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What Big Tech really does should be a principal focus of a tech discussion forum. What they really do is to use their unprecedented power to hide and censor information and silence people in order to influence opinion on a mass scale. They admit they do it every time they explain why they do it. But they hide the specifics of what they are trying to get people to think and how they do it. They hide the internal discussions of their agenda and the methods they employ to hide and censor and silence.

What they intend to get people to think, the means they employ, and the extent to which they do it are fundamental to understanding tech in society. How ironic is it then that every time a report of details and extent of their censorship and hiding is submitted to HN, the same people doing the censoring are allowed to flag the article out of existence on HN, censoring and hiding information about their censoring and hiding of information?

And if the argument is that reports of what Big Tech is doing to bias discussion will "ignite flamewars", well they know that means they can further bias discussion by threatening to rage until potential critics submit and self-censor. Certainly trillion-dollar tech corporations working to control society don't impose upon themselves any need to provide "new information". On the contrary, they repeat claims over and over that would not stand up to evidence, confident that any reports of the evidence can be severely limited and quickly swept from view.

Big Tech has vast power to limit what people find out about in almost every venue. I would love for HN to be an exception where the details that they try to hide are always in full view.
I understand the TRS-80 Model 100[1] is (still) a hot seller in this market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
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I think the point is that if it's that expensive, some other alternative is likely to win. There are other meat substitutes, which are already having some success.

Expensive technologies win a lot of market share only if no other alternative can work, and even then their use will be minimized.
I still occasionally use Freedos and a wordstar compatible editor I wrote in 1991, I dont even go to the DOS prompt I just boot strait in to it. The biggest problem is still getting my work off this machine to a networked one so I can back it up or publish it, used to use a floppy when those were an item but now using a serial file transfer program.. all pretty clunky.
Sure the CPU is great, but the hardware is just too unrepairable and disposable. The software is also too much about Apple lock-in. For example, Apple Music can't even play FLAC files.
>I always like to point out that before the Europeans decimated the American bison, there were more head of bison roaming the west than there are head of cattle today.

I don't think that's true. Most estimates of the peak Bison population I've seen put them at about 30 million. Some estimates are as high as 60 million. Today, we have about 94 million head of cattle down from a peak of 104.

Additionally, your linked article is incredibly unconvincing. It's riddled with Appeals to Nature and attempts to use a single instance of questionable behavior by a single company to poison the well for all alternatives to raising animals for slaughter.
... or the "Freedom phone"
It’s also subsidized
> I was referring to this with the lock-free hash maps…

Well thank you for providing an actual reference.

afaict from a twitter thread, "42nd At Threadmill" and "Luckless" are both Lisp re-implementations of the same Java hashtable code.

afaict the Rust sofware is not a re-implementation of that same Java hashtable code.

afaict that chart does not show any measurements of Java software, just Lisp and Rust.

So "… Java can match or exceed Rust …" seems to be based on nothing.

> Look at 2.cl, though…

So hand-coded AVX is hand-coded AVX in any language?
Firefox for Android is a mess, and something needs to change
I have a low-end Android phone that has no Google account tied to it, and all apps are exclusively downloaded through F-Droid.

Briar* is a great app to communicate securely, even during an Internet blackout over Bluetooth.

* https://briarproject.org/
> We also shipped a live_redirect and live_patch feature which allows you to navigate via pushState on the client without page reloads over the existing WebSocket connection.

This is one LiveView feature I've deliberately avoided so far. The reason is that when you replace real page loading with client-side navigation using pushState, accessibility for blind users suffers. When a real page load happens, a screen reader knows when the load is complete, and can handle it in an appropriate way, e.g. by beginning to read the new page. But when client-side JS updates the DOM in-place, a screen reader has no reliable way of knowing that conceptually, a new page just loaded. The usual work-around is to have an invisible ARIA live region that says something like "navigated to [page title]". That's better than nothing, but still a regression from real page loads. Of course, SPAs have the same problem.

This really ought to be fixed in ARIA, but until then, I'll keep doing form submission and page navigation the old way. Still, LiveView is really nice for real-time updates within a page.
Maybe you should RTFA before commenting. The people who did the detailed analysis in the article have extensive experience doing exactly this thing and even using the most optimistic projections still found that it's just not feasible.
That creates some weird incentive structures.
That’s hard if your job depends on access to a windows only program like photoshop or a game engine (unity and unreal editors technically work on Linux, but it’s really painful)
That's a straw man. These people are of course doing something dangerous but mainstream newspapers are routinely calling doctor prescribed Ivermectin 'horse dewormer'. Both 'camps' treatment of this subject has been a real low water mark and it looks like the science might be as well.
Google Takeout is good insurance. I backup my full google dataset every 6 months or so.

