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Back in the PC days I posed the question: What if Apple sold its computers with options for the OS, e.g., [ ] Apple-provided [ ] User-provided. In other words, what if one could buy just the Apple hardware, without a pre-installed OS. I used to run NetBSD on the Mac. I did not care about getting 100% support for every feature of the hardware, I just wanted a working computer. It is funny because today iOS is the mandatory Apple-installed OS and it borrows heavily from BSD. The old AirPort Extreme even ran a NetBSD 6.1 kernel. If there is line somewhere between "convenience", e.g., supply of a pre-installed OS, and "loss of meaningful ownership", e.g., ceding control to a seller even after purchase, it seems to me that Apple is way over that line on the side of denying meaningful ownership. If iOS is truly valuable, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, then sell it separately and let purchasers decide if and when to purchase, install or uninstall it. If the buyer does not want to use iOS then why should they have to pay for it. This question, as boring as it is, still triggers HN commenters, so there is obviously something coveted about the obligatory bundling of consumer hardware with proprietary OS, in spite of all the non-proprietary options.
Yep. I fell in the trap of using repeat passwords because I was lazy. One of them leaked and someone overseas started using my personal Plex server. I setup LassPass the next day and changed everything to unique strong passwords. LastPass is cross platform and the convenience is worth what the risk for personal use.
Of course this technique could be abused by a bad actor. That's true of literally everything in computing. Do you think we should ban encryption because bad people might encrypt stuff?

TFA describes a way to provide basic analytics in a way that completely respects the user's privacy. That's a good thing.
The population China didn’t have the choice where they were born.

With Apple, you have a choice, knowing fully the pros and cons of the ecosystem, whether to buy into it.

It’s not the same at all.
Fly.io's pricing seems fair. It's not amazingly cheap, but there aren't a lot of PaaS offerings out there and most are very expensive and have complicated pricing compared to Fly.io - even Digital Ocean's AppPlatform is more expensive.

I am curious about the freemium model for PaaS systems. I've always wondered what percent of compute ends up being free and if the paid prices have to be higher to subsidize the free tier. Would it be better for the paying customers if the service was 30% cheaper and there was no free tier? Of course, I might be incredibly far off on how much the free tier customers cost.

I think for people that think Fly.io is expensive, it just feels like what Fly.io does should be table stakes rather than a premium service in 2022 - and yet it's so hard to find! Heroku is 15 years old and Fly.io feels like the first platform I've used since that just gets it.

I would say that a collaboration between you and Neon (https://neon.tech/) would be pretty cool. While your site does link to Neon as a recommendation, Neon's datacenters often aren't that proximal to Fly.io's - Ohio isn't that close to Chicago, Virginia, or New Jersey. Maybe that'll get better in the future.

I'd always love it if Fly.io were cheaper, but more than that I'm glad that Fly.io seems to really get what customers need.
"The question is not whose values are correct but whether you can work in a situation where good work on your part will perpetuate values you don't believe in. If you leave, you'll be making the greatest possible contribution to your own well-being, and you just might help propagate your values."

Understanding The Professional Programmer, p19 - Gerald Weinberg
True, but many regulations have since been added to prevent all of these previous issues. While crypto is the same thing without the regulations, seemingly with the only purpose being to enable scams again.
Humans are too easy to manipulate for "change things from within." We try to please people subconsciously and it causes us to betray ourselves. Some people have grown beyond this vulnerability, but for many of us its permanent.
It doesn't hurt that he's greased a lot of palms and his family is well-connected. His mother runs a large secretive Democratic PAC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33681750
A publication that contradicts itself should be taken with a grain of salt.
The 'desperate' bit was not justified in the article, it looks more a conclusion the journalist jumped into TBH...
Agree, I think the solution here is to separate the app store from apple(the hardware manufacturer).

It would be a very clean split and would take away the onvious monopoly where a single company can control what users can or cannot use on their personal communication devices.

Furthermore apples monopoly is even more eggregious than microsofts in 2000 as back then microsoft did not own the PC hardware, imagine if microsoft did and told you what programs you could and couldn't put on your personal computer!
that's what happend to solarwinds, it out worked pretty well for the hackers there
I consider the author of the article to be “relatively new to software development” if this is their first time to have had an Enterprise company abandon years of their work and have their repo archived and/or deleted.
Same could be said for Nintendo or Sony, who assert the same control. Most of the money made is on games.
> assume they have no self-discipline

I can't say that every skinny person has a healthy relationship with food, but I can say that almost every overweight person does have an unhealthy relationship with food. Everyone is allowed to make their own choices, but if I smell liquor on your breath every morning, I'm going to assume you don't have a healthy relationship with alcohol. Same goes for food.

