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First sale doctrine is an example of the law taking away people’s property. Without it, sellers would (and did) claim to still own something (the device, copyright, and patent license have all been litigated) after selling it to someone else.

Ending support for software on a network connected device is practically equivalent to revoking the license to the software that came with the device — it renders the device unfit for purpose.

Requiring manufacturers to support everything forever is probably infeasible/uneconomical.

There are precedents for using source code escrow to protect investors / purchasers in situations where companies become insolvent. Those same mechanisms could be used to protect consumers from phone manufacturers that decide to drop device support.

Mandating FOSS licensing once the escrow agreement seems practical.

Can you have a better legislative solution for ensuring phone operating systems are maintained in perpetuity?
This is an extremely long-winded article/blog to say the following

> the policy choices available to them impact the user experience of fraudsters and legitimate users alike. They want to choose policies which balance the tradeoff of lowering fraud against the ease for legitimate users to transact.

You encounter well known tension pattern several places. For instance, in safety critical systems there's a tension between safety and progress. Or take IT-sec industry; tension between usability and being secure.
Are there any examples? These drugs are very dangerous and addictive but that doesn’t mean nobody anywhere has ever had a positive long term outcome from trying them. It just means that statistically a negative outcome is a lot more likely. There are always a few outliers.
Spooky Geology
I do not recall having to get EV certs for PCI. Our auditors were always fine with the Geotrust/Digicert DV certs. Is this part of the 4.x spec? Can you link to the requirement for EV certs?
This resonates with me. Every bit of unhappiness I've felt in my career so far has been caused by one or more bad managers. The main issue for me has been the final point about "Imposed artificial limitations" - I cannot count the number of times that I've been forced to use an inefficient tool or do something in a sub-optimal or downright incorrect way (knowing that it would have to be re-written later) by a bad manager... In some companies, it was a daily occurrence; that's why I never stayed at a single company for longer than 2 years. It's almost impossible to find a company that lets me implement things correctly.

Thankfully, nobody could constrain me in my open source work. I (with the help of community members) built:

- SocketCluster (https://socketcluster.io/): A distributed pub/sub framework.

- Capitalisk (https://capitalisk.com/): A lightweight quantum-resistant blockchain which is less than 5K lines of code.

- LDEX (https://ldex.trading/): A deterministic decentralized exchange (DEX) which can work with many different blockchain protocols. It's less than 4K lines of code in total and only has 3 small third-party dependencies (including sub-dependencies).
Also it may not have been him, I’m leaning towards Radagast, personally.
It has served me well for years. Their home page is:

https://sqlitebrowser.org/
Um. HarmonyOS is literally just Android. It’s not even remotely new. There’s even. Android/Google copyright notices left in it.
What do you find inaccessible about it?

You don't need to do anything terribly advanced to "win": you do pretty well for yourself by plonking down two airports and just shuttling passengers between them, or building rudimentary two-stop bus service in the largest towns. More advanced items are available if you really want them, and there's no penalty for experimenting.

The interface is from the 90s, so the paradigm can take some adapting to. Generally, hover over things for an explanatory tooltip, and holding down buttons will reveal additional options in the toolbar. Otherwise, reading the fine manual will tell you how to accomplish things like moving the viewport.

I have played hundreds if not thousands of hours and stopped paying attention to my scores ages ago. Generally I start a game by running a passenger service to build a profitable platform, and then go off and do something like "connect every forest on the map to a single sawmill". The challenge is really what you set for yourself (not least of all because the AI is pretty dumb).
I'm in. Just DMed the UD twitter account to get an invite into the slack group.
$200k sounds like a minuscule amount of capital for a business with hundreds of $40-50k vehicles on hand.
Have you tried asking for more? If you're actually good at everything you say, you could be making the same amount of cash plus benefits at a FANG, so I'd expect the contracting rate to be much higher.
What the Open App Markets Act Means for the Future of Big Tech
Open Source Social Media Management Tools
They appear in a lot of stories, so obviously they were well known all over Europe at the time.

Maybe they lived among people, who knows?
> is it the external guidance during the experience that really makes the difference?

That's what psychiatrists using psycho active drugs say: without proper stage setting and guidance, the experience can be terrifying and traumatic in itself. Remember, not everybody has good trips, especially not people dealing with depression and trauma.
Embracing Hypocrisy
Performance Benefits of Using Huge Pages for Code
Is this just a blog-post-long Umeshism?
> The N900 had a resistive touchscreen, the Droid was capacitative.

