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> What other evidence would you like to see?

What do you mean by "other" evidence? You didn't provide any.

> but it does have less problems

Unsubstantiated claim.

> and it has worked for more than a century for this great nation

Unsubstantiated claim.

To respond in a manner similar to your other comments:

What does "worked" mean? How is it an improvement? How does it have fewer problems? Where exactly did it work in whatever great nation you're thinking of. Have you considered where it didn't work? What is the metric for "worked"?
Good to know for future discussions about this technique. I wonder if there is a way to make Chrome on Windows behave better in this regard .. seems quite shortsighted to me that they'd remove the links, although maybe a security boffin has made the case for it.

Either way, haven't used Windows in decades, so its a non-issue, but it is interesting to note that this isn't something I'd be doing if I did switch.
> Imagine how many iPhone users could be persuaded to sideload ‘corona 5g bioshield app detunes the software radio in your phone away from the harmful frequencies the NWO is trying to expose us to’.

Less than 0.5% of them, apparently.

But also, what do you care what idiots do? Nobody is forcing you to install it on your phone. Freedom of choice is not an obligation to choose poorly.
Actually, wet markets in Asia have the same health standards like the ones in China: close to none ;).

Covid19 spread faster, unfortunately. There are quite a few viruses/infectious diseases spreading in Asia that didn't made it big-time like Covid19.
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Check Asrock Rack series motherboards, like https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X... (am4) or https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X... (tr4). It is minus the RGB and plus IPMI.
This is pretty disappointing. Recently Strava seemed to be turning the corner, releasing new features that users
wanted.

Totally understand their need to make money, seeing that they've raised 5 rounds from VC.

However, burning goodwill like this is super counterproductive. After all, most of my riding is on Zwift, I could also switch to Garmin, etc.
Well, causes need sacrifices to succeed :)
I think there's a difference between using BSD to build an appliance and running BSD as a day-to-day system.

pfSense is a wonderful firewall appliance. FreeNAS is a wonderful storage appliance. If you need pf or native ZFS, a BSD is probably your best way to get it.

If you want to run a random headless server to mess around with, you are probably going to have a harder time with any of the BSDs than you would with even bleeding-edge Linux distros. If you want to run a graphical desktop with 3D acceleration and HD video you will almost certainly have a harder time than any Linux user.

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There are, of course, people who are happily using BSD-based desktops right now and I am certainly not denying them anything, but even they'd have to admit they would have been able to get most of the same experience with a lot less effort on a modern Linux.
well, it was mildly amusing while it lasted.

See you all on ridewithgps where all the brevet cue sheets are cross-posted first anyway.
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Think more evil-ly on the part of an invested party with a mission using the data in ways they want.

Imagine high-resolution evaluation of your work as a programmer by a nefarious party that is out to get you or your team.
> Just want to make a correction here: Amazon was definitely not losing money on every sale.

Correct. Amazon is in the other category of unicorn--ignore those pesky laws that limit our competitors.

Amazon gained 5-8% on every sale because they didn't collect sales tax for a VERY long time.

This drove my local booksellers crazy, and probably put them out of business. Yes, I'm still mad about that.

Amazon should have been fined billions for those infractions.

But it is just another example of "Do that illegal thing that's profitable. We likely won't get fined enough for it to be a problem."
The reason is that car service drivers are also being replaced and they are more likely to have been FTEs.
I really wish I had known about Debian Stable when I made the switch to Linux. My first Linux comp was a nightmare because the specific combo of Ubuntu (early 18) and hardware had a myriad of issues. I ended up switching to Ubuntu 16 which worked much better and from what I now know Debian probably would have been even less trouble.
I deliberately left the RGB header unplugged on my CPU cooler for this reason.
John Carmack streaming his programming sessions would make me happier than almost anything else programming related.
> Similarly, you grandfather got lucky that he didn't die when his village was burned, that he didn't die in a work camp, that he could immigrate to the US, that someone gave him a job and wasn't in a community that hated Polish people for no reason. Your parents and you were lucky to be born to the families you were. There's less context about you/your father/your uncle, but I imagine there was a lot of luck of someone else giving you a chance involved.

Thanks for this. You're right. You've made me realize that I'm probably falling victim to intergenerational information loss or just a lack of appreciation.

A couple years ago I sat down with my grandfather with a voice recorder and asked him a bunch of questions about what it was like when he was in Germany, when he immigrated, what he did once he got here.

