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So the whining about money has started, as I guessed long back. Gradually, they'd start doing things that were originally 'against' their idea of how DDG should have been, "but as you know the other people are so evil, we have to do it". I had liked the idea behind their search engine (and keep coming back to try it), but never liked the kind of promotion that they have carried out so far (which mostly includes criticizing a single other competitor and that's all). That type of advertising is never sustainable in my opinion.
Well, what if the idealists convince many of the men in the industry that the culture is terrible, but instead of trying to "tear down the cultural norms", they simply leave? I mean, what if people say "yes, this is true, this is all correct, the geek culture sucks, and I can simply walk away"? Who is going to reform it then? Did those who left do the wrong thing?
Snover! LTNS!

Believe it or not, there's finally some progress here!

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Compiling_ScummVM/C...

Even the Dreamcast port has a version of GCC able to pass the initial standards tests, so most legacy ports seem to be in a state that they'll be able to leverage at least a subset of C++11 functionality.

(Sadly - as with many large community-driven projects that require a specialist set of skills like reverse engineering - ScummVM does have a slight history of alienating contributors only to adopt the point in contention as some point in the future.

Source: I was once a co-lead developer for ScummVM, and tried unsuccessfully to fix this :P)
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Wait, how is this possible? 99% of the people on HN use DDG.

Oh, that's right, HN isn't even remotely representative of the general population.
I think CRDTs will play a bigger role in future. We built a multi-model (KV, Docs, Graphs, Search) realtime database service leveraging CRDTs underneath. If anyone interested, they can read more about the tech here...https://www.macrometa.co/technology
I'm not sure Palantir has any technology moat whatsoever. All of their tech is either open-source off-the-shelf or licensed from other vendors. A company driven 100% by sales/who-you-know! It's surprising they keep wearing the fig leaf of pursuing non-government work, considering how much their commercial clients churn.
My work company (global company with offices in every region) uses them. An oldish version of the thing, likely mandated by head office in the US (I'm in Africa).

The antivirus routinely uses 100% of the CPU for hours in a day. Our machines are so locked down with other products, one would wonder if the McAfee stuff is even useful.

I have tinnitus because of laptop fans at work.
A few of us who question IT practises are convinced that there must be something shady going on, as there are many better alternative. Heck, the default Microsoft option is good enough these days.
Yes my point want that such a meeting would be similar, but that such a meeting between alien ecosystems could have a similar effect. To the larger point about the OP, my issue is the idea that any of this is unlikely, when there is a sufficient lack of information to base any sort of probabilistic assumption. They’re all simply incorrect because there is insufficient data. For all we know an alien organism may be specifically evolved to devour multicellular life, or pass into other organisms without detection. There is no reason to think the Ridley Scott scenario is any more or less likely than a harmless scenario. We just don’t know because our frame of reference is only life on Earth.
I did this for years, and, it was the easiest way to cut calories and get quite lean, but really not great for life in general. Now I have a revolutionary new diet: “Eat when you are hungry. Don’t eat when you are not hungry.” Also choose things that digest slowly. I am not nearly as lean as I was on IF, but I also think I was losing muscle, which is a lot harder to gain back than the fat was to lose. Also I don’t have anybody to impress anymore, so, don’t really care. Side note, using IF as a social excuse against eating is a lot easier than “I don’t feel like it”.
> And many people preferred such captions who did not identify as needing accessibility features

Good job on the selective quoting. /s

As a simple example, non-native speakers of a language may not identify as needing “accessibility features”, but captions certainly can help some of these folks.

That’s just one simple example. There are others.

For me personally, as a native speaker of English with good hearing, I often turn on captions for people who speak with heavy accents and videos with ambient noise that muddles the speaker’s audio.
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It's only "digital goods"
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> “Could we ask for our $47 trillion back? Not directly, but we could certainly tax the 1 per cent at 90 per cent or higher for the next century or two, and not feel guilty about it. Their wealth came from us, not their own brains and hard work. We might remind them that the Saudis cut off pickpockets’ right hands, and billionaires in China who get out of line get serious jail time.”

i’m down for a return of the 90% top marginal tax rate. better yet, make the tax function continuous rather than a step function to remove the temptation to try to game the system.
Fantastic example!

Creating real subtitles is as much a combination of art and skill and judgement and balance as editing the video itself.

A good subtitle allows you to quickly read ahead, and then move your eyes back to the video, back to the people speaking, so that you can watch them act out the line.

A good subtitle doesn't transcribe everything said word for word, but reduces spoken language to written language, and focuses on the gist of what's said.

