

But back then, they also supported old releases for longer.

I actually suspect this was part of Apple's internal calculus, or part of it. "Free upgrades will get installed by more people, so we can drop old releases more quickly." A fine tradeoff under some circumstances, but right now, the old way of things is looking quite appealing.
My partner and I were recently eating at an Olive Garden. On each table at Olive Garden there are these Ziosk tablets that you can use to call your waiter, order drinks, or close out your bill with a card.

Our server was a bit irritable and disengaged, and food was taking a loooooooong time to come out. We noticed that tables that were seated after us were being served. It wasn't a big deal -- we weren't in a hurry and were doing fine talking and sipping our drinks. I used to work in restaurants for years so I tend to empathize a little with underpaid, overworked, and now evidently hyper-surveilled waiters and waitresses, so her demeanor didn't really bug me.

Anyway after close to an hour I said to my partner "yikes... Food is super late and the service really left something to be desired huh?"

Perhaps a minute later, a non-uniformed, well-dressed managerial looking fellow tapped my shoulder, and said "I am so, so sorry for the experience that you had here tonight. Your food will be out in just a few minutes."

Shortly thereafter, the waitress arrived, looking flustered, and said "Your food is on its way out guys -- is there anything else I can get for you? Your drinks are on the house tonight".

Our food came, and the rest of the night her demeanor was entirely different: she was hyper-attentive, warm, and apologetic.

I read later that the Ziosk tablets are equipped with microphones and cameras. I could find one article about the tablets mentioning the microphones and cameras [0], but it seems unclear as to whether or not restaurants use them to surveil patrons -- both Ziosk and the restaurants themselves deny doing so.

I'm aware that our experience was probably purely a fluke and completely explainable by my comments by chance coinciding with someone in the kitchen finally noticing our ticket, but the whole experience really irked me regardless.

Probably because it's technically feasible -- the tablets are literally equipped with microphones, cameras, and possibly other sensors and are already speaking with remote servers to handle payments and ordering -- and probably also because this sort of thing is already happening at scale in other physical and digital spaces we inhabit, where pointy haired types mindlessly seek opportunities to gather data allegedly in the name of optimizing process and driving basket sizes.

[0]https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/11/18/call-kurtis-inves...
While on this issue I mostly agree with the defendant, I think it's reasonable to protect certain titles (engineer, doctor, lawyer, dentist). For a parallel situation, imagine a hypothetical person named Phil, who has a doctorate in psychology. They call themselves "doctor" and give medical advise to the unwitting public, despite having no relevant training.

In this case, the guy had training as an electric engineer, but was commenting outside of his proven realm of expertise. However, he wasn't deceiving the public by representing himself as an engineer-for-hire, though, which I think makes it forgivable. I just found the free speech ruling to be over-broad.
That's a very odd analogy, and overstating the difference.
I believe it's the source that is the issue. It's "fake news" in that the source is extremely biased, and therefore untrustworthy. Not that we know the content is strictly composed of lies.
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I know nothing about investment,but I've noticed a lot of HNers know quite a bit on how to invest money wisely so I thought I would ask for any guidance you have to offer. Any starting point would help, I am open to traditional or cryptocurrency investment (trading bots?).

I've been learning how little is guaranteed to last in life. Although I have a great job (infosec), some long term financial security and independence seems wise.

Thanks in advance for any wisdom shared.
But you only got that constitution because the British had to retreat, literally centuries after Locke wrote. Entrenched power had no intentions of giving your people rights before that.

Related, the British ran Hong Kong for over a hundred years. Why wasn't it already democratic, prior to handover, if their values are so great? The limited democracy they have was introduced in the 1990s as the clock was running out.
kubernetes didn't start out looking like a toy.
nor did tensorflow or kafka
nor ipod / iphone
nor spacex
nor tesla

unless looks like a toy is relative to the incumbents, but not to the population at large.
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What does management have to lose by not pushing for every single way to reduce labor costs? If they didn't provide any benefits and got as close to the legal minimum wage as they could, think of all the savings! After all, the point of management isn't to do what's fair, but to extract maximum benefits for the company.

Well, even though some labor cost-cutting is helpful to them, at some point that stops being the rational choice, right? At some point they're not going to be able to attract talented workers. Likewise, it's not in a union's best interest to demand so much they drive a company into bankruptcy, whether directly or indirectly. They might do it anyway -- just like there are, in fact, examples of companies driving good employees away through bad management practices -- but that's not a rational choice.
> OR accounts for baseline incidence in a way that RR (relative risk) does not.

