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Because AI is not really AI as was meant in the 60's. The capabilities of computers, algorithms and human researchers were vastly overestimated back then.

But nowadays we find that the AI buzzword sells really well so we decided to lower and lower the bar until almost any algorithm qualifies as AI (also, any machine qualifies as a robot).
That can't really be a motivation for not breaking monopolies though, because as you point out, both China and the US have access to everyone's data. So it is reasonable to assume that China and US would have access to everyone's data if a different company was the monopoly or even if multiple different companies provided the access. From the perspective of the government, they don't care. They just require you to tell them what they want to know whenever they ask. Controlling the population via control of the population's digital activities, which often translates to control of the population's physical activities.

China is just more ruthless on the level of the market in that if you win in China, it really is winner take all. There are no controls on the market to stop monopolies forming.
The thing is, whenever you invoke Popper, you're calling the person you disagree with a literal Nazi who wants to liquidate millions of people.

Anything short of that and the logic falls apart -- there's no threat in tolerating some disagreeable person unless they go on to take over the government and forcibly outlaw all disagreement with them.
We did it many years (11) ago for a B2C Product, around 200K users (free, 5k paid). We both had a common Postgres where we stored generic info and the customer database in Derby (product was in java).

At the time we weren't that much experiences so we also implemented migrations (whereas today I would have chosen flyway or something similar).

Customer data was text based so we didn't have that many custom fields but at the sime time we had many migrations during the years.

So, would we still do it?
Yes and no. It was amazing because it let us isolate each user.
With Filesystem backups we could restore just in time the data from each user without having to reset the whole database and with little to know system knowledge.

At the same time it restricted our choices when improving the product.
If we had to do a whole refactor of the project we always thought "How do I migrate all the users together?" We had to think about versioning, upgrade in different times and so on.

From a tech standpoint it wasn't much of a problem, but it burdened the project a little bit.
Bigger refactorings are harder and you need much more depth when you think about big new features.

I still think it was a nice solution, but this solution came also because we didn't knew a thing about partitioning in databases and we weren't expert in clustering.
All in all it allowed us to create a product sustaining a decent customer base with low knowledge for that time.

With today technology I'd test if we can do it other ways.
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You really think China is going just sit back and allow Huawei to be cut off from any sort of leading edge IC manufacturing.

I would not be too surprised if TMSC helps to start up a fab with plausible deniability on the mainland catering solely for Chinese production.
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>...if no competition is ever allowed then regulatory bodies completely overlook it.

Regulators look at the market. When they looked at desktops in 2001 they saw Microsoft with 90%+ domination and were concerned that consumer choice might be compromised and was being abused. For mobile they don't look at the 'iOS market', they look at the smartphone market and see Apple with less that 50% of it in the US.

So if you're concerned about Apple's potential abuse of it's power over it's users, which is entirely fair, anti-trust simply isn't the way to look at it. You'd need to go to regular consumer protection legislation.
Thanks for giving such a detailed response Dang.

I agree that HN has such a large userbase whilst not splintering it off in a way that division forms in sites like Reddit / Twitter is really unique.

And it's a site where excellent discourse can be had because there's an expectation of spending time to explain your point of view or back it up.

How things like dumb joke replies get downvoted is a testament to how the community wants to keep the quality up.

Personally, it's because the site is so good, that when discussion quality drops it's more noticeable.

Like in this case, I was remarking on how knee jerk the comments were that they are like predicable cliches.

But also a lot of the ideas expressed with vitriol are the majority opinion.

In the same vein. Anything that Lennart Poettering has developed seems to get the same treatment where people often respond with snark/vitriol by default no matter the reason systemd/pulseaudio or something else has hit the news.

Also a few weeks ago there was a post something to do with online game services. And a developer at a large publisher commented about how the cost of hosting servers is done on a per user basis. And they ended up replying to someone with "I've been in the industry for 6 years, I know you hate me" at the top of their response.

That kind of thing seems par for the course on Reddit / Twitter, but I guess because of the high quality of the forum, I feel sometimes that for other topics the discourse can be better.
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I am surprised by this comment; the article seemed clear that the author didn't mind paying for the book. Their issue was that the book was advertised as an EPUB file but then came wrapped in proprietary DRM.
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It seems reasonable that a plug-in for an ide would want to use the same license as the ide.
We have downloadable music existing without DRM. Music industry tried before and failed. I pay an extra price for FLAC-quality downloadable content without DRM on it. And I hope that the movie industrie will take this road some day, too.

BTT, there are a lot of books where you aren't forced into DRM. DRM creates real world issues for customers, as the shut down of DRM servers in the past showed.

