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I don’t think it’s that end users explicitly ask to be prevented from doing things they want to do with their devices. I think it’s that they feel safer in a restricted environment that’s relatively free of the dangers of unrestricted environments, and they’re willing to accept that some lack of control is likely tied to that relative safety.

Heck, I’ll just speak for myself. I’m a software engineer. I pride myself on being able pull things apart, understand how they work, and put their pieces together in unintended ways. There are aspects of Apple’s control over their devices that I’ve accepted grudgingly... because even being familiar with the tradeoffs they’ve largely benefited me, and all that I’ve given up has been either moot (UI hacks that are better served with other apps or just not available anywhere anymore) or not a hindrance for my actual usage (it turns out blocking system modification has made clever things I use be more respectful of the integrity of my system!). The biggest thing I’ve lost as an Apple customer has been due to third party developers turning my whole computer into a web browser. Glad it isn’t full of security holes!
It’s at least as loud as my original Model M.

Edit: I have one of the new Model F keyboards, too.
I don't really understand why it makes sense to spend most of a newsletter about zig 0.7 complaining about another language, instead of the cool stuff about ziglang. They're similar in that they're both "better Cs" but their targets seem pretty different.

> Does everything we write on the internet have to be investor-friendly? Fuck I hope not.

I don't see it at all reflective about "investor-friendly" but more the existing community around the language. It's great that zig's is active, but if some of the major community members spend seemingly equal/the majorityu of something like a newsletter about a fairly big development release being incredibly negative toward another project while pretending to be respectful, eh.

I'm not saying you have to cater to me, since I'm a nobody, but this and a few other things about the zig community have made me less interested in spending my limited free time playing with it.
Sure, but for all intents and purposes a Linux box is also ‘crippled’ but the ridiculous learning curve, lack of security, and capriciousness of the major companies that support the distros.

Both are good for different people.
it is absolutely true that “Democrat party” as opposed to “Democratic party” is a Republican shibboleth for some reason.

Democrats themselves don’t seem to think about it much but there is a portion of conservative media that is very careful to always say “Democrat party”.

see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
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> How is it 2020 and we're okay with this phrase? What the hell happened?

Shareholders happened, that's why.

The lines between company and customers are blurred, giving perverse incentives to defend company practices that wouldn't fly if there were a clear distinction.
I'd say that the 8008 started the microcomputer revolution, not the computer revolution (which was started by ENIAC). Assorted disclaimers, of course. In particular, the 8008 was a clone of the TTL-based Datapoint 2200 desktop terminal/computer.

The regular 8008 ran at 500 kHz while the 8008-1 ran at 800 kHz. As far as I know, the -1 version was just from sorting, without any special changes. (Of course as they improved their manufacturing process, you'd expect more would sort into the faster bucket.) In comparison, the 8086 die was shrunk over time with new generations of the HMOS process, so it had a "genuine" speedup.

Yes, it's interesting that the Osborne 1 "portable" computer didn't show up until 1981. I think there are two reasons. First, the technology wasn't ready in 1972, not just the processor but memory, display technology, floppy disks, and importantly software. It wasn't until 1975 that IBM made an extremely expensive portable (the 5100) and 1978 when Xerox made an even more expensive prototype portable (the Notetaker). But by 1981, technology had improved so Osborne could make a moderately useful portable at a high but plausible price.
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Thanks for everyone who's taken the time to share your feedback so far. Grateful for your perspective. And thank you for those who've asked to try out the service, some really great use cases.. inspiring! Keep the feedback coming!
If you care about not having a Google account, then start talking about custom ROMs. Not really a relevant complaint since custom ROMs exist.

And it'd be trivial to compile the latest kernel and load it on your device. Someone who really cares and needs features or fixes from a newer kernel could do it if they wanted.
Sounds like the developer got caught in the act and Apple was being quite forgiving in this case. The Phil Schiller name drop sounds like total bullshit, though.
> The amount of information _sent_ really is 1 bit.

I'm not sure how you're calculating this, but it is obviously wrong.

The information conveyed by the contents of a message is the log of the number of possible messages.

Here, there is one possible message. The log of one is zero. There's a big difference between one bit of information and zero.

You can interpret a "yo" message as conveying one bit of information, and the only way to do that is to draw it from the contrast between "sending a yo" and "not sending a yo". If you do that, "sending a yo" sends one bit of information, and "not sending a yo" also sends one bit of information.