> I get the same sort of "helpful" suggestions

If someone is suffering from a cold and I tell them to "instead of going to work you could try taking the day off to sleep, it should help fight the cold virus", that's objectively true. If someone is suffering from depression and I tell them "try incorporating some exercise in your daily routing, it should help your mental and physical health", that's objectively true.

It feels like there's this viewpoint among many depressed folks where they want unconditional support from their friends/family, but only want the communication to go one way. It's incredibly difficult to support someone who is struggling with depression. If they offer suggestions, it's their way of trying to help because there's fuck all they can do outside of that.
Does this include temporary workers moving around under EU rules?
> password that's just "password1234"

it's even worse than that. The world's most common password is... password.
As a counterbalance, I bought that same one at Costco and hated it; I am much happier after switching to a Brother laser printer.

During the pandemic it was especially helpful for the kids' school work. I went through 3 or 4 ink cartridges (literally thousands of pages of printing), but the 3rd party cartridges worked fine and not expensive at all.
I generate the password and stored them in my password manager under the notes. 1Password added functionality seemingly recently to add security questions and generate a random word string that I use these days.
What's the alternative?

1. Have people manage their own secrets storage? Most people don't have the time or ability do this securely either. I'd rather pay someone else to secure infra, code, distribution, encryption, backups, etc. for me.

2. Reuse the same password on every site? One site gets hacked and now you're screwed.

3. Memorize a unique, long password for every site? Not feasible.

Third-party/commercial password managers are the best solution for most people, practically speaking.
Then what should folks do? The alternative is having to "run your own encryption" by running your own Password manager on your own infra or re-using passwords
I really wish they would support linux, or at least target WINE.
oh it was with buildx (which uses qemu) as GitHub Actions run in x64. I was showing a specific example of arm64 build tooling challenges small startups encounter (Github Actions lack of arm job runners in this case). My arm64 builds on arm64 architecture scream.
> I once spent all night making a cool lisp tutorial based on text anchors, then realized 80% of the world won’t see it since that’s the percentage of mobile traffic.

It's just a URL anchor syntax for when there's no applicable id attribute, you could recognize the syntax in Javascript and implement a "polyfill" on-page.
Didn't think of water quality. I'll have to see if I can test it. I live in Brooklyn in a superfund site so it'll be interesting to see.
Completely agree and that’s why I was so disappointed with the post. Instead of something insightful it was just a random rant from someone feeling miserable about their job.

It’s the biggest lie out there that self-fulfillment comes from working.
summary quotes:

> The issues we reported allow any attacker to access all data, including private posts, private messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages. This also includes private email addresses and phone numbers entered during login.

> Attackers can also overwrite data such as posts owned by other users
Have you ever tried to see if they'd let you bypass the question? I've wondered if saying "it's a bunch of gibberish" could work.
You don't need to send your kids to university if you think that all history faculty are propagandists. What I'm sick of is people shitting all over a community I love simply because they hate them and want to see them suffer. It is just visciousness coded in "think of the children" policy. No outcome is permissible except for people to be crushed under the boot.

You codify ignorance through force of law.

DeSantis and Trump are the same.

You might enjoy looking at the sibling post talking about how desegregation was actually bad. That's your ally here.
That’s an interesting perspective. Did GIMP get there first but just not patent the tech or it just makes it so that GIMP cannot replicate improvements?
... and was caught by Der Spiegel! From Wikipedia: "On 19 December 2018, Der Spiegel made public that Relotius had admitted that he had "falsified his articles on a grand scale", inventing facts, persons and quotations in at least 14 of his stories in Der Spiegel, an event now being referred to as Spiegelgate. The magazine uncovered the fraud after a co-author of one of Relotius's articles about a pro-Trump vigilante group in Arizona conducting patrols along the Mexico–United States border, the Spanish-born Spiegel journalist Juan Moreno, became suspicious of the veracity of Relotius's contributions and gathered evidence against him."
GIMP is not completely terrible. It was useful several times, and it at least works unlike some other graphics software.
Can you explain what the contradiction is?
Apple is too powerful if you need to visit Apple's HQ and kiss the king's ring to stay on their store.
He is too good to have to try.
Good call on using a CT scanner, who would ever have thought of opening the cartridge??
For the people who think bullying isn't a problem:

Replace "bullying" with: Parental neglect/abuse, unfair rejection/blame, or being backstabbed in a situation that you can't really do anything about it/no one will believe you. It gets at what the end-feeling is like. Bullying in its raw form seems acutely more harmful than say, parental abuse, which only manifests as "bullying" years later, but it's the same overall kind of pain, and I am amazed at how many people from broken situations who should easily understand have taken a hard stance, and missed the point on bullying. It's not the same as "getting one's ass kicked", because there is no productive lesson to be learned, it's more of a feeling of obvious rejection or being singled out in some way that hijacks the human evaluation system in a highly damaging way, that can stay with you for years - unfairly.

