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There's a good reason why Apple aren't making the small form factor phone lots of you are asking for: logistics.

The new SE requires very little new manufacturing capacity. The case and probably battery are from the iPhone 8; the CPU/GPU/SOC and most of the rest of the electronics are from the iPhone 11; the camera still seems to be a slightly unknown quantity but the specs suggest it has a lot in common with the iPhone X camera. No doubt a certain amount of tricky engineering was required to put those parts together efficiently, but the SE requires almost no new manufacturing capacity beyond the final assembly line. For Apple it's pretty much a no-brainer.

A hypothetical "iPhone Classic", with modern innards in an iPhone 4/5 form factor case, would be a very different matter. You couldn't combine the 11's CPU with the 5's battery - battery life would be laughable. So you'd need to use a CPU from an earlier model; I suspect you'd have to go back at least to the 8 to find a CPU that doesn't drain an iPhone 5 size battery like water through a sieve. That means keeping one more CPU fabrication line in business beyond its intended life, taking that capacity away from the plants that are making silicon for the iPhone 11 and the coming 12. The camera would of course also have to be based on an earlier model, with all the same downsides again in terms of keeping old technology going and taking up factory capacity. And fitting all that into a 4/5 case would still be a much bigger engineering feat than the actual SE 2.

Bottom line: Even if you assume that the "iPhone Classic" market would be as big as that for the SE 2, it's hard to see how it would be worth Apple's time and money to cater to it. If you want to argue that the Classic would be a practical proposition for Apple, you would have to claim that the Classic market would be much bigger than the SE 2 - and given how popular the SE 2 is already turning out to be, that seems really unlikely.
Unfortunately the parts of the world that are now coming online are mostly poor countries that won't increase revenue by much, at least for a few decades.
> The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal.

My main concern with Snap is security.

Using the default Ubuntu Apt repositories, I can `apt install` pretty much anything I want and it's almost guaranteed to not be malicious/dangerous, as only trusted/well-established developers can get their package into the Apt repos.

However, with Snap, everybody in the world can publish any old rubbish in the Snap Store, including packages that typosquat the names of others.

Snap's current 'protections' for this are mainly reactionary rather than preventative, which is far from satisfactory [1].

For me, the absolute key selling point of Linux over Windows/Mac is the secure-by-default and natively integrated package management. Pushing Snaps as the main package management method goes too close to the Windows way of just downloading random EXEs from the internet.

I personally would like to see Apt remain as the default system package manager for all common/well-known software, with Snap existing purely as a 'community' repository for software that is known to be untrusted/unknown.

[1] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/is-there-any-protection-against...
If they're buying Banksy's work, then they've missed the point. It's supposed to be public and seditious. Whether you think it deserves the level of fame it has is a matter of opinion, but there's definitely something to be said for putting witty political messages in prominent public spaces.
Atleast in germany it has already been established that a legal person cannot sue other legal persons over the GDPR. This implies that legal persons can also not sue a natural person over it.

The main authority is the GDPR agency of the country, they will push the court cases, if they become necessary. So far, my communication with my local one has been very pleasant and they're generally happy to help me either understand or discuss if something is a violation and how I would go about fixing it. They don't want to sue you or slap a fine on you the first thing in the morning if it's possible to simply work with you.
Not true. Not everyone is cut out for remote work. It needs a certain set of skills and a frame of mind which are not available to everyone or take time to develop.
US 11/15 along the Susquehanna upriver from Harrisburg has a stretch where there are at least a couple of billboards from lawyers advertising "aggressive DUI defense". These have always seemed to me to be good indicators I don't want to drive that stretch of road on Friday or Saturday nights.
huh how well does that work with individual downloaded *.deb packages? You're probably right, but, the included repos are usually full of outdated versions, if you get a too-new deb, from some experimental site, in terms of Ubuntu freshness, and then no pkgs in the repo will have a new enough version. (In terms of dependencies for the local exteriorally-gotten base pkg.deb and it's deps,) I guess ppa's are a thing, but, yeah, good to be off this train, no disrespects to Ubuntu, if it picks up I will surely be glad, and even, chances are slim, ever use it again. We're all friends, let's say yes to progress, in general, in the right directions.
The goal was a minimum viable implementation of a file sharing service that can be self hosted.
Simplicity to this extreme serves many purposes, it is easy to understand and debug, has less attack surface, less dependencies and is small (in terms of lines of Code, less than 100, and size, less than 50K).

If one needs more features or more control, there are certainly many options out there, I created this not to compete with other projects but to provide a super simple solution to a specific problem.
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I do agree with your overall suggestion, but it would be a mission impossible to change sockets. Indeed, technology for communication over power-lines are nothing new, and doesn't require a new socket/wiring:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication

A grid supply status, could empower next gen energy saving home appliances. This could be implemented as simple as pricing, the ultimate incentive. Price would fluctuate on the wire, just like it does for energy market.
Well, it's not quite a problem with whether the operations are commutative - both of those phrasings of the problem will give the correct answer in hardware 100% of the time. The only difference is one made an efficient decision about the order of operations with knowledge of how bit growth rules work and the ranges of the inputs.

