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Nearly everything you've said involves directly harming another person, for which we already have agreed upon laws forbiding. Endangered species may not harm others, but we've agreed as a people that we care about the lives of other species at least enough to stop killing them before we've made them extinct.

In terms of being a drug mule, if drugs were decriminalized, drug mules wouldn't exist, and most drug cartel activity wouldn't either.

People are advocating to decriminalize and allow people to harm themselves if they want, because it's their body and their choice. It's sad that people want to harm themselves, but ultimately, we do a poor job of stopping people, and by attempting to stop them, we've done considerable harm to our society (war on drugs, propping up cartels, etc.)
Thanks for clearing that up. I wonder if developers actually know they are signing up for this when blindly dropping in the SDK, just to support FB login.

I’m surprised most popular apps haven’t learnt their lesson since this happened last month as well.
I am guessing you have not heard of .NET Core which has been running on Linux for a while. Not to mention Microsoft bought Xamarin which maintained Mono and mysteriously Mono was relicensed as MIT license. Though I am suspecting Mono might shut down given the amount of coverage towards consolidating all .NET platforms into just .NET with .NET 5.

Microsoft even fully embraced the community built package manager and they release important packages under it. You no longer need to upgrade your whole .NET platform (with some exceptions) just to use new packages from Microsoft that boost the ecosystem.

I have used .NET Core on both Ubuntu and Mac (which has its own Visual Studio - not Code) and it runs just the same.
> The ribbon interface was adopted in 2007. That's 13 years ago.

Came here for this. The first version of Office for windows (which is what most people are familiar with in terms of UI) is from 1998, so the non-ribbon interface has been around for 9 years, vs 13 for the ribbon interface.
PimEyes – A Polish company is abolishing our anonymity
This is not what the research is showing. It's showing that increased exposure to any porn has effects on attitude (measured in a lab setting; outside the lab, we need to be careful with mixing up correlation and causation), but the effects are more pronounced with violent porn. There's also the Coolidge Effect to take into account.
I don’t use Facebook or Spotify but it seems the people who coded the NYT Crossword app do - crashing for the last hour or more. Frustrating...
The world just isn't black and white is it.

Epic could certainly be described as anti-linux, for the reasons you've described. On the other hand they have invested quite a bit into open source cross platform projects Godot being a good example.

Valve have made huge amounts of money from gambling but have been tremendous in pushing Linux as a viable gaming platform.

CD Projekt are staunchly DRM free which is fantastic, and offer support for Linux releases on their store, but they are dragging their heels on full Linux support with GoG Galaxy, and talk condescendingly about Linux users with regards to their games Witcher 3 and more recently Cyber Punk 2077.

Judging by their actions I would still pick Valve ahead of the other two as the best for Linux as a modern desktop OS.
* Especially if the 3rd party SDK contacts the external service on launch without any user interaction.
Almost anything, that doesn't move lots of data in lockstep (specially - anything with lots of it - then - elses) is much better to run on CPU cores.
What's the Nordic model?
Can you list them?
It the section where you criticize graph is unfair.
1. All databases can be immature.
2. There is a whole world of graph DBs where strong schema support is the cornerstone of the system (TerminusDB, Stardog etc.).
3. Some relational Dbs have little tooling - Neo4j, as the oldest and most successful graph, has way more tooling than johnny newcomer RDBMS
4. performance characteristics are hard. That is not a necessary feature of graph.
5. Query languages - so you are saying only SQL will do? Lots of graph DBs use datalog or a variant (Datomic, TerminusDB, Opencrux). It is a well understood, powerful and composable approach to query. Yes, some query languages have flaws, but we should be open to doing better on query.
SQL fundamentalism is wrong.
> WhatsApp, a Facebook owned app, will not give you read access to your own chat database - it’s encrypted.

On android? On iOS you can get a tarball of all your chats.
This is exactly what happens. Basically a null value is converted into an NSNull object and calling count on it will of course throw an exception... because there is no count method in that class...

It makes me wonder what all those engineers at FB are actually doing... ? Every time I tried to integrate or look into the FB SDK for simple functionality it was a total clusterfuck.
Honestly I'm surprised he's still alive, pop culture has lead me to believe that men who commit sexual crimes on children don't survive long in prison. This is also one of the most heinous acts imaginable, what gives?
Unless their builds were proprietary I dont think anything is lost if they shared their code changes back to the PHP project.
The day train is better for that one (4hrs20). Though I've flown the last few times. It's often cheaper.
True enough. Swift Codable with optional properties handles this automatically.
No, he was fired because he very loudly and publicly contradicted his employers' stated policies[1]. His ideas didn't "lose", not in the free speech sense everyone is yelling about. There's not a poster here who doesn't know what he said (we spent A LOT more than 200 comments on that one!).

