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I used to carry the same views regarding older people in leadership positions. However I don’t think age is really the problem it’s willingness to adapt. And I believe you are more likely to fear change if you are older, it’s not universal but it appears to be more likely. The leader of my organization is in his seventies and has deep knowledge and understanding of his field but he is humble enough to yield when he is not the expert and he leans on the people that are. But I guess what I’m really talking about is leadership, and just because you are older doesn’t mean you are a good leader.
Everyone seems to be acting as if this was ever going to be a permanent thing rather than an extraordinary measure for extraordinary times.

The people who should have something to say here are the ones making less who didn't lose their "essential" jobs.

That points at an even simpler solution: toss some free shit to everyone. Yes, it's ultimately paid for by everyone's taxes, etc, etc, but there's no way around this pandemic having a very high economic cost. It's just a question of tackling it actively and having that cost go towards productive programs, or paying to deal with the disaster that's resulting from our government being incompetent.
If we make some laws that say they do then yeah they will have to.
I also still use Xorg and can't really think of a scenario where I'd switch.
As just one example of the EFF's many nonsensical ideology-driven arguments, the EFF claims that the DCMA is an "unconstitutional" law because it enshrines the right of an IP holder to utilize digital copy protection mechanisms...Ignoring that copyright law is one of the few areas of law that the U.S. constitution specifically empowers Congress to legislate (Art I, sec 8 cl 8).

It's silly stuff like this that keeps the EFF on the fringes of tech law instead of being at the forefront. (It's also disconcerting that they claim credit for legal outcomes that were achieved by others.)
There is a near-infinite amount of value to be provided by science. Art is inherently zero-sum.
I don't like these guidelines because they are vague and subjective -- just because an article does or does not gratify one person's intellectual curiosity, it doesn't mean it won't / will gratify another person.

Flagging is heavy-handed, because it hides the post unless you have showdead enabled, and it prevents the post being able to gain upvotes which would otherwise justify it being posted.

When a post gets 10 upvotes in 50 minutes, it's clearly satisfying _some_ people's curiosity. If you're not interested in the post you can just scroll past it, you don't have to flag it out of everyone else's view...
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> eligible

Do you read eligible as "getting"?
The point of the article is that Harvard and other such universities do get your foot in some special doors, but that those doors are mostly to self-serving jobs that enforce the status quo. Noam Chomsky was right to constantly point out that it is elites who are most “indoctrinated” in the sense that they have to be taught to disregard the general public interest.
> I can just hope that the EU is successful in stopping all of Apple's trickeries ranging from 2.5mm headset jacks, ports, OS slow downs, mysterious battery underperformance

Entirely unrelated, and it's 3.5 mm by the way.
Yes. Exactly. Welcome to the real world.
> Broadcom is Acorn

What? As far as I know the only connection between Broadcom and Acorn is that they employed Sophie Wilson.
Absolutely fascinating! Is there any other animal known to have evolved like that?
Anyone who wants TikTok's facial recognition data can just scrape their videos and process them with their own models. If ByteDance can afford the storage and bandwidth, so can any interested surveillance agency.
How is Spotify and especially Netflix being harmed? If I search for a movie on either my iPhone, iPad, or AppleTV and the movie is available on Netflix, I’m told that I can watch it for free instead of being guided toward Apple’s movie store.

Spotify whined for years that they couldn’t stream music to the Apple Watch or download music to the Watch. Apple allowed third party integration over a year ago. Pandora added the feature - Spotify didn’t.

Spotify also doesn’t allow in app purchases so Apple doesn’t get a cut.
I’m also a fan of low actuation force and short travel keyboards. I really like the Magic Keyboard in virtually every way except the key layout.

Reading through the various switches they offer, it seems the Kailh Silver might be the closest match of what they offer to Apple’s switches, but I sadly am not willing to spend nearly $400 to find out.
Eh, I think this is one of the two points where the case against Apple's App Store model is the strongest. Not allowing applications to use third party in-app purchase systems is weakly defensible, but they not only don't allow that, they not only don't allow you to load an online store in a web view, they not only don't allow you to link to an online store that will open in Safari, the App Store terms literally do not allow you to mention the existence of other online stores.

There are arguments to be made -- and they're made in these comments -- that the App Store is a net benefit for consumers, but it is really, really hard to make the case that users somehow benefit from this.
I think a comment above pointed this out too, its a bt misleading to add up expenses with 0 revenue for 6 months, can think of all those subscriptions and services to be bringing in revenue even in times of a pandemic when factories get shut and phones and macs are on sold, its difficult to imagine apple bringing in 0 revenue. so $194 billion cash is just way too much, even for emergencies me thinks
Give me a break, most liberal arts students don't have any more "critical thinking" than anybody else. They also don't have much knowledge about liberal arts. They just do it so they can have the title "college graduate" which will open the doors for them for certain jobs in the corporate world, mainly secretarial in nature which they could have done with a 3 months internship.

