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I’m in the US, and old enough to remember the time before the Internet, and that’s what I remember. You had three or so TV networks and a handful of national magazines and newspapers. Big tech isn’t really any different from the media zeitgeist I grew up with.

It’s just the last 20 years or so of everybody having a megaphone that is outside the norm.
Thank you for this example. I’ll be using it. I’ve been struggling to articulate that just because technically someone is free to do something doesn’t mean they aren’t being meaningfully hindered from doing it.
The writing was on the wall the moment the acquisition was announced, and we all grieved about it, but it still makes me very sad to see such a graph. I miss Keybase.
Ask HN: Managers of HN, how do you organize your 1:1 notes?
In the new year, I'm thinking about how to better keep track of 1:1 notes so I can keep track of things and add value to my team. Current workflow seems very ineffective. I'd love to hear how you do it and what you've learned over the years.

Specifically:

1) What is your preferred medium? Why? What software (if any) do you use?

2) How do you use any notes you retain?

3) What has worked for you and what has not?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and sharing your thoughts!
Protruding camera and 2 days battery life is pretty common now.

5000mAh and 30W charging for just over £200: https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g9_plus-10432.php

There are a couple of dozen now https://www.productchart.co.uk/smartphones/
its not just cities. this is the issue with academia and many other aspects of life. everything has an embedded growth expectation, and when that growth stops, its no longer sustainable.

(IE each professor cant train 10 grad students in their field to be professors because academia is simply not growing that fast anymore)

And not every lawyer can become a partner anymore etc. (not every google engineer can become senior)
I think I love you. Don't worry, there's a shot for that.
> 1995 Hackers movie, so there is at least one accurate thing in that movie.

Recording the sounds that were emitted by a payphone when inserting coins and then playing them back into a payphone handset to get free calls ("red boxing") was a thing that def--err, maybe worked hypothetically I do not know and definitely never tried this absolutely not no way...
Indeed, the laptop has been disconnected for days. I (or, more precisely, Windows) inadvertently updated to a more recent Flash version containing the "time bomb", so now the application simply checks the system date and decides whether to block it or not.

If I could "sandbox the clock" for this specific application, that might work, but I don't think that it is possible.
Never mind plain old lobbying, any legislator who supports a crackdown on Facebook could be de-platformed. These tech leviathans have captured the regulators in a way that has never been seen before, and now they are flaunting grotesque anti-competitive bullying in all of our faces. Depending on the government to fix this mess is not going to go well.
Prosecuting Epstine would have helped. Auditing the voting system would have helped.

Just show the movement that there nothing to hide rather than yell at them and appear to cover up.
And that’s why the Earth will collapse on humanity, growth over everything else..

Money is not the only value here, so I don’t see why it has precedence over what other’s find valuable?
The only way to stay on Qt 5.x (as Qt 6.x is not yet ready for production use since the ABI is not stable and many modules like QtWebEngine are missing) would be to fork it, since they will no longer accept patches from the community. Either that, or get every Qt distributer (e.g. Debian, OpenSUSE, Manjaro, etc) to accept your patch.
A form of ostracism, you mean?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
> If Rosa Parks didn't like sitting in the back of the bus, she could have just started her own bus line!

Or she and like minded people could have boycotted the bus lines, in modern terms "cancelling" them. (In case any non-US users don't know, that's exactly what they did, it was called the "Montgomery Bus Boycott").

Ironically, racists in those days tried to use the government to shut that movement down, just like Republicans are trying to use the government to go after people cancelling Parler today.
civilized

I have trouble relating that word to the fresh memory of watching drooling, bearded gun-monkeys clambering on tables in the Capitol chanting 'hang Mike Pence!'
In the early 1990s, if you wanted to have an online presence you needed to buy hardware, connect it to the internet and run some software on it.

If Parler had done this, the ways they could have been "destroyed" would have been:

1. refusal to provide DNS for their address
2. refusal to certify an SSL certificate (not absolutely required but more than just a detail in 2021)
3. refusal by an ISP to carry their bits

I believe that even the progressive end of the tech community would have been extremely negative about any company that did any of these 3 things. I also think its very unlikely that any of them would have happened, though the Gab case provides some evidence to the contrary.

Instead, Parler followed the unfortunate dumbification of online presence over the last 20-30 years, and instead of doing the above, contracted with a large corporation to take care of things for them. The large corporation decided they didn't want to do that anymore, and Parler lost its online presence.

