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> Example of good vertical integration: Apple M1/AirPods/iPhone/Apple Music. That's a very convenient ecosystem for users, and it allows Apple to reduce manufacturing cost. We both agree there should be strong competitors to Apple, for the lower manufacturing costs to propagate to consumers as well.

I agree this is a very good thing but I think we'd both agree that Apple buying Arm would probably be a very bad thing in the medium-long run. I don't know what the solution is but as a consumer, I'd like companies to collaborate and thrive in a single big ecosystem vs having one big company. For example, Activision games can still be on Game Pass without Microsoft completely owning them and as an end user, I think that is more balanced.
> They're framing it as a choice between child safety and encryption

Its worse than that by the looks. They're trying to convince people you can still have end to end encryption whilst having a man in the middle scan it to make sure its all A-Okay. Again, I think everyone knows how stupid this is.

I seem to remember Theresa May talking about this a few years ago and the idea was quickly shot down, and here I was hoping that was the end of it.
Never said it's positive for everyone but "consumers always lose" is equally false.
A little reductive I would say? I would add at least:

* Puzzle (The Witness, Baba is You, Antichamber, Manifold Garden, ...)

* Survival/open-world (Minecraft, Terraria, Don't Starve, Subnautica, The Long Dark, ...)

* Horror (Amnesia, Outlast, Layers of Fear, Five Nights at Freddy's ...)

* Management/simulation (Factorio, Stardew Valley, Kerbal Space Program, ...)

* Metroidvanias (Cave Story, Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest, ...)

* "Walking simulators" (The Stanley Parable, Gone Home, Firewatch, ...)

Some of these maybe you'd disagree with (Are Metroidvanias just platformers? Can Minecraft still be put on a list of indie games?), but I personally think it's a crime to omit at least puzzle games and survival games. The offerings from the AAA space for those is not very impressive compared to the indie space.
German law, the same as other continental law systems, doesn't know anything about precedents, which are specific to Anglo-Saxon law systems.
Yes but there are still significant differences. E.g. Germany has no legal concept of dedicating work to the "public domain". Everything released as "public domain" today is effectively copyrighted. You can release your work under GPL, MIT, CC0, and so on but not as public domain.
For every handful of crappy sites people use as examples for why the modern web sucks, we get fantastic sites like this one.

There's amazing stuff out there, you just have to spend time looking around!
Around 2014 I came across this article of Wait But Why, https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

Which lists the same things, same concept, but instead of a pdf, it gives you a jog of same grid.

I personally used an excel sheet with first column listing my age in years, like 0,1,2, all the way till 90.

First row has months spanning across four columns, so B1:B5 will be Jan, & so on till Dec. Last column has year in YY format, so it starts from 84,85,86 etc for total 90 years.

First row & first column, i.e. headers are fixed view.

Each of the actual cells are all light grey border, with month bounry (every 4th column) a bit darker grey. The overall boundary, 12x4= 48 columns and 90 rows have thick black border.

All columns have vertical center text, and left aligned.

All cells, columns, rows have exact same width height, not headers.

Each of the month is roughly divided between 4 parts, 1 to 7, 8 to 14, 15 to 21, & 21+.

First entry simply says Born. On my birthday.

Then school classes, they all start in April first week. First, Second etc.

Then college.

Some personal events, like birth of my siblings.

Every time something major happens (like relocation), I change the background of those cells to another pastel color.

Text left aligned, so overflow flows over to next columns.

Someday I will make a blog post at davinder.net & will attach a blank all setup excel sheet, for no money :)
Self-Representation
I agree in theory, but having exclusives is a requirement to compete with Sony and Nintendo, two companies that are somewhat outside the reach of US regulators. How to handle competition against foreign pseudo-monopolies isn’t an easy question.
Sadly not at my gross tonnage and displacement
The junk flippers, handymen and professionals taking side jobs will be just fine taking cash. This only screws the "I work through an app" crowd.
This person deserves to get filthy rich off of their patreon.
> Maybe if you started with Halo 2.

