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Users want snippets, they want instant answers tho. Just serving 10-blue links, no summary snippet, that forces you to click through and read the page before deciding if it was relevant to you, costs the user both time and bandwidth. If the article is not what I wanted, then you wasted a few seconds of my time that I will never get back, and if I have a metered internet connection, you forced me to load up a lot of junk, eating into my bill, for naught.

If I want to look up the current time, or current temperature, or how old Trump is, I don't want to have to be directed to his biography page at the Whitehouse.gov, where I then must skim-read several paragraphs to find it.

People are saying "but they're not getting the traffic". Well, facts are not copyrightable, and if all I'm looking for is a small specific fact (answer), then I wasn't interested in a full pageview of your site anyway.

Let's say a put 8 hours into writing a programming blog, on say Kotlin, with tutorials and stuff, and someone searches for a question about "which library contains atomics"?, am I supposed to be mad that it answered back "atomicfu" instead of forcing you to read an entire tutorial on Atomicfu I wrote? If the searcher wanted to read a tutorial on atomics, that's what he would have searched for, and likely, he will go examine this library, and then search further about how to use it.

To me, the future of search engines is an AI, like GPT-3, that goes out and digests the world, and then lets me ask questions, which it will synthesize brief answers to exactly what I want. In this world, the news publishers will face the same problem of demonetization, and people will be asking their GPT-5 bot "can you summarize what happened yesterday around COVID-19 and the Whitehouse?"

News is facing a serous pressure now, but is the right answer to attack summarization technology? It seems it's inevitable that content will be understood and transformed by machines in ways that will be hard to litigate by copyright claims if they spew out original work, and therefore the real question is, in a future of Star Trek like search engines, how can news's basic business model and incentives be transformed?

Personally, I agree with Andrew Yang on this, I think a lot of publishing is going to go open source and non-profit, funded by government grants as a basic necessity of democracy, like healthcare, or universal education.
They are already in Ireland :)
Opt-out is the wrong approach. Opt-in is the correct approach.

Why is that so difficult to understand for law makers?
My mom did this, too. The sofas facing.
It’s horrific. Absolutely horrible.
Even GUESTS hate facing each other, like on the subway.
Lots of little nooks and crannies for subgroups to congregate.
I have very little trust in the capabilities and interest of the Grindr team to do anything but making money with overpriced subscriptions. It's riddled with bugs, years old, yet they keep adding new, unnecessary features like video chat to justify their insanely priced "unlimited" subscription.

This year there have been a few months where your own profile data would not load, making you think you'd lost your profile data and having to create it all again. Yet all you needed to do was to restart the app ~10 times to get it to load.

Sometimes messages just... get lost in the ether.

The "online now" notification is flaky.

Grindr Online (web browser) is a whole new mess. I haven't used it in a long while, but the first months it felt as "professional" as an interns side project. Also you need to keep Grindr open on the phone while using it, kind of beating the purpose.

The setting to use the metric system still resets to imperial regularly.

The app is full of fakers, yet they still have no identity validation feature.
It must be fun being Apple to be both perpetually doomed by detractors as having minuscule marketshare and collapsing sales (any day now for the last 40 years)... and also a rampant monopolist that must be turned into a public utility because we’d much rather have the government review apps than Apple or Google (wait what?).

Pick one! But if you pick monopolist, don’t expect regulation to necessarily go the way you want it to. It probably will preserve everything you hate about the current system, just replacing Apple with a bureaucracy.

Forcing the return of the Wild West of the PC ecosystem Into mobile will only happen when consumers demand it. They won’t, because that wasn’t a very user friendly approach. It Was originally for tinkerers and hackers and that pedigree continues to this day. Mobile carriers and government aren’t likely too fond of the idea of phones where anything can be installed on them.
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Why? Clearly we have more resources than we need, and a bunch of energy sources we can start to master. If even one of those pans out (and even if it doesn't Nuclear fuel reserves will get us well into 3000 even with exponential growth)

So how do you know your prediction is any different from John Malthus' ? You're assuming quite a lot of efforts will fail. I don't understand how you justify that assumption.

Especially since, if those efforts succeed and we massively increase the energy resources available to the human species, we can trade energy for just about any other resource (including reducing co2, or purifying water, or ...). At that point having hundreds of billions of humans becomes realistic.
My reading of it was that they meant dumb tv. However the general differences between a monitor and a TV as marketed are response time, viewing angle, and viewing distance with tye TV having the larger of all three.
> This is an established market that clearly can support only one or two participants.

