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Apple is just as likely to test new features in the wild, or introduce new features without going through the standards process. prefers-color-scheme sure came out of nowhere. And I'm sure you remember their original proposal with WebGPU.

Meanwhile Apple are strangling PWAs to hold onto their app store monopoly, and extremely slow to implement features that other vendors adopted long ago. jQueryUI had its life artificially extended by years simply because Apple refused to add a date picker input type. IndexedDB has been nigh-useless without wrappers because of Safari. They've earned their moniker of the new IE.
Yeh?
What is the problems they intend to solve?
Which part of Android is written in java? The kernel? The drivers? The JVM ? I somehow doubt anything significant of the OS itself is written in java :)
Based on your description, SF ticks a lot of boxes for you. So why not just go for it?

If or when the magic wears thin, then you'll be free to explore further.

As far as relationships go, as long as you do the things you really enjoy, then you'll meet like-minded people and it is through such people that you meet The One.

Yes, prices are high. As long as you see it as paying for what you get, it should be fine. If you start becoming resentful of it, then it also will be a sign to move on.
IDF offered help recently to Lebanon during the crisis. Lebanon refused.

You can guess how the response of Gaza will look like...
A kid hired by some questionable think tank, sitting in an office a thousands miles away, analyzing a piece of land, he has never seen in real life, solely through a sattelite photo, driven by whatever politics and incentives ... well ... he just might be wrong.
How do you explain feature parities? like lack of webworkers on Safari. Its been there for years but they have some lame reason like "It's too complicated to implement".
I recently started learning about the underlying data structures in databases. What are some examples of those "modern indexing algorithms"?
Yes agreed. Sometimes doing what I love is hard for me to do… I don’t know why.

At this stage in my life I would live alone; it’s true that roommates would make the rent more palatable
Which is why I gave the example of a regional independence movement rather than saying it’s impossible.
A cloud provider's business model is more-or-less selling CPU cycles to customers, in a variety of flavours.

Regardless of their opinion as to "think cryptocurrency is a scam" they can make money selling CPU cycles to people who have bought into the cryptocurrency thing. Bonus if the cloud provider can offer "managed blockchain" flavour rather than "here's some vanilla infrastructure, you can run your blockchain stuff on that, just as well as you can on your laptop."

It's the old "Selling pickaxes during a gold rush" plan. You don't actually have to worry so much as to if there's really gold to be found. Just if the miners buying pickaxes think that there is.
Substack don't seem interested in opinion making. Perhaps one day they will be, but for now their advances appear to be driven by some very smart BD guys and are given to whoever will be profitable. The story is always the same: they approach some writer who was just attacked by some woke institution and is now out on their own. They tell them, hey, did you know you could make some six figure sum by charging for newsletters? And they say, no you're wrong, I can't earn that much. So they say, OK, we'll give you a much smaller six figure sum guaranteed and take the rest. If we're right, we win. If you're right, you win. Sounds fair? It does, so they say yes. And Substack always wins.
One underrated reason for this is the decline in religion among the youth. Gen Z and Millennials are two of the least religious generations ever in the US, with Gen Z being roughly 50% irreligious.

This has a huge impact because the birth rates for irreligious people are very low. The total fertility rate in the US for irreligious women is only 1.4 children per woman compared to 2.2 children per woman for religious women.

The fundamental issue here is incentives. Raising children is a lot of work and a secular worldview doesn't really provide a strong incentive.
Prosperity needs growth per capita.

Population growth expands general demand and markets, and really sustains some industries (construction, for instance), but is not sustainable, indeed.

If population growth stalls or even if population shrinks then the overall economic output will do the same. But IMHO that is not important, what is important for people is the economic output per capita and as such I think it's possible for people's lives to continue to improve.
> Amazon is perfectly positioned to create its own virtual coin.

Which by definition would be centralised, and so wouldn't need a blockchain at all?
> The executive, Chris Reynolds, has argued that hybrids, like the Toyota Prius, as well as hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles should also be in the mix.

Why aren't fuel cell vehicles already in the mix? Are EVs only classed as such if they use a lithium battery?
> This terminology says all I need to know about you - enough said comrade.

Some unsolicited advice: if you find yourself explaining at what point you thought ad-hominem justified switching your brain off - you've made an accidental admission. Also, you seem to think collectivists are anti-state... which is laughably wrong. He didn't mention Murray Rothbard or Friedrich Hayek, so we know he isn't an Ancap, but I definitely wouldn't push all my chips on red.
The indexDB fiasco is a good example of negative developer sentiment towards Safari.

Firefox shipped support in 2011, with Chrome following suite a year later.

It's mid 2021, and the Safari implementation is still critically broken.

