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> This is written in Python, and, looking at the core loop, yes, it really is Python, not Python wrapped around C or some other acceleration technology

It seems to use a library clfparser to parse apache common log format logs; internally that uses Python's regex engine which is written in C.

6000 line/s seems incredibly slow to me for a C program parsing a log file. I'm seeing a lot or strstr's, strlen's, strdup's, and strchr's in GoAccess's parse.c, all of which are O(n) per line and, while fine in isolation, could be causing GoAccess to do quite a bit more work per line than just using an optimized regex engine.
> USB 4 is mostly Thunderbolt 3

The second link shows exactly how USB 4 is not Thunderbolt, and why Apple can't use Thunderbolt with the new Macs.
Without the dongle you couldn't use iPhones with micro-USB AC adapters that don't have detachable cables.

However I agree that besides that specific circumstance, they were basically already compliant. The 2009 initiative wasn't targeting Apple specifically.
Using oil money to aggressively help the EV industry is an excellent thing. Emissions today, but no emissions tomorrow is a goal the whole world should agree on.
Fahrenheit 451?

Especially given the name of the device...
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The biologically optimal time moves around. People wake near sunrise. DST keeps sunrise at a more consistent time at the expense of moving sunset around.
The comment makes no arguments for this point, though - it establishes an opinion (Apple acting like a government) then starts listing off facts like they support that argument.
Surely schedules would adjust, right? In northern latitudes I commonly see different summer hours for shops for instance, it's about time middle latitudes adopt this simple strategy instead of abrupt time changes.
Here in Sweden I can count on my fingers the number of times I've filled up at a gas station with a store attached in the past several years. Most gas stations are unmanned and self service, and I assume they make money.
Well, shit, I apologize for calling your comment a "terribly inaccurate, sweeping generalization" (I can't edit my response, the option isn't there).

Well done here, I'm the asshole. :)
That is impossible to believe considering you can go to almost every corner of the US and see Mexicans and other people of Hispanic or Latin American origin working in hard, manual labor roles.
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I think it's two groups, or at least two ideologies.

There's a very large streak of what I think of as hyperindividualism: I do what I want. It's not stated, but in practice it implies that any downstream negative consequences to others are negligible or even morally necessary. This predominates especially when the bulk of the audience sees themselves in the powerful person in the story.

There's also a strong streak of what I'd call compassionate individualism, where people identify with the less powerful person in the story. This can involve moral outrage on their behalf, and generally includes a more nuanced balancing of the individual rights of different people.

A good example is how HN talks about rising tech companies versus very dominant ones. On the way up, we tend to identify with the entrepreneur-CEOs in charge. But once they're large enough to harm either the HN audience or the tech ecosystem, the narrative tends to switch. E.g., Microsoft as the evil empire, or the way Google, Apple, and Facebook get a lot more skepticism. Often it's the same people and the same behaviors, it's just that we're at the sharp end of the stick.

So here it's Facebook and slavery. Given that most of us don't intend to keep slaves and we've become suspicious of FB's power, it's easy to identify with the slaves. But phrase it as an abstract issue in distributed systems and censorship resistance, and people will identify with the engineer/rebel character.
This is true.

As an adult who's partner plays and plays occasionally, Its honestly really about group chatting (voice comms) with friends/relatives as much as it is about the game for us. I mean the game is silly and fun, but really its a group thing. I almost never play when not with friends.

And occasionally there are group events/ a concerts and movie screenings.

We're all on PCs/ Consoles, but if your a kid a free to play game your friends are on you could join in with a tablet, would be nice.
I used to do this with my keys every time I traveled to the UK and forgot my adapters.
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Things can be complicated I'm not sure that is a reason to think these theories are incorrect. I am tempted to believe microbiome and eating more slightly rotten/off food than we currently do also helped but it's not as if humans from antiquity were all living into their 90s.
This is certainly underestimated by many who've never seen a differential equation in their life and probably can't pronounce it either.
One thing I've never seen asked or answered is whether the name Bay 12 is a reference to the film Aliens - when Ripley picks up a crate with the loader and asks Apone "where do you want it?" he laughs and says "Bay twelve, please."
Surely too obscure to be a coincidence?
Not really. The biggest claim is that this measure will reduce e-waste, but that’s a red-herring since the e-waste is in the charger not the cable, and chargers are already interchangeable.
Well, if you start enforcing quality standards, suddenly, local products become way more competitive.
well, agro-tech is a thing. e.g. https://cattleeye.com/
We are humans. We want to keep our cake, but eat it too. As long as we can talk in isolation about just one issue, we don’t have to face the paradox.