Would you mind elaborating on this? As a reminder, odds ratio is

((exposure_unhealthy / exposure_healthy) / (control_unhealthy / control_healthy))

Whereas risk ratio is

((exposure_unhealthy / (exposure_unhealthy + exposure_healthy) / (control_unhealthy / (control_unhealthy + control_healthy))
> three decades following the creation of the Internet

The internet turns 50 in a week.
I hear more and more cases of businesses moving parts off of the cloud, back on-premises. I think, in a wider perspective, it's going to play back and forth. The 2010's were 'forth' towards the cloud, the 2020's might see a peak back on-prems, etc.

It's generally a function of network cost versus infra cost, and so the 'equation' solves differently based on the longest tech cycles, from inception to maturity to skill pool to diminishing returns and then back again on some other mode — this really is a decade+ thing.

Some "always true" inherent advantages of one approach (e.g. availability for cloud, or resources for on-prems) would remain across cycles as permanent gains; disruption then occurs when some new approach (e.g. containerization) fundamentally upsets the order of costs.
Very cool work. The paper is open access, the code is open on Github and he actively invites other researchers / interested laymen to participate in finding better materials. Terrific job of putting your money where your mouth is: "We are sharing the code so that you can work with it and improve it and I can’t wait to see what the new discoveries will be."

This type of openness in research should serve as an example to many more!

Also, this guys CV is seriously impressive [pdf] https://mabessa.github.io/Documents/CV_MiguelBessa.pdf
I do not even get the transitioning part within this context. If you are pretty sure that the software you are using will not work on Catalina, then what significance does transitioning have? Having more time saying your goodbyes to your old games (in this case), or what? 32-bit applications will not magically turn into 64-bit ones.

In any case, I think it was a silly decision to "force" the customer to pick between old vs new software, but I am sure they can afford it. People will probably forgive them for it, and then completely forget about it. New users in the future probably will not even have anything to forget (or forgive), unless they want to run "really old" software, in which case people will just boo on them, and say "times change, technologies change, you gotta adapt, man" and the like which seems to be the case today with respective to both old software and hardware.
> You can justify any kind of discrimination that way. I can come up with a number of reasons that would make women, people of color, foreigners or literally any other group a "poor culture fit".

Do/would you hire any person who can answer your questions? There are plenty of smart people who are entirely unenjoyable people. Not liking someone is not discrimination.

> So you'd reject a candidate because of comfort and enjoyment? Even though the candidate could make you tons of money? That's very discouraging.

You seem to be implying that someone who is smart can obviously outperform people who are less smart. A good team is more than smart people, and a successful company is more than smart people. There is a big difference in the effectiveness of teams that are happy versus miserable. If a brilliant individual makes the rest of your team miserable, that's an awful tradeoff. If you think it's okay to do that, that's very discouraging.

> There's a difference between having Asperger's and being an asshole. A person with Asperger's communicates differently than a person without Asperger's. You chose to interpret that difference as rudeness. Instead of understanding the cause of the differences and adapting to it, you simply eliminated the candidate for the sake of your own comfort.

So instead of feeling insulted or threatened due to rude behavior, you should ignore it because it's your fault? If a guy is aggressively hitting on a girl, is it her fault? Should she change her behavior? Of course not. If you behave in a way that diminishes a collaborative work environment, why would the work environment be responsible for just putting up with the way you behave? You don't have to be the life of the party, but you have to at least act professional. If you can't pull that off for a single interview, you probably can't pull it off indefinitely in a professional environment.

This does matter to me, but the reality is that not everyone is a good fit for every setting. The whole point of interviewing is to find people who are going to help you move forward in the best way possible, and if you come into an interview and upset everyone you talk to, there are no data points to indicate that you being a smart asshole is going to help us move forward.
We have always had email servers. You can set up one today. What we need is to to convince more technical people to use the internet the way it was designed for. And to find ways for these people to make money, because the monopolized internet of today makes that unattainable.
Except that that may not really tell you much. If you have a system that is working, and are worried that Catalina might make it no longer work as it did before, you don't learn a lot by installing on a new volume or virtual machine.
> Probably for a beginner. But once you learn it once, it's trivial to...

