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What if Meta obtain a monopoly on the supply of funny gifs.

> "At that time the CMA argued Meta could cut off its rivals’ access to gifs, and demand platforms like TikTok or Snapchat hand over more of their data in order to access gifs, consolidating power in Meta’s hands."

It... it seems like that may be a fair summary of the regulator's concern :/
Pitch this to some dapp/crypto vc. Maybe @ the kid who made Ethereum. Great idea
What I wonder with this (and other warnings about vaccine safety)

mRNA vaccines have been administered to millions of people around the world. A sizable percentage had the first shot six months ago or longer.

The effects the author is warning against also occur supposedly with high probability and across age groups and sex. (He makes no mentions about pre-existing conditions, which would probably be important: usually, you visit a cardiologist for a reason)

If there was actually an increased risk of e.g. ACS, shouldn't we have seen a significant increase in actual ACS cases among vaccinated by now? Wouldn't this have been detected during the clinical trials?
This nicely shows why I like my JetBrains IDEs so much: They look at what is successful and then they don't mindlessly clone the product, but they cherry-pick the core reasons why it is successful.

I have also observed that cloud coding environments (e.g. AWS Cloud9) have become more popular and I totally get why. Collaboration is easy and you can have a Linux runtime close to your production servers even though your programmers use Windows and Mac laptops. But I've always felt icky about putty my source code into some else's hands because who knows how trustworthy EC2 really is when you're working for an Amazon competitor ;) Or more generally, plenty of European companies have general rules that forbid you to put EU data onto US servers.

So I'm happy to see that JetBrains has reproduced the collaboration and Linux runtime features, while still allowing me to self-host things on a server that I fully control.
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Show HN: To Sunset or Not to Sunset
Users have suggested I share this here:

Hey all,
So I have never actually posted on HN however I have been a reader for many years. My time, however, has come to ask a question and potentially some advice or support.

I'm a bit of a project addict, although I have always been in employment my whole career I am constantly coming up with ideas and trying my hardest to push them out there into real business models. It's a passion and a hobby of mine, my current employer is fully aware of my "side hustles" and most managers I have worked with in my career have always been welcoming as these side projects tend to really stretch our knowledge. I am sure I am not alone.

Now, the problem I currently face is about one of my projects under the guise of The Night Project (https://www.thenightproject.com)

Like all projects, I tend to stumble at the point of financials (funding) or resources (people) - And sadly this project I am about to share with you is no exception.

Crypto Dip is something I started earlier in the year and have been working on and off to get to a nice live and steady state to really push. It has been welcomed in all of the channels I have shared it, however, there is some farce competition. Sadly, I am starting to fall behind and the competitors who clearly have thousands of users already are starting to implement the same features I have endeavoured to push.

Crypto Dip, does not exactly bring anything unique, a lot of platforms offer the same. But the focus was always on education and simplicity. Bringing new people into the crypto world.

Anyway, I waffle (as always) - Please check out the website (WIP) and also the WhitePaper:

- Website: https://cryptodip.net

- WhitePaper: https://cryptodip.net/static/CryptoDip%20-%20WhitePaper.pdf

What I really need for CryptoDip to really be something is help, actual physical engineering help from people who want to have a slice of the cake. And I mean an even share in the project and it's Token holdings to help me push this over the finishing line.

What I am looking for from the community is the following:

- Should I sunset this and focus on personal life and other matters I have at hand.

- Should I look to diversify the project and take on some other engineers, sadly I can not pay, but I can offer token share and project equity share.

- Should I sunset the project and cut my losses, I've put a few thousand into this project thus far not to mention the engineering time.

This project came up mid way through working on a game and sadly I think if I didn't do this project I would have the Game live, which to me is a much more exciting thing to be working on.

If anyone is interested please reach out to me, Discord is probably the best place (https://discord.gg/aQrPxfF2)

I am looking for any experience or budding Python Engineers with some micro service experience who would really like to help take this to the next level. If I am unable to find the help then I think the time will have come to sunset the project and archive the codebase.

Thank you :bow:
There are a lot of independent labels and artists that you can support on Bandcamp (which takes at most 10%). Give it a look before you pirate music next time.
I'd love any pointers to precedent for how this plays out from here.

1. The acquisition was >1 year ago. (And there's some question of whether FB followed the correct process.)

2. The antitrust concern is in one major market with a ton of political and regulatory power — but still one of many. (Are there international trade agreements that inherently make this ruling impactful outside of the UK?)

3. The acquired company was very unlikely to find a better outcome, and would have been fairly likely to require costly restructuring for lack of this one.

