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> The same EU legislation explicitly bans this.

Companies will find work-arounds as they always do.

> This is a misrepresentation.

It's an opinion, not a misrepresentation. I'm not misrepresenting anything.

> China's worst fear is the lack of choke points for application distribution. Once peer to peer distribution of applications happens without central distributors then their ability to lock down protests will take a significant hit.

Practically speaking though, who will create app stores that will be "safe", and functional? Most people will use a few major app stores (maybe as many as 6, as few as 2) because they are positive feedback loops. Any major company operating one of these will have enough exposure to China that they'll comply with local laws, as they do now. If a company doesn't have exposure that the CCP can leverage, they'll just ban the app store from ever entering the market. Unless of course you think that we'll wind up with hundreds of app stores, like "Bob's Great Apps", but then you have a much worse problem which is the entire ecosystem has turned into a pile of dogshit. Maybe globally there could be 50-100 app stores, but they'll be localized.

If what you're saying is true, that China wants choke points, then why is the Great Firewall so successful? Wouldn't the distributed Internet, and VPNs, and other web-based peer-to-peer applications win out?
As a solo-founder, I have this exact feeling. I can not use almost any SaaS tool as all of them have a (too limited) free plan and the next one starts at around $100/mo with "5 seats". Can't you just give me a $20/mo option with one seat?

For example: https://www.gitbook.com/pricing Team - $6.40 Per User Per Month *Starting At 5 Users*
Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective. Do you think both could be true?
The Myth That Most Americans Hate Their Jobs
The article says that his Parkinson's tremor makes using the ATM difficult.

As a guy with tremor, I can tell you that it sucks. There are some things I can't physically do now, even though my brain works fine.
> For some reason people are a lot better with knowing 11:59pm is, vs 12:00AM.

You mean, people have a mental association like "Oh look it's 12:00 AM [= midnight], better get to bed now" because they see these times in specific contexts, and then use that as a jumping off point to extrapolate the meaning of AM/PM as a whole?
It’s a fair question to ask, but I don’t necessarily think so. I think my filtering actually does the opposite and I do it to avoid the echo chamber.

I use Reddit to read about and interact with people who share my interests/hobbies. I don’t engage in the big political subs because honestly all of them are garbage at this point and get me riled up for no good reason. I have mostly liberal viewpoints, but have no interest in engaging in the echo chamber that is /r/politics. I also quickly got banned from conservative subs for raising points that don’t agree with their party line. Neither camp is interested in substantive debate over there.

I focus on subs like /r/nfl, /r/homelab, /r/<my_city>, /r/sdr, /r/GNURadio, etc.

My default view of content is limited to those core interests.

The reason I filter is that I still like discovering new subs. But I have no interest in the latest memes from FormulaDank or WallstreetBets. I don’t need the content from Trashy, Greentext or HermanCainAward in my life. I also don’t care to read about the war in Ukraine, Russia, Donald Trump, Putin, etc when my focus is recreational reading. I get news elsewhere.

There is still a diversity of opinions in the content that remains, but I just choose not to participate in the subs that run on controversy. It’s just unhealthy.

If my filters looked like “don’t show me anything about the republicans” and I still engaged with other political subs, maybe it’d be more of an echo chamber. Instead, if I see content that was clearly manufactured to make my blood boil, and that seems to be the general theme of the sub, I filter it.

The alternative is to stop looking for new/interesting subs, and I’d rather not do that.
Agree. I would take this imperative a step further: There needs to be a technology bill of rights, in all countries, to serve everyone from the retired doctor in the article to the HN user who suffers an AI lockout.
Why Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm wants to de-glorify startups
Why would you ever need to prove this kind of transactions to the tax man as an individual?

As a business it’s your duty to take care of your recordkeeping, print out the invoices if you so prefer.
EU and US agree ‘in principle’ on sharing data across The Atlantic
The difference is that in 12-hour system, the rollover point is ambiguous and non-intuitive (11 PM -> 12 AM -> 1 AM), while in 24-hour one it's perfectly clear and obvious.
Eh, I only said that because I didn't grow up in the US, and had to learn American ways to live and work here. America's a huge part of the world economy and international business, so you're probably going to run into one at some point (sorry, Earth).

But the US isn't the only place with different practices.

China has no time zones. New Zealand's Chatham Island has a 45 min time zone, as in UTC+12:45. Some institutions use lunar or cultural calendars instead of Gregorian time. Some don't use Arabic numerals outside of Western collaboration.

