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You're right—I don't have the power to stop them, and thank goodness for that! I've certainly considered whipping up my own illustration library and selling it in packages. It's just smart business, like selling typeface licenses instead of only offering custom treatments.

I accept that this is how things are, but I also think it's okay to be unhappy about it :].

And like anyone, I do appreciate the appreciation of others who appreciate my skillset and offering. But also like anyone, I can't help but wish more people did!
Apple does a lot of very questionable stuff, but I'm still not convinced regulation is the solution here. It's still very easy to go with an Android variant that doesn't have some of these restrictions (though increasingly some Android phones are introducing their own annoyances).

For example for the given article users of dating apps can already use different payment providers, provided they go with a different phone. If these types of grievances are so bad, why don't users switch? It's worth considering these questions. Apple does certainly try to incentivize you to go-all in with Apple Watch/Fitness+ integrations, AirPod, AirTag, etc.

I believe Europe's general approach is just contributing to its brain drain. A large chunk of huge tech companies in the United States are founded by European nationals, not even children of immigrants. You cannot ignore that California alone has a larger tech industry than the entirety of Europe. It's not like Californians are smarter than Europeans, the difference is regulation.

Personally I believe it's because Europe is way too stifling in its rules and regulations. In comparison the United States is just a far superior environment for innovation and starting tech companies in general.

Resolve this problem, and then Europeans will just move over to a local national company and then the issue of Apple being anti competitive will be no longer relevant, as there will be competition.

TLDR: Help foster strong competitive companies, stop wasting time trying to neuter Apple
They do - there's a checkbox "Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs".
So in other words, overthrowing the government isn't their goal. Their goal is:

"CU called on the SCGGC to cease all vaccine mandates, reemploy all employees terminated due to vaccination status, and rescind all fines imposed for non-compliance with public health orders"

The stuff about dissolving the government is what they want if those other things aren't done.
America has long had a unique influence over the rest of the Americas while it did not on the rest of the world until very relatively in the postwar period. It also has not had a hegemonic influence on nations such as China, unlike it has had over Canada and most of the American continent. Historically, the United States had a relatively weak presence in China, while the European powers and Japan have had a far stronger hand there. Therefore the analogy to China is false, unless you were to claim that it was part of the Americas, which given the flagrant inaccuracy of your statement seemed to imply that it was made in earnest.
You believe the same thing about BLM right? They took over residential areas and blocked commercial traffic from coming. Look at Chop/Chaz.
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You would get healthy and waste money on NMN.
I see there is some interesting stuff in the parent page as well, thanks :)
Legacy (style) devices are missing one killer app category: data-based messengers. Without a fully-featured version of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Line or whatever it is that your friends and family use, you'll be limited to 1:1 chats. Group chats are an app-only feature, and you'll be excluded from those.
As commented elsewhere

> One of the main organizers behind the convoy, Canada Unity (CU), acknowledged that they had planned to submit their signed "memorandum of understanding" (MoU) to the Senate of Canada and Governor General Mary Simon, described in the MoU as the "SCGGC". The MoU which was signed by James and Sandra Bauder and Martin Brodmann, was posted on the Canada Unity website in mid-December 2021 and publicly available until its February 8 retraction. Bauder, whose name is at the top of a CTV News' list of "major players" in the convoy, is the founder of Canada Unity. CTV cited Bauder saying that he hoped the signed MoU would convince Elections Canada to trigger an election, which is not constitutionally possible. In this pseudolegal document, CU called on the "SCGGC" to cease all vaccine mandates, reemploy all employees terminated due to vaccination status, and rescind all fines imposed for non-compliance with public health orders. If this failed, the MoU called on the "SCGGC" to dissolve the government, and name members of the CU to form a Canadian Citizens Committee (CCC), which is beyond the constitutional powers of either the Governor General or the Senate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Convoy_2022#Protest_go...
I agree with this perspective. Absent from this article is the recognition that the absence of all these things is rooted in American culture that is inherently uncaring, eg. Hyperindependence instead of interdependence, puritanical moralizing instead of compassionate listening, scientific certainty instead of intellectual curiosity, silent/vocal denials and blame-shifting instead of acknowledgment, engagement, accountability, and responsibility. Oh, and financial anxiety and racism. Where are the leaders talking about how they got over their financial anxiety (instead of patching/feeding it with more money) or how they're renouncing whiteness? White-body supremacy started with the lie that there are white bodies, yet even social justice warriors will try to shame me into keeping it going, instead of acknowledging people who think they're white need to stop practicing the lie if they want to get anywhere past the racism of the day. We can use white privilege to help those who don't pass for white while refusing to base our identities on literal lies.

