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It's interesting to see a number of mid-California culturalisms that creep into Apple products. I find it mostly amusing, and only slightly annoying.

There are probably a dozen, at least. Here are a couple of examples off the top of my head:

For a very long time, when you asked Siri the temperature, if it was above 80°, she would add the word "hot" to the end of it. "It's 81 degrees. Hot." Where I was living at the time, 81 degrees meant a light sweater was in order.

When I lived in Chicago, Apple's headphones were worthless in the winter because they were made of plastic that was perfectly bendy in Silicon Valley's climate, but would turn into the equivalent of unweildly coathangars attached to your ears in actual winter conditions. I don't know if that's still the case, as it's what made me switch to wireless headphones years ago.

Even today, where I live in the desert, it's not unusual for a current model iPhone to go into thermal shutdown (with the appropriate warning on the screen) on a perfectly normal spring or summer day, even though I don't use a case. But I expect (hope) that's about something involving electronics that I don't understand.
Even simpler: serve txt files. Browsers display them just fine.
BTW it's a 30-year-old airframe, not a recent 737-Max.
> When corporations can so easily control the voice of the elected leader of a country

They don't control his voice. They just control if their resources are used to magnify his voice.

The alternative is state-directed media where the leader directs what political messages must be relayed and private parties have no choice about whether to relay them. That's not only inconsistent with the First Amendment, it tends to work out badly.
I agree, and that's why DSLs are not magical pixie dust and have to be used with taste and judiciously. But in cases where they do work, they are strictly better than free form code, IMO.
Is the talking point in the US that disgruntled Americans are terrorists?! Really? Right, wrong, crazy ... however you see them. Kinda scary calling citizens terrorists, especially on a political basis.

Protestors invading government buildings is quite common in the world, but calling citizens terrorists is usually something you see in non-democratic regimes.
In my experience, the costs are felt immediately, because there is more code and more complexity. Virtually every cost in software development goes up when there is more code and more complexity. There are more bugs. It takes longer to diagnose and fix bugs. It takes longer to add new functionality. Performance is less predictable, and performance problems are harder to diagnose. Onboarding new programmers is slower. Fewer members of the team can do critical work on the code. Routine library upgrades are more likely to impact the code and take longer when they do.

Code is a liability, in other words. It may not be tangible, but you can think of it as weight that the team has to carry everywhere it goes.
Thread with more details
https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...
At what point do these massive corporations effectively become a government? They govern what you can say, think and buy.
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Unless it impacts the bottom line.
This is the thing: you can always tell when people come from utterly useless propaganda bubbles by 2 huge red flags:

(1) They don't understand the difference between editorial content and reporting, because the media outlets they follow do their best to blur the distinction, all the way down to not even making a distinction organizationally or professionally, and making it seem like more legitimate sources of information don't make that distinction either. So the biggest red flag is that they don't even realize that there are professional standards and practices for keeping those things separate, and they don't understand things like fact checking or there being burdens of proof applied before something considered news reporting is published. To them, editorial content and news reporting are the same thing, with the same minimal burden of proof, because those are the nonexistent standards of literally every source of "information" they have.

(2) They think that when a media outlet voluntarily issues corrections (not from a lawsuit or threat of a lawsuit), that it's a sign that that outlet is less reliable than the places they go that never ever issue corrections unless legally forced to. The reality is completely flipped around, but that's their mentality. Culturally, that dovetails with "never admit being wrong" and "never apologize", which are ideals that resonate REALLY REALLY hard with people in these propaganda bubbles. The lack of accountability makes them trust untrustworthy sources even more, not less. Accountability makes them trust trustworthy sources less, not more.

I would add (3), how they react if they find out that something they themselves put out there isn't true. Watch what happens if they find out something they posted objectively isn't true. Instead of retracting it, they'll say something like, "well it doesn't matter, the meaning of the message is the same", or "well it doesn't matter the fake news media does it all the time". Which is the exact same thing that pathological liars and con artists say when their lies are exposed- that everyone does it, and maybe even that they are victims of hypocrites for being called out on it, because they assume the people calling them out surely lie about stuff all the time too. They're always looking for excuses to do worse, not better, and for excuses to think of themselves as victims, and for any possible reason to lower the bar for themselves rather than raise it for everyone.
To the people here who are happy about these companies banning Trump, his supporters, and their respective conspiracy theorists: you are nothing but useful idiots.

Beware. When it's your turn to be dissatisfied with their unchecked power, it'll be much too late.
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No. The ACLU was built on rejecting social harm arguments to free speech.
> put options on BTC have bankrupted a lot of people.