Time aside, the US, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Philippines, and a few other places use letter-sized instead of A4 paper. Phone number formats are different everywhere. The time and decimal separators are different in many places. Time and timeliness (as in how important it is to start and end on time) differs by culture. Preference for information density vs simplifying cognitive load (in the UX sense) differs between languages and cultures. Red is a warning in some cultures and good luck in others. Not all colors are even distinguishable between cultures. Do you act casual, or formal? Keep your distance or offer a touch? Right hand, left hand? Is pointing OK? How long should you maintain eye contact? First names, last names? Many cultural systems don't identify people like that. Nodding isn't a universal gesture. Do you do a haka before events? What about a ritual blessing before a competition? There are SO many differences to consider in an international context.

Big companies have entire departments working on this stuff, not because they are ludicrously US-centric, but because it's so different everywhere.

I only mentioned the US vs Europe differences because that's what the OP asked for. Shrug. I'm not shilling for the American ways, just describing them. I wish we went metric decades ago, because it's a far superior system.

But the thing about standards: everyone has their own.
> As an aside, poolside.fm, in addition to being a cool project, also imitates a past that never was[1].

Very much so. It even looks like a 90s movie OS (e.g. like the mash-ups on the computers in Office Space, familiar but from nowhere).
Rachel Dolazal.

The overarching phenomenon is ‘dominant privilege’. In a gender studies program certain people have privilege. In Japan certain people have privilege, within a ghetto certain people have privilege, within Fortune 500s certain people have privilege.

However people mainly focus on certain dominant groups in select socio economic areas of the US. But this phenomenon is found everywhere.
Great for Business offering Phones to employees as well. Bundling Apple Care+, iPhone, iCloud.
You can't really go wrong with Marcella Hazan's books. She was an evangelist for traditional Italian recipes and methods in the US starting in the 1970s much the same way Julia Child was with French cuisine. Her marvelously simple tomato/onion/butter sauce is revelatory.
I think it makes sense to ask for accomodations if you have a disability, but this movement is nothing like that. I've seen it with my own eyes.
Underage, autistic, first offender, no real damage to claim? Sounds like a referral order.
>I'm currently trying to rebuild a critical PC as it freezes up all the time. Debugging the issue is a nightmare.

This shouldn't be a statement any IT staffer can utter

There should never be such a thing as "a critical PC" - single points of failure are an IT 101 no-no

"freezes up all the time" indicates an application issue 99% of the time, not an OS issue

"Debugging the issue is a nightmare": what are you doing to troubleshoot the issue? How are you isolating the problem(s)? Odds are exceptionally good that it's not a root cause analysis, but a root causes analysis. What logs are you checking? What is going on when it dies?
(2017)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998213
Dude has Parkinson's. Lots of older people also have serious vision problems. (and as much we stare at screens all day we should respect the hell out of this issue)

Also lots of old people have arthritis.

Tell me next how people asking for accessibility options are a pain in your ass.
Apple can go ahead and burn the planet for this and the apple demographic will still go for it at a kidney and a lung
I hope when you become an elder the next generation shows you the respect you are currently lacking.
Age is literally just a fact AND people try to identify as different ages all the time, but the race question is interesting.

It seems to me the ultimate goal should be to greatly minimize the differences between sexes and races (drop the traditional, ignorant differentiations we’ve created) and then the urge to identify differently to your physical expression may subside.
And who knows how long will it take to finalize it.
Typically, its from "8:00 AM" to "4:00 PM".

In swahili time, i would say "its from hour 2 in the morning to hour 10 in the everning.
"people are saying hello to me and I don't like it"
The REPL experience in Lisp stems from how Lisp works; notebooks on top of Python don't remove Python's fundamental limitations. You can put a better interface on top of Python and it will still have Python's limitations, such as the necessity to create new instances if you redefine a class as opposed to old instances adapting to redefined structure and behavior.
It has more to it than just being a cultural artifact. I think it’s fascinating that ancient cultures preferred a duodecimal system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock
I hope that when I become an elder I will keep up with the progress of the world so I don't become a burden to others.
Venture capitalists pass on board seats to secure deals in hot crypto start ups
Or living in a rural area with crappy Internet. I've installed wireless Internet in places where the people are wealthy but could only get a crappy DSL line. An Internet connected app, web or native, was a pain in the butt to use.

Mobile users can have problems too. I still come across dead zones in network coverage that render some apps useless and I'm not even outside of town.
> That's an optional feature (that I do not use),

It doesn't matter. Everyone you chat with uses it because it's on by default, so all of the iMessages you send and receive are backed up in effectively plaintext to Apple (who turns them over to third parties).

> But none of that is a backdoor in the encryption of iMessage and you do the whole space a real disservice by conflating them.

Unencrypted (or encrypted to the ZK middle service, in this case Apple, being the operator of both iMessage and iCloud Backup) key escrow of end-device secret key material in a system that is advertised as end-to-end encrypted is indeed a backdoor in the end-to-end encryption of that system, as now the secret keys don't exist just on the endpoints - the transit service in the middle has a copy of them, allowing message decryption on a non-endpoint as they transit the middle service.