Worth solving: Of course, but who knows how? Any solution I've heard of ranges from dystopian to hellish.
If people are cynical in the face of positive change then that’s only because they have experience with previous examples of ‘positive change’ that turned out to not be positive after all.
Ask HN: Is there a hardest type of engineering or is it all easy?
Dear experts of HN: What would you say is the hardest type of (computer) engineering that is also in high demand?
18 Year Old Py RegEx Is Added to List of CVEs, Causes 1000s of Builds to Fail
He makes a good case.

Apple and Google have an oligarchy in mobile and Google has a monopoly in search.

The amount of self-dealing is overwhelming. Google consistently prefers their own experiences to those of other companies.

Apple does as well, in addition they lock out apps from the platform.

This is 100% an anti-competitive situation the fact there is no competition in a situation that should not otherwise have natural monopolies is the primary evidence of this.

I suggest that Google needs to be broken up and that it cannot defer search results to it's other lines of businesses.

Apple must not be able to compete with services offered in the App Store, or, the App Store needs to be a separate business.

Alternative app stores must be allowed on mobile platforms.

While I'm on the anti-trust bandwagon - the money that AWS pours into Amazon retail, and their subsequent tax advantages are a form of economic dumping. Amazon is washing through retail with 'tech money' putting a lot of competition out of business, after which they will raise prices. A strong argument could be made for breaking up AWS from Amazon Retail.

Finally, throw in some basic privacy rules and 'right to repair' etc. and then you have some semblance of basic governance.

That there is no discussion about this whatsoever tells you who has power.

Traditional media (even ostensibly Left Wing) outlets won't spend much time talking about it ... because money.

If a 'Great Leader' emerged and did those things, I think we would look back upon it as a 'total no brainer' in hindsight. Much like whenever we provide Ukraine some new gear after months of fretting about 'upsetting Putin', we never regret it at all, ergo the question begs asking: why not sooner?

This discussion needs to be had on a national scale, and though I'm generally not a huge fan of the EU, this is one area they could actually be useful.
We may as well get rid of HTTPS entirely with that logic! Someone might abuse it, after all...
>"I didn't take this decision lightly. Since becoming CEO, I have had the opportunity to spend time with Elasticians around the globe."

One bizarre side-effect of these layoff announcements is learning all the cringe-worthy names these companies have for their employees. Elasticicans? Tweeps? Stripes? I'm guessing this is a SV thing? Do these infantilizing names actually do anything to build company culture?
Don't some people run Linux on Mac hardware? How would your proposal change anything?
Honestly no, but I believe there is some research showing potential long term health benefits of avoiding low vitamin D. It's totally possible I'm wasting my money, but I'm happy with the potential benefit/cost ratio. I would gladly pay the price of some vitamins for even a small chance of avoiding significant health problems.
memorable symbols and the site name

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It’s seems more dangerous to be in doubt about your answers to security questions
So since all computers are Unix* or Windows, there's no competition? Ridiculous.
I love how the devs are all named after Dragon Ball Z villains.
I look angry while I work, because I typically am angry. Have you heard the things people say in meetings?
I've worked in education (as a teacher), and in edtech, trying to build such systems. I used to share some of your views and frustrations.

Your post brings 2 thoughts to my mind:

1) I disagree with your characterization of "our best online knowledge resource". I assume you're talking about Wikipedia, sure that's one way to characterize it (albeit not the most genuine IMO). But Wikipedia is a tiny part of the picture; we also have YouTube (with millions of creators from all cultures/languages/fields), Khan Academy, the Internet Archive, your local library, and countless other resources. That's the beauty of the internet: it's decentralized. No centralized service can fulfill every single knowledge need because knowledge gets formed when an individual has to integrate multiple sources of information and reconcile it with their experience of the world (sorry, fans of Young Lady's Illustrated Primer; it was always a literary illusion). Otherwise it's not much more than just regurgitating propaganda.

2) Ultimately, software doesn't really matter for education. What matters is that kids have a physically safe (heated/cooled, with access to food, clean restrooms, etc) facility, and are under the guidance of teachers who are in an environment conducive to quality teaching (eg classes of reasonable sizes, administrators that don't micromanage them, etc). I've seen this "we just need the right interactive software to fix education!" fallacy so many times amongst tech people. Sure, in the hands of competent teachers who have the above, tech & software can enhance learning. But it's not the fundamental piece. And many, many schools (in the US and in many "developed" countries) lack those fundamentals. If you want to "imagine where we could be as a civilization", that's where you have to improve things.

Sorry, I know "it's not about the tech, it's about the people and basic physical environment" is a terribly boring answer for a hacker. But spend some time teaching, or building fancy software that ultimately doesn't do much for student outcomes, and I suspect you will observe the same.
I think it is a fair description of the error.