EDIT: It looks like the bug has been patched in developer preview, so hey progress +1.
Can you elaborate on why you left? I always hear about crime and poop on the street but I feel like if I avoid the tenderloin and soma I should be fine, no?
> Once you find it, just keep doing it.

The harder part, IMO, is finding a job in tech industry that will allow the free time to keep doing it.
That's correct but doesn't really change his analysis of substack. I do think it's a place where a number of important journalists have gone, like Glenn, Ed Snowden and others.
I think they have a point about hybrids, but only to a point. I think you could make a solid argument for possibly allowing plug-in hybrids with a solid battery-only range (I would say at least 60 miles, a range which almost no current plug-in hybrids reach) for a few years before you get to the point of only allowing electric cars to be sold new to consumers.

so maybe from 2035 to 2042 (something like that), only EV’s and 60+ miles plugin hybrids can be sold new to consumers (the requirement for commercial customers would start at around 2042 or thereabouts). After that, only new cars sold would be EV’s. That would be my preferred timeframe.
Realistically, how useful is compromising modem firmware if like 98% of communication done through it is encrypted at the AP level? It’s sorta like wiretapping a fiber optic cable—okay, what now?
> Fixing the hardware, which is to say surgically removing the two or three tiny microphones hidden inside, is only the first step of an arduous process, and yet even after days of these DIY security improvements, my smartphone will remain the most dangerous item I possess.

What's the purpose of these microphones? Do they pose more threat than the standard non-hidden microphone?
VB6 is still officially under support in Windows Server 2019.
I use a Home Assistant PWA that I'm quite happy with. No need to install native code that has access to everything on my device when I can interface with it from a browser sandbox. I also regularly use a local weather app that has an app version, stuffed with tracking, and a PWA version that gets protected against by my browsers privacy settings.

There is also a very interesting project for programming certain ESP32 boards using WebSerial for easy to use home automation. You import some yaml and flash an ESP32 board without ever even installing the Arduino SDK.
I think the problem is they we've reversed the question here. Why on earth should it even be acceptable that websites need an app for something as basic as watching videos, reading the news or checking the weather. Youtube and Netflix have no need for a native application if the developers actually cared about performance of their website. Especially Netflix should just work, because their web app also needs to work on ancient smart TVs and therefore has strict performance requirements.

Dating apps where the most engaging thing you do is swipe in a direction and type into a basic chat screen also have no need for native code. There's a good reason Tinder works just fine as a PWA on every platform other than iOS.

Those "free for all" dating apps do exist and have always existed. If they're illegal or immoral it's not up to Apple to pass judgement, that's what the legal system is for. I, for one, do not accept the tech overlords as my government.
My theory is that we cannot because we don't share and prosper together. We have "trickle down" economics, which IMO means current economic incentives are pyramid shaped.

In order for the pyramid to grow in size, the people at the top consonantly need more people at the bottom, consuming, to keep it growing.

If the economy was "rounder" and more directly beneficial to everyone, it would be less necessary to have more consumers / population growth.
They can even swim safely underwater thanks to a reflex.
DevDocs.io is a very useful offline app. Download your desired documentation in advance, and continue coding when your net is out.

Apps I'd like to see are Pixlr and RegExr. Any utility like that makes a good PWA candidate.
Aside from class-signalling, it's also a benefit to the cutlery manufactuers. Both in expanding the size of a given set, and, by tweaking standards and fashions, by selling additional sets.

It's otherwise difficult to build planned obsolescence into utensils.
You can get rich on the costs of others though.
Linus Torvalds was paid $1.6M in 2018
Works for me as well. I call it "putting on my play clothes", just like after school when I was a kid some decades ago.
That's because of countless hours wasted by developers behind the scene to write workarounds, polyfills etc to support Safari.
Until your home system starts sharing the update without explicit permission and you get a surprise bill for running over your monthly bandwidth cap?
How will the investors get their money back on this investment?
How is Libera vs. Discord vs. Matrix playing out in the open source community?
No, I was responding to you.
As having been on both sides of the relationship building effort, my vote would be for just email: quick, scrappy and personal.

For example Taylor from Focusmate once reached out to core users by just saying „hey, it‘s me, Taylor, not a marketing person, I‘m building this thing and you seem to be using it a lot, do you have any feedback?“

Interestingly enough, this approach was as rare as effective: I just gave him some and he thanked me.

I just wondered why not more people did simple stuff like this.
Self-managed Slack / Teams alternative for enterprise users?
This is written by one of the biggest pushers of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
Thx, what aspects of their service do you find the most attractive?

