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Why does everyone assume new policy has to be enacted at the federal level? Whatever happened to states rights? This is a perfect use case, have a couple states try it and a couple not and see what happens.
Apple stole WebKit from KDE
This is entirely the fault of the OS.
> Outside of 3rd world countries where prepaid calling cards were a store of value not long ago

This is still a huge market
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I think even with a performant machine, you'd struggle to keep up with the AUR - consider many -git packages that just track the tip of some git repo and may take arbitrary time to build.

The base repos would at least be theoretically possible, but I think the only way it would be useful would be to uncover undocumented conflicts...
> In any case, I believe a land value (or other property) tax would face significant (possibly insurmountable) Constitutional challenge to levy this federally in the US absent an amendment.

I'm really quite sure this would be a state-level thing.
To the credit of teams past, SSMS still does not have an electron-based equal (azure data studio will get there its not there yet).
As I recall it, transform "faults" are not really faults. They are the traces left between moving spreading centers. They can be weak zones and be the center of volcanic activity. Magma moving toward a potential eruption is my thought.

It's been a long time since I was current in geology. I could be wrong. Our understanding of the world just keeps growing more complicated.
What does "Total Human Height" being about the diameter of Pollux mean?? Is that a bug?
Given Boeing’s recent history, I’m not sure aerospace knows how to do software well either.
> Imagine getting an email from Apple telling you that you're laid off

Isn't that exactly what Apple did by moving factories to China?
The CVE for this is probably CVE-2021-3489 based on hints of "pwn2own" and "April 2021" and "Flatt Security" -> https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-590/
there was a couple comments that matched this search filter.... not that many, but thanks.
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And there are active efforts to develop ultra-light clients for Ethereum together with the concept of “portal network”:

https://our.status.im/nimbus-fluffly/
$93M..oh no, soon we will be flooded with ads and Steve Jobs like keynotes on why Rest sucks, I thought we were done with those after GraphQL hype slowed down, I guess not..please give it a...rest.
Absolutely, Google has the end responsibility here, their handsets are simply not compliant.

But MS has f*ckd up their testing, they should have definitely caught this before it was shipped and they should have been the ones to alert Google, not some random end user.
I wonder if the Bluetooth waves interfere with the nuclear football functionality.
I'd rather have public healthcare and a government that "controls far more of your life" than some faceless insurance company controlling my access to healthcare.
Not arguing with your point, but it’s not uncommon that western media take a paragraph from Chinese gov docs out of context and call it clandestine despite it being merely formality
Fighting for having Gorbachev-like sellout as your future leader is much scarier.
>lower-precision numerics can be used

I wonder if it would be worth starting with low precision and then over time raise precision to zero in on a local min / max.
The internet provides us with post-scarcity for some goods. NTFs are adding scarcity back into the system.
Not allowed under WTO rules.
That's a regulatory problem, not a software development problem. Simply put: that plane should have never been certified under that type.
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> To me decentralization is a value. It's a goal, and yes, a goal that almost every web3 project falls short of in some way.

But the whole point of building these systems is to get away from the entrenched interests of centralized authority, and if these systems can't actually deliver on that, then what's the point of adopting them? At least my bank accounts are insured if the bank fails and transactions have to clear ACH. If my credit card gets stolen, I call Visa and they make it go away in a matter of minutes. If someone gets access to my private key, that's it, there's nothing I can do to get my crypto back. I don't want "kinda decentralized", I want "definitely decentralized". This attitude represents a major goalpost shift for this kind of movement.

> But I think values are important. Values play a huge part in guiding human behavior.

This seems to be a bit romantic to me. The community can talk about values all they want, but it doesn't change the fact that shitcoins are everywhere. We can all agree murder is bad, but that isn't going to stop murders from happening.
I don't think that ZDI releases any details until the vulnerability is patched. If this is indeed CVE-2021-3489 then Canonical says it's patched in https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4949-1 and https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4950-1
Good point. But then I wonder why they bought it in the first place.
Even if it is Apple is still allowed to collect its 30 %.
In the opposite but related direction, I was surprised to find out that the skyboxes from Homeworld 2 are not textured - they are just spheres with vertex coloring.

https://simonschreibt.de/gat/homeworld-2-backgrounds/

https://simonschreibt.de/gat/homeworld-2-backgrounds-tech/
You take me for what, a libertarian? Do you think you know me? I never said anything about wanting a "free market cake."

Regardless, nothing you said refutes me. "Fiduciary responsibility" does not legally compel Apple to do business in China. If anything, such misconceptions about fiduciary duty are espoused by libertarians online, not rebuked by them.
Big Pharma would say that the economy is going gangbusters.
s/audacity/tenacity/

s/mutt/neomutt/
Technically all 30 series video card came with virtual gpu support no matter it is consumer one or professional one. Just they are disabled by default and need a secret activation code from driver.