You do have the same problem in hardware, which is hardware designers job. The difference RTLs don't claim to be high level languages. This is an instance where there's a high level intention and a low level implementation, and the high level synthesis tool has just ported new language constructs into the high level language to do low level optimisation, rather than actually doing the synthesis optimisations that are expected.
Crypto stuff never uses floating point. It might have built-in instructions like AES-NI, though. In the test geekbench consider that - integers ones[0] and definitely not floating point. Media encoding tend not to use floating point, either. (decoders tend to be built-in in the GPUs with designated hardware, so testing on CPU is quite pointless)

[0]: https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf
I am using a 1200p, a 1800p and a 2160p monitor side-by-side on MacOS and it works fine. The 2160p monitor is rotated to portrait mode for reading/writing text documents. I can hotplug a monitor and it will automatically switch to the right layout, remembering the correct location for all open windows.

I am using a 1080p and a 2160p on ArchLinux/Wayland/Gnome3. It's not perfect, but it's not unusable either (compared to X11, which was completely broken).
I have heard reasoning that c-section babies could benefit from having some given to them.
> The dependency on .docx/.xlsx is an overblown propaganda.

It depends on the company. One will use it as a glorified letter composer. Another has a sharepoint integration with version control and documents with ActiveData integration into SQL servers and (literally) thousands of lines of scripting.
Improve You Life – Quarantine 2020 [video]
In abstract algebra there really is a hierarchy of group-like-structures with different levels of symmetry (see the table in [1]), and a monoid is one of such structures.

I've had some luck with the first chapter of this (free) [2] book, although they explain groups and not monoids but for me it was then rather quick to gain intuition about monoids.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid#Relation_to_category_th...

[2] https://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html
A celebrated example was the use of the freshly-minted "Prevention of Terrorism Act" to stop an old man heckling the Foreign Secretary:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1499466/Heckler-82-w...

Notably in that case the police yet again reflexively denied actually using the power:

"At first Sussex police denied that Mr Wolfgang had been detained or searched but a spokesman later admitted that he had been issued with a section 44 stop and search form under the Terrorism Act."

which rather suggests that they used as a convenient way to stop the government being embarrassed, as opposed to its proper use of frustrating serious crime (if they really thought he was a terrorist he'd have been processed with more diligence).
Sadly in germany it's rather difficult to switch between public and private or no insurance. Or rather, it's very difficult to get back on a public insurance once you're private or self-insured. The best you can hope for is pulling it off once, maybe twice.
If you usual from scratch you can use ZFS as the root filesystem and until will automatically create snapshots before software updates.

The feature is still experimental but has been working well for me during the beta period.
For LTS Ubuntu triggers an update once the .1 release is out in July maybe. I did the last two upgrades from LTS to LTS that way on my laptop and had no issues.
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Elon Musk: 420 Starlink satellites are operational
Do not hesitate to support its developer.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1250519176055328775

[1] https://www.patreon.com/whitequark
Til, People are more than happy to sell their children for a slightly cheaper mortgage as long as you dress it up correctly.
Reality does not work in the way you wish it to.
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Does anyone else feel like if Windows was still a classic OS instead of "as a service" then these types of changes would have a chance to get more scrutiny during development and hopefully get caught?
If you have 800 000 active cases you need to reduce R very close to 0 to get rid of it in a reasonable time, just having sub 1 is not enough.
Ah I see what you mean :-) We'll yes I left out the RCE as I'm not an RCE person, I look for sandbox escapes and privilege escalation bugs. The injection of a DLL is to test rather than as an exploit.

I was originally going to write about using the same bug in Firefox. The default content sandbox in FF is basically the same as Chrome GPU, so any untrusted HTML/JS coming from the web could exploit RCE to get into a sandboxed process where this bug could be used. I decided considering they're using the Chromium sandbox code it really should be about Chrome.