"the well adjusted adults I know easily resolve issues without violence" does not mean that you should expect the same results for all adults, or for all children.
> Why bother when I can feel like that at home?

Well, the food is better, mostly.
The difference is that Facebook is in the market of mining your soul so whatever store they would create it would be targeted to that and the rules and policies will make sure that they are able to reach that goal.

Apple is in the business of selling phones and has decided that a good strategy for them is to protect the privacy of users against data miners. So their store and payment system by default protect users against practices of data collections.

> Having app stores compete for developers and users would be amazing for everyone except the current app store owners

It would be good for developers, not for users. I don’t think a single non-developer user is grasping for having multiple ways to download and install an app, and having to search for multiple stores with multiple payment systems to get one software. For users, the “iPhone” allows to download apps; none of them gives a thought to the fact that it happens via a single “store”.
Seems fair to me. First price hike in 12 years for new sign-ups to Pro and Business plans. Free plan is still pretty great:

"Finally, I wanted to mention that something isn't changing: our Free Plan. It will still be free. It will still have all the features it has today. And we're still committed to, over time, rolling many more features that are only available in paid plans today down to the Free Plan over time."

Cloudflare's usage-based products seem unaffected.

I'm curious what the pricing/negotiation trend has been with Enterprise customers.
Getting single core performance in league with multicore performance.
But think what else you could use a CT scanner for!

- how much medicine is left in your brown UV medicine bottles?

- where did that sock go in the washing?

- how many grains are really in your ammunition? ...

I'm looking to hang my CT scanner off the side of my apartment building as soon as I get committee approval.
Same should be said for Nintendo or Sony, who assert the same control. Most of the money made is on games.

Not saying you’re wrong or anything, if anything I agree, and think it should apply to all my hardware I buy.
No one is rejoicing that normal people in Latin America or Africa lost their savings because they were trying to hedge against inflation. At least no one I have noticed posting on HN.

That “canadian teachers pension fund,” however, is a $180 billion monstrosity that - in the process of losing a rounding error off their fund - legitimized a scam artist because they were too stupid to do a minimum of due diligence. They’ll make the money back in a fortnight off the safe investments they should have been putting money into in the first place while the little people who trusted FTX by proxy got fucked.

Crocodile tears for the speculators. That’s the story of finance.
Choosing between two evils is a choise?
blade-purge sounds like a good name for a metal band
Good lord, this keyboard design was horrendous. Everyone at the time tried to blame cruft and dust getting under the keys; the reality is that even the most meticulously clean users found keys double-activating after a few months of normal use. I worked in IT and my employer bought thousands of these models, and sure enough after maybe 6 months employees were coming to us desperate for a replacement... the 'guidance' we had to fix these things at the time was to blow compressed air 'gently' under the keys to clear any debris (which of course didn't help much, if at all). The newer M1 models don't really have this problem because they have the older "pre-butterfly" (think 2013 era) keys.
I think you’re right. Facebook usage is way down for people who aren’t tracking retirement costs and a lot of that is quick tasks like getting rid of baby stuff on the local parents group: not without value but hard to base a world-changing valuation on. Getting rid of the noise would have helped but I don’t think they could now get trust back without a new CEO who vocally breaks with the past, and that’s going to really hurt when the proposition is “you should trust us with everything you see and hear”.

I’m curious what Apple’s play will be. They better positioned with best-in-class mobile devices and that could allow starting small to avoid needing to justify a $1+k purchase — arguably we’ve already seen that with AirPod-style AR, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the first devices was something like a sports accessory allowing you to race your friends (or personal best) or do something like an adventure run, where you completely punt on the uncanny valley of realistic people and needing the virtual content to be compelling enough on its own rather than enhancing an existing experience. VR sets the bar a lot higher than AR and Apple wouldn’t need to keep you in for hours to sell ads.
I hate password managers. They sign you out way too often and god forbid you’re on another PC.
It's not unusual when the investigation has just started.
Thanks, that makes it a bit clearer.
Is there a db of these somewhere? What does IBM call its staff? Oracle?
> not reason to rejoice when thieves do scam people (including a canadian teachers pension funds' money)

I am strongly against using public resources to bail out folks who willfully sidestepped centuries of learned experience in financial regulation. Most financial fraud is privately pursued. SBF should go to jail. But beyond that, it's on the creditors to recover their assets.
It sounds like that was perhaps the path:

We were almost ready to be spun off.

Turning an internal tool (or what sounded like a customized process, for each internal team/group) into a portable product fit for a broader market can take considerable effort.
Reminds me very much of the John Corzine situation. If you are connected with the right set of politically influential and wealthy people, you are above the law.
What does the hacker news community think about Google Chrome's internal password manager?