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I am becoming increasingly disappointed by the lack of action on antitrust. It's abundantly clear to everyone that these mega-corporations wield sufficient power to distort their respective markets. The direct and indirect costs to consumers must be approaching unfathomable amounts.
I say this as a (begrudging) discord user : I don't know what they (Discord) did right to get communities to lock up all of their community and data into such a hard-to-index walled garden.

People compared the loss of what.cd to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. While I do think that was an exaggeration at the time, I worry about the loss of effort and 'thought-power' when the discord walls get even taller than they are now -- or worse yet -- when the gardens disappear without ever having had the chance to have been archived somewhere.
> constantly doing math with time in my head.

What, exactly, are you calculating? Would it help you to see the total of the non-scheduled hours for each day, inside a specific range (e.g. 07:00 until 22:00)?

I use the Nextcloud calendar app and sync with my Android devices using the CalDav protocol. I have one calendar for work, another for personal. They all display on the same monthly or daily view, just with a different background colour.
That's the spirit of "he has promised us that he'll let us enjoy our assignats in peace and bring order to the country by ending the revolution", i.e. the spirit that helped Napoleon got hold of power. I think trying to end the revolution is still an ongoing thing in today's France, for better or for worse.
Do you have a link for this story? Not calling you a liar, just very curious to read the details.
> I haven't heard of Invidious before

Neither had I, but thanks to Google, I now have. Looks like another great example of the Streisand Effect.
The article feels a bit over the top, if I'm reading this correctly this is just Discord becoming a direct competitor to Patreon (as many Patreons already basically boil down to "get access to my Discord server")
There is also the EU's Platform to Business (P2B) regulation from 2020. But from my understanding it doesn't apply to advertising, only direct transactions on the platform. So in the case of Meta, this would be "Facebook Shops" / "Instagram Shopping". Convenient loophole.

Suspension and Termination of Service

If the platform decides to restrict, suspend or terminate its service to a business user, it must give the business user a statement of reasons. In the case of termination, this statement of reasons must be given 30 days in advance.

Handling of Complaints

Platforms must establish an internal complaint-handling system for business users. This system must be easily accessible and free of charge.

The platform must process all complaints within a reasonable timeframe and communicate the outcome to the complainant in an individualised manner.

See https://www.ccpc.ie/business/help-for-business/guidelines-fo... and https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...
The similarity is in construction technique, not architecture. Betondorp was one of the first large-scale prefab neighborhoods in the world.
They're going to one day update their privacy policy and compel users to agree to it before continuing. This policy is going to state that by using Dropbox you consent to allow them to analyze the contents of every single document you store with them.
FTC Sues Amazon over Tricking Users into Signing Up for Prime
Polls showed that a large majority of French supported the Gilets Jaunes or supported the recent strikes. Foolowing your reasonning, the minority imposing their will to the silent majority is the government.

Furthermore, independently to our opinion about the Gilets Jaunes, the way this government use the police on the protest can be questioning for a democracy. Even the journalist of the right Figaro newspaper protested several times against police brutality against journalists.

Furthermore, independently to our opinion about the recent strikes (supported by 100% of the democratically elected trade unions), the fact that the government twisted the constitution to avoid a democratic vote of the democratically elected parliament on the legislative text is "puzzling"
Yet some how for-profit companies become more valuable when they just grow their user base.

You seem to be applying basic logic to company valuations while at the same time you probably also understand the finical market is completely fucked up. Amazon lost money for god only knows how long and was extremely valuable and sought after investment for nearly the entire time. Why? Because growth. They don't care what kind of growth they just want growth. While a sane person would say the growth should be in money so they could eventually be profitable, that's not how the markets work.

So they can either show growth in the fact they're growing their customer base to include API customers and revenue streams. Or they can show growth in profits.
I don't want people preaching hooks as the greatest invention since fire talks anyways. Such code if spotted anywhere in a backend would be slammed for being horrendous and violating almost any intuition definition of maintainable code.

The svelte documentation is already great. This evengleism is good for commercial products. For technical open source, subjective evaluation is all that is needed. You evaluate whether it fits for your needs, you adopt or not.

Not everybody is walking into conferences and sticking swag on back of their notebook lids.

Rich Haris seems a humble great guy and he's doing good enough IMHO.
I've done some thousands of hours of practice, my fingers are covered in watercolor paint as I type this. I don't know how to tell if I'm an artist or not, maybe I haven't done any art? I rarely try to say anything at all, I just like to see if I can make a thing I imagine real. I do wonder about it, I'm not being snarky.