It helps that the Google Play license would kill the existing product lines of any of the large phone manufacturers that tried. As far as I am aware courts seem to generally agree that Googles license is hilariously anti competitive in nature.
This reminds of the smart house belonging to the lawyer in Mr. Robot that gets hacked.

On a different note, this raises the question of whether everything needs to be connected to the internet? Are the trade-offs of connecting everything to the internet worth the risks?
The title is clickbite.
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> country with socialized medicine

What is socialised medicine?

Do you mean a country with affordable medicine? No need to invent some weird new names for it, we already have a perfectly fine word for that:

First world country.

If medicine is not affordable where you live, it’s a developing nation I’m afraid.
I know smart people who have Alexa devices. Some of these people are software engineers who know there's someone on the other end listening to everything. One could argue that they must not be smart to buy these things.

But I think that a more helpful way of thinking about it is that (1) people are great at rationalizing, especially when it makes their lives easier. And (2) the open source alternative isn't good enough or easy enough.

For a long time, pirating music was the easiest way to listen to music that you wanted. Then things like iTunes and the iPod came along.

Until there's an easy, open alternative, even smart people will continue paying money to put surveillance devices in their living rooms and bedrooms.
You must have been looking at the wrong places then (Youtube is not a good indicator). Here is "National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)" which publishes a lot of high quality courses from various top-ranking universities in India - https://nptel.ac.in/
This is completely false.

Yes, there are "basically" two manufacturers of airliners if you define airliner as "planes made by Boeing and Airbus" and ignore... all the other airliners. Without CRJs, E-Jets and Q400s the US airline industry doesn't exist as it does today.

There are three airline alliances operating in the United States [1]. Of the top 10 airlines operating in the United States [2] only three are currently members of an airline alliance. When Alaska joins Oneworld it will be four.

> Maybe it would better if there was a vertically integrated airline company

Do you have a more compelling reason than "maybe" to suggest why changing these regulations back to a model that was already shown to be anti competitive would provide better service? [3]

> why wouldn’t it?

Because we tried it and it was found to be anti competitive. [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_alliance

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_airlines_of_the_United_S...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Aircraft_and_Transport_...
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Why was it necessary for Troy to create an account on behalf of someone else?
You can use video game mode to disable additional video processing, which also lag time (incoming data to display in screen).
Super interesting to read and get the hirers' perspective, but there's a lot here that feels really creepy and manipulative to me as a potential employee, and I think I'd drop out of the funnel the instant someone tried one of these things on me. (Which, maybe, win-win? Maybe I'm not the employee you're looking for.)

> Sometimes a candidate’s current company will counteroffer, which throws a big wrench in everything. The good news is that you can follow a few simple steps to position yourself well before a counteroffer is made:

> - Candidates are less likely to reneg once they officially sign, so get them to sign your offer before they tell their employer.

Good news! Employ your mark's commitment bias to advance your own position at their expense.

Similarly the section just a bit later on exploding deadlines — first a few tactics on how to use exploding deadlines yourself, and then just a few sentences later, with no shame, arming the candidate with phrases to push back on exploding deadlines from other companies...

I can't recommend strongly enough, patio11's classic on salary negotiation: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

But I think I might start recommending this one to job-hunters too. As a way of saying "this is what you're up against, be aware what some people will try to do to you to get you to compromise your negotiating position."
Same here. I want my button-blister microwaves back.

Knobs are low-accuracy, low-precision. Which may be fine for some cooking, but not all. On my current knob-equipped microwave, my precision is limited to +/- 30 seconds simply due to the mechanical design, which means a) it's hard to heat anything up "just a little", as sub-minute heating is hit-and-miss, and b) it's hard to do food sensitive to cooking time.

Button blisters with a digital clock telling time to the second. That's an interface I can trust because I can see the time counting down in the correct pace (I have trust issues with all kinds of analog knob timers, including Pomodoro timers). That's an interface I've learned to use without looking, one hand keying in the correct time and power setting, the other hand operating food, <Start> getting pressed as soon as the tray door close.

I still remember my most common sequence from childhood. <Cook Time> <Power Level> <Power Level> <1> <4> <0> <Start>. Could do that blind even today.

Knobs are good for things that you need to scroll around a lot (and knobs in professional devices excel at jumping precision levels to allow an excellent experience here). Setting time and power on a microwave is not like that. You have exact values in mind, and need a way to input them precisely.