That is definitionally not end-to-end encrypted. It's end-to-middle-and-end encrypted if the middle device has a usable copy the endpoint secret keys, which Apple does.
I don't think any English speaking person, in whatever variant, would use that expression.

What "half negen" means is easier to remember when you contrast "half" to "vol"/"heel" -> half nine is not full nine yet.

To be clear, nobody uses "vol negen" or "heel negen", it's just "negen (uur)".
PDF is an awfully complex format with all kinds of added bells and whistles and dynamic features, a low level of strict adherence to its spec by existing documents, and fun facts like the character encoding of textual content depending on the font used. It’s a world of pain on its own, not much better than the web, except for being less of a moving target.
Or just follow the clinical guidelines and associated updates. They're there for this exact reason, to make sure every doctor uses up-to-date methods. No need for sales reps in this case.
I might be wrong, but I am pretty sure that he is the only person to ever interview Burial [1]. Another person he was very interested in, and was certainly right about in terms of their artistic merit is Leyland Kirby aka The Caretaker, who in a very different way manifests Fisher's ideas about hauntology [2].

1. https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/burial_unedi...

2. https://archive.org/details/wire-304-caretaker
these rules will only apply to platforms with a market cap of over €75 billion or European Economic Area turnover of over €7.5 billion (https://www.politico.eu/article/eus-digital-markets-act-adop...)

I don’t think he has he ambition to even get half-way there, and if he ever gets there, I expect he’ll be able to pay others to worry about that.
It's not just old people with this problem. Many younger people who've been victims of online fraud, and now have trouble with online accounts, fall into the same category.
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i love that diagram! I enjoy cooking just enough to do it but not enough to want to do it. In the consulting world what we call "solution architects", i know it's very weird jargon, would make very good cooks IMO. It's all about scheduling, resource allocation, and following procedure.
What a truly bizarre response. You are aware that these “other parties” you speak of are neither tolerant nor liberal in any genuine sense I hope. Perhaps the reason conservatism has been over represented these past 20 years is again, by design. The popular “left” politics in America are a farce and completely immaterial. They are merely a lacquer over the same underlying core values that drive all politics in the country. Just running off of recent memory: the opportunity to codify reproductive rights with federal legislation has been present since the docket for SCOTUS was announced nearly a year ago but completely ignored, the party has allowed itself to be held hostage by at least two of its own at the risk of not passing much needed laws to bend the curve of climate change, we have been put on a path toward nuclear war (the last two atom bomb were also dropped by dems, so go figure), the party continues to endorse placing migrant children in cages at the border, drops bombs on Yemen and Syria killing innocent civilians in the process, allows Guantanamo to stay open, and refuses to pass any kind of legislation to bring wealth inequality under control. None of this is tolerant nor does it represent changing in any way, unless you consider change to mean killing innocent people for no good reason. Allow me to quote the current sitting president, said to a group of campaign donors during the lead-up to the election: “Nothing will fundamentally change.” And, you will be surprised to find out, nothing has fundamentally changed.
The page just keeps crashing on Safari.
It seems like this is an attempt to destroy the whole idea of a curated platform, though.

iMessage's advantages are a feature of the Apple ecosystem. WANTING it to interoperate with Facebook or whatever is one thing, but legally REQUIRING it seems to me to be very, very dangerous.
At least they didn't make the copyright mistakes this time. Perhaps it would be better if this version of Vanced stayed difficult to install to avoid spreading it too wide.
>but hate speech (in the form of blatant transphobia)

I really hope you Red Army wannabes one day get what you deserve. You think you are the defender of the weak but you openly threaten someone's livelihood because one doesn't follow the new liberal gospel.

It's a shame ESR can't say whatever he wants because he's genuinely afraid.

And regarding "transphobia" lol. lmao.
I disagree. Believing the 90s were more free speech and ignoring the context of that era is the toxic, history-ignoring attitude. That's not to say we don't have problems currently, but it is better than it was in the 90s, overall.
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The ROM-based toolbox would not support more than one program running at a time. It was an odd limitation that a Unix could run only a single Mac application at a time.

> Which led to Copland, which didn't work out, and so led to the NeXT acquisition.

I remember the brief life of MkLinux. It brought a number of PoweMacs we had stacked in corners back to life as Unix workstations on sysadmin and developer desks (in 1998 or so).
I suspect the border between cute and sickening is an important pychological attribute that explains vast variations in human behavior.
You really don't need to be anywhere close to mega-scale to benefit from SSH certificates and integrated authentication flows, though. Even at the scale of "only" 10 people with SSH access, the whole system can be massively simplified and made more secure by integrating centralized logins, and SSH certificates are rather perfect for this.

