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> Device freedom is a must. Any device should be completely controllable by the end user.

I have the choice of buying a completely controllable android device if I want to install mystery apps willy-nilly. I'm not interested in that, and there are millions like me. I want a locked-down device that keeps developers in check.

This situation is much like the browser nightmares of the past, where Firefox users complained that the browser was slow. People didn't really take into account that the slowness wasn't fault of Firefox, but of the zillion janky browser extensions people freely installed. Chrome came along, and people were wowed by how fast it was, not realizing it was 'fast' because they hadn't installed 47 browser extensions yet. Apple doesn't want to be Firefox, and I don't blame them.

I want my phone to be like a Nintendo, I don't really care about the freedom to install any random code I download (even though I really could if I wanted to install something I built locally with XCode). First and foremost I want developers to be terrified of getting their publishing privileges yanked if they step out of line.
Some banks do, some don't.

In a lot of countries if you establish a small company and open a bank account for it they will just do the bare minimum, after all if you got a tax number and just got a new company registered you already jumped through a few background check hoops.

Of course they will still run your name through their whatever systems. And eventually if your business starts transacting it'll be constantly looked at by the automated systems.

As long as you don't do anything suspicious, no one will care.

Basically if you behave like all the small shops that have to deposit cash, no one will look twice.

Also, cash is not interesting, the problem is when you start to wire money (or get transfers) to/from places that small kitchens usually don't. And that's when risk and compliance departments might notice the activity.
No, but the candy has to have some kind of structural element.
This is such a waste of resources.

It's a very profitable waste of resources.
The origin of salty licorice was as a throat lozenge (same reason a singer might gargle salt water ever so often to keep their throat healthy) in cold/freezing fishing waters. (The salt was the important bit, the licorice was just the flavor the fisherman really like to make it sweeter and easier to chew.) It wasn't invented to be an appetite suppressor, though for a lot of people it certainly is. (Not many people like salty licorice, given a choice.) (Also, ironically, salt in general is not an appetite suppressant and there are documentaries about why salt was added to so many foods to increase consumption.)
There is no evidence that what they are fighting for would benefit anyone other than a small group of already rich companies.
Let's face it. We've all been there.
It doesn't. The welfare state has been gutted, and those with sufficiently problematic mental health issues are usually left to die in the gutter and/or beg for change.

But the system the US used to have, pre-Reaganomics, and which can still be accessed by those who are lucky enough to have other who can ensure their well-being on their behalf, involves placing those who are unable to fend for themselves, into organizations/homes/institutions/facilities where their needs can be met.

I know an individual who is badly schizophrenic. His family has managed to handle all of his paperwork, and get him placed in a home where he is overseen, that keeps him occupied, socialized, and out of trouble, with easy and regularly (monitored) access to the treatments he needs, and which are outside of his capability to acquire for himself. (This is NO small task. Our current system makes this extremely, and intentionally, difficult)

My point is, organizations such as the home he is in, could be funded through UBI (the UBI that said family member would be entitled to), instead of being paid for by a mix of his family members and the welfare state.

But there will always still be a need for governmental organizations / welfare state to ensure the existence of, regulation of, and potentially subsidization of, places such as that home.

I'm a huge proponent of UBI. But my point was just, UBI can replace a large % of the welfare state. It can't replace it 100%. There is still a role for government. You cannot just give people like said acquaintance money, and call the problem solved : )
> I can't think of a solution

because you're only thinking of technical solutions. A comprehensive privacy framework that requires explicit user consent to data collection and gives user transparent controls accomplishes just that, without having to resort to user-hostile or complicated tech.
I don't think games as a subscription service will necessarily work out as well as for movies and television. At least at the moment, buying games can be so cheap (if you wait 1-2 years after releases) and games are usually so long that it's probably quite hard to release a subscription service that beats just waiting for sales. Also, I'm not sure how much the third-party developers that are not owned by Amazon/MS et. al. will make of these services; if they decide not to put their games on the service (or after years when sales are already occuring), it would already be a blow to these services.

Also, at least for me, having a more expensive internet connection (needed for game streaming services) would actually cost me more than a high-end gaming machine and way more than a console.
If you want to use database prepare $3000 and another $1000 for upgrades per year. Per seat.

If you look at the job market there is about 1000:1 ratio for Java:delphi jobs in my area. So no it's not worth it. I worked 15 years in Delphi. Used it as hobby since Delphi 4. I liked it but it's time to move on. I still use 2 apps daily (git gui client and text editor) on Linux using lazarus which is free.
The Netherlands has a 20% obesity rate.

Granted that this isn't the 36% in the United States.

