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Why are you jumping to conclusions on the double standard? Classic whataboutism.

No, I don't use Google or Facebook either. And I've been avoiding Microsoft since the '90-ties.
FastMail do recycle addresses, which I don't like, but Hey will start to run out of addresses over the years unless they do something.

The better option is to register your own domain for $10 a year, something hey doesn't seem to support?
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They contracted the development of the app to Pivotal, which is owned by VMWare — that's hardly outsourcing to a mate who happens to be a developer.
assuming I don't want to contract COVID because I'm a sick person in the UK, do I need to live free or(and) die by American values because Apple has de-facto replaced a government?

tyranny of the majority is scary to you, neglect by the minority is scary to me. What should happen in a reasonable world is that governments maintain sovereignty and that Apple, in particular on software questions (hardware would be tricky to do), to comply with regional governments.

What's blatantly absurd is that a gadget company even starts to argue with the government of the United Kingdom.
A market reality distortion field, if you will.
Even is this case, would it not be better to cast via `int()` and deal with the failure as appropriate?
Apple had those clauses (I believe they are referred to as ‘Most Favored Nation’ clauses) but I believe removed them after the US E-Book settlement.

They still may be attached to marketing and partnership opportunities I believe, though - you might not be featured in the store if you charge iOS users more than android or web users, just like they will probably not advertise a new movie or album if Amazon is allowed to sell it for a lower price.
> Statically-typed languages can guarantee to get this right 100% of the time.

No they don't. They usually provide escape hatches for things typesystem does not cover, so there are cases where typechecker will just trust that you know what you are doing (even if you don't).

But more importantly, you don't need 100% to be useful. For aid in IDE, high precision (with somewhat lacking recall) is good enough. Of course, for refactoring, higher recall, the better (but you could substitute lacking recall with tests, which is suboptimal, but viable).

But it's interesting question on what python/mypy (python typechecker) can actually do. The answer here is it depends on configuration. Mypy with default configuration typechecks only typed code (i.e. functions which have type annotations) so you get guarantees only there. But you can configure it to be more and more strict (checking untyped defs, not allowing untyped code, and more), which increases guarantees you get (and it also increases the number of valid programs that it rejects). You can get in python into really strictly typed code, but you can also hit the wall if you need libraries that does not provide proper type hints (unless you write type hints by yourself).
Yes, and the next largest phone maker's market share is Samsung at 20-25%. Android doesn't make phones. Google makes some phones but their market share is tiny.
Only because Google is relatively freer than Apple. Android users and devs don't feel too constrained by Play store rules. If play store were to start behaving like app store, you can bet money f-droid, amazon store and others will rise in popularity.
The article specifically mentions Java 11.

I'm sure Jetbrains more than anybody knows about Java's licensing...
People, just look at modern LRO imagery of the six Apollo landing sites.

And try to explain the laser reflectors we use to measure distance to this day?
The justification seems to be that "without a login it's useless" - could you get around that by having a demo mode that lets you use the app with a dummy account?
> the Fourteenth Amendment

Citizenship rights?
Microsoft Support can be quite good depending upon the product you need help with.

I’ve called them for help with a Office 365 issue and they were very helpful.

I’ve called them once for an Xbox issue (I wanted to buy an Xbox 360 game and it wasn’t letting me) and the rep didn’t really have a clue. I ended up finding the answer after searching a few Xbox forums.
Yes wood is expensive you get it legally but if you have a forest 1-2 Km near your home the wood can be free. Like people own the forest, you can't cut any tree, you need to do a request and a person will come and mark some trees for you to cut (there are some criteria for what tree you can mark for cutting down). So then the expanse is cutting, moving and storing this wood .

On top of this there are people without jobs that can just cut unmarked trees.

