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>Street painters sell kitsch art instead of modern art because the average street buyer prefers kitsch :)

But does that mean that the average street buyer considers street-vendor kitsch art? Not necessarily, since street vendors don't have to produce art in order to sell paintings - they just have to make things people will buy. I would say that consumerist, mass-produced products like street-hawked paintings can't really be art in the commonly-understood sense.

The issue I have with what you're saying is that you seem to consider "enjoyment" and "appeal" the be-all and end-all of the definition of art. I sincerely doubt that most people would agree with you; most people can probably distinguish between media they enjoy and media they consider art. I would bet that most people would define art as needing to contain something of the sublime (even if they don't use that word.) It seems unlikely to me that you could successfully fill museums with kitsch.

>Regarding forgeries, I guess we can separate artistic value into historical value and aesthetic value. The original Mona Lisa has more historical value than its copies, but equal aesthetic value.

But do they have equal artistic value? Or does the historical value of the original somehow factor in to its artistic value - hence explaining why people don't flock to see copies of the Mona Lisa in other museums?
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When I see these accents I can't help but read it in Hatari voice.
> Apple can't spend a crumb of it's $2T+ getting their browser and dev tools up to par with even Firefox?

Ugh, please. They've only got a mere 200 billion in liquid cash.
Admittedly it's kind of late for 1979, but I feel like this can be done better using exact differentiation. You don't need to take the symbolic derivative; just use the dual numbers to evaluate the derivative at a single point. Then the secant method becomes Newton's method.

Also, assuming that a second guess isn't provided, how does the calculator choose one? I'd imagine there are numerical precision problems that make choosing one hard.

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Wait, is it using this algorithm? "False position": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regula_falsi . I thought it was using something primitive like the "secant method": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secant_method . But the article suggests that it tries to be more clever than that.
> if part of the product I've paid for is software, and the company can update it without customer consent at any time, then I can't rely on the product's features. Period.

What about your other devices?
Dos Svidanya would be a great cocktail name.
Maybe it would be worth repeating the 'myths' he lists in the tweets:

Myth 1: A lot of misinfo on social media

No, research suggests there is little, shared by few & having small effects. Those sharing misinfo are not dumb. But they have intense political animus, which motivates to share what fits their worldview, true or false.

Myth 2: Social media makes people hateful

No, research suggests that online hate reflects offline frustrations that make them hateful both online & offline. The hateful are few in numbers but they are attracted to politics and, hence, are much more visible.

Myth 3: Social media are echo chambers

No, research shows that, for most, social media breaks the bubble. We are more connected to "the others" on social media than in our offline lives. That is why it feels unpleasant - because it is the most hateful "others" we meet.
Valheim, Fall Guys, Genshin Impact we're in the last few years.
It's interesting, because "svidanyie" in Russian is probably closely related to "svitani" in Czech, which means "sunrise", nothing else. But more literally "svitani" would probably translate as "meet again". Fascinating how meanings morph and sometimes the original meaning is fairly obfuscated.
Fewer people means the economy and finance will shrink. This is not something our system is designed - almost all economic models need constant growth, which as you rightly mentioned is achieved at great cost to the environment and other species. I also feel that fewer people will also translate to fewer billionaires and newly minted rich folks and transfer some power balance to people willing to do the labor.
Off topic, but why wouldn't you recommend knex.js / where can I read good criticisms of it?
Just plain Chrome Mobile, nothing else, no VPN.
That's a real shame. It is so frustrating that every entrant into the smart TV market has decided to go the route of subsidizing hardware with advertising; its like everyone saw Amazon pull it off on kindle/tablets and decided it was gospel.

I think the HN community is a little more insulated from this because we have the knowledge, desire, and initiative to try modding, or investigating other options.

For people like my parents, however, this just becomes another piece of mental friction they have getting in the way of their content.

If the entertainment industry isn't wise, they may see a lot of people just using big-format smart products less and less. Think cordcutting, part deux: internet blocking (at least, on non-PC hardware).

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Edit: it seems this is apparently more on the shoulders of TV manufacturers, who make deals with roku to enable this on integrated roku products (i.e. roku TVs): https://www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters/comments/s5ik5y/welp_th...
I think the confusing example is assuming just distance estimation, not angles. If angles were used the estimate would be much more precise.
Chrome Mobile (Android).
Modern databases on modern server hardware are not limited by disk bandwidth typically, though Postgres is not a modern design and struggles to use the disk bandwidth available. That said, since these queries are accessing roughly the same data, concurrent queries will mostly be hitting cache. Memory bandwidth is often a larger limitation for databases these days, so it would still be wasteful.
This has happened before, but only once that I know of. It was hosted by the creator of the (apparently now defunct) WinHoldEm "poker botting" software, Ray E. Bornert II. It never ran again, only a small handful of the more experienced bot authors attended, and turnout was poor, with the highest max buy in at $100 (http://robopoker.blogspot.com/2007/12/pokerbot-world-champio...). It was called the 2007 Poker Bot World Championship (PBWC).

