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You are right. "most" was the wrong word to use. "some", not zero, might be better.. it is just speculation anyway.

Regardless of how much time they spent, they may have made others uncomfortable. I've heard that any kind of speech that makes someone uncomfortable is bad.
TSMC will always lose that bid against a hostile state actor (the PRC) which can totally ignore market value in pursuit of strategic goals.
YouTube doesn't create H.264 versions for 1440p or higher. If there's no VP9 support, the best resolution you'll get is 1080p.

Some Apple devices are (or used to be?) affected by this. For example, on Mac, Firefox or Chrome have been able to play 8K YouTube videos for a long time while Safari couldn't go past 1080p. This was "fixed" a few months ago, but only because Apple added VP9 support.

I don't think H.264 will disappear from YouTube anytime soon. They'll continue to use it as a fallback for devices that can't play VP9 or AV1 files. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if VP9 was dropped before H.264 when AV1 support (and YouTube's encoding capabilities) improve.

At the end of the day, Google/YouTube doesn't have to use a paid and proprietary codec like H.265 and Roku doesn't have to support VP9 or AV1 with hardware (or software) decoding. But since H.264 support is still there, the hardware should be able to play 1080p YouTube videos without a problem.
The impossible investments required to compete here.
>> I doubt you even know the costs

> You have no idea how much involvement I had

You're absolutely right. I said "I doubt you even know," not "I know for a fact you do not know," and am willing to be proven wrong. I made an assumption that I'm confident would apply to most people commenting on this story. I don't think I misrepresented it as anything other than an assumption.

Until you show me some receipts I'm going to continue assuming you are not actually privvy to what it takes to run the app store.

> Apple won't let anyone do it themselves

You've misunderstood. People are free to build up a fleet of devices, the OS that runs on them, the backend services that make up the app store, all the customer support channels and tooling, find/hire/train all the employees that keep it running, etc etc etc. Apple can't stop people from trying that. Peoples' problem is that they don't want to take decades to get there, which is what Apple has done... lots of pain along the way, too.

_That_ is part of the value proposition of the app store itself. The app store does not exist in a vacuum.
There's no way that Basecamp forbade developers from working on Rails related side projects. A good chunk of what Sam Stephenson has worked on recently has been instrumental to launching Hey, and Basecamp has long benefited from their association with Rails and influence over it.
They're not similar, because Visa isn't in the music streaming business.

Apple is directly competing with Spotify with their Apple Music streaming service. Since Apple has complete control over the iPhone ecosystem, they can set the rules to harm other streaming service, or let their own service completely break the rules.

These anti-competitive rules aren't just about Company A relying on Company B to do business. It's about Company B also directly competing with Company A.
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Not sure I follow. What would justify this 30% cut in this case? The fact that they are forcing all app installs to be done through the AppStore? A fair fraction of vendors don't need that the exact same way they don't need payments to be funneled through Apple. It's Apple's choice. No reason why the vendors should be forced to pay for it.
Automatic transmissions also have hydraulic logic gates in the valve body (implemented with check-balls and piston servos), even if they're also electronically controlled. Drag-racers will reprogram the valve body to change the shift order, have launch control, etc.
> And you're free to choose another phone vendor. Apple isn't holding a gun to your head.

You're "free" to choose one side of the same coin, because Apple and Google have a duopoly in the mobile app distribution market. They both abuse that market dominance to prevent competition in the mobile app distribution market from offering consumers better, more efficient and cheaper options.

Google prevents mobile app distribution competitors from competing with the Play Store on feature parity because user installable 3rd party mobile app stores cannot implement automatic upgrades, background installation of apps, or batch installs of apps like the Play Store can.
>The fact that manufacturing is cheap now and schematics are not only the key to repairability but also counterfeit Chinese knock-offs is a problem worth understanding.

I think you have a BIG misunderstanding here. The schematics do not include any Apple secrets, it is the repair schematic that is only high level stuff AND this schematics are already on the internet so China has it already (so honestly stop bringing the China argument here).

Is the same with diagnostic software, many companies only show you a error LED and you have to send the device to a repair person for that person to use the software and tell your the error message. Making the software(or the Google doc) available that translates and error code numbers into error messages will not make iPhones insecure or allow China to copy them (btw isn't iPhone already made in China> wtf is this About China FUD?, China's Apple factory must have much more info then only repair schematics )
There are projects like fsql[1] that support this and make it easier in many respects too. SQL is a powerful syntax for tabular data.

This is also one of the selling points of Microsoft's PowerShell (which I think you can also install on Linux?).