I also see these things as endemic to academia, especially in the sciences, and regard them as roots of our current replication crises, alongside capitalistic pressures.
I was surprised to see it still gets hung up on Chrome.

I frequently see the "Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs?" option in Chrome. Not sure why it doesn't happen here.
I like some of our standards. Temperature is one of them. I like that 0 is cold as hell, and 100 is hot as hell. And I like the fact that in Fahrenheit, the degrees are finer. Don't have to set my thermostat in half-degree increments in my house.
ISO 8601 master race, checking in on 2022-02-14!
Take a look at the rugged KaiOS devices. They should do what you need.

I have a "Flip IV" right now (AT&T sent me one when I hooked up my 8110 to their network because that doesn't support VoLTE), and other than being waterproof, it meets your requirements nicely. There are some waterproof devices with the same features, though.
Ask HN: What Node.js database libraries are people using these days?
It’s been years since I wrote a Node server that interacted with a database. What are the current go-to, battle-tested clients that everyone reaches for?
1. merriam-webster isn't a good source because they have a history of redefining words for activism purposes, eg. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52993306

2. if violence isn't necessary for an "insurrection", and "revolting against civil authority or an established government" suffices, does that mean rosa parks or MLK are insurrectionists?
To be clear: CDNs are still highly useful. This is just about using them to host third-party libraries rather than serving them yourself.

It's worth noting that even a decade ago, using a CDN for third-party libraries often failed to produce the envisioned benefits. I tested this a far number of times and the cost of doing multiple additional DNS lookups, negotiating HTTPS, etc. was often higher than expected and the proliferation of versions meant that while it's true that the average browser hitting your site had a copy of jQuery in the cache it wasn't likely to be the same version from the same CDN.

Since HTTP/2 went mainstream half a decade ago, that's become an even harder competition to win since the browser can efficiently request a large number of files simultaneously without any of that setup overhead.

There's also a security concern: unless you use Sub-Resource Integrity (SRI) you're giving the CDN owner full control of your site and the users' data. That's not a catastrophic risk but it's probably more than a potential minor performance benefit is worth.

The last reason not to use them is increasingly the most important: if you include something large like many sites do, you probably have a ton of code which is going to have to be downloaded but isn't actually used by your site. A custom bundle (with tree-shaking, etc.) is going to save a substantial amount of transfer and it's usually the case that transferring less will overwhelm all other concerns.
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Stretch explanation: in popular culture the chestnut tree served as a major plot point in Richard Power's 2018 novel The Overstory, which won several major awards. His most recent novel was published in late September, so to some extent his name and plots are back in the news.

Stretchier explanation: Frequency illusion, also called Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. Per Wikipedia, "a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has a high frequency of occurrence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire
Communicate data insights in common workplace Slack?
Desperately need feedback from this great hacker community - https://columns.ai/slack
You can buy one with cash at most corner stores.
Ways AI Can Improve Your Next Meeting
They do. When I open it I get the option to not show alerts from this page again.
It's especially ironic when they argue "their body their choice" w.r.t. vaccines. Then when asked about abortion only the most rational ones will see the parallel.
I have an XPS running PopOS and it's fine. Maybe I'm just one of the lucky ones? I don't really push my laptops though as my job doesn't require it. Everythings seems fine for the two years I've owned it. Survivor bias?
They do - modern browsers make "alert()" be a part of the page's content instead of browser UI - you can still interact with the browser's UI to close or switch away the tab.

Maybe this entire incident was raised by an idiot opening it in a truly ancient browser?
I bought a refurbished Fujitsu Lifebook a month ago after 7 years of using various Dells and Macbooks. The experience (on Linux) has been surprisingly smooth. Everything just works, zero overheating. The machine has thinkpad-like build quality but it looks nicer.
I don't think I've seen a non-CCTV'd store that sells those in years.
I really don’t understand their strategy here.

I was listening to the ATP podcast. All three hosts are big fans of Apple, they use and promote Apple products, and make all or some of their living selling apps. They all think Apple is making a huge mistake here.

Is there anybody who thinks Apple’s recent moves are going to be good for them long term? When even your biggest fans think you are being petulant and foolish, maybe it’s time to reevaluate?
I mean I don’t think it’s unreasonable for Apple to not want automatic upgrades to swap out the payment provider from one that’s Apple supported to 3rd party.

How should that even work with currently Apple managed subscriptions? Just cancel them all? Is Apple even allowed to require that their own payment system be present in addition under this ruling?
Is there an update to this story?
This really says something about the state of internet tech reviews. None of these reviewers ever keep their products long enough to experience long term issues. They'll keep recommending the XPS 13 (or other flawed products) to consumers, as long as no issues pop up in the week or two they review it.