AI seems like a tool that can be used to make art, I think all that takes is a human trying to elicit a response in another human.

Typing into a prompt box and setting some sliders, then picking the output I like... is it different from setting my shutter speed and framing a shot? What if I shoot on a phone where that's all automated, is the art the environment I put myself in? What if I take a hundred random abstract snaps and pick the best 3 and arrange them together in a triptych? Is the argument that the arrangement is the art, and the photography isn't?

It just seems so absurd to me that AI can't make art, sure maybe not on it's own, but a paintbrush or a camera can't make art on it's own either, the human wielding it can.
I got signed up to prime by accident twice.

I'd hardly consider myself computer illiterate. Getting off it required mailing with customer service in both cases.
With that approach, the discussion would more look like "Our current cycle takes a full year to complete, let's reduce our projets' scopes by 10 to get down to a month or two at most"

That's even simpler, and you can even keep waterfalling and still benefit from shorter iterations.
Is this still the case ? Or is this a US only thing ? I cancelled prime without this clause but I'm not in the US.
No, the President in France has little power.

1. He can call for new elections of the Assembly (not of the Senate) ;

2. He names the Prime Minister and chooses to accept or not the government the Prime Minister then proposes ;

3. He's got minor powers regarding foreign policy.

And that's it.

Now what goes against the President:

a. Regarding [2.] which may seem a major power: the Prime Minister and his government can be kicked out basically at any moment by a vote of the Assembly. So there is no way the President could pick a Prime Minister and a government that doesn't suit the Assembly. Basically, the Assembly has the last word on it, and keeps this power all along the legislature.

b. The government decides and leads the policy (politics?) of the nation (article 20: «Le Gouvernement détermine et conduit la politique de la nation.»): the President is not supposed to have a say about it.

c. Once the President has named the Prime Minister, he cannot remove him. Nor can he remove any other minister. Only the Assembly can do it.

The problem is not the constitution. The problem is that the constitution hasn't got a sacred role as in the USA, and everyone in the various positions of power wipes his ass with it.

So, all what gradually happened more and more in the last few years, is Members of the Parliament voluntarily de facto abdicating their powers to the Government, and members of the Government voluntarily de facto abdicating their powers to the President. In the end they mostly take orders from above and act and vote as they are told to. Just because they enjoy their seat...
Soviets built both high- and low-rise buildings, both in great numbers. Not sure where you're getting the high-rise only idea from?
Do these mainstream news media read HN, Reddit and basically regurgitate what was discussed there?

I swear I read these propositions last week on HN from individual contributes. Now this week, mainstream media keeps writing about it with sensational headlines. This seems to happen very frequently.
Yeah, it was almost too easy. I accidently just cancelled my membership testing this because I was expecting a confirmation prompt that never came.
man all these new editors trying to fix problems with the old and I am just trying to master neovim (and for that matter just vim as I haven't even gotten to the benefits of neovim other than the LSP stuff).

at this point I am so productive in vim/neovim that I more-or-less just glance and pass on announcements of new editors. For me to switch to anything at this point other than neovim would be for it as a project to go away.
On the contrary, it supports exactly the point made in the preceding paragraph, which even pointed out that the IEC standard came later.

The phrase "Should have gone to Specsavers!" comes to mind. All three of your examples clearly have notched connectors. Two have the notches at the top, and the Russell Hobbs one has the notch at the bottom. Their kettle leads were not C13.

So to repeat: When kettle power cords weren't captive, as they are nowadays, they weren't C13. I've already given an example of a kettle preceding the standard that didn't take anything like a C13 connector, and in vainly arguing against that you've ironically produced three more examples of kettles from later decades whose kettle leads were also not C13.

Here's yet another one, where the lead itself is in the picture. It's not C13.

* https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-1970s-80s-had...

If there had been examples of kettle leads that were C13, I'd have long since used them to really tease my late friend. But kettle leads in the U.K. have never been C13, and my late friend was right that "kettle lead" for a C13 power lead is a misnomer in the U.K..

* https://www.specsavers.co.uk/book/location (-:
Whenever articles like this bubbled up, I used to want to delve right in to satisfy some inner need to be deeply knowledgeable about the craft. I don't feel that way anymore now that I'm in my 30s, something flipped. Now I'm much more interested in higher-level abstractions and building complete products that solve some real problems, rather than occupying myself learning about the nitty gritty details of how software works under the hood.

I think it's maybe nice to know how we interact with memory in software (memory allocation/deallocation, naybe how manual memory mgmt is done, something about garbage collection?), but that's about it.
> I would prefer to spend the next hour reinforcing my knowledge of the passe compose of avoir. That is better than feeling sad.

But it's not better than catching up on sleep, netflix and/or a great meal with a fantastic conversational partner.

> The thought of the explanation makes me uncomfortable, more uncomfortable than going to the calls. Therefore I go to the calls.

My mind would answer: "I'll take the 10min akward explanation for 5 missed meetings mr Gibbins. No problem."

Why not go to the calls because it is your duty? If nothing else, it makes you dependable and you can be proud of your virtuous follow-through.

Doing things only to prevent the penalty feels like a negative way of looking at things and, for my monkey mind, one that is ultimately doomed to fail. Instead of aiming for the stars, my mind just gets better at dealing with the penalties. It might just be me though.
EU 'enforcer' visits Meta and Twitter to check readiness on online content rules
The underlying point being made - by the comment - is that if an author is biased because they are selling a product and complaining about their competition, how can the article or the "facts" be trusted?

The orignal article is disguised advertising, advertising in the form of a "knowledgable criticism" of existing payment services.

May the force be with you even if the object isn't.
Apple's strategy has always been to go 100% in and don't look back. Eventually people assume if Apple is investing so much into this new thing, they must have a plan. So a few adventurous devs and users get onboard. Apple marketing team uses that as the bait to bring more people onboard.
It's very easy, they created a product that was better than the alternatives.

It's better than forums, it's better than IRC, it's better than teamspeak, and the list goes on.

Turns out it's a pretty easy product to make, too - as long as you are willing to burn money.
>Being poor among rich hurts multiplied.

Depends. Sure, it hurts your ego being "poor" in a super rich country, but that has the advantages of being safe everywhere, not being stabbed for wearing a nice watch, having access to the best medical care in the world, a reliable insurance and justice system for when things go wrong, clean air and drinking/bathing water, a high trust society where you're not afraid of being scammed everywhere or leaving your door open at night, not afraid that anyone will shoot you in your school, etc.

Some people would rather be dirt poor in Zurich, than filthy rich in Zimbabwe.
You're right that we're not going to get fully automated luxury space post-work, communist or not, because the "entrepreneurs" ushering it in will not be able to shake the motive of "profit" out of their lizard brains and would rather kill everyone not in their social/economic class than see the death of the world order that puts them at the top. But it is amusing that you comment gleefully that someone else's job is about to be eliminated, but upthread are bitching about childishness and people not wanting to work. We're supposed to want to work in a world that is actively obsoleting jobs (and leaving nothing "better" in its wake, to boot)? A bunch of people going "fuck you, got mine" makes more people better off than cooperation? If post-scarcity somehow happened your lizard brain would implode.
Of course it could have been done without Svelte. Thats the only stack their team know and/or wanted to work with. Nothing wrong with that, but would be nice if they were more upfront about that instead of "impossible for a different solution to exist".

There was a psychological term for it, making a decision first and only then finding supportive arguments in favour of the decision?
Pif, your messages here align mostly with authoritarianism and fascism. You don't seem to care about people their freedom, their rights or real democracy. It's not a minority that holds the country hostage it's a minority who have the balls to standup against a small elite who have all power. Having to pick out of two evils has nothing to do with democracy.
I think even a small depth of water kills the signal or maybe the timing. Either way it's no use.
> I say this as a (begrudging) discord user : I don't know what they (Discord) did right to get communities to lock up all of their community and data into such a hard-to-index walled garden.

Their app isn't buggy, is easy to use, voice chat and screen sharing just work, and it's extremely easy to onboard yourself -- you don't even need to create an account immediately.

Love it or hate it, let's not pretend it's like IRC, Slack or any of its competitors.
Others already mentioned the calendar part, but:

> and end up getting confused about how much work I did

There's lots of apps for just that purpose. Clock-in/out every time you start/stop. Especially if you're working on multiple projects the same day. I don't even have one to recommend specifically - there are many good options.
It's important to keep one thing in mind: Agile gets corporate buy-in inasmuch as it promises fine-grained executive observability and control over the software development process.

Period.

From a business perspective, