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> Why do you want to take my choice away from me?

You keep repeating this disingenuous argument. If you don't want to root your phone, don't root it. If you don't want your kids to be able to root their phones, don't pretend like you aren't taking away their choice.

If you don't want rival stores with lax standards, don't install them. Just don't keep telling people who want to be given a choice that they're somehow "taking your choice away from you".

If you want to be in prison, go ahead, but don't pretend that having the option to leave is somehow "taking your choice away".
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Ohh come on. I am not against linux but to say it works flawlessly is ridiculous. My last try with it a few years was the most ridiculous. If i plugged my bamboo stylus, the screen would just go all crazy, as soon as i unplugged it, back to normal. Stylus worked on windows and mac, but on linux (ubuntu lts) i couldn’t even plug it in (and took me a while to find out that was the problem as it installed everything fine, then after the reboot this happened, only when i decided to disconnect everything but the monitor and try plugging one by one did i find this out

And lets not even go over the ux disaster that is the mix and match of uis from various apps.
Yes there is. I don't want Facebook or Google to move all their apps to side loading or an alternate store with lax controls and opaque privacy disclosure. I need to use their apps, but I want them to have to satisfy Apple's app store policies. Side landing and alternate stores would cripple the effectiveness of those policies.
For those of you ‘generalised’ AI sceptics like me, I can highly recommend reading Søren Brier’s book on Cybersemiotics (“why information is not enough”). It’s a comprehensive reader into the physicalistic, reductionist field of AI and all of its shortcomings. General AI implies the ability to abduct (not just deduction and induction), which I highly doubt will ever be possible.
The X.509 RFC and it's relevant substandards define a day to be 86400 seconds long. Not longer, not shorter. There is no half a day tolerance in there, only tolerance of less than a second (which LE exceeded by hitting an entire second).
Brad Myers. All the Widgets (Fixed v2) - 1990.

This was made in 1990, sponsored by the ACM CHI 1990 conference, to tell the history of widgets up until then. Previously published as: Brad A. Myers. All the Widgets. 2 hour, 15 min videotape. Technical Video Program of the SIGCHI'90 conference, Seattle, WA. April 1-4, 1990. SIGGRAPH Video Review, Issue 57. ISBN 0-89791-930-0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtd8Hc90Hw

Also by Brad Myers:

Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf] (cmu.edu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26057530

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/papers/VLtax2-jvlc-1990.pdf

Updated version:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/papers/chi86vltax.pdf
I don't think it makes sense to think of the brain as even a network of (microprocessor style) computers. The brain is almost surely a computer in the theoretical sense of the word, i.e. it is equivalent to the lambda calculus or a Turing machine.

But there is no reason to expect that the computational model has any resemblance to the one used in PCs. There are good reasons to believe that the brain's functions are not based on binary logic circuits, that (some) memories are not simple storage etc.
iCloud photo sharing? Works with people that do and do not have iPhones/Macs. At least I know that non-Apple users can see photos in a shared album; I don't know if they can add photos to a shared photo album as well - I've never tried that.

Several years ago I got tired for Facebook and quit it. My parents, in-laws, and siblings have an Apple shared photo album for "general" content and we occasionally set up albums for the same group of folks when there's a big event/trip/etc.

We occasionally Facetime or use chat via Messages. Email's are in the mix as well.

I feel that it works reasonably well.
That happens quite often, indeed. My theory for this works as follows:

1. People do not have the time (or think they do not have the time) to read documentation for more than 5min by default. They need to consciously allocated that time.

2. C-level types generally do not read details IMO, presumably because they think they won't understand it anyways. (thus, "executive summary")

3. Everyone who aspires to become C-level someday copies this behavior and ignores all but the "executive summary".

4. Otoh, C-level types are always in meetings. Thus, aspiring career folks will copy this behavior, too and only ever focus on something if they are in a meeting.

5. This culture of only ever sharing information synchronously is somewhat infectious and will spread throughout the company.

