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Not sure about Apple, but I know Google has special treatments for formally registered 501(c)(3) orgs and they are allowed to seek donation directly without going through Google Play's commission.

Update: Apple Pay appears to have similar policies [0].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/nonprofits/
Yeah- that part of the article was not that good. Its clear in 2021 that the companies that win at compensation are the companies that win full stop. Its also telling that California, which has exceptionally robust legal protections around salary transparency and freedom of movement (illegality of non-compete clauses), has become a technology powerhouse.
Regarding licensing, I’ve wondered why AWS RDS for SQL server is more expensive than Oracle RDS (this surprised me).

Any ideas why that is?
I quite like the idea of using bots - that way there's no human making a decision, and since we've already internalized bots as cold and unfeeling, no one's feelings are hurt.

IIRC, Gentoo does this, and my first patch was rejected multiple times. But because it was a bot that responded,I just felt like I had made a mistake, whereas with a human in the mix I probably would've asked a bunch of a questions and wasted her time and mine.
Why do you say that. You are free to block any app on Android from accessing the internet, including keyboards, from the standard Android settings, no root or anything.
Brazil scales back efficacy claims for Covid-19 vaccine from China
There really is such thing than too much greed though.
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The app is full of videos of what people want to see. It's not for you, I guess (or for me)
For example, if you like to watch romance and don't want to be judged for it.
Jumping in here to invite you to check out the Knuckleheads' Club (https://knuckleheads.club/).

It's a group I founded that is focused on researching and regulating Google's search monopoly. Google has abused its power and many, many users of Google know it. There wasn't really a place or group that can give voice to that anger though so I created the club. As others have pointed out, we aren't Google's customers, we are just users of their software, the advertisers are their customers. I don't think we have enough power as just users to be able to get to a point where we can negotiate with Google directly and issue demands and extract concessions. The power that we do have, as workers within the tech industry who understand what Google is doing, is talking with regulators and showing them how and why they should regulate Google. I've found regulators to be extremely receptive and grateful for the research I have provided them (i.e. https://knuckleheads.club/2020/10/07/we-crawled-our-way-into...). Many of these regulators have the same general complaints we do and want to dethrone Google from being king of the internet. I support the Alphabet Workers Union and am super happy to see it exist and I am working hard to establish the club as a way for people working outside Google to make changes to how Google behaves.
Customers? I think you mean users. People using Google are not its customers. These people are the source of its raw materials.

Google's custoners are the entities that purchase the products Google produces with that raw materials (i.e., data).

This will help get you up to speed.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/living-und...
Google's going to need to negotiate. Of course they run experiments to find out what they can pay and still make a profit, and at what price it's better to just leave the market.
> I wouldn't allow my kids to use this app in a million years.

And how would you ensure / enforce this? Honest question, because I'm in that situation right now.
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Amazon's shutdown of Parler is a threat to all small businesses
... I need you to finish because I can't read your mind.
"Best played on desktop"

"Please rotate your device"

Which is it?
To be fair, AI researchers used strictly differentiable functions (which is required for back-propagation) until recently. For example lenet5 uses the logistic function.

Only in 2011, some smart-asses [1] :) experimented with rectifier units and discovered they're even better

[1] Xavier Glorot, Antoine Bordes and Yoshua Bengio - Deep sparse rectifier neural networks (2011)
I was talking more of things like Xcloud with Razr controller.

I would also argue that Switch has Skyrim due to the sale of Switch caused by BoTW and Odyssey.

Don't get me wrong, I have only my Switch for gaming, but I only mean that I wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't a Nintendo.
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It's the age where the majority of legal systems draw the line on considering a teenager to be an adult, so it isn't unreasonable.
Good point. I guess another way of making a point is by having these very discussions in an open forum?
They pay worse than even non-FAANG tech companies in Australia too
WhatsApp's design still makes this impossible without leaking backups to Facebook or using a Keyboard that leaks what you type, this goes for calls as well.

It's not exactly clear what they actually want to do in the future, I assume it will have to do with the "modern" features like Statuses or they'll have a Facebook account-based backup solution.
Chinese company. Not surprised.
Same in the US (Santa Clara CA, Plano TX, and Bridgetwater NJ) They are currently moving their US R&D to their Canada research centre due to sanctions.

All international companies have R&D all around the world.

ps. It's not stealing when you do R&D in foreign country.
given a lost write to Redis would translate to corruption or missing data at the filesystem level, the only "safe" way to run this ATM is using Redis' extremely inefficient "always fsync" setting for its AOF log [1].

Keep in mind that Elasticache does not support it (in general, it doesn't really support running Redis in a durable way).

