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Popper's falsification is useful, but may not be a truly universal test. It seems most ineffective in the case of systems theories, of which complexity research (closely aligned with Turchin's work), systems theory, cybernetics, and evolutionary theories and models are several examples.

Few of these produce reliable forward-looking predictions, most especially for anticipating specific states achieved at specific times. Much of this hinges on simple complexity and measurement error (uncertainty over initial conditions).

What these models do provide, though, are useful models for drawing associations, predicting or describing specific patterns, and establishing the likely existence of specific features or elements of a system.

Darwin predated concepts of genes, chromosomes, DNA, and mutation mechanism. But his notions of variation and inheritance presupposed these and outlined their general characteristics. Later discoveries conformed with, and further refined, these predictions.

Where humanities and social sciences (Turchin's cliodynamics somewhat spans this divide) run into additional complexity is that models and predictions themselves become part of the informational context in which individuals, groups, and societies see, analyse, process, express, and respond to the informational environment.

This is often compared to Heisenberg uncertainty, but this is a category error. Heisenberg is addressing fundamental knowability, where the act of ascertaining system state changes the state itself. Epistemic interactions affect not the state itself, but the informational loop associated with it. The model and derived understanding are part of the sensing, processing, learning, memory, communications, and control interactions --- the model operates within the modeled system, endogenously rather than exogenously.

How to incorporate this distinction into philosophy of science is an interesting problem, though I don't think it is impossible. Pseudoscience lacks not only falsifiability, but generally, consistency and causality. Sound systems theories should be consistent and denote causality.
While I disagree that this is a strong counter, it does explain how this has happened.

People are lazy. They want their computer to show them pictures on Facebook, funny videos online and run some numbers for them. People don't want to care about stuff like privacy, because thinking gets in the way of fun and ease.

Malware has already bypassed Apple's signature mechanism and has been vetted to run by Apple as a result. The security and trust argument only works if Apple's security mechanisms work.

The vetting Apple is doing here is a solution looking for a problem. People have been installing third party applications forever, the ability to do so is a feature, not a bug. Instead of fixing the lacking antivirus software built into macOS, Apple is branding third party code as dangerous and untrustworthy.

I don't know anybody who cares about the problem this is solving, because it's a theoretical problem only tech literate people care about; the same tech literate people are also the people who run into this stuff the most. The reason that no one is offering a better solution is that there isn't a real problem that this solution is solving.
With Vitamin K? otherwise it's useless I've heard.
Love the reference to Hari Seldon, the famed psychohistorian from Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. If you haven't read the Foundation trilogy, get a copy to enjoy during lockdown, it is fantastic.
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They're not trying to do an ellipsis, or a pause. I think it might be an attempt at emphasis, like italics.
> but they keep up the promise for Pixel owners

True, but for how long?
what I want to know: why would storage prices increase when storage costs continue to plummet (and network ingress costs remain cheap due to asymmetric use vs serving)

spitballing...

- gphotos was free when google wanted the data for training algorithms. They now have the data they need and it's become a cost center. Given Android integration, that amount is substantial.

- the paid plans are underperforming, and this seemed like an easy way to catch up.

- the overall google "fleet" is facing capacity pressure across storage-intensive apps (e.g. gmail ?) and photos seemed like the easier solution, i.e. start charging and people will use less storage.

- mobile device camera resolution may be growing faster than storage costs are decreasing ?

- online photo hosting also requires serving the images (not just "backup") and users can't wrap their heads around a split charge for serving ?

- online storage costs are now dominated by the cost of power, real estate etc ? but as drives double in capacity, their power/etc costs should be halved as well...

thoughts?
I wish they would do this with gmail.

My dmarc reports say I'm authenticated and aligned but mail from my server goes to spam even though I'm the only user on the domain and never send automated or group emails. Relaying it via icloud fails everything but gets delivered to people's mailbox. WTF?
A Philosophy major.
That is very interesting!

What exactly do you mean with "completely stalled connections"?

Do you mean, that the sending side is queueing up to-be-send messages and can't clear the queue because it is working on correcting packet losses all the time, so the queue will just grow and never shrink?

Do you recall at which % of packet loss this behaviour started?
HN seem to love three health subjects:

1 - Vitamin D

2 - Fasting

3 - Did I mention fasting?
The kind of Christian minister that cares more about, and talks more about social justice than they do about Christ.
In short, if it’s free, there’s usually a catch...
Thats strange, I run 2 34" displays from mine and haven't seen that. Did you upgrade or clean install?

Must be an absolute nightmare trying to handle every possible configuration someones Mac could be in. I dont envy the devs.
The issue is not the gig economy but businesses that force rules and behaviours (when to work, which client, you cannot refuse jobs, etc.) without labour protection.

