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Until you’re forced to download the FB App Store for Facebook apps, the Epic Games store for theirs, the Google App Store for Google applications...

It’s not true users who don’t want to side load have zero skin in the game. The entire ecosystem would suffer.
Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
Would be cool if the source for any of these was available.
What do you mean by that? The rules apply to Amazon just the same as to anyone else.
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Who is forcing you to install apps from any store?
Are you being held hostage and compelled to install apps against your will? Blink twice for yes, three times for no.
> Happens quicker than you think and that's a hell of a tail risk.

It's not a tail risk. If you see prices increase exponentially over the span of months, you will have had plenty of time to react. Inflation is mostly a problem of the wage earners who don't have cash savings in the first place. Otherwise, if you have significant life savings all in cash, you're financially illiterate and cryptocurrency is the last thing you should put your money into.

> Bitcoin has been pretty consistently up on any timeline over the last decade.

Bitcoin also has been consistently down 50% from the previous high most of the time. It has pump-and-dump penny stock levels of volatility.

Bitcoin is fine as a speculative asset, as an inflation hedge it's just completely asinine. There is virtually no correlation between actual inflation and the value of Bitcoin. There may be some correlation to the level of panic about hyperinflation among the uninformed public. If you want to ride that wave, go for it.
Bitcoin is trademarked. Is it really?
> On review, it does seem to imply that the impetus for the fork is that change: my apologies.

No worry. I forked the repo at the same time I transferred ownership. The reason was simply that I wanted to get back at being able to mostly work on the code base, as the issue tracker had become a burden taking most of the time I allocated to the project, and I found that @chrisaljoudi was good at handling opened issues.
Housing is the big one mentioned, and it does not allow for any further economies of scale than already exist. Rent rises based on the prevailing salary of the area -- house prices as well, since they represent the years of rental income. It's not even necessarily a supply issue, since Seattle has more empty houses than it has homeless people! Prices simply rise to whatever the market can bear. So under the current system, any absolute increase in money will likely simply be swallowed by landlords.
I believe the fair proportion is 3 people that killed 100 people each running free while we congratulate the police for jailing the guy who insulted us.
I agree that it's a very unlikely individual event.

But it only needs to happen once, with one bacteria surviving the trip over the billions of years when both planets were hospitable to life.

I'd be hesitant to bet against those odds. I'm also not betting for it. Just being open to the possibility.
>> Also in this group: Buran, Shuttle

Buran/shuttle were more than just lifting bodies. They had the large wings necessary for cross-range flight, something more than just landing. This was needed for military single-overflight mission profiles that were never flown.
And a lot of the documentation that was on the territory of the future GDR.
The right to protest should be important to you, regardless of your political persuasion. 2020 saw a very great many more violent protests, including the construction of autonomous zones that rejected the authority of all elected United States government. To say that a person’s voice should not be heard because they are dangerous to your beliefs is itself the most dangerous thing.
Hm.

Hypothetical: if you modify the software in a Tesla, and your modification allows a hacker to remote control it, and this power is used to commit vehicular homicide, how much of the burden of responsibility do you have?

I’m not a lawyer, so while I can throw out phrases like “endangering others through negligence”, I don’t know what the threshold is or even if that’s the right concept in this case.

With regards to game consoles, I tend to agree with you — no good reason for them to be allowed to prevent side-loading.

With regards to phones however, I explicitly want the devices heavily locked down by law, to the extent that other people should not be allowed to put random software on them. This is because they are powerful sensor packages that almost everyone carries almost all the time, so the mere possibility of malware turning them into blackmail spy boxes is a problem for all of society — everyone, given what I’ve heard about “three felonies per day” [0] — and not just the person who installs the dodgy app.

I say this despite not liking that the action of American cultural hegemony in the App Store means those stores have a bigger problem with nipples than with violence.

And likewise, I have a problem with the law that requires me (a British citizen working in Germany) to keep the U.S. government informed about my app’s use of encryption in case I “export” something they can’t break, which is insane in my opinion.

Security is important and app stores help, but trust can be chained and delegated, and it is possible to have alternative App Stores which Apple/Google audit for security.

[0] https://kottke.org/13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day
IIRC solar panels are actually more efficient at low temperatures.
> The thinking that extra asks from your employer is an intrusion into your life is inherently, entitlement.

Let's get this straight an entitlement is something that is owed. If I buy health insurance and go to the hospital I am entitled to use it. If I pay for unemployment in my salary and become unemployed I am entitled to it.

> in one form or another.