N900 touchscreen was great. Not only was it perfectly readable in direct sunlight, it was also much more accurate than capacitive screens and not anywhere close to cheap resistive screens' clunkiness people usually imagine when hearing the term. The only issue I had with it was that they tend to develop issues after years of use, so my Nokia N900 does some very annoying ghosting these days.
I don’t know if that statement is backed by the article, which I will admit to not having read, but in general I agree. Completely eradicating benefit fraud will necessarily increase the burden on legitimate claimants to prove that they are in fact legitimate. Doing that is going to place enough burden on some people who should otherwise be able to claim that it results in them not doing so, or failing to do so because they were unable to provide the required evidence.

I’d much rather see a few people who didn’t need benefits manage to claim them than see people who do need them be left without. The first option costs tax payers a bit more money. The second results in people’s lives being made significantly worse, and in some cases in deaths.
"That time forgot".
One of the limitations I run into with OSM-based route finders is the lack of data for truck limitations - at least in my country. The data model supports it, the routing engines support it, the government has publicly available information about it, but somehow connecting both datasets has been eluding contributors for more than a decade now.
Almost everyone in the DOS world built their own little GUI toolkit, implementing exactly as much was needed for each app. That was part of the charm IMO. We had a Cambrian explosion of graphical and interaction styles. Then things got gray, uniform and boring with Windows 3.1/95, and then fun again with the early web. I'm looking forward to the next fun UI style period - perhaps it will start with AR.

The GUI "toolkit" used by that CTF game (1993) looks like it was partially "inspired" by Borland's OWL for Windows 3.x (1991).

Comparison:

CTF Game: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Captu...

Borland OWL: https://sourceforge.net/p/owlnext/wiki/Replacing_usage_of_BW...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32692927
Agree, the people pushing the line that it makes little or no difference are the ones who swallow the line that it's cheaper to generate electricity from wind than fossil. Subsidies distort the economics and the press selectively represents the case because of the "net zero" religion, as it's become. The technology doesn't exist yet, but lemmmings want to lead us off a cliff in order to "be on the right side of history."
Don't get me wrong, I wish it were that case that we could abandon all our environmentally destructive ways, but imo, there has been a distinct lack of second order thinking when it comes to energy policy, certainly in the UK, and don't get me started on Germany. France, at least, have had successive governments who appear to care more about their citizens' wellbeing than shareholders and asset strippers.
Exactly. The optimum amount of fraud is really zero. But in order to achieve last 0.00001% you may end up screwing up experience for about 99% of your customers by asking them to 10-factor auth and what not.
Hum... I disagree on many. More directly:

> under-performing colleague - why not fired already ? Management

Everybody underperforms once in a while. With enough coworkers, there are always a few on that bracket, even if no one is incompetent.

> Feel inadequate with work - picking wrong ppl to do the job

You are the one that controls how you feel and what jobs you accept. Are you complaining that management hired somebody for doing a job that they need done?

But indirectly, a lot of times management causes those issues by adequately responding to market needs. The world sucks, and while managers do create a lot of problems by themselves, they didn't create them all.
Yes, we should not accept the existence of fraud. We should simply be able to recognize the situations where fighting fraud is more costly than letting it exist.
Not that it really matters in most places since we are quite far from that point anyways.
As a former Nokia/HERE employee, I agree. A really interesting read!

It is a book originally written in Finnish by two journalists who start out with the question of whether Elop was placed at Nokia with the goal of "handing over" the phone business to MS. Their final answer is "no": it is unlikely that this was the case, according to their research. Most decisions that were taken were rational and explainable, many of them risky but adequate given the desperate situation ...

I was not at the company at the time of the memo, having joined in 2012. I do remember the morning when every employee at Nokia got an SMS on their phone saying that the phone business was sold to Microsoft. I was part of the maps division that was later sold to a consortium of German, an event that was way less spectacular ...
I now read "review bombing" as "I don't like the opinions of fans."
I have tried to summarize my advice as a mid career person who switched to programming. iOS. Rick has done so more perfectly than I have ever been able to. I highly endorse his comments here.
How is it that efficiency is never discussed in public? Is it obvious that 'scarcity' fear words are played quickly, when talking to investors?

check the writings from Rocky Mountain Institute / Amory Lovins for less scary, more quantitative view on energy and the economy.
>>Considering he thought Bitcoin block space was too scarce, and now not scarce enough,

He never said that. He said there isn't enough fee revenue. Fee revenue can increase as blockchain space becomes less scarce, and more bytes are sold to transaction generators.

>>that depends on something like Bitcoin’s UASF and thus on people running their own nodes, I wouldn’t trust his predictions much

An Ethereum based UASF by no means requires every one running their own nodes. It just requires people recognizing - via either an upgrade to their own node, or choosing a third party node that has upgraded to pull data from - the chain that slashes the coins of those who are executing 51% attacks.
You could also use this reasoning to say that the optimal number of rapes is greater than zero.

