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What's the problem with copyright? Assuming the rights owner can be found and midi transcriptions made of the piano rolls, why would it be legally any more complicated than publishing sheet music? Of course any public performace would require royalties, as would shipping the midi files as demos when selling a piano, but that's kind of the whole point of copyright law.
Sure, but how does that make Apple a monopoly abuser without broadening the definition to the point of it being applicable to damn near everything?
Looks cool but sad to see the chat system isn't threaded/topic-based to make it more async-friendly like how Zulip or forums do.

IRC/Slack-style channels make remote work on different timezones really difficult because all the convos are mixed together in big blender channels instead of having each conversation labeled separately.
(along with all their head-scratching locked-in customers)
And what kind of fun hat do you wear for peacocking?
Now it's a computer.
Source? I don't think the MOV in your power strip, or the typical ESD protections are going to save you.

There are also conventional EMPs to worry about.

Also, you could probably just take out key points with carbon dust bombs like we did in Iraq War #1.
> if we decide to have additional children and the data showed we could select for traits that were important to us (intelligence, height, athletically predisposed), I would absolutely opt for it. You want the best for your children (in my experience), and this is yet another selector in life to give them every advantage.

Gwern has a nice article on embryo selection: [0] I think the summary is "it has moderate-to-large effects, and might be worth the money today, and almost certainly will be worth the money in ten years".

0: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection
I'm sure there are many but Solidus is one: https://solidus.io/
Can anybody explain to me why I would use the CSS grid to accomplish this and not negative margins on inline divs? The latter is how I immediately guessed that this would be implemented. What would be the advantages of the grid method?
It's ironic a bit because if you dig into spenrose's comment history they're critical of nuclear.. and seem to mostly comment on articles like this one.

I think this person has an agenda they want to push and they want to shout down anyone with ad-hominems who doesn't share their world view.

Is this not against hacker news guidelines?

Dang?
Just like exists a gap between allocating memory like crazy, and taking care where it is allocated from, and what kind of data structures are used before assuming that malloc()/free() are faster than the alternatives without taking into consideration what happens between calling them and the kernel round-trip that takes place.

So, while Haskell isn't D or Nim, there also also more than just one way to allocate memory when performance fine tuning is called for.

And yes, in Fintech that is exactly what they do, reach out for FPGAs and measure cable lengths as well, while on high integrity computing all allocations are static, either at compile time or as part of the application startup, nothing else is allowed.
It's open source, either do it yourself or quit complaining.
Add more cores and you'd increase the resolution that you can play your video at.
When I was using my credit union's billpay, sometimes they would do that, and sometimes they would write a check against my account; it wasn't apparent why (as I recall, some scheduled checks were issued with both methods over time)
That's not how it works; they don't use a single question.

I suppose it may work better for people who have lived in a variety of places and had a number of different accounts or loans.
Who pushed out the police? That guy you're talking about who got shot? He was a cop. On duty. Guarding the courthouse. There were police right there. You're saying he got killed because there was no one to protect him while he protected us? How does that work?

In fact there wasn't even a protest going on in that area. This was a drive-by shooting by some kind of provocateur maniac, designed more or less PRECISELY to enable bad faith arguments like yours.
Not that some movies don't have an unskippable "please update your player firmware for the best viewing experience(tm)"
> How would apple lowering their feeds, allowing a competing app store, allowing sideloaded apps, or allowing apps to have subscriptions outside of apple pay make it easier for crappy apps to make it to the app store?

Apple is a company that is fully dedicated to product.

Lower fees = lower barrier to entry = crapware, this impacts the product.
Sideloaded apps are a dangerous vector for malware (https://cybersecuritymag.com/sideloading-malware/), this impacts the product.
It's not right to offer an app that doesn't allow subscriptions through the app store, this impacts the product.

The fact is we have a case study in what a non-walled garden looks like, the dumpster fire that is Android, with wildly differing levels of quality, confusing applications from different vendors, a terrible play store experience, etc. It's quite clear how we get to B.

Allowing a competing app store is implicitly supporting that app store - meaning if it bricks your phone, or installs malware, it hurts the user experience of Apple, and the product.

> If there's a competing app store and it's so permissive that it turns into low quality nightmare, then customers will keep using the apple app store. I don't understand how you're getting from A to B.