This applies to probably all technologies under the sun, so not very helpful.
The parent poster was inputting the search term "Reddit The_Donald"

(https://www.google.com/search?q=Reddit+The_Donald)

Whether or not you are logged into Reddit, the first page of Google results (and I suspect the rest of them) don't display the actual link to the /r/The_Donald subreddit. It _does_ link to a bunch of articles about how the sub was quarantined, and the first result (for me) is a wikipedia page.
A simple example of useful stuff than can be done today but is annoying to set up is to have all the lights in a home turn off when everyone is gone, but switch back to their previous state when one or more people get home.

Another is to have blinds that open just before sunrise, so that you can sleep in darkness but wake up with the sun (especially useful if you're in a city). This is what I do myself, but it's a pain to change anything because the legacy motorized shades don't integrate with anything.
That's not a point it's a reduction to absurdity on the definition of risk, it's not the kind of risk being discussed, and it's an excuse to ignore risk by devaluing the meaning.
Actually, track their NRC interactions: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/oklo.html

They've been in pre-application with the NRC for 3 years, and they submitted a pilot application last year. That's plenty of time for them to be within 6 months of submission.

There are also a few more that are probably a lot closer than we realize too: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced.html#preA...
But why warn, why stop supporting it at all?
How many moderators do you have, and what are the criterion for banning/blocking posts?
In many US jurisdictions, including Oregon, you MUST stop for a yellow light if you can do so safely. Cops can and will ticket you for entering a yellow light when they deem that you could have safely stopped. I first learned this when one of my friends ticketed for this in Portland.

Since it difficult to remember which in which jurisdictions this applies, I always make sure to stop for yellow if I can do so safely.
Yeah as my life cycle analysis friend says, "transportation is waste".
My Advice to Junior Developers
Nothing guarantees it, but without risk there is no reward.
According to Cloudflare, they do not have any bandwidth pricing arrangement with Microsoft for Azure users.

They also do charge for Enterprise plans, but instead of transparent pricing I got high-pressure sales techniques and black box pricing offers - which then anchored our rate so that as we grow past our current contract, we're forced to upgrade at any point with pricing based solely on our original negotiation.

Frankly, while I save money using Cloudflare over Azure's CDN right now, it's left a very sour taste in my mouth and I'll be jumping their ship as soon as I have time to find a suitable alternative.
This is a very good point. The reason that you have trouble if you just use a bunch of scripts to start up a contemporary Linux is that the underlying system has become quite complex. Now you have to deal with the effects of stuff like udev and dbus. Systemd can be seen as an attempt to paper over the underlying complexity problem with another layer on top. That of course if not likely to work but is depressingly common in the world of OSs. People add things to a simple system until it is no longer a simple system. Eventually it becomes unreliable enough that no one dares extend it further.

As a nice counterexample, OpenBSD doesn't have stuff like udev or dbus usage during boot. The rc.d system they use is literally just a bunch of scripts and is dead simple and reliable.
> steadily-increasing warnings

Did they?

I only saw warnings in Mojave.
While it is possible for that to be true, I think the general consensus is that it isn't. AFAIK there is a higher correlation between the school that one is placed in than the genetics. Evidenced by placing young low income children into schools that are generally attended by the wealthy tend to do much better in life. But there's always a clear correlation to health and future potential earnings to parents' wealth. I don't think there's enough genetic variation here, so it seems extremely reasonable that the causation here is environmental (i.e. growing up with more resources and advantages leads - unsurprisingly - to a better financial outcome).
Or maybe landed on a different shard if they organise that way.

All searches vary, but generalising DDG does disappear off into the silly and completely unrelated as you hit lower pages, rather than fading into "looks relevant but isn't" of Google. Pages 1 & 2 I find mostly on the money.

What has changed is when I !g out to Google I often don't find the results there either, so it's time to get creative with keywords, or try millionshort for blog hunting. A few years ago a !g felt like a much more reliable escape option. Which feels like a mix of DDG getting better so I'm probably escaping harder queries, and Google simply missing the mark more often.
Nice find, thanks.
I hate when people make no effort to hedge their opinions. It comes off as lacking nuance.
About the same for me. The one time I had an issue with something that wasn't delivered in good condition, they sent out a replacement after a 3 min chat conversation.
As it happens, the author isn't upgrading.
Is the IPFS Project a Failure?
Full Disk Encryption is an option, but that’ll entail needing the use the IPMI console to enter the password at every reboot, essentially turning it into a manual operation.
It's very difficult to see how SoftBank breaks even on this new deal. They're investing $5bn now, with the hope that it's worth more than that when they IPO, but several things have killed that idea. Firstly, their brand is tarnished. Secondly, the growth play will be gone by the time they IPO. Thirdly, the charismatic leader is gone, so the message of "Disrupting" and "We're a tech play' is gone. They've put $5bn into a company that's roughly the same size as a public company that's got a $4Bn market cap, but only got 70% equity as a result.

