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>The 30% app store fee is a problem for the developers, not the consumers.

Like Epic? No Fortnite on iOS. Tell me how all of that is not bad for consumers.

>The removal of the headphone socket, from their perspective, was to move people to wireless headphones.

Which only serves Apple's interests. There is zero reason they couldn't have a headphone socket in addition to wireless. If their wireless was so compelling people would happily switch without these artificial self-serving incentives.

Samsung S10 5G has headphone socket, is waterproof and is 7.9mm thick vs iPhone 13 which is 7.7mm. That was just the first phone I could find, there's probably thinner ones with headphone sockets. So the thickness argument is ridiculous.

>Unrepairable devices where you can't even replace a battery (I assume you mean iPhones) is to reduce their manufacturing cost and to make the device more reliable.

5c for a connector on such an expensive phone? And no, it's their laptops as well, because Apple. Only serves Apple's interests, of course.

> Same nonsense about the displays. The displays include the facetime cameras and infrastructure, which is intimately tied to the security enclave. Having those two bound together makes the device more secure.

Untrue and only serves Apple's interests. Security theater and, you guessed it, only serves Apple's interests.

>Calling disallowing WebGPU as somehow creating "victims" is nonsense.

Untrue and only serves Apple's interests. Apple products are crippled and have so many arbitrary limitations that always conveniently serve Apple's interests.

You have drunk gallons of the kool aid.
yeah but schools aren’t a single organization, the Vatican was aware of multiple cover ups and chose to stay silent
I think the empirical change you find there is a direct consequence of what I'm talking about.
There are two ways to improve situation, both are for the very far future (assuming humanity will survive long enough). Either change the human brain itself artificially, to remove hacks and shortcuts made by the mother nature, and make people really rational (I am not speaking about removing emotions, just removing their ability to cloud the judgement) and with minimum of cognitive biases and fallacies, or to make an AGI to rule the humanity (probably a worse solution since it will be uneven relationship).
For NASA in particular, they'd be interested in doing science locally, establishing multiplanetary infrastructure, national pride reasons and help people think that the human race is making some kind of forward progress, and to motivate young people to be interested in science. Basically reasons that are similar to the reasons why NASA does anything.

For people in general, I'd say people might want to go to Mars for mining (maybe direct mining of Mars or more likely to serve as a refueling spot with a shallow gravity well for mining operations in the belt), real estate speculation, science, low-gravity sports and entertainment, retirement communities for people with mobility issues, to establish new communities according to their rules rather than working within the established systems of Earth, tourism, curiosity, a sense of adventure, and so on.
HPE specifically emphasizes supply chain security in this type of product. I would consider this a big deal.
I could not have guessed for a million years that this pharse could have had such a meaning.

These vanity-soaked strokes of needless sensitivity is precisely what is keeping these bad meanings alive.

No one knows, or remembers an association, yet you can't help yourself doing a great disservice to the cause you pretend to care, by popping up and unsolicitedly "correcting" someone.

https://youtu.be/GeixtYS-P3s
Screen tearing on X11 on NVIDIA has been a known issue since forever, unless you, yikes, add some options in your xorg.conf.

And display scaling != font scaling. You don't fix scaling by making your fonts bigger, everything, including UI has to scale.
> Unless there is too much inflation like in Weimar Republic

The government money printing press is not free market.

> too much corruption like in Russia

The government's role in a free market is to prevent corruption.

> too much monopoly like with Standard Oil

Standard Oil was very good for consumers, as SO brought about something like a 70% reduction in kerosene prices. Besides, SO never was a monopoly. It was accused of attempting to create one.

> imagine that without central bank support

Don't need to imagine it. It happened several times in the 1800s. Recovery tended to be as quick.

> given working police and the justice system

Free markets require a working police and justice system
Nitpick, but I like to point out that Java’s exceptions are themselves a Result type/analog with them. You can unwrap it by a try catch, and can choose to rethrow it with minimal syntax. It even has a plus, it will auto-attach a stacktrace to the error case.
I thought the same, but that was sufficiently weird.
DevCycle.com (YC W14), Feature Flags For Remote Teams, is hiring full-stack devs
That’s unfortunate, hopefully the bad apples are harvested away.

The “stare at women while they work“ complaint is interesting because it touches on neuro-diversity where certain autistic behavior patterns can be found to be offensive to some.
From this article[0] which was on HN a few days ago:

>By June 2022, if all goes well, Webb will finally be ready for science.

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03620-1
Too late. I and many other people voted with our feet and left. We bought a decent house in a decent neighborhood that had 5x the square footage of our old apartment and only pay a few hundred dollars more for the mortgage than we were paying in rent. People leave things on their porches and they don't get stolen! It's amazing.
Windows 7 “Layout” design guidelines
Just so you know. Larry Sanger, a founder of Wikipedia. Wrote exactly about those articles, and it left leaning biases.

https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-...