If you put DRM on your book, I won't buy it. It's as simple as that. Which doesn't mean I illegally download it from "somewhere on the interwebz". I simply won't read it at all.
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I must have confused a few parts. I read in one somewhere in the article being gas powered.
Unless I missed something, the author states they never had issues with other services but they don’t say they intend to keep buying ebooks despite one bad experience.

One would hope the author is exaggerating but I have seen a number of people in my life be this irrational. I’m inclined to take the title as is given any lack of evidence to the contrary.
The issue is that if you have a model which is bad for consumers it doesn’t matter how awesome it is for creators. It won’t work out.
Without GPU support, not much.
The only winning move is not to play. Applicant tracking systems are a joke, it's best to go through a recruiter or your network and avoid those things entirely.
Other emissions like particulates can be worse from wood burning. And most of the CO2 is likely to have been collected over a much longer period than a few months. Without a significant tree planting effort it is likely to increase CO2 levels.
The author has a very good point: buying ebooks is a crappy consumer experience.

If that wasn't true, dead-tree books would be as rare as Compact Discs.
Mostly because business isn't really that hard, and we're still struggling to even define the rules it operates by.

AI alqays looks cool, but isn't very useful in practice. The past ten years feels like everything is keynote-driven development; get something nifty looking that demos well and try to shoehorn it into a business case.
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Considering the author already strips the DRM from the purchased e-books and also apparently knows about Z library, a simple solution seems to be the buy the e-book, ignore it and then download the same e-book from Z library.

I also feel the frustration though. I won't buy e-books unless it either has no DRM or if I know I can strip it easily afterwards.
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If you want React in your blog, is it really a blog any more?

It's trivial to add React into a Markdown page, since Markdown allows you to include html tags.
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This is a distribution and not a format problem.

A poor experience with what sounds like a poor distributor, and, perhaps by extension, a poor and limiting DRM, should not be considered representative for an otherwise neat format (.epub).

If sales are done right, the experience is seamless, as the author himself finds to be the case with other distributors.
Boomers sure were exposed to a whole hell of a lot of lead from leaded gasoline.

More interestingly, it seems as if it is actually follows the plot of a novel, called “Q” written in 1999 by an Italian surrealist collecting under the pseudonym “Luther Bisset”.
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If paying results in a worse experience than having to steal, then the business is indeed questionable.
Yes, that's more what I'm picturing. That asymptotic phase makes 5-8 years seem unlikely unless a legal obstacle is introduced.
And large organizations would complain about why they couldn’t group their resources like they want to. Having individual bucket costs would be of very little use for cost allocation and to tie back to something like a department. For instance, we tag every resource created with the same CloudFormation template with the same tag. We can get billing based on an “application” and all of its related resources.

Just like AWS is not understandable to someone new, I feel the modern front end ecosystem is royal cluster but yet and still thousands of people understand it after a 12 week boot camp.
Ditto always felt like 'poor mans automation' to me but in some fields for some tasks it seems to deliver rapid ROI which is what the C suite love.
You can opt in for detailed billing report, and get detailed daily reports on what you are being charged on. You can load it in any db of your choice and ask all the questions that you want.
There is some truth to this account: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6t-wCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131&lp... It's called CORRTEX.

And I think you could probably set up a PDP-11 to sample roughly every millisecond so this could work.
Now imagine how the demo would look like if they were allowed to use Electron size for the executable/shader code.
I encourage you to watch a Joe Rogan episode from last year when he brought Jack Dorsey, a Twitter VP, and Tim Pool. [1]

The reason this episode is relevant to your comment discussion is that Pool presents that there is this paradigm problem where certain policies intended to bring "inclusion" end up excluding something like half of the U.S. population. This paradigm Twitter management is stuck in prevents them from understanding how people outside their paradigm view their actions, and this results in effectively banning a enormous set of the population from popular discourse.

It is hard to evaluate if this is exclusively an American issue because, really, there are so few other countries that speak English.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ
Stackoverflow's DBA had just posted about this: https://twitter.com/tarynpivots/status/1260680179195629568

He has 564,295 tables in one SQL Server. Apparently this is for "Stack Overflow For Teams"
The most important thing to me when building a blog or info type site is how hard it will be to maintain or change in a year or more.

I have one site running on Wagtail (Django) for the past 3 or 4 years, and two other sites currently built with Hugo (LotsOfOpps[0] and BuiltRigs[1]). I've put together lots of other sites with Hugo, Wordpress, and other Django CMSes.

The Wagtail site is definitely overengineered, and I usually dread making updates to the code a few years on.

I've messed around with other generators like 11ty[2] and Gridsome[3] (both pretty cool projects!), but I mostly keep coming back to Hugo. It's pretty simple, and so far I haven't had to worry about a 3rd-party package breaking stuff.

