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> At which time I found that method of Infinite series. And in summer 1665 being forced from Cambridge by the Plague I computed the area of the Hyperbola of Boothby in Lincolnshire to two & fifty figures by the same method. [signed] Is. Newton

He made a signed statement of his discovery just as in a 20th century engineer's/inventor's notebook.

The mention of being forced from Cambridge because of the plague makes me wonder if some great discoveries are being made right now because many bright minds have been forced home by coronavirus.
It‘s good to have you here and a good thing when CEOs keep in touch with their customers, listen to them, and eat their own dog food. - Imagine Tim Cook would have used a MacBook Pro (with the miserable key) and/or listened to the complaints. And a thousand more examples I can think of.
Here's a report that a Googler used their vast data to spy on and harass people, including minors: https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fir...
> I meant about wired Internet access. Running 10 wires to your house to have access to 10 ISPs is expensive and it's also a nightmare for the city. It is extremely wasteful because most people will only use one of them at the time.

In Paris, you don't need to run separate cables into a building for each ISP. Orange Telecom owns the infrastructure and leases it out to the different ISPs. They then share the cables but have different end point hardware where the main trunk lines hook into the apartment buildings. Perhaps this is different in other residential communities, but from what I gather, once the infrastructure and wiring is in place, consumers can switch between ISPs and need only switch modems. Switching from Orange to another ISP would not need rewiring.

My only problem with this "natural monopoly" method is it ensures a minimum price, which is not really decided by competition, but more likely on the return on cost to wire the country for fiber as agreed on with the government who owns 23% of the company. Then there's a lot of skullduggery with contracts (e.g. first 3 months for $19.99 then it shoots up to $50, some ISPs have 6-month contracts, others are month to month with no penalty if you disconnect).

France does a lot of things like this, which makes sense when dealing with national infrastructure, but it doesn't quite do the consumer justice when the ISPs are rentiers selling bandwidth. I can only imagine how quickly it will take them to recoup their costs of wiring fiber.

I bet the US could benefit a lot by sharing infrastructure, but it doesn't necessarily mean all will be perfect.
It feels like this is trying to solve the wrong problem.

People aren't asking for a new document standard or a new browser.

If you follow the money, you'll find that most of Mozilla's money comes from Google. Most of Google's money comes from Ads on its search platform(s).

The way to a better web would be to solve the discovery problem. If you didn't need to use Google or App Stores to find the content, then you would not be dependant on their ad revenue.
I don't know if Lyft has it but Uber does. After the ride, you get an option to "like" the driver. Surprisingly, Uber has made a lot more driver friendly changes than Lyft recently.
> What is a true problem however is the political unwillingness to force cell providers to cover areas with very little population.

Never been to very rural Germany. But OTOH in every flat I lived in Berlin, I had problems getting signal. So it's not about density.

Or it is but in the opposite direction. There's just not enough capacity to provide to all the city residents.
Did online shop software even exist when Amazon started?
> A more useful conversation to have might be: what sort of prompts does GPT struggle with? How might we alter the algorithm to ameliorate these issues?

That would be eminently useful, but unfortunately we can't have that discussion because OpenAI aren't exposing the model.

They've really brought this on themselves - I don't think there'd be these believer/nonbeliever camps if they had taken the slower, rationalist/scientific approach to the research.

Instead, they've breathlessly hyped up their new API with media releases and saturated social media, and are picking and choosing who they allow to play with their model. It's not surprising that a lot of people didn't take too kindly to it.
I think this is the case in most countries besides the US.

And (at least in Israel and the UK, and probably others, but not the US), you can identify a mobile number by the prefix, so you know what you're getting yourself into by placing the call.
I was in much better environment with much better programmers.

The programmer you mention was not a norm. He was an issue, collective inability to cut his shit off was issue. And apparently his behavior ended up normalise among programmers you know, precisely because people around you were not able to set boundaries on them.

But it was not him being neuro-atypical, was not "slow to make friends", you are talking about bullies in environment that is enabling it.

Let's call it power trip and bullying instead of absurd euphemisms.

And that bullying is not considered normal or acceptable by our general society either.
That's not what they said. They said that the fact people keep using the play store despite all of the shitty practices by Google (e.g. the review process) should be proof enough that Google engaged in anticompetitive behavior, otherwise people would go to a competitor.

Which is debatable but not as absurd as you make it out to be.
A software dev won't need to understand it. Apple's and Google's legal team would. Your average software dev doesn't run an app store
What looks like y^2 (or superscript 2) is an abbreviation for "the".
But, it is topic of this thread, because this thread is literally about that.
Pretty much the same as it was with MSFT for a while.
Maybe you interested combine QT with react?

