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> People should as a matter of principle be able to run whatever they like

Well you are free to provide a platform that is as convenient as ios and as free as linux.

In practice that's not easy to say modestly since convenience require quite an investment in design and developement which free platforms tend to lack.

So in reality it's either a well monetized platform (which is either a walled garden or just sells your data), or free platform which is far behind in terms of convenience and support.

> Also it is quiite clearly a general computing device as it has all the characteristics of one. It isn't a matter of belief.

No, it's exactly your belief. Apple doesn't advertise it to you that way, they doesn't say you'll be able to run whatever you'd like on it, so I dunno where did you get this misconception that they should provide you such an ability.
> Then again, a 5TB hard drive is, what? $119 or less?

Cloud services are hilariously inefficient at using storage space. A 1MB image you upload might use 10MB or more of space amongst their servers. (eg. 1.5 RS encoded copies in each of 7 datacenters). Oh, and theres a good chance it'll be stored on SSD rather than hard drives because while you might think you only access that 1MB image once per decade on average, the reality is it probably gets read once a month (resyncing new devices, scanning quickly through the webui, ML models rebuilding search indexes, re-striping to new SSD's or rebalancing, etc.). Once a month reads for 1MB of data become spindle (IO) limited rather than space limited for hard drives, normally making SSD's cheaper cos spindles are expensive.
The article could really use a link to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge

Which, among other things, clarifies the time frame: 1830. "Isambard" is Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the most ingenious engineers ever.
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30 GBP per year for measly 200GB, I can have 1TB for 40 GBP (and I am talking about more expensive external drive) and I am not scaling it like Google

so no, that's not reasonable at all to pay 4-5 times more for online access to something you can have in safety of your home and actually own and if you keep using the drive for 2-3 years the comparison makes it even much worse deal for Google, after 3 years you are on 90GBP compared to 40GBP for 1TB hard drive, only 11 times more and you still own no hardware, what a great deal!

if you intend to pay as much you might as well buy sinology and have your own cloud through the app in your home without anyone harvesting your data
to be fair; it sounds like he didn't get the job due lack of interpersonal skills; not for lack of programming skills.
You mean like that one time when it tagged blacks as apes? I'm sure the users feel like they made a great deal.
Ubuntu did upload what applications you launched to Amazon.
The problem is that's not really how people get started. Hello world is how you get started in a university intro course, not in your parents' basement.

What happens there is that you have a pile of photos that are all in one folder and you want to organize them into separate folders by date. A problem you're actually having, not a homework assignment. Which is possible to do automatically, because they all have metadata with that information in it. So you find a python script somebody wrote to do that, and it works! Then you realize the script is just a text file and you can modify it to sort using geotags or something else instead, and now you're down the rabbit hole. But only if it's easy to see and modify the code that runs on the device you actually use.
Git over uncensorable storage.
Nice idea - but ...

His argument is "I could buy any SaaS service I liked by simply clicking 'Subscribe to Foo-SaaS for 99 / mth' on my AWS dashboard."

This is true - it would solve his needs immediately and would yes lead to thousands of sales.

For about a week. Then every purchasing dept in the Fortune 500 would collectively spray their coffee over their monitors, and suddenly one of two things would happen a) AWS would offer Enterprises a "turn off that Sht" option (at a cost) or b) every purchasing department would add even more hurdles* before you could pay out.

Yes, it is hard to buy stuff in a corporate - but it is not a bug its a feature.
amen. all these so-called hacker capitalists either starting a company or working corporate gigs forgot to read the hacker manifesto.
A little off topic, but where does this now commonly used phrase "lived experience" that lefties love to use so much come from. Doesn't the word "experience" cover the idea? Is it to differentiate from their reading or television "experiences"? I think the redundant "lived" part is added for dramatic effect.
The companies I'm taking about have 10K+ employees around the globe. The CFO would to nothing but type in the credit card number all day.
"Social justice" and "justice" aren't the same thing. Jesus cared about the latter.
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Well said. The hacker culture is not immune to the trappings of luxury brands. You can’t show off your wealth using a no name brand running Linux.
The "level of security" (~tech effort) is the main competitive selling point when DRM-vendors lobby studios for endorsement. The studios are probably partly being sold a pipe dream of "unbreakable DRM", but the person you responded to also has a point.

Weak or nonexistent DRM reduces the provable malicious intent of a ripper. The more effort it takes to break a DRM, the less likely it seems that you don't understand that what you are doing is wrong.
Exactly. Then taking it a step further. GP at VC firm makes the round at their "portfolio" companies and see your product on every screen, or hearing about your product from every team they go to, and then wanting to speak with you because clearly someone is doing something right.