6. The behavior is also self-enforcing. If several people are in a meeting-only mode, you can only get them information by scheduling a meeting yourself. This will, step by step, bring you into meeting-only mode.

7. In the end-game the whole company slows down because information is spread only by the speed of meetings.
$8.50 eh? When autonomous driving is a thing, uber etc will get really interesting. Maybe even cheaper but I'm not hopeful by much.

Personally I'd suggest that autonomous vans will really shake things up. Especially the combination of EV and autonomous.
> According to the May 2021 edition of The Sunday Times Rich List, Queen Elizabeth II has a personal net worth of £365m. A whopping £100 million of that alone accounts for the queen's family's personal stamp collection, known as the Royal Philatelic Collection.
I did recently find a different kind of a repair shop that successfully defied the digital age - manual lens and cameras repair shop.

I needed Canon nFD lens fixed and found out that only one out of dozens camera repair shops in my area still touches manual lenses. When I went there I chatted a bit with the owner and he said that in the past few years they are overwhelmed with repairs as other technicians knowing how to repair those are simply dying out or retiring. At the same time the rise of mirrorless cameras made adapting of old glass to new cameras super easy and cheap, especially for videographers. And now I have to wait 3 weeks for a simple repair.
JS has been my main language for the last decade and Axel (the author of the book) is my go to source when it comes to understanding upcoming features. I frequent proposal repositories, read the standard, and still find myself learning something new when I read an article from Axel on the subject. I have not read the book, but I'm sure it's written with the same rigor and clarity as all Axel's writings.
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> You are citing wafer sizes. Fabs are measured in mask sizes, the density, not the overall radius.

The fact that these are 150 and 200 mm fabs tells us that these are using machinery from the 80s or early 90s, respectively. So these fabs are probably using several-hundred nm processes.

> have much better fabs ... So the Bosch Asics will run at roughly C64 speeds. Good enough for consumer cars.

Maybe look at Bosch's semiconductor portfolio? They're not in the business of making commodity parts like processors or MCUs which benefit from being on small nodes. They do specialty mixed-signal, power ASICs and MEMS devices.

Smaller is not always better. This is easy to overlook when "silicon" is only though of as CPUs and GPUs.
Show HN: Open source platform to enhance your user experience. TRACARDI
I just released TRACARDI - an open-source platform for user and customer management under Apache 2.0 license.

https://bit.ly/35d49bL

It is the platform for new data-driven businesses that want to automate:
* user profile management,
* user marketing consents,
* customer segmentation, etc.

I have been working on this project and building it in public for the past 3 months. Now I think it's time to free the code and see some love and hate from the public :) Though it is maybe still a bit early but I want to see if there is any need for such a platform.

I would LIVE TO READ YOUR FEEDBACK.

If you like the project please follow me on twitter https://bit.ly/3uVJwLJ. I documented my development journey on YouTube channel https://bit.ly/3pbdbPR for anyone who prefers watching then reading.
I don't like having a birthday either, and I will sometimes give people presents, but I absolutely never want any.

This seems to cause friction though, and maybe represents some kind of personality issue. I don't know why I'm like this or what it might mean though.

For the record, I did secret Santa a couple of times. First time went to a ton of effort to send a nice, appropriate thing (House of Leaves colour hardback) and got nothing. Next time though I sent some crappy thing and received a giant box of Simpsons socks. That was actually really cool.
> Of course if you accepted external contributions to your code under a copyleft license then you can't use that part freely, but that's kind of the point.

Well yes. But if you:

1. Want to accept external contributions
2. Think you might want to use the entire project (which may still be mostly your own work) in proprietary code in the future.

Then a permissive license is a lot easier than the alternatives.
So the reasoning is "if you allow my phone to be unlocked, so many people will want alternate stores that Facebook and Google will unlist their apps from the App Store and use the alternative stores only, and then they won't be as rigorously reviewed"?

