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What bothers me here is this pattern of personal destruction.

It seems that certain people have somehow been declared "unpersons". The tactic is to develop a list of the 6 or so worst-sounding things they've ever done, always phrased in the shortest and most inflammatory way and devoid of any context or later explanations that might mitigate how bad they are. Then, any time that person's name comes up, a crowd of people appears to repeat those same sound bites in various combinations over and over again. The goal is not understanding, but to discredit and destroy people. Anybody who tries to provide context or mitigating factors for the selected sound bites may become a target of the destruction too.

Alex Jones is not an angel. But then a great many people in public life have done things that can appear damming when packaged into sound bites like this. What matters is not whether Alex Jones is good or bad, but who decides what persons this tactic will be deployed against.

What also matters is what kind of world we are building with this tactic. If somebody has done something bad, do they not deserve a chance to explain themselves, give their side of the story? Maybe roll back some ideas that turned out to be a mistake. If somebody has been declared to be an unperson somehow, and the goal is to do our best to prevent them from speaking at all in any forum by shouting them and any supporters down like this, well exactly what is it that we want them to do?
I think you made most of these things up.
Interesting to see that an RTX 3080 is faster than a dual RTX 2080, and more than twice as fast a single RTX 2080, which is consistent with one of NVIDIA's claims.
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Except it was also seen as a civic duty for able-bodied men to join the militia. If we're talking late 18th century, the Venn diagram of gun ownership and militia membership has a very large degree of overlap.
The body of the story talks about both.
I agree! I'm pointing out that [total] free speech isn't ideal.
Sad about WeChat, but have to admit it sucks that China uses surveillance of the platform to imprison people. Would be great if it forces everyone to use Signal or whatnot that has E2EE.
There were question marks along with the numbers.

Clearly it’s a rhetorical device, presenting a reasonable speculation that matches the evidence (number of projects, and quality), as part of the natural flow of the writer making their point.
Apple may have incentive because iphone sales might go down because consumer will flock to android since you can't sideload wechat on ios.
Okay, but what happened?
I know women who do this too. Seems like sexist stereotyping to label it in the way they did. Not to mention it's not gender identity friendly.
I think Fortnite came from the Epic Launcher, not Mac Store, and auto updated itself already too (this may have differed between battle royale and save the world?).

Doing it unsigned is the question. Do users have to do something manual each update, beyond just a prompt?
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This is a giant misunderstanding of how contract law works. Company A can certainly sue you for breach of contract and the burden of proof would be on you to show that the contract is invalid. The law looks kindly upon the aggrieved party and frowns upon parties that breach a contract.

I'm sure you can come up with plenty of examples of contracts that are on their face invalid and which would be ludicrous to sue over ("what if it was a contract to kill someone!?"); however, the contract at issue here is certainly not so clear cut and, even in those cases, they could still sue you for breach of contract and you would need to still prove that the contract is invalid (no matter how easily it could be done). A subsidiary question: if the contract is so obviously illegal, why did you (or Epic) agree to it?
And in the meantime Epic is accruing quite the sizable damages claim against Apple.
Obviously not as large an amount as Apple stand to lose once a court decides they are stealing from developers, but a tidy bundle for Epic for standing up for us.
It also leads the readers down the dead-end. Python is incapable of parallelism, the only way to badly emulate it is to launch several runtimes. Writing any scientific software in a badly design language when better alternatives exist is wasted time and effort.
As someone who uses Solidworks regularly for mechanical designs this problem basically makes FreeCAD unusable in any real sense. There isn't a single model I've made that I didn't need to do something like in your example.

When designing, a lot of time is spent trying to model it in such a way that one dimension change will propagate down the line so you don't have to worry about adjustments causing something like two
holes to misalign. It's super easy to miss small little things that would make the whole thing not work, so you design to avoid it. Essentially, the professional programs are setup so that you make basic shapes and relations and then put in your final dimensions at the end once the conceptual design is complete.
If Epic prevails, it pretty much wrecks the idea behind contract law. This case is about Epic agreeing to a thing and then reneging on the agreement, then crying “look what the evil mean company did!”

Apple is no saint, but in this case, they aren’t in the wrong. From reading the filings, Apple has gone to some extraordinary lengths to support Fortnite, behind the scenes, only to have Epic shred the hand that’s helping them.
It is quite interesting than on FP16 RTX Titan kicks RTX3080 ass and on FP32 it's the opposite.
The compiler/transpiler distinction is very blurred. Nobody disputes that LLVM-IR-targeting compilers compile programs, but the LLVM IR is not an executable. `javac` "compiles" programs, but the JVM bytecode is not machine code.