As a society I believe we should put some of our common resources into teaching young people a profession and into maintaining and developing our knowledge in all possible subjects, whether scientific or arts or whatever.

But it needs to be more targeted, if someone studying a profession they should study a profession and if someone want to study for the sake of academic advancement they should do it but we shouldn't confuse the two things and the system as is is just a very inefficient, prolonged and expensive job entry evaluation test.

Armies around the world are doing the same thing in couple of basic tests and then teach those profession in a 3 months course. You don't need a liberal arts degree to do any job in the HR department and those, usually women, who study it don't contribute any advancement to the liberal arts anyways.
An F-Droid equivalent for iOS would be awesome.
The only legitimate way is via private entitlements, which require you be either Apple or perhaps a carrier that works with Apple to be on the iPhone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24014412
More specifically, I want to give some applications the ability to place windows where they want, warp the mouse, grab certain keys globally, snoop input, and so on. And I want to give other applications a small sandbox where they can't steal focus or hurt anything.

X11 could have been evolved in this direction by sandboxing applications within little mini-universes within the existing protocol. Windows solved this problem without breaking compatibility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Interface_Privilege_Isola...

I have a fundamental philosophical disagreement with the Wayland and GNOME camp. They believe that they can enumerate all interesting use cases and that each app should fit in one of their pre-defined boxes. I'm old school and believe in making systems that provide mechanism, not policy, and that give applications the ability to do unanticipated things.
I think that depends on what you mean by "large amounts." If we're talking about cash savings to whether economic downturns, pandemics, etc., presumably we should be looking at what is large relative to the operating costs of the company. In the same way that it's common advice for individuals to have some number of months of living expenses saved for emergencies, I think that also makes sense for companies, and I don't see that portion of savings being a threat to the economy.
I fear the inevitable end down that path lies people who bought an iDevice, enabled alternative stores, were duped/hacked/otherwise-invaded, visited a Genius only to be told Apple won’t help them, and then lawsuits against Apple for their trouble.
I think most people agree with it not completely being an apt comparison, but any judgment on this would have to draw a line between ‘allowed’ and ‘not allowed’ (without saying “Apple and a Google can’t do X”, either explicitly or implicitly, because that, rightfully, would not hold up in court), and doing that is hard.

For example, taking your “If you spend a significant amount on a phone, you're stuck there for a while” as a requirement for ‘not allowed’, Apple could start renting out phones instead of selling them.

They also could stop selling third-party apps, instead opting to buy them from third parties and selling them on to consumers or renting them out, as they already do with Apple Arcade. I think any solution would have to keep that in the ‘not allowed’ category, but it would result in a situation similar to that of IBM, which used to (possibly still does) sell CPU upgrades ‘over the air’, disallowing others to do so, or Tesla, which sells software for their cars that way (and, likely, many other companies). Should those be disallowed, too? If not, why not?

And yes, you don’t need monopolies or cartels to get an imperfect market, but if you don’t have monopolies or cartels, you can’t use existing laws on monopolies or cartels to correct that, so what should you use?
Fish oil is more of a natural anti-inflammatory than a fix for the problem.
Anybody ever seen one of these?

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/invicta.html
> A frame of a movie won’t make sense without the whole movie.

Why not? It means exactly what's in the frame and what you can derive from it alone. The movie in its entirety may have a more profound and precise meaning, sometimes entirely different from what disjointed frames will tell you, which is the point of my analogy.

Perhaps songs-scenes make a more fair analogy. Some albums are basically collections of singles because the collection itself doesn't represent any meaningful overarching theme or creative process. I feel the same about movies. I'd bore myself to death watching another Marvel movie, but I'll happily enjoy some disjointed highlights from them on youtube.
That's a remarkable claim - namely that the GDP hit was primarily due to supplemental unemployment, rather than to a collapse in consumer demand across many sectors as a result of the pandemic.

You'll understand, of course, that I'm going to need something more than your unsupported assertion to be convinced that this is the case.
On a side note, I have a feeling that US prefers a "dog eat dog world" because everyone here thinks they will be the ones doing the eating and caring for the underdog is a sign of weakness/waste of resources.

The default or dominant culture in America is upper class cis het white male. Historically, yes, those people could pretty count on being the ones doing the eating.

Women and people of color were the ones taking up many other roles and it was possible to sometimes care about them -- or just treat them like absolute crap while benefiting from a relationship to them because they had little to no recourse -- without that impinging on the professional part of your life where, by default, killer instinct could rule the day.

