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Right now there are two criticisms of Twitter and Facebook et al:

1) That they are arbitrating content, like what you mentioned with Trump

2) That they are not arbitrating content enough, giving platform to climate change denialism, conspiracy theories, far right radicalization, and genocide [0].

So sure, they can return to their original stance and censor nobody. I don't think people would be too happy with them when the world gets more genocide-y and violent protests break out fuelled by conspiracy theories regarding the health of the elections.

So to recap: moderating and not moderating content on their platforms are both subject to serious criticisms. Right now, social media companies are trying to strike a balance, but the result is that they are angering both sides. If they choose a side (all content is allowed / we will moderate the content as closely as HN is moderated), they other side will be angrier at them. They were happy not doing moderation when the negative impacts were only affecting non-western countries, but now that it is also affecting western countries, they are more clearly seeing the negative sides and they have moved more to the middle.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
> Come to think of it, remote work is not that different.

I've spent the majority of my career at large companies with multiple offices. My experience is that non-remote work is no different unless everyone in the company is in the same building. Even then, if different functions or teams are sufficiently siloed it still requires that level of over-communication.
Kind of putting the cart before the horse, here. Saying that something is “market price” doesn’t explain anything. Market price is driven by millions of factors including cost of living. “Market price” just means that it’s the price that people actually pay for something in the real world, it’s just a name for that price that doesn’t offer any explanatory power.

Cost of living does have explanatory power.
Probably because the company isn't paying you based on your living costs, but based on their cost of potentially losing you to some other company.
If a company is going to use the lazy COL argument, they're going to do so no matter what.

Take 2 people of equal skill, experience, and negotiating prowess. One lives in SF, another in Kansas City. Both apply to the same remote position for a SF-based company. The company will always take the one in KC. I don't see how negotiation skill has a role in this. Unless there are people out there who have successfully negotiated a SF-level salary while living somewhere like Kansas, but I haven't heard about it.
Surprised nobody has mentioned it yet, but some of the best network engineers I know will use a combination of `tcptrace` and `xplot`. It's on the command line of course, but graphs can still be generated and I think it's more performant over a GUI (for large pcaps).
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That's true, and it has been long lamented that this was so.
Are they on the Destroy All Software membership or somewhere else?
Without loans, the ability to climb to another economic tier exists only for those able to work hard, get academic scholarships, plan efficiently, study hard.

Discharging student loans in bankruptcy, will make it so that nobody will lend to students. I wouldn’t. Would you?

I could see a loan program where the terms can be no more then 20% of a graduates income for more than 7 years. But, then would we allow the lenders to discriminate on which degrees they’ll fund? Would you fund a degree in computer science? Maybe? Political science? Is the student studying to be a lawyer? Ok. Art History? Probably not.

Even with a limit of 20% over 7 years, that’s roughly equivalent to 1.4 years of wages. Should the loan cover tuition and living expenses for 4 years of college? That’s a heck of a deal.
my thought too, if NK launched everyone would stand back and let the US extract its pound of flesh. However, I think any country who has every helped NK ( China, Russia, etc ) would be suffer in every way except militarily. Think being cutoff from US financial markets etc.
Already happening in significant size.
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There’s a different way of looking at the impact on households of different income levels: how much debt do they have relative to their income?

Broadly speaking, that top 40% pays back more than their share of the debt. That tells me that people in that bracket pay it off relatively quickly and are replaced with new debtors, whereas the bottom 60% takes significantly longer to pay off their debt.

I paid my loans off about four or five years after I graduated. Forgiving my loans would have been nice but not life changing. But if you’re a family in that lower 40% bracket who struggles to pay your loans off for decades, forgiveness would impact your life more — even if the amount of money was less in absolute terms.
7 points in 4 minutes for what is essentially an ad?
If "Equal pay for equal work" is applied on a long term, That may have a great effect on demography and how cities/countries operate. I can imagine some people living in high COL areas will prefer relocating to other still-nice-locations with lower COL and also the other way around for people already living in lower COL areas. That should relieve higher COL areas from the huge pressure and give more juice to lower COL areas that enables it to improve its infrastructure and services making it even more attractive.
Eventually, this high contrast between high COL and low COL areas would start to normalize even for non-remote non-high-paying jobs!
Nobody’s going into your home and taking away your PS4. Nobody’s forcing you to buy a PS5.

You can still buy digital titles on the PS3, which came out 16 years ago!

