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Agreed on that. The PC platform allows us to build any specialized computer that we like and that's awesome.

But I am worried. Non-free firmware is everywhere. The Intel Management Engine showed a very dark side of the hardware vendors. How long until a remotely activated censorship or spying is brought to light?

I likely sound like a cheap doomsayer and a tinfoil hat but I firmly believe that the time for completely open general purpose computing is now. And I don't mean the SBC ARM toys like the RPi. I mean actual strong computers like the Ryzen 5000s or Intel 10000s / 11000s.

It's time. But who will work on it? We're all so busy surviving and insuring our olden ages. Sigh.
>> How is this justifiable, in terms of security?

>It isn't.

Neither is it in terms of environmental impact.

Neither is it in terms of consumer rights.

There ought to be laws to ensure there is a defined and working path out of the garbage google operating system software stack to something that will be supported at the minumum. Still if you bought the device because you need the google garbage you get burned. So probably a giant "expiry date" on the lid announcing when the device will become unsupported so you can see the maximum useful life remaining of the device as originally sold at all times.

It's the sort of insane "but with a computer" that terminates all thought by politicians, public servants and most consumers so it gets a total end-run pass around all of our generally accepted modes of commerce that nobody would accept in any other field.

The inevitable car analogy. "We decline to make replacement brakepads anymore so you must now replace the entire interior and controls of your car to use something third party or drive completely unsafely." Just nuts. Linux and Firefox get security updates done for you for no cost if you're a vendor. Treating customer safety and public with contempt really should have consequences in computing as it does in literally every other field of commerce.
It was mean sarcastic. In case you haven't figured out how awful the fact-checkers are.

An no, if you ban "disinformation" you ban free speech. There is no way to figure out if a flat earther publishes something for disinformation purpose or if he really believes what he writes.
Disinformation is best frighted by debunking it, not by removing it.
Most people have heard form the flat earth but most dont believe it. Because they can inform themself. That's how it should be. No need to "save" everyone trough authoritarian measures. The risk here is way higher than having to deal with some forever flat earther.
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Lived experience is definitely a buzzword used to try and instill more credibility in anecdotes.
As Hasan Minhaj pointed out, the result of thousands of minor landlords going bankrupt will be the further consolidation of the industry into large commercial landlords (which are worse).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1030&v=MPFPBzr7FgY&feature=y...
There's also this classic paper that actually contains Prolog code for (reconstructed versions of?) the first metainterpreters that became Erlang: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34....
So basically, "it's a free-for-all, we guarantee absolutely nothing unless you 1) don't generate duplicate keys and 2) the code of your consumer doesn't depend on their ordering".
Say you have a 1kWh budget of energy to spend to heat a room and access to a variety of heating methods such as an air pump and an electric resistor (space heater or computer). Which one should you choose to maximize increase in warmth? While the electric resistor will convert the energy it uses to heat with a very high efficiency, the air pump will usually heat the room even more because it doesn’t just locally convert electricity to heat, it moves heat from outside the room to inside the room. Further info in [1] and [2].

EDIT: great explanation/details in sibling comment by ’prutschman’.

[1] https://www.homecomfortexpertsinc.com/why-are-heat-pumps-mor...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Why-are-heat-pumps-more-efficient-than...
No, if. Scalable quantum computers might be physically impossible or close to it. That would explain why the world, which is really quantum, always appears classical.

Quantum computers have something similar to moore's law which is that adding each bit is as difficult as all the previous bits. i.e. the required noise floor scales exponentially, unless a certain threshold is reached.
These filters tend to be used less to block harassment, in the sense of targeted vitriol towards you or your group, and more to block any and all people who disagree with you, including the polite ones.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. Certainly, individuals have the right to wall themselves off from counter-arguments, but polite public discourse between ideological opposites is a precious thing, as is the ability to sit down after a hard day at work and not read 10 spelling mistakes squeezed into a 280 character death threat.
So many niche books on Astronomy, and Astronomy software.

https://www.willbell.com/math/index.htm
Newer cryptocurrencies simply make different tradeoffs, especially with regards to decentralization and security. Breakthroughs that are devoid of tradeoffs will probably make their way into Bitcoin in the form of soft or hard forks. So far, I haven't seen such innovations. Proof of stake is one of those "different tradeoffs" innovations. It's not obviously better than proof of work unless your only concern is to minimize electricity consumption.

Perhaps you are right with your gas car analogy... Or perhaps Bitcoin will be more like the relational database from the 70s which, despite being derided by the NoSQL crowd, remains king to this day.
I have one of these! It was my first computer. I got the 8k model, but it had the chiclet keyboard.

