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> I'm very concerned that the US government will set a precedent for regulating what apps citizens are allowed to use.

Totally different topic, but it was said the same about covid regulations, how we were becoming like China, how lockdowns were supposed to limit our freedom etc.

We're basically back to the same old, and our freedom is "back".

I believe that the US government for the first time is really challenged by something and they don't know how to regulate it, because it goes fundamentally against the doctrine of freedom of speech etc. "The West is now blocking apps?"

EU regulations are nice and all, but GDPR is so easy to break, and from time to time you pay the fine, all good. In the meantime, tons of data about your citizens go away. Can you ask for that data back? It's gone. That's why this is so hard to regulate. And the right to be forgotten, well, prove it...especially in the cloud, if the application servers are hosted in a cloud provider owned by or government-friendly.

As I mentioned in a previous post, scandals concerning EU/US is just pure political BS to sell newspapers. Even if there are regulations, it's "acceptable" if from time to time a company breaches that "trust". It can even be convenient up to a certain point (but I don't work in governments etc., this is just the way I see it).

EDIT: the only time they probably did something similar was against piracy/p2p/blocking emule and all that :) but we all know money moves mountains
Better get cozy because the explanation is probably a few weeks worth of discussion.
There's hope: My 12 year old son recently got his first phone. After seeing what's happened with his older sister (very bad), he steadfastly refuses to install any games or social media on it.

We'll see if he holds out...

It's extremely hard as a parent.

Younger adolescent girls are extremely vulnerable. But this stuff is very hard to lock down and manage. There are no good tools for managing it. The parental controls apps are leaky and crappy. Schools issue (and require!) devices, so even if you can lock your kids device, there's always alternate paths. And as a parent you are easily sidelined and ignored when you try to talk about it and bring up concerns.

Worst problems have been Tumblr and Pinterest, BTW, not Instagram. Both are full of eating disorder and self-harm content. Instagram is at least somewhat moderated. (Reddit and Twitter are also really bad, though less used by teens that I have seen.)
Do you think it's a strike against these points to call them unfalsifiable? They seem no more so than any claim of technological possibility, such as "nuclear fission is possible", "fission chain reactions are possible", "nuclear weapons are possible", "nuclear fusion is possible", "nuclear fusion can be made economical", etc. Unless a technology violates laws of physics it's very hard to prove through math or experiment that something can't be done.

But the AI safety groups don't just assume these without any justification. The existence of the human brain itself is either a proof and very strong launching point for most of these. In 1930, maybe you could have convinced someone that a nuclear bomb is impossible or at least an unfalsifiable worry, because one had never yet been built, but your reasoning is like trying to cast doubt on the possibility of artificial digestion, when there are already billions of stomachs roaming the earth.

The idea that a computer can't possibly be made to accomplish whatever a brain can is losing plausibility with every passing day. And as for surpassing it: a human brain is powerful, but has so many surmountable limitations, like: requiring 20 years of education to get up to speed with existing experts; dying after 70-90 years; not being able to run copies of oneself in parallel; etc. We only need to imagine removing these limitations, and doing so violates no known scientific principles.

It's like having a 50-megaton warhead in your lab, and meanwhile the rocket scientists are gradually figuring out how to make rockets fly, and you're saying "yes this is a big bomb, but the idea that one of these could be more dangerous if mounted on a missile is an unfalsifiable assumption!"
Why does Gen X get a pass? lol
The first sentence is infinitely quotable.
The problem is CAD is too broad a term here, and we are mostly sticking to "cad for designing physical stuff".

Sketchup is certainly used by professionals, it has a number of niches where it's super successful. Particularly architecture and interior design, it's well used for quickly visualising and translating plans. You would never you it for product design, as you said.

I think (maybe wrongly) most people in the thread will be thinking "3D Parametric Solid Modelling CAD for Product Design", such as SolidWorks or freeCad. Even if you build a "simple" app in that product category it will still have to tackle all the same hard problems in its kernel as a pro app. It maybe even needs to be more robust.
Or: "No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health"

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-....
No. My point is that $20B is nothing compared to the cost of climate change[1].

[1] https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/article...
I like Arch and use it everywhere, but avoid anything manual with the AUR (shoutout to chaotic-aur). It gets so much hype but feels like a step down from PPAs in practice.
> by my parents' generation

This is at least unfair. Our parents were people just like us, trying to survive in this world, sometimes against all odds, having very limited information, and sacrifice a lot for their children.