Thought experiment: with three bits of information, you can disambiguate between eight possibilities. Try to design a protocol in which, by sending up to three "yo"s, you achieve 8 distinct messages.
"Democratic" is confusing because it could mean either "relating to democracy" or "relating to the Democratic party" whereas "Republican" almost always refers to the party. I don't blame anyone for using a less ambiguous word and this is the first I've heard of "Democrat" being an insult.
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Did those parental control apps actually work?

I wasn’t aware iOS actually provided enough low level access for 3rd parties to develop anything like that.
Google lets banks remotely disable phones [0]: 114 points in 11 hours

Google lets apps prevent users from taking screenshots [1]: 315 points in 14 hours

Devs on HN shrug it off when an app screws over users, but they take to pitchforks when an app is removed.

There's also a heavy bias in favor of Google and against Apple on HN, but Apple does nothing nearly as hostile to users, and so millions of people will continue to happily give their money to Apple.

Only user-hostile developers fail to understand this and clamor for Apple's restrictions to be weakened so they can prey more freely upon users.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25026050

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25025066
Thanks for sharing, was thinking about learning Scala for Spark and also wondering what other people use Scala for (for non-big-data purposes) in real life.
> Test that thing in a restaurant or a hair salon with a dozen people continuously interacting in it and then test the quality of the air

That's not how scientific studies work.
This is great! I still have a feel for btrfs and think this tool's great explanations provide some good hints. I can also finally get a good and fast sense for a snapshot's size (I used to use to use btrfs send).

But ... is it normal to have massive amounts of data like everything except snapshots/ and var/ in my system subvolume being one of them, as error-nodes (/open (No such file or directory))?

Also: Is there a way to stop sampling after some time or amount of samples? It turns out your idea is correct and you don't actually need all that many to get a good impression :-)

Thanks for making it!
That test procedure sounds similar to the standard test for CADR (ANSI/AHAM AC-1-2015), which uses a 1008 square foot test chamber and measures the ability of an air purifier to deliver clean air.

CADR is the product of air flow and fractional removal efficiency, and it's the industry standard value if you want to compare performance of one air purifier to another. The CADR test usually makes separate measurements for dust, pollen, and smoke (particulates). It looks like they adapted the normal test procedure to measure the reduction in live/viable microbes.

However, in a few minutes of looking at their homepage I don't see anywhere they list a number in CFM of purified air, which is what CADR measures.

https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm?p_downl... [Appendix A]
TFA asserts "... $10.5 million went into marketing the apple" which speaks against the 'create new variety' claims.

Actual creation of a new apple variety is painfully simple - pick an apple growing in an orchard with multiple varieties, and plant the seeds and wait a few years.

It's a coin flip whether it'll be good, or indeed how much it will differ from either of its parents and what characteristics it will have - but it really is that easy.

But there's ~10,000 known apple varieties out there, selected over hundreds of years to be ideal in one or more of several distinctly different categories (cooking, baking, saucing, cider, fresh, long storage, preserve, jam, etc), with huge variation in how local climate and soil will affect the fruit, and also what flavours & textures each person may prefer.

These guys aren't claiming this is the best apple, happily, but it is definitely designed for mass production: works well under irrigation, fast to fruit, prodigious fruiting, disease and pest resistant, attractive and edible skin, consistent size, flesh that's slow to brown, long storage and robust for transport -- and, dare I say it, attractive to the North American market (which probably means sweeter than what most other cultures would prefer).
Wrong link? That just goes to the Wikipedia homepage?
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What I dislike about a lot of these potential fraud analysis techniques is that if a group that was performing fraud was aware of them, then they would simply perform the fraud 'properly' such that the given technique(s) don't show evidence (since they know what others are looking for and hoping to find, they simply ensure it isn't there).

The same goes for similar techniques like Benford's law: once you know about them, you can improve your sophistication so that no conclusion can be made (There are some interesting exceptions here since most claims of fraud would have one believe that centralized or semi-centralized fraud is much harder to perform than decentralized/random fraud, in which case due to coordination issues, some of these techniques could still bear fruit).

But, the obvious overlaying issue is that the system is broken from the bottom up: there is no authentication, authorization, or encryption. Rather than having random Internet bloggers attempt to detect fraud with the information and tools they have, the system should instead be made secure and robust from the bottom-up, starting with how votes are made, tallied, transported, and so on. Additionally the technologies used, voting machines used, counting methods used, and voting system itself (lacking any ranked-choice or similar options) are all severely lacking modern improvements.

No single person should be counting votes and typing numbers into fields. We should at least try to use some of the multidisciplinary technology developed in the last five or so decades to try to patch this from the bottom-up so that the system is much more robust and auditable for the future, because things are only going to get weirder (honestly, the US election went very smoothly compared to how it gone have gone, imo - there is no better time to prevent future disasters than today).
Should the vote also be weighted to uphold the interests of other classes of people, like young vs old, or rich vs poor, or bricklayers vs hairdressers?

