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Welcome to Earth: Where the NEWS is our barometer for determining how far we are from 1984.

It's articles like these that invoke a sense of surreal prescience. I remember experiencing this same eerie feeling back when I was still trying to convince my employer that WFH would be unavoidable.
The CXO (I put X because I can't remember what made up executive role they had at the time) still shrugged it off as "Just a flu".

I remember sitting at a coffee shop at the beach one night with a close friend talking about the general state of things and how it felt crazy to know that soon things will be different forever in ways we can't begin to imagine.
Back then I made a thread about it, though, given the channish nature of it, nobody here cared much for it either (you know, it was back in the early days, when "Hug an Asian" campaign was still taking place in the US, you know, the same time as the "fiery but mostly peaceful protests".

This title has a similar feeling to it. The only difference is the enemy now is not some invisible force of nature, but humanmade horrors we impose upon ourselves.

Anarchy as a concept always sounded insane, but look at what the people who have the most money in the world do with it. They don't give a fuck about the issues that are actually important. They will release a PR and keep up appearances while renting out server farms of bots to subdue critical opinion, and subvert any efforts to point these things out by creating fanatics (which is ironic, because fanaticism in today's world is a fully captured market - complete with branded interactions).

Now we are the ones in need of fanatics. People like RMS, who called these things from the start. Yet we turn our backs on them and call them insane. We let companies smear and tarnish their image.

We are at the point where we need a revolution, but we won't get one, because the last humans that haven't been enslaved by comfort are falling every day, and people are remarkably adept at being satisfied living in squalor if the previous iteration was just slightly worse.

Its difficult to imagine how the world will look in this future where only a single school of thought is permitted.

As a gay man from Africa, I apologise if my lived experiences come across as provocative. "Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think’…This is extremely dangerous to our democracy."
>The organization and ideas should transcend an individual.

It is never the case is my observation (as much as I want you to be correct). Any attempt to detach individual form the goals/idea of an organization leads to bureaucracy, incompetence, and perhaps most importantly authoritarianism of the evil kind. ( there are relatively benign versions of authoritarianism )

>when the ideas seem to be really more needed now that ever.

Can agree here, but who really steps up? who really want to make that sacrifice at great cost to one's personal comfort? It's easy to criticize RMS, ( or similar people) when one is a arm chair philosopher.

>https://mediagoblin.org/

Thanks, will have the look at it.
Game development has turned into the same kind of nightmare that music is for anybody who wants to go into it. Unless you're really good at marketing/get really lucky, you're never going to make a living doing it because the market is insanely oversaturated and the gaming media focuses most of its attention on a handful of popular high budget games because that's what draws the traffic.

Another major problem is how long today's high budget games are. Not only the multiplayer "live service" casinos that are designed to addict their players and keep them playing in perpetuity but the modern single player open world RPGs that seemingly average around 100 hours of playtime. If somebody is playing 300 hours of that extremely bloated Assassin's Creed game about Vikings, they're not playing other games in that time and presumably have less interest in buying them. Likewise, stuff like GamePass and the new tiers of PS+ that offer access to an enormous number of games for a small subscription fee have to be cutting into game sales. And new games are also competing with 50 years worth of old games.

I wonder if many of the indie games, especially story driven games, might be better off as movies. Given how everybody carries a camera in their pocket these days, Hollywood movies are formulaic garbage and no actors are stars anymore, there's probably a market for innovative low budget movies shot in the woods on a single phone camera by a few friends and with little to no special effects. That seems like it'd be lower time/money cost and higher expected reward than game development plus you'd get to be outside doing interesting things rather than just sitting at a computer for years working on a game that will most likely be played by a few dozen people.
Given Apple's history with the Beatles, they should have some humility.
The age limits on the free tickets stand out to me. I guess it's all ROI forecasting. Either older folks are assumed to have exposure to the target country already, can afford the travel, or aren't worth it?
You're omitting the entire thing about learning how to write nix. Which is nightmare fuel even for FP fans.
The way that government procurement often works, it isn't the cheap contractors you end up with, either. Not many companies have the resources or willingness to stick through the long time it often takes to go through the bidding process, nor all of the pre-qualification requirements.

The whole process is long and drawn out with all sorts of checks and balances built in to it, based on previous learnings from previous contracts that have failed in various ways (particularly if it has embarrassed an elected figure).
No doubt on the back of this failure, there will be more conditions added to the bidding process, making it even harder to find a vendor.

Usually by the time the entire process is done, there's not many vendors left and in my experience they're usually not the ones you'd actually want to do the work if you had a choice, just often ones that'll at least get you something.
> What trauma does it take to warp a human mind into thinking you can own the concept of images of a fruit?