/insert satire tag here/

Now if we could just coordinate this better. On even days we can do liberal thinking, and odd days socially conscious thinking.

/close satire/
It is, but it's also true that slightly bruised or damaged fruit is still perfectly edible.
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People who say housing is an asset and therefore it's not a problem are ignoring one key phrase there:

between one-fifth and one-quarter of the total housing stock, especially in more desirable cities—owned by speculative buyers who have no interest in either moving in or renting out.

So it's just an NFT that happens to have construction materials in it.
Another consumer-friendly regulation that Brexit has destroyed is the cap on interchange fees (0.2% for consumer debit cards and 0.3% for consumer credit cards).[1]

[1] https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/37706/visa-hikes-uk-eu-...
Every time I read an EV discussion I see comments feigning concern for poor people, even though they are the demographic least likely to own cars at all.

If people are actually concerned about the poor, the conversation should be about good public transit, pedestrian and bike infrastructure-things that actually make a difference for people with less means.
As a child I used to complain about going to bed because I "can't sleep". My father would often say, "well, you usually need to close your eyes for it to work".
The legislation doesn't really do any of those things, and 'cords', like 'plastic straws' are negligible bit of waste - moreover, the legislation probably wouldn't even change the amount of 'cord waste' that much.

The legislation has risk because USBC is ill suited to many things and it's best to let manufactures make that decision.

The EU legislators are a buit lazy on this one: they are legislation what is 'in front of their faces' (i.e. the phones they use) without recognizing the impact might not be what they think.

Now - where there is a non-standard situation (remember A/C adapters?) - then it would actually help for an engineering body to set some kind of standard - but that should probably be a standards body, and not the EU.

As long as manufacturers are using some measure of standardization that would be fine.

A more rational (but difficult) approach would be to figure out a method and system for disposing or recycling the cords.

"Or course not, it's not like legislation is set in stone and will never change."

Government legislation does not keep pace with innovation, it lags it considerably. Not only that, it tends to stagnate. As such it risks becoming a limiting factor and push the dynamism to Asia.

I think requiring the use of standard connectors would be fine, but they mostly already do.

Creating an electronics recycling program would be actually smart, and have positive impact on the environment, but that's hard.
IMO this could benefit from using `collections.Counter` instead of `defaultdict(set)`.
I agree with this, Epic is forcing Apple into a no-win situation where they either do what Epic wants or come off very poorly to regulators.

Epic doesn't need to win this specific court case to get what they want, all they need is for this to stay top of mind for lawmakers to change the rules in favor of developers.
In China there really isn't a difference - the Communist Party is partial owner of ALL "private" corporations.
How quickly do algorithms improve?
> Are they doing it just to be contrarian?

If they continue to avoid the widely-used standard, they reduce the likelihood a consumer will buy their overpriced first-party peripherals. This hardly even counts as nefarious: it's openly their brand to dismiss the benefits to the user of interoperability.
I’m fairly certain this was calculated. Someone crunched the numbers and included this into the equation and sticking it to epic came on top. This isn’t a purely emotional decision even though it seems that way.
If you put the nail polish on the screws or seams, you could make it where you couldn't take apart the laptop to replace the motherboard without damaging them, right?
Presumably the laptop could be designed such that opening the case would separate some contacts in a circuit, which in turn would clear some important secret value from memory.

If you have a separate authentication device, it could warn you that this had happened, to prevent the attack of someone opening the case to add a circuit which broadcasts your key presses, for example.

This still only reduces the problem from keeping your laptop with you at all times to keeping your authentication device with you at all times, though.
Why not just start schools earlier/later in different months?
While I agree with your general points, one minor detail: ICE vehicles will be manufactured long after western countries ban them. Western car companies will continue making them too, they won't abandon markets that will still buy them: Asia, Latin America, Africa. There people don't have resources nor infrastructure for EVs, so ICEs will continue to be used there.
Our demographic bonus is over now and México didn't take advantage of it.
Will never happen
Eh, I would like to talk to him! We just have a solution to protect against such leaks.
Do you happen to have his phone number? :))))
We would protect him from this.
Only sell gas? What? I've never ever seen a Norwegian gas station that doesn't have a small grocery store/kiosk attached, plus usually a cleaning hall etc.
> I would simply reply that you cannot share data before publication, but they certainly can see the published data once it is public

We did that. We only didn't respond to the request to meet in person. Sorry if I was unclear.

> I'd be asking for information, too. Not because I want a fight, but because it is simply good practice to understand people's concerns about your product, and have an opportunity to fix the problems.