He was lucky to be able to immigrate to the US. After the war, he worked for a while in an office for the German government (he actually still gets a pension check from the German government) doing paperwork for displaced citizens and helping them get visas to Australia and the US. He had all his paperwork worked out to go to Australia instead of the US and at the last minute he was able to get sponsorship in Chicago and was able to come here instead. I think the only reason that connection came through was because it was someone he helped immigrate earlier.

He was lucky that someone gave him a job. In fact, that's the exact expression he used when I asked him. If I asked him, the guy with the hardest cross to bear, he'd definitely attribute a lot of his life to getting lucky.

But my dad and uncle weren't lucky to get to a community that didn't hate Polish people. I've heard a story that my uncle and dad were beat up as they were walking home from school one day and my uncle had his head put through a window, just for being Polish.

I think it's all about context. My grandfather looks at what life would have been like if he was still in Poland and thinks, "Of course I'm lucky!" My dad looks at the kids he grew up around and thinks, "I didn't speak any English until the first grade. I'm lucky, but things could have been easier for me." And I think, "I'm just a normal American guy, things are as easy for me as they would be for anyone."
Tracker blocking would explain some of this (though my experience is that it's <10% of traffic, though I'm dealing with a lot more than 20 visitors pr. day). Your JS solution is unnecessary though for first-party tracking, just parse your server logs.
I generally like some of his work, but I think he could have done a better job of digging up some of the problems with the accusations. When Harvey Weinstein got some of the women onto the stands, they had to admit they were sending some pretty affectionate text messages.

Farrow's reporting would have been better if he had managed to get some of the other side into the articles. It's kind of sad we had to wait until the trials to get a fuller picture.
Agree, culture is perhaps the elephant in this room.
Roughly half of lower-income Americans don’t own a PC[1], and we have some of the highest market share in the world. I don’t have numbers handy outside the U.S. but again, 1 billion PCs doesn’t cover much of the population.

The trend has been obvious for years: more and more people do all of their computing on smartphones.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/07/digital-div...
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You jest, but an email to backlog service is something some managers might buy.
> I'm not saying anything about anyone's intent

Well then don't say anything at all. It adds nothing to the conversation. Don't push your ideals on others. Take your SJW crusade elsewhere. That's one positive thing from this pandemic - the shift in focus away from these types of (IMO) non-existent 'problems.'
> terminal experience

Sounds like a horror title.
As a non-paying user, this seems to be mostly fair. I used to do pretty remote trail running, and the route building feature was great for putting together a route and exporting it to my watch. If I get back into that type of running, then I'd probably be willing to pay just for that feature.

Hiding the "friends only" leaderboard seems like a bad idea on their part. That feature definitely drove engagement and friendly rivalries. It's not the same if it's only amongst your paid subscriber friends, which is not many.

I appreciate them doing more to get users to pay. I've never paid for Strava, despite having been a very active user in the past. I generally like them as a network, and wouldn't want them to go away.

The immediately breaking API changes are pretty bad. I wonder what the impetus was behind that move. Too complicated to have it act as a transition? Maybe they could have announced these changes, but have them start in 30 days, with a small discount for users if you subscribe before then.
If I recall correctly, later games actually packed higher throughout ram into the cartridges to work around the latency of the onboard ram.
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I was going to say there must be apps that do this but it looks like Play store would ban those as well because they don't want apps doing that?

I think Google should subject power user apps to more scrutiny than banning them outright. If Android doesn't support things like these then it's no better than iphones.
So you have no evidence of it happening then? And we're just supposed to assume by default that it's happening even though you can't provide any proof?
> The trick is to squeeze your long-term UI project in the same update as some routine security fixes. Then the clients are forced to learn the new system.

Is this sarcasm? Seems like a really user-hostile attitude if not. Admittedly, my personal point-of-view is that the majority of UI updates are make-work for engineers and PMs with at best no value added, and at worst negative value created (as you experienced).
> Ahh - the comment from the person with the multi-car garage, the tesla and the range rover.

I think you have me mistaken for someone else. I don't have any of those things. Not even close.
>> roll out new changes slowly.

That really depends on your customers and the product. In this case, control systems, incremental changes are definitely not the way to go. Imagine if your car made an incremental change to the position of the brake pedal every time you turned it on. In such situations you don't babystep. You announce the change ahead of time, provide your customers with transition training, and make the change as scheduled.