I think part of what is messing things up is the rise in human rights for women and people of color. This is disrupting these historical patterns which have something of a tendency to carry forward.

We are largely failing to ask "So, just what kinds of patterns actually work for a world in which we assume all adults have similar rights and opportunities?" Many people are quite oblivious to the many layers of baked in assumptions about, for example, how work gets organized and how we provide benefits to the people.

It is largely invisible the degree to which we assume a man is doing certain kinds of work and there is probably a woman at home doing the cooking and cleaning and other "women's work." And I tend to get a lot of flak anytime I try to comment on it because I'm a woman and HN is overwhelmingly male, so people (seem to) think I'm some man-hating, feminazi who is intentionally shit-stirring or something and tend to not think I'm someone who has actively studied the space because of the ways it has negatively impacted my life, so I'm somewhat knowledgeable about such topics.
I will keep this short but I think paying predermined sums like the $600 is a terrible idea.

the number of people for whom this is exactly the right amount is tiny,

all it generates massive imbalances between those for whom this is too much and those for whom this is too little (or causes all kinds of unintended consequences)

I read the a story with the two cashiers, one got laid off, the other not. The one that did not get laid off had to show up to work during the early pandemic when everyone was freaked out, worked eight hours a day then, at the end of day took home less than the second one that got laid off and stayed home all the while.
Like in consoles for the past thirty years?

Why is it the government’s responsibility to stop you from buying a device that doesn’t fit your needs when you had an option.
Glucosamine supplementation doesn't appear to have harmful effects on humans and is pretty cheap. It may work for some people, so if you have joint issues why not give it a shot?
This is a MITM attack on one of our highest forms of art.
I paid for Medium because I was reading so much good tech content there.
Why? How about lowering taxes for the “average worker?”
It doesn't matter if you eliminate 10 million confounds. No matter how good your correlation study is, it cannot establish a causation. To do that you need random assignment at the very least.
It's especially apt today, because we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
It is funny, all of those descriptors for STEM and detatchment seem to apply to the dying institutions which call themselves humanities far more than STEM. Now the fundamentals still exist strongly, there is plenty of phislophizing and art creation. But not through them.

Philosophy as a grounding context of human life? Talk about historical revisionism. Philosophy has long been about getting beyond the dreary context of human life into grand abstract universals. Even the ones which had pretenses otherwise like Marx-Engle's descendants or primitivists still engaged in the same thing. Revolutions were lead by college students instead of factory workers and farmers based upon theories that find validating observations not just inapplicable but rude and offensive to even propose. That they define themselves as fundamentally not scientists is the biggest tell to the ailment.

The Non-empiricists got left behind long ago, unchanging and then insist that the world has lost touch and not them. The split from philosophy and natural philosophy and from natural philosophy to science was from an inability to accept that they must acknowledge the world as it is, even if they wish to change it.

By doing so the old institutions and concepts refused to change and are "undead" - not truly gone but not growing or adapting to their environment like a living thing. To paraphrase from the Sixth Sense they're dead and don't know it. Now like Bruce Willis thet are wondering why their spouse silently refuses to speak to them at the dinner table and never listens to a word they say.

Harshly yes, you should get with the program because not doing so in some way (even if it is defiantly crafting their own path which may or may not fail) is denying reality.
Alternative question: Why do I need to download 50 GB of book index to search for that one title and that index can't even do a full text search?

That complexity is Google (or your favourite search engine) running a datacenter indexing exabytes of data so that you can search it in the blink of an eye. Yes, it takes 600ms now instead of 50ms - but that's like complaining that your new eco car engine can't even properly run on aftermarket lamp petroleum.
Swych App Closing Down
Based on the title I was expecting an essay that honestly examines the root cause of the anti-establishment, anti-intellectual and anti-elitism slow-rate backlash we are experiencing, and I am not entirely disappointed with this.
Many people miss the fact that fraudulent purchases are not their problem. Adding a pin, at least in Canada, potentially puts the onus on the cardholder to prove they didn't make the purchase. Although, even though the language of the contract says this, the companies generally don't enforce that. But chip/signature still means the store and the credit card company are risk managing it as part of the cost.
> And I imply to agree with labeling Apple a monopoly precisely because, unlike the gas station on your example, a iPhone user cannot drive 3 miles to buy Spotify without having to pay Apple's 30% fee.

They can choose a non-Apple phone. There is an alternative product on the market.
> The vast majority of fraud isn't from people finding credit cards off the ground and going into stores with it

I must confess that I actually did once find a credit card on the ground while walking through an outdoor parking lot--and I did start using it in stores.

It was one of those mini cards some banks issued that were designed to go on a key ring for convenience. From the wear on it, it had been out there at least a couple days.