On the other hand, there were some very specific people who, through their greediness, and often in spite of the information they had, proceeded with their plans destroying Earth natural resources and so on. But these people can be found in every generation, not just in the one of our parents.
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> They're absolutely dealing with that situation as well.

That's why I said they were prioritizing. The very use of that word obviously means they are not just working on one thing....

Why do you keep arguing against strawmen?

I won't address your scenario because you chose one that is overly favorable to your point, it doesn't really show anything.

> If we're assuming an attacker can run things as root, then obviously we have to assume that they can run things in an unconfined context as well,

That's a really, really dumb assumption, because that kind of issue is addressed. It's an entirely different user from root that administers selinux policies....no reason at all to assume root can run unconfined when that's counter to the whole point of running SELinux....

These are really, really bad arguments you are making.
China does not ban foreign apps, that is pure misinformation.

I think lack of success of foreign apps in China comes down to a much simpler dynamic. Foreign apps are simply not launched concurrently in China and optimised for the Chinese market from the outset. The exception to this are mobile games titles which are generally overly optimised for the Chinese market if anything and generally fail to succeed outside of it.

This results in Chinese clones of said new foriegn app/service appearing very quickly and gaining dominance before said app can "expand" to China. By the time that happens, if it does, they have to compete with an established service that is language and culture native.

Essentially if you aren't launching in China day one and have a great understanding of the -very- competitive Chinese Internet platform economy you are screwed before you even start.
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RF also has virtually no modern logistics for ammo storage or transport. They have no forklifts and few cranes. Most ordnance is moved via rail and then by hand (!). They can't seem to pour a flat enough concrete pad for forklifts to run atop.

Even if they had all that, they are outranged by NATO missiles, so all ammo dumps have to be very far away from the front (90+ km). Munitions and supplies must be moved in small and uneven batches on poor roads and with overworked crews and equipment over multiple days.

UA forces share some of these issues, but not as badly.
Electricity is fairly ubiquitous. Can you share a few map links of places you’d put a cafe and charger but that doesn’t have electrical service?

Depending on how many vehicles you’re charging a day, you’re probably looking at a 50-100kw solar PV generator (either ground mount or canopy/rooftop) along with 100-200kw of battery storage. This is not insurmountable, just requires capital and land.
You nailed it on the head! I think burn out is so persistent throughout all levels of American society. You just feel it everywhere. Almost nobody gives a fuck about their jobs anymore. The incentives encourage people to do just enough to not get fired and that’s about it. There’s no loyalty in either direction anymore and the only reward for doing a good job is even more work.

Everyone is becoming Peter from Office Space.
It's due to legal challenges, unfortunately, and as Manu Cornet's org chart depicts[1], this means that there just isn't the resources at Google to deal with it, nor is there the insurgent counter-culture to release it via torrent on 4chan.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6
It doesn't matter which ecosystem, just try to send a list of tasks \ shopping list from Apple to Android without registration. This app solves the 1-2-3 problem easily.
I was not aware so many people were trying to get into Nazi Germany that they needed strict measures to keep them out.
Acetone can be found everywhere. You're not going to take a spoonful of it and add it your coffee.

That's what I'm talking about.
If someone has remote root pledge is basically irrelevant.
were people really working till 6, or were they just bumming around for an hour?
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See for example Ian Stroud
”Boundary Representation Modelling Techniques” for a light introduction. The OpenCascade project is a fairly complete example of a complete one. But there is no ”by the book” way to do it - it requires both design and engineering savvy.

The simple explanation is the capability to model 3D shapes in a way that you can output the data to the rest of the manufacturing process. Hence what manifacturing process you target at least partially dictates your constraints.

The output could be - engineering drawings, CNC machines, 3D printers. Or another 3D modeling application down the pipeline.

In a way ”CAD kernel” alone is a worthless as a spec since it’s too general, just like ”a vehicle” is a useless spec for engineering.

CAD kernel- for modeling what, by whom, and where.