Someone cracked it and enabled them with custom driver. (And of course nvidia patched it out in the latest vbios to make the bypass impossible).

There is the story of this on HN few month a go.
Every phone should be required to make some sort of dry-run 911 call on a regular basis to make sure it works.
The article talks about the limitations of LIGO that make it impossible (currently) to detect such a small effect, but would the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna[1] (LISA) probe be sensitive enough to measure this memory effect?

The proposal is to arrange three spacecrafts in an equilateral triangle with sides measuring 2.5 million km (for comparison, each "arm" of LIGO is 4 km long).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant...
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Also, everything is awful.

Not so much awful as "Star Trek."

Star Trek was always upheld as a model of the future. But instead of transporters and replicators and space travel, we got all the bad stuff from Star Trek.

Everything breaks all the time. Technology doesn't do what we expect it to do. The latest, greatest inventions are held together with gum and bailing wire. Computers let us down when we need them the most.

We are living Star Trek.
I'm not at all surprised by this. For a 5 year span I used probably 4-5 different Android phones, from HTC & Samsung. All of them had this kind of glitch, where some kind of race condition gets the system stuck in an unanticipated state. UI elements that were supposed to scroll smoothly off the screen would get stuck halfway. Some system app would lock out touch events temporarily while loading something, and it would stay locked until a hard reboot.

I think it's a symptom of a system that's designed as a stack of abstraction layers, with developers who don't communicate. The developers of project A think a bug is a minor issue, not knowing that project B relies on it for something critical.

It's hard to write an app for a platform like this, too. Instead of one cohesive target, you have discontinuous abstraction layers.

Looks like Microsoft Teams was part of the problem here. I assume they had to hook into some semi-documented functionality that Google wasn't aware of or thought no one would use. On iOS, where Apple keeps tight control over their API surface, this is less likely to happen.
Anecdotally I see higher risk driving every time I commute these days. I am used to people driving 10, 15, 20 MPH over the limit. You’ve always had to do that to avoid being run over. I am not used to people passing me in a turn-only lane on city streets, regularly driving on inside and outer shoulders on the interstate to do so, or violently swerving in traffic to slalom through traffic, all considerably faster than the prevailing speed of traffic. There are no rules anymore. I have no idea what to expect.
I wonder how much time did the original version took, and how much time did you spend?

I assume Flash version is easier to implement and requires less technical knowledge.
It's used as the primary source of funding for county and town level government in most parts of the USA already. Does it "work"? Like any other tax system, it has its pros and cons. But one of the big drawbacks I see to federalizing it is the extremely relative value of property from region to region. It even dwarfs the relative difference in income taxes for similar jobs in dissimilar places. Yeah, you could have weightings and such in the formulas, but then there's even more complexities like how you assess condos vs. Single family houses vs. Gated communties... property is a much more diverse asset, and I don't think our Congress would come to any kind of majority needed to legislate such a tax.
so basically, no questioning of capitalism on HN, got it.
I'm not a huge fan of how deadweight loss is defined in the article:

> virtually all economists agree that land value tax has zero "deadweight loss"–a fancy word for a drag on the economy that makes certain activities no longer profitable

Property taxes tax the land + the building. Building taxes are complicated to assess. They require tax assessments, appraisers, tax code, accountants to compute depreciation schedules, etc. The deadweight loss of property taxes is the economic loss of having resources devoted to filling out property tax filings. Appraisers and accountants would do other productive economic activities if they didn't spend all their time filling out tax forms.

Property taxes also distort incentives. If you improve your property, then you pay more tax. Property taxes can discourage you from using your land to its highest and best use.

Land taxes offer the opposite incentives. They encourage you to make your property better.

Land taxes would arguably help a lot of the housing crises. Landowners have to pay a lot more taxes if they want to convert a lot with a single family home to a 4-plex. A land tax wouldn't impose an additional tax to the landowner for improving the value of their land.
> tenants will somehow be able to use the land without paying the land rent.

I believe proponents of Georgist Land Taxes generally believe that rents are already as high as they can be. This seems reasonable for areas with housing shortage, as housing is a very inelastic commodity as far as commodities go. However, it might not be a good assumption for areas with a surplus of housing.

I do know (multiple!) people who each have multiple properties in Austin (e.g. a suburb house and a downtown condo) who are not renting them out after moving to California. Currently the property tax is offset by rising property prices and its not worth the hassle/risk to put tenants into the properties. A higher property tax would absolutely cause them to either rent out the units or sell them, increasing housing supply.