I recently listened to the podcast of their CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmalling/ He sounded rather elitist to be honest.. Like everyday ppl are just not intelligent enough to trade options, etc. So that was a bit off-putting.
This is just population growth in the US. It continues to grow elsewhere.

As Hans Rosling pointed out, children are sort of migrating to poorer areas of the world where fertility rates are still high.
>That attitude

The attitude of wanting to be charge of your life and not a burden to others around you? Or did I just completely misunderstand what you tried to say? Because that doesn't make any sense at all.
Congrats and I think it is a good idea. However, I believe that the key of problem you are raising, is the lack of information and (highly probably) lack of tech integration in the whole community.
Don't they do everything to avoid hitting civilians? My guess is that they do more to protect the average palestinian than meets the eye....definitely more than Hamas or Fatah

Also, I'd take HRW with a grain of salt when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even their founder has expressed concern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Watc....

Might be interesting: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/palestinians-accuse-hamas-...
I'd be pretty curious about the mechanism for such transfer. The umbilical cord doesn't contain nerves AFAIK (and even if it did, the whole point of placental reproduction is to isolate the embryo/fetus from the mother, so probably no nervous connection there, either), so that'd preclude a direct connection between their nervous systems. Maybe hormones or some other chemical means?
Matrix is a protocol. There's a lot of tooling and applications to be made around said protocol, plenty of which could be sold on on a license basis, support for enterprises etc.

Matrix has a fantastic B2B potential. It's just early.
> 30% revenue share is a lot...but it doesn't kill entire categories of apps.

Personally Im not so optimistic. 30% is a huge chunk of revenue and is completely unworkable for anything that doesn't have a huge margin built-in.
One of the most troubling things about the decline in population growth is that the most educated people, and in my experience the most "planning-oriented" people in that group, are the ones least likely to have kids. This means that the people most equipped to tackle long-term problems are supplying the fewest number of children with their genes and values into the population, which will cause our electoral politics to be increasingly dominated by the uneducated and the impulsive.
Of course. The drive to have a child has nothing to do with economic stability and access to affordable housing, health care, food, schooling and the ability to have a good enough work/life balance that allows a parent to actually participate to the children’s education and development.

No, no, it’s about this hedonistic godless culture that’s eating away at our “precious bodily fluids”.

Bah… never expected such a comment here
Jim Browning: I was convinced to delete my YouTube channel
Counting CVEs is a trivially easy argument to debunk. It’s a topic well written about by many open source contributors and security researchers. It’s a topic discussed on here frequently too. And it’s a topic that common sense alone should be able to debunk, should one spend a few minutes thinking about it rationally.

However I have written a more in-depth reply about why counting CVEs is meaningless here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27969587
>What the hell is so hard with taking stamped metal, making something look better than the cookie cutter crap we have today, sticking a giant Eneloop on it, and tossing in a 23-inch non-automotive grade touchscreen monitor powered by some AMD game console grade x64 processor on Ubuntu?

Right. What I don't understand is why automakers don't release the same vehicle with the drivetrain type as an option. Big two-page spread ad in magazines that show what looks like two identical units of the same car with the headline "Can you tell the difference?", with the text below the cars describing how you can get the model you want regardless of whether you prefer gas or electric.

When Apple transitioned from PowerPC to Intel in 2006 it did not redesign the MacBook Pro; it just stuck an Intel CPU inside. Same with the Power Macintosh, Mac Mini, and iMac; only the lowest-end iBook became a MacBook The M1 MacBooks' exteriors are identical to the Intel models they replaced. Why can't automakers do this?
In principle, but if economic growth is still physically possible then anyone trying to stall it within their zone of political influence just gives relative power to those who don’t.
> The economy of the developed world for the last two centuries now has been built on demographic expansion

It would be extremely difficult to establish this causation to some level that can be trusted.

The causation is likely; economic growth > jobs > families > births.
They receive shares of the company's stock, which is a security that can be exchanged for other forms of value, including money.
Nothing you said is true.
I'd rather see Zulip adopted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27969587
>politics and incentives ... well ... he just might be wrong.

Very well said.
yeah toasters are just 1D with only a 7-8cm resolution
That's fine, I'm just exploring monetization options, not making any claims of superiority.
Nokia XR20 Mobile
Any thoughts on perkeep? https://perkeep.org/

I see substantial overlap in the vision.
The addition of threads and custom emoji, along with getting spaces out of beta, might finally mean the migration of my friends from Slack and Discord.
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I don't know why you think the market cap is relevant here. But Apple's net income in 2020 was about $60B. The total App Store revenue was about $64B, out of which Apple extracted $20B in rent.

Not all of that $20B was profit, but based on what we know about the economics of running such stores, it was about $15B of profit. That is 25% of all of Apple's profit in 2020.

