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Counterpoint accepted. But what they mostly do is some clickbait title and/or teasertext and when you visit that link and start reading ... please pay.

That is waisting time, because there is no obvious hint to the pay wall given upfront.

I would support, but not if they play tricks on me, or, if they're out of the legislation area I live in.

And then, wanting 2.5$ for one article is just transferring the real world to the online. But online is not working on the same principles like the real world.. my thoughts.
Yeah, Java's version of Windows XP and Python 2, time to move on.
Not saying it’s ok what they did but the article does reveal the real political reason behind this:

Critics have accused China of treating both Spavor and Kovrig as political bargaining chips, held as part of what is known as "hostage diplomacy".

Wasn’t so much the asking questions as it was a diplomat used as a bargaining chip since a Huawei exec was also captured.
You're focusing on the quality of results, though. That I think is actually the easiest problem, to the point where I didn't even list it.

Remember when Google+ launched, and Microsoft as a joke created a clone in a week or so? That was completely missing the point about what's hard.

Or how "make a twitter clone" is basically the "hello world" of web apps. If it's just you and your friends on it, actually yes you can make a twitter clone that you can basically not tell the difference, and you can do that in a weekend (another weekend to make the app).

To make a twitter clone for 10 people you can run it on your laptop. For 1000 people you buy a VM in some cloud. For a billion apple devices you need world wide pops, fibre deals, plots of land, construction companies, resource planning, legal teams, government contracts, etc...

Again, Apple could possibly do this. But this is not their core skill. And do you know what happens when a company throws billions on not their core skill? Google+ happens.
That was in 2006. Back then a billion dollars was a lot of money, nowadays it's pre-launch valuation for a startup that has at least one MIT dropoff.
here is a recent report on the state of the browser: https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/animortis/2021-08-10_positivel...
What's wrong with that is the reason trademarks exist: Confusion.

If something is called "alpine-glibc", it's reasonable to expect that it's by the alpine people and supported like alpine.

This, as we see here, annoys the alpine people because they now get bug reports and support requests from people using it, and have to direct people elsewhere. And when it doesn't work, they get the hit to their image even tho they've had nothing to do with it.
It makes it look like an "official" project.

Just give it a different name and explain that it's Alpine with glibc somewhere
Why don't they move the data from device to device?
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I don't consider some random Twitter thread an official messaging.

Also the thread itself talks just about iframe alerts.
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Unfortunately, the new HBO content is the same as Netflix. After HBO was sold to ATT a couple years, the executives that made HBO HBO were all shown the door and now I believe their goal is quantity over quality.

Apple TV+ feels like it could be the new HBO in terms of curation, but we will see if they keep up the quality ratio.

My simple method of not wasting time on all this nonsense content coming out is to just wait for a bunch of people in my various networks to mention something about the show/movie. If multiple of them like something enough to mention it, then I probably will, so I just search it out after that.
> in carbonated drinks

Wouldn't that just put it back in the atmosphere though? I suppose it's better than using CO2 from some other source, but still.
Feature detection seems to be quite broken to me.

For instance Safari on iOS reports support for drag and drop events, but they aren't actually triggered. Another I encountered recently is the "accept" attribute on input file type. On iOS, you can't set specific file type, just mime type, but you have no way to detect that except by using the user agent. Then you have the buggy releases that make a feature seemingly supported, but is actually unusable in practice (looking at you IndexedDB on Safari).

This means using a library like Modernizr is almost mandatory. Also, what do you feature-test? Everything? Feature-testing something that has been available for 20 years sounds like a waste of time on the face of it, but the "alert" case has shown us that if you really want to do it correctly, you can't assume anything.
I am not saying it is not possible to do it properly, but it is not that simple. For anything non-critical, I understand waiting for things to break then fixing them instead, it's way less efforts.
Same with the coronavirus related subs last year:

https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1582202873483.jpg

It was discovered and some of the mods removed themselves. Honestly I just think they go by another name.
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Working from home has multiple advantages, including the flexibility of the program and the freedom to arrange your workspace, the savings generated by the lack of travel to and from work, but it can also have a less pleasant part, if you are not organized and firm. And from my floor I can see shows currently open in Vegas and here yes example https://www.westgateresorts.com/blog/las-vegas-show-guide/ . Many small businesses start from home offices and stay in the home office as long as possible, due to the fact that this is how savings are obtained, but this implies the existence of a space and time dedicated exclusively to work.
My money in the bank suddenly feels less secure. What are the odds this will cause a run on the banks (ah-la toilet paper) ?
I guess when you make something free you can't cry fowl when people go back for seconds thirds fourths and fifths.
I'm just trying to think of an apt comparison - for instance, posession of heroin is a federal crime where the intent doesn't matter, at least the way the law is written. If you are found with a bag of heroin, that's a crime, regardless of what your intentions were.

