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> Tesla isn't even in the top 5 of EV cars sold in Germany anymore.

Are you sure? Model 3 is the #3 best-selling in 2020 so far.

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/12/03/german-ev-market-rocket...

Tesla sends its cars to Germany by ship right now (previously from US, now from China). It arrives once a quarter resulting in lumpy numbers. Once their Berlin gigafactory is operational next year, the numbers will climb significantly and costs will decline. They might also release a EU-only model, possibly a hatchback, built in Berlin.
Blocking traffic for known DoH services would be trivial. How about blocking unknown, how would you block that?
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That is a good experience that unfortunately I didn't have with my daughters Beats that lasted ~3 years before the battery was down to around two hours. Granted this was before Apple purchased them so perhaps things have improved since then.

My daughter now has a pair of Sony XM3 that she loves but she will no doubt want these. Lucky for me she is now 18 so can buy her own expensive headphones :D
Wait, did that "payment processing website" not do something for humanity already? Maybe you are a young person without an appreciation for how that "website" changed the world and enabled new worlds of human activity stifled by the previously available payment options.

https://fin.plaid.com/articles/the-past-present-and-future-o...
Your whole family runs CentOS as their desktop operating system?
I hadn't heard about this and I have the game sitting in my backlog. Do you have a link about what happened?
So true. The WH-1000MXs are quite nice and at $350 new and $180 for last year's model/refurbs. I expect these numbers to bump up, sadly.
Headphones are a tool to enjoy audio experiences

Yes, and the truth is that many people seem to enjoy the experience of listening to Beats headphones and enjoy that audio more than the audio from many 'better' headphones.
It lists both for Qt 4, but afaiu for Qt5 you need to use special combined themes.
I know the name of the band but not their music. I checked that song and I don't think I've ever heard it but it has 1.2 billion views on Youtube so ...
Enterprise can disable DoH in Chrome using a group policy.
why should DNS be handled at the system layer and not by applications? There's zero controls in place to stop this so I don't see why it's assumed that every application developer will want to use system defaults and not override it.
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You can't talk about expensive cables without mentioning Nordost Odin 2 - something like $30,000 per meter.

https://www.analogueseduction.net/analogue-interconnects/nor...
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But probably faster.
post-Cage I think it's gotten a bit hard to pin down what it means to be a significant contributor to "Western art music." How do you define that? Has Glass been influential (yes), popular (yes), and tried things compositionally that others hadn't (arguable). Is Steve Reich's music "better"? I think so, both as a listener and a performer, but Glass being potentially more popular doesn't really do any harm to anything. It just is what it is.

But I've had as many (and honestly, more) arguments with "anti-contemporary music/art" folks about Berio and Feldman, for example. What is late Feldman doing compositionally? Just shifting around simple chords surrounded by loads of silence while stuffy audiences in turtlenecks nod sagely and compose tweets in their mind for later about how "serene and haunting" this performance was? (I love Feldman, for the record)
The ban only works for people not using VPNs. They don't tend to pursue things that people do with VPNs.

Using VPNs isn't even illegal. Providing VPN service without a license, is. A license can be given for e.g. business use.
More marketing material than tech spec. A user manual is hundreds of pages, not five pages and a nice cover.
Hero has become a joke word used to describe anyone that goes to their job in the morning, but General Yeager was a bona fide hero whose achievements would be viewed by the vast majority of humanity past and present as bordering on godlike. He's what the ancient Greeks meant when they talked about heroes.
the point is not to restrict - it's to give back when you have more than enough capital to do so.

Like, anyone can go to a food bank charity to have a free meal. If you have a 5-digit monthly salary, that is still a very shitty thing to do, even if you and everyone else plays by the rules.
That's interesting...

On this end, it looks this way, when windowed: https://imgur.com/hlrBFc9

And it's not even Xorg session, it is under Wayland -- Wayland won't allow to set a display mode to apps, and for Xrandr it is faked using overlays with correct density.
That’s not true. My first three MBPs (I tend to sell them after 3-5 years years, it’s nice that they hold their value), I specced out equivalent non Mac laptops. For size, screen, storage, ram, CPU, and graphics they were equivalent or lower cost than a non Mac laptop. I can’t comment on the last 5 years because I haven’t done the comparison in a while. That was even accounting for the Apple tax on components like RAM that (at the time) could be upgraded after purchase. Upgrading myself or through Apple, they were still price competitive.
Luke from TerminusDB here. As we struggled with this decision (it feels a bit like leaving behind an old friend), I found this deck very helpful - especially as it really highlights how many other great projects have struggled with similar problems:

http://slides.com/adamretter/are-we-still-open-source

Not easy as hard to know what the future will bring, but Apache feels like the right place if we are not GPL.
It’s an assumption that it’s not discriminatory or targeted. There’s nothing to say that it’s not just disguised to annoy the US and turn around and fool people into believing it’s not targeted.