I suppose one good thing about Apple and MacBooks is that just because of how incredibly common they are, and the amount of mindshare they command, if there is a fatal flaw with an Apple product, there will be widespread consumer knowledge of the issues. On the other hand, models from Dell and these other manufacturers sell in low enough volumes that they can just keep pumping out broken products, and not enough people will care to hold them publicly accountable.
What I've always dealt with is "goal setting": at the beginning of the year, you're supposed to write down all the goals you're going to accomplish by the end of the year - usually five or so. The goals you write down are usually based on whatever random priorities are most visible during goal setting time (if you actually try to make up your own goals, your manager just tells you you have to change them before he'll sign off on them), but then priorities change, management demands you work on dozens of other things, so at the end of the year you write down some lame excuse for why you didn't accomplish any of the things nobody cares if you accomplish any more and if your manager likes you he rubber stamps it and if he doesn't like it he uses it as a stick to try to get rid of you.
> Smartphones are unapologetically devices for consumption

Speak for yourself, my phone is for communicating with friends and recording memories.

> This cultural equality is diminished by an exodus to devices

What the heck is "cultural equality" and what do people using smartphones have to do with it? Does the author think nobody owns a desktop/laptop anymore?

> They are not real network clients.

Neither is your laptop if you want good battery life.

> They have led to massive centralization.

Is that why Discord is popular on mobile, and not on desktop? Wait, no, it's popular regardless of platform.

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How does this kind of article make it to the front page of HN, seriously?
No but that is all you mentioned.

I'm all for affordable housing. But when a homeless man commits murder, the answer to that isn't a one liner about the importance of affordable housing which is always the first and only thing that's mentioned when it comes to the homeless. There is nothing draconian about Kendra's Law by the way. It is far more humane to make sure treatment, psych beds are used, especially for people that do not have the capability of knowing when they need help.
If you want work in computer security, then you really shouldn't have a record of fraud. If you want to make pizzas, then you're not likely to defraud anyone but your employer; so it's her lookout. A blackmail conviction is a danger to other staff; it's the employer's responsibility to protect their employees against that risk.

This guy seems to be on probation, and under supervision of SOCA - he hasn't yet completed his sentence. Are we talking USA? He's a felon, and in most US states he will never again be allowed to vote in elections.

In this country you don't have to disclose prior convictions to anyone, beyond a certain date - I think something like ten years. I agree with that. In the same way, expired convictions can't be taken into account in sentencing deliberations. I agree with that too - I do think convictions should expire. Past acts shouldn't follow you around forever. But if you're on probation now for two serious crimes, I think it's crazy to say that a prospective employer shouldn't be allowed to ask, and to rely on your answer on pain of instant dismissal.

And FWIW I don't agree with the US practice of denying felons the vote.
A third one:

> Perl programs are easy to write and fast to develop. The interpreter doesn't require you to declare all your function prototypes and data types in advance, new variables spring into existence as needed, calls to undefined functions only cause an error when the function is needed. The debugger works well with Emacs and allows a comfortable interactive style of development.

I think each and every language that could undo this second "billion dollar mistake", did ("strict mode").
I've really been loving Prisma https://www.prisma.io/
Regarding compensation - I think that is more of a function of the orgs that tend to use .NET and not .NET itself.

Most senior+ SWEs at cost center non-tech companies (frankly, the overwhelming majority of SWEs) would probably be lucky to retire as a sixtysomething seventysomething seeing $200-250k total compensation after decades upon decades of work.

Meanwhile that amount is probably around what most run of the mill twenty/thirty/fortysomething senior SWEs at profit center tech companies (not FAANG!). Needless to say even some juniors are making that much at FAANG and other upper tier tech companies.

If you can find some corner of a profit center tech company doing .NET, you'd probably be paid the same as any other engineer at that company. But these types of companies rarely seem to employ .NET.
Many years ago I was responsible for backups in a mixed Unix/Windows system. I asked for funds and time to do a disaster recovery exercise in case a server system disk failed but was turned down flat. Luckily we never had to restore anything more than a few individual files.

It's not enough to confirm that the backup has actually been created you need also to have the procedures necessary to do the restore and the personnel and hardware to do it.
I'll believe the US is using metric when you can buy rice by the kilo, gas by the liter, paper in ISO sizes, and construction sheet goods in increments other than 8x4 feet.

Non-metric preferred sizes are embedded everywhere.
Learning from Marble Arch Mound: A post-mortem
There was a page in the early 2000s called the most annoying website in the world. It showed a very large (but finite: the site itself estimates 30-45 minutes) number of alerts. It also a prompt for your name and referred to you by your name.