However, I have a really hard time believing that if you went to a normal grocery store, bought a bag of flour that clearly says "flour" on it, had a receipt for flour, brought it home with the intention of making some bread, and then the police bust down your door and find that actually, it's pure heroin - I doubt you would be convicted. That's why the case above surprises me so much - the guy went above and beyond, by even checking the ID, if anything it's the other person who should be convicted of crime and put behind bars here.
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I’ve worked on similar experiments (starting about Stories) and we included long-term holdout experiment to measure the compounded impact of sharing. The fear at the time was more about professional content (with millions of views) vs. your friends. The worry was because people engaged more with the former but posted more if they saw the later.

I left before conclusions were drawn, but (according to press reports) those experiments changed the goals to more leading indicator of long-term trend, like posting rather than Likes. I joined again more recently and expected to see that it influenced the company.

I’m not working there at the moment.
Except it's not, as it mixes glibc with musl in ways that induce undefined behaviour you don't expect. If it was recompiling all packages to use glibc, the name would be more appropriate… but also still a trademark violation.
Really cool & appreciate the simplicity of it all, congrats!!
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/autopkgtest
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What happens is that big companies try to trick consumers (as most consumers are not aware of their legal rights).
Common tactics are:

* It will cost x to fix this, as a gesture we will share the inflated repair cost with you 50/50.

* We don't make this model anymore but we have an identical model with a different serial number, we can offer you that at a "discount".

* We found the item had water damage and this is not covered in our warranty, even when we advertised these items being used in water.

* We are happy to repair the item but first we need to have the item inspected by a repair agent to see how the fault occurred. Please be aware if we find the fault is caused by you, then you agree to pay x dollar value amount even if we do not repair item (because you were at fault)

* Item spends many weeks being assessed for repair. Doesn't get repaired, sent back. Repeat.

.. and many more.

Only when you stand firm and start spouting the legal requirements do they suddenly resolve the situation VERY quickly.

I dealt with dodgy Samsung fridges and they tried to "share" the repair cost with me. I politely declined, then sent them an email citing my legal rights. Samsung then repaired the fridge promptly and no longer tried to talk with me about sharing costs of repair.

Most consumers fall for the tricks above or give up and buy a new item.

I don't think international companies care too much, they are adept selling to the masses. Those that cite the rules to get a repair are likely to be a tiny minority.

There is another aspect of the law which is less known. It is not actually Samsung or large manufacturer on the hook for consumer guarantee. It is the retailer. The retailer has to remedy the situation. If Samsung packs up operations, the retailer still needs to stand by the product it sold. This means that the retailer has an incentive to work with more reliable manufacturers and suppliers and will promptly ditch troublesome suppliers.
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I don't know about Discord specifically, but what is broken is that the people who have ultimate control of large public companies (in 90% of cases - founder controlled companies are a prominent exception) are the shareholders. And these are typically not domain experts, their main interest is in making money. So they generally see fit to appoint executives whose main objective is to make money and to remove those who care about anything else.

Now, you might think that this still aligns shareholder incentives with the long-term interests of the company, that if the shareholders care about profits over the long term then they should also care about the health of the business rather than just about how much money they are making now. The problem is that the most efficient way for investors to make money (per unit time) is not to care about the long term and instead to "pump and dump" companies by directing them towards (usually destructive) activities that increase profits in the short term, then selling the shares before the value inevitably crashes.

Not everyone is doing that. But those who are often making the most money, and as money = power in capitalist economy, the people who are doing this are continually increasing their control of our companies over time. As such, the system is setup to give power to those who are most destructive to real value creation. Ergo: broken.
How would anyone know that you are in fact transacting BTC at all (especially if it's anonymized)? The risk seems almost nonexistent unless you are buying really expensive services on a regular basis.
"In fact if anything I'd honestly say it might be a negative to be that wealthy"

Honestly, that sounds like propaganda telling poor people to be happier with their lot in life. Who says they'd put 18 billion towards their next company anyway?
The deep dives don't work anymore on Google search. It's all content spam.
Not sure what's wrong with some aspects of an API being deprecated over time. Of course if it's not done prudently and you can't rely on core features to work anymore after a short period of time then it starts to get annoying. But opposing any deprecation at all seems like the other extreme.
When you pile together half a dozen different requirements, of course the number of products in the middle of your resulting Venn diagram is going to be narrowed down to one. Especially if you already had that answer in mind when you laid out your requirements list. The question that needs asked is not, "What is the one product that exactly fits my personal needs?", but "What feature set of a communication platform meets most of the needs of most of the people?"

