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Not sure why you're so upset about it. Obviously our experiences differ and I'm not denying your experience. I generalised what is happening over here in Croatia on at least two universities that I have experience with (directly or indirectly). This stuff is so common that it is actually unusual to find the reverse of it.

I'll give you an example as you wanted citation (tell me where to get a citation of wasting everyone's money on pet projects?). The project was about researching movement and feeding of some beach due to movement of the sea. One professor and his assistant bought from the grant money: scuba diving equipment worth tens of thousands of euros, a small boat, video cameras, and couple of high end laptops and computers. The actual work was almost zero, because it was already done on some other beach years previously. And the equipment? In private storage, and used privately after. It is always the same vague answer when you ask someone "where did you get X?": "A project bought it (wink wink)".

A college over here bought a supercomputer some time ago for xxxMM, mostly EU funds. Can you guess what does that computer spend most of its time on? Idling. Sometimes it happens though that they sell processing time to some private company. Obviously money well spent. But the company who sold it made very solid money.

Couple of years ago they opened a new (public) college here which has two times three or four story full glass staircases. Do you know how much that costs? Millions of EU money. Couldn't they make do with concrete/steel staircases? So the moral of the story is, there is a whole industry here specialised in extracting EU funds to go to private or semi private pockets. On one hand they are pretty open about it, and about some other stuff they don't like to talk about (at least in public). Newspapers have bigger fishes to fry. Not that can anyone can do anything anymore because nobody give a flying one.

So the situation is not as rosy as you put it, and typically, student wellbeing and education are more bullet points on the far end of the priority list. Academia is very keen to get and keep their independence. Independence from responsibility to the public, but not the independence on public's money.
Firefox just sucks. For some computers it works, but me and others have all sorts of breaking issues.

I tried Firefox, it just sucks.

Edit- shoot the messenger, it won't fix Firefox bugs or help their market share.
Is this any kind of standard? Like if Microsoft comes along and says you need to change your SSID to end in "_noloc" rather than "_nomap" what are you supposed to do?
How would that work? Keep in mind that we are talking about parts of the radio spectrum that were deliberately set aside for unlicensed use, without any sort of registration, centralized control, or reporting on the part of users. So how would Google or any other company know who to pay? Do you want to force users to register their APs, or to include some kind of payment information in wifi beacons? Or are you proposing that new restrictions be added to the ISM rules e.g. forbidding people from monitoring the band without first asking for permission from each station operator (note: this would completely break wifi)?
This is my experience too. I used to keep a stack of notebooks around, and I never seemed to have the right one on hand. Now I just have to keep track of one notebook that will never run out of space. With the most recent updates the e-reading experience has also gotten much better.

At this point the only feature I'd say is lacking is some kind of e-book store integration. I'd like to be able to purchase books from mainstream publishers to read on the device (it's sad how few publishers distribute books in non-DRM, plain ePub files these days).
>In the real world, this was done over so many classes, superclasses and so on that it wasn't clear why it was randomly inserting B at certain points, and at which points it was doing this.

If OOP gave us anything it's the joy of trying to piece together huge puzzles.
Disney has also invested in Draftings and is the reason why they changed their anti gambling stance.

I am no longer a Disney fan, considering their influence on children and families

https://www.lineups.com/betting/how-disney-became-a-part-own...

Note: I can't blame them after their resorts closed due to COVID, they were pressured by investors to ramp up profit - ex: canceling stock dividends, investing heavily in Disney+ content, get into sports gambling.
But being so close to children (family values), having their corporate values corrupted was a big disappointment.
Publishing a project does not mean you're obligated to maintain it. There is no need to explicitly write this in documentation either. Nobody is obligated to work for free. If people expect to rely on developers, they need to hire them.
> How are you planning to make big trades go slow? I mean, mechanically?

Sure, why not? I mean, impose either on a broker-level or on an exchange-level that if an account which holds 100K shares of X makes a trade of X, it will be 3 months between clicking "place order" and when that trade actually gets put into the order book. But if an account that holds 1 share of X makes a trade of X, it goes into the order book as soon as they click the "place order" button.

Optionally, also make the order book publicly visible and anonymized.

Optionally, also make pending delayed orders to go into the order book publicly visible and anonymized as well.
The most impactful and important innovations typically come from people who are intrinsically motivated.

Also, competition skews innovation towards solving problems that arrive from competition. You might just be hiring lawyers to bully a competitor instead of fostering sustainable progress. Or if your market is unregulated you can decide to use more severe methods.
> But I do feel the computing part could be much more utilized to make taking notes and reading text better. I am thinking of Hypertext, drawing tools like sketchpad, simple programming tools etc.

