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> Now I'm hearing from many in the same community that free speech has been "weaponized" and must be controlled for the greater good. What happened? Seriously.

Is this really an opinion espoused here (in non-greyed-out downvoted comments) or is this a straw man / exaggeration? This is an actual question, not meant as a flame.

I would suggest that HN broadly is in fact more accepting of the idea that platform holders should somehow moderate their content than it used to be, but HN also remains (broadly) very skeptical of the platform holders' ability or will to execute such policies well or fairly.

The truth is that platform holders have de-facto moderation - that is, their algorithmic feeds that decide what to amplify and what to bury in the name of generating ad revenue. It seems to me personally that these approaches are failing us all, a fact that has only become really obvious in recent years. I would say this development has now opened up a lot of room for discussion.
This does not address a concern I have had: models are not science. Many models can be created, and then over time one if found to be correct, so we assume that one can predict the future. It cannot.
Many states in the US force work. It's legal under the Constitution.
I really like your response and cant really argue with your points. I just want to add another aspect that I think you missed, the cultural mindset of the US.

Pre ww2 the US was pretty isolationist. A very, "Sounds like a whole lot of your problem and not mine" kind of country. The foot dragging for both world wars is pretty evident. I've read and personally do believe it's attributed by the fact we are a melting pot of people. That's important for the distinction of, "I left xyz country for a reason and came to this country to get away from their bullshit." That's a very toned down version of what my own dad told me on my 18th birthday when he gave me the full story of leaving soviet occupied Poland. I'm pretty sure theres a lot of grand amd great grand folks with similar sentiments when they left the old country in the late 1800s and early 1900s. People didnt uproot and enter a foreign land with no support just because they bored and doing well in their home country. This, I believe, leads to a self reliance mindset since there's a... disdain... for the rest of the world.

So the security aspect, absolutely. I think the want for all manufacturing in general stems from the self reliance, isolationist desire with security as a very good, logical excuse. However, even in bizarro world if a security argument wasn't good enough alone, this anti-global-reliance wouldn't go away.
> What do other Matrix servers matter to my hypothetical Element Home server or my selfhosted matrix-synapse server?

Matrix is federated, like email. Once you send a message to someone on another server, what happens to it is out of your / your server's control.

(E.g., Google's Terms of Service apply to Gmail, but you can use Gmail to send mail to someone at Yahoo... at which point it's beyond Google's reach.)
YouTube i.e. Google is a private company. They can shadow ban, kick or permanently ban and do whatever they want. Reason or no reason.
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Maybe. OTOH, a politician can be a huge influence for good. Kennedy's "We chose the Moon" speech influenced generations of engineers and scientists all over the world. JFK was not a good role model and, yet, he managed to bring out the best in a whole lot of people.

Humans are flawed - we can't escape that. Every human has a dark side but, it seems, some humans have a very large one.
This sounds like a good use case for Playroom too

https://github.com/seek-oss/playroom
The setup.py that I saw doesn't do anything with the response of the HTTP request so if it were indeed a targeted attack it would need to exploit some kind of weakness in the network stack. I guess that makes a targeted attack quite unlikely.
Frogwares was ordered to continue the contract while it continued to be litigated was the ruling I read. If Frogwares is in breach of a court order, the solution is to file a complaint with that same court that the order isn't being fulfilled. It almost certainly was not the court's intent that Nacon bought a copy at retail, made changes to the game, and published it under their own name with no attribution to Frogwares.
This is a good question. I have a suspicion that the big difference is actually many tiny UX differences: Vimeo isn't nearly as aggressive with getting you to watch more videos (i.e. automatically playing a video next) with an aggressive recommendation algo; it also doesn't seem to encourage engagement as much. Vimeo's brand (at least afaict) is more on the business/commercial end, a 'prestige' brand (at least to some extent?) with fairly different demographics.
Conversions between analog and digital happen in nanoseconds. They happen as the signal is sent.
This is an opinion piece in bloomberg, a pro-business, pro-wealthy publication. Is there any surprise that they dislike rent controls?
Reminds me of an old job writing Windows desktop software. Our flagship app was big and bloated, and it had a long load time with a nice splash screen to distract the user.

We later created a light version for a specific use case, and the product owner came prepared with a nice splash screen for this one too. The app was so lightweight that it loaded near instantaneously - so the engineer added a six second delay just to meet the splash screen requirement.
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Are you a lawyer? Just kidding. But I ask because you are technically completely correct and have just secured an acquittal for LastPass on a pure technicality ;-))

Mixpanel and Segment are not ad trackers, they're used for profiling and habit-tracking and essentially to get into people's brains (understand their decision making, interactions etc.). It's not advertising, it's much worse.
They're also so-called "first-party customer data collection tools". The raw gold nuggets that get sold on. You could call it "people-data trafficking".