A good subtitle for hearing-impaired viewers describe important sounds that happen off-screen, such as doors opening or closing, but skips non-important sounds, and sounds of things happening on-screen.
What do you mean "stuck"? That the news isn't writing articles about it daily?

It's opaque workings still concern civil libertarians tremendously. There's 50,000 on the list. That seems excesive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_cr...
I... don't think many countries aspire to that.
Given the opaque nature of the US no-fly list, in practice you can be blacklisted from flying for any -- or no -- reason, and no one is accountable for that choice. If -- and that's a big "if" -- you have the connections required to appeal that decision, the end result is just "oops, sorry, it was an accident", with no consequences to the government for their "error".
This is awesome, and I'm so excited to read through the chat.mjs code. I might consider trying this out for a project. It means I need to use cloudflare? I wonder if in the future, this could become more standard, and one could do something similar on their own infrastructure (maybe such a solution already exists, open sourced somewhere?)
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The idea that Acer—Acer!!—makes a chair that they think is worth $14k is hilarious.

Guys. Figure out how to make anything with the fit and finish to be worth $1000, first.
"That seems astonishingly low"

I imagine there are a ton of garbage apps that were created automatically for spam, seo, whatever reasons.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621746
I guess the question is how you rank a prototype that's actually autonomous against a production car that's far from autonomous. IMO manufacturing cars sounds a lot easier than autonomy. There's also the fact that Waymo's goal is only autonomy within areas that have been mapped in hyper-detail while Tesla apparently wants to drive anywhere. How do you rank more progress towards a smaller goal vs. less progress towards a more ambitious goal?

One example of a stopped vehicle: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-03/tesla-was-...

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
You might enjoy Quarantine by Greg Egan. Similar conceptual stuff, more detective, less bleak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel)
These kind of things just make me laugh, I mean the lifetime earning potential for someone in this persons position is so high, and they blew it to make a quick 1M.

Reminds me of the Apple compliance lawyer busted for insider trading, I believe last year[0]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/10/24/app...
Putting your data on Google/FB/Twitter is still for the most part opt-in and not clearly linked to your real identity. Can't say that about a government enforced Social Credit System.
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Cars in motion → stationary are different from completely stationary objects, which are ignored due to high false positives.
I agree that competitors should be standing on their own two feet and not spend energy knocking down competitors. To be fair to them, elaborating on the privacy conundrum in respect to monetisation is a good thing and difficult to put into an elevator pitch to the casual user.

Naturally Bing has outbid them considering DDG are serving Bing ads minus Bing's cut. They were always going to be in that position.
Thanks the reason I was asking was that in that document I don't see data about which state voted for Clinton or Trump.
In the Bay Area, what you want is the legendary Aeron Guy, who has a warehouse full of used and repaired Aerons and Aeron parts and will cut you an amazing deal. If you look on craigslist for Aerons, you will likely encounter him.
I do this with my firewall.
I’ve been caught out by making a seemingly minor change before saving a config then breaking everything.

It’s almost been enough to get me to have a test LAN and real one so as to maintain household tranquility.
The reality is that autocracy exists everywhere not just at the state level. A private property, private company, within a family, even a military organisation. Pieces of CCP "technology" used for surveillance, recognition, tracking, scoring, analyzing, censoring, etc can become saleable to the right customers, and since China is searching for its own export niche.
Good stuff. I installed OpenBSD 6.0 and dwm on a netbook years ago and haven't had to change anything since. It's a lovely distraction-free easel where I do all my audio programming. I also wanted to use st, but I found its handling of CJK input less than ideal at the time.
Well Apple has been getting away with it for years and American regulators are completely asleep at the wheel, so why leave all that money on the table?
> In our proposal, there is no auction. Alternative search engines with the most market share in each market are shown on the first screen, randomly ordered.

Not a perfect solution since the small search providers still end up left out of almost all preference selections by users, but it's definitely better than the auction model (and ofc perfection is the enemy of progress). I think a slightly better model is an infinitely scrolling list, with the first 5 or so (or effectively 75% of the first page) being the randomly-listed high-marketshare providers and the rest being random low-marketshare providers. The UI should also require the height be set so that it indicates that more search options are available by scrolling by cutting off the bottom result halfway.
@alexryan's dead sibling comment...

I actually work at one of those companies. At the moment we're not hiring, although we may be in the future.
Happy to share! I have quite a few of both the LoA & Everyman's, and prefer Everyman's. They're IMO the best quality books in print.
Why is macOS often referred to as 'Darwin'?
I don't think the auction model is "fundamentally flawed". A law has to be fair to both the consumers and at least in some part (depending on the country) the businesses. Why would someone give them a free spot when other businesses are willing to pay big amount in a fair fashion, on a platform that Google has invested so much money for years to reach to this place?
"An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play's update mechanism."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-outlaws-android-app-upd...
Amazon has digital goods right?