Banking and housing unfortunately does not work this way. I can only present a paystub or W4 when applying for a loan or renting a flat, any other form of compensation is disregarded. My dedication to the job should be remitted through my salary, a employee pizza/ice cream party doesn't mean a thing to me.
I would like to hear the refutation because I've witnessed this myself in corporate environments. Corporate HR are difficult to deal with, they're very process orientated and risk averse, getting rid of someone reflects poorly on you and your management structure basically doesn't care if there's 1 useless person in your team. You have to put a huge amount of work in to document and justify why the person is not qualified for the job and (in my country) you've got to make a reasonable effort to find another role for them, and if you do start this process with HR it creates documentation that means no one will ever take them if they do want to transfer.

Start to end you're probably talking about ~6 months to get rid of someone and over that time you need an intense process of setting them targets and documenting failing to meet expectations. The result is that most managers are more likely to try and shuffle their bad engineers into other teams than to actually give up a big chunk of their time doing this process. Not to mention the fact it puts you in a very awkward positioning having a working relationship with the person you're getting rid of.
Miners are motivated by simple profit calculation, not R&D into energy generation. R&D has an unbounded capital risk, while bitcoin is a (relatively simple) statistical calculation of energy-cost which is a bounded cost (at any given time, within a range). Not a single bitcoin MINER is "greatly incentivized to further decrease power cost".
> I just made a joke. You didn't get it (?), so I encouraged you to think through some possible answers to your own question.

If you really were making a joke, you could have just said so when I ‘didn’t get it’. I’d probably have said something like ‘fair play’, or ‘nice’.

Because you didn’t we are left with other possibilities to consider:

1. You were just being condescending from the beginning, and are now trying to claim it was a joke to save face.

2. It was a bad joke, and you doubled down on condescension to save face.

The evidence supports either of these because ‘encouraging someone to think something through’ when you haven’t engaged in good faith conversation is an ignorant and condescending move.

Have you considered the possibility that I am asking what other people think because I want to know what other people think, and that ‘being encouraged to think it through’ will simply not answer that question?

There is nothing to suggest that you are an expert on this topic. Your own knowledge of it is limited despite having ‘thought it through’, proven by the fact that my response to your first real answer immediately showed you had missed something.

There is nothing wrong with making jokes, even bad ones, but following up with condescension makes it look like you weren’t actually joking.

We’ll never know now.

> I'm not sure what you mean by this, but operational security would still apply even when you have to make press releases.

Are you trying to create the impression that you are in personal possession of secrets about this attack?
Docker hub rails to build an image if you call hit submodules in there. I had the problem with DirtyJTAG Dockerfile, build fine on my laptop, does not build on Dockerhub.

I mean submodules were a pain in 2010, they are still a pain in 2021. So much for 'open source'.
Thanks for the suggestion. Drift looks interesting as well, but it’s hard to say whether any of its additional features are really worth it compared to the regular tiddlywiki.

Are you just hosting this on a VPS?
It feels like I am running an emulator for my high-school HP-11 RPN calculator!
The problem is simple really. Green energy can’t handle bad weather. Texas has made a huge green energy investment and fossil fuel energy sources have been on the decline since...2008. Atomic energy has also been demonized. While the article states that ‘Most of the power knocked offline came from thermal sources’ that is a number based on total wattage output, not total production sources, and those outages were caused not only by weather but by cascading failures related to wind sources. The article attempts to assert that the failures were due to lack of investment but truly the failures were caused by relying on wind energy that isn’t ready for prime time and will never be resilient enough in the face of dramatic weather events.
> it's simply too far away.

Brazil has a 2500 km long ultra high voltage direct current line running from a hydroelectric power plant to Rio de Janeiro. I'm pretty sure there's a medium-sized city or two within that radius of Sichuan.
There is a giant pile of contracts that have been scrutinised that very clearly show the absolutely incestuous nature of procurement since covid and long before too. It isn't "all politicians", it is conservative politicians in the last eleven years.

The Good Law Project is a great example of the kind of organisation that investigates this. The Guardian does good work here too. I'm surprised to say it, but even Labour are making noise about it in Parliament. This is historically unusual and a sign of the return of the Old Boys' network. It is a bad sign for democracy.

https://goodlawproject.org/case/end-to-cronyism/ is a good start to read from.
Neither the article nor any of the comments you reply to use the word you quote.
"whether an employee takes personal responsibility towards their work."

This is an incredibly important factor. It really matters to getting a team that gels and gets things done.

But here's the thing: That has to be a two-way street, or it won't work. The company needs to show responsibility towards their employees too. And that isn't yoga classes & cafeterias, that is basic respect, and a willingness to work with the employees, instead of seeing them as "resources".

This seems to be, as far as I can tell, an approach that's correlated with manager skills & inversely correlated with company size. I've done both manual & "white collar" work in small companies, and the ones where the leaders did right by their employees had employees who would go to great lengths for them.