Is Discord the best answer to that broader question, to handle many different use cases for many different audiences? If so, it makes sense for them to expand their market. If not, stick to what they are good at.
Because the Assistance and Access Act is widely misunderstood as doing things that it doesn't.

The media drastically overreacted to that act, to the point where the Department of Home Affairs now has an entire page dedicated to addressing the false reporting [0].

The TL;DR is that the act doesn't allow the government to introduce mass surveillance. Section 317ZG [1] expressly forbids any law enforcement request from _having the effect_ of introducing any systemic vulnerability or weakness and _explicitly_ calls out new decryption capabilities as under that umbrella.

The media's widespread report that e2e encryption was dead in Australia was therefore false. The purpose of the act was more like if Facebook or Google have data that are encrypted at rest and they hold the keys, they can be compelled to decrypt it.

[0]: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...

[1]: http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ta1997...
I second these.

For anyone reading GP's comment, my take is that some expats do hate their home country.

It's insanity that some people think that strict lockdown rules are an invasion of freedom.

I'll tell you what's an invasion of freedeom: selfish, infected people partying and infecting everyone else sticking the the rules and toughing in out.
Ask HN: Can AVIFs replace JPEGs inside PDF files?
Many news and magazine subscriptions use PDFs to distribute their content. The images are usually of JPEG quality. I assume this is so because the ancient JPEG is the underlying, embedded image compression format.
(I believe above some version of PDF, JPEG2000 can be used too - but in my examples I see no evidence of its less blocky compression abilities in use)

Hence: Is it possible to use AVIF images inside PDF files, for better picture quality and better bandwidth use?

Thanks for your answers!
It's a random Twitter thread where it's not even clear if they talk about alert() in general, or iframe alerts.
>Users have preferences and may change the engines they search with, not use Safari at all or be already using Google anyway.

Well Google ofcourse clearly diasgree given they are willing to pay 15 billion dollars.
I've been pretty happy with proton mail. The built-in PGP and signing is seamless and the domain functions work great.
"And only for macintosh users!
And only macintosh users who use safari!
And only macintosh users who use safari who don't change the default search engine!"

Rather more users than that:

> to ensure that it remains the default search engine on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
They said: work to some extent, so not fundamentally unusable.
I agree to you 1000% :-) and share your concern.

I have always had severe ADHD (never diagnosed officially, also this doesn't give you legal amphetamines or any other benefits outside the US, nor does it convince people - people mostly say "in the US they drug kids to treat a condition that doesn't even exist", even though the condition actually is recognized officially), low muscles, and no free time/willpower for working out regularly.

I am a BLTC proponent too. Nevertheless, I speculate the probable downside of "a world where everybody can strive to improve themselves" is competition going even higher. If taking all kinds of meds this way would become a norm everyone would probably have to just to keep up with the new baseline. This (together with many ability-augmenting meds having adverse effects) supposedly is the logic backing the war on doping in professional sports.

But I think there is no point in caring about anything (like adverse effects, society's judgement) other than boosting your life quality by all means physically (and chemically) possible when you are old. And it seems logical to me to start in advance because doing so will probably give more effect, giving chance to actually prevent the decline instead of just helping to cope with it.
So what happens when, in a few years at the latest, a politician points that out, and—in order to protect the children—bills are passed in the legislature to prohibit this "Disable" bypass, effectively compelling Apple to scan photos that aren’t backed up to iCloud?

Isn't this essentially what might happen with so-called ChatControl in Europe?

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?la...
The problem is that alert() blocks JavaScript from executing. If a web page fires an alert, it expects to be blocked in that moment. If the browser were to delay the alert, the page would be blocked unexpectedly at some later time. This would probably cause bugs.
There were tools to help answer your question (predictably called “Why am I seeing this?” after the button copy). Those had so little engagement they were not worth maintaining.
Some see "internet points" as "payment".

But are you sure they aren't paid, ie employed by Reddit? Would totally make sense to either hide an army of moderating "grunts" behind a single user, or moderating bots. Reddit is large, lots to moderate.
I'm over it man. Thank you very much.

I wish I could say I got over it on my own with sheer will but it was thanks to my wife. She pulled me back bit by bit.

As for bad qi... Most of it gone. My biggest regret is that my wife had to go through keeping the house toghether on her own while all of this was happening.