The online poker community is extremely hostile towards poker bot software in general; you would be very hard-pressed to find an existing poker website that would be willing to encourage and host such tournaments.
Thank you for the kind offer. There may indeed be repositories out there to which you could contribute. In terms of the autism phenome project, probably not. For one, the deep phenotyping we do (i.e. collect a lot of data) is a critical component, Also, there is actually a fair amount of variability in the methods to doing DNA sequencing (not an expert), that could pose issues. But again, thank you for the kind offer.
I do that with OSMand on Android too. It's interesting if you fly on the window side.
> Would you want someone on your team who you even suspected viewed their role as a vacation?

Totally! If a heavy hitter is willing to teach me 3 things a day (or even just let me watch them get stuff done), I don't mind if they consider the job a vacation.
It's even worse. Studies went down this rabbit hole and found that those who simply produce also produce better than those who wait to be "inspired".
I tried to do the same thing, but the 4K+HDR streaming story is fully broken/DRM'd to hell on PC. You simply cannot stream 4K+HDR in most (all?) services on a modern PC (my HTPC is also a gaming PC... so Nvidia graphics in my case).

I went with Apple TV + Plex (along with D+/NFLX/Peacock/HBO Max/Hulu/AppleTV/Prime/Cable... but I still can't find everything I want)
Low enough water usage to satisfy government requirements.

Low enough electricity usage to satisfy government requirements.

Low noise.

A flat panel covered with buttons that make funny noises. Wifi!

All of those things have been demanded by the government, the market, or both.
For posterity, there is forever.com, they guarantee 100 years storage for one-time payment. It's like $150 for 12GB, so you must choose which pictures to store.

The sad part is that nobody will ever look at all those terabytes ...
I think the modules were Apache's curse, they made it possible to bring down Apache. Speed is great, but Always Responding is a more important feature. I'm sure most Nginx configurations could have been done with Apache without any real performance issue, but Apache hurt its own reputation by doing extra things poorly.
> But even with these expanded resources and closer partnerships with local law enforcement, we
find ourselves coming back to the same results with the Los Angeles County criminal justice
system. Criminals are caught and arrested, turned over to local authorities for booking, arraigned
before the local courts, charges are reduced to a misdemeanor or petty offense, and the criminal
is released after paying a nominal fine. These individuals are generally caught and released back
onto the streets in less than twenty-four hours.

From experience inside a major retail chain at the national level, this is the story of retail theft in general. The interface between private security and public law enforcement is... inefficient. (To put it nicely)

"Not caught here" is a real thing. Private security lays a theft case in law enforcement's lap, oftentimes better documented than police cases, and the collective response is a yawn and inaction.

And while I'm a proponent of justice reform, theft is theft. We're not talking about busting someone for personal amounts of marijuana. This is forcefully choosing to break into a secure container, for purposes of stealing items of value for sale. With the resulting costs being borne by everyone who uses the system.
White House warns ‘small percentage’ of people can’t order its Covid-19 tests
See: https://www.twitch.tv/directory?sort=VIEWER_COUNT

Looks like Rust, Valorant, Apex Legends, and Escape from Tarkov are in the top 10 on Twitch. All came out within the past 5 years.
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even if not for the content/software lock.. modularity is almost always better. screen technology is constantly improving. maybe i want to upgrade later without throwing the whole treadmill out?
The DMCA explicitly carves out copyright exceptions for interoperability and repair.

Tell me what law protected your right against copyright before the DMCA?

Good luck.
> The lawsuit was filed because the owner of Mac OS X Server kept putting “UNIX” on the web site, and all other marketing collateral for the Server product.

Like https://youtu.be/nXJsS4B42_Q?t=750

"First of all, [Mac OS X] is Unix-based, as you know. What you may not know is that Apple has become the #1 supplier of Unix in the world ­— bigger than Sun; bigger than Linux; bigger than anyone! But we don't want to rest on that. We think we have one of the best versions of Unix out there — Jagwire makes it even better with a whole bunch of cool new Unix things."

As the OP implies (missing Tiger), Leopard was the first certified version: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-rec...
For me, it was the deck on the Peloton. At the time of purchase, it was the cheapest slat deck treadmill I could find.
You can't return it "no questions asked", but if the product doesn't work you can request them to make it work or refund if they're unable to.