Backwards compatibility was basically not even a thing until the 2000s. Now you’ve got the PS5 and Xbox Series sharing essentially the same underlying x86 architecture of the PS4 and Xbox One...kind of like a PC.
One of my favorites of his stories.
This is not everything though if you cannot use desktop apps, connect keyboard/mouse/screen and install any OS.
Apple? You want do something for developers? Open up iOS because it is actually an all-purpose computer system for the pocket and not an appliance.

800 Euro for the smallest iPhone? Well, that is incredible much. Okay Apple provides reliable upgrades and updates. And then you beat out 30% of 2 Euro for a small application out from a developer? Wow. That's capitalistic greed. Aside from that Apple earned already money with selling an expensive Mac to the developer at minimum and another 100 $ for the developer access.

And all of that after Trump has allowed you to legalize all earnings for which Apple didn't payed taxes. It's incredible how a company like Apple still plays the role of "the good hip guys company".
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> That was one of the main reasons why I decided to move to the West where having enough private space was considered to be a basic and unquestionable necessity.

I thought the reason these societies lived together was lack of financial means. It's not very different from where I currently live, but anybody that has enough funds to go on his own does indeed do it. It's not, in my opinion, about culture but rather it's almost impossible for a 30-year old in these countries to strike it on their own. Pay too low, and living is too expensive. They have to make it work together.
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Is it still worth to get it from ACM? I remember that they have recently restricted a bunch of sfuff on the ACM subscription. Examples: live online trainings, katacoda, notebooks, sandboxes and certifications.
(Chromium dev here.)

We don't throttle workers (that could change, but we don't have firm plans here yet).

All things being equal, if you move complex work to workers we're happy because it frees up the main thread to handle input events, compositing, etc. Just because your tab is in the background doesn't mean your renderer process isn't sharing a main thread with a tab that is in the foreground, so in this case it can improve foreground tab performance.

Also, spreading a fixed amount of work across more cores and fewer wake-ups is actually more efficient from a power point of view (assuming the wake-ups are synchronized).
You’re welcome to use App Store apps... I don’t see the problem.

Safari PWAs protect your privacy better than native apps, because Safari trusts no one. The App Store review process is trying to find a malicious needle in a haystack because iOS by default trusts native apps more than it should, due to the existence of that nebulous review process. Apple is slowly locking down native apps with each successive iOS version... but PWAs have always been extremely private, and they're still the gold standard as far as I've seen.

PWAs are actually completely isolated from each other and from the rest of Safari, so there is no cross-contamination for tracking purposes.

If you don’t want more choice and more privacy... that’s up to you. I really don’t know what to tell you.

PWAs aren't the "wild west" that sideloading apps would be, yet you're trying to use the classic anti-sideloading argument against PWAs, and that argument simply doesn't work here. Apple has supported PWAs since before there was even an Apple App Store for native apps!

PWAs already exist, and PWAs are already extremely private. Apple just needs to give PWAs push notification support. Users would still have complete control over notifications, just like any native app.

Apple heavily pushes native apps because of the profit they get from it, not because of concerns about user privacy. They have already built Safari to protect your privacy on the open web.
Agreed. And it's frustrating to see most people getting tricked this easily.

In the old days, when telecommunications devices and networks were getting monopolized like this, we'd break the company up into smaller entities, and then regulate the hell out of them, especially on monopolized/duopolized prices.

In a just world, Apple would never be allowed to set the app store tax at all, a group of state or federal regulators would have strict price caps set by the public at large and enforced by state or federal law. (This is how many places still handle Electricity and Natural Gas. This is approximately what we did to AT&T, when they tried this same crap).

If you own a monopoly/duopoly, you should expect to be heavily regulated like one. If you don't like that, stop monopolizing that market. This isn't rocket science, it's the conservative position on this issue.
> You should expect "equal pay for equal work" at your new remote job

So naive.

In an ideal, utopian world? Maybe it would work this way. Maybe.

In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power. Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they're "highly employable". Others don't.

And let me add: I almost agree that remote work shouldn't necessarily command the same pay. A company's goal is to "extract" from each employee more value than his/her/their salary. If a company manages to save on a salary because the employee doesn't have much negotiating power, good for the company.

This is not to say that a company should do anything it wants, far from it. It simply means that if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too. You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That's thanks to competition between companies. That's market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.
It was only a few months ago that the Hey thing happened, and that was all over HN. You can run a business entirely unrelated to iOS, release an iOS app because your users expect it, and then Apple comes in and starts making demands that you change your business model...

Seriously, that's entirely unacceptable.

And the Spotify and Amazon issue is textbook antitrust. Amazon won't sell ebooks on iOS devices because Apple will take 30%, which is too much for Amazon's commission structure. Apple also sells ebooks. Spotify has offered a music streaming service for years, and Apple demands 30% of every month's payment if purchased through iOS...and now Apple offers a competing service at the same price point.
> It's not exactly baseless since Apple actively opposes open computing.

> They are slowly but surely moving towards not being apple to run anything not Apple on OSX as well.

I would argue that both of these statements are completely baseless, and the second is actually actively argued against by Apple.

I'll be the first to say that their handling of iOS things is horrible, and I would buy iPhones and iPads if they were a more open platform, but the world is more complicated than "Apple is evil" and their handling of iOS has no bearing on the Mac.
If you aren’t capable of understanding debt you should t go to college.
>>Do books sometimes say things that are obvious?

There's a difference between things being obvious when a concept is exposed, and being proactively aware of a concept and having it as a practice/hobby.

Unfortunately the difference between these two things is huge.

Books are the cheapest and yet a high quality way of learning things, getting clarity and in general being exposed to rich quality of concepts. You could sure spend wandering in the wilderness learning things by experience over years. Or you can get them learning a book.

Books aren't even that expensive, given how much they give you on the longer run.
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Everony is selfish yes. Throw you under the bus - not sure about this one. Might be you need better friends.
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You make it seem like getting into the MSCS program at Georgia Tech is just a matter of money!
It would be even better if Apple could cancel, or just lower, the Apple Developer Program membership fee for individual developers. It is so embarrassing that my annual revenue keeps lower than the fee ($99/y).
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It's not based on COL, though, it's based on what your company perceives as your peers in the new area. As pointed out in other threads, working in London will net you about 1/3 of the salary as SF, even though the COL is nearly the same.
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Looks like the site is down. Here's the archive.org mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20201118135839/https://egpu.io/fo...
Which is the reason you should unionize. It strengthens your negotiation position.
Apple's human touch is underrated and I feel like those who complain about Apple's review process have no real world experience and talking from ideological standpoint.

I was more than glad to receive a f..g phone call from the reviewer telling me why he will reject my update, why is it this way and what I can do to make it pass and give me his phone number to call if I need further assistance.

I become die hard Apple AppStore review process fanboy by getting a rejection!

You know what happens when you get a rejection from some other place? You get a template e-mail with no specifics, good luck figure it out. Tough luck if your livelihood depends on it.
Their upcoming Pinecil soldering iron runs on RISC-V, so there is that. :)

Really looking forward to it, it has been schedule-slipping for as long as I've been tracking now (this fall, basically).
Haven't noticed that audio issue on Webex Teams but some of my coworkers with poor internet connection use PSTN callbacks so while their audio sounds a bit more "tin can", at least it's a predictable quality. And that still works along with video sharing.

Disclaimer: we dogfood our own product.
I said they thought they were smart. I'm not going to judge whether it actually was smart based on the situation then.

That said, UTF-8 was already 4 years old by the time Java came out. Surrogate pairs was added to Unicode in 1996, one year prior to the release of Java.

I joined Sun Microsystems around that time, and Unicode really wasn't a thing in the Solaris world for a few more years, so the fact that people wasn't aggressively pushing good Unicode support at the time is understandable. People just didn't have much experience with it.
Where did you get that info? I didn’t read it in the release.

That’s not good though... really could but a kink in establishing herd immunity until everyone is actually vaccinated.
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I think he meant he was working/studying CompSci and his grand-parents didn't understand what he was doing.
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Out of curiosity, who do you worry is "pretending this is the path to a successful web business?" Because the author certainly isn't doing so.

If you scroll down just a few paragraphs from the sentence fragment you quoted, the author says:

> "My main goal for the next six months of Tiny Projects is to learn how to get better at making money on the internet from my projects.

A Product Hunt launch can easily get you a spike in traffic, but afterwards I really don't know what I'm doing. There's this whole other level afterwards called "sales & marketing" that I want to master."

The author is extremely explicit throughout the piece that these are not built to become large businesses—hence the constant use modifiers like "tiny" and "micro." He also makes it clear that he treats this as a training routine for getting better at idea generation, shipping products, etc.
Looks cool, it's great to have another good open source ready-to-fly option.

Nice size. I have some concerns about larger quadcopter designs because I can imagine the harm of heavy weight drones.
Not entirely a swindle.

I can buy considerably more food for 100 Euros in southern Italy than in Zurich. Rents are so much cheaper too.

Same goes for eating out, going to the cinema, getting around, plumbers, and hair cuts. Most things, really.