Apple will do anything to protect that income stream. If the way to protect it is to cripple the web, well, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
They won't. Matrix is a meta data sponge hence it is heavily sponsored by the intelligence community. Truly descentralized and peer-to-peer solutions like Jami won't recieve such funding.
It does. I'm not sure what the poster above is referring to.
> That'd make a hell of a fiction story, but it's completely divorced from reality.

If I'm magnetic, does that mean I'm a cyborg?

I was thinking more of "Tetsuo: The Iron Man".

Grandparent poster is likely going to think it's a documentary.
Been working on Newsy for some time.

https://www.newsy.co

Newsy is a tool that converts your un-used domain names into a Reddit-like content aggregator. Allows you to make your domains useful rather than just sitting there.

We did an alpha launch through Betalist and had ~250 people sign-up. From there on, we emailed and talked to every single person who would reply to our message. That built pretty solid relationships which still last today.

Something surprising I realised was that people engaged more when I asked them about who they were (e.g. What do you do? What do you do for full time job?) and when they replied, I kept asking about their role, challenges. Sometimes I ask about where they are from, if they are ok from COVID. I was genuinely curious about those users as humans (how did you find my tool? What do you do on the other side of the world from me? Is it cold? Hot? etc etc).
I’ve often been tempted to buy or build a pick and place after an evening with tweezers looking through a microscope, the the cost is a little prohibitive - in the past couple of years it’s now cheaper to get even single boards built

I think the biggest breakthrough in making a smaller pick and place would be to stop copying the design of industrial machines. If you don’t need to populate full sized panels you don’t need a large x-y grid that needs to be rigid and support for reels of components both of which are costly.

Vision has come a long way in the past couple of decades and the reflow process is quite forgiving. I’m sure a robot arm (0.5mm accuracy over 30*30cm) and a decent vision system to find components on cut reels attached to the table would work.
Winner instict, competitive drive and other such things?
So as your script grows, don't you eventually rename it to whatever/__main__.py and run it with -m? seems like a fairly trivial transform that then allows you to spin out as many modules as you need.
Which parts? I'm surprised this isn't well known already. Large parts of Android are written in Java. Amongst other things:

* All the UI libraries, networking APIs code.

* All the system apps and services like the home screen, the keyboard, the system server, the window manager, the telephony subsystem (very important!) and so on.

* Many of the system APIs including services like the alarm manager, dropbox manager, some cryptography services, location services etc.

* The entire developer toolchain: the build system and the IDE.

* All the client logic for Google Play Services, which is a big part of the overall Android API now.

* Large parts of the compatibility test suite.

* The standard libraries for all the above.

Just browse through the code and see for yourself: https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject

Most of the Java code is under the frameworks directory. No, not all Android code is written in Java. Lots of devs want to be able to use C++, and for some things its necessary. The point of the upgrade projects I just mentioned is that they are tackling the remaining cases where C++ can outcompete Java for things like media codecs. And the Java world has developed a JVM written in Java, actually several of them, so whilst Google hasn't done it, the tech is actually there. All this exists today, whereas an entire widely adopted consumer OS written fully in Rust is only a pipe dream.

Oh, and as for drivers, Google moved drivers out of the kernel and into user space some time ago (Project Treble):

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture

You can in fact now write drivers in Java. Google recommend you don't, but it's architecturally possible:

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hidl-java
Look at comparator countries in the EU with much better scores in all of those factors.

Almost all of those countries are also suffering from declining birth rates as secularism increases. Most have much lower birth rates than the US.

You could also look at the minimal long term fertility effects of pro birth legislation [1].

The material factors don't seem to be driving birth rates as much as many people seem to think.

1. https://ifstudies.org/blog/can-uncle-sam-boost-american-fert...
The prosecutor who was in close contact with politicia s passes it up the chain of command.

The prosecutors may have made a show of being apolitical but they made a lot of unprecedented exceptions for this case.
Indeed, hydrogen fuel cells have achieved precisely what the big automakers intended. GM unveiled their “leapfrog strategy” in 2003 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/08/11/the-car-of-tom... GM even built a Disney exhibit to cover themselves in hydrogen glory while forever continuing to sell gas and diesel SUVs and pickups. I am reminded of the Cali Cartel’s big PR push about how they were abandoning cocaine as product and violence as a tool.
>Less children means that 100 years from now there will be less strain on the environment

Population growth is influenced by other factors than reproduction, namely immigration. I don't think it makes much sense to consider the environnmental aspect of population growth on a national level.
There just isn't an incentive for them to be religious I guess.
But what incentive religions are providing to get more believers?

Well it has to provide some, it is a market for people's attention nowadays after all.