I donno why there’s so many apologists on HN. :/
I'm probably wrong, but I also imagine there's a good amount of that just use Bootcamp with Windows. Which adds to the Windows players stats over macOS, yeah?

I wonder if M1 could possibly change this since (atm) you can't bootcamp Windows. Not only that, but the m1 iGPU seem way more capable on entry level Macs over Intel's iGPU.
That's one way to force them to not make bug like that "important, spoofing" and "out of scope".
The phone doesn't do that stuff, it just communicates with a larger infrastructure that can do those things. Agreed that machine translation, telecommunications, and wikipedia are great inventions though.
Thanks IBM. Now I'll have to revisit what OS to deploy at various remote experiments. I suppose this might be the kick needed to revive SL though.

They also conveniently waited until right after EL6 EOL...
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Brand new iPhone SE is $400. Entry level iPhones have never cost more than ~$650. The entry level specs are good enough for 80% of people’s needs, and an extra $100 or $200 probably satisfies 95% of people’s needs.

I don’t see the purpose of the “$1k iPhone” meme when it’s blatantly false, and competing Android phones have also always cost around the same amount.

And what’s also been blatantly true is the amortized cost of an iPhone over its longer lifespan versus competing products has always been lower.
People using 9-year-old laptops happily probably aren't agreeing with "Apple produced a bunch off crap over the years." There are plenty of things to dislike about Apple, but their products tend to outlast competitors, having very long lifespans. That helps to mitigate their non-repairability, though it doesn't eliminate it.
Endlessly fucking around with your equipment, priding yourself on replacing a $20 extended warranty with a $40 soldering iron, two hours of your time, and three deep breaths of mercury is just as much an "identity" as enjoying Apple products.

And considering the total numbers doing either of these two things, I believe the tinkerers have far more need to tell everyone about it than the "fanboys".
So you willing purchase products from a company that active shuns support of industry standards and third party integration in order to lock their customers to their proprietary ecosystem and then see this reduction in options as a value?
We still haven't eradicated measles despite a vaccine giving lifelong immunity so I suspect covid won't be eradicated any time soon. It won't be a problem for the vast majority of people either though
I was talking about watching movies on the seat-back in-flight entertainment system. I don't those will connect to bluetooth headphones yet -- at least not on the class of seat that I buy. :-)
I wonder if they have ever tried to shop their tech to China. Chinese mobile companies are interested in building an alternative mobile operating system and have the resources to make it work
You don't have to even ask, it's Apple, they aren't going to let you replace jack shit in any of their devices easily.
The first and second books of Plato’s republic[0] touches on a similar idea; who gets the better of life: The just or the unjust man?

It’s a dialogue between Socrates and a few others (in turn). Really neat read and relevant to the conversation.

The article also mentions machiavelli’s The Prince[1], which is a shorter read and more tactical.

[0] http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.2.i.html

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm
Yeah, because they’ve already banned every U.S. app for Chinese consumers via other measures, i.e., “Great Firewall”. Your comment and perspective is either naive or disingenuous.
How viable is CentOS Stream on the desktop? Fedora moves a bit too fast sometimes, but CentOS too slow.
I think that spot was taken by iPhone SE2.

If you consider security updates as a measure of longevity, that’s true for basically every single iPhone. Android are a 2-year device at most if you care about security (and are not a hacker), Apple is a 5-year decice; per usable year, Apple can be much cheaper.

And if you consider resale value, Macs have always been cheaper than competitors. A comparably performing dell was always slightly cheaper, but if you sold it 2-4 years later, the Mac came out ahead. And with the M1, it seems Dell doesn’t even have a sticker price advantage - unless you specifically need Windows, Linux or a configuration Apple doesn’t sell (like 64GB ram in a laptop), Mac seems to be cheaper.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I love speakers, and I adore filling a room with noise, I just think headphones make more sense to someone interested in getting more depth and clarity out of their music.

Edit: For their dollar that is. With unlimited money I would probably take speakers.
> Mainstream taste in audio is crap. Designing headphones for a target audience that thinks Spotify HQ mode is sufficient is not going to produce a very good product, audio-quality-wise.

Mainsteam taste is what sells products. Obviously you're not part of the target market and should probably just move on.
> What it seems to lack, which I find a sticking point whenever I consider some greenfield personal project, is the dizzying array of 'tooling stuff' that JS has, and how it does or doesn't fit together, etc. There's just all sorts of weird layers and not quite equivalents and can be equivalents but could also be used togethers, half the stuff it's not even clear what it is or if it's necessary at all.

