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> So if we're going to talk about concentrated media influence, we should be questioning the international reach and centralised narrative control of the Fox network (and others) at least as much Twitter or Amazon ...

Yes, we cannot ignore the system effects of shared ownership and control. Many economists understand the concept of market power [1]. I'm not so sure that laws and cases around regulating speech have adequately explored the analogous ideas.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_power
I would see it as addressing the very narrow issue of accidentally "rewarding bad behavior". You can more convincingly tell people that their pet feature shipping right after their tirade had nothing to do with them. I feel like that would help me as a maintainer, if nothing else...
And by switching to a better paying job you end up working somewhere that produces more value per engineer, which in turns makes the world wealthier.. which overall is good :)

That said, I don't think it's just a matter of culture.

Also just because capitalism likely makes the world better on average, doesn't mean we all have to go ferengi and dedicate our lives to pursuit of maximum profit :D
(Perhaps there is a balance)
Cannot agree more, what Obama started in regards to politically weaponizing payment processors (both VISA and companies that interact directly with their networks) against certain industries and individuals in the wake of Sandy Hook is legitimately concerning. AWS creating DNS and routing features is equally concerning, personally I don't want to live in a world where platforms start to build, control and ultimately monopolize the infrastructure they rely on to exist.
> For "Store" apps, you would be using UWP, which are the "modern UI" apps you see when you use Windows 10. These can run on any Windows 10 version and Xbox One+. You can also make that style of app with WPF by theming it though.

"Project Reunion" which has key pieces in .NET 5 (including and especially the new C#/WinRT projection system, which replaces dark/magic .NET internals with NuGet packages) is entirely blurring the line between WPF and UWP. With WinUI 3 you can use all of the modern UI controls in WPF apps (and in WinForms if you're nasty). You can also package WPF apps for the Store, including opting into UWP sandboxing and security models (though not yet far enough that you can run WPF on the Xbox yet). (The ability to package WPF, WinForms, and other Win32 applications has been around for some time, in fact, that's not specifically new. Project Reunion has roadmap features to keep making it a better experience, though.)

> Xamarin is now mostly used for mobile .NET development, but I really can't recommend it nowadays as there's a lot of cruft and documentation, in comparison to the stellar work MS has been doing, is quite lacking. If you need to reuse .NET code in your mobile apps, it's there as a way for you to do that.

Upcoming .NET 6 will see Xamarin merged closer/deeper inside and the cross-platform pieces (currently named Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Devices) rebranded MAUI. Presumably that will also involve a lot of spring cleaning out of cruft and upgrades to the documentation. There's also roadmap talk of much more desktop support beyond just mobile (people wanting to share code not just between Android and iOS, but also Windows, macOS, and Linux).
Durov recently announced they will smart monetizing through ads, but only in "channels" of people with huge subscriber count (which generates a lot of costs). Channels are 1:N public broadcasts, a bit like Twitter.
There was absolutely nothing outrageous in Cotton's op-ed. Mind, the same National Guard that Cotton was calling for was now sent to the Capitol, and I don't think NYT was up in arms.

That aside, he's a public representative of the highest order (a Senator). He needs to be heard whether we like it or not. I've not seen any public representative being censored in the country I'm from, that including opinion pieces from extremist parliament members on both sides. This is clearly a US thing.
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Yes, I agree.

It is the wrong "obvious" thing. Sounds like they did better though
Just leak the data
Obviously it’s a personal choice as to what’s important, but the salary difference between the US and EU is still larger than any of the financial benefits to being in the EU.

Getting 6 weeks of vacation instead of 3? I’d still rather take the extra $150k. Having to shell out $15k for healthcare each year? I’d still take the extra $150k.
I like the thonny IDE for small programs. I've been making all kinds of small scripts https://python-commandments.org/python-zip-function/
> There is no free speech issue here, because the kind of "free" political speech we're talking about is very, very expensive, and only available to a tiny selection of headline operators.

I'm not following. Could you say it in a different way or perhaps with more words?
Scapegoat?? When he has been spending the last 5 years claiming elections are rigged with 0 proof and inciting his followers to riot in a speech right before the capitol was attacked? the propaganda juice is flowing.
The president directly incited insurrection, there should be consequences.
km, not KM. KM is a Polish SI unit for hp (German PS).
> Lower income tax

Why would that increase gross salaries?

> Lower corporate tax

Why would that increase gross salaries? Corperations pay the minimum they can for the product they get

> Eliminate unnecessary regulation

Well the UK has just created a ton, so that's unlikely to happen, but what specific regulation, and how does it keep wages low?

> Improve English education

They should try that in the States first

> Raise public sector tech salaries

That doesn't really mesh with lowering taxes

> Stronger accounting and capital market regulations

Seems the opposite to elimintating regulations

> Stronger contract laws.