In the case of "adaptive" menus in control systems, imagine if the elevator in your building rearranged its floor buttons so that the most requested floors were always at the top. Total chaos. People learn where their button is on day one. After that ANY change is going to go badly no matter what the UI engineers say. That UI should be carved in stone for the life of the building.
> So he wants the western world to emulate Taiwan's response, huh?

I think he wants to cherry-pick examples to push the narrative that the lockdown's economic impact is far greater than the lives it would have saved.
I dont know any off hand but Mathew Walkers book "Why we sleep" talks about them. Apparently there are more road traffic accidents the day after the clocks change in spring when many people loose an hours sleep.
"In the old economy of price signals, you tried to build a product that people would want, and the way you knew it worked is that people would pay you more than it cost. You were adding value to the world, and you could tell because you made money. In the new economy of user growth, you don't have to worry about making a product that people want because you can just pay them to use it, so you might end up with companies losing money to give people things that they don't want and driving out the things they do want."

This "new economy" does not sound like a legitimate one. We often see complaints online about "gatekeeping" in today's US society. This appears to be an attempt for all "economic" activity to be controlled through "investment" by a small number of people desperately searching for returns (because the real economy is in shambles). Destroy competition ("disrupt") and then rent-seek.

Proponents once claimed software as a business had infinite upside because the overhead costs are so low. They argued anyone could start a software company. Not today. VC required. That seems to be the general consensus.

Why does today's software require so much investment? Low quality work product that "cost" some ridiculous dollar amount in developer salaries which is then "sold" at the price of something like $0.00-3.99. The "value" to be recouped through surveillance of the user. Brilliant.

Unicorn is the perfect symbol because all of this is pure fantasy.

Money with no place to go. There is no "new economy". There is only the old (real) one that is in dire straits. That is why investors are so desperate. They will try anything.
Totally. Interesting parallel I hadn't considered. Set-it-and-forget-it SaaS is a sweet place to be :)
That can be accommodated. Automatic suspension that lasts 20-30 minutes while someone on the team looks into the case and makes a human judgement.

But a full suspension, on a popular app, without rapid human review? That shouldn't happen.

Also, this wasn't up to the "install marked as dangerous" level. They just prevented new installs. In a situation like that, there's no need to act instantly.
Those links were in response to different issues you raised. The answer to this question is that downvoting and flagging are vital mechanisms for preventing HN from becoming completely overrun with much lower-quality threads. There is a ton of dreck on the internet, including here, and there needs to be countervailing mechanisms to address it. Upvotes alone can't cut it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Basically, they are the immune system of the forum, and we need those white blood cells. There's a downside, to be sure—HN certainly gets bad downvotes and flags. But there are mechanisms to address those, like corrective upvotes (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and vouching (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and as a last resort you can always email hn@ycombinator.com. Meanwhile the downside of having no immune system at all would be much worse.
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> Giving zero days notice to your 3rd-party developers is one way to anger a relatively powerful bunch of your users.

I understand the frustration, but I also understand Strava's desire to rip the band-aid off and just shut it down.

When it comes to free APIs, a sunsetting period gives a lot of people the idea that they can change the company's mind if they complain loudly enough, make enough noise on social media, or threaten boycotts and other punishments for the company. Ironically, the longer the sunset period, the angrier people get.

Also, I'm not convinced the 3rd-party API consumers are particularly powerful in this case. Strava is obviously focusing on profitability, so removing access to a free feature that appears in other company's apps isn't likely to make much difference to the company.

Their plan sounds like exactly what they need to do: Focus on building a core product that people will feel the need to pay for. Giving 90% of the value proposition away for free, including letting it show up in 3rd-party apps, isn't a great path to profitability unless they have another 10% of extremely valuable paid add-on content. As a Strava user, I've never felt compelled to upgrade because all of the functionality I actually wanted was free.
Are they going to regret having 4,000 micro services now?
>Please remove all metadata and In-app mentions of COVID-19 or its related keywords such as stay home, social distancing, etc.

that is just crazy

As usual they are just using a hammer to crack a nut.

They can't pull this shit with youtube because creators have a direct line to draw attention to it. With developers they know it will go largely unreported
Parkinson's law?
Dark window tinting is a nuisance to other drivers and poses a hazard at night (it limits what you will see when you look in your mirror.) I have no problem with it being enforced.