Aha, yes, this. I am [currently] a JavaScript person and it is a shitshow. The cliché used to point and laugh at JS is framework churn, but that's not really much of a thing [imo], it's the tooling. The tools can be genuinely very good if you pick the right combination in the right context, but that's often more luck than judgement.

I suspect as wasm usage becomes more widespread, it'll get worse, not better, at least for a while. There's always a shining future to hope for (and despite the gripes, things have generally improved steadily over the years, so not too idealistic a hope).

If Rome[1] fulfils its goals (big if), then you might get what you want. Very early days though, and going to be very hard for the maintainers to keep control as the scope of the project expands.

Aside, but I think it would be interesting to figure out how much cargo culting is going on with JS tooling. Theory: most configurations of tooling beyond "install CRA/similar" are built up via Googling done when building out highly context-specific configs -> that brings back articles on how to set up tooling that was specific to the author's particular situation -> they are used in lieu of the tool's documentation because Things Just Need To Get Done Now and it's just some dev dependencies, whatever -> those configs are used in a situation they aren't needed -> process repeats.

[1] https://rome.tools/
The aliens asked specifically not to have their contact revealed. So, what does he do?
At least Mulder will be happy...
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He probably got flagged for his other post.
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Re: "A great example of this is the fact that we still use the metaphor of files and folders for organizing our source code."

I agree 100%! Trees are too limiting. I'm not sure we need entirely new languages to move away from files, we just need more experiments to see what works and what doesn't, and add those features to existing languages & IDE's if possible. I don't like the idea throwing EVERYTHING out unless they can't be reworked. (Files may still be an intermediate compile step, just not something developers have to normally be concerned with.)

I believe IDE's could integrate with existing RDBMS or something like Dynamic Relational, which tries to stick to most RDBMS norms rather than throw it all out like NoSql tried, in order to leverage existing knowledge.

Your view of source code would then be controlled by querying (canned and custom): bring all of aspect A together, all of aspect B together, etc. YOU control the (virtual) grouping, not Bill Gates, Bezos, nor your shop's architect.

Most CRUD applications are event driven, and how the events are grouped for editing or team allocation should be dynamically determined and not hard-wired into the file system. Typical event search, grouping, and filter factors include but are not limited to:

* Area (section, such as reference tables vs. data)
* Entity or screen group
* Action type: "list", "search", "edit", etc.
* Stage: Query, first pass (form), failed validation, render, save, etc.

And "tags" could be used to mark domain-specific concerns. Modern CRUD is becoming a giant soup of event handlers, and we need powerful RDBMS-like features to manage this soup using multiple attributes, both those built into the stack and application-specific attributes/tags.
>Ok, so what are the indications that violent, racist ideologies are spreading faster or to a greater degree today than at other times?

Read the news? There’s been a huge upswing in far right politics dominating democracies worldwide, post-2008. The world’s largest democracy, India, is currently controlled by an explicitly enthnonationalist party whose leader has praised Hitler. The US, Australia, Hungary, Austria, Brazil, Japan, and many others have lurched further rightward.

> Furthermore, if that is indeed the case, what makes you think that publishing platforms are the cause?

In historical terms, there is not ever a single cause, but multiple forces coalescing to push things in one direction or another. Obviously, the 2008 financial crisis and it’s impact on the world economy created a ground that was fertile for all kinds of populism. Because of their long standing alliance with Capital owners, however, the right was better positioned to make use of these technologies as they emerged. You can also read any number of stories about the role that Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube etc served in successful right wing political campaigns across the world. Google “”WhatsApp Brazil Bolsonaro” or “Trump 2016 Facebook” of you need further insight. It’s pretty much common knowledge at this point.
Is this point meant to be an argument that the US should ban apps from China because China is banning apps from the US?
You can direct message people in TikTok
Agreed, I looked for Kleppmann and didn't find it. Red flag.
You might be interested in the Global Terrorism Databse (GTD) [1]. I used it for data about terror, but I think it actually has a lot of research into very specific approaches for dismantling terrorist organisations. Not limited to deradicalisation (also contains research into how productive it is to "cut off the head of the snake") but definitely a trove of information.

[1] https://www.start.umd.edu/research
OT but regarding your edit it means you've been rate-limited.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16443213

> We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars.
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Where did you find $550 and what's your $?

They were released at US$350 in August and sell for less now.
Firefox and Chrome do yes, but none of these standards specify any kind of fall-back behaviour. There are no guarantees that any specific device or application needs to do that or how.

There is a cost to firewall rules like that as well. Who is going to maintain a list of all the IPs on the internet that are hosting DoH servers that could be used? What about the potentially more prolific proxies specified in this protocol enhancement? How does a network administrator keep all of those in sync with their edge networks? How does a home user?

Since DoH uses HTTPS there is no reason a service can't be multihomed on the same IP just like SNI allows multiple HTTPS servers on one IP. Would you be willing to block a legitimate website just so the applications on your network might fall-back to the name server you want them too?
> Spatial Audio

This is something I want standardized across headsets so multiple vendors can add support. Imagine spatially aware zoom calls, being able to turn towards or lean it to someone's voice.

I love high quality audio, but I'd pay $550 for a better video conferencing experience.

As an aside, I wonder what the latency is on these? Many BT headsets can have a 200+ms latency, which contributes to how horrible video calls are.
There's a $35 lightning to 3.5mm you can buy as an addon
A HTTP proxy (or VPN) know exactly who you connect to, even with SSL they know the target name since SNI isn't encrypted.

In this proposal the DNS-proxy doesn't know what you've sent to the DNS resolver.
I doubt it - there is plenty of competition in that market. I bought some "no-name" chinese open ears for 50$ with supposedly good drivers - had decent reviews saying they sound above their price - you just needed to replace the horrible ear pads they were decent. But for example my 200$ DT990 are obviously a class above.
IMHO Baraka and Samsara are much more realized versions of the idea behind Koyaanisqatsi.
Even Autodesk, which uses Qt for pretty much all its products, including Maya, doesn't pay a cent for Qt. Same with The Foundry. As soon as Nokia made LGPL licensed python bindings for Qt, they dropped PyQt, stopped paying or contributing, and just went on freeloading.
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Saw [stateoftheart.ai](http://stateoftheart.ai) pop up a few times on Twitter - what do you think of it?

Seems super useful to find state-of-the-art methods across ML research areas and much better for doing lit review than Google Scholar?
Hmm. Don't see that. The defining feature of an exponential is that there is a bend everywhere.

A linear plot has no bend.

As long as my y axis is linear, I can always see a bend in the exponential curve no matter what scale I use on the left, provided you have the correct x axis limits to visualize the bend.

As far as only paying attention to quality that we personally value and is affordable, I agree.
I agree, spending more money on healthcare in the states would be fruitless, as the US already pays more per capita for healthcare than any other nation.
Be sure to check out how much the Walkman costs.
> Querying nameservers is being pushed into applications themselves...

I agree: this absurd trend will lead to every app essentially including an entire O/S. There are several reason why OSes provide services to applications and one is that the OS manages the user's configuration (e.g. what devices are plugged in, where and how to resolve names, cacheing data, etc).

I also find it rather insane the amount of overhead required to resolve a name when an entire http connection needs to be set up and torn down for the process.
To me this news is at once shocking, and blindingly obvious in hindsight.

Shocking, because I'd never imagined they'd kill off CentOS 8 so early. CentOS 8.0 dates from Sept 2019, so it's killed in just the 3rd year of its presumed 10 year lifespan. I could read the tea leaves when they announced this Stream thingy recently, but I'd thought they would at least hold off till RHEL9 to pull the lever.

Blindingly obvious, of course, because Red Hat bought CentOS, presumably with real $$$, and IBM bought Red Hat for $34bln.

What's going to happen next? Microsoft buying Canonical and all businesses running either IBM Linux or Microsoft Linux? Crazier things have happened...
Deno 1.6 - build self contained binaries, Apple M1 support
I'm going to have to check this out. My knowledge concerning some of the topics is relatively ragged, and this could go far in strengthening that base.
It's basically the beta of the next RHEL minor release, not a beta of a next major release.
My understanding is current Airpods don't have the ability to do Activation Lock. Given The Max's pricing I wonder if it would be prudent to add some similar feature. Back when Beats were big they were allegedly a pretty common target of theft.
In an interview, Steve Jobs said the best people don't need management. You just need to sell them a vision. They will find out how to achieve it.

The reality is, the best people are very expensive. As a startup, we have to manage by task sometimes.
My wife (a horse riding instructor who spends a lot of time outdoors) and I were talking about the severity of our reactions to tick bites.

We were thinking that a stronger reaction would mean removing them more quickly and be protective against Lyme disease and similar tick-borne diseases. Both of us thought that our reaction to ticks had gotten more severe over time and we were thinking that was a good thing.
I really understood early Glass a lot more when I got the chance to visit a Richard Serra sculpture in LA. Literally walking in the piece helped me understand this idea you're talking about - when I listen to that music now it's a helpful framework to think of exploring a sonic space, rather than tracking linear music like I would with other composers.
But they couldn't possibly know if she's doing one or the other.

The rights/procedures for the search warrant vary by state. I have a general understanding of them for my state.

Every citizen should learn their rights. I think it's terrible, and a sign of a poor state of education and civic duty that so few people know their rights. This lack of knowledge allows violations to happen without any punishment.
> I don't see why it's assumed that every application developer will want to use system defaults

It's the user's machine not the application developer's.