There's also no need to "figure out" that it compiles to C. That's in the second line of the front page.
You mean "out marketed". Apple is notoriously slow to change.
A judge should be the one to decide if the rules are valid or not.

But, for now, this action is entirely on Epic. Epic broke the rules, Apple (and the court, for that matter) said that they would continue to sign and publish Epic's Fortnite updates if they brought Fortnite back in line with their contract, and Epic not only refused to do so, they submitted more Fortnite updates that broke the rules, before eventually entirely removing Apple's IAP from the iOS version of Fortnite (just before Epic's developer account was banned).

One other thing to consider: even if the IAP rules are invalid, Apple still can decide who it wants to do business with (unless the court rules iOS an essential facility, which basically invalidates the entire closed ecosystem business model, which would really up-end the tech world).
This is disappointing yet expected from the executive.

What's more disappointing is watching the thunderous applause from technologists here and elsewhere as software is outlawed which is not otherwise illegal and is not being litigated as illegal. We should not cheer on the restriction of any software on nationalistic terms. Content is one thing, physical equipment another, but algorithms should be borderless. Most in the community disagree with encryption export restrictions, why can't they similarly disagree with software import restrictions? 2A groups recognize slippery slope precedents, why can't technologists?

If the content/data is being harvested and/or managed illegally, then make that illegal and/or prosecute under that pretense (even if the evidence is subject to national security non-disclosure). Otherwise, it's obvious this is political posturing at the cost of digital freedom. It should be as widely condemned as government surveillance has been.
I don't understand. There aren't any other ways for you to make a call to China? Does China block Skype, WhatsApp? Genuine questions.
U.S. states are sovereign states, just like EU states are. They United States government itself is also sovereign, in a sense that the EU government itself may or may not be. (Most) Americans live under two sovereigns: their state and the U.S.
Really great story. One twist leads to another: https://youtu.be/jQ5H-1YpqmM?t=108
Tell the professor to teach about FOSS and to stay away from SaaS offerings. It is also ethically wrong to ask students to pay for a proprietary service as part of their university education
You’re correct that parametric is cool & FreeCAD adds that flexibility.

One note about Sketchup is it encourages choosing standard sized items from the parts library. Choosing from the library (for example, choosing a standard 2x4 board or a standard door) means you’ll find real-world equivalents at Home Depot & avoid a lot of cost.
In reality an emergency is of course exactly the time to take more risks.
> But RSS distribution is hard to monetize.

There’s quite a few podcasts with in show ads doing quite well. I think it’s possible to make more money through youtube, Spotify, etc. But it’s not hard to make money, it’s just possible to make more using techniques that are more closed.

I mean proprietary app stores make more money than open platforms, but yet Linux still exists and independent software devs with their own storefronts still exist.
YNAB is my main tool for the job.
Even the 3080 is just able to render most modern games at 144 fps at fullhd (!) - and only barely able half of them at 1440p. There is no such thing as practical 4k or 8k rendering, at least not at pleasent refresh rates and without party tricks (DLSS).
See also: Bret Victor's excellent "What can a technologist do about Climate Change": http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
SolveSpace has it's own geometric kernel that is dramatically smaller than Open Cascade. It's also lacking some features, but IMHO better to build on something small and digestible that try to find bugs in a monolith. There are some bugs in there too, but I think they're solvable.
> If they allowed Epic to skirt their rules, they'd have to do the same for everyone

Apple is already allowing Amazon to "skirt their rules".
What’s an industry secret in the field you work in?
another thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24515461
Bant they just scan them on receiver side? Like how it scans dowloaded files
Article title: Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for Democratic emails, lawyer says
Well, I looked at the linked page[0] and it says STL files.

0. https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx
> "croc send -c 'xyz blahblahblah' filename" on multiple computers without error

That seemed to be a bug and is fixed now. After two parties enter a channel it should give you a "room is full" response.

> Magic Wormhole works a bit differently. IIRC it dynamically requests a channel from the server which is prepended to the passphrase as a number. This seems a bit more resilient to me, as the birthday problem suggests it's quite likely two people will end up with the same channel just by bad luck with Croc....There are only ~900 different three letter word beginnings in the wordlist, so you'd only need to claim that many channels on the server to make it unusable for anyone who lets Croc pick passwords, and occasional collisions between users are certain. Lol that should probably be fixed.

I think wormhole uses only 99 channels [1] so it is also susceptible to a DOS attack. But generally, collisions in channels can occur but are probably pretty rare because I don't have enough people using croc simultaneously to collide. Importantly - colliding channels doesn't undermine security because you have to have the whole passphrase to successfully perform PAKE. But, when you say it should probably be fixed, you refer to mitigating a DOS attack?