Naturally questions of numerical robustness and exactness of presentation soon enter the picture. How large or precise features do you need to model, for example.
Yeah, but if that's used to draw a more general conclusion about populations in other forested areas, that's not good science, or journalism (more likely).
From a person who constantly deletes and reuploads the apps I have different reasons for each. Instagram is very addictive, Twitter demolishes me from the inside, Linkedin drags my confidence down, Spotify & I have a personal problem. When I feel that way with the apps I delete them to get rid of those situations and when I feel better I reupload them. Because it is my fault to feel those things not the apps. In these cycle of deleting and reuploading the apps, I built better relationship with the apps. It sounds very toxic I know but it gets better every time. Sometimes I caught up in a feeling to delete all socials, forever but it would be very bold to do that in this era.
I don't think it is necessarily a "problem" that it can't be perf-farmed anymore though. Google groups isn't perfect but it does a lot of things well (the bugs mentioned in TFA not withstanding), is used extensively internally at Google, and doesn't necessarily need a lot of new features. There are a ton of internal products at Google that are also staffed by one or two people in maintenance mode and it's not a problem.

As an example, I recently checked the internal symbolization service at Google (that handles symbolization for C++ executables, which is in turn used for generating performance profiles and symbolizing things like stack traces generated by core dumps) and the team maintaining it was two people. And those people aren't solely maintaining the symbolization service, they're compiler engineers who spend most of their time working on other projects and spend a small amount of their time maintaining the symbolization service as issues come up or bugs are reported. But this isn't a problem. The symbolization service works and is basically feature complete. There's no reason to have a team of ten people actively working on it.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27968900 - July 2021 (133 comments)

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I have seen MOI before, but it wasn't quite my thing though maybe I'll revisit it.

Plasticity though is gorgeous, especially for a solo developer. Wow.
The problem with this is that the taglines enforce a theme even when the circumstances change.

Your healthy community is experiencing homelessness and a housing affordability problem along with every "themed" community around you. Does it make sense to stick with the original theme? No. It doesn't.

The problem here is that by owning property you buy into that theme. Any divergence from that theme is harmful to what you bought.

The only way forward is eminent domain.

But at the scale of current property ownership there's going to be huge backlash from property owners. If people who don't own property organize in numbers that dwarf the total amount of property owners then that could generate enough conflict towards social change.

But that level of organization won't happen until the desperateness hits a sort of criticality. We're still far from that so I'm safe. But make no mistake I know the moral action that we must take, and me sitting on my property is not it.
Thanks for figuring this out! The slideshows have visible timestamps so it's not too hard to keep up manually.
"We must protect the children!"

Now they are free to work jobs and devalue minimum wage labor by working at sub minimum wage prices!

And we've protected the meat packing industry from the potential fallout of children being killed on the job!

Because we care about the children!

We must protect the children! Think of the children! Their tiny little hands are perfect for degunking the chicken nugget processors!

Thank God they won't be exposed to the leftist woke horrors of not having to work until they are adults or knowing the difference between good touch and bad touch!
I have no idea why you think linking that proves some kind of point, it only proves to me that as I said you are very much out of your depth in joining this conversation.

Please don't reply to me again.
I don't mind being downvoted, but I like to know why. For example, are laundromats in SF really huge?
> Only in California will you find someone who can say with a straight face: "we need more housing" followed by "no we can't allow that housing".

I don't think NIMBYism is confined to California. Lots of people understand more housing is needed somewhere, but also don't want a high-rise next door to them.
An app being 'state controlled' is not an inherently good or bad thing. It's what the app does that is important. Does it collect data? Does it transmit data to foreign governments? Does it store data locally? Does it permit any kind of control of the device?

It's easy to say certain apps are bad. It's hard to say why they are bad and address the root behavior. This is a case where taking the easy road has obvious unintended future consequences. Taking the hard road helps every citizen of this country, and not just with apps controlled by foreign governments.

We need data security and privacy legislation. We do not need creeping totalitarianism. It's easy to see which road goes where.
Oh no I completely disagree. SF has some of the best dense architecture IMO. Duplex/triplex/etc townhomes give density without having big overwhelming buildings. It means you don’t have big stretches of road without variance or entrance in the building you’re walking against. It also often gives garages and small backyards which a lot of people want.

I will agree that it means there’s a lot more individual maintenance required with more facade space having more owners. So poorer neighborhoods look… poorer.
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All the ideas that the world will be perfect if you would just think thoughts like these...

"manifest what you want from the world" and "think positive thoughts and everything will be ok"

Is actually kind of true when you think about all the algorithms that run social media. If you only ever search for cats and scroll past anything political, the algorithms will learn what you like and feed you more cats.