When Google AI blocks an account, why don't they offer a window of using Google Takeout to get a .zip of all their stuff?
> I now carry a mirrorless camera everywhere.

I do not believe you. There is no way you carry a mirrorless camera everywhere or anywhere near a comparable amount of times / places as a person carries their phone.
A steak or chicken breast or pork chop is a fundamentally different thing than anything you can get from bugs. Culturally they might be interchangeable sources of protein, but you can't get a steak from crickets or grubs.

Like it or not, steak is normal, and good eats to a majority of the west.
What other word should I use to describe a de facto government of America that blatantly, and loudly, refuses to follow the American constitution? This is not my opinion. The courts have agreed with me that religious service is an essential activity, despite many governor's and the federal government's attempts to ban it. Moreover, the current federal regime has unequivocally said that although the Supreme Court itself has ruled its eviction moratoria illegal, it would enforce them anyway (despite the SC ruling unequivocally that this constituted a violation of the takings clause). That is a constitutonal crisis, that was only glossed over because the media decided it didn't exist.

My use of the word regime befits the current US government.

The American heritage dictionary says that regime means:

A usually heavy-handed administration or group in charge of an organization.

That is exactly what the current federal government and many state governments (including my own) are by the admissions of our own courts.
I dunno, frequent, daily meat eating is a relatively new phenomenon for 99% of the population. For a lot of history your worker would eat carbs, vegetables and a tiny morsel of meat. Meat is affordable due to grain subsidies, massive industries and vastly underpaid workers. Sure, there was a period before that where hunting was a primary food source, but it's not like humans need to eat meat.

Appealing to nature is also a little suspect. There's a lot of things that are "natural" that we don't partake in due to changing ethics and mores.

I'll concede that comparing it to smoking is not entirely accurate. Smoking is a very binary relation; you are either a smoker or not. It's much more likely that people in 50-100 years will be light meat eaters, i.e. eat meat once or twice a week.

Emerging economies may eat more meat. They may also smoke more. I agree that it's not always productive to demand that an emerging economy follow the rules of a developed economy. But a lot of these emerging economies will not be so emerging in 50-100 years. It's quite possible the populace will reduce their meat consumption as education and concern about the environment increases.
It has certainly been done before, though perhaps not to the extent your suggesting. In the early days of Ubuntu, I ran across a modified live CD that included OpenOffice and little else. It was advertised as being a distraction free environment for people who needed to do writing, though it was probably better geared towards those writing papers for school than professional writers.
I think it would be interesting to see a modern purely mechanical typewriter. CAD would make a big difference in the process of design, I think, and the result might have some interesting properties and aesthetics.
“Hypothetical” being the key word here, though. These proposals are all thin on details, and if it was so easy someone would’ve made such a language by now.
According to those who have invested in the nightmareish companies who produce these abominations, their investments will skyrocket soon.
To code something like Dwarf Fortress takes an uncommon level of dedication. The project has been going for a decade and a half!

It's only recently that the project has been paying off via community funding/patronage. A great deal of those early years must have been very difficult for them.
If all the shareholders were to sue and divide the payout according to the number of shares they hold then yes, that would be a losing proposition. If only some of the shareholders sue, however, the payout from the suit might exceed the drop in the value of their own shares, at the expense of other shareholders who are not parties to the suit.
> Why do we always have to make people's choices for them? They're grown adults capable of making their own decisions and their own mistakes. If they want to ignore the science and the credibility of the FDA process, they should be free to do so.

Most people -- including myself -- are unequipped to evaluate the science behind most drugs. That supposed to be why the FDA exists. I do not want to make my own mistakes here, since they can very easily be fatal, or at least have long-term consequences. I want a trusted body of experts to give me a recommendation that's as well-informed and unbiased as possible. The FDA may or may not be as good as they should be at being that body, but it is absolutely needed.
Depends on how the directive is worded.

I'd probably write something regulating the charging port on the device and the charging protocol
Whenever I read these kind of salaries I feel like I’m doing something fundamentally wrong.

30yo, European based with lousy 60k/year. With the rising real estate prices I probably won’t even be able to afford a house in my lifetime.
(Except maybe with a working SO - but even then until I’m too old for work)

I’d say if it’s it just about earning more money maybe work overtime for a little salary boost. Hard to beat that $/h.
Some shocking non-linearities in dose-response you’re expecting. Point me to the most credible study you have. Tired of being shown poorly randomized trials with like 50 subjects.
I use JupyterLab professionally and have never been able to get VSCode notebooks working at the same level. For example, simple bracket highlighting doesn't work in the VSCode notebooks I've tried. I want to like them, but they don't get the job done for me.
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> The Opium Wars were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century.