Having an input level precise to 1 second is useful if you're using it day-in, day out. As a kid, I was mostly doing the same few meals in the microwave, so I had perfect timing nailed with experience. For instance, a DIY zapiekanka[0] made of bread, cheese and some flavoring, would come out perfect at Full power, 1:40 time. Add 20 seconds, and you'd burn the cheese. The cheese was the factor that determined microwave settings. If, for some reason, my mom bought a different type than usual, I'd have to correct the time (usually adjust up), but then with experience I quickly developed "cheese tables" in my head. I'd look at a slice, and think, "ok, this is the smelly one, needs +40 seconds to come out well". Etc. Then I'd key in the correct settings, and come back in 2 minutes to the perfectly made zapiekanka.

(I suppose this was my attempt at treating cooking as an industrial process and not black magic :).)

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapiekanka
Which as things get more extreme we'll pay off. At this point we're at the "asking nicely" phase, but it will become "at gunpoint" if this doesn't work out.
Is it possible that there is no overarching theory that unifies both of them? Could they both be true yet not connected in any way?
EU forced credit card companies to reduce their fees by an order of magnitude and they still operate here so the previous rates were obviously unreasonable. So the argument "Everyone else does it" doesn't hold water. USA still pays the unreasonable rate though, so it seems like they are missing something in their legalization. If American courts refuse to do anything against credit card companies I doubt they will do much in this case either, epic should just have gone to the EU court instead.

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/26214...
As to any discipline that deals with abject failure, I'd recommend reading "Zen in the art of archery".
Yes, the price is quite high for just 1 template too
I might have agreed had the comment been made by an Indian-American comedian, actor, author, journalist, ... someone in liberal arts, from someone with a truly unconventional career path.

A PhD from Caltech in machine learning and optimization doesn't sound very different from being a doctor if we're speaking of conventional (read: boring) career paths
The exact quote from the movie is changing "you are the product" to the product is

> the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your behavior and perception that is the product

It is not hard to argue that an ad fits such a description. Ads change behavior. We don't just have ads to buy things, but we also have political ads. We have ads for charity. We have ads for religion. We have ads for mental health. We have ads for public awareness. There's this common argument that ads are just about selling you things but such an argument doesn't reflect reality and is often strange to find coming from people living in a country that is going through a major political election where they are being accosted by ads encouraging people to vote. Considering we've been doing this for a few hundred years, I'm pretty sure someone would have picked up on it being wasted money if ads didn't influence behavior.
> "... which may have left those who finished their apprenticeships ('journeymen' in the parlance), stuck in subordinate positions until age and death opened up space in the local guild for a new master."

The "journey" part of journeymen is because they would usually travel around instead of waiting for space in the local guild. Compare the (nominally white collar) postdoc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman#Origin

(I still see wandering journeymen, in traditional garb, from time to time.)
Rather, richer markets are pickier.
I have a LG “Smart TV” but never connected it to Wifi or Ethernet. I have an old Mac Mini that is hooked up to the TV via HDMI, and a cheap wireless keyboard and mouse makes it the perfect TV for me. Netflix on Safari :-)
Whatever else I can access on the browser is now on big TV.
Easier to clean than a number pad. I think knobs are great, you can rotate fast with very little effort. I think it should be a standard feature of computer keyboards.
Account takeover is a really shitty backdoor...
Why must the ultimate theory of the universe encompass both? Do we know that there is an ultimate theory of the universe? Could GR and QM be wholly separate with no unifying connection?
Maybe they are already able to measure an effect of the documentary. That would explain the nervousness.
It looks interesting, but I'm confused at how "removing complexity" involves controlling the TV via an app instead of a remote.
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I do wonder: where was the point of no return? Maybe scrapping it and starting anew would have been better.

I wish the article mentioned that.
“I guess a comparison would be a utility that both owns the transmission lines and power plants?”

Something like that happens a lot with mobile networks, where some operators both have a license for bandwidth and sell it to customers, and other operators buy bandwidth from them to sell it to customers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...), with an important difference being that customers (sometimes after a few years of contract) are free to switch between providers.

But yes, the important discussion here is whether app stores should become utilities. AFAIK, there is no existing law there, so it will have to be created. Because there is no law, I don’t see Epic winning this in the sense that they will get paid for damages. They may win in the sense that things will change, though.
This would be fun at work to find most hit uri, slowest url and the like.

Logging on the a back end is fine but this would be simpler I think.
Grindr saves on storage costs as much as they can. Messages are sent from the backend to a device only once. You can not read old conversations. You can not even see who this account has been talking to. They are only kept on the server until someone logs into the app again.