[1] https://redis.io/topics/persistence#:~:text=The%20suggested%....
In my previous job I battled this a lot. While I really like slack in general, no one likes it when things fall through the cracks or important people miss out.

It actually bothered me enough that I quit my job and made Kitemaker (YC W21) which automatically watches slack conversations for mentions of work items and links them together. This linkage lets people working on something that there are discussions going on about it in Slack. You have your persistent place for writing things down (in Kitemaker) and can still use Slack. We have lots of plans for making it even more frictionless. Also works with Discord.

https://kitemaker.co
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this is extremely frustrating for the users.

there's a game I used to play fairly often before updates simply broke it. like mission items were replaced with random fires floating in water. many users with the same issue reported it, and some like me even provided a save (which was never even downloaded)

all such tickets were closed with "cannot reproduce"

I'm not (their) tester, I don't have time to fully reproduce issues step by step, and I don't have access to a debug build anyway to figure out the bug trigger condition

"does not work" is the best I can say here.
Same. Maybe it's a feature of 2020
FYI: If you search with Chinese in google, you can actually find lots of Chinese government tender from the official government website that request for the cctv system with the ability to recognise Uyghur.
At one end of the scale, the work set on monday this week for my kids (elementary school age) was done in 50 minutes for one, and 30 minutes for the other.

On the other hand other parents are saying there is too much work to do.

My wife is a teacher in a bad school, the worst kids this year are over 2 years behind where they should be.

Perhaps the problem is that people learn and work at different rates, and homeshcooling is just exposing this.

On the tertiary education issue, I've always found that an in person lecture, delivered at a fixed rate (can't speed up or slow down), with no ability to pause or rewind, to be the absolute worst way to deliver 'education'.

For a given lecture for university, get a charismatic person (Bill Nye, Brian Cox, David Attenborough, that sort of person - and ideally budget) who really knows their stuff to deliver the material. This saves bored lecturers from repeating the same old thing and gives more time for one-to-one questions, enthuses people from the presentation style, allows rewatching it, pausing it, playing it at a faster speed or a slower speed, etc.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC are mandatory if you want to interact with the big email providers. In practice, you really want to set these up.
> They tell of a technology company that seems to see its employees first and foremost as raw materials from which it wants to forge its own success.

How unlike any other company I know.
dang: What was the purpose of removing "Developer's" from the title? Previously it was 'Developer's response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”'.

Neither of these are the actual title, so that can't be the rule it was operating under, and the fact that it's a developer (as opposed to some other user or Apple/Wireguard fanboy/hater) does change the context, at least for me.
t is undefined has been the bane in my work Sentries (error log) in 2020 as well, so it's eerily accurate.
You wouldn't. GDPR didn't exist. That was my point. We've been doing this for ages and only recently had to worry about actually deleting stuff.

This is why I've never advocated "deleting" Facebook accounts etc. If you "delete" it you're just giving them another piece of information about you. Namely that you want your account to be deleted.

The GDPR has not yet been shown to have any teeth, so I assume nothing has really changed in this respect.

And, yes, holding users' data forever is normal. Storage cost has only decreased relative to the size of these databases. I've worked in places with customer data going back decades.
They aren't mutually exclusive, are they? It doesn't say only plays on desktop, just that the best experience is on desktop. For what it's worth, it played just fine on my phone, once fully loaded.
Don't mobile phones have decent parental controls?
As an early elementary school teacher, I see these cracks from the other side too. Current tools for synchronous learning also exact a "tax" on educators, as even the most technologically proficient teacher must dedicate some attention to managing the platform. This is exacerbated by the fact that many tools we are using (Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams) are not made for education or are not well adapted to remote and hybrid teaching, particularly for young children and their teachers (Google Classroom, Seesaw). I know educators are working hard to meet the needs of their students, but I know many feel we're not doing our best teaching right now because of these limitations of that technology and, of course, the stress of the pandemic and US political situation. To be honest, I have seen so many teachers work flexibly to adapt to teaching in this world but have not seen the same level of innovation from edtech companies, particularly among larger vendors, who have the most resources and the most responsibility to make change for our students. (Google Classroom, I'm looking at you.)
End of life for TeamViewer 9 and 10, effective June 1, 2021
Both iPhone and Android have parental protection that allows you to block apps (though on Android it might be too easy to circumvent)
In 2019 Court in NY in final instance denied Trump rights to ban twitter users(even the ones, that did not belong to US citizens) based on the The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which is guaranteeing Free Speech.