I assumed this was well-known.
Maybe, but the sake of venture funding a 40 year horizon is irrelevant. An analyst in 1970 would have easily concluded that a iPhone would be impossible for the next 10 years. Maybe possible in 50 years is as good as impossible for a venture backed artificial meat companies that needs to turn a profit in the next 20 years.
Remember, over $1 BILLION dollars a quarter of free cash flow into their cash hoard EVERY QUARTER.

An absolutely stellar customer support network with real people was being operated by Network Appliance when I was there for less than $60 million A YEAR.

Google is absolutely capable of providing a level of service that is unmatched, but they choose not to.
You are mistaken, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28622783
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"Skill gap" in this context means that an employee lacks a skill that the job needs/requires. It is from the employer's point of view that the employee lacks a skill.

The top groups are Cybersecurity, Cloud computing, data storage, network infrastructure, and social networking tech(?). This seems like a decent number of employees didn't know anything about how to setup their machines or save documents to the cloud.

(Perhaps more optimistically some places realized that even their long time SysAdmins have never used cloud providers :/)

In my experience most people have extremely sensitive work environments even in IT and sometimes even more in IT (with the exception of the neckbeards that do everything themselves.) The average IT helpdesk isn't so much tech savvy as they are following a script/directions. WFH means every problem now has to be solved remotely which means every script is out of date (doesn't mention a VPN or O365 BYOD specific policies) combined with having to walk user's through checking things over video calls... it quickly becomes a nightmare.

The front line employees are not going to have the time to use educational/upskill tools. The more experienced employees don't want to waste their time watching videos on LinkedIn.
To the author: if you really want to be permissive about what others can do with your software, a MIT, BSD, or Apache 2 license (which is more complete in that it even includes a patent grant) seem to be more widely recognized and well tested than the Unlicense. Unless you did choose that license for some solid reasons, I'd suggest to consider switching to one of the other better regarded licences.

* https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1471...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3610208
They could do that, and that appears to be what they want to do, but I tend to agree with Apple that continuing a legal attempt to overturn the terms doesn't constitute "agreeing" to the terms. There's an old joke about diplomacy being "the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock".

Apple is in my opinion correct that Epic is still looking for that rock, and is not bound to respect what Epic says while it does so.

>They don't have to break the ToS to get the ToS changed.

Might have been a good idea for Epic to consider that prior to doing so.
Should be, though milage may vary, of course. I'm having trouble finding a better example but https://elixir-console-wye.herokuapp.com/ is made in LiveView. You can try it out and see what you get (I have no idea where it's deployed, it's a phoenixphrenzy.com winner and plenty more there to browse through). Its payloads are a bit larger than some typical responses I have in my personal apps and I'm seeing 1-2ms responses in Toronto, Canada (chrome devtools doesn't show greater precision than 0.001 for websocket requests).
Yeah it is well known that all you have to do is claim that the police forged the evidence and then that evidence is immediately thrown out. If the police don't have hard cryptographic evidence than they are just out of luck.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if anyone ever tried the deniability defence in court:

"Ha Ha. You can't link those messages to my public key. They could of been forged."

"We can't for sure link your identity to your public key in the first place. Why should we care about any of this?"
My thought is that if I only spend 1-2 years in a place, if it takes me a year or more to learn the language, I may be ready to leave by the time I've gotten a handle on it.
And it was true, until cheap LI ion batteries became commercially available because they have the required power density to make it viable. From there it was just a matter of the economies of scale.
I really doubt that is an effective way to spend the money, it might not be hard to go veg(an), but so far it's really hard to get people to go veg(an).

Occasionally I hear animal welfare researchers and activists on the 80,000 Hours podcast report their actual modeling and computation where they seem consistently to come to the conclusion that changing minds is not an effective use of money and effort at the margin.
The term in the list is actually 人民报 "People's newspaper" not 人民日报 "People's Daily newspaper". From a quick look at their website, 人民报 appears to be pretty anti-communist. Basically typosquatting.
> If an experienced engineer can make over $500K/yr plus benefits working 40 hours a week at a large company, there should be an opportunity to spend a few extra hours on a side gig to increase that number by a few percent.

Why? I don't follow this reasoning at all. There's no reason that because someone makes a lot of money, there should be an easy path to making more. What am I missing?