P.S. I do apppologise if my thought are a bit messy. That whole aspect of my life is somewhat blurry and only remember some part of it. Looking back it's like watching a bad movie that you can only remember a few really bad scenes from. What I remember very well is that sense of helplessness. I don't wish that to anyone.
> Well, they have lower numbers of confirmed cases, but they have a higher death rate than some countries. As an example, Norway has registered 3 times as many cases, but fewer deaths.

Norway's population is 5,469,887. Australia's population is 25,839,176.

Norway's covid deaths per million is 149. Australia's covid deaths per million is 38.

Australia's doing much better than Norway.
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Yup. I didn't knew Notion was valued at 2 billion. OMG. Haven't opened it since I discovered Obsidian.
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There is a massive BTC to gift card market and I've heard zero problems from the regular users of such services. What additional scrutiny have you heard of relating to $100-$1000 gift cards that are purchased legally and traded p2p?

From my understanding p2p exchange is the whole purpose of gift cards, so this activity is indistinguishable from other mainstream uses.

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Top improvements of the mobile app vs the mobile site for me:

- Access to the talk pages which are interesting to read on certain articles.

- Improved multi-language support (You can select your preferred languages and quickly switch while searching)

- The "My lists" feature.

- It has its own tabs so it's easier to manage.

I'm using "Wikipedia Beta" app.
So it's not clear from the paper -- what is the optimal strategy for 2x2, 3x3, 4x4@64?
A side-note about glibc: I have only ever had problems with glibc versioned symbols. The only thing they more or less do is to pin an old executable to old library versions, and you can supposedly install a newer version of the library. You then save a little bit of disk space.

- It doesn't allow you to install minor versions of the same library at the same time (thats how you end up with all these 1.so, 2.so)

- So if you want a binary to work across multiple distributions, you can build it on a really old CentOS and if you are lucky it will work, but I have no trust in this.

- Forward-compatibility is not really considered, where you update your libraries and your existing app becomes more powerful.

- The dynamic linker doesn't allow you to load two different library versions at the same time (without a lot of contortions). You would think you could do `dlopen` and `dlsym` on two different `.so` files, and then just have separate function pointers to each version's functions. But the linker loves to load all the symbols into a global namespace for some reason.

I'm sure there are ways to overcome all of this, but I feel too young to understand how it got this way and to old to learn it propertly :-P. If I were to design a new system today, I'd probably do something like .NET's global assembly cache: Just dump all library versions in /lib, and have the linker pick the best one at runtime. And make it easy to detect and react to a missing lib at runtime.
I'm not sure, but it seems to be considered a valid talking point in other industries.
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>too many people would quit at the end of the sabbatical

Not surprised. I assume that during the sabbatical, without the burden of the constant rat race, employees had time to reflect on what was bothering them about their job and practice interviewing without the daily work stress, allowing them to secure better jobs later.

I know a lot of people who hate their current job but the daily grind is so stressful, they don't have the energy to practice and interview at other places during the work week so they're more or less stuck in a place they hate.
That will work in the short term, but perhaps hurt them in the long term.
I think it's clear from the website that this is based on Alpine and not part of the project
https://hub.docker.com/r/frolvlad/alpine-glibc/

Without context, I think what this guy is pissed off about is that this project enables people to use alpine to run proprietary software.
You repeated this like 10+ times already in this thread, but never explained it why it's so evil. You just assume everybody is on the same page that tracking (logging actually) is bad, but it's far from obvious.

The fact that I can see access log in my web server is just a helpful tool for me as a developer to improve my services. I think the majority of sites use this in good faith and keep products healthy.

If your threat model involves secret services tracking your activity down based on downloading favicon.ico, then you might have more serious problems than architectural choices of the web platform.
In Sweden we're around the equivalent of 7.2 USD / gal, due to high taxes.

However, and I expect this to be the case in most European high-taxed countries, the taxes are just fed in to the general tax revenue of the government. Not ear marked for e.g capture programs.

These taxes do of course fund some inovation projects etc, but I think it would be a hard sell politically even here to direct all carbon-related taxes directly into buying Co2 capture.

For example, as renewables have grown larger in Sweden, the government has started taxing the production of solar power on larger installations (≈ roof of a warehouse), even if the energy is never sold/transmitted to the grid.
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The problem with a negative incentive is that saying "don't do X" doesn't mean "actually do intended alternative Y instead."

Example: Volkswagen faking emissions tests.

And at least if someone cheats their way to a subsidy a government will probably have an easier time pursuing a case for fraud than they would for tax evasion or whatever.
Read about our government here in Canberra where we have Labor Green coalition.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7273583/bandt-looks-t...