- https://docs.nodegui.org/

- https://react.nodegui.org/
Except in this case, it's not real, you can't read any characters below another window.
They are clearly limiting their commentary to personal experience, something I can't believe you're trying to spin into being controversial.
Thank you, I've corrected it. It raises the question of why anyone bothered with a 2 symbol abbreviation for just 3 letters.
Try Apache Nutch.
the API would not have to be universal, because that would mean android support on IOS. the API would just have to be open, in that neither apple nor google can act as gatekeepers for who gets to use it.

this also includes that apple can not disallow duplication of existing features.
The key point in the Kodak case was that Kodak changed their policy on selling repair parts after people bought the original product, and the change in policy is what led the Supreme Court to decide that the market for repair parts was a separate and relevant aftermarket, because the people that bought Kodak copiers lacked information at the time of purchase about Kodak's repair policy and therefore were locked-in to buying repair services from Kodak after the fact.

Subsequent cases since Kodak have continually narrowed the scope in which Kodak is applied, and it likely would not apply here because people who buy iPhones have known since the App Store launched in 2008 that the App Store is the only place they'll be able to install apps from.
Feels slow in the browser on my iPhone X
They're probably not using a UK plan.
> Thus the end-users lose the benefits of proper curation.

But Apple are obviously not doing proper curation. They might be good at keeping viruses out, but what they have done to Wordpress and HEY was not proper in the least.
UK and $13 for 30gb 4g on a rolling monthly contract but there are a lot of more expensive plans out there and people don't switch as often as they could.
One argument I'd make is that it creates a race to the bottom. The fact they have a near search monopoly along with their data collection means they milk the highest amount of revenue per search compared to other search engines by a long margin.

To compete with that, other engines would need to be at least as aggressive in their data collection as well as trying to gain market share.

Obviously any other engine who uses principles like privacy as part of their mission are at an inherent disadvantage. Search engines can return meaningful adverts pretty much based on keywords used and location searched from- there isn't a "need" for all the other tracking and data collection other than profit.
There's React Native for Windows and Mac now. Still pretty early on, but worth a shot especially if you're also targeting mobile platforms (you can share a lot of logic and some UI).
Well, before modern dentistry, if you've got a sufficiently bad dental problem you die from an abscess.
Probably iCloud Photos is the Apple service that most ties me to a Mac hardware.

How's the iCloud syncing to a Windows PC?
There are multiple different sites you can go to for training on AWS, and training towards getting the various AWS certifications. AWS has their own training, but outside of that probably best known is acloud.guru, and there are many others.

In your case, I would start with the AWS Certified Developer path (see https://aws.amazon.com/training/path-developing/), and then look at the Operations path (see https://aws.amazon.com/training/path-operations/). But the training and the certifications are only part of the picture. Speaking only for myself, I don’t really learn something until I have to do it for real, and especially if I then have to teach it to others. So, I would encourage you to try to find ways to actually use these tools in real-world scenarios.

In my experience, AWS doesn’t do a whole lot with Kubernetes. Sure, you can use it on AWS, but the more native AWS solutions are Lambda functions, and if you want to go with more classic containers, then you’d be looking at Fargate if you don’t want to manage your own container management system, or ECS if you do want to manage your own container management system. EKS is the AWS flavor of Kubernetes, but is not as common.
What was this regulation? I'm unaware of it
Interesting! That's changed in the past three years, then, but I'm glad to hear it.
Why are trying to tie these two orthodontists to mysoginism, alt right, toxic internet forums, etc? Do they personally hold any of these views? Do they push such beliefs?

Same thing with Jordan Peterson and other examples.

These are character assassination attempts. And I am extremely sad to see this on front page.
In all fairness I think Dart is Flutter's strength, not it's weakness. It is a very well thought out language, unlike javascript(in the spirit of discussing electron).

There is undeniably a problem with flutter however: while it can be used for desktop applications, it's mobile-first, desktop-sec.. well... desktop-kinda-sorta-works...
To people using custom domains (for email, etc): what is your plan in-case you end up losing the domain name (either temporarily, or otherwise)? How do you prepare for this, reduce the risk, etc?

Losing your domain name can happen due to any number of reasons: hacked account (at the registrar), social engineering, etc. There can also be issues with registrars going bankrupt, increasing fees (see dot-org case), laws changing (especially with ccTLDs - see the dot-EU case with British citizens post-brexit) and much more...
I banned unboxing videos for my kids. The only thing I ever had to explicitly ban. I didn't have a big issue with them per se but when I saw the effect on the kids I couldn't allow it.