Saudi Arabia finally created their first tax ever while I was there. It was a tax on un-developed land inside city limits. Saudi oligarchs would buy empty land and just leave it barren, because the property value would go up and there was no cost to hold it. This led to a big housing shortage. By taxing unimproved land, Saudi was able to encourage a big boom in condominium development.

I believe proponents of higher land taxes are trying to do something similar, but instead of taxing "undeveloped" land, they are aiming to tax "under-developed" land to try to spur additional unit construction.
Why is Kubernetes up there? Webkit and Swift I get, they are two major projects started and maintained by Apple people. But I can't find Apple mentioned a single time if I ctrl+f in the the Kubernetes Wikipedia article. Nor has it apparently been started by Apple employees.

On the other hand, I wonder why they haven't included LLVM. It has been led for a long time by Apple employees, and even if you look at the top 10 contributors on Github from last year, you'll find two Apple employees, so there is continued commitment (maybe there are more, I couldn't identify employers for all of them). Edit: seems that the frontpage only shows a selection. LLVM is present if you click the "View all projects" link.
To me decentralization is a fetish, a thing which provides little utility in itself but which people are willing to spend a lot of time, effort and money to pay lip service to.
An equivalent worry being that the US will nuke you because the president's real estate portfolio didn't go as well as he hoped. National defense can justify all kinds of strange things
It sounds like the issue is that Google didn't specifically exclude the emergency number for {user's country/province} from being sent to third-party calling apps. These apps can register to handle calls for legitimate reasons.
NotePlan 3 renders has a very nice UI and good calendar integration. Perfect for meeting notes, daily notes.

To date it’s the most pleasing app to read markdown in, but I expect that vote will change once Bear releases their new editor (code name Panda), which looks gorgeous.
Does this also apply to 112, the EU emergency number?
I sort of hope so. Starting my child in Kindergarten this year has soured me to public schools somewhat. Nonsensical mask/distancing/sanitation protocols for people at low or no risk with no end in sight and seemingly dictated by the teachers' unions. Rudimentary and remedial math and reading education my child already learned in preschool just to catch every kid up to a common core. Cancelling fun holiday traditions in the name of equity and replacing them with bland, institutional versions (Halloween banned and replaced with a November "disguise day"). Most days my child comes home complaining how boring everything is and it kind of breaks my heart. I thought it'd be this inspirational learning center and instead it feels patronizing and mildly indoctrinating. Not sure there are other options though, so we'll make the most of it.
I am just going to say that it does not matter if the software is open or closed source. The people are going to pirate the thing, I mean like there are projects on linux that literally make the posibility of having a VM of MAC really easy.

I mean like I kind of understand the point that you are trying to put, but Apple is not trying to make software for industrial applications, they are making software for end users and AWS literally has nothing to do with that.
Further, I think such a tax would provide absolutely huge economic benefits to the states that passed them. Much like California's restrictions on non-competes allowed a much more dynamic tech industry to develop than what developed in Massachusetts.
In part because the article makes the very common argument “[LVT would raise] a bunch of revenue that can lower or even eliminate other less efficient taxes, such as sales and income taxes.”

It’s often argued (more strictly than above) that LVT could replace or substantially reduce income taxes and that pretty much means it’s federal or it won’t offset much.
I rented a car with lane assist earlier this year, and it terrified me by trying to veer into a semi that had gone left of its lane
Modern PCs made in the last 5+ years or so come with EFI drivers to read NTFS partitions. FAT32 is not "needed for EFI boot". You can extract the ISO (e.g. with 7z) onto a USB stick and you're done in most cases.
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Yeah I guess that sounds about right. So it's almost a pure acqui-hire.
For mobile use, nothing really beats i.reddit.com. Clean simple interface, only a couple minor annoyances such as search not supporting all the options.
Every phone should be required to make some sort of dry-run 911 call on a regular basis to make sure it works.

Have you tried to call 911 recently? I have. Both times, I had to wait on hold over five minutes for someone to answer. "Press 1 if you need police. Press 2 for fire. Press 3 for a medical emergency. Press 4 if this is a non-emergency and you will be transferred to 311." After that there's not even hold music to let you know you haven't been disconnected.

There are almost 300 million cell phones in America. Who's going to answer those test calls? The operators who are already too busy to answer emergency calls?
I suppose my claim is that truly pragmatic languages can't afford to maintain as strict a separation between spec and implementation as e.g. Common Lisp does. And I guess also that this isn't something to feel bad about!
Just make it a constitutional ammendment.

I mean, obviously nothing of significance is going to change in terms of public policy, at all. This should be obvious after Obama->Trump->Biden, and covid, and on and on really. So, given that fact, it's a little funny to poo-poo a public policy thought experiment (which is all it is) on the grounds that the courts would strike it down-- as if any change of any significance will survive to that point.