If you understand that Bitcoin options really aren't options then this shouldn't come as a surprise.

Shady exchanges see massive positions and have successfully manipulated bids and ask (most of it is fake) to trick others into selling or buying which in turn moves prices even more.

Once they take out the "option traders" they simply move on to the next.

Yet the inexperienced "speculator" believes its his fault.

Wat I credit bitcoin and its community for is its ability to create a bubble of their version of reality which is almost always getting people to buy the bitcoins they are already holding. Without them, the system would collapse and they would lose their investment.

Bitcoin is a vehicle for transfering wealth from the FOMO ignorant crowd who shouldn't be speculating on ponzi schemes. So many ruined lives because little guys bought into crypto, ICO, and other false hopes.

Bitcoin will bankrupt a lot more people I'm afraid.
I think this source, linked from that wikipedia page, is actually more directly enlightening: http://copyright.nova.edu/mickey-public-domain/
Might be interesting to see if this phenomenon applies to Model X and S, as they should theoretically be totally sealed to enable the Bioweapon Defense Mode.
Start your own Google then?
I don't do social media at all (well, HN and imgur) and unfortunately, still hear it all. Crap is all over the news, its here on HN...it's everywhere.

Also, I tend to think a lot of this has to do with avoiding wrongful death suits for not policing their platforms..

edit: formatting, don't post before coffee
For the web plain text is pretty terrible. Web browsers are terrible plain text readers, mobile browsers doubly so.

Browsers render content in a "viewport". On the desktop the viewport width is the width of the window but on mobile defaults to 960 CSS pixels (pixels adjusted for screen DPI). When a page is rendered it's as if the browser window is 960px wide. This can be controlled with the viewport meta tag where you explicitly tell the browser the viewport is the window width, on desktop browsers that doesn't change anything but mobile browsers use their screen width rather than the default.

When it comes to plain text there's no way to tell the browser to do that. So if the plain text doesn't have a hard column wrap it's rendered as if it's in a 960px wide window. If it is hard column wrapped it's probably to some common terminal width like 40 or 80 characters. At 80 characters the default font size ends up causing really awful wrapping in the viewport. Pinch to zoom doesn't change the font size but the viewport magnification do that doesn't help readability.

You also lose hyperlinks and in-line images. The web could do with fewer stupid images bulking up pages but without hyperlinks you don't really have a web. Putting all links at the bottom of a document HN style isn't a great solution. Visitors still need to copy and paste links which is a pain in the ass at best and inaccessible at worst.

If you want a monospace "look" just put 'body {font-family:monospace;}' in a style tag and you're all done. You get all the benefits of a real HTML document and the terminal chic of a monospace font. Don't waste everyone's time with plain text on the web.
Maybe if he had declined to attend and refused to recognize the results of the election by falsely claiming fraud and spreading misinformation? And encouraged people to storm the capitol? Maybe then it’d make sense for Obama to have been banned.
In antebellum New Orleans, people would often try to get infected with yellow fever as soon as they got here to get it over with so if they survived they could claim immunity.
The DMV checks for warrants if I go in for a license renewal, despite being unarmed. Seems to work OK; if someone shows up with a warrant they just call the cops.

Census workers aren't expected to check for warrants, because it's not their job; I'm advocating the same for things like speeding enforcement.
I vaguely recall that the Linux kernel has used lazy save/restore of FP registers since way back when.
Criminality among young black men is also disproportionaly higher. This is for many troubling reasons, but in the moment of a police confrontation, the reasons why a particular person is engaging in some crime is irrelevant.
I was tired of the limited/awkward search structure of trying to find parts for surface mount device (SMD) assembly for printed circuit boards (PCBs), a process generally referred to as PCBA.

Thus, I slapped together Google Apps Script utility which runs via a ~cron job~ time based trigger and keeps the _same URL_ updated with the daily updates to the JLCPCB inventory (a subset of LCSC). Check it out here via the "easy to remember" link: https://brianredbeard.com/jlcpcb-parts

*edit: that also reminds me, leave a comment if there are specific filter views which you think would be useful. I've been adding a few here and there so that everyone can benefit.
If people are giving out free pain advice in this thread, I have a mystery...

I frequently wake up with pain in the left side of my neck, right under the base of my skull. When this happens, my right neck flexion is fine but my left neck flexion feels like something is misaligned and stops far sooner than flexing right. I also feel pain at the base of my neck near my SC joint, but a little towards the middle of my clavicle.