Songs/Movies/Digital Game code
Google drive. Uninstall is "unistall all updates to this system app"

Google play movies and tv - likewise, essential?

Google play music

Google Hangouts

The list goes on...

And you're telling me the manufacturer decided I can't rid myself of these and google are as suprised as I am about that? Really? I mean you can make the same argument with Apple. They're happy for you to install/uninstall whatever but the manufacturer did it their way.
The business judgement rule gives company management pretty wide latitude in making business decisions so long as they are not blatantly fraudulent or conflicted. For example Shlensky v Wrigley[1] which concerns the owner of Wrigley field’s decision not to install lights and hold night games. A decision by their own admission motivated not by a business interest but by a personal belief that baseball is a “daytime sport”.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlensky_v._Wrigley
That’s the next step to big tech censorship. They are slowly but surely converting what could be generalized computing machines to limited Internet gadgets. They will ultimately also restrict which websites you can visit, which will come probably in the form of bowing to activist pressure about something outrageous, and that’ll then normalize the practice.

If anyone here thinks this is a ridiculous outcome to fear, then tell me what is tempering deplatforming, censorship, and abuse of walled gardens today? Very little - and so I expect it to keep going. This is why we need alternatives to the big tech companies in things small AND big. We need alternative phone platforms, search engines, maps, chat apps, the full stack of hardware, all of it.
My smart dental floss disagrees with you.
I have a nightly snapshot and do the same if there's an issue. To be fair, I've only ever hit these "verification" errors when I manually mounted and mucked around with the backup and a backup started at the same time--all over the network.

I've never had this issue when using an external hard drive connected via USB and I've never had it happen when I wasn't mucking with it. For awhile I was able to "fix" these errors by running diskutil and resetting the state (my Time Machine server was a flaky Raspberry Pi at the time).

All in all, it is concerning when you "lose" your backup no matter the circumstances.
Looks good. Tried to signup for "the trial", but after verifying my address and logging in. It seems I HAVE to subscribe to "trial" it ?

Is this correct ?
To me, one of the virtues of XML is that, if the server changes the XML response, you can capture it, and a human can eyeball parse it and figure out what went wrong, and figure out how to change the code on the receiving end to compensate. It's hard to automate, sure, but it's far better than having the server hand you some updated binary format.

Annoyingly verbose: Yup. Absolutely. I thought XML was kind of OK. Then I learned some about S expressions, and looked at XML with those eyes, and it was absolutely disgustingly verbose.
Epic already has their own store. The real question is how will Netflix and Spotify pivot? Will they turn their apps into some form of store to allow their own payment mechanism? Or will they turn to a third party store?

> no app updates starting Jan 2021

What's that? I haven't heard anything about that date.
Nitpick: I don't think it's completely accurate to imply that Chinese elites are exclusively interested in economic self-enrichment.

Societies where the elites are only interested in stealing everything they can take look like Nigeria (or Mississippi): a tiny sliver of people living in luxury while the rest of the population lives in permanent, abject, squalor.

In contrast, median living standards in China have improved dramatically in living memory. In many cases, the transformation has literally been from mud huts to skyscrapers. The kind of wealth distribution that supported this transformation would not have been possible if China's elites were only interested in self enrichment; if they were, they would have taken the wealth for themselves.

Obviously, China's human rights policies have no redeeming qualities, but its economic policies have benefited the average Chinese citizen. Credit where it's due.
>Do companies like TSMC already have a plan as to how to deal with "true" 7nm or is a lot more research still needed?

If you will forgive the expression. Yes and No.

Yes in that TSMC has ideas / plans scaling all the way to 0.8nm, targeting 2030. That is only a few steps above what you described as true 7nm.

No in that no one knows if it will work. We know Quantum Tunnelling will hit some day, some where, some how, at some percentage.

Remember you are talking about leading edge Semi-Conductor manufacturing. Nothing like this has ever been done before.

It is a bit like telling me 5G today was possible when I was researching on first gen 3G two decades ago. If you describe to me with theory I will have properly said yes..... but it is hard to imagine how it will actually be implemented.
A "control character" (such as form feed) is kind of by definition not "text", but more importantly this was fixed for XML 1.1, which is like 14 years old at this point.
Gah. I dislike XML, but I had forgotten how much I loathe ASN.1.
Yeah china is different.

Instead of play store, "Default app store" to cover what ever comes with chinese phones.