I implemented my own SSH certificate authority myself more or less, and while it's overkill for my own homelab-level stuff, I absolutely would never use anything else once I have more than like, 5 people logging into some set of machines. The benefits of centralized SSH access control that you can freely integrate (and pretty easily too, thanks to OpenSSH!) with your existing identity provider is really nice.
I'm pretty sure Signal wouldn't be subject to this. I think it's only for companies over 75 billion euro[1] market capitalization.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994234/eu-antitrust-leg...
They do pay a fee to the commons for removing it; it's called sales tax. They are also doing something productive with it, by living on it and using it.

If we are to keep trespassing laws, there must be ways to own land permanently and without further cost. There must be a way for man to survive without participating in government enforced labour. All land is owned by some entity; he can't live in the woods owned by the government or someone else; even after buying land and being entirely self sufficient, he cannot simply live, but must pay the government in their currency which he can only get through participating in the labor economy. There is literally no legal way to live freely by your own means. This is a form of slavery that the ancients would find absolutely intolerable.

Increase the price of land or the sales tax, limit the ownership a single person can have, levy inheritance tax, but an indefinite land tax is inhumane.
It makes sense if you take in account that you're packaging the whole stack in a container. It's the same than when you make 'golden images' for a VM with Packer or whatever tool is available: you end up with a platform specific image.

But you aren't far fetched at all with that idea you have, and can be done using a Docker multi-stage build: You build all your application with whatever platform you have (either locally or for CI), and then you import your application layer from an ARM64 image in one side, and from and AMD64 in the other.

We aren't still very used to multi-platform development environments, so the tooling isn't still perfect (at all).
50 years from now, complete paralysis will be no excuse for not having a job. /s
37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home
First time I wrote something of "substance" in PHP (and it was only "substantive" in that it was a couple hundred lines long instead of a handful of individual calls in a web page), my supervisor told me, "I see you're a C programmer."

All because I used strtok() instead of explode().

The language you start with will affect your thinking for a very very long time :)
The boot sector is only 512 bytes, but if you're using Asm that's actually more than enough for some nontrivial functionality. Here's a few of many examples of "what fits in a boot sector" that has appeared on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21951241

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20569438

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25531677
not a native speaker here but you could say "Two PM sharp"
StandardML vs go is a great illustration.

StandardML is just as fast, is more simple to learn with more simple syntax and basically zero gotchas, has more powerful syntax, has an actually sound type system (which has better generics than the ones proposed in go), does a better job at defining public functionality (via modules), has a better CST model, and many other great features.

The only area where it loses is standard libraries and marketing. Google invested millions into these two things, so people use their decidedly inferior language.

You'll find that pretty much every big language has a big company behind it that threw tons of money at its development.
Well, problem number one is that you're trying to do volume of butter instead of weight. All the sticks are by weight, so even though they're marked with tbsp on the side (8), the stick is a quarter lb (4oz). So the notional volume is 4 fl oz, and the weight is 4 oz, but the density is not equal to water.

The other problem is that density of things can vary wildly. Flour can be 30% different in density depending on how you scoop it ( scoop it into the measuring cup vs scooping with the measuring cup).

And of course problem number three is not converting your measurements before you start cooking, just like it's a problem not to mise-en-place your ingredients first. (If you mise-en-place, you've probably got the correct measures of ingredients already).
What did Google expect? If they take this one down another will appear to take its place, and so on.
> In Gnome, from the lock screen, I simply start typing my password. As soon as I type the first letter of the password, the password prompt appears, and when I'm done I hit enter and it unlocks.

Congratulations! You were able to recognize that it's a _login screen_ without seeing that there's a hidden password field.

The first time I booted to Gnome I waited damn near ten minutes for it to tell me it's ready for my login before I decided to start typing things to see if it was stuck.

It's _not_ intuitive.
I'm confused: your Hacker News blurb says you're the head of a UK based company. Where are you getting your direct experience from?

This is going to sound more aggressive than it is but it doesn't look like you're qualified to be declaring these kinds of facts on the realities faced by EU businesses.

I'm still working at one of the two companies I mentioned, in Denmark. It's a very real problem for us right now. And I think you're understating the effort required to launch a competitive cloud, especially given the regulatory hurdles of the EU.
Yes, but both were full computers running independently from the host. Sadly, the Apple // emulation card prevent my Color Classic from connecting to the network at home.
To clarify, I was responding to the "should go away" part.
Marketing strategy made me happier
> I'm sorry, but 2013 is not 'ahead of the curve' - the problems with what was later called "woke" ideology were obvious to those who were paying attention, already in the late 2000s when that ideological memeplex first spread online via the likes of Tumblr. Still, better late than never I guess.

Talking about it when it was still "very online" is being ahead of the curve. You don't have to be one of the first to be ahead.