The weirdest part is that when this happens, i spend all day stretching trying to undo the kink, and what fixes it is something that happens in my elbow - there's a loud clunk and a snap and then my neck feels better, my range of motion returns, and I feel like I have better feeling in my left hand.

What gives? It literally feels like a structure(nerve or something) gets misaligned and is getting pulled in weird ways until at one point it snaps back into place.
What would you say are the "underlying political differences" here? I'm genuinely curious.
If you can't communicate without violent insurrectionist rhetoric, then you better do it in private. Platforms have valid civil liability concerns with or without Section 230.

Nobody banned "conservative twitter." They banned the people who have been whipping up the gullible and stupid with unfounded conspiracy theories and outright lies. Alternate realities are bad but tolerated until they lead to violence. Meghan McCain is still on twitter. Her husband, a Federalist founder, is still on twitter. There are plenty of conservatives who are still there.

Pretending that they banned a political philosophy is hilariously disingenuous.
You make a very good point, but your post reads a bit too much like 'wild bees are fine'. I think you know what follows, but just for completeness and for other readers: they aren't, at all, just like insects in general (the numbers are so unbelievably insane I'm nog even going to look up the latest one but just say '70% decrease in the last couple of decades' and it will be ballpark correct, unfortunately). And unlike the domestic bees they cannot be bred (or at least not easily). Pesticides likely also play a role in there, small perhaps, habitat loss is estimated to be the main factor. Which mono-crops also is the key player in of course; not just because those fields are no habitat but also because upscaling leads to destroying the surroundings, and so on.
Building a legitimate email replacement, "mnm":

https://mnmnotmail.org

https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail

Not production-ready, but well past half-baked. I began publicizing it this month.

Legitimate, i.e. n-identity, decentralized, store-and-forward, simple protocol, open source. Contributors welcome!

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Especially after we just had widespread arson and looting in every American city all summer while these same people heaped praise on the perpetrators.
It seems a more apples-to-apples comparison would be to open a file, seek(), read() a block, then close() the file. Just as bizarre as the repeated mmap, of course.
You know what the difference is? Those are fringe elements of left wing politics who get little to no endorsement from anyone with any actual power, and who remain mostly irrelevant in Democratic party politics. Whereas on Wednesday, you had the most powerful Republican tell a violent mob to go to the Capitol and "convince" the "weak" Republicans to change their minds. His lawyer, who is one of the prominent faces in the Trump media ecosystem, told them this will be "trial by combat." A Republican Senator showed an affirmative gesture to that very crowd on his way into the Capitol.

Stop trying to "both sides" this, because this is not a "both sides are just as bad" situation. We just saw the top level leadership of a major national party endorse and praise a terrorist mob that tried to overthrow the US government. The president literally said he "loved" those people when he told them to go home. That is problematic on a completely different level from anything that has happened on the left.
I'm not sure if there's an effort to shorten copyright (unfortunately), but the fact that things are starting to enter the public domain again is already a big win for culture.

I imagine companies like Disney would lobby pretty hard against shortening copyright. A possible middle ground would be to return to the regime where copyright had to be registered and renewed regularly, with a cost to doing so.
> corporations can so easily control the voice of the elected leader of a country

I see this almost in reverse, that why on earth has the US Federal Government put a company like Twitter in this position? The Feds have their own communication apparatus and instead foisted onto Twitter the responsibility of being the primary communication channel of the president. He has other options but he fully embraced Twitter and despite profiting from it, it's also not entirely fair to them.

Same with the Russian disinformation. There is a ton of state sponsored fake Twitter bots that the Twitter staff is fighting constantly. Why is that on them? Shouldn't the Federal government be fighting that as part of protecting the country?
Yes, that's what I just said. When corporations that are used by the general public for public communication are allowed to control the voice of elected officials, we have a serious problem.

A state controlled twitter is an interesting suggestion. I am not sure that's a better situation.
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> The ACLU was built on rejecting social harm arguments to free speech.

So they're OK with yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater? Or having a president incite a riot or a war?
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Ask HN: What would happen if Trump used Mastodon instead of Twitter?
Would it be the boost that open Twitter-like platforms need?

Can Mastodon handle the scale needed?

Would open Mastodon client pop up?

Could anyone control what is said?
Interesting that Google's bagel has sesame seeds on it.

As a native New Yorker (Brooklyn born, back when it was still a shithole, and not infested with people from the I-states), I always got the salt bagels.
A good bagel doesn’t need filling, nor even to be sliced. A few sesames on top is perfect.
I'm sure if you went and asked them if they were racist, most of them would not claim to be. But, considering that the stated purpose of the protest is founded on the continued belief that the only possible explanation for Trump's election loss was a epic-scale government conspiracy, we're not exactly dealing with a group of people whose beliefs about the state of things are easy to reconcile with reality.