It’s a good read.
You should increase the tokens to 300 and get rid of the loop, this costs you much more as the prompt is counted in the cost for every iteration.
Not distinctly religious behaviors. Every one of those has glaring examples in non-religious social movements. This includes the suppressed right and dominant social justice/critical race theory movement. Let's consider that final example since they're now on top in our current society:

repetition of mantras: Any protest slogan, "trans women are women", endless slogans

hostility towards science that doesn’t support preconceptions: Let's talk about biological differences between men and women. For extra points, let's talk about IQ, its heritability, relationship to life outcomes, and group statistical differences. Wait for the hostility.

shaming and shunning of outgroups: Most Democrats would not consider dating a Trump voter [0]. Just one example.

tribal loyalty: Professors admit to discriminating against conservatives in hiring. [1]

purity purges: Cancel culture and everyone who's been affected by it. Massive social phenomenon.

supplication before power: This whole movement is about hiding and misdirecting who actually has power, so this one is easier to criticize. What you actually see is supplication before presumed victimhood. E.g. whites washing blacks' feet at protests [2]

confession of sins: "Check your privilege" is like the foundational idea of the movement. Today it's indigenous land acknowledgements, authors talking about their whiteness, etc etc. Endless examples.

forbidden words: Do I even need to start with this? Professors get fired for using Chinese words that sound vaguely like a well-known racial insult [3]. One of endless examples

tolerance of incoherence: Any time anyone is talking about some ethnic 'way of knowing'.

The SJ movement's power stems from the fact that they've found a way to use all the manipulative tricks of the old religions, but they can get away with it because they have ways to avoid being coded as religious. All our old anti-religious-fervor cultural antibodies don't work on this particular cult. So via intolerance, love bombing, entryism, aggressive conversion, purity tests and shibboleths they conquered the overculture with remarkable speed.

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[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/24/most-democr...

[1] https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/study_finds_conservative_p...

[2] https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/07/white-cops-civilians-wash-fee...

[3] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...
We do actually. One area in which we make enormous progress is simulation. The entire perseverance trip was almost perfectly simulated in a simulator. It's predecessor only partly. The JW launch and deploy steps are also simulated in a very detailed way. Many different (fault) scenarios are tested. I have good faith everything will go as planned.
What would you call positively helping the poor and unhoused that also results in literally cleaner and safer streets?
You can make up arbitrary properties about the god you believe in all day. Some very mainstream beliefs include such ideas as "you have to spread your religion over others". You cannot chose which arbitrary properties you make your wager on.
How will you fix that bug in production when you can’t reproduce it and only has logs? Stacktraces are godsend.
I deal with them regularly. They’re friendly and “helpful”, but they’re deliberately kept arms length from the Azure dev teams.

This is a recipe for uselessness. If they can’t force the devs to do things properly, it won’t get done.
As long as it "just" over the property line then I guess it's not really his property then? Doubt the tax assessor gives them a break on the "just" over part of it. Are we really trying to say that property lines are gray areas? If I build my fence just over the line onto my neighbor's property, that'd be okay then, right?

This straining to justify the trespassing to place an illegal wiretap is just mind boggling.
Shellcheck is the other one. I'm not aware of any others.
It seems incredible to me that Linux, and even Windows, is still trying to figure out how to make a trackpad experience on par with what Apple offered 15+ years ago.
Damn, I thought gamers would find it useful. What is wayland even good for?
Why would Nikecoin have any value of Nike went out of business?

- Because it's its own coin. Just like Dogecoin/Shibacoin will still have some value even if the original developers move on, Nikecoin could potentially have some similar value to Dogecoin if some other maintainers pop up to pick up where Nike left off. Nike reward points on the other hand will go to zero if Nike ever shuts down its servers. Generally cryptocoins presumably are designed from the ground up to be maintained by multiple weakly trusted parties where as internal reward point CRUD systems are typically designed to require full trust by all maintainers at all times.

Nike will have to price their items in terms of both dollars and Nikecoin which means they could use that to manipulate the value of Nikecoin.