[0] https://www.lotsofopps.com
[1] https://www.builtrigs.com
[2] https://gridsome.org/
[3] https://www.11ty.dev/
A doctor administering chemotherapy is such a daft counterargument that I don't know where to start.

Dominic Cummings was infected with the Coronavirus and by moving to a second home and by his own admission using the local healthcare resources in that area he was risking spreading the virus.
That’s the simulation we’re living in!
And yet he mentions his good experience with GOG, No Starch, etc. I think he's just used to publishers who don't use DRM.
There's a hepaing of hyperbole on there, but my experience with buying ebooks is very similar - Aside from buying from e.g. pragprog, who don't do DRM.

When pirating books, I download it, put it on my ereader, and read it.

When actually purchasing books, I need to install Adobes proprietary DRM-program, open the book in there, unlock it with my account, then use the Adobe program to transfer it to my tablet.

Not a huge hassle, but pirating just works, and offers an experience that's infinitely more pleasant.
> You bring up a good point - it would be a good idea for AWS to set some sensible max budget defaults for new accounts to prevent surprises.

I didn’t say anything about this at all. It would certainly be a nice feature, and one people have asked for since the very beginning of AWS.

> Since they don't, if you are literally so concerned with your current costs for this month, you can set a budget and alerts for whatever you want, so that you don't exceed some cost.

Again, this is a strawman. This isn’t a response to anything I said.

If you’re trying to understand how much a new deployment on AWS is costing you, and find ways to optimize that, you don’t care about the total budget of the account, or having some auto shutoff. You need detailed, real-time information from Amazon, which I’ve never seen in the console.

It’s been several years since I’ve had to be digging around in the billing console, so I have no stake in this discussion and things might have changed. Based on other comments being made around here, I really doubt anything significant has changed.

I was just trying to clarify a comment you completely misunderstood.
Music was being made LONG before there was a music industry.

Creating value and collecting a portion of the value created are completely different skill sets. You can't put them together by just saying it MUST BE SO. That's the "central committee" approach and history has shown that while it appears attractive, it will more likely destroy it all.
Never thought of it from the creators perspective. Thanks for giving me a new problem to solve during quarantine! I'm 100% certain there is an ideal system to manage every human problem, it's just a matter of investigation.
Preface: I like very detailed pull-requests. For me this includes JIRA information and implementation notes. Most of my recent work has been backend API stuff, and org-babel/restclient [0] lets me do fast test-driven-development in the same file. These inputs / outputs are included in the PR render so it's easy to see what the API is doing.

> How do you use org-mode to automate pull-requests?

I have a script called 'new_jira $JIRA_NUMBER' which pulls relevant JIRA information from the REST API and generates an org-mode file. I do my work and list implementation details, gotchas, and generally narrate work done. Details are light for easy tickets, and heavy on complex ones. Finally, render it as markdown and copy/paste in the GitHub PR field.

I also include tips / tricks if it's not appropriate to comment directly in the code base. I come back and search for these later (knowledge base).

> Do you make the pull request inside emacs?

I've usually faced admin issues trying to get the necessary tokens to make PRs in emacs. Just render, copy & paste in the PR title/description field.

> Are you using it to compile a note from all of the commits in a certain branch?

That's right. All work relevant to a particular ticket is captured in a single org-mode file. I keep my git history clean and well documented so it's not necessary to use these files to understand commit history though.

> Or something else?

For work unrelated to the JIRA flow (e.g. security bug hunting) I use org-mode to track the entire narrative and use org-babel to inline code necessary for the exploit. This makes security reporting easy as I just render as PDF and shoot it off to the security people.

[0] https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
do you not remember when all of cancel police on twitter got mad at Bernie for accepting Rogan's endorsement in the primary? he can call himself whatever he wants that doesn't mean it's true.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-r...

"Rogan, a libertarian-leaning broadcaster with a public persona in the mold of Howard Stern"
I guess you'd have to come up with a way to explain that adding numbers (which is what you're doing with 1/3 + 1/3) is not the same as combining/averaging fractions, i.e. when you're totaling subgroups into a larger group. It's almost like we need a different "combining" operator for the latter that means to add both the numerator and denominator, because + isn't right for this. Now that I think about it, I'm surprised there is no such operator for averaging.

It's not as bad of a nightmare as trying to explain the answer to the missing dollar riddle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_dollar_riddle. That's an absolute nightmare.
Some corrections:
AWS Outposts: Run Amazon services in your own datacenter (not on your own hardware)

Storage Gateway: Virtual appliance to couple on-premises applications to storage in the cloud.