I've done manual & "white collar" work in large companies, too. None of them had CEOs that cared that much. But some had managers who cared a lot, and were willing to bend rules if it meant doing the right thing - those teams excelled. The ones with the managers who didn't care about their people got teams who didn't care about their work.

And I know the kind of manager who's terribly upset about your 11am yoga class. Without fail, that yoga class was on your calendar, but they wanted the meeting when they wanted it, without a care about you. They could've done 1pm, they could've done 10am, but that would've inconvenienced them, and that's not in their playbooks.
This - the mental overhead of a software job is not something that is easily turned off during non work hours - especially with a pushy employer or coworkers with no work life balance themselves.

You can’t cut steel at home after dinner no matter how hard you try if you don’t have the tools. Conversely, I’m sure you have a computer, can you just login to GitHub for two seconds to review this PR I submitted at 9pm...
How do these domain-specific quirks get into WebKit? Is it advocated by the companies? By the users? By the devs?

I'm just curious how these changes actually make it to millions of people's browsers
Hot take: emojis are a type of text, for this very reason. The entire unicode standard is what humanity has settled on as "text".
At the point where your device has work software on it all bets are off to begin with. Your employer might straight up require you to use an Android phone. What you're describing is your employer using their free choice to decide where to distribute apps.

Incidentally, employers already have the ability to distribute custom iOS software for their employees, so your scenario wouldn't happen.
Concerns about 3D multimedia spaces replacing text makes as much sense as worrying about parchment, paper, or rectangle screens replacing text. Virtualized spaces are, much like those others, merely a transmission medium for text (and other media.) As immersive computing arrives (you may not think it is, but I assure you, it is) we will be refactoring a lot of these existing rectangle screens and other contexts where text is projected via physical processes into virtualized ones.

This is why in my 3D virtual space for work, Jel, fully collaborative text panels (synchronized via OT) are the primary kind of element you create: https://jel.app.
I would not be surprised if that were a thing. One real world example I know of was the nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays. Edward received all of his uncle's writings, studied them and had some serious take-away's that led him to becoming a consultant for the U.S. Government and many private companies. He influenced the minds of millions of people and even after passing, his work is still influencing billions of people today. There is a great documentary that covers this called The Century of the Self. [1] Apologies, it is in black-and-white, but it is very much worth the watch in your spare time. This isn't about ESP or hoaxes, but rather controlling the masses during peace time through psychological means.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
> New iOS "app store" starts up, but only charges 0.1%. This is possible because they don't write the OS or any of the infrastructure; they're a simple indexer

Apple was already paid handsomely for OS development through the device's purchase price.

> Apple's revenue drops precipitously

Apple has some of the highest margins in the industry. They'll survive.

> In order to maintain the OS, Apple either a) raises the prices of iPhones b) starts selling my information c) invests less in the iPhone and iOS.

See my previous point.
More comprehensive and authoritative source for same data:

http://www.astronautix.com/

eg Kliper (2004)

http://www.astronautix.com/k/kliper.html
>Apple have hundreds of billions in cash do you actually believe they're going to put ads in their services?

That's irrelevant. The issue in question is one of principle, not whether or not someone is in a certain position at this moment in time and can or can't or will or won't do something. If Apple suddenly lost all of it's money, you'd then be ok with them putting ads into their services?
Okay Dominic Cummings.
Not to mention individuals aren't even the cause of creating most of the greenhouse gas volume behind climate change. It's massive corporations creating something like 90% of all greenhouse gasses? 100 of them create 71%

(https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=corpora...)

So when Shell and BP are on Twitter sharing ways to change your behavior to save the environment, it's like the murderer encouraging you to wear a lucky charm to prevent being murdered, as they're standing over you with the knife.
Jennifer Arcuri isn't in tech is she?

(Apologies if I just ruined the joke and you didn't really mean Carrie Symonds)
Some time in the early 2010s, but it was from a clearance store.
Xamarin AOT, Unity IL2CPP and .NET Native work just good enough.

I like D, but lets not pretend the amount of production code delivered by those environments doesn't exist.
The Roman empire created roads, but we don't attribute railroads and cars to them. I think "government spending invented the internet," is the "you like roads, dontcha?" of our time. ARPA wasn't open ended research either, it was to respond to the existential threat of nuclear annihilation. Conflating public largess with national defence spending is a category error. Not to belabour it, but I do think this trope needs to be put to bed.

How should government fund basic vs. moonshot research? Incentives. If they think they are smart enough to allocate funds via a committee, they need to be smart enough to figure out how to structure incentives.
There needs to be different rules for products that are essential to modern life, like smartphones.