- Because there's less lock in with the exchange rate publicly available and you can convert to USD at any time, Nike would be motivated to maintain a healthy ecosystem. And perhaps I come from a Charlie Munger type place where I don't see as much value in crytocoins in general and this is the only potential use case I can come up with :).
Well. It has shifted to the 24th now: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/14/webb-space-telescope-...
I haven't seen anyone do a good job of it, but it seems to me that if you wanted to try, the way to do it would be to make the marketing versions and compatibility versions so different that they can't be confused (like Windows 95 or better yet XP, not Windows 7) - and then make sure that your configuration files can accept marketing versions and silently transform them to compatibility versions.
Basically macros, like in Rust, not like in C. Rust can do stuff like the serde serialization library while Go has to rely on reflection with its obvious performance drawbacks.
My quick take is that you can’t really. At least beside following tech related news. If “the next big thing” was predictable it would be “the big thing right now”. All the examples you took were only clearly “the big thing” in retrospect.

For example right now who knows which one of: VR, crypto, biotech, etc will be the “big thing” of the decade? If one trust the power law one will still dwarf the others by its importance in retrospect.
I have a form of this, but it is not 100%. I can kind of visualize stuff, but I can't "hold" onto the image for long, it fades after like 5-10 seconds. However, when I am very sleepy and laying in bed, or maybe relaxed from alcohol, I can sometimes have extremely detailed and vivid imagery that is persistent, almost to the point that I could sketch a picture from it.

This leads me to think other things from brain are interfering with this visualization system and only when the other things are reduced by sleep or relaxation does visualization mechanism work for me.
I think of religion's relationship to humanity, in terms of the OSI model for networking. By this analogy, you might consider religion to be questions concerning the Application layer, the layer that 99% of people actively care about. All the rest of the human OSI stack below the surface is transparent to us, e.g. 99% of people don't care about bits and bytes in the same way they don't know the ordering of the bases on their DNA.

A data packet from a streaming movie is meaningless when you look at the 1's and 0's going over a wire. You have to step back and impose a framework of understanding, protocols and specifications that exist outside of the computer itself, before you can watch the movie. An atheist transistor could never be given "proof" that a movie exists using a sequence of bits. The concept of "movie" exists outside of the world of binary. Religion is to humanity what protocols and specifications are to a stream of binary data. This is frustrating to the types who consider themselves to be rational and fact based, because by definition it cannot be proven within the system. The difficulty for the hard nosed atheist is that all of the most important human questions, including their desire to convert us all to atheists, cannot be accounted for in their reductionist framework. This is usually dealt with by simply ignoring the dissonance.

What you call "religiosity" I would call fundamentalism, and it is a natural human phenomenon which will manifest no matter what the professed religion or non religion of a person.

Human concern about the ultimate questions of life will not go away no matter what religion we ascribe to ourselves. The good thing about formal religion like Christianity, is that it incorporates thousands of years of debates by some of the best minds about these issues. Throwing it away and making these questions ad-hoc or even worse, subconscious, is asking for the serious consequences you alluded to in your comment.
Never. Even once religiousness goes away, there's still plenty of raw tribalism and xenophobia left to compensate.
> Well, first obvious effect is that any change regarding woman rights, etc. would not have happened the way it did. That's in line with the Conservative viewpoint.

I don't think you fully got my point.

The idea is not to oppose every change, but to change incrementally, letting society adapt, and learn from it when you do the next change.

Women's rights changed gradually over the whole 20th century as society gradually changed. To me that's a very well executed set of incremental changes!
I think “news service that only alerts me about important stuff” is sufficiently specific in that you could probably come up with a service that generally satisfies most people. I think the reason it doesn’t exist isn’t that we don’t know what people think is important, it’s that important news is bursty.

It would have to be fully subscription supported, since advertisers probably want to see an even amount of engagement each week (even if it’s small) so that they can set predictable budgets. But important news doesn’t work like that, sometimes there are 3 huge news events happening at the same time, sometimes there’s a slow month with no really big news happening.
I think of it like an offscreen rendering. I can see it in my mind and if I space out I begin focusing on the second screen instead of the first. In those fleeting moment I can only describe it as not seeing anything with my eyes, only my mind. When I realize it is happening, it is gone.
> Who are the two percent of people responding to this survey who have no religion and pray every day?

They might eat with their family, who are religious, and go along with the prayer because they think the slight inconvenience isn't worth rocking the boat over.
Show HN: Poor man's VPN (simple WireGuard playbook)
I'm fairly certain that not all marriages are based on fear of the potential pain of open relationships. Sure, some folks may be motivated along the lines you speak of, but there's plenty of us who got deep into it because we value the depth that comes from that one forever-friendship that is intimate on a level that can't be experience with the guys from the bar.

So, yeah, careful about painting with too broad a brush there.
I hate this pattern too but there's not "no good reason", there's a specific reason why it's like this, and it's a conscious design choice.