Eventually I got a full-sized keyboard for it, but it was made by a third party and connected to the motherboard via a flat ribbon cable.

I programmed my own text adventure for it from scratch, but I ran out of ram after the game had only three rooms in it. It may have been the smallest adventure game ever, but it worked!

To this day, I still see PET computers in old science fiction movies and in recent TV shows and movies that take place in the late 70s or early 80s. It was definitely the coolest looking personal computer of its time.
I am spending more time on Reddit these days, not less. I'm spending less time on HN.

I own quite a few subreddits. Maybe I'm a future power user.

The old guard typically dies before the new generation can thrive. Until they leave they tend to actively gatekeep keep potential competitors out.

I am fine with hearing "Maybe you will finally get to build your own garden, at last, Doreen." God knows the past decade has been pure shit for my online social life, which stands in stark contrast to when I routinely had real friends online, met them in person, got meaningful help with my health issues, with raising and educating my kids, etc etc.
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Absolutely. I need a good general purpose computer to program on. But for my phone and family, I 100% want to outsource security and updates to someone competent.
This is a strange article for me. It feels more like another push to be tribal rather to admit there is a problem.

The problem that I see: Social media has emboldened people to look at attention and fame as something that has to be achieved. People actively fight over it. It's a pretty self absorbed approach to label people who disagree in an extreme manner (poes law here.. but trolls is what I was suggesting.. it's not far way from calling people nazis) .

Also, something to mention.. it's rather frustrating to see people dealing with being a minor to major internet celebrity. (That's what people are fighting over and for) For the most part that was a self selected goal to get there, and when they're there they don't like the bad side of it. The article in question completely ignores who she's referring to when she talks about "hate". (Is it a pro troll army, how does she even get to the ire of their attention, has she been pretty aggressive towards them?)

Sly edit: All those who downvote me support javascript and are haters. No reason to disagree with me. /s
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> YAML is fine as a user

The link in the main article convinced me otherwise: https://noyaml.com/
Rights are rights.

I don't want to be "systematically analyzed" to determine if wrongs done to me are "acceptable".

That sort of thought is a path that leads straight to tyranny.
Can you be confident that any future hardware, or linux even, will remain open to tinker with? If you're worried about tech being closed up, that's fine and well. I wholeheartedly agree with you. But future hardware being limited isn't the same as forcing an update on existing owners, locking services to new devices, etc.
Unless you have a mind-reading device, there is no way to be sure what somebody believes.
The first PhD was awarded in France in 1150 CE.

Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and even Pre-Columbus America had complex cultural customs, art, math, engineering, medicine, language they handed down generationally.

University as we know it is a relic of Medieval European tradition.
> yes but: the % of computing that people do that can be engaged in, explored, enhanced, modified continues to drop.

Yes, the number of closed systems is growing, but so is the number of open ones.

So many commercial projects these days are based on open source software or even open hardware. I'd argue that the total set of complex systems to take apart, study and admire has never been larger than today.
How did I know something like this would be the top comment?
It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, isn't it?

I feel like the stimulus cheques should have been made out exclusively to people who:

1. lost a job

2. suffered a wage cut

3. suffered a significant loss of revenue

Number 3 would include landlords and freelancers. I'm one of the lucky people for whom the pandemic increased savings (by decreasing spending), so I don't think it's appropriate that I received two (!) stimulus cheques. I've donated one to Wikipedia and the other to a couple of local charities, but I'm sure there's a smarter way to redistribute that money...
I think "deliberate" is a hard thing to determine with available information, and Politifact has certainly has selection bias is what they check and some ratings are questionable, but I think this demonstrates that they don't always 'peddle correct information':

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=rachel-m...

I do think MSNBC's MO tends towards bending truth to make emotional appeals against ideological opponents rather than reporting outright fabrications, such as:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/05/zerlina-ma...

Also, a lot of their Russiagate reporting was questionably and thinly sourced. I suspect it will be a couple more years before the public gets enough substantive facts to outright call their reporting and analysis on this topic "false" or "intentionally misleading" but they certainly had a number of questionable segments.
Who's going to buy an apartment with a squatter in it? There's no easy way out for these individual landlords.
FOMO? Leverage? I have a couple of anecdotal stories I know personally: a friend of a friend working in a jewelry store recently purchased a Manhattan condo as an investment that brings in around $3,000 in monthly rent.