We have more rules and regulations for things like food services, airlines, banking and farming than we do for a store like GameStop or a jewelry products.
The content creator selects which currencies they are willing to sell their product for. This shouldn't be difficult to understand. Do I have the right to demand that my local furniture store accept Bitcoin?
Yes, it's a good thing the US in general, it's government more specifically, and it's defense establishment particularly are completely free of cronyism, and there aren't huge numbers of people influential in every field even loosely associated with the US’s vast military-industrial complex that have gotten their by networking rather than any other form of merit.
There's a long history of people loading custom firmware ("tunes") on vehicle ECUs to modify how the engine runs. Tesla's ECU shouldn't be any different.
Yeah, Hyper-V is just hardware virtualisation, it can't run in "emulation" mode.
I hate fortnite for what it is. I love unreal engine for what it is. Regardless of my stake in Apple/Epic is, I think this needs to be addressed. The economics of platforms as a monopsony are damaging. We see it in other areas too. Uber Eats and what is effectively extortion of small business restaurants. It's like the definition of economic rent, and it's a mess of bad incentives.

I would strongly support a system that forced operators to either run at cost or to charge any price but allow sideloading.

A maximum profit margin on services like could also be viable.
Why does there need to be multiple app stores? That sounds terrible. Apple just needs to stop demanding huge chunks from app revenue.
This is factually incorrect.
Then if you care so much about running whatever software you want on it, perhaps you should have bought a phone that lets you do that instead?

I'm not personally in favor of walled gardens myself, but everyone who bought an iPhone knew that's what they were getting and did it anyway.
I see. I'm just wondering which one has gained traction among blockchain and p2p apps (I think signal uses Erlang)
Come to Windows, iOS and Unity game development for consoles.
I liked managersclub as well. Interviews with real managers from diverse set of companies... One thing I like most about them is that they ask same questions to all managers.
Do they? All in app purchases have to be made through Apple's payment system. If you can buy amazon prime through the app then Apple should be taking a 30% cut. They might already do that, I have no idea, but it seems unlikely Amazon would agree to it.
The exemption to FOIA is because the press and civic society in the UK have rooted out cronyism and corruption with gusto in the last year. The conservative party does not believe we have the right to know how we are being governed or who benefits from the process of government.

It makes me furious, and it should make you furious too, reader.
Not sure how much I trust this page but if you are interested in an alternative history version of the space race I highly recommend For All Mankind on AppleTV+! It's a great show IMO. It shows what might have happened if the USSR beat the US to the moon and the Space Race never ended. It kicks the US into high gear and leads to a more advanced and in my opinion better USA (more liberal and technological/focused on Science). It's a biased towards a progressive viewpoint (so am I so it works really well for me).
Most discussion (>400) on the BBC analysis of the Which report at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26149754
France ties Russia’s Sandworm to a multiyear hacking spree
> It feels a bit hypocritical when...

You are treating corporate entities as if they are people with emotions.

This is a mistake.

They are not people. They are legal entities, created to enable their owners and beneficiaries to have special rights regular citizens do not have, such as killing people and never going to prison (Boeing).
The ransomware thing is a red herring. The trust is not related to the counterparty- the trust is in the ledger itself. Once you have the tokens, you know you have them, and as long as your keys are secure, that fact remains true.

That's not the case with any other monetary or payment system or store of value.

You can trust that your balance in your account is what the blockchain says it is, and that nobody but someone in possession of those keys can use it.
It’s not about the outcome, it’s about reasoning from first principles and going where ever that leads you, regardless of how much you dislike the outcome. Nobody has to buy an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook. Apple has the right to create the software ecosystem they want to create. Their success in mobile computing is arguably a direct result of their closed ecosystem.
HN is unique in that it doesn't have or care to have ads. Same for GitHub and websites owned by big companies that don't depend on ads as a primary revenue source.
Until somebody loses their wallet in a discarded HDD.
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You can’t commit a fitted pipe to the company repo at 2am on a weekend. You also can’t be pressured to. Well you can - but we would instantly recognize that one for what it is - ludicrous!
> The "Apple Tax" pays for the maintenance of the Apple ecosystem.

No - the ~50% margin Apple makes on the phone pays for the ecosystem. Apple could charge nothing for inclusion in the app store and still be by far the most profitable electronic device maker on the planet.
What? The 360 never had any homebrew enabled
Apple's iPhone is now systemically important to commerce, business and consumers unlike Playstation and Tesla. Given their size and scale they should be subject to higher standards.
That's obviously a really great manager.

I think they're also very rare. And that kind of personality/social skills is not something most people, especially engineers, have.

I imagine someone with such skills went on to greater things?