Parler is not exactly unique in having made this choice. But perhaps the consequence of the choice they made might convince more people/organizations/corporations to think a bit more clearly about the type of hosting infrastructure they really want/need. If Parler had followed the self-hosted pathway, I think it is extremely unlikely (though sure, not impossible) that they would be offline at this point.
Thoughts on Flash – 2010
Yeah, this is always the problem with apocalypse-level events like this. There's always a period of fragmentation where everyone and their Aunt Lillian starts a new fork project to pursue whatever angle they want.

It'll take some time for all the fragments to coalesce, likely with some T1000-ing into larger projects while others lose steam as developers settle on a single option. Unfortunately, in the meantime consumers of CentOS are left to look at the field in the crystal ball and try to figure out which project to place their bet on (or just move to something else for a while and have a pint while the whole thing blows over). The good news is that things don't really become pressing until 2023, which gives some time for things to resolve.

It's the Circle Of Open Source. :)
Industry is not what the prison industrial complex is.

The prison industrial complex is a deliberate lengthening of sentences and increasing of mandatory jail time for non-violent offenses designed to increase the for-profit prison population to increase profit.
It's worth noting that the vast majority of the Walkout was over Googlers lunch breaks, and most went back to work after lunch was over.

...Everyone who organized the workout was either fired or retaliated against anyways, since you know, Google doesn't care about workers rights or the law.
Drafts [0] is my current workhorse for all things text. It's where all text starts for me (comments, emails, long iMessage/FB/SMS messages, etc). It's go great mobile and desktop clients (native). You can use MD or you can pick from one of the other editors they support. I came to Drafts from NVAlt + SimpleNote for mobile access and it's been great. I've tried a few other "hip" note apps (notion, obsidian, etc) but they either have bad or non-existent mobile apps or are just too heavy for what I want. If Drafts could handle pictures/files I would be over the moon. I understand some of their reasoning behind not doing that but it means that I currently pay notion monthly so I can use it for 1 project that needs, at a minimum, for me to be able to put pictures inline. (Note: I want Drafts to "manage" these files/photos, I know I can add in a MD photo and it will show in preview but I want to be able to store the photo on the note itself).

[0] https://getdrafts.com/
>Intel is free to optimize the shit out of their compiler but it's bullshit that they also actively sabotage AMD chips at the same time. It's very much a vendor lock-in tactic.

I would argue they actively make sure their compiler optimisation works only on Intel CPU. Which is actually a fair deal. Those optimisation work isn't free.

It is BS tactics? Yes.
Do I Like it ? No.
It is wrong to do it? That is up to debate.

The point is using an Intel Compiler on Non Intel CPU comparison makes the benchmarks pretty much useless. Something like GCC / LLVM should have been used to be vendor neutral.
I don't know, but it's a complicated question since Boeing uses European suppliers (e.g. Safran) and has its own manufacturing operations in Europe.

Edit: Actually, the factory I'm referring to is in the UK.
Neither destroy restaurants, neighborhoods and police hq.
The 12 foot tall, 1000-finger banana plant is quite amazing. Nature really outdoes itself sometimes.

Standing next to that must be humbling, as it is more bananas (small, but still) on a single cluster than a single store would carry.
If the first amendment and your concept of freedom of speech don't line up, then one or the other need to change I would think. If a right is not recognized by others/the government, then it effectively doesn't exist. That's not to say it's not right or that you couldn't rationally defend it though.

>If in a pandemic I can only legally communicate via digital tools

I see the conflict you're bringing up, it's in effect illegal to communicate in person a lot of the time due to the pandemic, so digital tools are very useful for you to be able to communicate, but if you are somehow banned from those you have few options, if any. I think the thing that is incorrect here is actually the government making it illegal to communicate via non-digital tools, even if a lot of times it is in an individual's best interest to stay inside. And once again, no one owes you a platform. You are, in your words, silenced, but I don't think that that is an issue that requires government action.
I don't think wine is seen as a luxury good in most of Europe. Pretty big part of the local culture in most countries (at least France, Spain, Germany, Italy).
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Here's an old article highlighting escape mutations evolving within the span of a single person's infection.

* [HIV evolution: CTL escape mutation and reversion after transmission - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14770175/)
I've thought about this a fair amount and come to the conclusion that HN readers as a group just cannot wrap their heads around why the majority of consumers are so enamored by thin stuff - but they are, and that's why these companies keep doing this.