The problem is that even those "simple" things are a massive amount of work to get right (where "right" means bug-free, performant, well-documented (or intuitive - pick at least one), flexible, and with an ergonomic interface). Additionally, they're significantly more work than the even simpler restricted feature-set that the reMarkable currently offers.

I believe that the reMarkable developers are shooting for "quality over quantity" - polishing a small feature-set to a blinding shine, rather than trying to implement a larger feature-set poorly - that is, an intentional trade-off. I'm happy with that trade-off, but I know that others might not be - in which case, you'll probably get the Android device that other people in the thread are discussing.

Also, the reMarkable is open - you can add all these things yourself, if you're sufficiently motivated.

> something that I can pretty much get with a notebook

The reMarkable's features, as limited as they are, are still miles beyond what a notebook gives you. You have backup, synchronization, document export (PDF, raster, SVG), undo/redo, multiple documents, digital storage, cut/copy/paste, erasing (pen can't be erased, pencil usually leaves marks and has other problems), multiple brushes, page reordering, multiple page templates (lined, grid, music, blank canvas, and more), layers, really good handwriting recognition, and more.

Yes, it's light-years behind what we could have - but we're stuck in the place we're at because of a number of computing decisions that we made in the past (and continue to make now) that hamper creativity and flexibility, and overcoming those choices requires a lot of resources and the ability to ignore/bypass/counteract a massive amount of market inertia. The reMarkable team simply doesn't have those resources, so they have to make a trade-off - and the trade-off they made was quality over quantity (of features).
Software development and other tech jobs were low-status professions in Europe (the UK being a partial exception) up until a few years ago. Once a friend told me some thing like "it is not fair that you make more money than I do, I have a degree in literature and, with all due respect, you are just a guy that works with computers". This was not an absurd conversation to hear anywhere in continental Europe in the early 2000s.

For a brilliant 20 year old German in 2005 becoming a primary school teacher or a pencil pusher in a random government office would have been a better option than working in tech. With "better option" I mean double salary, double pension, better healthcare, more holidays. So it shouldn't surprise anybody if foreigners are overrepresented in tech jobs in Germany, and it has nothing to do with European lazyness (had you said risk-aversion I could have agreed).
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Privacy Engineering as a Service through clean, simple APIs
Beta2 for Gretel.ai is all about delivering privacy engineering as a service through clean, simple APIs.
It's not necessarily that the educators aren't high quality, but that the majority of students are there as a babysitting service and take up more time being disciplined than actually getting taught. We always say inner city schools have worse education...but I suspect it's more that the kids that attend those schools are disruptors and the system won't allow them to be disciplined in the way they should be (not that expelling them is the right thing either).
So I have to change my custom Wi-Fi SSD (something that I like) and add a brain-dead suffix called "_nomap" to prevent Google from tracking me? Who the hell greenlights such changes?
Yeup, I went to book, and got a $600 for a couple nights, when I clicked through, it was actually almost $1K with cleaning fees, airbnb fees, and local taxes. At that rate, I'm going back to traditional hotel rooms, and for the longer week stays, I'm just going to go back to using the other sites I used to use for booking longer-term rentals.
> Is there a way completely turn off analytics so it never connects to a remote server at all without my permission?

I could be wrong, but I don't think it sends any analytics. I'd be very surprised if it did for devices not connected to their cloud service.

They're covered by the gdpr, and the privacy policy doesn't mention any... https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000041647...

If it does you could certainly set up iptable rules to do so... but that would admittedly be a bit of a pain.

> Can I disable updates without disconnecting it from the network?

Yes, there's a toggle in the UI

> Or is there a replacement OS/hack that can disable any data collection?

Again, not sure if there is any data collection or even outgoing network traffic if you have the cloud services off. The hard part of a replacement OS would be controlling the screen, I don't think anyone has done that.
The Function Component Mafia
Fortunately praying works for Texans.

Texas politician proposes unironically that everyone should pray for electricity to come back up. They pray that power comes back on, and it eventually does. Prayers are answered every time. Praise the Lord.

The Credit Assignment Problem is serious problem for people too, not just in AI.
In many ways we can thank competition from Airbnb for making the hotel experience better. Nothing gets industries to clean up their act like an existential threat.
There is something very wrong with a society where a major driver of success and wealth is risk taking and gambling, in its various forms.
Not to mention a lot of very skilled European engineers move to US (sometimes Canada). It's easy to brag about talent when being on the receiving side of the brain drain.
It's not a dubious application. The CFAA says that it's illegal to access a computer system you don't have authorization to access, regardless of whether it's technically possible. It's no different than if a manager banned someone from a restaurant - if they return, even though the restaurant is easily accessible, they are nevertheless trespassing.