In what specific way?
I checked and it looks like I a senate race usually costs about 10m per candidate [1]. So 50m is a substantial offer. I guess the trick here is collusion: I wouldn't want to be the only one who went out on a limb, and now no one else will take my calls and 101 crazy trumpers are going to run against me in the primary. If there were 20+ willing to do it, maybe they could collectively weather the storm?

Thanks for the link, I didn't know Republicans against Trump were this well funded.

[1] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2020/11/27/the-2020-electi...
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I recently purchased a MacbookPro w/ an M1 chip and i'm taken aback at the value/dollar, compute/power, compute/heat, compute/noise. I love the MBP-m1.

I realize that WinTel machines arent going anywhere because of entrenched business use -- but between NVIDIA GPUs for heavy workloads and M1s for day-to-day activities -- what is the feeling inside Intel right now? Is this like a Microsoft-Netscape moment in the 90s?
You have to destroy your social safety net or escape it.
I also use JSON files... but one per value! It has it's ups and downs: pro it's incredibly fast and scales like a monster. con it's uses alot of space and inodes, so better use type small with ext4!

The only feature it misses is to compress the data that is not actively in use, that way there is really not much of a downside.

http://root.rupy.se
Do you have actual criticisms of LiveView as a technology or are you just upset about macros?
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There's a name for a economic structure where corporations are privately owned, but operate in alignment with the governments political agenda and goals. Perhaps out of coercion, or perhaps just trying to avoid scrutiny.
The thing is in the US, generally the more you make the lower your insurance costs are.

I made ~$300k last year at a FAANG (Sr. engineer), and my healthcare costs were:

$29/month in premiums
$200/month in an HSA, which I'm saving for retirement (complicated US income tax reasons), so money I don't available for my use but it doesn't go into a black hole either.
$1500 deducible
$3000 total out of pocket

I had a sudden health condition last year, before covid fortunatly, so I maxed out my insurance. So my total costs ended up being $3348 + HSA contributions.

I'm in Washington State, so there's no state income tax, my effective federal tax rate will probably be about 27%.

I'd love to Europe, but it's hard looking at the numbers to justify it. Even if I were willing to take a 50% cut in take home pay, I doubt I could find a job that paid that much.
Dunno, they claim it's technology and demoncracy. Seems more like inciting people to break the law and kill people.

Does it really matter if it was twitter, facebook, a new paper, a radio station, a tv station, or really anything that can communicate.

If it was 100 years ago and the same events happened (invasion of the Capitol building and 5 people died) because of an op-ed piece in the NYTimes (printed on paper of course) would cause the same "deplatforming".
What Happened to Social Mobility in America?
It's maybe not so common in tech, but being a big stable company isn't incompatible with 'markets, etc.' - you can buy back stock, issue dividends.
I’ve been a Dropbox paid subscriber for many years (since it was Dropbox Pro). I’m not going to renew it. The constant upsell nagging is too much. Dropbox would be perfect if it just STFU and synced files.

One of my clients opening files I shared by Dropbox on their mobile phone successfully got dark patterned into signing up for a paid subscription. That was a fun mess to clean up. Mission accomplished?
I don't think they colluded. It's much more likely that when they see a platform they don't like they wait until someone casts the first stone.
> Elixir just did it better imo and this person seemingly can't stand that people seem to like it more.

The post does read more like venting than a structured critique, but a few of his points are still valid.

Every time I hear someone praising Elixir, it's never about some Elixir-specific feature but usually about something that Erlang has provided for ages like pattern matching, lightweight processes, supervisors, the preemptive scheduler. Given this, I'm sure you can appreciate how bittersweet this can be for an Erlang developer.

To me Elixir is just a more complex, verbose and less elegant version of Erlang so it kinda frustrates me when newcomers would rather learn Elixir than plain Erlang.
Most niches don’t have multiple popular contenders except for some core concerns. Most of the time you can default to the popular one if you don’t know how to evaluate it any further, but the README and API tend to make the decision trivial. The project with the best docs is an easy deal breaker as it’s a good signal that the engineers have put some hammock time into the project and they have attention to detail.

But also, just try multiple libraries out. Sometimes one library doesn’t even give you the results you want. I notice beginners in general are resistant to that and seem to think precious time is wasted if they don’t make the perfect decision upfront. I say spend an hour playing with various libs if you can’t decide otherwise.
> in such a way that frees platforms from pressures from the government (Section 230)

Section 230 does free platforms from pressure from the government. A service provider that is responsible for the content posted by users would have much greater exposure and would be far more likely to censor. People don't understand that 230 is mostly enabling free speech, not stifling it.

The anti-230 crowd is like a dog chasing a car. It's all fun and games to chase that car, but what do you think is going to happen when you get what you're chasing?
Don't you think that's a little reductionistic?
> Without active pushback from a dedicated member of the core team, such things usually end in utter chaos.