So back at square one, you see the problem? People WANT curated app stores. They want ONE app store to buy their apps. They don't want to download 10 app stores for 10 different apps. This ruins the product. A, meet B.

The App Store is as much a product as the iPhone. It's a product for developers to quickly, easily, and safely reach consumers to make more money. If you don't like the product as a developer, it's too expensive, or you don't like the agreement, create a web app. Safari can open it just fine. Or release only on Android, it has a huge market.

The fact is, we should not be punishing business unless there is a malpractice by the business that can't be remedied by the market - this is clearly not the case here. It is developer sour grapes because his overpriced mail app tried to cheat the system.
Context Graph: bringing context back to the web (2016)
What are you on? 20km on foot is a great distance, especially when you're unsure of where you are. And 20km in area is a massive amount of space. When you don't know which direction to go, even a mile is daunting.
They didn’t have stingrays 40 years ago.
Yes, totally agree with you here. Synchronising to make the decision, then writing it down for async later reference and to inform those who weren't included in the synchronous bit for whatever reason is the best mix.

(which is exactly what agenda and minutes are for - they are the asynchronous preparation and followup)
They shouldn’t be doing frontend work. I’d argue frontend tooling and paradigms are more complicated than backend now.
That was my takeaway too. What games?

I assume the author of the article wouldn't have recognized the names of any good board games.
acknowledgement of all the undeniably great things about the App Store from the perspective of users and developers

As a user, I shudder anytime I have to interact with the App Store. Even when it works flawlessly, there is nothing interesting or pleasing about it. And most of my interactions with it leave me with a mild feeling of having being bullied about.

I had much rather install software via Homebrew than the App Store.
Laziness, old Yubikey hardware that doesn't do TOTP natively, logging in to websites on my phone. I probably should upgrade, it's just pretty far down my to-do list.
The difference is that to succeed at getting a new job you need to be skilled at one thing. To succeed at starting a new business you need to be skilled at a dozen unrelated things.
It is sarcasm.
The Shareware Scene articles are like an abridged version of that book. So no, it's not safe.
Seems a plausible concern that malware on the PC can access the clipboard, so they discourage copying their password into clipboard. But intercepting keystrokes to another program (at least in Windows) doesn't require any special permissions either.
Would the concern more be background web tabs (cross-site) accessing the global clipboard? Vaguely recall that was possible a long time ago but likely locked down now.
Just musing aloud, but do we hold electronics companies to different standards than other companies?

For example, imagine that the latest Slack update made all desktop clients crash, and that Slack support simply said to try restarting the client. There would be mass outrage, and the expectation of a prompt fix.

On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be much expectation of an immediate fix from Samsung in this thread.

Or if a comparison more closer to same industry is desired, imagine if the issue was with Netflix instead.

This makes me wonder aloud, are electronics behemoths held to lower standards?
Thanks for all the work on radare, xvilka! I've been using it for a few years at this point and I never thought it would be as good as it is today. I don't even bother with pirating IDA anymore.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate that inline replying effectively died out, replaced by top-posting. I think inline replies, while lending themselves to the selective quotation problem you mention, nevertheless force more careful consideration of the original text.
Moving to clean electricity is not strictly about money. Even if it is for you, factor in the difference in health costs of people around a bunch of burning coal, vs solar or wind. also environmental cleanup. etc.
Xinjiang Anti-Terrorism
> There is no singular "intelligence" and measuring it is certainly not linear.

Wanna bet? I think most intelligence researchers would disagree with you, and IQ is predictive of life outcomes.

There are areas where you can find fault with Hsu's work, but I don't think "IQ approximates g, and g is real" is one of them.

For that matter... If a population was killed according to a trait, wouldn't that make it more likely for there to be genetic causes of group differences in that trait?
> until Covid19 is completely out of the population.

My understanding is Covid19 is similar to the common cold coronas. It will stay in the population for the next several thousand years.
Because there are meaningful alternatives to the iPhone on the market.

If I claim that a gas station has a monopoly within a three block radius, that might be technically true, but only because of the constraints I applied. It's not actually a meaningful distinction if the consumer can drive down a bit further and find another gas station.
Ever since watching "Planet of the Humans" I find myself scrutinizing anything that says "renewable energy" because it might be burning trees.