The recent ruling on the CFAA introduces some confusion in that if a user has authorization to access a system, they are no longer in violation of the CFAA even if they access it for disallowed reasons (ie if you're allowed in the krusty krab, you're not trespassing even if you only went there to steal the krabby patty secret formula). But that's irrelevant here because hiQ was explicitly told they did not have authorization to access (ie Plankton isn't allowed in the krusty krab regardless of what he intends to do there).
> Traveling with kids and a babysitter

I'm pretty sure you already know that travelling with personal domestic staff is a vanishingly tiny niche requirement of the super-rich.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet.

Also there's an issue that bots are detected easily.
stories like this clearly prove what a racket our health insurance/billing system is.
Your assumptions are totally incorrect. US has the most subsidized healthcare in the world by GDP. That's for starters. Second, I gave you hard data. What do you give me? Your wishful thinking that China will adhere to your wishes? And start paying for nothing? The Party doesn't pay for nothing. In China you work. And you pay for your doctor.
Really stretching the definition of imported.
Doubleclick did not invent advertising.

Has everyone forgotten OTA broadcast television? Where Geritol spent a fortune advertising on the Lawrence Welk Show? And Kellogs flooded Saturday morning cartoons?

I may be wrong, but I don't think advertisers have boosted their budgets in the age of targeted advertising. Google has done well to replace the old channels for advertising with their own pipeline. For the last twenty years it has mattered which ad platform could more accurately target your demographic. Google has won most of that war. Today, you pay Google whether the ad is targeted or not. So now, they can shift the battlefront to create other barriers to entry. And to keep people dependent on their infrastructure to package and deliver advertising at all.
If parents value education they don't need to pay for tutors or summer school. I grew up in district with shitty schools, but I saw some kids succeed only because they learned stuff on their own.

Those schools aren't necessarily shittier...they are filled with kids that don't want to learn (and their parents increasingly blame the teachers for their failure).
Average age of U.S. vehicles hit record 12.1 years in 2020
> If the LinkedIn decision stands, such impediments may be blocked by courts. That's probably not a good outcome.

Nope, I think you have it totally incorrect. The issue isn't whether it can be illegal to put technology impediments in place -- that isn't a claim in this case.

The issue is potentially whether you can charge someone with a felony for working around the impediments you put in place. (i'm not totally sure if that is relevant in this case?) Or even more so, if you can charge someone with a felony for hacking for just doing something you politely asked them not to do.

But there is nothing at stake here that could possibly make it illegal to put technological impediments like rate-limiting or CAPTCHA's in place. If I'm wrong, please direct me to the details of where/why. But that was definitely not at stake in Van Buren v. US, which is what the Supreme Court says prompted the remit for a re-hearing. The CFAA is about a felony crime of unauthorized access; nothing in it, decided either way, can make it a crime (or "blocked by courts") to put technological impediments in place.

But overall, OP article is doing a very poor job of explaining either the facts or law of this case, so there's a lot I'm not sure about from just this write-up and what else I've been able to lazily google alone.

If anyone has a better article explaining the relevant facts and law in dispute here, I'm still interested.
No smart theorem proving woman has ever been turned down by Coq. I know this because they would need to be familiar with Coq in the first place. Or would they have trained on Prolog instead?
There’s a level of wealth that is below ‘lambo for kids’ that still provides a vastly different life experience than ‘occasionally have to hock something to keep the lights on.’

There’s also wealth that manifests itself as parents investing in their kid’s startups and providing social access to other elites.

Also, I was acquainted with a high school kid who had a supercar. He also was subjected to domestic violence, which curbed the majority of envy I had for his situation.
Beat up whatever liar gave you that false promise. "Eternal updates" are not a thing that has or will ever happen.
They will respect this flag for liability purposes.

It's the only purpose this flag has.
> and force themselves to rewrite all the userland libraries?

They already did a lot of that for the Linux port of SQL Server, which as I understand it is basically the same program running with a bundled compatibility layer that's basically an official Microsoft equivalent of WINE.
I'm glad it worked!

As I understand it, marking your check "paid in full" combined with the cover letter is what potentially worked for you. Simply writing "paid in full" on the check generally isn't sufficient.

More info form real attorneys (unlike me)

https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/consumer-protection/banki...
the right answer, for now, is don’t use chrome
I think you are a bit more cynical than I am.