That may well be true, but Erlang is actually the opposite of utter chaos, it is extremely well designed, organized and implemented and battle hardened to a degree that would put most FOSS projects to shame.
It kinda hurt for me to read about whaling being presented as an art. Disclosure: I'm vegan. But wouldnt it 100y ago (or even less) be generally accepted to write like this about slave trade, as an art?

Whales are very sensitive creatures, they know family... Why should we be allowed to end their lives and make them "products"? Even weirder: call that an art?
JuiceFS has a single node version working like this, it store in the metadata in SQLite and upload S3 in background, it's useful in some cases but not in general, you may lose recent metadata if the single node is broken.

The difficulty of using S3 as metadata is that they is not way to persistent metadata under 1 ms, for example, created a symlink, it will take more than 20ms, or you may lose it.

With en external persisted database, we could have the ACID for metadata operations. Also, the meta is the source of truth, whenever the object store is out of sync (losing or leaking a object), the whole file system is still consistent, rather than part of a file is corrupted, should be safer than put everything into S3.

The database is the key, redis is our first choice, we will add support to other databases in future.
Gelsinger can definitely be that Wartime CEO. If they let him do his job.
LOL SAP has millions of users worldwide and their interfaces are as ugly as anything... and then Oracle Forms, people still using APEX type applications from the 1990s... End users don't get the choice, they get told...
The issue with that is it's A64 based, you only get one native 1Gbps port on that and you kinda need at least 2 if you're using a router for it's routing functionality.

You could get a rockpro64 and stick a nice network card in it's pci-e slot and probably outperform the clusterboard.
If you want sata then your best bet is probably the Intel NUC. Still fairly small but as powerful as your average laptop.
Maybe, I don’t watch TV, and it’s probably not a good source of common sense. The government has plenty of tools. I’m frankly not going to be convinced they need me to abandon my principles in order to stay in power. If the president is doing bad stuff, I know there exists a process that doesn’t have me in the loop that can fix it.
Are non-competes common in Europe?
Nice, gonna check out RTK now. Thanks.
> I was a subscriber of NYT for a few years, and the one time there was a dissenting opinion - that of Tom Cotton - it led to editors being fired.

If that was the “one time there was a dissenting opinion” in the NY Times, what do you call Ross Douthat’s and Brett Stephen’s columns about that incident that the NY Times also ran?
LOL it's a deal!
Foam is a great FOSS clone of Roam. If you like to write text files, like markdown, and like to link among the text, then definitely try Foam and Roam-- they are superb for organization. And if you use emacs, the similar tool is org-roam for emacs org mode.

https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
He joined Intel at 18 with an associate’s degree from a trade school (Lincoln Tech). Amazing.
Agreed. And it was disgusting what they did to her.
I had an accident with a vehicle from one of these car sharing companies in Berlin. The company demanded 11,000€. I think that was 2017 or 2018.

Supposedly I broke my contract by not following protocol after the accident and therefore my insurance was nil.

Suffice to say I did. I had four witnesses, date & time & incident number of the police report, yadayadayada.

I got a lawyer[1]. The whole thing went nowhere. I.e. I didn't pay, except for the lawyer who wrote exactly one letter to them.

But I was blocked to use their vehicles until that company and another joined into a new enterprise.
Upon which my record was magically wiped clean – I could use the part of the new fleet belonging to the vendor whose car I had had the accident with again.

Ah, the merits of database mergers ...

The issue all these car sharing companies have is their insurance.

When these businesses started they needed insurance. What happened was that all the car insurance companies declined. Because how do you calculate the insurance if the driver changes all the time?

So what these companies did was open their own insurance companies. While these are separate business entities it boils down to any damages coming out of their pockets. They have a vested interest in finding you in breach of their TOS so you are not covered by (their) insurance any more.

How do I know? The lawyer I got was an expert in those cases. I was not the first of his clients with this issue.
I can suggest him to anyone in Berlin who runs into such an issue.

[1] https://www.ra-samimi.de/

P.S.: A Canadian friend of mine had exactly the same happen to them there. Accident with car2go. Car2go purports breach of contract and demands full damages. He gets a lawyer. The thing goes nowhere. But he is since blocked from using car2go. Go figure.
Wonder how much the work from home/covid related restrictions affected delivery on project of this scale.
I miss native OneDrive Linux support, but otherwise it is quite good. I can even avoid running office in WINE most of the time. And in Windows the experience is very nice, specially the on-demand file sync.
Good to know, I'm always curious on Colossus.
AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor lets you get visibility across your AWS Account for all resources, but not across multiple accounts...
Yo, thanks for that idea. We will figure out a way to add something like that in a couple of days. We have an iOS app in TestFlight if you wanna give it a go. https://testflight.apple.com/join/qrGhAVUC
A compromise could be to have a bot to check the issue template, but to make the bot aware of users' contribution histories. The bot would skip checking the format of someone's issue if, for example, they had already reported at least three bugs or gotten one patch merged.
In order for the message to be readable by the other party you fundamentally trust the other party. A self-destroy timer doesn't really help that aspect (which is why I don't use them).
Huh? If he earns more at Pornhub he makes the world better? Even FAANG is debatable.
By same logic twitter should be Shutdown. Constant death threats and calls for violence.
Heck many rappers make a living glorifying violence.