Or, US and Europe, what percentage...?
Please include the expanded version of your acronym in post titles. Not everyone knows what you're talking about.
Are we not supposed to think about the uighur holocaust? Am I not supposed to wonder if the same thing could happen to me? I am the one being thoughtful here.

You should know that when you willfully ignore problems, that doesn't actually make them go away. Vanishing my comment is just shameful and childish. All you've demonstrated to me is that HN doesn't want any discussion of human rights abuses.

So go ahead and full-ban me Dang, if you really don't think anything I have to think or say belongs on here. I'm sick and tired of your immature, over-reactive, naive userbase anyway. If I could spit on you all through the computer, I would.
> To me, one of the virtues of XML is that, if the server changes the XML response, you can capture it, and a human can eyeball parse it and figure out what went wrong, and figure out how to change the code on the receiving end to compensate. It's hard to automate, sure, but it's far better than having the server hand you some updated binary format.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me you can do the same thing with JSON.
My reasoned objection to XML, having used it for many years, is that it is unconscionably expensive to parse. At scale, XML is extremely computationally expensive in almost every dimension. It is not a good way to represent almost any non-trivial data structure, but that is frequently its sole use case. XML is a great way to expand your carbon footprint in the data center.

Today, there are very, very few cases where I would recommend XML despite it being widely specified for standards.
Interesting how you’ll want break trillion company while oriental ai herd is fiercingly rising https://fortune.com/2020/09/27/google-antitrust-investigatio...
> My main gripe about the Raspberry Pi is the SD card unreliability.

It's a very real issue. I managed to burn out a SD card that wasn't even being used, i.e. only the /boot partition was on the SD card, and it pointed at an external drive for the root. Presumably that means the heat alone of being connected to a Pi was enough to burn out the card.
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They will still have captions, just not crowdsourced. The auto captions are better and better these days.
Thanks for the reference, I'll check it out!

I definitely plan to do something like a 16:8 ad libitum (or actually, if I have a minimum to hit, I guess it isn't ad libitum?) eventually, but I'm still working on just getting used to eating at a small surplus in general. Not the typical problem, haha.
> how they just need a free spot in the Android setup wizard and their market share would be 20%, and they should be the one blessed search engine who doesn't have to pay.

It worked when Microsoft had to implement browser choice. No reason why the spots should need to be auctioned this time.
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Private sector credit systems allow you to examine your record and appeal to get incorrect information corrected, with a legal framework in place that ensures the credit bureau actually acts on your complaints.

Also their scope is limited: if I show that I can't be trusted with credit, the result of my low credit score is that it becomes harder for me to get more credit.

With China's social credit system, me habitually making restaurant reservations and then bailing on them, or defaulting on loans, can result in my being denied the ability to fly on a plane. These things have nothing to do with each other, and the punishment does not fit the "crime". If I bail on restaurant reservations all the time, I should just not be allowed to make restaurant reservations. If I default on loans, I shouldn't be able to get more loans.

I agree that the private sector credit systems could stand to be improved a lot, and there are a lot of side consequences for being unable to obtain credit (that tend to disproportionately affect certain types of people), but that is nowhere near the same thing.
If the aspiration is unrealistic than no, but when two superpowers are toe to toe in power, there of course will be a rivalry for the top spot.
my memory is dim, but my impression is 'not really'. outside of a vague sense of token efforts that died quietly, both major parties seemingly only pushed through giveaways to various lobbies in exchange for political donation/support.

it's pretty easy to slip in such small, innocuous-seeming riders without much pushback because it takes more than cursory economic knowledge and real interest to work out the first-order effect, nevermind the higher order ones, or even pick them out of huge, drab appropriations bills in the first place. there doesn't seem to be a valued constituency on the other side to push through counteracting legislation however.
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Only because Google doesn't budge on filtering search results for political benefit. If Google dropped this and removed all anti-trump results, there would be no possibility for anti-trust litigation.
That sounds like a violation of that principle, but if original authors don't care, then no issue.
Can you expand on why you switched to SuperDuper!?

I’m in the opposite camp, having used (the free version of) SuperDuper! in the past but switched to CCC. SuperDuper! seemed to have a simpler interface. I’ve been using CCC since it seemed(to me) to have a better development cycle with quicker support for new releases of the OS. Maybe I was mistaken in thinking that, and maybe Shirt Pocket’s really old style website played a part in that. Recently I looked up the release history of SuperDuper! and found that V3 was released about three years ago. I’ve been trying to figure out if it provides a longer update path (for a particular cost) than CCC.

Note to readers: the seemingly weird punctuation you see in this comment is because the application is called “SuperDuper!” (with the exclamation).