I don't take this super seriously — because giphy feels replicable and, well, it's gifs. But curious if anyone else sees impactful competitive/strategic concerns, or if the matter at hand is really just political precedent setting.

Mostly I feel bad for giphy people. Hope they're nicely contractually protected.
> DOA without vim bindings though.

The number of users pining for Vim and Vim bindings is greatly exaggerated.
Beijing targets Taiwanese companies with operations in China
An interesting side effect of these networks shutting down seems to be a lot of car manufacturers have been cheeping out for years and relying on 2G and 3G networks on even quite modern cars, then blaming the network providers when they stop working after being the network is shut off instead of offering upgrades to the telecommunications modules to a more modern standard.
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Culture and language evolve, an pirating became meaning getting authorized works without compensating the copyright holders. Apprently this usage dates back to the 1600s.[0]

>What is it I purchase?

Something that's legal according to your region's laws, copyright laws and the EULA. In case of unDRM-ed downloadable files, you most likely purchase the right for personal enjoyment or private screening of the media contained within the files, and of course the store often provides the files themselves too.

As you noted, the legal part is often murky. In case of Hungary, you're permitted for example to back up your legally owned media, so you can legally rip your CDs for yourself. But this is not true for all regions.

The copyright of the composition, the right the redistribute, or usage in a commercial environment is most often excluded when you just "buy and mp3". These are special cases where you need a different legal instrument, like a contract or license, and to pay way more than €1 per track.

Now, onto the dark patterns. The media industry is rife with this. The first is that often you can read "buying", but it's way more restricted legally, and sometimes, the media itself is crippled with a mechanism that tries to enforce some legality[1] - this would be the DRM. Region locking, unskippable anti-piracy segment on the DVD, files that "stop working" after a while, media that's encrypted from file to display, albums/games disappearing or downgrading from your catalogue, there's a lot. Meanwhile you're often presented with how easy and cheap all this is, and how much in control you are - no you're not. If you feel angry or betrayed, that's because you're realizing the con.

What can you do about this? Pirating is fine as a fuck you to the industry, but the creators of all the enjoyable goodness deserve compensation just like everyone else who does good work. So you can look for ways to support them that's more direct than licensing their music from a streaming giant. Bandcamp[2], for one, is quite excellent towards users and artists alike. And also, there is a lot of people who is not content with the current state of copyright - so many that Wikipedia had to open a page just for this issue[3]. So you're certainly not alone in your questioning.

[0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/462700/what-is-t...

[1] https://www.defectivebydesign.org/

[2] https://bandcamp.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_copyright
Chinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting is ‘close to death’, family say
That's a different allegation, which would need to be proven.
i was just explaining luke's point. i think he was hoping that julia would do more to enable interactive development a la common lisp/smalltalk
Things will become very sad on the other social networks.

Zuckerberg is ruthless in his determination to own all the funny gifs and good times.

It’s not fair cause nothing will be left for Twitter, making it all just people yelling at each other and no one laughing at funny cats and memes.

If this deal is not stopped then Zuckerberg will have bought much of the worlds supply of laughs. He’s shown he’s willing to use those laughs against us.

It’s a dystopian future that I’m glad the UK is standing up against. Thank god there’s a democracy that stands against such devastating overreach.

We suspect zuckerberg’s grand plan is to lock away all the worlds laughs in a big vault so no one can get them, and finally the world will be under his control. Unless The Incredibles are sent in to Facebook headquarters to break in and steal the worlds sense of humor back.
Right now, the temperature is -9C/16F. Winter is really just starting, and it'll probably get colder. It isn't snowing right now.

I'm not convinced windows being down is going to do anything outside of making folks cold. Air circulation happens still because cars have heating systems that draw air in from the outside.

And fwiw, the busses here do not have windows that open (outside of emergency panels). I'm in Norway, though, and folks were pretty decent at keeping distance even before the pandemic.
> Are "power users" disappearing, or are they just being ignored?

I believe they are mostly ignored.

A power user is a user, who doesn't fear the technical outcall. (S)he wants to get work done and uses a computer as a serious, professional tool. Sooner or later this will require this kind of user to step into configuration, the command line, etc. These users will accumulate IT knowledge auto-didactically, by visiting forums, mailing-lists, etc.