I definitely agree that you can't draw much of a conclusion from those numbers. They address some of the causes--some officers will be in areas with more of one race. This is even done deliberately as a supposedly race-friendly measure--assigning officers that match the predominant racial group of an area so they don't feel it's the white man imposing the law on them.

I can see other possible patterns, though--industrial area, expect to cite more men. Suburban area during working hours--expect a lot of soccer moms.
Anything that can cause your company to lose a lot of money can be truly urgent. For example, your biggest customer needs a new feature, and if they don't get it by the end of the quarter, they'll switch to your competitor.

On the other hand, artificial deadlines that are invented by your company's management are usually not urgent.
Texas is probably the best place to build trucks for PR value. "Texas edition" is something they even put on trucks made in Mexico. Texas is seen as strong and independent, values respected by much of the customer base. To be less politically correct, "Made in California" will definitely hurt sales for some of the redneck demographic.

Its great economy doesn't hurt either. Unlike cars, there's not a strong value in having these trucks on the coast near export terminals. Non-commercial trucks are very much a US thing. And even more a Deep South thing.
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This is a great example of why it’s important to charge money for things up front, rather than later on. If they’d charged for these features from day 1, this could have been a glowing article about how their revenue model has helped them support feature development and build a third-party app ecosystem. They should have charged for it sooner.
So all my late nights playing video games as a teenager could've been justified had I only phrased it as "doing a PVT for cognitive studies"?!
Unicorn never meant lower on the profitability side though. It just means a valuable pre-IPO late stage start-up. Plenty of them were or went on to be insanely profitable.
Yeah, and this is advertised in the 700X moniker. If you want an overclockable chip you need something from the *600 series.
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I think it doesn't hurt that most if not all of the packages needed for code generation are built into the language's standard library.
Unfortunately these tiny side projects are not the answer. They'll never get traction because they're not better devices.

The answer is to either hack Android/iOS so you can patch out all the bundled bs or to regulate them and force them to offer a "clean" OS version.
This is a subtle and often-missed point. In the markets where they are trying to acquire customers and become dominant, the "Uber-for-X" businesses have negative gross margins. But they will have surely demonstrated (or the investors really are fools) that, once they have saturated a particular market (ie, a region or city) they are unit profitable. The bottom line looks bad because these companies are growing so fast that their balance sheet is dominated by the markets they're aggressively trying to corner, which wipes out the profits from the markets they have already won and proven viable.
I discovered Zotero for this use. I don't have any use of its bibliographical abilities, but it stores web pages and PDF articles fine, and is searchable, etc.
This excuse might hold even a little bit of water if the "validation" actually did anything. Google Play is a malware distributor, plain and simple. Go search the Play store for "flashlight" and read up on the permissions of any of the first 10 results.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=flashlight

GPS location, full network access, prevent device from sleeping, run at startup, microtransactions, read contacts and accounts, read your filesystem... for a flashlight app. These are malware. The Play store is 95% malware, or worse.

Moves like the one that locks out Termux aren't protecting the user at all; Google has never been interested in that. They centralize power. That's what it's all about.
For what it is worth, Nike Run Club app along with all premium features is now free, at least for a few months while this pandemic is going on
You could try the awesome SingleFile extension: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

It might be a good compromise between PDF and plain text. It's pretty nice because it essentially serialises a snapshot of the current DOM tree, so it works with all kinds of JS-generated pages.

The files should be relatively grep-able, because it's normal HTML. Of course, you might want to strip HTML tags for more sophisticated searching.
Yes... I love when the "majority" decides to limit freedoms, under penalty of violence. Because apparently that is "the collective interest".

The most annoying bit is that it's never the majority. It's at best plurality that "gets" to decide.
> There are no good reasons for exceptions to this technique, imho

Dynamic web sites? A PDF of my bank website isn't going to help me much.
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Works fine for me. Sounds like automated filter kicking in, which is a double-edged sword, but in itself doesn't say anything abt Twitter's stance here.
You can grep the saved archives and they often save working copies of local interactive content in a way PDF doesn't. Internal structure and annotation is also preserved. I'm not sure I understand the formatting comment, you seem to be saying formatting is not lost and supporting that with an example of how formatting is lost. Don't get me wrong, it should definitely be easier to save, index and otherwise manipulate web pages. But out of the the trivial methods, 'print to PDF' is one of the poorer methods.