When I picked it up I had every intention of reporting it to the bank. However, when I picked it up and saw the name and photo--they were mine!

I pulled out my key ring and sure enough, my card was missing. I didn't use that card much, but still, I used my key ring several times a day so I have no idea how I failed to notice that it was missing.

As to how it fell off, there was a hole in the corner for the key ring to go through, and the card had cracked between the hole and the edge. The next two times my bank issues to me new cards and included a key right card, the same kind of crack developed. I stopped using them after that as the risk of losing them seemed to high.

Bank of America stopped issuing them in 2010, after 8 years. I wonder if it had anything to do with a high lost card rate?
> That like 200 years of runway at their peak losses.

Perhaps they want to be prepared for losses much larger than their peak historical losses.
To be clear, not a single Arab country wants to see an independent Palestinian state. Not a single one. The Palestinians were not even included originally in the Arab League that was supposed to represent their cause. Palestinians were considered a threat to the stability of the post colonial “middle east” (a fabrication created by the west) and they are still treated as such. The crimes committed by Israel not withstanding.
I appreciate that iOS does not allow software to require this.

Yes you can avoid the giant mess of 3rd party launchers on Mac, but only by writing off huge swaths of the software market. Want to run Photoshop? You get to have the Creative Cloud client.

The current state of iOS software is that I never have to go into Task Manager and see what junk has inserted itself as a startup item, whether anything will break if I don't want its update/license client running in the background, or worry about whether it really quits when I quit it or tries to stay resident in the system tray.
Anybody can share some recent experience with Gtk on Windows? In previous versions it worked, however results where quite "special" from a Windows point-of-view. Did they manage to get a more native feeling? Or is it still better to use wxwidgets on top?

I have some toy Qt projects for non-technical users, but with recent licensing stories around the Qt Company I'm looking at alternatives.
I have shifted to be more of a night person lately since COVID, but for the last several decades, I've been a morning person. Key things for me are showering and working out.

Wake up. Shower to wake up (critical for me). Get kids off to school. Work out for an hour or so. Maybe a second quick shower. At this point, the office starts to come alive and I can start any collaboration needed for the day.

Now that I've been staying up later, waking up later, and not having to get kids rushed out the door, I find myself moving my workout to lunch or evening. It's terrible. So easy to skip out on at that point.
Spotify in fact doesn’t go through the App Store for purchases.

The better question is why hasn’t Spotify made a decent watch app that can stream directly to it and download music for off line use? Apple added the ability last year.

How much of a cut does Spotify take from musicians to be on its platform?
Those certainly aren't mutually exclusive ideas.
Well, besides ARM, there is also MIPS core or ISA that IC makes can also buy a license and embed into their products in the same fashion as ARM.
For the same reason antitrust laws exist. Monopolies need to be prevented to maintain a healthy economy.
As the other poster mentioned, X11 used to run on really old resource-constrained systems. Nothing about it precludes using it for embedded automotive applications. A tiny MCU could manage it. The MCUs used for current automotive stuff are powerful enough to run Linux with Vulkan for crying out loud.

Though I think for many of these embedded applications both X11 and Wayland are overkill when EGL direct works just fine. A full windowing system is massive overkill.
And once I buy a Tesla I can’t buy gas like most others can. Whose fault is it that you made a choice that doesn’t fit your needs?
Because the problem isn't with X, it's that all the toolkits people want to use were written basically to use X as a glorified framebuffer. Wayland is a reorienting of the underlying stack to accomodate this. You could absolutely make an automotive stack with something like X and Motif, but nobody in the industry really wants to use those tools.
I have exactly two uses for voice assistants: while driving and while cooking. Saying "Hey Google, set a timer for 15 minutes" when cooking or "Hey Google, remind me in in twenty minutes to add cilantro to the grocery list" when I'm driving and I remember something is cool.
Mono means "one", poly means many, as in: one supplier (Apple) for many customers (iPhone users).
Show HN: Free word/sentence vectorizer as an API
Good point. I'd strongly prefer cheaper healthcare and pricier gasoline to cheap gas and cost-prohibitive healthcare.
Because they don't pay taxes.

Apple designs an iPhone, has it produced in China, sold to Apple HK, then sold to Germany.

Profit margin in China by Foxcon? Small
Profit margin in the offshore jurisdiction (e.g. Hongkong). Big. Taxes in HK for this transaction: Zero

This transaction also does not show up in the US trade balance. ("Black matter in accounting")
I mean one of the two dominant frameworks for causal inference is Judea Pearl's directed acyclic graphs / do-calculus, and Pearl is surely a computer scientist.
If a 17 year-old gains access temporarily to a bank vault, while they’re in there it’s not possible they could also cause a nuclear war. The crimes are similar at face value but meaningfully different.