A few years ago I was visiting Vancouver and living in an AirBnB (private room in a house) when prices were dropping, and the owner (a school teacher) was crying about how over-leveraged she was with her million-dollar-plus house, and how she was trying to get sell it, even at a loss.
I don't think your analogy is as good as you are imagining. Payola[0] was definitely a thing, so there have definitely been artists (or rather, rights holders) who would pay to have radio stations play their songs (the reverse of being paid by the radio stations).

Of course, not every rights holder did that with every song, but your analogy also fails to account for the fact that platforms aren't hosting the entirety of each article, they are providing links. That's more like an artist sending a clip from their new song to a radio station and letting them play it for free, so that people go out and buy the full recording.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
So in other words no, but you don’t think it’s a long term problem?

I honestly think your fath in humanity is refreshing. Personally, I think this is just reversion to the mean where simply lying was historically the most common response.
> It would be interesting if someone from China could comment on censorship in China. Is there a fraction of people who agrees with it or is almost it universally disapproved of?

In general people don't agree with it. However, for a lot of people, it's not actually on their radar.

The reality is most people in China are so engrossed in their work and day-to-day life that censorship isn't really actually an issue for them, and taking political action is not something that an average citizen would do considering the grave risks to your career.

Also, it's worth noting that most citizens prioritize safety over free speech. If changes in the law indirectly mean that there will be riots on the streets, most citizens would rather have whatever it takes to have no riots. That isn't to say people agree with censorship, but for what it's worth, people are happy that you can more or less walk around anywhere in China without much fear of your personal safety. Most people in Shenzhen were extremely happy they were in Shenzhen where you could walk around freely instead of "free" Hong Kong where you had to be in fear of idiot high school students throwing Molotov cocktails and beating up anyone who spoke Mandarin.
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Perhaps the purpose is to list colors in a specific order, such as to show to the user in a desired order?

And before you argue that dictionaries can still be iterated in order, you better check the sibling threads where people are arguing you shouldn’t rely on that.
Gentlemen,

Empathy is not imagining how you would feel if that shit was said to you.

Empathy is more like imagining how you would feel if that shit was said to you right after you'd lost all your money and had your dick amputated.
Wait, so because you are running proprietary software (games) and it puts restrictions, you refuse the whole platform? This makes no sense.

At my work, we used to use gaming PCs as high power compute boxes. We used them fully, and they worked great. And they were as open as a PC can get - they had all open source software, no rootkits, no suspicious files.

Please don't mix the platform and what you do with it. Freedom also means the freedom to give your freedoms away.
> Landlords are part of the financial system. Deciding landlords must take the loss on rent so that their tenants can be safe is sensible health and social policy during the acute uncertain phase of the pandemic last year. That uncertainty is now gone.

I thought the eviction moratoriums were more to avoid adding a giant homelessness crisis on top of the already-existing pandemic crisis. It was a secondary benefit that they would also help those people socially distance to help control the pandemic.

Ideally the government would have stepped in with effective programs to support existing financial relationships to avoid disruption (e.g. paying employers to keep employees on the payroll, which I think Germany did), but some people strongly believe we shouldn't have nice things like that.
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It's worth noting that a lot of work (4500+ hours in ten months of development and testing[1]) has been put into a massive rewrite of the wallet in 5.0.0. The wallet is a lot more stable than it was when you last used it, the GUI is much better, tons of old crappy code was removed, thing are more secure in general, etc. There's also much better testing of releases now too

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/im8ktw/gridcoin_5...
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Surprise, Chinese websites enforce political censorship within China? I am not sure what is news here. Are we going to pretend the NSA doesn’t integrate with PRISM to make lists of its own?

Because they are beholden to the government, corporate control over the public square has us all fucked. Today people cheer Big Tech’s ability to censor distasteful politics from the public square. Tomorrow, when “content moderation” makes civil disobedience impossible to publicize, we will lament the lack of decentralized social media.

In other words, centralized social media cements moves towards authoritarianism, but makes it very difficult to move back in the other direction, especially if attempted via the most tried and true methods in history.

The revolution won’t be televised. You won’t find it on Twitter or Douyin either. So why did anyone expect anything different? Unless the people can take back control of the public square from the corporations, democracy will crack.

Edit: consider responding with something coherent rather than downvoting and moving on
Oh, comprehension.

> evidence that could prove someone caused his death

> have yet to identify a moment in which he suffered his fatal injuries

Neither of these things say "he did not die as a result of injuries sustained in the riots".

> "According to one law enforcement official, medical examiners did not find signs that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma, so investigators believe that early reports that he was fatally struck by a fire extinguisher are not true."

No, the ME, who is yet to release finalized verdict, stated that the officer did not die "from blunt force trauma".