When you call `go get somedomain.com/whatever/thing`, what it does is makes an HTTP request to that URL, then looks for a `<meta>` tag on the page telling it where to download the module. Check out the source of any Go project on github and you'll find the relevant `<meta name=go-import ...>` tag. Here's the meta tag for the gorilla router, a common http routing library:

<meta name="go-import" content="github.com/gorilla/mux git https://github.com/gorilla/mux.git">

The tool is designed so that you can serve modules directly from version control repositories, because the goals were to avoid having any central authority on modules. It turns out this is a huge win in terms of making it dramatically easy to empower people to release modules, AND a huge win for decentralization: if you can host a git repository, the git repository is the module source, and that's the entire system. Just use Go as normal and make a public github repo and it's automatically importable through `go get`. No central registry required.

It's a tradeoff. In making it "one module per repo", it dramatically lowered the barrier to entry for producing modules that other people could adopt right away, but it requires that you have one module per repo, because the versioning scheme is based on tags having semver version strings in them.

Could they have made it something like "a tag can specify a directory and a version"? Hahha, yeahhhhhhhhhhh probably. But they didn't.

In any case, you can also serve modules out of a go module proxy directly, but then you have to set that up yourself. That would free you of the "one module per repo" thing, but now you don't get "a repo is automatically accessible as a Go module". You'd have to implement the Go module proxy protocol yourself. I'm ... doing this now in my spare time but it's not really ready to share yet.

The protocol is actually super easy to implement. It's described here: https://go.dev/ref/mod#goproxy-protocol
The most interesting thing about San Francisco, to me at least, is just ignorant some residents seem to be of just how bad the situation is. You simply can't walk down the Mission or anywhere near the Tenderloin and not see open drug use, drug dealing, homelessness and crime.

By "ignorance" I mean I know a lot of people who work in tech (as I do), many of whom live in SF. I'm actually shocked at how often they'll tell me how amazing SF is. Like where do they live? Do they go out? I really don't get it.

I'm against the culture of mass incarceration but not prosecuting thefts below $950 [1] isn't the answer.

There's no simple answer here. There are lots of contributing factors. But pretty high on that list is income inequality and housing unaffordability.

If it were up to me, I'd also get rid of the "are you a felon?" question that permanently excludes you from many jobs, renting somewhere to live and generally from many aspects of society, forever, with no recourse. If you do your time then your record should be expunged (except for sentencing for future convictions). Some crimes may exclude you from certain jobs (eg sexual or violent crimes and working with children). But it should be pretty limited.

Felons should certainly not be stripped of the ability to vote. That should be illegal.

If you exclude felons from society, what do you expect these people to do when crime is the only way they can support themselves?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...
> This article turns into a rant after the first few paragraphs, leaving me confused about the actual facts behind the story. Is it legal for the government to setup surveillance cameras on someone's land, to monitor their land? From the article, it sounds like this is exactly what was done.

Yeah, the linked article is garbage. You have to follow one of the links to even find the most basic facts about the case from the headline (like what agency put up the cameras and why):

https://ij.org/case/tennessee-open-fields/:

> Officers from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) routinely enter private land on a whim to search for potential hunting violations. They don’t have probable cause to believe a crime is being committed, and they don’t ask permission from either property owners or a court. Instead, they trespass, wander around as they please, and take photos and videos. They even install cameras so they can keep watching the properties 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Religion is "The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe."

I'm an atheist, I don't believe in higher powers. I'm non religious.

My highest "placeholder" is a society that values all its members equally regardless of race, intelligence, physical abilities, sexual or gender preferences.
Oh really? I'd like to know more about that soup opera if you have links handy.
sure but we’re talking about the decline of religion here
I see why you're saying that, but I think you missed their point. Challenge trials might well allow us to make a safe vaccine available sooner to those who want it, but if we mandate a vaccine that has only undergone challenge trials and then that vaccine kills someone, it would certainly be politically disastrous for challenge trials.
Actions speak louder than words. The man explicitly is against the most basic duties of his position, and has followed through on that by not prosecuting people for all sorts of crimes.
Which was the justification for the Third Amendment... the travelers (quartered soldiers) were neither trustworthy nor peaceful.
Zoom happily supports screen sharing on Wayland/gnome, even using the flatpak version.
Years later I'm still a bit pissed at Dell.

Ordered a few hundred laptops with a office 2016 license key. They key came on a printed card with each laptop. About 33% of the cards were printed in the US. Every one of them worked. The other 2/3rds were printed in China. Half of those were already registered under random email addresses (as each had a randomly generated email that appeared to be at yahoo). It was a massive fight with Dell sales to rectify the situation.
Isn’t this always the case with ANY government? Use crisis to get access to more funding that they can waste like the rest and more power to control more of its citizens. I’d for once like them to more efficiently use the billions that they already spend and amend policies that have created this crisis in the first place.