Either you are a platform that connects you to a potential client (like a powerful yellow page), or you are an employer.
In the US there is "no reasonable expectation of privacy" for data voluntarily given to third-parties [0]

US government agencies can simply ask for such data, and companies can just pass it along, all without even evoking any of the countless surveillance laws [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

[1] https://cantheyseemydick.com/
There are many, many huge corporations that aren't going away and aren't changing any time soon. In the mean time, the SaaS industry is missing out on billions if I'm right.
"Use font smoothing when available" is no longer available in System Preferences / General. Text looks blurry and kinda bold on my 27" 2560x1440 screen. Especially in Safari. Anyone has a magic command line?
Their SEO works well enough in English that I can't find much, but I had some luck in german with terms like betway wahl storniert.

https://www.wettforum.info/forum/bookie-section/buchmacherte...
Facial recognition for who else is in the picture. They've never had a good social graph like Facebook. This is one way to construct one.
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That's the main thing for me, and probably for the majority of people who don't want to or can't set up a home storage system with backups and redundancy etc.
And for websites, there's a better way to do OCSP. The web server using the certificate can get an OCSP response for itself (usually once every few minutes) and attach it to all TLS handshakes for that same domain ("OCSP stapling"). That way, clients get an up-to-date OCSP response, but without having to reveal their browsing behavior to the OCSP server.

Unfortunately, there is no obvious way to carry over this behavior to application binaries, since we're not dealing with a client-server architecture here.
being a devils advocate- isn't this a beta still for the very reason? I'm not sure Apple itself wants to be a developer unfriendly and everyone monitoring company + unencrypted traffic looks like something quick and dirty (analytics about beta users and issues?)

Maybe let's get an Apple's response first on these issues? It's not these issues and implications are small, but shouting from very beginning is not a good way to start a reasonable discussion whether this is a beta feature or something apple now will include permanently and why.
I never knew I needed this. I'll try get GCP working with it over the weekend (unless someone else gets there before me)
Back in the day Gmail was growing its free space nonstop. No longer.

https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Undo-Gmail-2.png
Considering the market penetration of Google Photos and the lack of any compelling reason to switch, I doubt that grandfathering would have accomplished what they're trying to do here. Phone companies also eventually kick people off of grandfathered plans, or change them so substantially that they are no longer recognizable. For example, I remember the AT&T unlimited plan that came in the early days of the iPhone. It started out reasonably cheap but eventually became extremely expensive.
Lmk if you have any questions :)
I haven’t done much research on this, but I think there are companies which pay for Analytics 360 which then resell usage of it to smaller companies so you don’t end up having to foot the full $150k. Some might be marketing agencies who want you to hire them, but there might be companies that offer it as pay-as-you-go. Just a thought.
I think the parent just meant the surprise at the lack of enthusiasm, based on the ubiquity of the technology/device.

Perhaps it is considered more of a commodity now?
> I can make a gaming rig with latest Ryzen CPU that will run whatever I want and be both faster and cheaper than Apple's expensive crap.

No you can not. The M1 chip has the fastest single-core performance of any consumer chip available today, beating every chip in AMD’s brand-new Zen 3 lineup. You can get faster multi-core performance (5950X) but definitely not foe the same price as Apple’s new computers - not to mention the massive power draw and much worse thermals in comparison.
I graduated in '17 and used his site a ton once I got to classes beyond what Khan academy offered. It's an excellent resource!
> The new Raspberry Pi 400

Learning about the Raspberry Pi is nice, but that doesn't help preserve the institutional knowledge needed to build system/low-level features in a modern OS. I'm not talking about teaching kids to program; I'm concerned about preserving in the future the knowledge of how to create all of the complex tech we use today. Many civilizations throughout history collapsed after they lost the technical knowledge on which their civilization depended.

> Because modern computers are much more complex and do much more than before, you don't do much bare metal programming anymore

Yes, that's the problem! Unless those skills are actively used and passed on to the next generation of engineers, that knowledge decays. Part of the reason you don't see a lot of bare metal programming anymore is due to the knowledge decay that has already happened!

> nothing is stopping a kid from buying a microcontroller and playing with it

This article is about how those same kids are being stopped from learning the complex systems we currently use.

> didn't turn everyone into a nerd.

Nobody is trying to turn everyone into a nerd. I'm talking about making sure the nerds of he future have the ability to learn about the tech they use, so the ability to understand and make that tech isn't lost. Locking down the OS into an "appliance" that cannot be inspected or changed is a direct attack on the ability to learn,
You're right, Jesus didn't give a damn about social justice. Christianity and the need for justice and equality are completely separate. /s
LOL. Because people value different things?