Nor was he suppressed: he's still speaking, on the same subject! Hell, he's surely making more now as a right wing martyr than he ever was as a low level hacker for Google.

[1] I mean, people get fired for this all the time, like those folks Amazon canned a few months back for union organizing with employer resources. You only care about this one guy because he happens to play for Your Team.
Also, you can't migrate WhatsApp between iPhone and Android. There's a utility called BackupTrans, which follows an extremely convoluted process including a step where they install an old version of WhatsApp. It seemed to work but it trips some wire and WhatsApp put me in an hour-long timeout state, twice. Since I very much depend on WhatsApp, I dare not use it anymore.
Contemporary paint is much better. XP paint was missing some of the most basic and essential features of a pixel editor. Without a proper and simple cropping interface it’s little more than an aesthetic setpiece.
I was able to visit this last year, crashing the Alto while trying to write some smalltalk was such a fun experience.

I doubt it could ever really make money but its just such an amazing experience.
It is rude to talk about someone in the 3rd person directly in front of them.

These topics bring out a lot of emotion in people, coupled with regular HN passive aggressive snark volleyed back and forth, of which your comment<T> fits.
I’ve enjoyed using Pulsar but ZooKeeper... arghh. It’s an excellent component but a pain to manage.

Looking forward to trying Kafka again when they finally remove ZK
Are you sure? Seem to recall needing FB SDK to manage marketing pixels that provide detail on marketing campaign analytics. If you’re spending money on those platforms to drive traffic you’re going to want to optimize your spend and see performance. To do that I believe you need the FB sdk - are you saying there’s an alternative or are you saying “just don’t optimize performance”.
> Modern CDU/CSU are basically where the social democrats were about ten years ago.

relevant?
Not sure if it qualifies as under-rated, but there is a night tour of the Roman forums with what's basically a documentary about roman life projected on the ruins, highlighting details and providing context. I found it great (also because it's been produced- and narrated, in the Italian version- by Piero Angela, a beloved science documentarist that has interested in science entire generations of Italians, sort of an Italian David Attenborough). I was there with a friend who's a native English speaker and she enjoyed it a lot as well.

http://www.viaggioneifori.it/en/
Honest question because I'm interested for something similar, why did you go for a Xeon and not an Epyc rig?
I don't blame the customer in these cases. The product shouldn't have been sold, or at least not sold with support, if the consumer was going deviate from build specs.

In my limited experience, this is the sales team saying 'anything' to get the sale.
I think another Trump decision which may be viewed as important by historians in 50+ years time is the establishment of the US Space Force.
What iOS desperately needs is a client side firewall like little snitch. It would be an easy workaround for this nonsense - with additional privacy benefits. Plus, if every time Facebook fucked up a portion of users started blocking facebook URLs they might QA a little bit more thoroughly.
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#DefundAllSocialNetworksExceptHN
As someone who frequently encounters bugs, let me explain why I don't usually bother to file bug reports: No one cares.

Choose any large long-lived open source project at random and search their issue tracker and I guarantee you can find at least 3 open bugs that are 5 years old or more. I know, because I've run into these bugs, as have dozens of others, and went to report them only to find they had already been reported years ago with no action taken by the developers.

Filing bugs takes time. You're going to want reproducible steps, you're going to want logs, you're going to want me to try different things. That's fine, and I'm willing to do that to get my bug fixed, but only if I think you actually give enough of a shit to fix it. I don't enjoy wasting my time any more than you do. When I see 5 year old open issues your tracker, where several users have chimed in, submitted logs, etc. and you've done nothing, I assume you don't care so neither do I.

Worse yet, many developers are downright hostile to users reporting bugs or, god forbid, making feature suggestions. Spend five minutes in GNOME's issue tracker to see what I mean.
Jet lag, for me, is more about circadian rhythm disruption than air quality. That’s where sleeping on a longer flight is much more preferable to taking a shorter, faster flight and then suffering until one can get into a blacked out hotel room. But in either case the downtime would be similar, I think.
I think if you were starting today, you would build the app as a set of backend APIs connected to an array of front ends (apps, mobile web, desktop web, 3rd party, etc).

Building some or all of those backend APIs in Rust from day 1 would not be crazy, or less productive than any other language.