I "started" with Quake, but that's besides the point.

> Halo 1 lan parties and Xbox connect you had a choice of maybe 10 colors.

At PC lan parties people had a choice between a myriad of custom skins particularly with GoldScr mods, all for free.

> It was about the shooty-shooty.

It was also about the community, particularly at a lan party, and part of a community is also being able to individualize your avatar.

This used to be very well understood for the longest time, and now it's suddenly considered "playing dress up" because billions dollar heavy AAA publishers, and developers can't be arsed anymore to put in any meaningful player customization that isn't monetized and FOMO'ed to hell.

> All so people feel that their $50 armor purchase isn't hidden.

Would you disagree that previous Halo games, short of going back over a decade, offered more, and particularly more meaningful, multiplayer customization options out of the box?

> Team games should force red or blue coloring, half the time I can't tell who is or isn't on my team. "Outlines" aren't enough.

They are enforced to such a degree that picking any blue color skin already gives you a slight advantage as enemies will always be colored red and allies always be colored blue.

Which is btw a very separate issue from armor types customization, people having different armor types makes it much more likely for you to recognize enemies from friends as 90% of people wouldn't sport the exactly same armor style that's completely indistinguishable.

It gives the whole affair a real "clone wars" vibe where you ain't fighting individuals, but yet another of the same model, something that wouldn't have been acceptable in single-player FPS games or multiplayer mods, like CS, decades ago.
Wonderful, I learnt a lot!
You're conflating the American Conservative party with the UK Conservative / Tory party.
Show HN: ChainDisco – a toy to explore recent NFT activity
I don't think the author rediscovered reinforcement learning -- they just didn't use that phrase or cite much of the prior work there. But they do mention a Bellman-style decayed sum of rewards, and they use the terms 'state' and 'action' and associated notation which follow the conventions in in RL, so I'm pretty sure they're aware of that field.
A saying normally attributed to Churchill: "If you are not a liberal in your twenties you have no heart, if you are not a conservative in your thirties you have no brain".
Idle hard drives can still fail due to what's called "Stiction" (static friction), due to the breakdown of lubricants inside.
I'd argue that the externalities of giving Macbooks to the 30 million children have a positive impact on the children who receive nothing. This is especially true if you look for variables that correlate to success, rather than instituting a pure lottery. For example, a child who has already demonstrated an interest in science or mathematics may be primed to make greater use of a device.

More generally, there is a certain equilibrium point where dividing up the treatment no longer provides as strong an individual benefit. Even the collective benefit may be less. A pretty good Acer may make a great impact, but what about the following?

Assuming there were 270 million children with no mobile devices, I would rather give all of them a Samsung Galaxy A01 that gives them all access to the information they need, than give 90 million of them a pretty good Acer or decent Chromebook and the other 180 million of the children nothing.

From an individual donor perspective, one factor I haven't mentioned is that it's easier to get one Macbook Air through customs in a foreign country than it is to get three identical Acer Aspires. Some countries are more permissive than others, but at a certain point all customs officers have to make inferences about you and your intentions to sell goods without paying import duties.
Ask HN: Cloud Browser
Hi,

In an attempt to be able to continue browsing, regardless of which of my machines i am on, i thought i would try setting up a cloud server, install a slim linux os, and browser of choice. then i could remote in to it from any of my computers.

is this a viable option?

- what remote desktop is recommended? (im on windows 10 machines)

- if so, any recommendation on cloud provider?

im looking at hetzner cloud. Im in EU so their german data center would not be too far away.
At least future folks won't have to throw away heavy boxes of our photos, while feeling guilty about it. They just won't bother to recover our cloud accounts, when we die.
wait until you learn that you need permits to protest and drive.
> with Sony's plethora of studios to offer more AAA titles on Xbox and Windows exclusively

Which is also a bad thing!!!
My Pixel just died I am going to get a pinephone to replace it. What has anyone else's experience with a PinePhone been like?