This article did mention solar, wind and batteries and carbon-free so it might be ok.
My feeling was that he preferred not to think about it, that the careful, fastidious planning of the trip, that nearly any reasonable person would commit to, would detract from the experience. He was naive, but I think he also willfully entered into the venture with intentional naivety.
>Also probably useful in cold/windy areas where dexterity is hard.

Excellent point, hadn't thought of that.
I don't think this was just a case of statistics where someone caught a bad break. He had no workable plan for surviving out there, and he had no resources for self rescue. In my mind, a good outcome would have been the statistical oddity.
Scientific machine learning. The ability to mix scientific knowledge with machine learning in order to allow it to extrapolate accurately from small amounts of data. As machine learning tries to move towards areas where large-scale data gathering is prohibitively expensive or even unethical (like in clinical trials: you can't have a million failures to train a neural network!), mixing scientific models with machine learning will be required to bring AI into these domains in a way that's beyond hype. Physics-informed neural networks [1], differentiable programming [2], universal differential equations [3], SInDy [4], etc. are all ideas directions I think is the next direction for machine learning.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999118307125
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07587
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04385
[4] https://www.pnas.org/content/113/15/3932
As the article points out, for malicious sites that was true on IE 6 but no longer, and for malicious local software you have bigger problems.
Ironically, adding it would also fix their Apple store woes.
Wrong. Boogaloo followers are less than human.
Instead, do as all thinking humans: vote for the third party that most appeals to you. I've been swapping between the Greens and the Libertarians... this year looks Green so far.
>Not because I think it's impossible, but because it's such a charged thing we should really make sure the science is solid before we speculate. We shouldn't randomly speculate on something that sensitive.

I think he doesn't go far enough. Its not enough to just "not speculate," you have to also be responsible with how you use your reputation as a researcher in the field. As an analogy, it doesn't matter how principled or academic a political philosopher's belief in state's rights is, he'll lose his credibility if he agrees to speak at a bunch of racist confederate organizations. Even if he sticks to a boring non-racist script.

There is a movement out there seeking to drape their racist ideas in the trappings of science and reason. This researcher knows this. He ought to view it as his responsibility to make sure his good name is not attached to that movement. He could stay completely inside his ivory tower until he has the solid science, or he could heavily screen the media he speaks to. He has very clearly failed in that responsibility by going on Mr. "Humanity is not a single species[1]" Molyneux's show and saying that he thinks appealing to the environment as an explanation for group differences in IQ is a-scientific.

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
It's probably a question of personality, custom and habit, but I tend to write like I speak (some would say "no, you speak like you write" :-) in any forum, including Slack, sometimes in defiance of the cultural norms of the audience.

It leads to something of a reputation for verbosity, but never the accusation of ambiguity or excessive terseness. I don't think anyone's ever said to me, "What did you mean by that two-word reply?"
The sad part is that you're not wrong and I have to concede with intense laughter.
Cool, all felons should be murdered. Got it.
That's a wonderful achievement. I've browsed www.sunelec.com for years because they sell pallets of panels for less than 0.50/watt and I think ... someday DIY.
More humility and reassessment of our way of life.

We need a fundamental reassessment of our impact on the environment and planet, and how to reshape our economies and lifestyle to avert climate warming, more severe hurricane and wildfire seasons.

There’s so much human ingenuity and i believe we can overcome these challenges.. but despite all the technological advancements, we still know so little of how our planet and climate work.

We think we are the apex predator, and yet we’re still held hostage by an invisible virus.
XBox is kind of open, via UWP based games.

The game development communities are exactly the opposite of HN culture, there no one cares about FOSS ideals and stuff, it is all about IP and getting their ideas into the gamer's hands no matter how.

In fact, nowadays I see as a mistake having spent so much time around FOSS during the university back in the 90's, which caused a bit of schizophrenic considerations when going across communities.
> Generally, subcultures. If you know about it now, you've already missed it.

I don't know about it, even now.

Can you explain a bit more? Is it just that the pandemic adjusted the value of certain industries/services, and the adjustment has now occurred? Other than that, business as normal: growing inequality within nations?
There is a simple solution to this: no one other than card-carrying scientists working exclusively on the evolution of intelligence should blurt out their opinions on this topic. This question should be clubbed with other questions which are always easy traps for any scientist into believing their opinion is valuable just because they "know how to do science". Better just stick to what field of science you are good and shut up about socially charged questions of no relevance to you.