If they don't want there is small claims court which is cheap and simple. I have used it in cases where some manufacturers would void warranty due to "water damage" after the product stopped working. In the end they paid: cost of purchase, cost to file, cost of my legal consultation, cost of expertise showing that there was no sign of water damage. Country - Poland.
> the iPhone could still have all their proprietary code, as long as I can read about the components and their relationships, diagnose a problem, replace a component and/or flash new data/code onto the device.

As a group heavily populated by programmers and coders, I think it’s fairly hypocritical to say that everyone should make their IP like schematics freely available while we keep software under copyright.

> Am I missing something here?

- How is a defect like an aged battery different than a non-updated software?

- Why is it inmoral for a company to limit your ability to swap a battery but totally okay to not give you the code so that you can patch their software to work on your machine?

At least in the case of the battery they can argue that inappropriate handling of faulty batteries is dangerous.

> Meaningful repair doesn't require that we be able to dismantle and re-solder sub-board-level components, only identify the particular component, obtain it at a reasonable availability and cost, and replace it, or be able to substitute an upgraded part.

That “only” is doing a lot of work there. That “only” is the work of a lot of people who deserve to get good salaries too. Why should their work become a commodity while programmers keep their “machines” protected with the laws for art?
> when the only motive is profit

Profit is the only motive for everyone, all the time, no matter what. The only difference is that in a free market that motivation is aligned with societal goals and it is in the open, a game with rules and laws. Free markets allow you to make a profit and keep it, legally.

Without free markets, the deals are made in power and influence, in fiefs and networks. Leftist politics are not only ipocrit (no left politician cares for "the poor") but also feudalistic and corrupt by default, from definition, because that is the only way to make a profit in such a sistem.
Are there any practical locks that can't be defeated by an angle grinder in 5 minutes or less?
No matter how much money you throw at the current Apple Arcade, most people will play the game on a 5" touch screen. If you want to target living room gamers with a gamepad, the same game has to work on an Apple TV that struggles to render 3D scenes at 4K (probably until an M2 version comes out?). I think it's just going to be a baseline of games for people/families who have Apple One, like how Solitaire and Minesweeper came with Windows.

If Apple goes all-in on VR, the whole VR market will benefit from greater public acceptance. But at the very best I predict it'll be like the Nintendo Wii: a few games that are extremely popular, and then it gets old.

Which is a shame because I agree that Apple is in a great position to enter the gaming market. Imagine what Nintendo could do with powerful hardware in so many hands! But by the same logic, Apple should have crushed Spotify long ago, given its mile-wide lead with the iTunes Store, and yet the nicest thing I have heard about Apple Music is that it works with other Apple stuff. I honestly don't think Apple's management understands entertainment.
>> You get incredibly less review at the publication stage — and your idea “experts in one’s field” don’t also use the internet is hilariously wrong.

I'm glad to hear you're amused by my comment. Where did I express the idea that '“experts in one’s field” don’t also use the internet'? Can you please show me?
I used lighttpd from 2007 until early 2009. Then the company I was working for at the time went to managed hosting for about a year, and during that time, we had to use Apache (possibly even with the prefork MPM). When we decided to go back to self-managed dedicated servers in early 2010, I chose nginx. What I remember from that time was that nginx was rising in popularity, and it was being used by WordPress.com. Also, unlike the 2007 setup, this early 2010 setup had a load balancer with three application servers behind it (using FastCGI I think), and if I remember correctly, it was easier to do that with nginx than lighttpd.
Working in Cybersecurity I have often asked myself this question. We spend so much time convincing each other that cybersecurity is a massive risk, when I often feel like we spend more time talking about it than actually fixing cyber incidents. Now of course there is an element of being proactive as opposed to reactive.

If businesses do basic business business continuity they will actually know what the impacts of losing access to their systems or data are. And will quite easily be able to understand the risks and impacts associated with losing a key system completely, or for a duration of time and whether the business can tolerate it.

From my experience in the last couple of the years, the largest threat has been ransomware attacks. These attacks have seen the largest real impact to the operations of some large organisations, essentially taking their systems offline.

The other point is that companies don't want to announce they have had a cyber incident and perhaps these organisations have had appropriate mitigating controls in place to protect their environment, despite detecting an attack. Which reminds me of the old saying where IT do less work when they're doing their jobs correctly.