That trauma goes by its other name: "money." Or sometimes by its synonyms, "Dollar, Pound, Euro, Swiss franc" among others.
Governments do in-house development just as well as any company with a large development department.

Governments also do development off-shoring just as well as any company with a large off-shored project.

The kind of project people are talking about here never works. It doesn't matter who is doing it.
The DoorDash case was hilarious.

Some workers tried to start a class action lawsuit, and DoorDash argued that it should be dismissed because according to their contract the workers had a duty to arbitrate.

Then when workers actually tried to arbitrate DoorDash tried to get that replaced with a class action.

Judge Alsup would have none of that crap:

> The employer here, DoorDash, faced with having to actually honor its side of the bargain, now blanches at the cost of the filing fees it agreed to pay in the arbitration clause. No doubt, DoorDash never expected that so many would actually seek arbitration. Instead, in irony upon irony, DoorDash now wishes to resort to a class-wide lawsuit, the very device it denied to the workers, to avoid its duty to arbitrate. This hypocrisy will not be blessed, at least by this order.
Glad to see the instance I am on immediately has chosen to defederate from P92
Meta's Facebook pressured by Vietnam's government to censor dissent
It is available on winget and scoop according to:

https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI/#installation

Maybe soon on Chocolately too.
dang sorry bro but the site guidelines are bad. People regularly endorse straight up atrocities, racism, eugenics, holocaust denial in here and that's all fine if they stay calm and don't say the slurs. I will never not be mad at people defending atrocities and that is the superior transgression. You value civility over human dignity. It's cowardly.

Let me express anger. The people commenting this stuff here expect never to be challenged on it. Expect that they have the right to spew this stuff, carefully, without being told their actions are shameful. It's good for them.
> What gap is Kotlin fulfilling?

Being a more fun-to-use Java? That's probably a big reason why it's done so well on the Android front AFAICT. But as you said, maybe JVM isn't that hot on HN

> Kotlin does not produce machine executables.

I haven't used KN before [0], but it does seem to do this. Overall, maybe Kotlin's "problem" is that it is tied to one ecosystem (native mobile development) which isn't as popular as web is.

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-overview.html
I've never seen it actually pay off in industry. I've seen it be used as good job security while other devs just wrote docker files and got things done.
> I’m not very familiar with TechDirt. But this article isn’t labeled an opinion piece, and it is written by the founder and chief editor of the site

Okay but the absence of an opinion label doesn't give it an implicit news label.

> Looking at some of his other work it all seems to be written like this.

> I guess what you’re saying is that TechDirt is a garbage rag that I should add to my blacklist?

Nobody said that but based on this reply I would agree with the part that you should add it to your blacklist.
>no good vision

Interesting choice of words given their new product announcement a few weeks back at WWDC.
I don't know why I should, what I'm working on is
clearly not critical to the company.

Isn't it better to get more done than less (at the same amount of time), even if it's not critical? The only case where it's puzzling is if you're left twiddling your thumbs after you're done, rather than get more work.
Ahh, it makes this much more reasonable.

The enterprise pricing made me thought at first that the cost is per application user. (Making enterprise lisence more appealing) … of course per end-user pricing would be way too expensive.
The best quote I read on HN (and am paraphrasing now) is that a lot of these venture capital backed startups are in the business of selling dollar bills for 90 cents.
Researchers Discover New Sophisticated Toolkit Targeting Apple macOS Systems
I'm not sure about the 4090, but most of the GPUs I use have a warp size of 32, and warp divergence affects only up to those 32 threads. If you have a branch and all threads agree, you only walk down one branch.

My mental model is a bit more like you have collections of warps in a block, and all warps in a block get scheduled onto an SM. Different GPU architectures allow for different numbers of warps to be simultaneously active or inactive, and each warp has its own instruction pointer and can be suspended while waiting for things like memory. I found the picture on pg 22 here really helpful: https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/en-zz/Solutions/data-cente...

Note that although there's 4 schedulers, on the A100, they don't dispatch every cycle iirc.
I didn’t know what to expect, but I love libraries, so I clicked the link. Those who are not interested in reading about a traditional library might also like this article, as it’s not about a traditional library. The subhead is “At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to Earth’s climate past and future.”

It starts with:

In a narrow aisle of shelves packed with cardboard boxes, Jørgen Peder Steffensen grins like a mischievous child unwrapping a holiday present as he pulls out a plastic-wrapped hunk of ice from a box marked Keep Frozen.