1: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-fsql/script/fsql
Most of North Europe is quite cashless, and it's perceived an improvement.
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There isn't much more efficiency to be gained in the electric motor world. Motors typically get 90% of theoretical efficiency, so any improvements there will be modest.

Substantial improvements in other metrics might be had, but they probably won't massively impact EV's (weight and costs of the motor are both a small part of the total for a car)
In the US, decent health insurance plans are all corporate. Particularly if you want something non-HMO with reasonable out-of-state coverage.

A few states have laws on the books which compel health insurance companies there to sell corporate health insurance plans to sole proprietors and single member LLCs. Florida is one example.

(Florida also tends to have some of the best health insurance options in general in the US, at least as of several years ago.)

Sadly, just because the state law says health insurers must sell corporate plans to sole proprietors and single member LLCs doesn’t mean those health insurers will happily sell you a corporate plan without a fight. For example, I tried to buy a corporate health insurance plan via a Florida sole proprietorship, per the state law. Every Florida insurer I contacted refused to sell me a corporate plan.

I ended up calling the FL regulators who ensured me Florida law indeed does compel these companies to sell me the plan. They either just didn’t want to sell me the plan, or their corporate division was entirely unfamiliar with working with sole proprietors. I left the US shortly thereafter.

If I were in the US, I’d try for a corporate plan again, maybe even in Florida. Unless something has changed, the alternative is far worse. E.g. paying $600+ per month for a plan with essentially zero out-of-state coverage, a deductible so high it almost makes no sense to even have the insurance plan at all for a healthy young person, and a bunch of weasely out clauses that let them screw you over even if you pay them ludicrous sums of money. Plus if you’re on an individual plan, the health insurers tend to systematically deprioritize you compared to their corporate customers who have far more bargaining power than you do. I would sooner go uninsured, or leave the US entirely.
>I had cracked a cylinder/piston on the original LSA. I did not trust anyone to do the work so I did a lot of research and did it all myself

I love working on cars so I totally get wanting to do that, but why didn't you trust someone else to do the work? There are probably more reputable LS builders across the US than any other engine family.
Part-time Portlander here! You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Please stop basing your worldview on Infowars talking points.
Is that right? I didn't know that. I'd like to see a BOM on a regen braking as compared to a simple disk brake system.

One implication to software-only brakes is that it requires that that corner is a drive wheel. If that's the case, I suppose that anti-lock is simply firmware and a sensor.

note: I do see that Teslas have master cylinders, so they apparently are hydraulic braking systems.
They had many opportunities to reverse that blog post. They didn't and doubled down.
There's the advantage of know-how. Perhaps you get better ROI letting specialized people do it.
>Does anyone here care that none of the Taiwanese want to be part of China?

Who cares what they want? The confederacy succeeded from the Union and the Union invaded it.
> "What? The fuel tank capacity can't have an inflated basketball in it that springs a leak during the race, leaving us with more fuel capacity?"

Pardon my ignorance- what is the motivation for temporarily reducing the fuel capacity in this example? And why was it disallowed?
>This seems ripe for abuse.

You proposed the hypothetical starting with the Court. If you want blockchain to preempt any court involvement your hypothetical needs to start at that point.

I think it is possible through the prisoners dilemma. Have husband and wife have a joint wallet from the beginning governed by smart contract with agreed upon prenuptial terms. Marital assets could go in and then upon divorce they be equally split, the husband and wife could be required signatures, but if only 1 signs the funds/assets are locked until both sign. Maybe in rare instance you get one partner willing to lockup the funds and sacrifice their own finances, but that the entire point of blockchain/miners and the prisoner's dilemma.
What is the difference between WASM (new/good) and Java applets (old/bad)?
Does it feel like we have squeezed a critical part of our infrastructure here allowing it to go bankrupt? This could have lasting affects for decades.
This is an argument in favor of pushing up inflation as soon as possible. Ideally inflation should be 2% and interest rates should be between 3-4% and it should stay that way forever.

If there is a discrepancy from that ideal then it means that something is going wrong, and the longer that discrepancy lasts, the more things are going wrong. Those wrong things will be discovered as soon as interest rates are back to their normal level.
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Payment processors bear the risk of fraud and extra checks for large sums. App stores have effectively zero risk.
> Does not add up. Who're they going to control if they kill millions?

Their citizens on the mainland. The CCP believes that if they don't look good, their days are numbered and revolution will be inevitable.
It doesn't aritificially depress wages if China was offering artificially high wages in the first place.
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This is simply outrageous, how much more of Google's unacceptable behaviour do we have to endure before there are riots?