That said, this sandbox escape isn't being presented for practical reasons. It'd be incredibly noisy to do and potentially unreliable due to the various mitigations you have to circumvent. Any "real" attacker would likely use an exploit in the kernel's WIN32K component which is accessible from GPU.
Cycling is very heavily used in Oulu, Finland, despite what amounts to several months of Winter: https://wintercyclingblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/oulu-finl...
Direct link: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/explor...
I doubt that indicates that it's becoming mainstream so much as that they had trouble scaling production up quickly enough for all the techies that all decided at once to play with VR once they were stuck inside.
I suggest you read a bit more about reliable data transmission and FEC. Burst error FECs absolutely available and used (mostly FEC + interleaving in this order).
I've been using 20.04 since the early betas and Ubuntu since the first release. I haven't been this impressed with an Ubuntu release since that first install.
Except that in Paris those that take a car aren't exactly doing commutes that can be done by bikes
The deal breaker for my for me is the VMware component. That licensing is too costly and a silly move imo as if they could do this without that hypervisor and use something free like Xen or KVM they’d have a ton more adoption.
Yikes. The market plunged like this despite the fed buying up trillions?
Yeah, this & https://transfer.sh are my choice for a long time.
Also not yet possible to install a snap using a chroot yet : https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1609903 (the bug has been open for 3 years). Chroots are a key mechanism to building any customized Linux image.

I hope they smooth these rough edges further before they push more snaps onto the world.
Not exactly computer science but the hardest thing I've found is preparing for algorithmic coding interviews.
Has anyone any idea what that means to the average joe? How to protect one's purchasing power?

If the government can give you free money (1200$ checks), it also has the power to take everything away from you, right?
Westport, Conn. police to test new drone technology to detect coughing and fever
Qt Creator 4.12 Released
Since 1980 or so, the caste system is on a return. Not in rhetoric, but in outcome. "Social mobility" is down, down, down in the US.
FED buying trillions was the rebound.
I think that’s the point. No plugin system. Compare Babel to Bublé or even Sucrase for example: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase

Preparing data for external use always takes extra effort.

You can build an efficient self-contained tool in JavaScript too.
I'm always looking for new benchmarks. :) Do you have any easily accessible examples where git grep is materially faster than ripgrep? If not that's cool. Thanks!
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Nah. It would have just taken longer to fix, imho.
> The snap daemon on one of my laptops always blocks the shutdown by 30 seconds

Oh THAT'S why that happens sometimes. I never bothered debugging it.
Have to wonder when will the printing of money translate into uncontrolled inflation..
The $1200 money isn't free, it is borrowed from future taxpayers.

The money the Fed prints doesn't go to Joe Average. It goes to investors who are selling the Fed junk bonds. (They then turn around, and buy stocks with those dollars, which is why the market is soaring.)
Ask HN: Apple Developer Account Blocked without reason – can somebody help?
Does anybody else have the same problem?
I have been working on an App for months now but now I wanted to submit it to the App store, but I cannot create Apple Developer Account (Enrollment) because my Account is somehow blocked. My Issue at Apple (Case Number: 101043480563) has been open since March 11th, but no progress has been made. I was inquiring almost weekly, but the very friendly senior Advisor is also waiting for an internal team to give her feedback. No progress for almost 2 months.

Been working hard to get this App online. All the infrastructure (backend etc.) is in place, but now it is all falling apart because of this.

My App will greatly improve knowledge sharing in an entertaining way and will be really helpful in the current times.

If anybody with contacts to Apple can help, it would be really appreciated.
Medical supply shortages replay how US lost the LI Battery to China
(meaning I scratch myself without thinking or noticing and suddenly have a tick in my hand)
Everything would be a microkernel if adding some kind of VM or interpreter is enough to get that name, no?

With that logic, could we argue loadable kernel modules (perhaps with proper memory separation) are a sign of a microkernel architecture?
People like you, who care about freedom and privacy, exist. I am also from behind the Iron Curtain, albeit I was born some years after it has fallen - fortunately, but the experience was ingrained in my parents. IMHO the problem is that people like us are distributed around the world, which puts us in a minority anywhere; we need to group up and watch each other's backs.
So I'm hearing the " the dollar is over, throw everything into gold, fiat money is doomed" in other forums. Can anyone give some conterpoints to that narrative?
HIPAA healthcare security act – how to comply with it
Very interesting article. But wouldn't it make more sense to look at some European health care systems which outperform the US in many respects?
Nah building is fine, just follow the steps from Debian/Ubuntu/whateverdistro . But trying to contribute is fun. By the time you've danced all the hoops to allow you to contribute, some Google employee has already refactored the code around the bug. Then you have to be fast enough to get your updated patch applied before someone else has reorganized the code again...

At some point I started wondering if indeed I'd get the fix in faster by starting to practice whiteboard interviews.
Bingo! That's it, thanks so much!
> The $1200 money isn't free, it is borrowed from future taxpayers.

That is a pretty outdated view. More like the money supply grew and everyone's money is a bit less worth.
I agree with almost everything you say, and, yes, people used IIS, windows, as webservers, only not-long ago, so, let's hope for progress. Totally agreed.
Hi, are the courses same as those freely available on Udacity, with only difference being in exercises ?
QuiteRSS: An Easy-to-Use RSS Feed Reader
Zoom users top 300m as ban list grows
Ghost? They recent rolled out inbuilt memberships. Wont work if you are selling one time access though.
You might want to give KDE Plasma a shot: it handles scaling quite well.