They were...strung out.
In my opinion this system is exactly the scenario that they were talking about when a bunch of ML researchers and stuff signed that letter saying it was necessary to ban autonomous AI weapons.

And it is bizarre that no one seems to be recognizing this.
With regards to CI/CD on AWS, the tools are CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, etc.... Sure, you can run a Jenkins server on AWS, but that’s not the AWS-native way to go.
You can't really compare the US, an active empire with documented testimonies of spying on individuals and, e.g. Ireland, Switzerland or most other european countries.

At some point, if China is the comparison point you always cite when someone talks about the US, it starts to seem like they are actually comparable.
The trend is to always hide everything as much as possible. I think that creates an uncanny valley effect. Better to paint things bright vibrant colours rather than bland grey.
Theres too much fragmentation with desktops and desktop like environments, Mac, Windows, Linux, Ipad.

It's quite hard to make native apps for all these, previously you would just go for Windows. So easier to make a web app targeting them all.

For iOS and Android there's less fragmentation so you can either go react native, a webkit type app and the most costly option: native for each.
The cost of 1GB doesn't seem to take into account the entrance to having a line in the first place. I might not pay more than 1€ a GB but I still have to pay 10€ to be on the network and I can't only buy 1GB, I have to buy 2, 10 or 50 or 100. The "base plan" is where the ISPs get you. That plus data is just the modern day rents for tech companies. It doesn't really make sense to compare data prices when the telecoms are charging varying entrance rates.
What if it’s $1,000 or $10,000 per ride? As long as we’re throwing out unreasonable numbers.
> I think the biggest issue is the social problem of the long and arduous process to become a trusted Debian Developer. Although there's now an easier Debian Maintainer option for restricted access, it's still not easy to become one.

To be fair, with the impact you could have in a role like this, with millions (billions?) of Debian or Debian-based devices and installations depending on it, worldwide...

It IMO makes sense that you only grant access once competence, non-malicious intentions and your willingness to stick around is established.
Link without all those ads.

https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorow/status/12962481673194823...

Don't really follow his logic there. Contact tracing is a manual process, thus digital contact tracing apps bad because of that one Michigan app that's actively stupid and a few other failed attempts? That whole argument seems to make major leaps and ignores more sensible approaches to the degree that I'm unable to contact trace whatever point he was originally trying to make. Sure, some people took the "just throw tech at it without thinking" approach but that happens everywhere these days.
The argument is that the review process gets away with being crappy due to the monopoly position, not that it is leading to the monopoly. It’s a symptom, not a cause.

Also it’s possible that specific clauses in the guidelines are anti-competitive. Fir example a guideline that simply disallows any app that competes with one of Google’s Apps might be seen this way.

So those are coherent arguments I think, I just don’t agree with them. The Play Store is a google product, with features developed and maintained by a Google. Other stores exist that compete with it, with features developed by other companies. The reason customers went with Google Play is simply because it had momentum and scale, and customers don’t want multiple stores. They want one store with one set of rules where all the Apps are, that will be on their next phone. Customers benefit from a one stop shop.

If someone wanted to develop a better store, with libraries better than ‘play services’, what stops them? If you want to inter operate with and use the services of the Play Store, you need to make a deal with a google, and the terms of that deal are standardised by Google. There’s nothing obviously illegal or a abusive about any of that, as long as the contractual relationships are fairly administered under the law.
This classic rant by Steve Yegge gets shared almost every time object oriented design pattern debates come up on HN, but I'll share it again since new members join regularly: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...

You may or may not agree with it, but it does frame the debate in an interesting way.
Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder
Really good points, and really calls into focus the need to empower individual counties to define their own fire policies (I think that's the right scale).
Thats 5.25 Indian Rupee, even Beggars would earn more than that in a day. Hourly minimum wage is 30cents, which as sad as it is, is still 4x the cost of 1GB data. I would argue cost of smartphones as a bigger deterrent. While in most countries an okay smartphone would cost 20x the cost of a GB of data, in India its roughly 50x
ironic that this is on .dev, of which google runs the TLD =/
Vodafone does this. They also explained to me i get to keep the Mifi+SIM, to use it in case the landline goes out (edit: never had to use it once in 3+ years).

Not sure how this is not a good sign, i suppose they do that pretty regularly? Also, in my case the announce 4-week window was 2 weeks in the end, so not sure if there's much of a complaint there.

Are we really expecting to just summon things at will now?
It's not how long they _last_, it's how many lives they take. USSR alone lost some 25 million people in WW2, mostly young, able bodied men. Some estimates put the casualty count even higher. Imagine the impact of taking basically all military aged men in the United States and sending them into a massive, five year long meat grinder. That's what this war was like for the USSR and other countries that couldn't wait until 1944 to directly intervene.