In this guy's, case, it is arguable if he's in the field. He seems to have already made up his mind on it, he's just out to find proof of his hypothesis. This is in principle fine, but he should acknowledge that by choosing to study this field, he excludes himself from any position where he's in charge of teaching or training people - he seems to sincerely believe that some of them are dumber by their nature, that seeems like a massive conflict of interest to me.
California also charges people up to .48/kwh so there's a good incentive for people to get solar.
If there is malware on the pc then the browser itself must be assumed compromised. It's futile to half plug one small hole while a million others exist.

And by attempting to plug that hole you've added an inconvenience that may encourage users to use a less secure password.
Some have been great; some have been awful. The lifers are incapable of thinking for themselves or working without someone else creating structure for them. Or are way too specialized for a startup.

With shorter tenured engineers who’ve never worked outside a larger company, watch out for over-engineering. But those who are comfortable launching non-terascale solutions to non-terascale problems can typically adapt well.

People who have gone back and forth often have a good perspective and are great to work with!
It’s funny, this indignant attitude shows how effective the movement is at finally reaching your kind.
> we call those situations market failures.

To the extent that this situation is a "market failure", it's not one that's fixable except by users changing their preferences.

> in this case the market failure is due to a monopolistic mechanism

Apple only has a "monopoly" on their own app store because they built it. Users are not being forced to use iPhones; they choose to because they believe iPhones give them better value overall than the alternatives. That's called free market competition, not monopoly.
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Duh. Why would you expect otherwise.
I'm not talking about the people in Alaska. I'm talking about commentators on HN. Scroll down a bit further and you'll find no end of it.
Windows Update for Windows 7 SP1 and 8.1 Automatically Installs Edge Chromium
> Am I in the minority in thinking that if someone wants to go out into the wilderness with little or no preparation for months at a time, that it's no one else's business?

The quote in the GP explicitly mentions why it is someone else's, namely the taxpayer's, literal business:

> spending a lot of government money on helicopters and overtime

If you choose to go off into the wilderness ill-equipped, that is indeed your choice. But if you do so, I trust you then have no expectation of being rescued should you come into trouble, and I trust you made this clear to any friends or family ahead of time.
> What we need is a single way to do login, MFA and security across every single site.

The way to do that is to use a client-side certificate in combination with a username/password for authentication.

When I create an account on a website, these are the steps I should have to follow:

1. Choose a username and password

2. Upload a CSR

3. Get the client-side certificate

4. Add it to my local certificate store

When I log in, I should have to follow these steps

1. My client automatically chooses the correct client certificate to send based on the server certificate

2. If I need a passphrase to decrypt my private key, I enter it at a prompt

3. The server verifies the certificate the client sent against whatever CA they use

4. I enter my username/password

5. My credentials are verified and I'm logged in.

I shouldn't have to provide my phone number or email address as a second factor because those factors aren't under my control. The private key associated with the client certificate is under my control.
Making password entry difficult is like attempting weight loss by eating bland food.

It's not the flavour that makes you fat.

Nonetheless, there's this perception that something delicious can't be good for a diet. People have this notion that to lose weight, there must be penance. An element of punishing oneself for past transgressions seems essential.

Security people have the same mindset. Security must be a hassle. It must be in your face. It has to be onerous. A challenge. A hurdle to get past.

I've tried, over and over, to explain to my customers that often the slickest, most hassle-free approach is the most secure. But this almost never sells.

Meanwhile, I see vendor after vendor successfully selling products that exist only to irritate users.
Is this less a videoconferencing system, and more of a first draft of a shared multiuser (and given Aza Raskin's previous tech demos, hopefully also multiscale/zoomable) desktop environment with videoconferencing built in? Because that would be super cool.
The US was founded on slavery and racism. The majority of Constitutional signatories owned slaves. Slavery was written into the Constitution in the 3/5ths clause. The majority of people on our paper money owned slaves. Black people make far less money than white people, they are vastly under represented in politics, far more likely to be imprisoned, have lower life expectancy, have far lower accrued wealth, rarely see themselves represented reasonably in media, are far less likely to hold professional or C-level jobs, and are far more likely to grow up in poverty in single parent households. If it isn’t the case that “everything is racist” (i.e. our society harbors deep cultural, institutional, and systemic racism) then that’s a hell of a coincidence.