(So it's no iSCSI (block) to S3 (object) but Block(iSCSI to EBS), File (SMB/NFS/S3 to S3), or Tape (iSCSI VTL))

Addition:

VMware Cloud on AWS: Bare-metal, automatically deployed VMware clusters on AWS hardware.
In the US. It's an at-will state meaning they can fire you for any reason other than stuff like race, religion, disability etc.

Alcoholism is covered here too. The employer must offer to get you help the first time since it is a medical condition (disability).
Which is a shame, I should add, because I want to pay for the culture I consume, but vendors, copyright, and publishers try their best to make that process as wonky as possible.
It's worth noting that this article is from 2019. There hasn't been another article about iOS 13 support yet.
They are awful. I have tried and tried to list the cost by resource (like you can in Azure) and I just can't figure it out. I think I might need to enable some special pricing tools (coincidentally not free) that Cost Explorer don't expose.
How many web developers know Erlang though? this project is mostly web based no?
This seems like a good way to accidently run abitrary code downloaded from the internet.

I can see opening up in an editor as useful shortcut. But actually executing code without an executable bit seems a bit more dangerous.
> Having DRM on books is a fucking dystopia nightmare that shouldn't even be a thing and I hope that the EU will pass laws to nuke them from orbit

Learn polish ;)) there is no DRM on polish ebook sites. You just pay and get links to PDF/EPUB/MOBI formats of ebook. There is only watermark protection, example site: https://virtualo.pl/ebook/heban-i150038/ but it is similar in all publishing houses.
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None of what you wrote seems to me to be a justification for DRM.
Yes, I have been a Linux zealot once. I have been a "no DRM here" zealot once.

I am now running Windows 10 + WSL and I begrudgingly accept if I want to support the authors while reading on an eReader I need to accept the DRM'd ebooks. I am getting too old to struggle with being a zealot. There are better things to spend my time on.

You can download the DeDRM tools from https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/ linking to github, no crazy sites involved.

Ps.: Funnily enough, my device is actually called a Not-eReader. It's lovely because it doubles as an emergency HDMI monitor.
I'm being downvoted too lol, politics on HN are so ridiculous.
I don't mind buying ebooks, movies, music but it has to be simple. With DRM is less good, but even DRM, as long as it's simple. I had the same experience as the author with a book I bought in Spain; they had ebooks so I bought this one. The process was so convoluted and annoying (and only worked on Windows which I don't have here) (also; I am a technical person/programmer; how is a 'normal' person supposed to do this?) that I definitely won't buy again from them.

I think unlike the author though, I was not attempting to remove the DRM; the process of getting to read the book with DRM was many steps (downloading adobe crap, etc) and the endresult was something with DRM that could be opened in another Adobe program but no-where else.

The most annoying part is books 'disappearing' or becoming unreadable like what happens on Amazon; like there are books that I bought which are limited to n devices (all mine and my account!) or they just suddenly cannot be read anymore (and cannot be downloaded again). What else can I do then just download illegally?
That’s the same as saying: if you put 1/3rd pizza slice on top of an other 1/3rd pizza slice, you get 2/6 pizza. Layered math.
Isn’t this much like how Diesel engines work? They compress air first to heat it to the point that when mixed with fuel it spontaneously ignites. Maybe glow plugs can make a comeback.
I buy ebooks largely out of convenience. I’ll be laying in bed and want to continue the The Witcher. There are plenty of pirated copies of this but I’m not going to trouble myself so I just buy this thing I’ll spend weeks falling asleep in front of.

Occasionally I’ll try to get something from the library but it has a seven week waiting time on it. Forget it. I buy that then also.

Sometimes I want to remove the DRM from something, I buy a fair amount of ebooks I should be allowed to make this call.

In the past I’ve used caliber to do this.

Unfortunately the DeDRM plugin is broken on Catalina. As far as I can tell you have to boot macOS into safe mode and disable SIP to get it working.

The eBook market kinda sucks. Not every book is available, for example a friend and I wanted to read Inca Gold as sort of a joke together. He bought the book used in hardcover, this particular novel is not available in the Kindle Store. I clicked the notify publisher they should publish this as an ebook link then I found a copy floating around on the web.

The other thing is pricing. eBooks cost much more than regular books and I can not understand why except because it is convenient. Frankly the device is convenient. Not a lot about the systems that support ebooks feels convenient.

Even supporting services like Goodreads feel clunky and stale at this point.

I largely blame Amazon for half hearted support of kindle. Their flagship device has a micro usb on it.
I struggle to see it as anything else and I find it difficult to read blog posts like this. Why are so many people so viscerally angry in oss?
Yes, I hear the anecdotes as well. I guess a lot depends on what happens in the fall/winter corona-wise. If it declines and doesn't come back you could make the case for a relatively quick recovery.