So yeah, I think it's great that we can no longer have major wars, and I think it's worth having the nukes if that's what it takes to deter others.
Left of field, but game engines have figured out translating a single set of UI APIs to multiple graphics backends already.

Alternatively you could use a compatibility version of OpenGL, like 3.3 which will run on any desktop OS, then use a windowing lib like glfw and UI framework like Dear ImGui which is graphics API agnostic. I use this particular combination all the time and it never lets me down. Sokol is another options which is a very thin layer over many graphics APIs.
The world doesn't need yet another CAD exchange format.

You could have done scripting for STEP models.
Avalonia is a cross platform port of XAML, that is ready for app development. I’m waiting for it to move to .Net 5 though.

There’s also FuncUI, an elm-like layer over Avalonia written in F#.
> Convince them this will lead to more growth and you’ll get your wish.

There's actually a good case to be made in that favor.

Letting Apple strangle thousands of app developers and prevent business cases that would actually find customers from being implemented because of restrictive app store rules does not result in a single additional employment at Apple, but only in a few more billions of revenue at Apple and maybe a few more billions of fantasy market cap.

However, doing the opposite would strengthen these thousands of market participants, allow them to implement business cases that aren't feasible with a 30% Apple tax or due to other arbitrary store restrictions, and to do that, lots of people must be employed. High-skilled people with high salaries.

If the primary goal is to strengthen your actual, real economy, not pushing the stock market, I would root for the latter approach, not the former.
> Why should society give a fuck though?

Why should it give a fuck if instead of hungry for love, they're just hungry. Or sick. Or anything other than fine, really.

> Most of these people don't become angry bitter sociopaths.

Citation needed. The amount of angry bitter sociopaths ranting about all kinds of things suggests that many are.

> What would you expect society to do for them?

The same society would do for any health issue, be it mental of physical. Help fix it, not belittle, mock and ostracize.
Those wars are insignificant in comparison to world wars.
You don’t think they California government shares any of the blame?
Maybe this: https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio
Ask HN: How do you get regular people to care about free (as in libre) software?
EULAs have existed since the 80s, with no clear distinction on when software must be considered a product equivalent to a physical good, vs when it must be considered a service. The internet did not help with the ambiguity around this distinction.

I've always felt the start of a proper solution would have been to have the author distinguish whether they were selling products or services - choosing between copyright, patents and first sale doctrine for products, and trade secret protection only for services.

Now that the global economy is based on computer software, it would be a long and difficult process to make changes.
> So, at first it sounds like they're making a technical argument against anyone who would choose to use Electron, but I think what they're actually doing is instead expressing some kind of economic disappointment in your situation.

This is a fair assessment. Still, this disappoinment is worth expressing as it makes it clear the current situation (lack of high-quality, mature, cross-platform toolkit using native widgets) is frustrating. You shouldn't be choosing between spending a lot of resources doing things right and spending a reasonable amount producing an inneficient monster that drains your users' system resources.
PyQT
I don't really think there is a need for an "alternative" NOP, because the XCHG side effect (of clobbering the TMP register) is of little practical concern. In fact, as far as I have been able to determine, the malformed JMP/CALL FAR m32 operation -- which isn't even remotely useful! -- is the only way that code is even able to 'observe' the TMP register in the first place.

For all practical purposes 90h is indeed a NOP, despite the fact that the CPU actually executes the opcode.
The Great Reversal -How America Gave Up on Free Markets by
Thomas Philippon https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544

The Economist: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/12/12/a...

Article by Philippon: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/europe-not...

"Chapter 8 How European Markets Became Free" Is funny story how EU accidentally tricked itself into creating competitive markets for products and services.

EU governments have tradition of protecting their own economies and shaping their industrial policy as they have done in the past. Distrust between countries led to the only working solution: independent regulators and fair markets. Ruhr Authority in 1949 was already independent from from the control of any European country but it took several decades for Europe to create broad, independent, and powerful regulators.

And the results are clear: EU has state aid rules for example, the US does not. In the US corporations have incentive to shop around for subsidies, pitting one state against another and leading to inefficient outcomes.
The price should be calculated for ~10GB, or better yet 50 or even 100GB, as the prices tend to be lower the more GB you pay for, which becomes really noticeable with "unlimited" packages.

Some countries/networks have true unlimited 4G, some give you a set amount of GB at full speed, after which it drops to something barely usable (128-1024 Kbps).

I could use ~1TB/month on 4G on Three UK for ~40 Euros. That's unbeatable in Europe to my knowledge.

Never got higher than ~300 GB/month though - even at that price per GB only some Eastern European networks become competitive.