Examples: YouTube, GitHub.
Of course they are. You need to invest a lot in your platform to make it convenient, so you have to be able to monetize it well enough.
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I don't get why the Trumpers hate Obama so much... he's always come across as well thought out and pragmatic.
>I don't care about Bannon, I care about a free and open exchange of ideas. We can't have that if some parties appoint themselves the arbiters of permissible speech.

Are you a free speech absolutist? So calls for violence isn’t a line you are willing to draw in the sand? If Bannon was distributing child pornography should Facebook allow that too, or should Zuckerberg not appoint himself as an arbiter is that situation? This is an insane premise, so I’m not sure what to say to this. Even the current law doesn’t let you recklessly abuse free speech like this (e.g. fire in a movie theater). You do realize Fauci and his family doesn’t even feel safe anymore leaving their home without security detail? Why should someone like Bannon be afforded such great benefit of the doubt given Fauci’s situation. Someone like Bannon would and has cried about “cancel culture” but in this case he’s free to essentially force a man into hiding.
I think you need to give the parent poster a little more credit. People have all kinds of preferences for employment that go into determining a market-clearing wage.

e.g. it is probably the case that loading garbage onto a truck doesn't require more skill/specialization than driving a car for hire

However, the overwhelmingly vast amount of people prefer to do the job that they can do while sitting down, in an air-conditioned vehicle, vs. the one they have to do surrounded by stinking detritus, outside in all weathers.

Based on my own prejudices, driving a car for hire sits in a relative sweet-spot of low skill, low physical demand, low discomfort. I agree there are undoubtedly personal safety factors that you're more exposed to than, say, flipping burgers at McDonalds.
thread goes from people being confused that the DTK isn't the same as the release hw, to someone complaining abut docker desktop spying on you, to arguing about whether or not you should test server software on your mac. I feel bad for people subscribed to that thread that care about the actual issue (wanting docker desktop to run on m1)
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I find that the prices of the food are also inflated over what the restaurant would charge.
Since the article is from 2001, is this still true today?
I'm confused by the "needed money for healthcare that would never be covered by universal insurance", are you sure such costs wouldn't be covered by NHS or similar had you lived in another country?
> Don't expect Ubuntu does this though.

Ubuntu uploads (at least it did couple years ago) your data to Amazon.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html
It’s an insane society that would force someone to work through their recovery to an injury in the first place.
This is completely conceding the point. Nothing but the browser is up to par, and even that is not as ‘polished’.

If all people need is a browser, they should buy ChromeOS or an iPad.
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I was wondering this myself. The common criticism you’ll see in these Apple threads is that people don’t care to configure their device/software as required in Linux. Or desktop OS is rough around the edges.

However anyone wanting to avoid these issues is now required to configure their Apple device. Anyone want to shift to Apple silicon will also experience a rough around the edges situation. In the previous days, Apple documentation for building on their no-config required platform is rough all around, not just the edges.

People are allowed to have criticisms and be hypocritical but it’s sometimes astounding how much Apple gets away with their choices because of marketing.
I haven't touched fedora in a couple years. what's going on there?
I'm not so sure it does, as something like 800 IU of Vitamin D is the daily minimum.
read the spec lol!!!!
My urine like everyone else's contains potassium and can be used to create gunpowder - does this mean I am enabling terrorists to blow people up every time I take a leak?
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It seems everyone in this story is petty and unredeemable.

And copyright law for pictures and music is disgusting.
Fair use applies to copyrighted content, not circumvention tools.
Don't listen to your elders with lived experience. Trust the passions of youth, who know naught but what we have drilled into their heads with two decades of schooling and television. Brand hatred of normal people as hope for the future. Obey, obey, obey.
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The question is, is the telemetry really off completely on mac or either?

Is there any guarantee that Apple gets zero bytes of your data or do we just take their word for it because their products are shiny and cool?
Cannot agree with this more.

My team was able to deploy a highly sophisticated technology stack in less than 12 months that could add up to about 50 years of procurement (based on past experience acquiring software for large enterprises). There are 20x more disparate solutions/components, but it all rolls up to a single AWS Bill.

This approach has given us remarkable agility and easily outperform traditional vendor products like Mulesoft, IIB etc. because we are easily able to augment/extend/enhance
Here's the direct link to the calculator form:

https://www.mpic.de/4747361/risk-calculator?en
Sure since but this subthread argues that users actually don’t need binaries other than the browser that’s moot.
Your comment hits the nail on the head. It's anticompetitive behaviour, and in the end consumers don't have a choice because competitors have gone out of business. If it's a valuable product or service (e.g. lifetime memories), consumers are then held to ransom. It has been going on for years, and it will continue to get worse until we rearch some kind of tipping point where people start to really care.
They didn't buy a law; they ran a campaign (along with other companies). Over 9 million Californians voted "yes" on the proposition. This article glosses over the blame the voters deserve.
It's not my company, it's every large company I've ever worked for.