Of course, shipping some Swiss cheese and timber to Sicily in order to live my Zurich lifestyle is very expensive. There are some concessions in item availability depending on the location. But that's completely besides the point.

I'm convinced that a sizeable amount of the "location doesn't matter" people are just bummed that they can't pull in a SF salary and live like a king on a small SEA island.
> I doubt you'll see qualified developers seeing a salary cut anywhere near as deep as you project, because the process I describe will play out faster than needed to inject the needed stability.

In the long term, yes I agree. In the short term? No way, there should be around 5x-10x as many people in the world who would be great competition for FAANG spots who cannot do it now because of VISA and location restrictions, lift one of those and now the pool is inundated with talent the companies can do whatever they want.
One thing to note is that the JHL8040R is a TB retimer not a controller. The difference is a controller “speaks” the TB protocol and exposes USB, PCIe, and DP signals to the (typically) PCH and/or Intel CPU. They’re typically 10-20W and, from personal experience, absolute shit to work with (buggy firmware).

A retimer is a < 1W part that just strengthens the TB signal coming from the outside world and cleans it up so the controller (integrated in the M1 here presumably) does not have to deal with a weak or noisy signal.

Important to note that Intel plans to integrate a TB4 controller in their future (mobile?) processors but seems like Apple beat them to it. Also it’s unclear if M1’s integrated TB controller is TB3 or TB4 (you can have a TB4 retimer drive only TB3 signals).
I agree that this is good news. But let's keep "selfish motives of two different parties" in perspective to the size and power of one side over the other.

This program came in after more than decade after the app store was created and when Apple is finally under increased public scrutiny for anti-competitive behaviour. Apple made an estimated $20 billion from the app store last year alone with estimated profits from that revenue being around 90% [1]. Being able to afford to half the commission over night speaks to how disconnected the commission is to the costs in running the store.

Why were they able to take 30% and continue to take 15% commission off of all sales? Because the value of the app store is only created via continued practices of anti-competitive behaviour. Ex:

1) Banning competing app stores (restricting customers choice)

2) Banning the mention of alternate methods of payment (restricted customers harmed by paying higher fees)

The argument that the app store charged "market rate" is also not a fair comparison. Your comparing one completely closed market to other open markets that Microsoft and Google produced. Both main competitors allow for competing app stores from their own for example.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/01/10/the-app-store-is-s...
Which just goes to show how Google’s and Apple’s investment of tens of billions of dollars building out their respective ecosystem presents a tremendous opportunity to developers.

Amazon made a half-hearted effort to compete in the space and the result is “less than 2%” in your case.
I take exception with the ‘and/or’—-what prevents you from choosing precise language?
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Also worth looking at ReactFlow (https://reactflow.dev) if you are looking for this type of tool.
LOL, not that there's any shortage of history books about each of the well known, studied-to-death, events that you are asking about. Just go to any library. Notice, though, that there may be several very different views of the same event, all of them equally unbiased.
Why should deploying to production be be prevented by needing to wait for tests that do not apply to that environment, but only to a separate product (GitHub Enterprise Server)?

GitHub takes continuous deployment very seriously, with dozens of deployments every day. My understanding is that they try to avoid having code sitting around only deployed to an internal environment any more than truly necessary. They want to be able to fix code issues discovered in production within a shockingly short time frame if the issue is not complex.
In addition to these, there is a great collection of Marple stories where each chapter is a guest trying to trick her with a story. I can't remember the name of it, but it is very good.

For the ones you listed, too, there are great audio versions. Dan Stevens did a very good job on the ones he read, to my ears.
The audiobook is good as well, you can hear the tone of voice, which is useful.
As a current pfSense user, I ask how troublesome this transition was? I run multiple vlans, snort, pFblockerNG, and wonder how difficult replication of these would be in OpenBSD, knowing that it's much more hardened, although FreeBSD/pfSense are supposedly faster...
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> what's the difference with phones/tablets?

The difference I see is more about Apple specifically, because unlike, say, Google with Android, they have full vertical integration. They make both the hardware and the OS. Everything about Apple is focused on complete corporate control over the experience.

If Apple decided to only permit apps distributed through App Store X on OS X, I wouldn't be at all surprised. That's Apple's MO. And there is a customer segment I think that serves, which is the consumer market which doesn't want to think about maintaining their own digital security, because Apple seems like a reasonably benevolent dictator in this respect, as much as developers dislike the cut they take. Requiring Apple to open their devices to third-party app stores would break this vice grip they have on the experience and, IMO, degrade the experience for Apple's end users (even if it might make things nicer for developers).
Don't worry young padawan, your enthusiasm will dwindle in time.