However, they come from many different positions and professions. And as such, they are a moving target of many, often highly specialized, communities. Not the typical customer base a large corporation wants. The large corporation will delegate such communities to "consultants", which those communities either can, or can not afford. I am not an archaeologist, but I could imagine, that archaeologists may benefit from tablets, that can do photos on-site and a document format, that let's them keep track of their excavations, link those to relevant data, etc. Photos like this [1] clearly show a pattern, that relies on coordinates. However, I guess, they are notoriously underfunded and nobody cares anyway.

> Software (and online services) has been in a race to the bottom for over a decade.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I remember the times of ActiveScripting on Windows. It was a great (and much needed) idea, that, however, has been positioned at system admins only (the most typical power user in a Windows environment, typically just some secretary or coworker, who is ready to do it, than a full position) and thus never really took off. Same for XML. Just because software-engineers don't like the format, it must not mean, that there is not some people being "document-engineers". Not everybody, who wants to use a computer programmatically, works at a Web/Cloud startup, etc.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Virginia-Butler/publica...
Machines and Influence
I'm not sure what the use case is, for small tasks I have Sublime Text, for full on work, I have JetBrains. This /looks/ like a strange place between ST and VSCode
> Plex and Emby

Also Jellyfin, the FLOSS Emby fork that has taken on its own life and has recently gotten a lot more stable
If you're serious about learning and looking for people who have gone on the same journey, dive into https://www.sosuave.com

Please note: Having social success with "someone else" (doesn't have to be sexual, although that helps) will often make the person you're interested in _more interested in you_. This is known as "social proof". Also, beware of oneitis, the literal disease of getting obsessed with "the one". There is no such thing as "the one". That's a Disney/cultural fairy tale and it can/will eat you alive if you let it (which is precisely what happens when you don't/won't take "find someone else" as an answer).
I think Alan Kay's OOP is widely used, but not at the "program" level. From what I understand, according to Alan Kay, OOP is about message passing, late binding and internal state. This is the way lots of software works these days with JSON over HTTP, or protocol buffers, or something else. I think at some point people imagined that there would be a point where you could buy or use objects from other people to build your programs more efficiently. I think that's what happened, with some companies offering very specific objects (auth for example, or persistance), while other offer a library with everything you need (cloud providers). And we even "rediscovered" the concept of interface in a way with stuff like "compatible with the S3 API".
Scaling the time axis sensibly will quickly reveal that the rising temperature and this cycle cannot explain the rise we see.

There are certainly overlapping effects, but the model would fail to predict temperatures.
Unlikely. The rest of their programmers toolset are mostly java based.
Don't those regulators have anything better to do? For instance have they settled on how to pronounce gif yet?
It's sooo much blue though
This would have been great to read about before I had surgery. I had septo-rhinoplasty and turbinate reduction last year to help sleep apnoea. It was recommended by a sleep specialist who noted my nasal passages were ‘very small’. It was also recommended by two separate surgeons. It was still very hard for me to trust the surgeons, since there is a conflict of interest. Overall I was able to breathe freely through my nose for about a month and then the effect slowly wore off. Overall it is better but not life-changing or worth the gross pain and bleeding from surgery. My nose is still tender and aching a year later.

I think the article is spot-on. I always have a creeping feeling when doctors recommend surgery, as they make lots of money from cutting me open and the benefits may be dubious. I will try what this article recommends: trying to direct air through my nose at night.
Be careful. You and I aren't consumers of Meta. We're part of the product. You're arguing that advertisers should get a better deal since they are the consumers in this case. Personally I don't like advertisers and seeing them get lower prices, more space etc does nothing for the average citizen imho...
Comments like this that spew negativity don't make HN a particularly inviting place either. Remember there's a human sitting on the other end.
> It's not my idea! It's what everyone building software in the last decade has migrated to.

Well, everybody besides the biggest free software distributors out there, which are Linux distributions…

> Packaging software so it can be used by any distro's package manager is not viable, and reliance on such an outdated model is why using Linux sucks for everything but writing software to run on a single machine.

Yeh, I get it. That's why we need Docker…

Nobody is able to distribute software otherwise.

Well, except all those "distributions"…

> And when they do you almost never go through the official/trusted mirrors because it will never be up to date, you host your own (maybe put up some signature that no one ever checks) so they just sudo apt repository add ; sudo apt-get install -y in your install instructions.

Moment. Does this mean someone managed to build packages that work on different versions of even different distributions, which is obviously impossible as we just learned?

This starts getting hilarious!

I'm sorry for you that nobody want's to listen to your great ideas. Have you ever considered that you're completely wrong?
Selling out is common; I just hope and think I would not do it, but who knows. I've never been in the position to sell out :-)
I can do that with Emacs. What other tools make it easy to branch in history?
I wish companies would indicate which countries they operate in!
To be fair, this was always the plan. Once the rich countries got vaccinated, they were going to give the surplus to the rest of the world.