I consider myself more defined by my age and profession than by my hometown but in an electoral college system it is only that latter fact that affects how a vote is weighted.
There is no real technical solution, outside of a secure facility with thorough physical inspection, isolated networks, etc. Outside of military/defense projects, who is going to have that? Even then, I doubt it would be effective.

You can have NDA's but it will likely be difficult to discover these violations. The recruiter isn't going to rat out your ex-employee. The new company isn't, either. It'll create nothing but problems for them.

This sort of stuff happens all the time. I worked at one company where we asked a potential employee to submit a code sample. He submitted some billing code he had worked on for a major telco with their copyright all over it.

The truth is this doesn't really matter. Except in certain rare cases, code alone is worthless without the operational knowledge, the other parts of the system, services, databases, etc.
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There were some protests against anti covid measure a few weeks ago that got quite a bit of publicity due to taking place on the iconic Old Town Square in Prague - but nothing relly major or really ongoing.

The situation is not perfect and the protest not without merit, as the government preatty much squandered any success we had handling the first wave of covid by doing preatty much no preparations, releasing almost all restrictions and then failed to respond in time when things turned for the worse in september.

I guess it can make people angry, if their livelyhood is in danger due to the restrictive measures needed after you fuck up the initial response to the second wave like we did here. Still violent protest is not really an answer and it was indeed an one-off so far. Hopefully people will remeber at least a bit of they not to vote the populist currently in power during the next elections next year.

Also there are regular protests in Belarus and now even in Poland these days that are bigger by many orders of magnitude that what we managed to pull off here since the Velvet Revolution when indeed preatty much everyone was in the streats, which resulted in the fall of the soviet aligned comunist regime back then.
Makes total sense, thank you. Will reflect on this.
Wow. Good to know. Thanks.
Thanks for the context, I'd be curious to learn about any more insights you have to share about the Kenyan phone market.
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Amazon doesn't block customers from buying books from elsewhere and reading them on Amazon devices. It's fiddlier than buying through the integrated Amazon store, but it's a fully supported way of using your Amazon device.

I'm not aware of them blocking sellers from listing books on Amazon and also at a lower price elsewhere (though it wouldn't surprise me if they did), and they certainly don't block sellers from telling their customers how much Amazon's cut is.
Why wouldn’t they?

Macs and iOS devices are for completely different purposes.
Democratic: Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.

Democrat: A supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics.

One adjective for persons another for process. In some cases both would be correct but the meaning will differ.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democrat
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratic

Good, that's consistent with my French and Greek, sorry for checking but your comment really surprised me ! Didn't realize it was a joke until having already checked...
Yes.

Aug 04, 2020: "The electric Ford F-150 will possibly debut in 2021."

Motor Trend: "2022 Ford F-150 Electric Pickup: What We Know So Far"

Motor Trend: "2023 Ford F-150 Electric: What We Know So Far"

The big news is that the price has jumped up to $70K - $100K. There is no excuse for that.

Jeep is supposedly coming out with a plug-in hybrid Jeep Wrangler next month. Electric range is maybe 25 miles.
I have this exact keyboard, an '83 XT! Built like a tank (seriously, you could bludgeon someone to death with it) and the smoothest, most pleasurable keyswitch out of the dozens I've tried. The F keyswitch makes all cherry clones feel like cheap Chinese crap, sadly this is why I had to part with my ergodox. The only downsides are the loud typing and the nonstandard layout, which you might prefer once you get used to it (ctrl key to the left of a).

If you're looking for a serious keyboard to last you the rest of your life, I highly recommend the F.
> You just need to not buy an Apple product.

Consumer behavior won't change Apple. We need the strong arm of the DOJ to tell Apple not to do this.

> Apple is a friend

Apple is not a friend of anybody. They're a for-profit company.
No, in single-shot PD betrayal is the dominant strategy, as your link shows. It's better if your opponent also betrays, and its better if they stay silent (the whistleblower scenario). See that wikipedia link if in doubt.
Dear EU leaders,

There is no "reasonable middle ground" in this issue. Either the encryption works, and it protects the conversation, or it doesn't and it can be broken by both state and private actors, foreign or domestic. It is not like other policies in the phisical world, where a compromise on guns, drugs etc. can be reached that maximize the social welfare. The mathematics of encryption do not allow partial privacy, you either have it, or you don't and when you do, no government can break it.