I'm not looking for a band aid. I'm looking for a solution that helps the SaaS industry without demanding that the Fortune 500 get their act together, because they ain't changing for our benefit any time soon.

Can you expand on

> Additionally, the mismatch of billing structures would lead to the hypothetical reseller either keeping margins (big turn-off for onboarding I bet) or keeping wildly volatile short-term liabilities on their balance.
Great read. It's too bad modules are pretty much an afterthought in most langs.

I really like research language 1ML's approach to modules[0]. This allows monomorphic types to be treated like values, avoiding all of OCaml's module syntax (which can be a bit complex and verbose).

https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/1ml/1ml-extended.pdf
I don’t remember good workarounds. IE6 fixes often required entire libraries. Websites ballooned in size due to needing constant shims, normalization, and polyfills. For a long while it wasn’t uncommon to send out a separate stylesheet for ie6 to fix whatever would break using the regular styles. I can’t think of anything Safari does that’s that bad.
If you don't like DRM, just stop downloading DRM-encumbered content.
Participating in a community and becoming a public figure I think are different things. Creating followers would turn people into performers instead of participants.
What would I say to myself ten years younger
That probably means they are cooking the books for the pre IPO investors and don't want to go jail after public listing.
Do you think it's time we rebundled the grid?
I think the Nim devs want it to work for this too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24805006

> Both the servers and the client running in your browser is written in Nim. The client uses Nim's JS backend and the server Nim's C backend. The two share code to ensure the game simulation is the same across both. Communication happens over websockets.

> It's been a lot of fun working on this and I cannot imagine another language being as flexible as Nim to make something like this possible.
I think this is the key statement to all of this. No one thinks about the risk. Running a business, which in a sense you are doing by being a contractor, is all about managing risk. When I ran a food business, that was 90% of my tasks, and I had to make sure that things continued to run no matter what happened. When you start realizing how exposed you are to bad things happening, it starts to wear on you. What happens if an employee gets hurt, or the food is prepped wrong (and someone dies)? How much money is it going to cost and will it bankrupt you? Companies like Uber and Lyft don't explain that to people. They don't explain the risk they are taking on by earning a few extra dollars. Will most people be ok, sure? Bad things happen even to people who take all the precautions, and it is an expensive and extremely painful lesson to learn.
There's always a market for VC subsidized consumer services. What's in dispute is whether there's a market for these services when they reflect their true unsubsidized costs.

If food (or grocery) delivery companies cannot turn a profit during a pandemic, there's no way they're going to turn a profit when the majority of people return to in person dining or pickup. Groceries and restaurants have terrible margins already. There's just not enough pie to give a meaningful slice to middle men facilitating payment and delivery.
Actually there are DRM-free websites selling music, e.g., https://bandcamp.com
...and he didn't care about the former? Seriously?
It is a luxury brand in the US. Every tech person that has made it would never buy anything but Apple. Yes, things like battery life are great. But if you are seen working at a coffee shop, there is a 100% guarantee of a that glowing apple logo on your laptop.
I don't know why they don't use a 2560x1440 for the 13" model
The lockdown and controlling of distribution of software.

Great, you can write a script, it's checksum is then sent over the net and verified to not be malicious or if the service on the other side is experiencing lag..well... gotta wait, and wait.

To the point where, all choice is removed from an operating system. So much for root access.
Especially with the way innovation works now, one person's "megalomaniacal fantasies" can easily lead to scientific progress.
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A bit off topic but might be interesting to HN: Peter’s father was Valentin Turchin [1] - one of the prominent Russian computer scientists and inventor of REFAL programming language.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Turchin
Randall got us covered:-)

https://m.xkcd.com/2347/

For imagemagick -- but yeah, still applies :)

Make sure to read the hint here: "Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble."
You realize how your argument could apply to any monopoly right? They were able to get 100%, they have to provide significant value to reach that ;). Sadly it's more complicated than the size of their market.
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But chrome os is is just another of the locked down, centrally controlled, telemetry driven products that people are complaining about.

The fact it happens to use the Linux kernel is like saying MacOS is based on FreeBSD.
LOL. Right
It's anecdotal but I always chat with my Uber drivers and nearly 100% of them are driving full time. I assume it's a "most rides are driven by a full-timer, most drivers are part timers" situation.