Speaking on a more macro scale, the movement that produced that protest and this insurrection is so transparently rooted in racism, with roots going back at least as far as the Southern Strategy, that we're now to the point that trying to apologize for them is, at the absolute best, an act of petty denialism.
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No, they just burned down hundreds of already struggling small businesses while the media widely celebrated it.
That is where I am at as well. People are celebrating this because the guy they banned is on the other team, but it is crazy how twitter/fb can cut the legs out from under the "leader of the free world" when needed (it was kinda justified in this case).
The article says Apple’s surplus is 60%. Looking at Apple’s 2020 annual report, their pretax income was 25% of sales. If you subtract out services, it is 11%.

Another way to look at it is Apple’s company-wide R&D and SG&A were 25% of the costs to create products (not services).

So the R&D costs are not negligible and the article probably overestimates the amount of exploitation. On the other hand, Apple made $67 billion before tax, so they could afford to pay their workers more.
I ran a Greasemonkey script for several years that removed all karma figures from HN. I don't anymore, but it helped me develop the right mentality early on.
Well, the people wearing "6MWE" and other anti-semitic tshirts certainly were.
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This is also Roku's foray into original content. They own the display which gives them a big vertical advantage. It's nice that you can use roku out of the box with minimal setup... I know a lot of people that have trouble setting up apple tv or even a dvd player for example.
We have coincidental evidence at best but until Paul is released and he can prove his identity with his private key of course Hitchens is going to be unhappy.

But the lack of evidence simply isn't enough to suggest he isn't the creator. You can use whatever academic term to justify against this.
Best place to start is to have a good mental model of how things work and why they would be performant or not for a particular use case. Otherwise you're just taking shots in the dark.
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You mean politicians like the mayor of DC, a Democrat who refused offers of assistance from the military in the days before the riot?

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-01-07/dc-riots-c...
2021 -> 2020
This isn't "hacking into the Bluetooth stream data". This is literally how you interface with Bluetooth devices. This way you don't need a driver specific to each device and don't need to write code specific to each device.

The Bluetooth spec defines a large variety of common types of data streams (including things like friendly device names and battery status), as well as open areas where vendors can cram their own, purpose specific stuff.

It's quite easy to use, once you learn the setup. And once you learn the specific API your combo of programming language and operating system use to communicate with BLE, everything about consuming a device is otherwise identical, so you can create libraries that consume specific types of data streams quite easily.
> Criminality among young black men is also disproportionaly higher.

Is it? Or are young black men just disproportionately more likely to be held accountable for their “Three felonies a day”?
Autonomous zones for me but not for thee.

Listen, I’m center left and oppose all this craziness. But the tech giants banning these accounts is counterproductive. Violence will increase not decrease as extremists are pushed out of the public square and into echo chambers and non-public Signal groups.

“A riot is the language of the unheard” remember?
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Maybe so. Neither you nor I were on the jury though. We don't just get to ignore a jury decision and impose our own personal justice because from the outside it doesn't seem fair. There were two blacks on the jury, according to what I read on Wikipedia.
I don't want businesses to be forced to do business with people it doesn't want to there are many avenues to address grievances with that already. For instance in this case, the Trump admin can sue and have the concern addressed in court.

No business in the world can currently stand up to a government that wants to curtail it by the way.
> It is our hope that these companies will apply their rules transparently to everyone.

The trouble is rules need to be interpreted. Not inciting violence means calling for a valid protest might not be legal, or raising issues about a truly rigged election is not allowed.

There’s too many people talking hot air on social media for rules to to be argued over by lawyers and review boards against every grievance.
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> Better yet, go be a cop to help reform. See for yourself before you think you have an opinion.

Cops who attempt to turn in bad cops get fucked up by other cops, so this is a no-go.

Otherwise I generally agree with your point that not checking for warrants has a really bad consequence of potentially letting go of people who have warrants out for committing heinous, heinous crimes. (Admittedly, often times cops have let go of people during traffic stops without checking for warrants. Several serial killers for example.)
If you don’t know anything about oil companies, you may be missing big parts of the climate change conversation. Individual actions, even from rich people, do not invalidate the points they make. Attacking them on those grounds is part of a campaign by the oil companies to make you and I fight people who are not the root cause of the problem. Don’t be taken in by it. A small number of large companies are responsible for the vast majority of omissions, and even many rich individuals changing their behavior have no impact on that.