But it doesn't justify your confident claim that Nederlanders never engage in 'wanton consumption'; clearly a fifth of your compatriots take a third stroopwafel when a single serving would suffice.
And worse for consumers. No way I'm dealing with entering my CC again and again. The current situation is not perfect, but it does have advantages for both consumers and developers.
it is widely believed that environmental factors in modern society are giving people depressive symptoms -- ranging from low-mood to dysthymia to full clinical depression.

i am willing to speculate that the same may be true of psychosis. i'm not an expert or anything but what is true of depressive symptoms seems like it could be true of psychotic symptoms as well.

many people may be suffering from very low-grade, subclinical psychotic symptoms, with a smaller number progressing to diagnosable mental illness.

this idea is consonant with findings that schizophrenia diagnoses increase for people who live in cities, and with the social defeat hypothesis.

it seems to me that this would explain the increase in the past few years in the particularly bizarre kind of conspiratorial thinking described here.

old-fashioned conspiracies (JFK, UFOs) had a kind of internal coherence and logic that seems to have gone away -- if you look at conspiracy stuff nowadays, conspiracy theorists don't even try to make sense any more. it's a style of thinking that really seems like it must the result of some kind of difference in mental processes.
What about Steam, and why not?

What if I don’t want to instal Epic’s store but still play Fortnite?

Where is my “user choice”?
Ah, the last company I worked for had a lot of people optimising for low-impact-high-visibility work... in fact, it was probably often negative-impact. A lot of people who were just trying to protect their turf, try to establish insane and counterproductive "standards" for all teams, constantly reinvent the wheels instead of trying to look for mature, off-the-shelf solutions (I'm not against rolling your own where necessary, but you can really overdo it), etc.

Just one example was that they had this one template for Spring Boot projects that you weren't allowed to deviate from; in particular, you weren't allowed to fundamentally change the build process, which was one of the most insane things ever: it would pull in other scripts from other git repositories at build time, which in turn would transitively pull in other scripts etc., which just led to a build you didn't understand anymore and some settings were impossible to override. Also, you could only build the project with an internet connection and from within the office network... I'm sure whoever wrote that thought they were being really clever.
> physical

As a friend says, "genocide is not an opinion". IMO it's clear one should police speech advocating for it; between here and there is a gray zone.

IMO that gray zone looks awfully similar (although def not to the same severity on the far side) to the one between here and "I have COVID and will not wear a mask."

> flip

Aye. Appearances (and recent events) aside, the "right" does not have monopoly on hypocrisy.
While I do agree that this is a significant departure from the current system, is there some mechanism other than individual domain owners refusing to sell that prevents this from re-centralizing? As in entities with sufficient capital coming in and buying up huge amounts of domains and rent-seeking on those and effectively re-creating the existing system?
>I find it hard to see as a win for consumers based on the scummy practices of the companies in this advocacy
group. Comparatively consumers are much better with Apples requirements from my perspective.

Its a clear win for users and developers because of competition in stores. Different stores will have different overheads and operating costs and can offer different discounts to both users and developers. Apple's brutal monopoly prevents that.

>So given that there is potential for significant harm AND developers have a choice of platforms to develop for why should Apples rights be taken away?

There is harm being doing today by Apple to users and developers. We need to undo that.

>So if I sell an app that does something like only sells to white people Apple shouldn’t be allowed to step in even though the negative press is likely to harm their brand image?

That went straight over my head, sorry. I didn't understand what your point was..

>Apple should be forced to work on behalf of other companies with no benefit for them?

Apple keeps their own APIs secret, or rather, artificially bans Apps from using them. This is merely leveling the playing field to allow other app stores to operate.

>Is this not true today? If it’s not Apple setting those standards it’s surely some other biased entity right? How is one better than the other?

Multiple app-stores will ensure competition.

>Why? It’s their platform. Developers are free to develop their own phone / OS, right?

I don't want Windows to ban Chrome or Firefox or arbitrarily block people from accessing websites either. "Its their platform" so they get to abuse their position of power is not a winning argument for me anyway. Clearly our views differ on this.

>Apple would surely say developers do not pay an unfair or unreasonable amount. Who sets this standard?

We set a fair income tax through the political process (however flawed) that allows stakeholders to participate. No system is perfect and we can only strive to improve the existing one. Right now, its Apple's dictatorial approach that is setting the rules. I'm glad there is a pushback.

>Why? If your App Store bricks an iPhone, Apple shouldn’t be able to prevent that from being installed on their devices?

That is ludicrous. A madman could use a knife to kill you so lets ban knifes?! If we have to be mature and rational about it, we need to evaluate things in a much more nuanced fashion.

>Transparent is subjective. I don’t see how this won’t result in the same types of TOS that people without legal degrees are not equipped to parse/understand.