Then they have four (4) Google trackers in it. Again, yes, technically not for advertising. But how we can call anything with the name "Google" in it "not advertising", well come on, seriously, I know we all like to delude ourselves sometimes (I sure know I do) but that might be a bit of a stretch ;-)

A single one of these trackers might be legitimate in a software such as this (privacy-centric, a highly sensitive service that's supposed you keep all your secrets or at least manage access to them), in that it tracks UI issues, errors, crashes etc. and helps developers to quickly improve the product and create a better UX. But the rest is heavy data mining equipment. They're not the ones who'll do the advertising but you WILL be advertised to with the data collected here, make no mistake.
The cost of storage is marginal, 1 subscribing user subsidizes 100-1000 free users. The encryption computation is offloaded to the client as well. That's why this service is a profitable recipe for freemium. I'm sorry you're sorry about the parent commenter's experience.
doesn't Google Docs or Notion just solve this?
This is spot on. I was originally using PayTM to pay my bills for phones and TV. And while it was a little bloated and sluggish there was nothing better. But then Google Pay was released, and it was so much faster then anything else on the market.

But Google Pay released a new update using the flutter framework. And now even scrolling takes ages to complete. I complained on Play Store but the reply said to check my internet speed.

Meanwhile PayTM has also redesigned their app, but unlike Google Pay their updates actually made the app much faster and intuitive. I still check Google Pay from time to time to see if they have fixed their app, but the scrolling is still laggy (it feels like you are in a web page) and the loading page still flickers.
I do not mean the confederate flag:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/08/12/flags-and-oth...
An interesting project is https://github.com/dappkit/aviondb which is mongo-db like database on top of orbitdb
Haven't many governments already said they'll stop allowing them to be sold by 2030?

So 'car manufacturer commits to stop building cars that they won't legally be allowed to sell' - that's the news?
The HBO app on my (admittedly low end and not brand new) Roku is laughable. You have to select a program to watch, put down the remote and go grab a snack or something because it takes about a full minute to load the screen with the show details. All that to load some thumbnails. And if you dare accidentally hit a button before it’s fully loaded, it will crash the app half the time, and the whole OS about 1/10 times. Instead of replacing it with something more performant I use it as motivation to not watch TV and go exercise or read a book instead.
Think about how much money a landlord has to invest with in keeping a property attractive to renters. What's the point?
Text =/= Variable Length

I can store fixed-length data using text. A strict schema can specify things like fixed lengths, value padding, orders for maps, exact whitespace rules, etc which can entirely remove the need for delimiters. A schema could even require length prefixes, just like you might use for a non-text format.

These concepts do not necessitate abandoning text. If you need the data to be readable/writable by a human with minimal tooling, you can still leverage text without sacrificing much parsing efficiency.
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Couldn't see anything about merchant blocking on there. This would be an excellent feature (I like control). I signed up years ago and never really used Bunq as I didn't see what it added.

How have you found support? I've found Monzo to be fairly lacklustre as they've grown, so considered making my Starling my primary. However, Starling don't really have any particularly exciting features that would motivate me to switch.

Edit: Their site no longer accepts UK numbers. Yet again, FUCK BREXIT.

Edit 2: Managed to reactivate my account, and for obvious reasons they don't seem to support FPS or have an account number either, so not really great for a primary UK account.
Using which HTTP client?

To test "correctly", you'd likely want to use the requests library or, at the least, ussend the same User-Agent header that it does.

(And, for all we know, they could just be targeting certain IP addresses... or only responding the "malicious" response the first time the URL is requested per IP... or some other weird conditions that we aren't aware of.)
While I agree with you, there’s a reason the current application environments are targeting web rendering engines, it’s cheaper for development. Why develop 3-4 different applications when you can develop 1 with hardly any extra effort?

Chromium is a huge boon to developers for this reason. Now there could have been a different history here. Apple after acquiring NeXT had also gotten OpenStep, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep . OpenStep was a cross platform UI development kit, even the web could be a target. Apple decided (possibly for good reasons, hard to argue with success) to kill this off. But, they had toyed with it, https://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/14/yellow-box-seems-to-exi... . So, Apple had effectively what Chromium has become. A cross-platform development and runtime environment.

Would things be different today if that wasn’t killed off? Would Apple have never come back from the brink of death to become the behemoth it is today, because it would have starved its own platforms? One thing you might have had is a cross-platform “native” UI platform, and that might have meant faster more efficient UIs like you want now.