My final note would be, these "bean counters" will have a hard time explaining themselves when their key applications are completely encrypted, having not invested in additional DR infrastructure to protect themselves. I have seen many times where the cybersecurity budget has magically increased following a cyber security incident.
I shared this earlier, in a comment on special relativity, debating determinism vs indeterminism. I thought it deserved it's own post. I am surprised this has not had any love on HN already. A truly (maybe! ;) random RNG, powered by measuring the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum? And free, too!
Because if he didn't make the deadline, Steve Jobs would get on the horn with any company he applied to and tell them how badly he fucked up, just to spite him.

"You'll never work in this town again" was a real threat in Hollywood if you pissed off (or refused to put out for) the wrong producer. Powerful people wield power indiscriminately to discharge fleeting grudges.
Most people don't become polyglots either, though, so that's not a good measure of the utility. It's not a question of language-learners learning etymology would be useful to the man on the Chatham bus, it's a question of whether it is useful to language-learners.

Knowing the etymology of, e.g., "goodbye" makes it click faster/not be weird when you learn, e.g, that "hello" is "Dia is Muire duit" (God and Mary be with you) in Irish Gaelic.
Not sure if you are intending to, but that only further illustrates how broken (in the favor of corporations) the current legal environment is.

You are right in that there probably is a gotcha, you agreed clause in the text that is displayed after I have purchased the item. I also think the idea that is legally binding a farce.

Imagine how popular buying things would be if people actually had to read those agreements.
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There are no hypersonic air-to-air weapons, and they're not even being considered.

Hypersonic missiles are only useful against ground-based, slow moving targets. They also look indistinguishable to strategic ballistic missile launches, and cost about the same.

They get a lot of US military "give us funding" excitement, but China's various "anti-aircraft carrier" weapons are almost completely useless in war time because they look exactly like launching a nuke and you can't know in advance they're not.
With all of these train robberies we’re going to need some Pinkertons
In this thread Servo is axed and Servo is finished.

It appears that the servo team was fired but the repo is still seeing some development [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/directhex/status/1293352458308198401?s=1...
> how badly he fucked up

I don't think it's 'fucking up' to give something a good go but not quite make it, is it?

And why would every company in the industry even listen to a rant from Steve Jobs?
Interesting, I read some Sklansky books about 15 years ago and he talked about semibluffs, where you're partly bluffing but you've also got some chance to win. Sounds like strategy has evolved into doing the exact opposite.
Agreed. Just trying to help OP, who also appears to be young ("I graduated with a CS bachelors degree a few years ago").
except, you know, the person you're conversing with this very moment, so that's a really bad (local) first approximation!
Have you gone through the entire process and bought a house? It's complicated. There is a lot more to it than showing houses. If it were anything like as easy as you suggest, it would be done already - it's a giant market with money sloshing around.

I don't buy that doctors, lawyers, software engineers or real estate brokers will be automated away in 20 years. As a society there has been 15 solid years put into automating driving a car - a skill so simple we allow 16 year olds with no formal training and half of who have an iq less than 100 to do it. Doctors, lawyers, software engineers and real estate brokers have jobs which are very complex compared to driving a car.
Alternatively, California could stop speedrunning a Somalia-style collapse of rule of law.
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Of course I'm presupposing that voting on individual issues for a country as large and diverse as the US is a terrible idea, because it's a terrible idea. That is, definitionally, anarchy, and does not create a stable or fair government for anyone.

I did presuppose that you understood that. Maybe that was not appropriate, but I'm not willing to discuss it, because I find it, a priori, a non-starter.

This is well trod intellectual ground, and if you're curious, you can find ample writings debating the topic of a direct democracy vs. a representative democracy elsewhere that'll more accurately frame the discussion than anything I could come up with off the top of my head for free on HN.

Given that a direct democracy results in substantially negative outcomes for the people who participate, therefore a representative democracy is about voting for the person, not the policy, and in that environment, the will of the people is indeed expressed as the selection of their representative, not on any isolated "What if you could magically have something with no downsides?" issue based polling.

Narrowly focusing on one specific issue is naive. the US doesn't exist in a single-issue bubble, it exists in a complex web of political and practical (not to mention entirely unpredictable) needs which all have to be balanced simultaneously. If you want to pretend legislators can snap their fingers and make any individual issue "just happen" that's fine, but it's not reflective of reality on any level. You will continue to be confused and disappointed if you decide to live that way.
It's worse than that, the first thing that I scanned in the article is if he is alive. A title like that without a pre-defined context more often, in my native Russian perception, could mean much worse that just leaving a company. I'm glad he's doing well, I really enjoy NGINX as a casual user. It is a great gift to people. Удачи (good luck) or всего хорошего (best wishes) would not trigger such a reaction to scan the article for me.

I've just counted: only on the 13th paragraph I could get the answer.
That's the same as the normal LA police. The prosecutor is a separate department altogether.