The time for complaining is now past, it seems the only way we're now going to put a stop to this pariah's actions are multiple class action suites and embarrassing individual politicians as to why they done SFA to stop such excesses.
They also subsidize the cost with VC money to undercut more efficient public transit.
Oh yes. Thank you. And good job for porter guys.
I'm personally pretty weak with the web stack work, so I've never had a long term open source project where a SaaS model made sense. Feel free to discount my opinion as I'm not the target audience of your project.

The landing page to me looks bland to the point of being suspicious. The github page certainly seems to do a better job of selling the idea, but you need to have some example projects using your tooling to get most people over the hump of "This is likely going to be a massive pain to setup and maintain without a good chance of reasonable payback". Monetizing open source is hard and additional code doesn't really fix it. It's a problem of user support, marketing, changing project priorities, site reworking, etc, etc. One of the reasons why things like github, patreon, etc work is they help obtain an audience which is an example of the non-code factors at work.
Does anyone remember this type of home buying craziness is what happened just before the bust of 2008?
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Ask HN: How to stop PayPal invoice spam?
Some time ago i ordered small item fro ebay seller. Item was lost, ebay refunded me.

After that I’m receiving 2.45$ invoice each week on my paypal account.

Neither ebay nor paypal support was not helpful. From ebay perspective all good.

Paypal support seems to care only about wrong/fraud payments. But invoice is not a payment yet.

This is really really annoying (dozens of invoices in mail & transaction history) and seller is not responding.

Obviously it’s a hole in paypal user experience. How to reach them?
Paradoxically, hardware is one of the most deflationary domains (like, 50% yearly performance increase per dollar spent) , yet it's still crazy in demand.
Looking at what DHH tweets, it sure seems like the only acceptable politics at Basecamp is what helps selling their product
No problemo. Just go to a big honkin' flywheel somewhere under the back seat.
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Intel has a lot more to offer than the smaller businesses. It's a mutual exchange -- more than you can say for the typical tax.
But also look at the AirPods Pro vs Galaxy Buds+:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Pro+Teardown/127551

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds++Teardow...

One has a zero whilst the other has a 7 by ifixit's rating.
Sorry, to be clear, I tried this on a full fledged Windows box with all the things that Windows wants to enable TPM support and just generally make Widevine happy.

Another poster suggested Edge, I'll try that, though honestly the entire process has just taught me how little I value the streaming services anymore, so I'm not super motivated.
Yup, we're rolling out support for Azure and some other cloud providers in the next few months!
On desktop it takes you to the image, but on mobile it seems to override it and directs you back to imgur.
> Yesterday, we offered everyone at Basecamp an option of a severance package worth up to six months salary for those who've been with the company over three years, and three months salary for those at the company less than that. No hard feelings, no questions asked. For those who cannot see a future at Basecamp under this new direction, we'll help them in every which way we can to land somewhere else.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
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> What text editors and mail clients are you using regularly that (a) you paid for

None. The text editors and mail clients I use are free. They have been regularly updated for 30 years. And they still work on modern systems with modern file types and file systems.

Where appropriate, I do purchase and donate. Mozilla, Wikipedia, and some direct payments to certain developers, for example.

Thunderbird is good software. Vim, grep, and xterm are among the best text utilities in the world. Or, if you want, emacs.

> To be direct, I highly suspect that any 30 year old applications you're referencing receive regular updates, are tragically underfunded, and the developers would ultimately benefit from upgrade or subscription pricing.

I appreciate your directness.

Apps that don't to follow the latest anti-consumer trend don't need to be updated with new features every few months. They don't need bug fixes twice a day. Their development costs are massively less. And their development is often done because the developer needed the tool anyway. I'd call them altruistic. But I think a lot of apps would do better with more pro-consumer behaviors.
Does it feel like we have squeezed a critical part of our infrastructure here allowing it to close down or go bankrupt? This could have lasting affects for decades.
DHH stated it in his "Let it all out" follow up post.

> Yesterday, we offered everyone at Basecamp an option of a severance package worth up to six months salary for those who've been with the company over three years, and three months salary for those at the company less than that. No hard feelings, no questions asked. For those who cannot see a future at Basecamp under this new direction, we'll help them in every which way we can to land somewhere else.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
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> The idea of a "motel" is to be cheap

The idea of a motel (“motor hotel”) is to be a convenient to motorists, often as a stopping point or destination on road trips by family vehicle. Now, that market historically has skewed more working class than that for “destination” hotels not focussed on motorists, where guests were assumed to be brought to and from the hotel by a driver—taxi, etc.—for the last/first leg, an by longer range owned or hired transport—air, usually, these days—so, yes, on average motels have been cheaper, but that is incidental rather than central to the idea of a motel.
Yeah, this is my take. I feel like a huge amount of the blowback here is the insensitive way in which it was handled. They announced it all publicly on their blog, meaning most employees heard about it first on Twitter. It could / should have been handled carefully and tactfully first.