Shoutout to GNUStep trying to keep the dream alive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep

Follow up question: maybe with Apple being so successful, now they could revive this and make it profitable for themselves, rather than starving their own platforms?
We only use TypeScript on frameworks that make it a requirement, the language is starting to look like Haskell.

As much as I like Anders work, it is impossible to understand modern TypeScript without looking into tsconfig.json before looking into source code.
> I'd really want to see some data about lots of people wanting to move to ... Berlin who are not able to due to lack of supply.

Even if there were those lots of people unable to move, would that actually be a problem in various cases? Unlike many other European countries, where the countryside has emptied out and brain-drained as its young people move to the big city, Germany has managed to keep many of its small towns viable places to live and work.
> but a properly security-paranoid home automation aficionado wouldn't be caught dead giving some proprietary black box power and network inside their own home.

That sounds like the definition of a cell phone.
> In recent months, we were approached by a buyer.

Apple?
Honestly, as someone who spends a significant amount of time reading and attempting to replicate papers... I have very little faith in most papers, though the concepts themselves often appear okay.

My friends and family also doing research have added to my questioning most papers. It’s probably healthy to have a lot of skepticism, the paper itself should convince through the research methods and sample size.

Unfortunately, the incentives align more with skirting the truth than being honest. That’s why each paper, in my opinion, requires a healthy dose of skepticism.

As an example, in January 2021 the PCR protocol to identify covid-19 was finally updated and a warning sent out that there were possible issues. Specifically, issues that would lead to higher false positives. My wife who does PCRs regularly immediately identified the issue in AUGUST 2021. This means it had to have been known prior to that date, yet wasn’t discussed for political reasons
...that's how the light gets in.
This is true. Same logic goes for anti-vaxxers and doctors. Of COURSE doctors recommend going to doctors. They WOULD say that.
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"The product was great until it wasn't. The amount of hours I've lost to try and fix this, including talking to numerous people on the phone, is absurd. "

I find that this is the case with distressing frequency with nearly any big-company product I use. I haven't had this problem with Apple yet (which is kind of surprising, given how much Apple there is in my life), but it feels like it's an outgrowth of corporate size and scale more than anything else.

The older I get, the more I loathe the way corporations create an environment where no one is responsible for anything.
I think you're right. One of the first comments is the video he says is "Nacon is licensed to release it on Steam."

OK. Then why is your licensee going to such great lengths to publish to a platform you contractually agreed to support?

Something smells here.
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> In a food shortage, for example, regulating the price of bread only trades one expression of scarcity (high prices) for another (empty shelves).

This is the key statement to refute if you want to argue for rent control.
It is only dismal if you think money should grow on trees which seems to be the premise behind FED policy today.

Is physics "dismal" because we can't have free energy or perpetual motion machines (that can do work)?
Is it worse if now there is a special class of people who happened to be in the right buildings at the right time when this law passed who will now forever get discounted rent, leaving everybody else to pay full price?
skepticism is good. people should be skeptical of science, especially by the time it reaches popular media. but skepticism isn't very useful unless you can evaluate roughly how skeptical to be about a particular finding. five sigma physics finding replicated by multiple studies? probably good, but there's always some chance of systemic error. n=10 psychology study never replicated and all the subjects were white male college students? let's take that one with a big grain of salt.
Just trying in VS Code again, and there does seem to be a lag for mouse clicks. Not sure if its as much as 1/6s, but probably 1/10. Typing though looks as snappy as any terminal.

I get electron or MS have optimised the typing path. I don't click that much in VS Code so I don't think its ever bothered me.
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They are hardly the only site to do that. It is only by convention that non-www-prefixed websites tend to redirect to www-prefixed one. It's not at all mandatory and technically they are two different hostnames. It may be intentional to ensure only exactly the right hostnames are ever used, e.g., www, ftp, smtp, etc.
I read the parent as saying YouTube is probably a pretty lousy bet if you have no other income stream to eat. Yes, some people do pretty well. So do some actors. And some authors. That doesn't make those occupations good full-time financial choices if you're broke.

Most people posting on YouTube have day jobs or other means of support. I'm actually tempted to think that patronage and ad supported models lure a lot of people into thinking they can monetize their hobby in a significant way that they would never think they could if they were playing a musical instrument for tips.
Does anyone know if this has been useful for Raspberry Pi camera calibration or stereo depth sensing on the Pi?
"Trannies" is definitely transphobic and the direct equivalent to "faggot".