Coal prices is also not the same in all places in the country, if you are closer to the coal source the prioce is lower because of transportation costs.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it odd that the graphic shows the years increasing downwards, where if you take this to graphically depict the ice core dug out of the ground, going down is decreasing in years (going back in time, earlier)? Things lower in depth were laid down earlier.
I don't think NordVPN is sketchy, even with their latest hic-ups. They are however located in Panama as far as I know, which probably gives the US access for "drug trafficing".
How about comparing it to a Rolex watch?
Why should I pay $99 per year for a hey.com email address? Robbery! I demand the courts lower this to 9¢ immediately, which I deem to be the true value of an email address. Hey are abusing their monopoly power over the hey.com domain...this will not stand! Burn it to the ground! Write to your congressman! I’ll spend my millions fighting this! Over my dead body!

I’ll chase them round the moons of Nibea and round Antares Maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I pay $99 for a fucking email address!

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Right, that is what I meant - you’re then pushing the risk to the management of that secondary protonmail or gmail account. So you basically always rely on a third party to manage the registrar account.
Certainly, but maybe this public outcry and exposure from an antitrust investigation will educate people about the structural problems in this industry and lead to greater change that will apply to more companies than just Apple.
I once heared in a documentary that "ritual purposes" is a catch-all phrase and means: "We have no idea why they made or used it".
Sorry I wasn’t clear - basically my concern was that you still have a dependency on a third party email address.
rollulus gave a good summary of Laplace transforms and what they do. For some more context, they appear regularly in applied probability (e.g. finance, insurance, physical models including dams). A typical problem is dealing with sums of non-negative random variables. Let's say you want the distribution of n independent copies of a non-negative random variable with distribution function F. The hard way is the n-fold convolution or essentially evaluating an n-dimensional integral. The easy way is using the Laplace transform of F and simply raising it to the power of n.

The result isn't always invertible analytically, but you can almost always invert it numerically and this is why techniques like the one outlined in the paper are so important.

This is a fantastic post and I thoroughly recommend reading it and the 2019 paper that summarises all their work for several reasons:

1. Very clear exposition of previous work and their own.

2. Clear evaluation metrics.

3. They've even made it easy for you to replicate their work and results.
The underlying question really is when the point is reached between "security through trust" and "security through audit".

I'm not anyhow claiming that Telegram is secure. But given the problems that legal courts have when the FBI and other three letter agencies want to get access to Telegram data (and the fact that the company moved their HQ around Europe every time a state wanted access) seems to me much more trustworthy than say, any Facebook software.

And I would also argue that given the fact that Gotham has full administrative access for anything Facebook sends and that the end-to-end encryption cannot be verified as both clients never actually connect directly would speak also contra WhatsApp when it comes to their security claims. (install a Firewall on Android and you'll see the whatsapp gateways/proxies).

To be honest, I doubt that the Pentagon would trust any software without having seen its source code or at least having full access to the data that's transferred. And I think that's a fair assumption.

The underlying issue is that the field of security has is actually that it's not a field of trust - but rather a field of mistrust. Currently I'm mistrusting the Pentagon more than some random dudes I've never seen; which might be the actual point of the discussion: Can we trust the Pentagon given their fuckups in the past?
I like this interpretation! The original idea related to building a 'hash map for the universe'.
Because that is a standard office configuration during the last 15 years, laptops with docking stations and external monitors.

More than enough time to catch up.
Except that those people did not got punished. Their careers went up just fine. Those people changed jobs to different companies long before any accounting reality happened.

And accounting reality did not happened to companies that were buying IBM, it happened to IBM. That is difference.
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Sounds right to my (very very rusty) recollection. Laplace transforms are a magic trick that let you easily solve some kinds of differential equations.
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Thanks for the feedback! You should be able to view the docs directly without logging in at https://github.com/hashintel/docs

UPDATE: GitHub is down. Of course it is.
I love Mozilla and Mullvad, but 5 simultaneous connections just isn't enough for me. I know they can't allow unlimited devices due to the potential for abuse, but is something like 20-30 connections so I can use it for all my devices/VMs isn't too much to ask for?
I think there is a meta system at work above whatever economic system you are at least claiming is in practice - humans game systems, if you give them rules they'll bend them up to and beyond the point of actually snapping.