This also makes it very easy to lose conversations/content.
The 'proper approach' would presumably be to report this bug to them directly, to ensure that the right people see it, rather than assuming that downvotes are coming from the company!
Yes, they should put more effort into it and more than 1 page to argue against a 1.5h documentary. Speaking about McDonalds, they should also show that they are able to learn from other related businesses and not suffer from Not Invented Here. News about elections exist since hundreds of years. For instance in Germany during election day the media can only do limited news coverage about the election until the polls are closed.

Also really every media format so far relied heavily on curation. I think this is ultimately the problem to be solved if they still want to act as news distributor. Like button doesn't really work, especially it's not possible to downlike instead the "like emojis" only indicate how emotionally charged the topic is.
> iTerm2 has a feature called Triggers, which can execute actions based on text matching a regex in your terminal. So we could write a regex to listen for “Yubikey for” and have it run the same script, eliminating the need to press buttons altogether.

Don't do this.

Actually seriously, don't do most of this.

The fact that your computer cannot induce the yubikey to provide its key material (or evidence of the key material) is where it gets "security" from in the first place. As soon as someone can convince your computer to do something there's an increased chance they can get it to do something else.

Some suggestions:

- Wire the F14 key up separately to "the finger" (and not to wifi)

- Use a yubikey simulator[1]. If your sysadmin won't trust you with the key material inside the yubikey so you can use a simulator, they definitely won't trust yourself to emulate the simulator with the finger either.

[1]: https://github.com/sstelfox/yubikey-simulator
Facebook certainly pushed a deeper wedge between the two sides and more easily allowed "bullshit" to pass as news, but come on... The crack down the middle of America was visible in every newspaper and news channel more than 20 years ago. Visiting the US in 2000 I was astonished to see how brazenly one-sided each "news" vendor was, and how much of it was just opinion, instead of fact. The echo chamber already existed, Facebook just amplified it and allowed the opinions that were passed up as news to drift further towards "total bullshit". US media destroyed the average citizen's ability to think critically by making news tribal. Nobody actually wants the echo chamber, but it's like The Matrix - it's all around you, it imprisons your mind, but you can't even see it.

The divide is so deep that Republicans would vote Republican if the candidate was a rabid racoon. The Democrats have a different problem to face right now: they're in a purity spiral that forces woke politics onto any candidate they put up, so they end up parroting nonsense. They've gotten so bad that I, a left of center vegetarian environmentalist who believes in free health care and a social net, would back a "sane" Republican who wasn't a fucking loon, and who admitted that the vast majority of scientists were right about climate change.
A full account takeover is a really shitty backdoor. Just make a separate "test" endpoint that's exactly the same as the main API but requires no authentication so anyone can read anything. Perfectly deniable as just a bug and entirely undetectable from a target's POV.
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This answer is fantastic, thank you.

I'd like to ask about this part:

"Nobody is forcing them to keep the TV, or even buy it in the first place. People would be up in arms quickly about awful TVs like that and nobody would buy them.

Those laws are assault and/or battery laws."

A loud noise isn't assault and battery.

You mention the possibility of "closing youtube". What if the television were "impossible" to close, had a battery long enough to punish you for a month even if you unplug it, and just would not stop playing an inconvenience noise until you did what it asked?

You mention nobody would buy it. Well, that is one possibility. However, I think people would buy it.

What law would a consumer device violate that the user couldn't practically open or disable, and which was partially subsidized by advertisements, and played an advertisement until the user bought the product advertised (a bottle of coke for example)?

What if it did so even when the user wasn't interacting with it?

You claim that nobody would buy such an ultra hd TV but I think some people would. What consumer protection laws would they violate?

If right now my TV turned on and played an advertisement, after receicing an over the air update from my wifi, how could I demand that the company turm this off if it was programmed not to and breaking its firmware is beyond my capability? Could I or a class of people sue the company under consumer protection laws? Would, indeed, they violate any consumer protection laws?

Indeed: if right now Samsung rolled out an update that turned on all their TV's, even if currently off, and played an advertisement, would they violate any law by doing so?

It is irrelevant whether they would want to do that (you say they would lose market share). My question is what law they would violate?
>nevertheless, I think it is a fairly conventional and unimaginative path to take in life, compared to, say becoming an artist or doing a startup.

This is exactly privilege speaking. Starving Artists/Musicians/Humanities/Literature major are practically a meme and have become a cautionary tale on what to avoid until you have established yourself financially. Whether it is fair or not, life does not reward them in today's economic system (ignore outliers). Hence the need for "safe and boring" jobs like Doctor/Engineer/Lawyer/anything else that helps you earn money to lead a "boring" life.
The Samsung Store but we can argue if thats bloatware.