I think differences in proficiency drive bigger differences in productivity than inherent language differences.

So if you were starting today to build Facebook, using a language you are already effective with would matter more than which language you use (there are plenty of people out there for whom that could be Rust, or Haskell, or Ruby, or PHP, etc).
It's cool to signal your virtue - until you are the victim of a crime! Then the police better get the video from cameras in the neighborhood.
Having a tan in colder latitudes in the Winter/Spring was fashionable because it meant you'd "Wintered" or at least had a long Winter vacation somewhere sunny, which means you could afford (having the time, freedom, and money) to "Winter" at all. Tanning beds killed that, of course.
even my bank app won’t open (Nubank)
> I still have the same keyboard layout as back then but MS Office now has some janky "ribbon interface" which bears no resemblance to how it used to be.

This is a general pattern for GUIs as of late. It changes every so often until the point where if you haven't used the software in a while, you no longer know how to access a particular function via the GUI interface.

For example, web browsers used to have the standard drop down menus (file, edit, etc). If I want to view page source, the option would probably be under the view option and titled appropriately. These days, I have no idea where to find it, but at least I still know the keyboard shortcut to do the same thing and that hasn't changed at least.
You mean you turned the safe search feature off, and you got unsafe results?
Very sad :( I remember having the chance to go there and meet amazing people (one of them worked on the first micro kernel) being able to see a real PDP working ... I don't get why bill gates would not back up his friend s old project :(
Sure in theory Thomas is doing that, but it feels a lot like cosplay when such a resolution would go against his general views on power in general (see this case).

People might have their legal doctrines, but it’s rarely as clearcut as you lay out and all the justices can only at most be “problematic faves”
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Am glad to have taught them something before they thrown me out \o/

Tools to empower robbery... AND ACT LIKE PIONEER :D

I swear what you do... SINCERELY!
I'm pretty sure that's the same agreement that every developer has with Google just by writing an android app and using Google APIs.

You can store data on Google Drive that isn't accessible from Google Drive and only that app can read or write it.
This is, I assume, an answer to the open letter sent to the WHO last week. I took a look at the letter: it doesn't bring many data to the table unfortunately.

In fact, it advocates the precautionary principle. I can understand (but not agree with) that in a context of public safety, but those people do science, and the precautionary principle is not scientific.
You have just repeated their question in the negative without answering it. Apparently everybody has an answer they find self-evident despite it being opposite. Also, there were other questions. (I'm aware you are not the OP.)
Atmosphere API update: automated retrieval of space weather indices
In the long term things are hard to predict. If we look from 2010, E2E encryption wasn't there, or atleast not in a form usable by the masses. E2E is now here, and is as easy as using Signal. However, you see countries making laws against it. I doubt they will let eSNI pass through. And eSNI will be much easier to block, since you don't need to block it for consumers, you just need to impose big fines on businesses using it, since any such business will need to earn money somehow from their customers in the country. Unlike E2E, you don't have to worry about some random person forking signal and running their own servers. And video on internet is expensive enough that only an entity with good bank balance can do it, thus easy to punish with economic fines.
Thanks for the great work!

Btw If I may ask, when you compiled the Institutions, did you apply some disambiguation? For example consider that
UCLA === University of California, Los Angeles
> I saw a presentation by one of the lead designers around the time that it was introduced and he certainly made a good case for how the older interface had accumulated way too much cruft.

I have also seen well-intentioned arguments for why Clippy was a good idea … but he wasn't.

To this day I miss the Word 5.1 on Macintosh System 7. That was more-or-less the Platonic ideal of a word processor; it's been all downhill since.
I just had to check this; the Android app has "Request account info" and specifically mentions "which you can access or port to another app".

As much as I'm happy to pile on Google, Facebook and WhatsApp, this appears to be untrue.
That's very interesting. Does Android have anything similar?
> Ok, fine, crazy thought. But it raises the question, why aren't any of our other leaders even pretending to try and be that person?

Don't you think that's a very easy question to answer?

A ton of money, an amount of money serious enough even for America to be made concerned.

Pretty much everybody with stock market exposure, including pretty much anybody in USA who counts as an elite, will loose big time if one day Beijing presses the Delete button, and half of Fortune 500 vanishes.

Remember, it was Apple out of everybody who was granted an exemption from punitive tariffs on China.
I think this is incomplete (it doesn’t represent replies or media properly) and the parent comment was talking about the SQLite database containing all messages
Very much related to your last statement.