It may be that capitalism works (for a given value of work) because it has more corrective pressure in the absence of other rules - I'd certainly agree with that I think.

That said I think the best (practical) system is social market capitalism, capitalism as a subservient tool to achieve societies as a whole goals which comes with it's own problems (the capitalists have the money and money corrupts) but seems fairer - somewhat like the nordic countries rather than crony capitalism.

Now if I could pick the system I live under and will it into existence, it would be this one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

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Microsoft should know. They got burned to the tune of tens of billions of $ trying to fight against Apple/Google duopoly with Windows Phone. I still miss it. It was truly a better designed system than both ios and android.
For a literal bible you would have options, because you can use a standard format like ePub or PDF. Your limitations come if you try to mandate your own DRM, since the platform won’t understand it.

For an annotated bible application, you would have the option of a web-based application, which has certain trade-offs.
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> Truly I find the mechanistic view of nature so grim and pointless.

I find the opposite: Knowing how something works just makes me appreciate it more. The fact that an insect can pull off all of these staggeringly complex behaviours (beyond what we can do with kilowatts of GPU power) with a couple of hundred neurons and a power budget of almost nothing, all the while being able to self-reproduce, it's incredible.

Is a rainbow more or less amazing when you understand total internal reflection?
But the Android ecosystem also invests hugely in R&D, it's just spread over more companies.

With consoles the primary justification was always that the hardware is sold below cost. This is purely to the benefit of the game developers, all the risk falls on the console maker, so they accept it for that reason. The iPhone is not only not sold below cost but its price has never fallen in the entire lifetime of the product, from what I recall.
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Continuous 500s.
First off I've always been outraged by those things but, secondly

There's a big different between a device used almost entirely or gaming and a device through which almost all personal communication, news, banking, payments, e-money, travel plans, plane and train tickets, medical services, political planning, etc. happen.

A smartphone has pretty much become essential for life. A game console has never been that.
I've also exclusively used firefox on Mac all my life and it's totally fine.
I also spend a lot of time watching nature - just yesterday I was marvelling at ants carrying grass seeds to their nest, each carrying the seed the same way around, so that the burrs don’t snag on anything - pretty much the same behaviour as Darwin notes with his worms and leaves. It fascinates me that something with such a limited little mind can still figure out something like “carry from this end”.

I actually take a very mechanistic view of nature, and find it glorious - that mechanical processes at a minuscule scale can result in such a panoply and profusion of form is positively miraculous. Matter seems to want to be alive - what enters organic chemistry rarely leaves it, and life always tends to more forms, more individuals, more diversity - and it’s all just chemistry and physics and entropy at play.

I guess one can find a spiritual beauty in the idea that living matter, thinking matter, is a preferable state of being for matter in this universe. Cosmos, know thyself.
Yes. The Fourier transform characterizes on a circle (usually the unit circle in the complex domain) at different frequencies. It is properly defined for periodic signals.

The Laplace transform takes any exponential spiral in the complex plane, and reduces to the Fourier transform if you only care about the unit circle.

I appreciate that doesn’t make things clearer unless you already have some understanding of integral transforms in the complex plane (in which case, you probably know this already). However, I have never met a simple intuitive explanation of the Laplace transform, - and actually no meaningful explanation that doesn’t involve integrals.
yes, me, too, from Germany
Yes, error 500 in Poland as well.
Because Linux is still crap regarding audio and 3D graphics programming, plus it has a culture of doing everything the PDP-11 way instead of embracing the desktop and GUI based workflows.

Developer != UNIX.
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I can easily walk my dog there so there's no need for the sidewalk. If you break your leg, if you're old or disabled - tough luck. I stopped reading after this ableist argument. Those overreaching regulations trying to make life easy for disabled - how are we going to pay for those?