So, if you're searching up relationship advice, and spending time on those things, that's what you get back from 'the borg'.

You do have control over what social media shows you, it's just that you need to work against your basest desires in order to get there.
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Most of the time when I have a tool that tries to guess what I want, I hate it. I hate it with a deep and burning hatred. I call it the "Clippy" effect.
Yeah, adjusted for current inflation, it's probably closer to $150,000 now.
> I hope the US takes the EU approach and regulates what data is collected and transmitted where instead of walking the totalitarian route

Even if they do, how do you enforce it? The way I see it all paths of enforcement lead to a ban. I would bet a lot of money that tiktok is already in violation of several of the patchwork of laws that protect US online privacy.

And it's not just tiktok it's the thousands of shity games/apps owned partially by tencent.
It's not one or the other, governments ( US state governments ) compete for both. Companies want to be where the workers are at and workers want to be where the jobs are at. A state needs qualified residents to attract businesses and they also need good jobs to attract residents. The articles says WFH is changing that but I don't see WFH ever being on a wide enough scale to have much influence.
> EU regulations are nice and all, but GDPR is so easy to break

The good thing about it is that you give them a chance to comply and ease your concerns. If they fail to do so, you then you can ban them for actually failing to do something instead of being Chinese or making you nervous or something. This makes all the difference.

It's all about freely operating within the rule of law or leaving it to some bureaucrats gut that some app can be dangerous.
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Yeah, it's not like OpenBSD hasn't had remote root issues before...

And this is exactly what I'm talking about. Putting more energy into hoping no one ever gets root rather than providing anything to protect against the scenario where it is obtained.
Dear god, you can’t use Wikipedia. The abusive moderation is incredible on that site. Not a project I’d ever recommend contributing to!
Sick dude. Thank you! I love copilot.vim and use it quite extensively. Will try this. I only ever use the ChatGPT service through their website. Do you get an API key by default or is that a separate service?
The same way you would with a bigger population for any reason. There’s an added bonus that if rights erode, people can simply leave to somewhere less oppressive. People can’t leave oppressive places due to borders. Less oppressive places may become oppressive but that would drive people elsewhere.

I’d use the US as an example. In a real sense the US is a collection of small countries with a federal system and free right of migration. For this discussion the federal system is irrelevant. How does California or New York or other high populace states ensure erosion of rights? I’d posit part of the very reason they’re so attractive is they tend to hold rights very high on their list of priorities. More oppressive states, likewise lose populace to migration because unless you’re in the in group you don’t belong there.

Cultural erosion is IMO nativism and bias. Time is change, no culture is static, and even our oldest cultures are young compared to humanity and look nothing like they did 100 years ago. Changing populace doesn’t change a culture any more than time does, it’s just easier to blame someone that doesn’t look or talk like you for it.

Your examples of mainland Chinese citizens or Americans moving around are only relevant because the issue of borders to begin with. If there were permeable borders we would be in a steady state and you wouldn’t see behaviors like that. Maybe in the beginning you would see artifacts of history manifest weird transient behaviors, as you do in any suddenly changed dynamical system. But in steady state your scenarios would be as likely as all democrats moving to Georgia to change the election. It sounds good but in practice didn’t happen.
Opinion: Informing of the dangers of something is not prohibiting something.
You don't think rust will help with errors?

Maybe "trendy" is a bad way to express it but I like the idea that 'yeah, we know it's a huge job to start from scratch, but so what? in 20 years it won't be starting from scratch any more, and should we just accept that the last cad kernel in history has already been written and a company owns it, and surely there are things that would be good, that can only be decided on day one and can't be retroactively decided in any existing kernel.' etc etc

I know rust isn't magic or anything but I also know that paradigms and frameworks matter, and starting from scratch in a strict environment like rust where there is just a lot of pain in the neck rigor in every molecule, seems like it could have a great effect on something that needs to eventually grow into a huge and complex thing where the higher levels really really need to trust the lower levels to always be bulletproof correct.

Rust's concerns were originally security, but security is just correctness, and correctness is valuable everywhere.

And even the "trendy" aspect... I'm fine with it if it's consciously expressed up front like that. Rust plus webgpu? ok, sounds like a reasonable starting premis. Why not?
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Because not everything is related to climate change. You have to show there's an "inextricable" link first.