Everything is subjective here. Apple's robbing of 30% of sales needs to end.
I'm not sure if this was your implication (I may be reading too far into your relatively succinct comment), but I don't think most "criminals" do crimes because they explicitly want to break the law. I would imagine that there are about as many potential reasons for doing things that happen to be against the law as there are for doing things that don't happen to be against the law.

I'm not even all that sure what qualifies someone to be considered a "criminal." Is it simply breaking the law, which virtually everyone has done at some point? Is it getting caught committing a criminal act? Getting caught committing a felony-level offense? Is someone who smokes cannabis in Kansas (illegal) a criminal, but not someone who smokes cannabis across the state border with Colorado (legal)? What if the smoker from Kansas crosses the border into Colorado - are they no longer a criminal? What if the smoker from Colorado smoked cannabis before it became legal to so - did they stop being a criminal when cannabis was legalized? What if the smoker from Colorado walks across the border into Kansas - are they a criminal for having smoked cannabis in Colorado, given that doing so is illegal in Kansas? This list could continue, but it's probably already bordering on pedantic... Point being, if breaking the law is all it takes to be considered a criminal, aren't we all criminals?
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I agree in general that reading licenses as a lay person can be problematic.

In this case though, TimescaleDB has blog posts that describe the license in very plain language, and provide clear examples of what you can and can't do - you can basically do anything except provide it as a service. No need to "wing it".
Yes, you make a lot more and you don't actually get busted.
>Unlike streaming movies or music, cloud gaming can consume up to 10GB/hr at 1080p

Jesus Christ.

So of I want to go to game on my phone while I take the bus for an hour I've blown 10gbs from my data plan.

The only thing keeping me on Xbox Gamepass is the fact I can download games locally. At first I really liked it, but then connection dropped so much games where unplayable ( on WiFi )
I've used both home-grown and Liquibase.

You have to use something to create, approve and apply patches if you're subject to compliance audits.

I found Liquibase helpful for dev and integration environments where deploy pipelines can easily apply sequences of database patches automatically.

But for large-scale production masters, you end up applying patches at certain times after hours (6 pm PT but not on Friday), automatically under 400,000 rows on SSD, and manually if the tables are large. Often patches are applied out-of-order (typically I'll do smallest to largest tables, or no-FKs then FKs, least-busy to most-busy tables, on-calls online or not, ordered by backup timestamp, etc.)

The above is one of the main reasons to hire a DBA, and Liquibase alone cannot replace that.

Source: DBA.
> You're basically saying 'my mob is right and that's that'.

No, I'm saying that it's perfectly fine to critique any system that wields power. Please read my message again. It says so directly.

> The community is way, way more important than your opinion

I never really said you ought to go one way or another, against or pro ice.

Again, I'm just saying you can critique systems as much as you want. There are illegitimate legal and "legitimized" institutions: slavery, Jim Crow, japanese internment.

> Even at the international level, we have some semblance of rules we try to follow.

Sometimes, yeah, if it benefits us. Other times, no, we just go trample someone's country with depleted uranium, or we send death squads to rape nuns, or we help coups move along.

Some rules are followed, insofar as they don't interfere with our material or ideological interests.

> You don't get to pick and chose which laws to follow.

I only ever jay walked whenever I didn't see a cop around. I stayed out past curfew. I drove on rural back roads without a license. Hell, I barely ever updated my license when I moved states. I've sped a shit ton, as well. Almost anyone that breaks laws does so selectively because it's wreckless otherwise.

> Take a moment to talk to migrants of countries with actually 'bad' regimes and you'll get an earful.

Yeah, there are places that are worse than America, but there's plenty of critique to be had if we weren't so cowardly as to look inward. There's nothing more indicative of the American dream being dead than saying, "it's so much worse out there." That's the line of thinking that allows fascism to fester. Anything to protect yourself from the evil outside, no matter the cost.
> the most effective way to compromise someone's connection through The Onion Router is to control their entrance and exit nodes

This seems like a big problem since there’s not much incentive, other than altruism, for most people to run Tor nodes, especially exit nodes which will draw a lot of unwanted attention from law enforcement.

On the other hand, intelligence agencies have a large incentive to control a majority of Tor nodes.

It’s also pretty telling that Tor was partially developed and funded by the US government.
1. $70 is going to be standardized for the next generation. Also $60 may have stayed the price of a AAA product but most big budget games have plenty of ways to let you spend more money, even outside of live services games

3. "Singleplayer games are dead" is a myth that people have been repeating as a mantra for over a decade now. Yet some of the biggest AAA releases are still purely singleplayer experiences. Singleplayer games aren't dead. They never died.
That just sounds like an invitation to try! No indication of possible harmful effects?
The previous situation where almond farmers got unlimited water for free and some cities couldn't get enough water at any price was worse.
Questions to ask before learning a new JavaScript framework
When Your Brain Is Hungry, It Makes You Angry
Auspex Labs is using MIDAS as part of our scoring for risk detection in network flow analysis.

https://www.auspex-labs.com/
Pay to beta test Amazon's stadia ripoff? No thank you.
Well there is already Sneakers-As-A-Service so it just feels natural that every company will try to screw consumers into that tactic since a lot of people joins it for "perveiced" convenience

https://www.on-running.com/en-us/cyclon
Ask HN: What are your “places to search other than Google” when programming?
Google doesn't get you to everything on the web.