But if we're talking thought experiment, just make it a constitutional ammendment.
Confounding DAOs as web3 is a little odd. They may use web3 tooling...but obviously most are "DOs" (distributed organizations) today and they don't really comprise web3.

IPFS is a great example the author points to as to what I understand web3 infrastructure to be; it seems to be a very strong example of decentralization.
real nice.
Sorry, Comment Annotations. They seem to be working now.
That's not true. Building designs have copyrights as do skylines.

Eg the lights on that tower in france
>Now, the US military is struggling with the "Fighter Mafia", which tends to run the USAF despite the ascendancy of drones and the usefulness of the A-10.

Duuuuude, the Fighter Mafia was active in like the '60s and '70s, and some of its members were involved in the design of the A-10 (in line with their strong advocacy against multirole aircraft). Do you have any evidence that current USAF strategic policy is dictated by the fighter community? Fighter pilots have lamented the loss of "l'audace" for decades, but despite their bravado I don't think any of them really believe that they deserve absolute strategic primacy.
Absolutely agree, 100%.

- Children don't need enforced injections for COVID (or anything else, for that matter).

- Children don't need to be indoctrinated into the religion of Critical Race Theory.

- Children don't need to spend cumulative years in a classroom reading trashy, heart-jerking melodramas and stage plays in ancient English. They can discover important touchstones like Orwell, Heinlein, and Bradbury for themselves.

- They don't need any subjects other than math, which is the only discipline they will carry with them into adult occupations in the skilled trades (or college, for the few who are intellectually and attitudinally suited for it).
Wow, “Oh look, we’re going to re-invent the wheel for what is at least the third time.”

When I worked at Google I sat down one day across from one of the gRPC engineering leads who was talking about the things they were doing for the then current generation of gRPC. I asked if I could ask some questions about it and they agreed and then dissected their design in half a dozen ways that would fail in both non-important but irritating ways, and in critical ways at scale. They were amazed at I had thought about this topic so deeply as it was all “state of the art” and I was, nominally, “old.” I pointed out that I had been the ONC RPC architect at Sun in the ‘80s during the first RPC wars and while the implementations had change, fundamentally messaging as a form of procedure call has some fundamentally bad properties. These challenges manifest in all aspects of RPC, from marshaling data, to rendezvousing, to delivery reliability and guarantees. Andy Birrell at DEC SRC and Leslie Lamport had written dozens of papers looking at these challenges in small systems and large. There was literally decades of solid research that the engineer in front of me at the cafeteria that day was re-discovering from first principles.

RPC protocols from Sun, DEC, Microsoft, OSI, SOAP, the IETF, and the Open Group
have run at this problem again and come up with different solutions that each have their own set of warts. Good for some things, not great for others. But at this point there are enough options at this point.

What is missing from Buf’s material is what I might call the “Chesterson’s fence” material that dives into why all of these previous versions were insufficient and how their new version of gRPC will solve all those problems without adding new wrinkles.

I think it is great that they are trying to improve the state of the art, I would feel better about it if they also demonstrated they understood what had come before.
FTA

> The billion-dollar question here is really whether or not developing another new fighter could result in an overall reduction in cost without creating a reduction in capability.

Since this is HN your bullcrap-meter should be going off here just as if somebody told you throwing away the the Linux kernel and rewriting it in Rust would improve performance, while reducing the number of CVEs - oh and this whole business would only take a year or two while maintaining ABI compatibility with existing packages.
Good. Pro tip: don't have anything google/MS/Apple near you,both SW and HW, especially 24/7.

Don't care about what's inside the product you buy?Why should other people care about what happens to you in the aftermath?Especially when repeatedly these companies have been abusive?

This is first about self-respect more than anything, even though it may not sound like it at first glance.
You don't need their product as much as those companies need you, contrary to the popular "they're billionaires, they don't care" belief.People who think in these terms don't realize every purchase is a vote, and the more aware you are with your wallet, the more power you have, even if you are less wealthy than these corporations.This is why ignorance about subjects like privacy, security, usability, censorship matter more than not.Because inaction will eventually turn into action against you.
These website ranking websites like Alexa were also pretty close to ballpark guesses.
No, it is not. What is generally used is a property tax, not a land value tax. The difference is whether the tax is based in the value of the location, or whether improvements to the land are included.

Economically, these behave very differently, and the percentage of the property tax is typically too low to tax away the land rents.
Just have them do it!
There are at least two efforts that support Rust with GCC (a rustc codegen backend that uses libgccjit for AOT compilation, and a GCC frontend that parses Rust).

https://lwn.net/Articles/871283/
https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs
https://github.com/antoyo/rustc_codegen_gcc
There's a brain drain to California, much of which has an even more negative view of the US than other countries.