I assume, that he was not allowed to ban people who were simply toxic and posted death threats - all the things that are considered norm in twitter(but other users are able to ban at least some of them to maintain healthy discussion). Also, it is not consistent with how just recently twitter allowed all those death wishes, when it was announced, that Trump had covid.

And I am even more curious about banning of other key Republican politicians - on what grounds? Were they also inciting violence?
> At this point, does any major European country have more than two viable parties or coalitions?

If we look at the coalitions that have happened at the national level in this century, we have:

* Social Democrats + Greens

* Conservatives + Social Democrats (like, a lot)

* Conservatives + Liberals

So that's three different coalitions that have actually happened in the last 20 years. Admittedly three is not a lot more than two, but it is more (and we're talking about a time frame that only includes 5 national elections and only about actual coalitions, not potentially viable ones).

And if you look at state governments as well, there are actually a lot more combinations that seem to work.

> Will the German Greens ever get a Cabinet seat outside a coalition with the Social Democrats?

Almost certainly.

At the state level they already have. In one case they're even the majority with the conservatives being the minority partner in the coalition.

At the national level they almost did in 2017. Negotiations between the conservatives, the greens and the liberals failed because the liberals backed out and the greens + conservatives didn't have a majority on their own - they would have been ready to go otherwise. It is entirely possible, even likely, that we will see a conservative-green coalition after this year's elections.
So essentially, macOS will become ios.
I have a silly question. Is it possible to sign and notarize an app for macOS without paying $99/year? I am writing an open source program and want to make it easy for people to install but I don’t think I can justify the cost for something probably no one will see. It’s pretty niche.

I’ve called Apple about it and I’ve searched the web, but I haven’t got a definitive enough answer to satisfy my uncertainty (although I strongly suspect it is the case). Admittedly it may just be a last tenuous thread of hope that keeps me searching.
You may wish to look at age:
https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
These are people that are not Apple developers however, they're cross platform developers, and support Mac OS so long as the burden is not too great (or simply allow others to do the work of supporting Mac OS in some cases).
I think there is some research that maturity kicks in around 25. Something to do with neo frontal cortex development.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...
People do pay for Google products, Gmail and Google Maps being some of the most common.
Outlook starts faster for me than Slack.
>If the US puts measures in place that disincentivize partisan politics, we'll see less of the activity that comes along with it.

That's slowly changing ~15 states have non/bi-partisan redistricting commissions. A dozen or so states and localities have implemented Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).

Is it enough? No. And it never will be unless people all over the country stand up and demand it.

It's not as hard as it sounds. Election laws are made by the states and election systems are run by each county.

26 states have ballot initiaves/referenda. All you need are enough signatures to get changes on the ballot.

How many people voted for your state assembly person in 2018? For your state senator? You can go look it up. I'll wait.

Not very many, right? Those are the people who make the election laws for the state.

And how many people voted for your council member in your city/town/county? For your mayor/county executive? They set the rules for your local elections (sometimes the state has a say too, but not always).

But in order to make changes like non-partisan redistricting and RCV and open primaries (although those aren't always so fabulous either, cf. California) and term limits and public funding of elections, etc. you need to pound on your elected representatives.

And if even a few hundred people pester your state assembly person or city council member, it's likely you can get some movement on these initiatives.
They should abandon the app store.
Yes, except much earlier than this.
I'm a professor at a US university. The honest answer (at least at the university level) -- probably we don't.

From what I can tell, there's very little enthusiasm for online education, on the part of either professors or students. Pretty much everyone is eager to get back to normal, and I'm fairly confident that this is exactly what is going to happen.

For a dissenting perpsective, read Joshua Kim's columns at Inside Higher Ed:

https://www.insidehighered.com/users/joshua-kim

He is a big cheerleader for online education and for major changes to university education. Personally, I don't really buy his arguments -- but his posts are extremely well written and he does work full-time at a university, so you might find him more persuasive than I do.

If remote university education becomes widespread, then I expect innovations to largely come from outside the existing system. Universities are weird workplaces, and the incentive system does not really encourage large-scale innovation.

That said, it seems that startups like edX, Coursera, etc. have not really been successes. So I'm skeptical that big changes are coming soon.
Forest loss 'hotspots' bigger than Germany: WWF
I'm not really 'railing' about anything, just thinking out loud. Thanks
I think they chose 16 because some of their biggest stars are in the 16 to 18 age range (for better or for worse). For example Charli D'amelio, who has 100 million+ followers and has become a celebrity in her own right. I personally agree that it should be 18, and ditto for Instagram and YouTube etc, but I expect that is the business reasoning behind the decision.
They don't transform memory, they load memory into registers, transform the registers and (maybe) store the registers values back into the memory. The difference is profound and until you code in assembly you have no idea why (or that) string operations are so expensive.
Pretty good.