Good point. Unfortunately, we don't really know _why_ the product doesn't work. We only know that statistically speaking, we have low quality evidence that the impact on tested outcomes is negative. So fixing things won't be easy at all.
This is really interesting. Would you mind saying what kind of place you live in? Rural, suburb, or dense city?
The Chromecast Audio had one, but Google discontinued it.
Are they though? it's not as if an average FB employee can do anything about it.

Say they resign... then FB just gets someone else to do their job.
That's interesting, thank you !
In no wheeled vehicle context is a simple gearbox that cannot engage/disengage, change speed or change direction referred to as a transmission.

Yes, it's a textbook correct terminology but completely irrelevant anywhere else (hence my comment about spherical cows)
One of the highly underrated contributions of Wittgenstein that doesn't get the attention it deserves is his book "On Certainty".

It's a book on philosophical skepticism and the nature of doubt which he wrote late in his life.

It has a unique writing style, which feels like a thought dump, but it was eye opening for me.

Edit: If you want to read a bit more about it, you might be interested in this series of posts by Sam26 on the (now gone) philosophy forums: Wittgenstein's Early and Later Philosophy - With Emphasis on "On Certainty": https://web.archive.org/web/20160304215023/http://forums.phi...
The meltdown means reality has returned to China and they are just another country again. This event, among others, will have an enormous downstream effect on the morale of Chinese people, their finances, and the future of their government. Combined with the US's more active response to China's territorial expansion, their leaders are scared. Scared of being kicked out by the next generation of politicobeaurocrats.
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Use biodegradable containers or if you insist on plastics, use a strict recycling program where you pay extra for the container and you can get money back if it gets to a recycling facility. If you're lazy and don't care to return the item to some recycling facility someone else will for that deposit...

Plastic recycling is not great though and it's better to use plastic sparingly.. One time use plastics are the worst offenders for the environment.
> I don't think the US constitution is full of anti-democratic rules at all. On the contrary, its intent is to grant rights

People make statements like this and I can only hope they're not american, because the idea you could be educated in an american school and come out believing this is too horrifying to ponder.

Our founders directly stated in contemporaneous documents their fear of unchecked democracy and how it can descend into tyranny.

There is a natural conflict between democracy (and any form of government) and individual rights.

The founders sought to create a republic (not even a democracy really) with heavy protections for individual rights which they saw as at risk from democratic forces

That you think individual rights and democracy are intertwined is only because of bad history linking the american constitution to some great creation story of democracy itself. Many democracies have been authoritarian nightmares for those in the minority

Some Americans wanted a monarchy after the civil war, but they still wanted individual rights protected. Democracy won out but not because of its human rights record. Indeed, the founders were familiar with democratic tyranny based on their classical studies.

The examples of the natural misalignment between democracy and human rights are numerous. Slavery, Jim crow laws, drug laws, all of which were highly popular in their day or are popular now, but agree or disagree obviously curtail individual rights.

Now to your points.... No the Roman republic was not at all like north Korea. The Roman republic was an actual republic, with elections, power transfers etc.

England has been a monarchy for a thousand years and still is. Parliament is a nice thingy but the queen can get rid of it if she wants and she knows that. That's why they behave themselves most of the time. In fact she did this in recent memory in Australia.

All governments fail, but some fail faster and more spectacularly than others.

(I don't have time to give you every thing said by the founders on the danger of democracy and it's nTueal tension with individual rights... Here's a good starting point https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/jimhuntzinger/2018/1...)
It would be very convenient for facebook to immediatly censor ALL violating ads... but so far, it is unsolved engineering problem
It's spelt out in the article, but be aware that Guix as a distro will give you a libre kernel, so no blobs. I am afraid it might not work with nvidia or AMD GPUs, as well as some wi-fi adapters (there's the cough nonguix project umbrella I haven't yet dug into).

Other than that, the approach taken by Guix and Nix to package management (or even fedora silverblue) is quite interesting, and I've been folowing it rather closely.

You get a more ansible-like (one config file for deployment) way of configuring your system, with rollbacks possible, it lets you have multiple software configurations exist simultaneously, that would be hard to achieve on other distributions (say, different environments with various versions of glibc). And portability+reproductibility of your environments.
>No, I just expect people to use better browsers. Safari's issues are documented far and wide[0] (as well as extended by a plethora of WebKit issues) so I really don't see why most people would want to use it over Firefox or Chrome. Both of those browsers have given you the option to choose it's location for years, so I don't see any cause for celebration when Apple really just sheared a Yak while blowing party streamers.

Because Safari works great for its users. That's the target: the end user, not the software developer.
I'm now wrapping these in plastic bags.

You can use the same bag for many, many salads until one leaks and then you get a new bag. That is significantly better than supermarkets using a new bag for every salad.
No doubt. My 3700/rx5700 build has been running Manjaro with minimal issues overall, including on the gaming side.