At the time I knew only HTML so I was blown away by a web page "talking" to me, and by inspecting the source I learned about the script tag, alerts, prompts, loops and variables.

When it came out, the main browser was Internet Explorer, which became unresponsive until you got rid of all of the alerts. You could of course use Task Manager, or hold spacebar to go through them quickly, but most people didn't know that.

Edit: holy smokes it's still up!

http://mr.g.graham.tripod.com/
I'm all for regulation, but this seems like an overreach.
From the title I was expecting an updated version of the Eliza program created by Joseph Weizenbaum in the very early days of Artificial Intelligence.

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

If anyone is interested in diving into various implementations of this idea, there is a collection here https://github.com/jeffshrager/elizagen.org
There should be an F-Droid for Apple, that only accepts contributions in the form of source code.

Both Apple and Google should be compelled to admit anything from F-Droid into their relevant app stores, at whatever price the developer sets.

When an app developer is proscribed, this option will allow access to mobile platforms that Apple or Google would otherwise revoke and ban.

There is enough attention on this issue now to force this to happen.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/31/googles-online-ad-business-wou...
How do you know you're not being sold something copy/pasted from an image search?
Legacy mobile phones are becoming flaky on modern networks. I had to go up all the way to a phone manufactured circa 2009 to get acceptable call quality and a connection without dropouts.
Did they release the girl?
This doesn't feel like a reply in good faith.

I mean it's easy enough to see the political aspect here isn't tied to the political leanings of news source:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/freedom-convoy-trucker-canadas...

I got the impression you were browbeating me for not intentionally ignoring very plain context as you did, and you seem to be confirming that.
I have an xps 13 developer edition from 2016. It came with Ubuntu preinstalled out of the box.

It was the worst linux experience I've ever had, and just a bad experience in general. They gave it a broadcom wifi chip which has poor linux support, no built in drivers out of the box so whenever I reinstalled I needed to connect an ethernet wire with a usb dongle to download the driver. The wifi also just had very poor reception compared to other laptops.

Sound problems intermittently where half of the time it would have no sound on boot, and I'd have to continually reboot until it decided to work.

They had an absolutely infuriating feature which adapted brightness levels of the screen so that if you transition from dark to bright it would gradually adjust. Except this feature was broken and it does the opposite of what was intended -- it instantly cranks the brightness up to 100 and then gradually adjusts down to what the beightness should be. Even if this feature worked properly it would be undesired, but it is broken in the worst way and there is no way to disable it on my model. I have spent many hours trying.

The computer also arrived with the chasis mis-aligned. I couldnt plug anything in to any ports, we had to get a dell guy come in and reasemble the machine.

The charger also stopped working after about 1.5 years. I bought a new charger but now the charging port only works intermittently.

QA issues aside, you'd think that they would choose parts known to work well with linux but they inexplicably did not.
The Bigger Idiot.
American antitrust laws were originally written to protect competitors as well as consumers, and to limit corporate power, but during the 80s the laws were re-interpreted (largely because of Robert Bork's writings) to greatly restrict antitrust enforcement.
A database of broken things to identify common failure modes and how to fix them
My buddy lives near Hamilton. The stuff his kids are going through is insane.
I've been at the same company for almost 2 decades. 5 years into my tenure, some genius had a bright idea to move away from IBM Thinkpad. Each time, it's bee a failure.

IBM Thinkpad (years and years) -> Dell (3 years) -> HP (3 years) -> Back to Lenovo Thinkpad (for the past 5-6 years)

Mind you, they didn't go with cheap HP or Dell. They were pretty expensive stuff...

Thankfully, I missed the Dell and HP wave because I held onto my Thinkpad T61 for almost 8 years before they finally pried it out of my hands.
Yes, it says so right at the top of the readme.
I have a semifinished website that does something similar. It lets you schedule reminders to reach out to people you care about at set intervals. The difference is that it texts you the reminder and will add in suggestions of what to reach out to them about.

I find that having something to say is just as hard as remembering to reach out.
Huh, they must have taken the integration they've had for a couple years now on the Azure Devops wikis and shifted it over to the GitHub side.
They usually set up their own clinic and rake it in, tons of primary care doctors i know did this.
> Don't like apple's walled garden? Get an android phone!

Great for customers who don’t like it, not so useful if the question is “does Apple’s walled garden prevent the creation of businesses that consumers would like to do business with if only they had the opportunity”.

I don’t claim to know enough about any marketplace or business landscape to answer the latter question, but that’s what is being claimed here.