I would disagree with the world “optimal”. The optimal number of fraud and rapes is both zero, but unfortunately we don’t really have the realistic ability to achieve that.
Among other things, UBS probably didn't let the seller (Wealthfront) totally dictate the terms of the deal. (The convertible note that they bought might have been the fee for a much more liberal termination clause than the one in the Musk/Twitter deal.)
I suspect you are making a snide comment, but it is an interesting idea to roll around. The big difference I see is that people aren't forced to measure things in crypto. Your local tax office will get antsy if you don't trade in your local currency. If the local tax office required things to be measured vs "crypto" then the rate of new cryptocurrencies being created would become a very important measure indeed (although they aren't going to do that - they'd pick a specific blockchain to reference).

People already measure the amount of crypto that is registered in a block chain which effectively is counting the money supply. It is an interesting metric.

As an aside, take note that the value of something like Bitcoin is actually proving quite stable so far. This last downward collapse hasn't even been a dire crash by its historic standards. Yet, anyway. We haven't seen any signs of an implosion that would be comparable to the hyperinflation death spirals in fiat.
Well, the EM environment would be a CPU die on a motherboard full of gigahertz chips, it means this EM environment has been so much "improved" they can double the speed?? I am really curious at how they choose to limit the speed of USB lanes, that said I really don't like that as this smells "don't go too fast or we won't be able to sell USB controllers with really faster lanes". I would understand if one of the major limiting elements is the controller silicium process (2nm/5nm/etc).
18 hours is a fantastic selling point for me. I am willing to wait a couple of days for something that I bought. Beyond that, I'd rather just go out and buy it.
> How does HN deal with team members who have trouble slowing down and communicating their thoughts well?

At my work we have these "catch up" meetings where theres no agenda, time limits or minutes for our meetings. Every one in the team puts down tools and we take turns ranting about what ever is on our mind at that point, after 2-3 hours the meeting is over and we all go back to work with less time or understanding.
I’m not sure if I qualify as generalist, but this should still be relevant:

It depends. Did I go through an agency, or find the client myself? Do they need _me_ or a butt in a seat? Will the work be fun, or awful, or is there any on-call expectation (which is worse than awful and probably a hard no)? Discounts for bulk and prepayment.

Also, hourly rates are the worst. Value pricing is a hard leap; a much easier thing you can do today is at least bump to a flat day rate, or a weekly one of the shape of your clients makes it seamless. Just do it; it’ll make you a happier, saner person and immediately mitigate a terrible incentive misalignment.
I don't know about doing it on your own, but you could certainly join a consulting firm and do that role alongside a team of more junior people.
The market's only thought about the OS is what features it supports. And lots of them are provided by 3rd party apps. Lots of people switch from Android to iPhone and back. People mostly just want to keep using their TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, ...

It's the app developers (and their companies) who wouldn't be happy with a third option, because the existing two cause enough problems, just think about how many frameworks for cross-platform app development exist, they were created for a reason..., and even with them you still have to do OS-specific stuff to tackle different app store policies, different privacy features, updated APIs breaking your app on new OS versions... or you can have two entirely separate teams working on two separate codebases and try to keep the feature parity...
How though? Did his private key get compromised? There’s literally no details disclosed.
The conclusion/title talks about fraud without any context, which is the misleading thing here. What he means to say is that we have to accept to not fight some fraud because it would be too expensive. The most expensive option perhaps being to not run a business at all, eliminating both fraud and proper sales.
Indeed, the process of how software is developed by a large team is different from how it is done by a small team, which in turn is also different from the workflow followed by an individual developer. The larger the team, the more indispensable the tools integration becomes (speaking as a user of Microsoft Teams/Azure DevOps).
I was totally struck by the sexual abuse perpetrated by therapists within research studies that this article talks about. It belies a need for much more careful scrutiny of the whole research enterprise, if you ask me.

I can't believe someone who wants to help someone else (and, by the way, try to demonstrate the power of psychedelics that they no-doubt believe in) would jeopardize the whole enterprise that way.

Why has nobody in this thread commented on that?
If that's net after pension and everything it's not really that surprising. In Finland for example the employee pension rate is 25% of gross. Then tax and employer insurance on top of that and you're left with about half of the total paid sum. Of course, as independent contractor you can set your own pension rate as low as you want but that's a different debate.
I had this realization this as well when the multitudes of “I make six figures at Faang Company and turned down fifteen offers” type videos started cropping up on YouTube. In these videos, money serves as a social signal, and it works very well as people love talking and thinking about money and due to all of life’s problems that can be “bought” out of. But the thing is, these videos are now commonplace. Being a six figure engineer, while still an achievement, is not a uncommon phenomenon.

However, when examined with a level head and long term thinking, the set of things money can buy is much much much smaller than where it is useless.