EDIT:
If the PinePhone isn't a good choice is there another good more FOSSy phone I can turn to? I am sick of Google, and I have neither the inclination nor funds to join the apple ecosystem, anything else I could do?
Gosh even the little drones are so adorable
I'm always confused when I hear reviewers say that Intel is back on top.

They beat AMD's benchmarks at ~double the power. I get it's winning, but it's not a fair fight. I certainly don't want my computer to be 10% faster at double the wattage.
Probably good they don't, HN opinions are very selective and don't represent any market very well (even founders or developers)
We just ordered a Maytag dryer to replace our Kenmore from 1995. Hoping the matching Kenmore washer keeps working.

Sad to hear the Maytag is not as reliable now, but it still sounds better than some of the other brands. We chose a model without the electronic controls.
For posterity and "the test of time," I really think you need to create physical photo books. My wife and I have used Blurb for that. It's not cheap, and it's a lot of work, but I'm skeptical that our digital photos will outlive us for very long, for the reasons already mentioned.

I've found that the greatest benefit of cloud storage is not as a backup, but as our primary place to keep and look at photos. We started uploading and organizing everything in Flickr a few years ago, and now we spend more time enjoying our photos with Flickr's web and mobile apps than we ever did when they were scattered across our laptops and backed up to an external hard drive.

I still have the photos stored locally on my laptop and an external hard drive, and I fully expect that I'll need to upload them again to another service (maybe Google Photos, if that still exists) when Flickr finally fails as a business.
I don't know about you, but I have to tinker with Windows way more than I have to with Ubuntu.

My terminal usage on MacOSX and Ubuntu is equal - only running git commands and AWS CLI. And I play Steam games on my Ubuntu Thinkpad P1.
I used to hold the same opinion as you, and for the most part I still do. But I think the subscription model is a solution to the race to the bottom, because it creates an artificial level of quality assurance.

Take PlayPass, for instance: the play store is a landfill of endless trash, but PlayPass adds both a level of curation and it unlocks all the microtransactions.

So for a low yearly fee you get access to the best Play Store games, never pay for microtransactions, and don't need to go digging to find gems in the garbage heap.
>> Democrats make up less than half of votes

I was referring to registered democrats, as I believe was the article.

Regarding Medicare for all, those numbers are misleading. It has 70% of support until you get into the actual details of implementation. It's the same when folks say "An overwhelming majority of Americans support higher taxes on the rich". Well yes, but those surveys tend to leave out the definition of rich, so people tend to interpret it as "Rich = Someone who makes more money than I do".

This is not to advocate against medicare for all, but rather to say that it's easy to garner support for something in the abstract without getting into all the messy details that reality likes to impose.
I hate to say it, but that's the "with us elected" half of "everything the same but...".

The DNC's marriage track record as far as I know was the same as the RNC, the only difference is who was celebrating when the supreme court made the decision.
The character designs will be active trademarks, so a new Winnie the Pooh without Disney would have to look quite different.
Prior to COVID my opinion on this was more or less that of the author's, but now
I regularly chat "hello" to folks just to literally say "Hi"... as in - "I am a human working today, and you are a person working today, so Hello!". I've opted sometimes for the "Happy Monday!", but this often is received (not shockingly) as sarcasm...

I think the shift for me was (1) not being in the office physically, and realizing I was missing the simple "hello" conversations to acknowledge folks, and (2) I just care a lot less about productivity these days. Or rather, maybe, I've come to appreciate more how much productivity depends on healthy human interactions. I'm not a work robot, and I don't really need to "optimize my life" to the point of being one. My time isn't so valuable that replying with a "Hello back! How was your weekend?" kills me - and for an colleague who needs or wants to talk, a simple chat "hello" might be the open door they need. That endless todo list can, and will wait... And it will be as full on the day I wake for the last time as it was this morning.
Yes, if I argue that "free" means "not free" there's no problem there, I agree. Which is why I keep asking those who believe in free will here to actually define it. People almost never even try, because once you do it very quickly becomes clear that it's incredibly hard to the point that you'd have a theory named after you and get taught in university philosophy courses if you managed to come up with something that isn't obviously broken.