[1]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/107
yeah, usually when I'm reading the news I'm only screaming on the inside
It seems at least as enforceable as GPL terms.
From someone who ditched macos two weeks ago: macos just doesn't feed good anymore. Ignoring things like their horribly outdated window-management (what the hell is that splitscreen-mess?) and the mess that are locked down and all-over-the-place plist-files (good luck with those!), it seems pretty obvious that windows has a different relevance for microsoft than macos has for apple.

When I first got a macbook at work four years ago, I couldn't even figure out how to install software (you drag'n'drop an icon to a folder within an pseudo-installer? are you serious?) without asking a colleague.

Then: when I'm writing code, I'm writing for linux-machines. Opening a shell in macos just doesn't give me that. Instead I'm either left with the insult that is homebrew, or the alternative, macports, which is functional but so out of vogue its not even fun.

Meet Windows 10: I click on vscode and it's already open.. Not only open, but already connected to WSL, where I write code on a microsoft-maintaned linux-kernel, with proper package management, without ever firing up a vm by hand. In Windows' vscode I'm writing a flask-app running on linux, available without intermediate steps from Windows' Chrome.

The platform that is windows 10 feels so much more powerful and up-to-date than macos, it's not even a fair comparison.

All that being said, of course there are things one misses, because of course, apple has done a lot of things right. But overall, going back to the best macbook money can buy would feel like a massive downgrade.

What apple and macos are good at is the "all from one team" approach. Designing the OS and the hardware hand in hand with native integration to your other apple-devices has some clear advantages that windows just can't provide. But the sentiment I'm used to from my company is that "windows is completely unusable garbage, and apples computers are perfect", and I just have to disagree with that, typing this from my fully loaded xps 15.
He has a "work in progress" repo that's a Rust port of magic wormhole, here: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole.rs

Looks like it's been idle for 5 months.
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Texas isn't like that either. I've lived in Texas for almost a decade and I've never seen someone open carrying a long rifle at the supermarket.

Geez, the stereotypes people spread!
I think that the goal for Oculus is to do everything using headset-mounted cameras, without the need for a base station, so it makes sense for them to focus on image processing instead of specialized sensors. Cost also matters, especially for a $300 standalone headset, and extra sensors aren't free.

One thing to realize is also that cameras (or lighthouses in the case of the Vive) are not the primary sensors. What really do the job are accelerometers and gyroscopes. Cameras only provide reference points to correct for drift.
Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders
I think there are legit issues with the CCP having access to massive amounts of US user data, particularly from WeChat.

But the Commerce order does not highlight the risks, moreover, they don't bother to give specific examples of concern.

The gov. should do a much, much better job at illustrating specific scenarios, cases, impacts, outcomes in order to legitimize the action.
Seems like WeChat should be the headline, that's a much bigger impact. Many Americans use it exclusively to communicate with Chinese relatives.
Agreed. So much for a "new language" that doesn't want to show off what an actual code looks like.
Should be worded as: Pay us to help you spam journalist
It was even crazier when they tried to deactivate their Apple signin users. Apple has just a few months ago started mandating you allow Apple sign in if you allow any other third party sign in.

This gives Apple a huge hammer over your business, as it causes Apple sign in to leak into your web properties or properties on other platforms and Apple now has a hammer over some portion of your users who didn't even find your stuff through their store or even their devices or have moved on from using those devices.
I’m well aware of Alan’s definition. Nevertheless relatively few people hold that view.
Just have two UEFI boot entries: one booting the EFI stuff directly, and one booting GRUB, which then boots the same kernel. Then you can use GRUB to change kernel command line.
How would non techies get the apps?
I don't know about inevitable, but price regulation would not be the best outcome here.

My hope for this is to see regulation that recognizes that hardware, operating systems, application distribution and payment processing are four separate markets and must be unbundled.

That does not mean breaking Apple and Google up or preventing them from providing all these things within an integrated user experience; it should however prohibit:

- using technical or legal methods to prevent consumers from installing any operating system or app store on their hardware, and independent developers from creating such operating systems or app stores.

- using technical or legal methods to prevent developers from using a payment processor of their choice while using Apple's or Google's application distribution service.

I think the judgements against Microsoft in the browser wars might serve as precedent.

The tricky part is recognizing that in two-sided markets, the threshold of market share at which a company achieves a harmful, competition-stifling amount of market power is much lower than in traditional one-sided markets.
What's really troubling is that a legitimate anti-malware feature has been tied to "we can do whatever we want" TOS.

The Developer Id system was a decent compromise: gave developers way out from App Store walled garden, and still protected users from random "Update your Flash!" malware downloads.