I find it much superior wrt Gnome, but that's a matter of preferences of course.
Mad rush in Madagascar for herbal drug touted as Covid-19 cure
I enjoyed reading about his withdrawal from public/celebrity life. His actions and works speak for themselves, and I imagine his choice to be "elusive" says a lot about his experience in the industry, how society treats its artists and artworks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson#After_Calvin_an...
eBPF are vendor kernel modules on steroids: now instead of getting compile failures trying to build your out-of-tree module, your stuff just blows up at runtime.
Is there anything else like this from the last year or so?
"The $1200 money isn't free, it is borrowed from future taxpayers."

That is debatable. They say this but at some point you have to wonder, will they have the capacity to take it off the balance sheet without massive inflation? Historically, there are two ways governments went out of huge debt: default or massive inflations. I doubt the USG will ever let itself default so inflation is more likely. One advantage that the US has is that it has the world reserve currency.
Full steam ahead to a brave new world.

No guessing involved either thanks to China
Genuine question: why would you want that? Isn't that the role of the file system or the data transport?
Ok, great story, but not really relevant to the conversation around the difference ways you can install a .deb, which is the subject of this particular sub-thread.
CDC Confirms That a Coronavirus Death Occurred on Feb. 6 in Santa Clara County
For me, an iPhone 6s hold out, this looks like a solid upgrade. The 6s is beginning to show its age (battery is creaky, processor is slower than my wife's 8, camera is so-so.) Tempted to be sure.
I believe it refers to the symbolic use of the owl of Athena/Minerva in Enlightenment-era secret societies and elite clubs like the Bohemian Grove. Alex Jones tends to call the owl Moloch, an old Semitic deity linked to child sacrifice (and actually more commonly depicted as a horned bovine kind of creature), because he believes those societies are at their core satanic. That's pretty heavy symbolism for an open source project.
The main counterpoint is that this stimulus would be needed to counter massive demand-side deflation.
Has it been fixed in Firefox?
Webassembly has a substantial performance hit for code containing hand-written vector loops using specialized instructions.

Things like video encoders and decoders are much slower in webassembly.
You always have the ppa's, one reason, except snap, itself, that I moved. Let's hope it picks up and improves. Right.
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No, a microkernel is only 'the real thing' when 'kernel modules' are simply called 'user processes'.
Interesting, I didn't know that (BBS and Usenet was before my time), so thank you for sharing.

That does sound a lot like how Scuttlebot treats feeds as well.
It isn't free, but that isn't really true. The $1200 comes out of inflation, which decreases the value of accumulated wealth (at least to the extent it sits in cash).

If you're sitting on a retirement fund, that hurts you. If you're sitting on debt, that helps you. So it's much more past tax payers than future ones who are hurt by this.

On the other hand, decreasing the value of accumulated wealth is exactly what ought to happen here. We're not producing very much, and everyone will have less actual stuff. The question is how the banking system adjusts.

If we see deflation (prices go down, salaries go down, revenues go down), people will default on debts and other fixed obligations, and the whole thing blows up in structural damage from bankruptcies, mortgage defaults, layoffs, etc.

If we see inflation, a lot less structural damage happens.

COVID19 is destroying value. What the fed is doing -- inflation in the stock market to keep prices where they were -- is exactly what ought to happen. Inflation will continue to happen elsewhere in the system. The flip side is you don't want starving, homeless people in the streets -- that will destroy massive wealth. We'll deal with that with inflation too, most likely.
Short term, the USD will probably strengthen because of huge demand from emergent markets and other places that have USD denominated loans. For more info you can watch the Dollar Milkshake theory [1], or some of the work Raoul Pal has done. Long term, I don't know, but I think the USD will weaken.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mkV-c0mlZE
Excel is a nice flight-simulator, it's just too bad it doesn't wear a miniskirt.

Edit: here's the procedures to activate a flight sim in excel 97 as I understand https://kb.iu.edu/d/agqw

You can fly around using your mouse or the arrow keys. The monolith lists Excel 97's developers.
Head of US’ pandemic vaccine group says he was demoted in retaliation
Look up Peter Zeihan. He’s bullish on the dollar mostly because it’s the world’s reserve currency and there really isn’t a good alternative. That said... I’ve heard the dollar referred to as the best looking horse in the glue factory.
Google plans to have Anthos on bare metal by year's end.

For me that's one of the biggest adoption barriers because unless you already have that VMware licences, you'll have to burn a lot of CapEX to run Anthos.

I hope they don't make us pay for both the bare metal license and the by-cpu license (or it is a _very_ small amount).
I've been tinkering with self-hosting my own Jitsi[0] instance, it's one way to limit eavesdropping only to people with access to your own infrastructure.

[0] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/README.m...