Boosters and supply chain issues have rather upended that plan, though.
Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 400 for?
It's so cute (to look at)!
But it seems to be utterly useless for just about anything I thought I might be able to do with it..
This 4 gigabyte memory, almost 2 ghz quadcore machine seems unable to do much of anything, browsing the web is an utterly horrid experience..
Playing a game of Quake 3 is impossible.
Doom can run, but only at 320x240 unless you don't mind terrible lags.

I'm considering what I can do with it..
For once, I can run an IRC client on it, but what else?

Have you found something to actually use this for?
Too bad most media are into natural immunity denialism.
Beyond Blacklists: Exposure
"Shark analysis" here seems to refer to the usage of the "Shark" tool: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/150PAT/tools/shark/SharkUserGu.... From the PDF:

> Shark is a tool for performance understanding and optimization. To help
you understand the performance of your code, Shark allows you to profile
the entire system (kernel and drivers as well as applications). This
information is an invaluable first step in your performance tuning effort so
you can see which part of your code or the system is the bottleneck.

> At the simplest level, Shark profiles the system while your code is running
to see where time is being spent. It can also produce profiles of hardware
and software performance events such as cache misses, virtual memory
activity or instruction dependency stalls.

I had no idea what it was, so I'm sharing it here for others.
VoLTE was complex because it required proper QoS handling, IIRC.
Provided a shorting mechanism for X, destroying X will be incentivized.
Ungated version: https://repec.cepr.org/repec/cpr/ceprdp/DP16030.pdf
And a core tenet of government should be handling tragedy of the commons type situations that arise when every locality acts in it own self interest in a globally sub-optimal way for all of them.
There’s a real opportunity here for JB.

If they’re prepared to give this away for free, and make money off of upselling folk on hosted remote dev envs (or licensing the server side to cloud providers) then this could actually compete with vscode.

They basically don’t have any other product that is competitive with vscode.

…but, I’m skeptical they’re willing to make the jump to freemium based on their other SAS product offerings which have… hm… not been hugely lucrative.
I would imagine a human civilization with a sizable Mars city is already pretty adept at putting big payloads into space, so their understanding of "cheap" might be considered quite wasteful for the present day.

On the other hand, if you can hide nukes in small packages in Mars orbit, maybe you don't need to launch all the way from Earth.
Same.

> For years folks have been asking us, “JetBrains, when will you create a lightweight editor?”

I sure never did. If anything, I want their IDEs to be more involved and sophisticated.

Otherwise I'm likely going to cancel our company subscriptions next year, VSCode is starting to overtake e.g. PyCharm in terms of developer comfort.

So I really hope this is just a tech demonstrator to renew the architecture of their proper IDEs and they'll be picking up momentum on the latter as well.
What can Fleet do that VSCode doesn't already do better? I'm looking at the architecture description [1], and it seems like it's set up almost identically to how VSCode handles remote editing and language servers. Sure, Fleet is integrated with JetBrains' Spaces, but will that ever stand up to Github's offerings?

I use both VSCode and JetBrains' IDEs in my day-to-day work so I would consider myself as having one foot in either camp, but I'm really struggling to come up with anything positive to say about Fleet, and the description that they've posted isn't doing anything to help me with that.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/#distributive
"globohomo" meaning "globalized homogenization". Nothing to be offended by.
But PinePhone (and likely this is going to apply to the PinePhone Pro, too) is THE development platform for so many mobile Linux projects/distributions. Unless you go the Halium route (Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, Droidian) and use an aged, often vulnerable vendor kernel, what’s the benefit of having multiple cameras, but none of it works? (I am not too sure about multiple camera support on Ubuntu Touch, afaik, the secondary camera of the Volla Phone is not being used, but I may be wrong there.

Hardware features do not matter if there’s no software support.

Also, at least the OG PinePhone works. It’s slow, screen-on battery life is lackluster, and some carriers are a pain, but it’s usable if you know what you’re doing.
Electronic music wouldn't exist if it wasn't for ignoring copyright laws. The entire scene is built off the back of sampling and mix tapes.

Likewise MP3 players and similar portable music devices (like the iPod) were technically advocating breaking copyright laws in some countries. Like here in the UK where it was illegal to rip a CD you owned. That law was clearly idiotic but the only reason it changed was because everyone was already doing it.

I'm not trying to argue that piracy is good. However it's not as black and white as some make out.
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