I stay on MacOS because it works very, very, very well for what I want to do.

There are a large number of affirmative reasons I prefer Macs. Hardware build quality has traditionally been stellar, on par with the golden age of Thinkpads (which is one reason the keyboard thing was so jarring). The OS is immensely, profoundly stable. The built-in tools for things like mail, contacts, and calendars work very very well. The overall polish of the experience is unmatched.

AND I have access to a bash prompt, and a whole host of FOSS offerings for things I might want. (As I've moved away from actually writing code, this has mostly boiled down to emacs and a few other bits, but still; it's comforting.)

I also use an iPhone, an iPad, and have an Apple Watch. The seamless integration is really, really great. I'd be hard pressed to give that up.

Add to this the fact that there are material reasons I want to AVOID the other two players:

- Windows is a chaotic disaster in terms of consistency, stability, overall design, and general behavior over time. The degree of weird enmeshment of binaries required to install software more or less guarantees system bloat that just doesn't happen on Macs.

- Linux can be many things to many people, and if Apple hadn't moved to a unixy base at the turn of the century I'm sure I'd have ended up there. But as it is, I'm just not willing to tinker around to achieve a workable environment for me, or deal with the inevitable interoperability challenges that would come from living without the COTS tools I rely on, like Office.
Uber is still bleeding money, unionizing would essentially put Uber out of business.
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Yet rather than take at their word that Linux is unsuitable for their use case or seek to remedy those problems, people insist that it must be because of one or more of the reasons I listed above. Alternatively, they attempt to change the user's use case to one that fits Linux better.

It's extremely tiring to watch this happen for as long as I have been watching it happen.
There's limited examples. What I'm saying is this model needs to be much more widely used so it's easier for SaaS companies to access big, slow companies.
They might also want to massively price segment. Basically they don't want to quote you a price until they've got a feel for where your pain point is. If you're a whale, they want to reserve the right to bleed you dry by not preemptively quoting a lower sticker price way below your budget. But yeah, to me it still just screams "if you have to ask, you can't afford it".
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You can request the account information that's stored on their servers: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/account-and-profile/how-to-...

As for messages stored on your device, they're in a SQLite database, so you can fairly easily write a query to get the data in whatever format you want. If you can't import it into Signal, then only because Signal doesn't have an import tool for WhatsApp database files.
By this logic we should just throw up our hands and forget about security and privacy altogether.
Of course, a large part of the cost of those engines is that they're designed to be reusable (a difficult task with hydrogen/oxygen engines due to thermal shocks and hydrogen embrittlement). This made sense when they were being built for the Space Shuttle. It no longer makes sense now that they are using the same engines for an expendable first stage.
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The guy behind Marginal Revolution is undeniably a very smart dude and writes a lot of good stuff for various outlets. MR however is often used more as a dumping ground for half thought out ideas floating around in his head and often lacks the rigor and review that his other writing gets. Much of the stuff there is like the first draft for ideas that will either get discarded or turned into a more thoughtful, nuanced and researched piece down the road.

But as I said, he's a smart guy, and on the whole tends to get things more or less right.
Yeah, sounds like an O(n) sort to me.
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AFAIK proposals (e.g infamous prop 13) cannot be overturned by legislature at all, even with 100%. So 7/8th is actually easier than default.
Hand recounts are good.
I'm detecting quite a lot of judgement in your comment. You've attacked the person rather than the argument.

Do you disagree that a job should mean that someone is able to afford rent and pay your bills? Because that sounds entirely reasonable to me.
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> Clearly, when sorting a bigger list there is more information in the universe (ie the list).

I don't think this is necessarily true. You could argue that the list is simply a bigger fraction of the information in the universe.
I suspect this is a honeypot for capturing psychopaths.
There were only 3 billion on the planet at the time, too. Estimates for U.S. casualties were 120 million dead in 1969. Out of 202.7 million

That still would have left the U.S. as one of the largest countries on the planet, and fallout would largely have dissipated after two to six weeks. Congress, the president, and the federal reserve agents would likely have survived thanks to top secret bunkers and Looking Glass. The military would have been wiped out. Food production would be largely unaffected for grains and vegetables, but nearly every nonhuman animal in the midwest, coastal cities, and big sky parts of the country would be dead from fallout. Food delivery and distribution would rely largely on coal rail and river barge transport, but it still did mostly at the time. It would take ten years to rebuild a refining capacity and restore the power grid and military Things would eventually return to normal. The cities would be rebuilt and reinhabited.