Why Some Cops Think They're The Punisher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM7z7pDmEC4
Feels fair that it's happening to companies that hand over our data to third parties.

Anything that can open the general public's eyes to how much data is leaked through these kind of practices is a good thing. Hope it amounts to some non-negligible loss for Facebook, Spotify and the others.
Likewise, the Native Americans who controlled the land before the US likely didn't have it gifted to them freely. Tribes were constantly at various stages of war with each other, and some wiped out completely.

Do they owe reparations to each other, too? And what about the ones that are completely gone?

All of the discussion of reparations and making good on centuries-past injustices always leaves out how it all gets swept under the rug if there are no decendents around to make claims.
I always get a kick out of analogies on HN. When there’s a technical concept being discussed, someone will make a non-technical analogy. When there’s a non-technical concept being discussed, someone will make a technical analogy.

And it’s all inevitably followed by an argument about the analogy itself.
How many safari hunters add up to a grand slam? I mean, fair's fair, after all.
They never responded to my request for a postmortem on the previous blunder: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1385.
Covid Impact on Filming Locations
It's there but with the clear and explicit intention that the free version will lag behind the commercial offers.
I’m actually not calling you anything, my statement was a general statement regarding the efficacy of government regulations on Internet speech as a means of “protecting children” which always end up being 100% ineffective and 100% disingenuous. I apologize if it came off as a personal attack; that was not my intent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocal...
I would guess many news Apps are free, with subscriptions used to make money.

Also, looking at the list on my iPad, I‘m sure the top lists aren’t global. They seem local by country (and might even be personalized, but that would surprise me)
I think you've got cause and effect backwards.

Men are withdrawing because they are not being selected by women. Freed from social pressures that used to act as a brake on hypergamy, women are following their natural instinct to pursue the top 10-20% of men.

Unfortunately, taken to its natural conclusion this leaves a huge chunk of people unhappy. Lower status men are sexless and unloved, and most women are unsatisfied because there aren't enough high status men to go around.

Excessive porn use is a symptom of this, not the cause.
As a native and resident, Arkansas has a history and a reputation, but it also has amazing strength of character, and people who care about each other and their community. There are folks from all over the world who call my state home, and I’m proud to welcome them all.

Except the KKK. They are the bane of my home state, and it is my wish that I live to see each and every one of every group’s members publicly repudiate their membership and their belief in the groups. /rant
AWS should fork Pulsar and put out a v2 streaming product. Kinesis is kind of crappy (IMO) and doesn't seem to be improving much. If you look at the Pulsar architecture and feature set you can tell that it was designed very much with this in mind (something that large scale cloud providers can integrate with their infinitely scalable storage and compute systems).

It's not all hype either, according to this post https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2018/10/21/how-to-not-lose-... it seems like a solid piece of tech.
Great tip, thanks.
Edit: This worked like a charm. Goodbye facebook, welcome back Spotify.
The law is objective, but morals are not. That was the line of discussion.
I don’t know why people are lumping teachers unions in with police unions. I’ve never heard of teachers rolling up in an armored personnel carrier and jumping out with batons and tear gas or kneeling on someone’s neck until they die. Sounds like you just don’t like unions.
So what's kept Bob from committing the ribbon interface to memory in the past 17 years?
Hologram Hyper SIM
Nobody should be "saving" anything beyond ~twice the month income amount. People should invest the rest instead. Putting money on hold means getting the whole idea of money wrong. Money is not a value itself, it's a productivity measurement unit.
> A lot of people aren't interested in learning about file systems or how DNS operates. They want to know what button to order from Amazon.

That's like saying people aren't interested in learning how to use a phonebook or how to call directory assistance. They just want to know who to talk to so they can order what they want from Sears.
Neutral monism, perspectivism and the quantum dualism: An essay
Thanks! No apology warranted! And yes, well aware -- and I always have at least a full day between the 100p sets (as advised by the 100p app I mentioned). The off days, I often do abs / crunches.
Why would that be worse. The Han chinese are keeping the government in power. Without their support this government would fall. They as a group have a vote. But a general policy with fines is not what we are talking about.

Millions of Uighurs are forced into camps. They force them to take pills so they cannot have kids. Then they mass migrate han chinese into the region. One day soon they can say the majority are han chinese.

Europe will start putting pressure on China when they realize building this direct road to London China is building is the reason for the suffering they will impose punishment. Meanwhile the US has started creating a different supplies chains excluding China. When grow slows what will happen in China? Will the people revolt? Going to be an interesting 10 years.