There's lots of other places to search when you're wanting to find stuff, especially for programming.

For example, you might want to know about state machines....... in fact the best place to find great examples is searching on codepen.io

Or you might find what you want searching the wayback machine.

Or you might be better searching github.com

So my question ..... where else are fabulous nuggets found apart from google?
I think this confirms my point.

Note that as per Epic’s other lawsuit, the Amazon App Store is working at a severe disadvantage to Google Play.
Having drugs sent to you is not proof that you bought them. I mean, it'd be too easy to blackmail someone if I could just send you a 'package' and then drop a tip @OurFriendsInBlue, no?

That said, if you keep getting busted with marching powder in your magazines, at some point people will stop accepting that excuse ;)
If Linus had wanted users to pay him I certainly wouldn't pay a different company for it, if they just copied his code and didn't forward of the money on...

I do wonder, in a non-free world like that, if we'd have a higher proportion of "tech giants" still in the "making software" space instead of being so advertising-centric with Google, Facebook, etc's, main revenue streams.
Hawe you actually tried Stadia or Geforce Now?
> You originally posted that: (...) But changed it to: (...)

Yes, because I wanted to narrow down my originally too broad statement before picking on the generalization will derail the subthread (as it sometimes happens on HN).

> What do you see as the difference between "manipulative advertising" and regular "advertising", and how is either (or both) malicious?

I'm glad you asked! I wrote an essay on this very topic the other day: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html.
Don't worry, if Biden somehow manages to stumble into the White House this will continue under him too.
I think this is an area where instead of optimizing local hardware, it's all about optimizing network connections. Stadia works great for me for 10-20 minutes until I get a 10 second long stutter (WiFi, router in a different room). I'd imagine the experience is way better with an ethernet connection. I just wish for single player games, Stadia cloud could detect I'm lagging and pause the game.
I'd love to work on this for health monitoring and locating cows. But the application the writeup describes--moving the cows to the barn--is a solved problem, at least at feeding time.

When I raised cows all I had to do was yell "FOOOOOOD!" across the pasture and they came running.
Low level purchasers don’t seem to be targeted in these busts. They are after the suppliers. The risk of buying from a darknet market is probably lower than buying from a local dealer, especially for a consumer who doesn’t have any connections. You could go looking for someone dealing on the street, but you won’t know if their stuff has five star reviews. Or you might just get mugged.
French startup Mirakl raises $300M for its marketplace platform
True, but anyone mildly determined can get a two year old device, 0day the baseband, and have full access. I remember old iOS exploits that gave access to the full baseband as well.
But those sites would be broken according to spec, no?
And certainly they won't satisfy any accessibility guidelines.
My C:\temp is so full of stuff, some unknown amount of which turned out to be not as temp as I first thought, that I've now had to create C:\verytemp for the really temp stuff, which I make sure is emptied daily.
> What Handshake is trying to achieve is in essence similar to trying to establish a new set of root servers. And just like that idea, it will never realistically happen.

Yes, it will need to find a foothold in a parallel domain (no pun intended). IPC is one example. Combine something like in-process REST with the ability for any app to trivially bind to a name, and we'd be getting somewhere interesting.
These reasons are why these busts have to get more elaborate and have to be a precision strike all at once, because the governments know that they get one chance before the industry hardens itself in reaction.

The best practices are completely known, people just have no pressure to implement them until external pressure reveals itself.

Right now the user experiences suck for more secure things. Monero multisignature is hardly refined, so it cannot replace centralized escrow just yet, but now people might prioritize developing it. For example. This is antifragility in play, and a war of attrition for the state: the costs to make the busts get higher and the take gets smaller.
Another variation, which my family really enjoys is: cut fresh broccoli into small florets; toss with olive oil and (optionally) salt/pepper; roast in oven at high temp until desired softness.

I tried butter with my broccoli once, and I found it tasted unpleasantly fatty. (And I'm no stranger to fatty foods.)
I actually found it meh. It's just weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjyJhKpLUBU

This might help explain things. (2 min)
I agree that I really enjoy reading in-depth blog post series, but after releasing a 3-part series myself, I'm not sure if I would do it again. Each subsequent post got about 1/3 the views of the previous one, and wow does it take sooo much more effort to write than a one-off post!

This one is great though. I just every few days for the next post!