It is in this vast domain that the only currency is knowledge, the only value in truth, the only investment in discovery.
The first time I heard one of those “I can also” lines, I lost interest in ever purchasing an Alexa or frankly any Amazon home product.

Shame the amount of engineering effort that went into that system, only for it to be destroyed by absurd business strategy. I’m sure a couple PMs got a “level 2 to level 3” promotion out of it or something.
Well if you already execute an application server like Apache, you should handle auth&z in there. Would be stupid to let PHP deal with it. Or would you handle the TLS termination as well in the PHP script? Well just like that. Perhaps the mistake was to do it otherwise.
Rick Wolter seems to be quite balanced. Read the last paragraph "Life’s Not Fair".

Problem is that some people read his story and thinks. "Oh, so teaching felons programming is a great way to reduce recidivism".

This kind of be-all-end-all solution always fails. Some years ago journalists in the US loved to tell coal miners that they should "learn to code" when the mines shut down due to Washington politics. How hard could it be?

When media corporations started laying off journalists in droves a few years later, the journalists did not find "Learn to code" suggestions useful or even funny.

A more general solution to reduce recidivism should probably consist of two initiatives:

1) Educate felons when they're in prison. It doesn't have to be programming. It can be a craft, something academic, programming (if they feel like it) or some other skill. Whatever.

2) Reform the prison system, so inmates are treated as humans. E.g. with private corporations running prisons in the US, they have a strong motivation to create "recurring guests". Contrast this with e.g. prisons in Scandinavia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IepJqxRCZY) that have the lowest rates of recidivism.

We know how to reduce recidivism. It is not an easy "learn to code" exercise. But are the US willing to make the changes necessary to create meaningful impact on the rates of recidivism - or shall we continue to be fed "pull yourself up by the bootstraps! We found one guy who did it, and so can you!" stories?
About 100 dollars/hour, depending on the client

I’m “full stack”, also experienced with C++ and various other stuff
Simple number puzzle that makes you add, substract and multiply
“Pinocchio” looks like something that should be on an Italian restaurant menu. I’d bet a majority of Americans would guess it came from Italy
Game time typically around 5 minutes. Every day a new number puzzle is released.
I think you mean the G1 if you’re talking about having a phone prior to when iOS 3 launched.

The thing is that lots of phones had a lot of the iPhone features before the iPhone came out. Heck, a Symbian S90 or UIQ device would have had more features on paper than both early iOS and Android.

That’s not what made it unique, and I didn’t really get that till I switched to the iPhone 3G. It’s never been Apple’s MO to just be features on a spec sheet.

At the time smartphones were for business people or techies. A ton of buttons and various attempts to hide them (slide out, flip out, etc…) and various attempts to become media devices (ngage).

The iPhone (the OG and the 3G) changed all that by being simple. It introduced an easy way to get apps, a giant screen with which to consume content and most importantly, it introduced multitouch+capacitive touch to the masses. It wasn’t the first at any of those but it was the first to put everything in such a streamlined package and pair it with a decent screen.

What they did was redefine who smartphones were for. It went from business people and techies to normies in the blink of an eye.

There were all screen devices before them (the LG prada) , more feature full phones like the Symbian, Blackberry, Windows CE and Android devices. iPhone killed off all of those that couldn’t get in line with the path it built.

I used to be a die hard Android guy, but they really only took off in mass appeal much later. Maybe it was because Symbian and Blackberry devices were dying , but it also coincided with Android offerings simplifying like the iPhone and focusing on streamlined experiences.
Perhaps you can tell us how it was different?
Most of planet earth used to be under UK rule
I hope you are right, but nothing in recent history would suggest you you.
When I worked Starbucks retail, we were subject to a "just say yes" policy. So when a couple came in and said they had forgotten some item, or never received it earlier in the day, I gave one to them without hesitation. It helped that I also recognized them as repeat customers. A co-worker said "you just got scammed" with disapproval. And I explained that I probably did, but we were required to do it even if we didn't want to. Otherwise we risked pissing off honest customers. Or maybe it just made more sense to spend the time serving the next 2 customers faster instead of being suspicious with 1 customer.

Later on, though, I remember pissing one off when he had to wait in line behind people buying drinks and he declared he would not be buying the $300 espresso machine he had come in to buy. I wonder if my actions resulted in a net gain or loss to the store...
You have to wonder why the government would sponsor this...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/09/dreamac...

The musician behind it is called Jon Hopkins, and has an album called Singularity. Ray Kurzweil anyone?

> How do you feel about robots taking over? "I’m a massive catastrophist by nature."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/29/jon-hopkins-ps...
> I went from paying $500 a month to paying $1500 a month.

Where were you paying $500 for rent?