I don't really see why we need a third category, it should just be that some drivers are full time and some are not. I don't believe that Uber could sufficiently fulfill even half the rides with only the true part timers short of driver incentives also going way up (which would benefit people like your husband).
This sounds like some sort of novel logical error, sort of like attacking the man rather than the argument but instead the idea seems to be:

arguments that emit from sources you would expect to be making such arguments are automatically discounted.

This leads to the conclusion that only arguments from unexpected sources are to be trusted - thus criminals who argue that crime is bad and snitches should get riches are to be trusted, but cops who say that crime is bad are not to be trusted on that matter.

I mean, it's a funny kind of idea to hold.
And even more often "I can keep drinking another beer if I don't have to leave to get food."
>No one will help me, especially progressive leaning people. You don't get political or social brownie points for helping disabled people the way you would for other minority groups who are struggling. We are constantly ignored and forgotten.

I have no idea what this is about but there was very strong activist push to get the ADA in 1990 and similarly the ACA in 2011 but I guess that doesn't count

> I was in a situation where I needed money for healthcare that will never be covered by insurance, especially government sponsored universal insurance

No clue what this means or how you could possibly even know that.

>You healthy people aren't nearly as caring as you'd like to believe.

Bold of you to assume that I'm healthy and don't have a vested interest in universal healthcare getting passed
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The reasoning behind SLS sort of made sense 10 years ago. We didn't know that Starship, New Glenn and Falcon Heavy were coming down the pipe. We decided that the US & NASA needed super-heavy lift capability. Previous attempts to design a heavy lift vehicle were lost to political regime change and congress in-fighting. Previous attempts to design a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle were cancelled due to its virtual impossibility.

So NASA & Congress designed a program that was unkillable. It greased too many wheels and lined too many pockets to make it easy to kill. It was also designed ultra-conservatively using mostly existing designs so there was no technical risk.

So now when we complain that it's a pork-filled boondoggle that's impossible to kill, that was the plan, and there was a certain logic behind it. It makes no sense in a world with Falcon Heavy, Starship & New Glenn, but who would have predicted that with confidence in 2010?
Not all programming is web programming, and not all users of text editors are trying to turn them into IDEs. I think the article itself was insightful in identifying two camps of programmers with minimal overlap. Most of the discussion I've seen since we all got trolled by StackOverflow a couple of days ago has been members of the two camps talking past each other. More than anything else I've read lately, this article has helped me understand how the other side sees the world.
No, the treatments I need are experimental, and there is a tremendous amount of hostility from healthcare workers directed at people with my illness. It is very controversial.

Europeans are just as fucked as Americans when they have this illness.
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I don't know if this is mind blowing or not because people don't seem to use it but...

If you live in a suburb or further out, basically every major grocery chain does pickup orders.

I order online, drive to the store, and an employee puts the groceries in my trunk. I never go inside.

It's also... free. So anyone with a car(most of us in the USA/CA) can do it.
Additionally, it seems excessive to check every time. Checking once a day would be enough (if it needs to be global and immediate, Apple could push a kill hash to Gatekeeper as I understand it). The volume of queries would greatly exceed the size of getting the updates to the CRL every day (or hour!). Indeed, OCSP stapling is a cache of the signed proof of validity.

It also seems like a bloom filter could be used instead.

It really points to Apple being quietly satisfied to have this massive stream of usage data. And available every ISP and snooper along the way too.
Interesting intellectual exercise. The process seems rational.

The thing with chaos theory, though... it takes only one swing of a coefficient to produce a wildly different outcome.
Gig companies shouldn't take the place of a functioning welfare in a rich society, I'm glad it helped you individually but it's symptom of a much larger issue that when patched that way just hides it away into the future...
Bannon isn't making any threats. He is calling for the laws to be changed so he can legally execute people for thought crime, and not holding the party line.

Essentially, he wants dictatorship.

It's not illegal to promote dictatorship but it is gross, and he should be publicly shunned for it.
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The NHS has very long waiting list.
The implication being that it doesn't just work for them. They know that, that's why they asked if they'd personally tried Linux lately. Nobody cares if it "just works" for your grandma or whatever, because that doesn't help them at all.
Huge toolchains don't imply complex projects. I'm writing a browser extension with Webpack, the Firefox browser extension tool and one or two libraries; Node.js has about 1000 packages.
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I dont believe people have many complaints when it comes to the usability of Apple hardware. Touchbar excluded of course. And that keyboard.
I don’t know. I feel like screen time is a misnomer. From my anecdata less social media more sleep is the key. If my screen time is reading a kindle or learning programming I doubt the impact is so bad. Of course anything taken to an extreme...