The point being that if you start asking questions to determine what people think free will means, you'll find most will argue an automaton can not have free will. In which case to "rescue" free will you need to come up with a way in which entities with supposed free will are not automatons.

So, sure, it is possible to posit an infinite set of theories of "free will" that are true. But I'd claim that nobody has so far managed to come up with one that is both true and that most people will agree fits the woolly concept of "free will" the way most people use it.

The concept is almost religious in the sense that most proponents of it are unwilling to try to nail down specific definitions that might give rise to testable hypotheses, and those who do tend to come up with definitions that are so far from the common understanding as to be meaningless.
The video game development industry has a lot of financial similarities to pharmaceutical development.

As a major, why should I take the (large) risk to develop novel product? When I can outsource that function to a large number of smaller companies, who either go bankrupt or produce something of value, which I can then afford to pay a premium to acquire, after its value is known? I.e. if I can substitute money for risk, why wouldn't I?
How? Quick googling says no.
I wanted to use icloud. But I always got confused as there are different versions of the same media contents (on cloud, on the laptop, exported or non-exported? duplication between devices). And the cost.

So I gave up. Unfortunately I still have to do manual export all media from i$$$ devices, move them to linux/android-based system. "move" really means that, because I never pay icloud again.
Thank you! you made my day!
Artillery is still relevant after decades of being declared obsolete.
I don't mind looking for an alternative to Google Photos because, while their first 2 tiers are anything but absurdly priced (I currently pay C$40 a year for 200 GB), it abruptly jumps to 2 TB after that, and a price that's far less justifiable (C$140).

But I see little if any point to offline-only backups of something like family photos. Usable and backed-up is what I'm after, and preferably not just usable but very convenient.
You would not literally want to multiply by the number of business but I would be open to a dollar to life conversion made on the basis that you can spend money to feed people and perform medical services.
If I sell my old couch at a loss for $600, and get paid with Venmo, the default behavior now is to have a form sent to the IRS. The burden is on me to prove it is a loss and have the documentation to back it up, or risk having $600 of taxable income in the eyes of the IRS. At this small threshold, it sounds like a burden to me.
It's a good time to think about how to fund legal defense for free / open source software, and not rely on alliances with scammy companies.
Inaccurate in what way? Indie studios getting bought by Tencent is true.
That means we will have to see how hard they crack down on f&f payments which are default in certain trading circles with a separate reputation system to manage fraud.
Reset is more overloaded once you add parameters.
This is more legislative theater. "We're catching the cheats" where the cheats are as you describe, middle or lower class households or individuals trying to get ahead with a side hustle. I hope to see this reversed in the near future.
You’re only partially correct: the previous limit was 20k AND 200 or more transactions.

So for example, someone taking 100k over 50 transactions was previously unreported.

Old rules: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/understanding-your-form-1099-...
Activision are much better at monetising than Nintendo.

Think candy crush and loot boxes vs fun single player mario games
Ah, so the "Eastern District of Texas" of Germany then. Good context to have, thanks.
Improving reading skills through action video games
So you think your CNS and liver might disagree about the amount of alcohol to drink on the weekend? Part of me agrees with that assessment.
> NEWS from California / Hollywood

Reports are also coming in from certain parts of Central Europe …
Yeah, this is seems 100% targeted at gig workers.
Could you elaborate? What's payroll costs?
In that article he conflates theoretical trustworthiness (software verifiability) with practical trustworthiness (system comprehensibility to a supermajority of voters). Blockchains might be made to work in a verifiable way, but they won't work for enough of the voting base to trust that they do in fact operate correctly.