I think I'm at the point where I think that Softbank is throwing billions into wework to save face. That is a very bad move.
Just take your tees to an (alterations) tailor if you want the perfect fit. They can do a lot. One problem though: your body changes.
The "fifth estate" usage as referencing bloggers long predates any recent social media apologia.

Wikipedia article history shows the reference already by 2009:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fifth_Estate&oldi...

It cites Stephen D Cooper (2006). Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers as the Fifth Estate. Marquette Books. ISBN 0922993475.

It's possible that there are yet other estates to be discovered:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/102989723532565277

And of course there was the 2013 film of the same title:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Estate_(film)
This article has a bit of an underhanded motive. It pretends that is all pro environment but it comes out as an attack on fast fashion.

One can argue that fast fashion is bad for the environment. One can argue that it encourages people to throw away clothes, that fast fashion clothes are cheap and wear out very quickly, etc. But that does not have to be the case.

The ideal of fast fashion is that it is about putting clothes out in the stores and letting the customer decide what to wear and then quickly creating new designs based on customer demand, rather than the old system where the clothing industry would change collections only four times per year and more or less force the customer to like those collections based on a massive top down system of advertising, fashion magazines, models, movie stars, etc. A side effect of this system of making people like the new fashion is by bombarding with ads with beautiful people is that you also make people hate themselves.

So fast fashion does not necessarily have to be low quality or low durability. And having a large number of collections does not necessarily suggest low quality either. Personally I cannot say much about fast fashion darling ZARA, because nothing there fits me, but I wear a lot of GAP, Banana Republic and some Uniqlo, and those clothes have been generally quite durable.

That being said, if certain companies do make low quality clothes they should be called out.

To change the subject, one accurate thing about the article is about how bad plastic clothes are. In addition to being bad for the environment they just feel worse on your body. I would just avoid buying artificial fibers as much as practical.
That too. The drivers are not supposed to make decisions about clients like an independent contractor. Because they are employees. The rest is a fiction to get around labor rights.
He lost a lot in the dotcom collapse around 2000. https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/a-key-figure-in-the-...
I'd argue that assumption, [correlation of: current net worth -> knowledge about business], is flawed logically.
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Yes. Its the underlying "language" of shader programs in vulkan. OpenGL 4.6 adds support for loading spirv and a few other things like that.
> "cryptocurrency investment"

Cryptocurrency is not an 'investment' -- it is a gamble. Which is fine if that is what you are looking for.

Since you say you "know nothing about investment" then a reasonable place to begin might be here: https://www.bogleheads.org/

Top left will be a "new to investing -> start here" link to get you started.
Anonymous people saying shitty things on 4chan is nothing compared to surveillance capitalism. If anyone regulates 4chan out of existence and declares victory, they’ve missed the point.
Yeah, the consolidation has been relentless.

I also share the sentiment that a lot of the "innovation" online these days is merely skin-deep, but I can't say whether it's just my perspective after being online for 20 years.
Because the removal of widely used things that worked fine caught on for some reason. Apple has been doing this for a while now. Jack, USB, ESC key, whatever else I cannot recall.
This sort of thing is dangerous if you want to keep drivers as independant contractors. Lyft sounds like they're no longer paying by the job, but more of a salary. Such a reclassification could retroactively allow their drivers to benefits, taxes, and other entitlements. Lyft shouldn't be allowed to have it both ways, classifying workers as employees when it suits them, then as independant driving service companies when it doesn't. Who do drivers work for? If it's Lyft, then how Lyft treats their workers is very illegal. But right now the answer is "for themselves." It will be interesting to see if Lyft shoots itself in the foot getting greedy at some point.
But.. every news outlet is bias and "propagandist", NYT has A LOT of eye rolling, leftist extremism fueling articles, WP as well, even New Yorker is super bias (New Yorker is more fun to read though..) but all of the above also have gems. I still glance through those as it is important for getting a full picture and not just a picture of one of the political bubbles.
The NBA and NFL are unionized and they don't make it harder for younger workers.
The internet turns 50 in a week
Agreed. We also need to make out of the box private tools that anyone can use. Step by step!