The bag of ice contains the transition from 1 BCE to 1 CE, he says. “That means we have the real Christmas snow.”
Give a man a fish vs teach a man to fish :/
Are they? I'm seeing self-hosted Postfix as the most common mail server in scans. For free, personal email hosting I agree but that's just a fraction of the market.

https://lightmeter.io/global-email-map-2021/
> Software developers can be hired to work on software the same way.

No they can't. A car mechanic can fix almost any part of any car, and can do so for the majority of issues in a few hours at most. The majority of issues car mechanics address are also almost identical (scratches on the car, tire issues etc).

In contrast, virtually every single software issue requires a bespoke solution that will take specific knowledge of that specific piece of software. The best Linux kernel hacker will still need to spend days to learn how to fix a bug in GNU sed. And the majority of bugfixes take at least a couple of days of dedicated work, and often require access to the specific environment where the issue reproduces (e.g. particular accounts etc). There are good reasons why this kind of business only works in B2B mode. No single consumer would ever afford the costs.

> Software freedom does not have to mean non-commercial. Software can respect freedom and still be sold commercially.

No it can't. There are 0 examples of GPL software being sold commercially. It is simply impossible to make a business charging money for something your buyer can give away for free in infinite amounts. If anyone ever became successful doing so, someone else would setup a business buying software from them and selling it on at a discount.

What you can do is sell consulting services for free software, but we're back to B2B only.

> While many large projects have many interested contributors and supporters, some projects are driven by a single company, a small team, or a single person.

Single-company projects are only typically free until someone else figures out how to eat their lunch (see AWS forcing Elastic and Mongo to move away from GPL-style freedoms). Small teams and single people developing some software do happen, and there is of course the foundation model (the GNU Project and Mozilla being huge players), but these are more exceptions than the rule. The reality is that even in OSS, most contributors to most projects are companies (either companies selling that same software in B2B settings, or companies selling something else that depends on that software as a component).
As always, the sound bites obscure the issue. The concern is not the specific request, but how widely trademark is enforceable, which is a question of IP law not Apple’s actions.

Apple applied for a design patent for a very specific design and ignorant people flipped out completely misunderstanding the issue. Yet again there’s another story where the details matter and you get articles like this completely glossing over the details. People are posting: Attacking fruit sellers… over a hypothetical concern from a trademark application.

Black and white Granny Smith Apples as it applies to electronic devices and a few other narrow categories, isn’t all Apples or even close to all apples. Yet, trademarks allow such extreme protection even different fruit can be covered.
Not really, unfortunately. In my opinion, Nix is more like using Haskell instead of whatever language your team is using to write software.
The problem of indie games is that indie devs with no prior knowledge of programming, no prior artistic talent, either in terms of crafting an enticing narrative and/or graphical design wake up one day, decide to drop of university/quit their job to create their big commercial "dream game".

The problem is that they often jump over the first step of learning how to make a game and go straight to publish their barely passable buggy mishmash of half baked ideas with no quality control or beta-testing done.

What they first should've done is make and publish a few small but fun games for free, learn from their mistakes and user inputs and use their new knowledge to make a bigger, better game. If enough people tell them that it's worth buying it then they can sell it .
Trademarks are limited to the trades (i.e. 'goods& services') listed in the trademark application. Apple, Inc doesn't sell apples. Nor do they have apple farms. Visit USPTO's TESS and search for serial number 87628828. The "Goods and Services" field contains no mention of fruit, farms, or produce.

You must diligently protect your trademark against uses by others in similar markets. I would hope that protecting your computing business against apple farmers would get you, at a minimum, a frown and a "no" from a judge or the enforcing agency.
> But this site just feels like it's picking on people. They never have any real insight; they just call out founders by name

Sorry, when you ask for tens of millions of other people's dollars and use that experience to self-promote (and possibly raise for a new venture down the road), you don't get to try to bury your failure. If your name is in the press release about raising the money, it's totally reasonable for it to be in the press release about how you lost it all.

Encouraging people to benefit from their successes and hide their failures is how we get clowns like Emad Mostaque[1] who fail upward at the expense of more qualified and ethical people.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/06/04/stable-di...
MSDS are crap but HN comments are truthful.

What's next? The earth is a flat disk?
I’m not sure what you mean by reductive in this case. 90% of kids’ plays are crap while 90% of Broadway shows are crap, with no need to compare those two domains.
> Somehow this constant churn on the Javascript side is worthy of snide, satire and ridicule.