The entire point of voting is to provide a way to pick something that virtually everyone can agree was fair. Blockchains are too complex for virtually everyone to understand, and so most people can't agree that they're a fair way to decide on things. They require trust in the programmers and cryptographers, *and most people don't have that trust*. And with good reason, programmers are notorious for making buggy, unreliable, confusing software.

Vitalik entirely ignores this argument against blockchains for voting, and pretends that the most important objections are the technical ones.
(poor example because Apple Music is on Android and Windows heh)
Yeah, obscurity seems to help in the real world. The Presidential motorcade has a bunch of identical limos so attackers don't know which one the President is in. They, of course, have armor too. But the decoys add to the security, even if it's "by obscurity".
Quite the opposite: physics is predicated on the idea of free will in the experimenter. That is: their decision to use X machine to perform Y experiment at Z time is essentially an independent, or at least fully random, "choice" on their part. If the experimenter does not have free will, then you run into the possibility of their decision to run the experiment as being somehow entangled with the results. See "Superdeterminism"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism

But otherwise I agree that "free will" is basically just a silly argument over the definition of an undefinable term, or a way to explain away loopholes in theology.
I wrote Timeliner [0] and am writing its successor, Timelinize [1], to download all my family's stuff to our own computer.

[0]: https://github.com/mholt/Timeliner

[1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize
> I'm sure the IBM Mainframe folks did it many decades ago

They could do that with CPU modules a couple generations back. I don't think the newer ones can do it though, at least not a CPU at a time. It's probably possible to power off a CPU drawer (4 CPUs on the Z15, IIRC) without too much hassle.

I remember seeing a colleague of mine doing it with memory and CPUs on a live Ultra Enterprise 4000, again, with memory and CPU. IIRC, he had to tell the OS the board was going to be pulled out before doing so and a light would signal it was safe to proceed. He was doing that because we used one machine to process a lot of logs overnight (in 1997).
This is also true for celestial navigation with a sextant and the light refracting in the atmosphere: the "Altitude Correction Tables" give the combined correction for refraction, semidiameter, and parallax under standard atmosphere conditions.

* https://reginasailing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Altitud...

* https://thenauticalalmanac.com/Altitude_Correction_Tables.pd...

* https://thenauticalalmanac.com/Altitude_Correction_Tables_fo...
This usually leads to "my shit's due in an hour, my repo is totally broken and I have no idea why... HEEEEELP".
I try not to be cynical about news coverage, but its so difficult when I see headlines like this that could be so much more clear by simply adding the word "commercial"... several friends have been outraged about changes to how they split monthly expenses with roommates, partners, etc before discovering the reality of the situation - seemingly all because the reporting on it has just been _bad_.
Somewhat offtopic trivia, but up until 2012 in the US, you were actually allowed to print a new copy of The Hobbit. Many publishers with no relationship to Tolkien or his estate have done this. Due to a quirk in international copyright law, it had entered the public domain in the US.

A court ruling in 2012 restored copyright to the work, which is super weird since there are a lot of unauthorized copies still floating around.
So a consultant’s job is to ameliorate incompetent management?
> who would use intel as a fab?

We've got a very serious shortage of fab capacity right now that will probably last for at least 2 or 3 more years. The answer would be anyone who needs fab capacity of the sort Intel can provide (not likely AMD of course, though I could see Apple giving it a try).
> … storing source code inside a memory image didn’t help with interoperability…

Here's some "play well with others” "interoperability" —

Sept 21, 1987 — "A version of the Smalltalk-80 object-oriented development environment … has been announced by Parcplace Systems.

Smalltalk-80 DE version 2.2 is said to provide Unix environments with interprocess communication via sockets and access to Unix C shells. On the Apple Macintosh, it provides access to Desk Accessories and provides the ability to cut and paste between the Smalltalk-80 system and the clipboard."

https://books.google.com/books?id=ldk7z4Q-WWYC&pg=RA4-PA4&lp...
Also, for years I have had the phrase "open source washing machine" in my head. Finally duck-searched upon seeing this thread. A ton of existing work/proposals.