Like how you can't get Facebook on the Play Store because it's only available on F-droid on Android, for example?

That's certainly... interesting.
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Isn't this tautological or trivial because any proposed alternative requirement than reward maximisation can be reframed as maximising a different reward?
For me pay by the hour means:
- if the task will take much more work, company will still pay you and they will take the loses
- if the task is done faster, you'll just get more work and company will take the profits

I think this is European approach, trying to eliminate the luck factor out of ones success.
I went into this pretty skeptical, but by the end I was convinced that this is a good endeavor. For example, batching notifications for certain kinds of apps is a truly great idea. I don’t agree with every suggestion here, but it’s clear to me that thinking about these issues could lead to some more good ideas.
Yes, because it's based on a PC. A quite standard and open specification where you can buy motherboards, CPU, RAM, disk, IO peripherals etc from many different manufacturers and build and install what software you want. However, on a Mac, you cannot install or change the hardware as you like, you cannot install what software you want.

If Linus Torvalds was a teen today and there was no open PC standard, only a Mac, then it would not have been possible to create Linux the way it is today.

Imagine if also Microsoft starts to make their own processors and then sell their own computers with Windows and all locked down, and don't allow anyone else to make computers with Windows or their processors.

Sure Dell, HP and others could still make PC's, based on Intel or AMD CPU's or some ARM processor and then run Linux (or develop their own OS), but it's a hard sell.

The PC's sold to the mainstream thanks to Windows/Word/Excel maybe, but then people who wanted could tinker as much as they wanted and where free so make and sell their software (windows based or whatever) or their HW peripherals.

Now you are at best stuck within an app store if you create something.
I've looked at a lot of COVID related research papers over the last year, which is exactly why I don't take them seriously anymore. The quality is extremely low and they routinely do things that aren't scientifically valid without any obvious repercussions for the authors.

Fortunately, again, one more time. You do not need scientific studies to see the truth here. The goal of mask mandates was to change case curves. That was their only justification. In a large number of places mask mandates were added or removed without the case graphs changing. Therefore, they do not work. Everything beyond that is irrelevant and frequently confused, e.g. studies on masks are not relevant to the question of mask mandates.
What you want is to maximize the utility of the police, but then the policy question is how do you define utility. The people in power will of course tend to define it with a bias towards them and theirs.

Perhaps the crime should be looked at in context. Stealing $100 from a homeless person is equivalent to stealing $1,000 from an averagely salaried person.
> If I can get that for $200/month for a new car for 3 years then hand it back

So, that's $7200.

> Sure, I could buy a car for $5k and hope that it's cheaper over the 3 years

There's no hoping, of course it's way cheaper. $5K is less than $7.2K even if you dump the car off a cliff after the 3 years. But you wouldn't, you own it so you can sell it (unlike the lease). A car that you buy for $5K is so far down in the depreciation curve that it doesn't depreciate much anymore, you'll be able to sell it for close to the purchase price. If you sell it for $4K, that's a total cost of $1K for 3 years vs. $7.2K for the lease. No comparison.

On both choices you still have insurance and operating costs on top, both have those. Insurance is bound to be much cheaper on the older cheaper car. In fact you can go liability-only on a $5K car, who cares. But on a lease you're forced to pay full coverage on a new car, far more money.

So if you want to enjoy the luxury of a new car lease, enjoy! But there's no way to justify it on economic terms.
I agree with your sentiment in general. However, I will note that the second question only makes sense for non-biological, dualistic notions of consciousness. If consciousness is taken to be a function or phenomenon happening in my brain&body, then there is no question to ask. It would be like asking 'why am I digesting my food and not yours'.
I've never heard of anything like that before. I wonder if you'd get the same reaction from ritalin.
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it never does. Suits want a "generic employee" that can work on any problem. Makes planing way easier.
The Cuckdowncels will never give up on the Covid-19. I pray the Republicans win big in 2022 and expose the whole fraud.
IMO extremely large businesses like Amazon cause quite a bit of harm to modern economies/societies. They reduce the diversity of alternatives, and cause a concentration of wealth.