It seems wildly stupid, and it is in some objective sense, but people make bad purchasing decisions. See: Cars in the united states continuing to get bigger and bigger.
Good, they can go back to more traditional methods, of paying professional reporters to be in their local areas for those scoops. Rather than scrape what some person tweeted.
I believe the distinction between the two (though note: I am very willing to change this belief based on learning details I don't currently know) is that Facebook tries to remove such content (though it may not perfectly succeed) whereas Parler actively refused to do so when AWS made them aware and asked them to remove it.
If there was a specific highway that was almost exclusively used by drug / human traffickers, and there was a mountain of evidence to prove that, it seems like we would really look into that road and add extra security or shut it down until we could get a plan together.
Decades of Democratic propaganda have led the average left-of-center voter to believe higher taxes, for any reason are a) taking money from greedy Republicans to redistribute wealth, and/or b) going to turn America into a socialist state.
See how that works.
Thanks for sharing the article. It's nice to get an intro from someone else also new to Ledger, which guarantees it starts from the very basics and makes for a good first step.

The other "getting started" guide I found [1], for a contrast, starts with a whole ecosystem of scripts and a system in place for effective ledger use - which will be useful later, when I do want to get a full system going, but I've learnt it's better to start simple and stumble around, until I can put together the pieces of the system myself later (with theirs as a very useful reference).

[1] https://rolfschr.github.io/gswl-book/latest.html#the-setup
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You have nostalgia for an age that never existed, and you are pushing for a solution that has no chance of success.
But do you believe in free association? Is it okay that per Parler's CEO, banks and payment providers, law firms, and mail services have also cancelled on them?
"hate speech" is a term that was coined in recent years to silence people. The only things that are dangerous are when people actually act or are explicit and then we deal with them. This isnt Minority Report. Free speech is meant to be nearly absolute and protect unpopular opinions. The only restrictions are explicit threats (someone is literally saying they are going to kill someone and names said person) Today the interpretation has morphed into whatever is unpopular or is 3 steps away from being an actual threat.
I have an ultrabook from tuxedo (clevo reseller like System76) since several years. The foldable ethernet port still works. Used to treat my stuff badly too.
> dunno, this seems like a sane thing to want AND think that this is what your users might want.

I don't think most people care about RAM upgrades. Non-technical people will probably either just put up with their computer becoming somewhat slower if software requirements change over time, or they don't have use cases where they'd run out of RAM in the first place.

A nice and "modern" looking form factor is probably a greater factor for most people even if they did care about the upgradability to some extent.

I don't really get the trend towards non-replaceable batteries, though, at least not from a customer perspective. Batteries often begin to degrade much earlier than a decent laptop would otherwise show any age, so it makes almost no sense whatsoever (except perhaps some kind of a small improvement in size due to simpler construction) to not be able to replace those. Maybe people get their batteries replaced at a shop or they just put up with degraded batteries, too.

I agree it replacements and upgrades should be doable, and that it would be responsible, and I'd appreciate it if at least models marketed towards developers, engineers and other technical professionals would have that. Most people probably just won't care enough, though.
These people need to see with their own two eyes that the things they think are true are not true.

There is probably no bringing back some of the people who have gone really far down that road if corporations and government act with transparency and consistency going forward I think it will bring many people back and prevent more from doing down that road.
Isn't a breach of contract a civil matter rather than criminal? I don't think violating a contract is unlawful.
Anybody know why this is showing up with Huawei branding after Eltechs shut down? I presume this must be because ExaGear was acquired, but I cannot find any information online about this, at least in English.
> What I think internet 3.0 will be is websites and services segregated politically, just like the media is. Just like we have CNN and Fox, we will have Twitter and [Parler?] Facebook and Rightbook.

That defeats the connection desire of user-generated content. I'm on FB mainly to learn what my friends/family are up to (and see cute animal pix and some maths jokes). If a bunch of them were on {right,left}book and I were on the other I'd miss out as would they.

If the political claptrap self-segregated into verticals that would be fine by me. FB would still work. Of course such arrangements are not stable as terms like "left" and "right" aren't really meaningful (the 1950s "right" and "left" enthusiasts would not recognize how those terms are used today).
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> I feel like we've all been a bit brainwashed by the government in our notion that "free speech" must have limits. I very much doubt that that is true. I think the speech part should always be 100% free.

I think you should be free to say what you want and to think what you want, I also think a privately owned space has the right to remove people who are saying things they don't want in that space.

Here are three examples:

(1) You own a bar and someone comes in and starts calling your patrons racial slurs, can you throw them out?