It follows that any "reasonable balance" in practice alwas means a de facto ban of encryption technology, and replacing it with a state monopoly on encryption. Thus, citizens could pe provided with simulated encryption tools, where messages are securely sent to infrastructure controlled by the government, stored, then resent securely to the intended recipient, with the state or their intermediaries controlling the privacy of the conversations. This conceptual copying need not be done for every encrypted exchange, the key issue being the existence of a backdoor that could be activated at the decision of the state.

This is undesirable for many reasons:

1. It is insecure and dangerous; once a backdoor exists, its activation must be unknowable by the citizens, otherwise it makes no sense as it would tip off the criminals. If activation of the backdoor is unknowable, then there can exist no guarantees it's only used for legitimate purposes. The backdoor would be of a mathematical and technical nature while the institutions called to regulate it would be no better than other institutions humans create: they could be corruptible, incompetent, tyrannical etc. The mathematics of encryption backdoors would serve such institutions well regardless of their dedication to the goal of providing only lawful access, and would serve any 3rd party that could abuse it. Furthermore, lawful intereption points constitute a central point of attack for a powerful adversary, even to the point of weakening national security.

2. It is essentially useless. Smart criminals use off-the-shelf technology because they know it's fit for purpose. If government snooping is implemented in all such products, then they would switch to other forms of communications that can provide them with the secrecy they require to operate. Additionally, encryption is just math, and the fundamental capability of computers that surround us is to perform math and load user-defined programs. Encryption can never be banned, just commercial products that use it. Criminals don't care about such bans and would revert to older implementations or write their own ilegal encryption tools.

3. It disempowers citizens. The ability to have private communication unperturbed by the power of the state is a fundamental freedom in a democratic country. It is a modern manifestation of a timeless pact between the governed and the rulers: government exists to protect the liberty of ruled, not protect itself. People are to be trusted because their freedom is an end in itself, and the technology of encryption is vastly liberty enhancing without being, by itself, a direct threat to anyone.
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This always seemed like such a bizarre Rube Goldberg machine to me, it blows my mind that anyone is using it at all.
How did you manage to spend thousands of dollars a month on hosting? That's free on GitHub and many other places.

But it's certainly true that money in OSS is in marketing, not the software.
My point is that not all calories are equal as far as the consumer is concerned.

As others have noted, eating RDI (or just under) with only carbs - eg the twinkies diet - would be tiring and soul-destroying, likely very difficult to sustain.

Eating the same amount (calories) of proteins and fats would keep you much happier and healthier.

Eating a lot more (calories) of proteins and fats, and avoiding as many carbs as possible, and you're probably lose weight without having to track & maintain a 'caloric deficit' state.
"Although metaphorical, Hardin's tragedy of the commons may be viewed as an example of a multi-player generalization of the PD"

(From the wikipedia link someone posted)
Participation is voluntary. What is the problem?

“Ultimately, what will happen is residents and businesses will be able to sign a waiver, if they want their camera to be accessed from the Real Time Crime Center,” Lumumba told WLBT-TV. “It would save [us] from having to buy a camera for every place across the city.”
You can do what you want with your phone.

You have a legal right to jailbreak it and hack on it in any way you like.
> Actual violence is not a solution.

Stupid people say stupid things.

Countries have navies to enforce their fishery zones, and navies work.

Indonesia has sunk hundreds of Chinese fishing boats, and other nations will increasingly do the same, now that the true nature of the CCP has been exposed.
> people who want a curated store

This is a straw man.

Support allowing users to add alternate stores on iOS devices.

Having one choice is not freedom. And it has nothing to do with curration. If Apple's model is superior, then their app store will win against fair competition.
Some say that the golden age of naval idiocy has gone away forever, fortunately these people are wrong.
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I really hope these eventually succeed but that's not a given. The existing app stores moat is very strong.

Average people would never think to use these independent Linux phones the way they are today, and it's not a given that the situation will noticeably improve in 5-10-15 years.

I want good options available to everyone, not just a subset of the typical desktop-Linux audience.
> They would not sink boats.

That's simply false and silly.

Indonesia and N. Korea have sunk hundreds of fishing boats. More countries will do the same.
I daily drive an original 80s model m that I found in the trash and restored.

Almost everyone that comes into my office comments on it, some engineers are truly giddy. Funny enough our ultra-high spec engineering workstations have native ps/2 ports, no adapters necessary!

I left it at the office over the pandemic, it's one of the things I miss the most at home .
This is not SF bay area.

“ the greater bay area is a large industrial region in southern china, which includes nine cities and the two special-administrative regions of hong kong and macau.”