The resignations feel less less like a result of a mismatch and more like result of a slap in the face from mismanagement.
I have a house. I rent out the house. How am I limiting supply?
They offered a severance of 6 months salary if you've worked there for 3+ years...

I would be tempted by that offer regardless of any other circumstances, especially in today's competitive jobs market.
A Google search shows I was way off the amount is $40-60B but I think there are additional sums not accounted for.
>e.g. ~1-2% for credit cards

It's capped in the EU - 0.3% for credit card, 0.2% for debit ones. That fee includes all the risks of chargebacks and fraud processing.
Bitcoin isn't quite anonymous, as a variety of criminals have found out. Cash is anonymous: there is no unique identifier associated either with the transaction or the parties to the transaction.

Bitcoin on the other hand is, at best, pseudonymous. This is particularly problematic because it gives information about true identities when the owner of coins wants to spend it in any way on anything where bitcoin is not an accepted form of payment. Then, the "off ramp" becomes much more closely associated with the owner of the coins.

Heck, even in a world where on-ramps & off-ramps to bitcoin weren't necessary because everyone used bitcoin this would still be problematic: An address suspected of holding coins obtained through illegal enterprise pays a car dealership in bitcoins for a new car, and the authorities simply go to the dealership with a warrant and say "tells us everything you possibly can about that transaction and the people involved in the purchase & delivery of that vehicle".
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If one person leaves a company in protest, there's probably a pretty good chance they're the ones who are divisive.

If 1/3 of a company leaves all at once, it's far more likely leadership are the divisive ones.
Japan has a population of 125 million people and is one of the largest economies in the world (3rd / 4th largest depending on if you're using GDP or PPP).

Why wouldn't they have similar companies?

Lots of well known global brands in Glorious Nippon, too.
Different regions have different types of worries. Distance and precautions required to deal with redundancy for an earthquake may not be the same as required for a tornado, or hurricane, or flood, etc. In some cases, I imagine elsewhere in the same large city may suffice. In others, maybe it requires 50-100 miles.
A bill of materials? As OP said, there is literally nothing required aside from what is required to make the car go forward. An electric motor is a generator.

Teslas have traditional braking systems in addition to the regen braking. The hydraulic brakes have nothing to do with the regen system.
The efficiency of Visa isn't comparable because it solves a completely different problem than Bitcoin.

And yes, in most cases we can pay each other just fine without Bitcoin. That doesn't negate its specific usefulness.

It's already well documented that you don't see the trustlessness and decentralization to be a value for you personally. If that's the case then simply don't buy any. Those who do get value from those properties will use it, as is the case now.
Then how is this constitutional? We can't have an income tax, but we can have a tax on certain kinds of income? How does that work?
Restricting APIs doesn't solve the problem because there are plenty of APIs that apps need for legitimate purposes but can be abused by bad actors. Many of the APIs used for device fingerprinting would fall under this category.
Rob herring has made a patchset for AOSP that allows one to run it inside a QEMU/KVM, using virtio device drivers.

https://github.com/robherring/generic_device/wiki

I have personally run this through KVM on arm64.
> That's because the way you're using secure is likely misleading to most people; two WASM programs will be more strongly isolated from one another than two normal programs

This is wholly incorrect. Two WASM programs will be at most as isolated as two normal programs, but in practice substantially less so. Spectre being the obvious one that sort of "fully breaks" in-process sandboxing, but lack of hardware enforcement also means you're now more vulnerable to host bugs, too.

Regardless it's a question of what is the juicier attack surface. WASM only cares about protecting the host from the embedded code, but it does that essentially by sacrificing the embedded code's own security from the outside world. That is, if A is the WASM host of B, and B can be called by C, then WASM is about protecting A from B at the cost of making B more vulnerable to C. If B is the thing that actually has the juicy data that C wants in the first place, this is a really bad tradeoff. If A is the juicy target, though, then this is a fine tradeoff.

So in a browser context where the host is almost always the juicy target, WASM's tradeoffs work. If, however, you're talking about things like using WASM for web server sandboxing instead of docker or a VM, well the web server itself is likely the interesting attack surface rather than the "hypervisor." So that's probably not a good tradeoff to make there.