But now Apple has demonstrated that it will use it as a weapon in App Store disputes, even on a different platform, even when the Developer Id app clearly isn't malware, and the Mac app didn't violate any rules.
Playing devil's advocate: use every library under the sun even when you don't need, and make websites so unbearably slow that getting off the web and going for a walk becomes an attractive option again.

More realistically, maybe don't cherrypick ideas to make up correlations that don't really make sense, and instead do actual environmentally net positive things like buying less stuff or donating
> I may be wrong but it seems that the number of confirmed cases isn't a great indicator either

Personal anecdote, but I generally avoid doctors at pretty well all costs.

I have one, and I go for my yearly physical when they call me to schedule it. Other than that, I've found the doctor to be a great way to waste a lot of money and get an ambiguous result. Usually, "Take pain killers for a week and see if it gets better"

Since I am relatively well off, I have to imagine there is an enormous portion of the population who feels similarly to me about going to the doctor, and who also don't actually have the money to pay those bills.

It seems likely to me that coronavirus cases are probably just going undetected among the less well off in (American) society, especially for the portion where the illness is mild (which is literally every case I have heard about in my area for people under 40).
Well, as of early May there were 198 variants identified: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52557955
We don't know that there's any difference, currently, between what variants are dominant in different parts of the world. But, we sure don't know they're the same, either.
I'm pretty sure existing processes can launch other unsigned processes, unless something has changed in Catalina.

(And of course, if you were to disable Gatekeeper none of this would be a problem, although I can see why Epic wouldn't want to make users do that, and they shouldn't have to.)
> Microsoft knows how to build tools that untechnical people can use

They have a pretty hit and miss history there. They got a few things (mostly) right and leveraged them from there. Every attempt they made to replace the hierarchical file system as a way to store files on your computer failed comically, almost as comically as Microsoft Bob or Microsoft Network.

> They are the best at this; that's why they have the desktop market.

One could say they did that by suffocating the competition with legally dubious tactics until they effectively had a monopoly on corporate desktops, which gave them the push they needed to leverage it into a de-facto monopoly on all things x86. Note that for anything that's not an x86 box they have approximately zero market share.

> Microsoft isn't backed into a corner: you're resting on your laurels. They're about to Embrace everything about Linux that's awesome.

I agree with you on that - they aren't going the way of the dinosaur quietly. They'll do whatever they can to gain relevance and force other players out of the market so they can enjoy a de-facto monopoly like they did before.
Worth noting this split is like 3 / 97.
I'm no anti-vaxxer, but I cannot tell what's worse: a little known virus that hit us like an unexpectedly motile wall of bricks, or a rushed vaccine. I'd rather be exposed to neither, so I'll keep on keeping away from people until this thing blows over.
>> you take enough fuel to get where you’re going with plenty to spare.

Then what is the point? 90+% of spacelaunch is lifting fuel, and the fuel you need to lift that fuel, and and and... all fuel. The whole thing is an exercise in moving reaction mass around using other reaction mass. Hauling around an extra 2km/s of deltaV would require a rocket on the pad double or triple the size of not bringing it. Spacelaunch equipment has to work every time or else it isn't worth the investment.

Even if we treat the tether as a potential 'bonus' rather than a necessity, think of all the fuel spent on the intercept with the tether. Your launch time would have to coincide with the tether, meaning you launch at a non-ideal time. And you would only every launch into the tether's orbital inclination/plane, radically reducing the number of potential destinations.
Beats me, I don't side load things. But I'm quite confident that you can find a version of it to install somewhere.

> It's like saying "oh guns are banned but can't I just call someone I know who can get me a gun?

I mean... that's how lots of people get illegal things. Drugs? Etc.
Amoral does no less harm overall than evil, it's just done to 'the masses', not particular targets.

No one at Facebook gets to claim they were just following orders if they have _any_ understanding of the possible consequences of their work.

(If you believe the authors/operators that specifically maximize profits over responsibility are not responsible for their outcomes, you should read back into the posting about PG&E in CA: deliberately ignoring the wear & tear on 100 year old support hooks on high-tension power lines, thus sparking the fire that burned down Paradise, CA.)
NodeJS is my primary stack, and I've built toy projects with Rust since 2014, but never used it in production.

Rust offers perfomance improvements in CPU and memory usage of the core application logic, and it's almost never the bottleneck for the typical web apps. Almost always, they're limited by IO, and I don't see any reasons why it would be better on Rust that on Node. Also, Rust offers security of safe access to memory, but that's a problem that exists in C and C++, not in GC-based languages. Finally, Rust offers a great type system, but Typescript has a very good one as well, and offers a much easier transition for Javascript Node developers, as well as a much more machure NPM ecosystem.

Overall, I just don't see how Rust would make much of an improvement over existing state of affairs.
I've always wondered what a Data Protection Officer would do if they where born in a muslim country.