The only thing that comes to mind is contracting/moonlighting. This lets you work in the domain in which you are already an expert. To do this, just follow these simple steps:

* examine your employment contract and ensure you can legally do this
* carve out time on your nights and weekends
* reach out to former employers and colleagues and say "do you need any extra hands? I'm looking to moonlight"
* manage expectations carefully
* deliver
* wash, rinse, repeat

In this scenario, you are simply taking on a second, part time job. That's why it is so easy to get into.

Everything else I know of (consulting, writing a book, blogging + selling ads, starting a company) isn't an extension of that, so takes a lot more effort.

Now, should you? That's a question of the value of your free time. That I can't comment on, except to say the older I get, the more I value my free time rather than money.
Me too. Just to be sure I've also put my Kindle on Airplane mode as soon as I got it. It has been working like this for years.
If I use an Android libre distribution how many more apps do I have the ability to install that I couldn’t on the iPhone?

Next, how many iPhone Apps would I lose access to, and never be able to run on my new phone?

The fact is for most people there are many, many more apps they actually want to run in the App Store than there are available for the libre platforms. Unless you’re a developer and write all your own software, the fact is you’re controlled by the people who are programmers, whether they work for Apple or any platform. They decide what your choices are.

What matters to customers is the range of options they actually have, and Apple gives them a lot more choice, more of which are relevant to them, by a huge margin.
I’ve been using a HifiBerry DAC (DAC+ DSP) with a RBP and their HifiBerry OS which comes with a bunch of streaming services built in, the DSP DAC also allows you to upload a profile to adjust for room acoustics.
i5ik is an amazing and forward thinking dev who doesnt care about names. 212202 is GENIUS level work with an impossible to query name ;>
I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm pretty sure there were protection rackets and shakedowns long before someone got the idea to rebrand them as "governments" and "taxes".
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Thanks.
Then where do u do integration test?
Hahahah! Love it!
So what? Meat is too cheap anyway - it’s subsidized beyond reason and healthcare costs are crazy. Give it time and there’s a non-zero chance we won’t have an economy to care about due to climate change. This is a good step even if it’s ‘costly’.
One of the reasons I don't always read the articles and go straight to the comments is because clicking on a link may result in an ungodly amount of cookie popups and autoplay video's exploding in my face whereas the HN comments are always the same predictable, comfortable web 1.0 experience. Dealing with this is a relatively costly intellectual operation, if you will, and frequent web use has conditioned the cost-benefit tradeoff I make when dealing with links.
This is the exact argument people made against solar power 20 years ago. They were wrong. Technology costs are very hard to predict.
> During its operations: noise, visual pollution, often destroying wildlife sites as people don't want them close to their living areas

The UK's mostly solved this by putting turbines a couple miles off the coast. And the benefit of having that renewable energy vastly outweighs the environmental impact of "noise".
RMarkdown has neither of these issues, and it supports Python. It is baffling to me that most data scientists use Jupyter, since its diffs are meaningless. Its export options are very underwhelming compared to Rmd as well. Notebooks [1] are simply a special case of R Markdown formats. Besides, Rmd are literally text files that work with any text editor, including vim.

[1] https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/notebook.html
I intended to write the same in reponse to some other comment. But then I got unsure. It would only work if Android has no native ABIs to the system at all. On a Gnu/Linux system you would need a libc in the emulated architecture at least. Applications won't typically bring their own. I have never not looked at Android development, so no idea whether such ABI exist or whether all APIs are Java.
> They have the transparency to supplier costs but it's so variable and granular that it's not meaningful to discuss.

Right, so again, exactly what I said:

> It sounds like within the industry, hospitals are facing the same problems as consumers, and they need more price transparency from their suppliers as well. Hopefully increased requirements towards hospitals to explain their pricing will lead to hospitals demanding slightly more transparency and slightly more consistency from the other companies they work with.

jonathan-adly suggests that it's laughable to assume that a hospital could get a predictably priced supply of aspirin from it's suppliers. And I'm sorry, but no it's not. Everybody else has figured out how to do this. The market has already proven that it is possible to predictably price an aspirin tablet for consumers before you hand it to them.

If hospitals can't do that, then it signals that either something is very wrong with how they operate, or (from the sound of things) something is very wrong with their supply chains.

The value here is in asking why hospitals can only provide laughable answers to a question that other segments of the health industry have been competently answering for decades now. I'm not saying it's necessarily the hospital's fault. I'm saying that something is pretty clearly wrong with their model for sourcing even generic drugs, given that they are one the only parts of the health industry that has this problem.
161 comment yelling at either google or the guy for XYZ and here I am just wondering if the bloke got his tank photos back