That there is not a good standardised way to give preferential treatment to small companies does not mean it's unreasonable to want to.
> It will not happen overnight but it does fuel nationalistic ideologies

Sadly those ideologies fuel themselves. This is in fact an attempt at a propaganda victory, in an electoral year, to try and stop the ultraright from conquering the French presidence next April.

> all I see is them concerning with offense, accusations and procrastinating issues

All you see is what the anglo press wants you to focus on. The Union is doing ok; they agreed some historical aid packages to help their most troubled economies, moving one step forward towards a real shared treasury; they changed rules to try and sort out the "Eastern problem" of Poland and Hungary, the impact of which we'll see in the next 5-10 years, particularly on refugee policies; they are slowly grinding down their internal tax havens, and fielding multiple attacks to the monopolistic FAANGs; and are slowly clarifying a constitutional setup that is not even 30 years old, and hence still very much in-progress. (There was a bit of a fumble on vaccines but, as we've seen this week, nobody really came out well of COVID response, and they are reaching a decent velocity now.) On Northern Ireland, their internal public opinion wants them to hold firm against UK trickery; this will generate some hate on the English press, but it's a problem entirely of England's own making (and yes, I use "England" on purpose here).

For something coordinating 400m people over a territory that's never been so united, the EU is doing incredibly well. 30 years after the American Revolution ended, the US was still very fragile internally and went to war with Britain and France; a lot of internal tensions were not solved until the US Civil War, 60 years after the US Constitution was ratified. The EU is not at war, hopefully we'll continue to settle our disputes around a table, and that's the real victory.
i find it cool, the image adds the context.
A lot of commenters are hating on the article -- I fail to see why. Whether all the ideas are good or not is up for debate, but putting control in the hands of users for combatting dark patterns and dampening addictive habits at source is only a good thing. During the pandemic I've seen my daily phone usage soar, I wish I had some form of iOS 15 Humane.
>Google said Google Search is designed to provide people with the most relevant and helpful results and the Ohio lawsuit would make it harder for small businesses to connect directly with customers

Why do multi billion dollar companies keep pulling the "small business" card. Does anyone actually fall for this?
Because he is a stupid idiot.
Stargate too, where they dig up an 'ancient'
But their response was to ban him, which means the response consistent with the rules applied to other people would have yielded no ban.
> You do not need scientific studies to see the truth here

Mind if I frame that on my wall?
I think the key is that you get 2 shots. The second one might result in antibodies that bind the antigen better. This might happen because the immune cells undergo another round of mutation and selection after a second round of antigen exposure.
This is how a lot of ideas get nonsensical holes put in them.

There would be licenses, regulations, threat of lawsuit, qualifications and all sorts of other mandatory requirements. If someone wants to be cynical then, yes, a lot of these safeguards would not be put in place until after a certain number of deaths had been exceeded. eg seat belts, air bags, traffic lights, speed limits, road rules in general.

The idea is still viable.
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Zachtronics "actually programming"[0] games:
TIS-100
Shenzhen I/O

Zachtronics programming[1] games:
Spacechem
Molek-Syntez
Opus Magnum
Infinifactory

And probably the rest of them (but for the rest of them, I cannot speak from direct experience)

[0] As in "part of the game is writing assembler code"
[1] As in "you are configuring state machines"
>You literally have both, and more

I guess it depends on who "you" are. A lot of kids get exactly one device. Some have to share it with their siblings as well. So I do think it matters whether our most widely used devices are completely locked down or not.

It doesn't just matter for kids either. It also matters for democracy how many people only own devices that governments have complete control over.

That said, I do think the problem can be exaggerated. People tend to find ways around restrictions. It can even be a motivation for looking more deeply into how things work.