> that he was fatally struck by a fire extinguisher

Well no. He wasn't. He died the next day in hospital.

From a hemorrhagic stroke. Which could have been caused or exacerbated by non-lethal beating.
We can’t ethically do the tests needed.
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There would be a moral basis with a 100% land value tax or a property tax that approximates it.

Without it, though, rent is partially a stream of income derived from labor (upkeep, management, construction) and partially a stream of income derived from a state granted monopoly over a parcel of 4 billion year old land.

The moratorium is, in part, tacit recognition of this. Everybody knows that a large slice of rental income is completely unearned - even landlords.

Few would seriously believe that the sky high rental incomes derived from these is really earned, for instance - it's an entitlement: https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2019/08/06/1067844_10-...
While those skills are useful for life, they are "worth" nothing in the marketplace without the ability to sell yourself.

Ultimately a classics degree only limits her job options in the short term. An engineer can go be an engineer, or transition to anything a classics grad can be, assuming both can sell themselves equally well. (if we are assuming high quality white collar jobs that pay well and have good career prospects)

Of course, college brand name greatly contributes to "selling yourself", so an expensive classics degree from Harvard is at a significant advantage over an engineering degree from some no-name university for non-engineering roles.
Having a daily team meeting for mostly unnecessary purposes sounds awful. I admittedly don't primarily do development and don't have daily standups anyway. Once a week team meetings at mutually convenient time--I work across multiple timezones--that can spend some time on what people are up to outside of work are fine. But that's about the limit.
I see a person of culture wrote this, any jab at SystemD be a good jab.
Yes you are right. I checked later and Indeed the crime rates are lower.
> By being extremely frugal. Did you read the part of the article where the owner does not live in the house. The owner lives in a "cheap studio apartment nearby with their two young daughters". That is how!

You’re referring to Gao, I’m referring to Won. Different people.
> It might be easier to get a high paying job right out of school with a CS degree, but the ability to communicate and the ability to learn will still pay dividends long after your technical knowledge is obsolete

This 100% - you said it better than I did.

It's the underlying concepts and meta-skills that stay with you, and most "knowledge worker" jobs - not to mention real life - depend heavily on communication and learning to master complexity.

Even in CS I'd say that while the technology quickly becomes "obsolete" the general concepts and ways of thinking (not to mention underlying math and theory) last a lot longer.
I hope that eventually we will return to more predictable police power and broad taxation, as described by this quote: “The Fifth Amendment’s guarantee that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation was designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole” (Armstrong v. United States https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/364/40/).
So true! I wish South America, Europe and Asia (all culturally quite close to the US culture) would get enlightened about free speech, if only to carry on the torch should the woke cancel culture win.
I wonder, how exactly are practices like this helping with viruses?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-sam...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2541250/update--apple-...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple...
CUDA is basically C with Fortran semantics, right? Wouldn't something like that be possible with Python?
Another option would be a social housing program to buffer evictions and provide human rights (food and shelter are one, there's absolutely no discussion about this) to those in most difficulty.

Of course this approach will be met with howls of criticism about market distortion, having something to do with "social(ism)", and removing incentives to work hard.
One important question related to this is if a news org doesn't cover a valid story? Is that lying by omission? Probably not, but from an audience standpoint is there really a difference?
> I honestly think your fath in humanity is refreshing. Personally, I think this is just reversion to the mean where simply lying was historically the most common response.

Its your faith in humanity that's "refreshing" if you think giving the people with the guns the power to police speech is the proper solution.
Curious to know more about what specifically you find obtuse about pricing? I've used Azure a lot, and don't recall any ambiguous pricing.
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Sorry, is the US dollar akin to an MLM scheme in any apples to apples way?

Edit to add: Glad instead of getting 3 downvotes right off the bat, people decided to spend effort into writing thoughtful comments.
OK, Keras can learn a linear relationship between x and y. I wonder why that is noteworthy.
Being a landlord isn't a job.
You're right, haven't experienced anything beyond 10M. I guess at the very top you don't have these issues at all.
I'd like a cite for Speech can be well-regulated.

First Ammendment caselaw is a little muddled, however, content regulation falls between strict scrutiny and per se invalid depending on which way the wind is blowing. See eg. Simon & Shuster v. NY (invalidating Son of Sam law). See also, RAV (invalidating hate speech law).
So does anyone want to you know, respond to a question that literally just is declaring facts about words used in the article, or just silently downvote it because they don't like the "side" the point is coming from?
I believe it has become just a marketing term - but the original macbook pros were very much geared towards lots of computing power to get serious business done. It has shifted over time.