(2) You start a social media company and somehow a large contingent of your initial user group turns out to be a hate group. Shouldn't you be allowed to remove the group and their hateful content? Do you really want to be REQUIRED to leave it on the site unless it is breaking a law?

(3) You start a social media company and it grows to the size of twitter. Your site is one of the most visited sites on the internet, and is getting overrun with hate speech. Don't you want to be able to remove that?

Are you fine with one and two but not three? Where's the line? If you want to argue that Facebook and Twitter are utilities and should be regulated as such, what do they get in return? Don't forget, utilities are often government sanctioned monopolies or near-monopolies in "exchange" for all of their regulation.
Adobe could have released Flash Player under a free license and it might have made its way into a standard.
It still goes through the city center with a lot above ground. Definitely better than before though
>Maybe it’s a regional thing?

That is probably fair. Anywhere I've lived in the US, someone would know (well, maybe not if they were young enough) what you meant by "telephone directory" but almost everyone would say "phonebook" at least in casual conversation. It's also true that when you would dial 411 for a number, that was called directory assistance. (And a listing of phone numbers for the staff in an organization would probably be called a staff directory or a telephone directory or something along those lines.)
I guess that means good news for Australian wine producers, since they can move the inventory designated for China to the USA as there should be some more demand for it.
That isn't remotely true, especially with the invention of cash registers and credit card machines. It does grow slower than other sectors though. [1]

[1]. https://www.brookings.edu/research/productivity-in-the-servi...
I'm super curious if someone can explain the threat model here in more detail. Some of these mitigations seem reasonable, some reasonable-but-very-esoteric, some mostly unreasonable. But maybe I am misunderstanding.

Going through the feature list:

> Protects database with passphrase encryption

Modern Android supports FDE, so this seems like it's no gain for most cases. For users who don't have FDE, I guess it makes sense as long as you aren't concerned about evil maid attacks?

(FWIW, Signal's philosophy—here and on RAM protections—seems to be that this is the province of the host OS. I agree!)

> Locks down the app automatically after you go a certain time without unlocking your device

I don't know what this means—is it the below (i.e. purging decryption keys from RAM on inactivity) or something else?

> Securely shreds sensitive data from RAM

The threat model here seems to be malicious code that can read the device's RAM.

I think it's best to leave these kinds of mitigations to the host OS (i.e., if there is malicious code that can read your RAM, you're _probably_ SOL), but I guess there are probably some attacks (e.g. hardware or local-device attacks) that can dump RAM or something? What are common examples?

> Allows you to delete contacts and stop sharing your profile
> Clears call notifications together with expiring messages
> Disables debug logs
Also don’t change the rules right before the election.
bad with social media, worse without it. Our new dilemma.
ExaGear was originally developed by a company called Eltechs. I presume this must have been somehow acquired by Huawei.
No one is defending calls for violent overthrow, but typically we hold the people that have actually committed the acts responsible. Here, we're shifting the responsibility a level above with the sentiment that "this happened on your platform, so you have a duty to moderate". The kicker is that these tech giants employed the polar opposite of this philosophy for the majority of their existence to eschew as much responsibility as possible for their users' content.

Let's see. If I go and organize a violent insurrection using GMail, what does Google need to do to comply with it's own philosophy here? It seems that it needs to start scanning all emails for inciting violence and send them to a moderation queue. Of course, it's never going to do any of that, because unlike Parler it doesn't have any overlords holding it by the neck.

Google, Apple, and Amazon like to do whatever they can get away with when it comes to anti-competitive practices, and enjoy the protections granted to them as private entities. On the other hand, this shows that they're willing to also take unilateral action to silence millions of people, based on nothing more than a whim and a holier-than-thou attitude. There's a messy contradiction here. They're not subject to having to abide by the 1st amendment because they're private companies, but in practice they're in control of the majority of public discourse. This is a big problem.

And this returns me to what I think was a big point in the article. The response to any free-speech concerns has been: "if you don't like Facebook or Google's policies, you're free to create your own." But the sway of FB/Google's policies is no longer just over their own content, but also the platforms they manage. Which as it turns out, form the majority of the infrastructure of the internet.
If you don’t moderate that stuff you are going to be tarred by association. I don’t know how you could avoid that.
Either it adds value or it doesn't, if square footage is the main thing then it doesn't add as much value you as think.

This is the beautiful thing about prices - we let individuals decide what something is worth. Perhaps we don't need new taxes but just better assessors and planning.
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