Locally we had a similar response to the idea of replacing pedestrian overpass bridges with regular crossings. Cost of maintaining the bridge and its accessibility are less important than those poor cars which may now have to stop on a red light.
They clearly put a lot of effort in cleaning the mess, as I later discovered myself by being from the same city:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18611863

It seems very likely now, that ProtonMail just decided to use NordVPN's white-label solution to bootstrap its ProtonVPN business:

https://nordvpn.com/white-label/
If they are a true and active threat to those around them, does it matter?
Those people were usually "punished" by being promoted. And IBM is just another vendor today because of decades of indescribably poor management.

Today we have the free market glories and hosannas of FAANG instead - until the next set of antitrust actions picks apart their zombie remains.
I think this is an old complaint about capitalism and a government that works to support capitalists, which dates from the 19th century. Most of the resources of society end up controlled by a minority of capitalists and the government, and capitalists generally find better profits from providing goods to the wealthy instead of the poor. Hence, we have construction of luxury apartments and hotels, while people in the same city are homeless. It's described in the works of Kropotkin, etc., and nothing has really changed. Whether his solution, anarcho-communism, is actually practical remains largely untested, but he makes a fair point that society could easily satisfy the basic needs of the entire population, if desired, even with late 19th century technology, and even more easily today.
GitHub Issues Pages Down
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I get a falling octocat/500 error page.

Github Status says everything is fine?
https://www.githubstatus.com/
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I get 500 for every repos.
Same here US east
500 at South Korea.
Good on you, I find it hard to be without Google and Facebook however. I instead choose to give my data to both governments of opposing values. Kill the competitive value of my data.
seems so, germany
Just as I start contributing to an open source project! Europe.
It was completely rhetorical question. I implied no one would take the risks.
Three times I found out that a blog post of mine was on the HN frontpage, because my matomo was going bonkers. This might count as "vanity metrics", but it taught me, above all, how valuable "being here" is. It has a clear and undeniable "inkstain" effect: where other blogs, news outlets and so on follow HN. HN goes hand-in-hand with reddit, for my niche, though.

My wife as several e-commerce and our weekly "walking through the matomo screens over a glass of wine" has learned us that there are important niches. And what those niches are (vegan smartphone covers, Fairphone flip-cases, fairtrade and environmental-friendly mouthmasks).

Sure, you also need customer interviews and old-fashioned market-research, but your webapp and website is telling you a lot about your users.

And sure, often, you don't need any metrics. But just like Carpetsmoker above, I see a lot of value in metrics. Just don't fall in the trap to collect "you-never-know" metrics: that is privacy-invading, a liability and requires a scale beyond anything you really need. You don't need data-lake, distributed ETL processes and whatnot to find out that there are products in your webshop selling better than others because you are doing well on natural searches for that product.
Same here in EU
Paper on arxiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09661
Same here in US west
If you describe our society in the tone archeologists describe old societies it would be something along the line like:

"The rolex watch was an instrument to calculate the time of the day and time of the year. It was worn to ritual conventions, dances and mating rituals. Thus it's rather primitive workings compared to the electronic and quantum technologies this civilization had access to it's value derives from the precious metals used and in the craftmanship needed to create this artifact which is in its working on par with the high technologies of this era. It was also worn by James Bond."
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If it became possible for consumers to side-load applications, the iPhone (and iPad) would lose what is in my opinion one of its biggest positive selling points: that Apple is acting as gatekeeper for executable code.

As soon as that capability exists, my elderly parent's and elderly in-laws' iPads will quickly fill up with malware and scamware like their desktop computers routinely used to.

And before you argue that you could choose to not open that pandora's box on particular devices. But as soon as enough developers decide that getting around Apple's fees is worth the effort, use of it will become commonplace and potentially unavoidable.
Same here China
Me too, from Hong Kong.
no incident yet - https://githubstatus.com

down from South Asia as well.
Just a small correction, the only "developers" that find Apple's offerings hostile are those using macOS as Linux replacement instead of paying to Linux OEMs.

Developers targeting Apple platforms are doing just fine.
Go is the most practical language for professional development out there atm IMHO, especially for larger projects. The language has it's quirks and Java's ecosystem is insanely huge, but Go hits the sweet spot between time-to-value, "SO-searchability", and performant end-result.