We're close to the point where pretty much everything will be running in an year or so. It's remarkable how much can change in just a few years
Is anyone actually selling devices that can output or consume that yet? IIRC the updated standard was only made public a few months ago.

I know some off-spec devices (some XPS laptops for instance) can shovel 130W around where 100W is the usual maximum but I don't remember hearing of any that make use of more.

There is another option without that standard too: you could always draw from more than one source. Many USB connected DVD writing devices did (probably still do if not using USB-C) this, so they could be used to write reliably at full speed if the host PC couldn't give more than the lower power standards down a USB port (with higher power support you only need one connection, with legacy ports one connector was data+power the other just power).
1. It's nice of you to be in favor of rising prices you can afford to pay. Wonder how people that are already at the edge of choosing cheaper processed food will feel about it.

2. What's wrong about plastic packaging, exactly? The alternative use for oil is to burn it. Having it do something useful and then get buried doesn't sound so horrible.
Fortnite notwithstanding, Epic also makes the Unreal Engine, which is one of the biggest ones alongside Unity -- especially for cross-platform games. Hindering iOS development of UE will affect a lot of other game devs, both huge and indie.
> In return, we get more complexity by splitting the system into at least three components*, and going back into the partitioning mess ("You only gave 300GB to /home, in order to download the ISO you want you need to repartition the system").

Is there anything akin to APFS containers [1] in the Linux space? APFS's ability to share space between multiple filesystems is, among other features, how Apple is able to get away with splitting the filesystem up similarly to Poettering's proposal. (They don't go quite as far; they have a signed, sealed system volume plus a single user volume rather than Poettering's multiple user volumes, but the split is still there and therefore runs into the same issue of space allocation.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System#Partition_sc...
Even if not using the SSR part of next, it is still a great build tool, with sane defaults and possibilities of static generation.

What would you use to "simplify" things? Your own webpack config?
Are you looking for this?

https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/raspberry-pi-desktop/
Still, what's the point in telling someone "to vote with their wallet" instead of complaining? Why not both? Where, if not on HN, should we voice our opinion that tech is going down some path we aren't excited about?

Avoiding Google/FB/Amazon/Microsoft or whatever your megacorp of choice is is becoming increasingly hard, and it absolutely deserves being talked about. As do any other things in which our choices and freedoms continue to be snuffed out, and that point should be able to stand alone, without being weighed against things like "Vote with your wallet" or "But in Y thing we have more freedoms now! Why does X matter?"
These conversations are also worth having, but they shouldn't entirely replace the a call for alternative paths.
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Is there a relationship between abolishing DST and the extreme-right, or is that a coincidence?
Philosophical Investigations is not exactly hard to read, but the style of argument Wittgenstein uses is very slippery. He's trying to poke holes in the conceptual pictures and assumptions we use, and which often lead us to nonsense or philosophical debates that can be dissolved through conceptual clarification. It's nothing less than a full on broadside against an entire tradition of philosophical thought extending back to Plato.

I would say the first 100 or so pages of the book are a form of conceptual cartography around language. Later, he uses that "grammatical analysis" to look at psychology, vision, pain, and many other topics.

There are a lot of incredibly consequential arguments and thought experiments in the book, but you can pare them down to some generalizations:

- Language is a form of behavior.

- Language is public and cannot be fundamentally private. As are rules and rule following.

- For almost every case, meaning is use in a form of life (there are some caveats, like color, which also rely on an ostensive definition). An explanation of the "grammar" of a word, is an explanation of a rule for the use of the word in a particular context.

- Understanding is akin to an ability.

- Many of our complex mental and cognitive and cogitative abilities, are manifest in our behavior, the most rich and complex being language.

- Fundamental skepticism, of a Cartesian sort, is nonsense. Humans are social animals with the ability for an enormously complex language rich in concepts; the mind/body, inside/outside, distinction is a false picture that leads to nonsense. Do not mistake the personal for the private.
But Facebook is the fan-out link, which does seem special. everything on either other side is 1:1, and then Facebook fans it a million ways.
Wait, did I miss something or how does a sophisticated attacker break encryption with ~100+ bit password entropy?
Well, Apple did apparently set the example here. If you know about it? Yes.
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As someone who has applied for a lot of jobs in the past year and loves TeX, it's a bad idea for applicants. Greenhouse consistently pulls data incorrectly from resumes made in TeX and this puts you at a huge disadvantage within a pool of applicants. My response rate went up massively as soon as I abandoned my well-crafted TeX resume and went to a bare-bones resume made in Apple Pages.