In my experience it is frontend devs, not backend devs, who are most harsh on Javascript's procession of UI frameworks. Rust users are more than happy to take inspiration from Javascript UI frameworks, if for no other reason than the reactive/declarative approach is a better fit for Rust than the prevailing inheritance-heavy/object-oriented approach of Qt and GTK.
Django doesn't use semver. It uses a Major.Feature.Patch release notation, not Major.Minor.Patch. Feature releases usually contain breaking changes, where SemVer minor releases never should.
Have to get a little distance from the past few years but the "private platform" folks have been awfully quiet, I'd bet on the orthodox position will flip to "regulate Twitter to make it more balanced" pretty soon.
> "just make it so I don't have to do crazy checks on properties before casting to a class."

You do have 'instanceof' at runtime, so unless you mean some other type of 'class', casting to a class is really a non-issue (and you don't really 'cast'... since dynamic typing and all). If you mean some more advanced concept (e.g., structural type runtime checking), think how you would do it in statically typed languages (is it really better?).
Accuracy of GPT-4 in a Complex Medical Diagnostic Challenge
I'm on an iPhone 14 Pro Max in Safari without power saving turned on but those 2 QR codes look identical to me. I tried turning off dark mode but they still look the same. What am I doing wrong here?
so, i had a look because i wondered if you were joking or not, but algol 60 doesn't seem to have enums (putting it here just in case someone else may read this conversation)
Agreed. My mom was friends with an ex-secretary of a SF real estate mogul and she's quite wealthy now herself because she sued and was paid off to go away.

The people who are paid off are usually bound by confidentiality agreements.
This reminds me of when I (a native english speaker), was speaking spanish and said I was glad someone could spend time with their kids. I was later corrected that the verb I used (prestar I think) for "to spend" had the negative connotation of "to waste". Oops.

Edit: this was in a religious context as a missionary, which reminds me that "perfect" in scriptures is also misleading to a modern native english speaker. Other, perhaps better words include "whole" and "complete". I wonder if that is a common synonym in other languages.
Unfortunate how regular and even IT people don't care how evil and anti-consumer this company is. And still getting more popular somehow.
The idea was to leverage the strength and success of the local conference to bring national-level styled conferences to the local area. To be seen if that will be successful long-term!

I obviously can't argue that there were issues with ad content, targeting, the landing page and even the conference's offering, but our target demographic is "easily" targeted and the unsolicited feedback we frequently received was that people were seeing our ads everywhere. I gave a talk at 1Million Cups about this to an audience filled with people outside of our target demographic and none of them had seen the ads, so we're fairly confident that targeting was at least not failing completely.

re cost: this is absolutely something we considered, and hopefully after the conference we'll get honest feedback, so standby for that!
That is the fundamental problem with the implementation. Apple doesn't have frames on their windows, and often the resizing cursor fails to appear.

The cursor problem also occasionally afflicts splitter bars in other Mac UI, however. I don't remember how often this splitter-bar problem happens on Windows.
If I had to guess, Reddit has a huge overlap with gaming where Discord is already immensely popular. It’s easy to set up from both a user and server owner’s perspective, and most Redditors probably already have it installed or have heard of it at some point.
Does someone have an ELI5 on the difference between fully masked and not fully masked vectorization?
It's really hard to weasel out of employment law violations, even for the rich.
It's an interesting hypothesis.

Unfortunately I see a bunch of people kneejerk to say "adblocking is good" or "ads are bad" when that's not really relevant to the question.

But I don't think it's adblockers that caused the ruin the of the ad-based free content model, rather they are the symptom. I believe the cause is Google capturing an ever-higher share of the ad revenue. Let's say in the old days 80% of the ad revenue went to the publisher (and 20% to the ad ecosystem), and that was enough to keep the lights on. Ad revenue dried up, but it's because the share that goes to the publisher is now 20% while the "ecosystem" (mostly Google now) captures 80%. This happened gradually like a frog boiling in water, and as ads generated less revenue per unit, publishers were forced to add more ads per page to compensate. Just one more ad. And one more. And 15 years later there's more ads than content. In response, users started using adblockers more and more, which led to decreasing revenue, which led to more ads per page. A vicious cycle.

Nowadays there's so little revenue to made made from ads (since most is captured by Google) that only content with the smallest production cost can make it. Genuine content is not economical, and the only content that can survive on those razor-thin margins is automatically-generated SEO spam.
What you call unfounded rumors is what I and others have experienced first-hand. For my part, I still have the mails. Concerning the fact that it was or not valid criticism: it seems what I had to say was valid enough for some people from the current FSF board to insist that I apply to join the board, which I really did not intend to do in the first place. I wish I hadn't listen.
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