Transgender issues and human rights issues are political because politics are what create them and politics are what can solve them.
That happens. My favourite is that people like me are "born into not being human", which I'm supposed to be ok with.
"You know, Quasimodo predicted all this"
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Looking for your feedback: It is still possible to submit questions for the panel discussion. Which questions should the speakers address?
> Apple just likes screwing over the people that give them money.

My iMessages is currently 24.14gb. I’ve not had storage space issues in a very long time. Apple gives you settings to define retention periods. So how is Apple screwing me over again?
The iPhone is by a good margin the fastest phone on the market, on pretty much any kind of benchmark.

Animations are very seldom used on iOS to hide any work happening in the background. Most things happen instantly, and animations are added for usability, to give spatial hints and make the UI easier to follow.
I worked for an SVP at Apple as an “entrepreneur in residence” from 2016-2019.

Apple’s best-of-the-worst products now suck in a million subtle ways; and they’ve become so complex that they suck in different ways for each user so we can’t even band together behind a single complaint.

The root cause is the lack of a “fuck no, fix that shit” product CEO who puts customer experience above all else. Without one, it has become a very typical big company bureaucracy. The engine is still firing on all cylinders but nobody is at the wheel anymore.

It’s hard to diagnose from the outside with Apple because 1. there’s a shroud of mystery/secrecy, 2. boatloads of cash keep smart people on hand and create some very genuine technical supremacy (e.g. M1) and 3. even a broken “new product innovation” clock is right twice a day when it sprays $20b into R&D every year (AirPods, maybe AR someday, etc).

But true, earth-shattering category-defining innovation at today’s Apple is incredibly inefficient at best and structurally impossible at worst – not to mention the hardest type of innovation which consists of simplifying software, slashing the complexity of product lines, and thereby fixing whole categories of bugs with a few powerful swings of the sword. (E.g. fucking fix and unify Apple ID/iTunes/FindMy/etc ... today ... not next year).

And, in my opinion, their monopoly/oligopoly/[whatever] status, cash hoarding, and domineering attitude over the devices in a billion peoples’ pockets are largely preventing the greater market from innovating and competing with them.

We should break up any company in the $1T range (inflation adjust by making a rule based on % GDP?) into ten $100B companies, by force of legislation. It won’t fix the problem but it would at least create some sunlight through the canopy for new trees to grow.

It’s the case at all Big Tech companies. Time to break them up. https://paygo.media/p/25171

[ ... or if not that, can I at least get USB-C on my iPhone so I can stop carrying two cables? :’( ]
He's kind of totally wrong about the phones and thus the speed being THE killer feature. First of all, Symbian phones, which were the market leader smartphones when the iphone was released were pretty fast. So were feature phones (i.e. dumb phones).

What iphone was a LOT better at than everyone else was UX. Of which speed is one component, of course. It's funny how much people never get it although it happened in front of us, it happened to us. At the time I was working at Nokia Research and I remember my girlfriend telling me how his boss got this wonderful phone that you can take photos with and you can view them, etc. The funny thing is that I had such a phone since 2001. I have been working with smartphones for 6 years then, she knew it, she listened to me when I told her or others what I was doing (and then listen to others responding "yeah, but phones are for making phone calls"). She saw me browsing the net on my phones (a 9210 communicator and then a 9500), send emails from the beach, etc.

Still it somehow didn't register. Because it looked like something that she'd never use. And then the iphone that did a lot less made her and basically everyone understand what a smartphone is. (Even though by then symbian smartphones were pretty common, most people didn't use them as smartphones.)

So no, it's not simply the speed. It's the UX. And even if we talk about speed, it's still not the speed, but it's the perception of the speed, which a lot has been written about: delay (lagging) matters a lot even if speed on average is OK.
This sounds a lot like land ownership.
glad to hear it :) but your comment concerned only greenhouse emissions, which is all I was addressing.
Didn't this happen a few years back as well (circa 2012)?
Ask HN: Is It Worthwhile to Take the Large Steps to Protect My Privacy
What’s up HN, this is my first post and probably my only post.

I am unsure of what to do about my privacy. I am forced to use predatory software for my schooling, and I’m unsure of how to protect myself. I have stopped using Instagram, Snapchat, and the likes of for years now. I have looked at the site privacytools.io, and I found a lot of helpful information, however I don’t know how worthwhile it would be to do most of those steps. Any advice would be helpful, thank you

- DOOM
The whole thing with closing Guantanamo? Spying on american citizens truth the NSA, or massively increasing drone attacks?

Or do you mean the sympathetic and nice personality he showed in public?
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Ah I was confusing the loss landscape with the parameter search space because you said "local optima". Yep, I imagine most parameter search spaces are convex.
Mind blown.

This is the best news I've heard all week. Thank you kind stranger!
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