And not all of those workarounds are terribly expensive. Ironically, the most expensive devices are also the most locked down.
A very easy one:
Firefox > Preferences > General > Network settings > Enable DNS overs HTTPS
I did the same thing for years, mindlessly browsing well past a sane hour. What changed is I started going to bed early and getting up early, before the sun rises. I still browse mindlessly on occasion, but my after-coffee morning browsing is a lot more directed than my drowsy evening browsing.
Obligatory answer from someone that doesn't meet one of the requirements - I'm in the UK so can answer from that perspective.

Going to the city near me, I have these options to take two adults and a child:

1. Train - 5 minute walk, 1 hour travelling including a change. Trains run once per hour, costs £16 while my son is under 5.

2. Bus - 25 minute walk (at adult speed), 45 minute travelling each way. Runs every 20 minutes I think, costs ~£8.

3. Drive - 25 minutes travelling each way, no walk. Costs ~£1 in petrol + £2 tolls. Technically costs would be higher if you include wear & tear on the car itself but not by a great deal.

This is probably the least fair comparison to the car as well. Most other places nearby have the same major issues with travelling, or worse. A trip to the beach would be a 10 minute drive with no tolls but the same 25 minute walk to the bus stop and then a slow bus.

Added to this the amount of stuff we may have on us (pram, bag of various things for changes, snacks, lunch, etc). If there's more of us, or once our kid grows up more the costs go up for everything other than the car.
Thanks for the link, I didn't know this existed.
Rest assured that HN's "it's all China's fault" crowd will be mysteriously unable to see this headline.
Even if Reinforcement Learning is 'enough', it will be held back by whatever methods used to implement it (e.g. Deep Neural Networks). As the algorithms get more advanced, from some point onwards, to build the general AI, you first need a general AI to tell you the correct hyperparameters so that the pile of methods would work well in tandem.

Last but not least, you will be bound by your inability to accurately communicate exactly the behaviour you want out of the AI because you are incapable of writing down a mathematical function that would induce the behaviour in the learner. And then you wonder why the general AI decided to pull the plug on your grandma and try to use that resource for something else instead.
98% of my reddit consumption is via Apollo on iOS, which is still an excellent experience.
> which I highly doubt will ever be possible

What prevents an AI from performing abduction? While I've never thought about it before, it intuitively seems like a pretty straightforward thing to implement....
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Which is one reason why (UI) engineers should be designing interfaces and prioritising usability, rather than artists who prioritise conformity with contemporary fashion and branding.

Appearance can certainly change, but the needs of the user, including for predictability, should be very important to the process of deciding to change and making the change. At the moment the reputation of the company and the artist are considered to the dominate over most other matters. It is simply reckless to do this at a time when public trust is so limited. It is the constant responsibility of everyone who acts in public to try and rebuild.
In other words: being less fat is good for your health.
Slightly off topic, but are there any users here who tried both Vivaldi and Brave? Which one did you keep and why?
I wonder if there is an opportunity for an open consortium of apps that could define guidelines and qualify apps that are built with positive impact on the user in mind.

We've recently been discussing how we can be proactive with our user's data, and tell them why we want to use their data, what data, and for how long we'll use it, etc. Because we're likely using the data in health and wellness research, it's not just "hey we want to show you better ads", so we believe there is real benefit to the user here.

Does such a consortium exist? Should one?
this is awesome!
i have actually recorded 300 piano symphonies with my (old) iPhone

i was initially thinking to rewrite some of them later, but i decided not to, because it will take the art out of it

i’ll be now publishing as is, in low quality, not perfectly on time and with occasional mistakes - just as it should be
> This is 100% a way to extract more money from consumers, especially non financially stable consumers, while lying to all of our faces.

Nothing prevents them from buying a non autonomous car and renting one when they need, say, when have drunk more than they should.
We exchange startup pitches for condescending dismissals.
That is because Linux is not used by general public.