It takes big comedy muscles to write something like that. I suspect HN contributors tend to have spent their 10,000 hours in disciplines where comedy writing doesn't get so much oxygen.
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> Created familial rifts that probably wouldn't have happened without social media.

It's definitely part of it, but not the only reason. I know my family had plenty of familial rifts pre-social media.
> I’ve painstakingly implemented debug logs and carefully prepared issue templates yet I still get these “does not work (EOM)” (effectively) issues.

I’ve gone to a few GitHub repos to report bugs only to be met with a novel length template and just left.

Got no issue following a template to provide enough info to help solve a bug. But damn nothing worse than having a giant template with 20 questions.
Focusing on the first 13 people arrested the day of the attack instead of the dozens arrested since doesn’t make any sense or help his argument.
Looks like the tournament is still ongoing. I was referring to the last few.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCEC_Season_18

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCEC_Season_19
Not much of a paradox, is it? The more cheap, high-fat, high-sugar food is available, the more people will get fat.

It's a truism masquerading as a profundity.
You think parler is a site of thugs because that's all you've seen. Just the same way you don't understand twitter to have tons of thugs because of what you've seen. More people have been killed and linked to #killallmen (which has trended nationally on twitter multiple times) than died at the DC riots. There's plenty of room for subjectivity, but I do think it's objective to say thugs exist on both platforms.
Seconded. I can't comment on the Mac app but I have tried it on unix, windows and android and I'm extremely pleased that it allowed me to fairly easily create my own secure VPN that connects my home network laptop and phone.
Yes, you are obviously NAL. The rules are clear and are applied evenly; it is the even application of the rule that is causing the problem here. FOSS-advocates think they are special snowflakes who deserve an exception to the rule about asking for payment. The app stores (both Apple and Google) clearly disagree and think that this is something that will be easily gamed and abused.

Nothing is preventing these apps from simply saying 'if you want to learn more or support our project go to <some top-level URL>' instead of directly linking the URL to a donation. Do that and there is no problem.
So many predictions... all missed by a mile.
I mostly agree, though to be honest several EU companies dug their own graves.

How long since you've heard about anything relevant on the market from "Big German electronics manufacturer" (wink)? And from "Big Dutch electronics manufacturer" (though this one seems to be still around in some areas)?

And if Huawei pays good salaries then other companies better get on with it, right? Competition is competition. Only management can give the direction, the focus and the urgency needed and the European companies were awful at it.
Same for Signal? They have a donate button in android app.
Let's rephrase it then. The topic of zero rating is a studied one where people have found advantages and disadvantages, which is why carve-outs were made for it in the first place.
I guess I owe someone an apology then, I wouldn’t want to malign the Klan by equating them with Nazis.
We don’t need reporters to adjudicate truth for us. Saying “___ claimed ___” is objective, and can be easily followed up with “this appears to conflict with ____” or “____ (an expert, authority or opponent) denies this.” When reporters start writing things like “___ falsely claims”, they are venturing into subjective territory, and when they don’t present information that both sides may be relying on, they lose the trust of the readers who are looking for a comprehensive report that will help them understand the story.
The app literally makes an algorithmic feed of content that you personally "like".
I haven't seen anything like this at all. Mostly dancing and singing people, and comedic sketches.
I disagree. I have an aging 12" 4K laptop (Toshiba) and it is absolutely glorious compared to non-4K. It get amazing sharpness. I have 3 workspaces:

Full screen Sublime, full screen tmux and a full screen web browser.

It also drives another 4K monitor when I'm in the office.

I really want to find something to replace it when it dies but so far I can't find anything that works well and does not look like someone's go to market product
Thank you, that clears things up.
> it's beyond me why would anyone willingly use an Apple product

Final users don't see this mess.
Only if they don't take a fee, to effectively steal donation money for themselves.
> I'm fine with subsidizing other people, the alternative is to be okay with people that have problems to be thrown out of the system and not receive the care they need.

So the discussion is about when use of data is identify losses and remove them from the system versus not using data and spreading the cost out between all participants.

Healthcare is a sufficiently broad benefit that much of society can agree on subsidizing each other (except in certain countries), but even in countries with taxpayer funded healthcare, I don’t know if there would be a consensus on whether or not retailers should be able to track individuals to identify those causing losses and boot them from the system.

Certainly, no one would argue against the right of a small business owner to refuse to do business with a customer that is causing them a loss. At what point does a business become large enough that it can no longer do this?