But I do agree you are correct that switching jobs every couple of years is an effective way of raising your salary often faster than if you stayed in the same place.
> The US has those things and it's turning into a "third world country with a Gucci belt"

I get the distinct impression that people who liken the US to a third world country are from one particular spot on the political spectrum. This seems like political rhetoric, not a summary of some level-headed analysis. Inequality, crime, etc in the US are certainly problems, but that seems like a low bar for the "third world country" label (with or without the 'gucci belt' modifier). At best it's unhelpful, but I think it's probably just inaccurate considering how many people from actual second and third world countries are risking their very lives to get in, not to mention divisive.
This makes sense. Obvious now that I think about it.
As somebody who bought groceries and diapers on a credit card to survive and now makes ridiculous money at FAANG, I can assure you poverty with a child is a million times worse. A life free of economic anxiety is itself a massive privilege, “happiness” and “fulfillment” aren’t part of the equation if you don’t know if your kids will go hungry, that’s just abject terror.
I've found using old.reddit.com, unsubscribing from the default subs, and adblock still leave Reddit as one of the few enjoyable places on the internet for me. There is still legitimate, organic discovery and discourse that I find there.

The times I occasionally get pulled into the void are when following a user's content/comment that I found interesting, then finding all kinds of bile that they push to the main forums.

Reddit also has an underappreciated feature of being able to sort posts database style (e.g. Top Posts > All Time) to get a sense of what a particular community found transcendent or controversial. If the top posts are any kind of angry response to a current event that's one you can typically ignore.
The free market at its best. You can choose the cheap-but-cuts-corners option, or pay more to get more.

Of course, this implicitly depends on informed consumers, so it’s a bit troubling that Airbnb is leaning so heavily on NDA-based settlements. I don’t have a feel for how common that strategy is in competitors, say hotel / VRBO.
My two "favorite" hardware bugs: dead RAM stick partially corrupts memory pseudo-randomly (no ECC) so everything sort of works but is really weird. CPU that for some reason misbehaves so much without a newer non-free microcode/firmware version, so that everything sort of works but breaks in random way (just like broken RAM).

The former really plays with my nerves because i tend to question the whole universe before i question the hardware. The latter is even more evil because memtest/smartctl won't complain about anything.. i'm not sure if there's an equivalent utility to test CPU health? Anyway it took me a while to even think of trying non-free intel-microcode, as of the CPU/kernel wouldn't produce a helpful error message like "You bought hardware which is pure shit. Please install some more binary shit in order to use it at all without losing your sanity."
I see where you're coming from, but people earn without risk, when I go to work from 9 to 5, I'm getting my paycheck, I know exactly how much it's going to be, I know exactly what time it's going to be deposited into my account, etc.

When I put my capital to work, I might earn, but I might also lose a lot (ask anyone who bought Bitcoin at 63k$ for example). Obviously, in a capitalist society, capital is the most important thing (I'm not saying that's right or wrong).

Also, if you have millions of people "investing" in the stock market, even in penny stocks, a few of them are bound to get right, you just don't hear too much about people that lost it all.
Building a CRUD App with FastAPI and MongoDB
The USA was founded on distrust of powerful governments. That continues to today, and is more obvious in right leaning areas, like Texas.

And what do you mean by 'central government' in Europe? One of the national governments (Germany, France, etc.) or the EU? Because the central government in the US (federal level) would have power similar to the EU than any of the smaller national governments.
> the browser is choosing to track users browser history and report a summary statistic on it to anyone who asks

It doesn't work that way at all.
sure, but perhaps the same is true for a lot of products that nowadays we think are not necessarily that good but only marketed as such. At any rate the original parent said that good has never won out, and I think there is still a larger number of people on HN than not that can remember at least one software product that was better.

on edit: I mean there seems to be a large number of people of the opinion, and I concur, that Google now is not as good as the Google of a decade ago. This is part of the reason why I think that many products we think of as bad might actually have been very good at the time that they gained their initial success.
opting out by adding random strings to your ssid is pretty shady. that's why my wifi scanning startup will require explicit opt-in by adding either "_optout" or "_nomap" to your SSID
Future Publishing is a company. I thought for a moment they'd invested in Future Publishing and was wondering why. (They're in the magazine / print industry.)

https://www.futureplc.com

Edit: Any chance Future Plc won't like this name?

Edit 2: I could have sworn Future PLC owned "future.com", but maybe it has new owners (or renters)? Archive.org is down for a planned power outage, so I can't check right now.
The Remarkable 2 drawing app also comes with a calligraphy pen, which does wonders for the readability of many people's cursive.
How do they get the capital to start a business? Do they come to the US already wealthy or well-connected? Many people I know would be interested in doing the same but aren't sure how.
When a Space Is Not a Space
I understand the intention behind such a proposal, history of unintended consequences of government intensives should stop any sensible person from implementing anything remotely like that.

Do you remember how one company promised people a free shirt for open source contributions, and how it resulted in an epic shitstorm of garbage patches? Just a few months ago. Now, imagine this, but with actual money instead of T-shirts.
Oh, maybe it's an HDMI to VGA adapter?