I know it is hard to believe, but look at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, German firebombed cities from WW2 like Dresden; they were rebuilt from the ashes. Germany was nearly entirely destroyed by WW2. It came back.

Barring nuclear winter actually occurring (which the Kuwait oil field fires kinda proves won't happen), total nuclear war is something countries can recover from, which makes it even more likely to happen in the future. As Ellsberg put it, "any nonzero chance is crazy."
I mean, I wouldn't buy first-gen of anything from anybody. When Apple went Intel, I bought year2 or 3 hardware.

What they're showing now is pretty damn impressive. I look forward to the M2 or whatever variants that would be a more direct replacement for the 2019 rMBP I have now (6 cores, 32GB RAM).

But I'm happy to wait. If you don't have virtualization needs, and your use case is pretty straightforward, these are gonna be amazing machines. They're just not the power user machines -- I mean, except for those who insist on bleeding-edge living.
Sorry, are you saying that working a 40 hour week shouldn't earn a living wage if it's a non-specialised skill?
If nothing else, and I think there is something else, it provides intellectual exploration and discovery, which is both fun and an excellent way of expanding knowledge and understanding.

If such things are not for you, then that's cool, but for those with a curious mind the point of such things is self-evident.
I had a similar idea recently after hearing a CIO say that there was only 1 (one) corporate credit card in his 1000+ employees company, and it was the CEO's. For him, SaaS on a credit card was a no-go, it needed to be a monthly invoice.

I think it's an opportunity for a new kind of financial business, where SaaS subscriptions can be ordered (with some kind of approval workflow) by a selection of LargeCorp employees, and there is only 1 monthly grouped invoice to LargeCorp, with a known and pre-approved PO number.

Money could even be made by getting the money in from the LargeCorps earlier than it's being paid out to the SaaS services. Or a simple markup.
Apple gives you the option to turn telemetry on/off as part of the machine setup & OS upgrade process. This option is explained in simple english and not buried in the legalese.
Also, it seems alot of games are only meant to be enjoyed as a distributed multiplayer, not really a single player ‘quest’.
That sounds great! I tried to structure and document interfaces the best I could, but I'm fairly new at Go. Hope it's all clear enough.
Otherwise in English you have the works of Ivan Illich and The Breakdown of Nations
by Leopold Kohr.
Didn’t they use to have a counter on the home page telling you how many millions of megabytes were still available for gmail storage?
> If you attack someone, especially if you attack somebody stronger than you, then you attack with all force available to you, and maximum ferocity.

True, IF you attack someone. But if you see someone who is unassailably stronger than you, that you couldn't possibly defeat, then you don't even go there. And that is the point of MAD. An enemy with one nuke is scary, scary enough to make them worth attacking. But an enemy with thousands of nukes, scattered across the globe, in unknown locations, which will launch at their signal (or lack of signal)... You just don't attack them.
I imagine anytime someone says the have to "clear it with their director", you're talking about discounted or private pricing not the list pricing they have on their website. Every SaaS company has that, including the cloud providers.
And it's working: 46 comments on HN already.
Well, maybe it's because the flexibility of work is important to those people, and they don't want a full-time job.

Nearly 75% of all Uber drivers in CA drive <25 hours per week. More than 40% of all trips in CA are driven by those drivers.
A rhetorical question is not a bad faith approach to discussions contrary to leveling the accusation itself. The argument is still there if you want to have a go at it.
My main point is that this bottom up approach doesn't work as well as it could simply because of the difficulty of navigating purchasing processes. I know my team would have bought easily 5x what we did if we didn't have to invest 4 to 6 months in getting a vendor set up for each SaaS we wanted. It just wasn't worth the hassle.
In my personal experience, BBR with SACK works pretty well even on fairly bad connections. It still slows way down but not as badly as others like Cubic.

That was with BitTorrent uploads of Linux ISOs to Taiwan. (Why do they download so many copies of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?)

But since I didn't do controlled tests of multiple congestion types I could just be seeing things.
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Mostly reporting what another article reports (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7memd/police-are-tapping-in... ) - please submit the original source in such cases.

previously on the same issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24991758
Note that the test scene would benefit heavily from draw batching, but was setup in such a way that may have just defeated the batching logic in Skia but not the one in FastUIDraw.

It wasn't a very common UI scene, so it wouldn't be expected that other libraries had optimizations for that type of content (specifically with the "everything is slightly rotated" part)

It was also a scene that curiously didn't involve any paths or shapes other than rectangles, which is where GPU-accelerated canvas' all really run into trouble.

Also note that the presentation was from 2016, and many of these libraries (such as Skia) see heavy ongoing work so that data is all quite outdated and unreliable at this point.
How do you know it will?
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