Even watched in real-time this past summer as people organized to come burn down my neighborhood. But those were good democrats that wanted white people to burn, so that’s excusable.

This has nothing to with violence, and is pure political suppression.
Amazon, twitter and others were just waiting for the first viable excuse.

Downvote me to hell, but study history of other socialist / Marxist take overs; you will see the same pattern.
That's very interesting, and I'm sincerely glad that you're happy. In the U.S., the value system is (was, at least) about personal ambition, talent, and action which determine if one "should be able to get very rich".

There's no shame in wanting to work for a company and focus on a work-life balance. Americans (again, traditionally) celebrate(d) those with higher ambitions and achievement. In Silicon Valley and the startup world (many of whom are on HN), the entrepreneur/founder vs. employee issue can be very sensitive.
Ask HN: Giving Notice and Vesting Cliff
I've been at a company for a little over a year that is not a good fit for me. I started interviewing a few months back and just recently got a really good offer from one of the FAANG gang.

The company I am currently at doesn't vest your first year on your anniversary, but instead on preset days each quarter (I'm not sure if this is common).

I pushed my start date out significantly, but its not more than 2 weeks from my current cliff and it is as far out as the organization will allow.

I want to get the stock for my first year, and I also want to give a reasonable notice to my current employer - the thing is, I dont trust my current employer.

If I were to give a 4-6 weeks notice for _after_ my cliff date, and my current org let me go in the meantime, do I have any recourse?

Is my only option to stay until I vest, and give a very short notice?

The stock grant is 6 figures, so not an insignificant amount.
> Dropbox is just a "feature" in that you can't do anything with it on its own

That just describes a tool. A hammer is useless without a nail, but a hammer isn't a feature. The claw of the hammer is a feature.
How is the driver support for M1 (scanners, printers, etc)? I don't use macos, but I have some family members who are due for an upgrade.
Drivers don't require any particular hardware to function -- they can be triggered to autoload on hardware detection, but you can also trigger them on demand, or on startup. As an example, ProcExp uses a driver to list open handles.

If you're interested in running kernel code on your own device, it's simpler to just write your own driver.
I mean, it's not a great way to raise the salaries of retail and restaurant workers. It's also a terrible way of providing healthcare.

Ultimately it's more a question of supply and demand as to why US SWEs are paid so much.
I work (but not for much longer) for a tech company that has done an ER package twice (and is well known for layoffs). The result is that the company has a sort of corporate alzheimers. It knows the inventory of all the things it used to know, but doesn't actually seem able to recall anything. The trajectory and outlook are not good.

I don't think tech companies can afford this practice. So much knowledge resides in their senior talent, and the hard-won experience-based understanding and things gleaned through opportunistic exposure that they seem to voluntarily surrender.
> But unpaid subscriptions don't magically become debt.

There are things called debt collection agencies. They are widely used by service providers.
Comments about witch burning don't help sow discussion.
For me the canonical example is this story in Forbes about a man who complained to Target about baby-product advertising directed at his teenage daughter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
> Does the netblock "owner" suddenly see all of its traffic dropped?

Assuming everyone implements RPKI validation AND the RIR signs a new valid ROA with a different origin: Yes, eventually. Depends on sync intervals. It's unlikely it would even be legally possible to compel them to do this.

Individual ASNs can still choose to accept the invalid route anyway.

The RIR already has the power to revoke assignments, and IRRs would likely remove the route objects which most large networks use to generate filters. It was simply a slower process, and filtering according to IRR data is much more error-prone and open to abuse.

For example, here's RIPE's policy: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-541
Hacking a Harley's Tuner
I vaguely remember a study from the UK dealing with depression and it's causes. I think it had said that there was a higher percentage of participants who were depressed because they were fired from their jobs than there were from their spouse leaving them. I remembered that seemed pretty interesting at the time. Now I feel like it kinda makes sense (you lost your source of money vs an unhappy marriage ending).
The NY Post's credibility is in question on this matter, specifically. (Also, more generally.) Can you please point to another credible source?
That makes sense and sounds logical, but (and I'm certainly no historian) didn't the Raspberry Pi debut at a low price?
Tesla Model Y Achieves 5-Star Overall Safety Rating from NHTSA
Wont work. Big brother will import talent from Africa, Middle East, India.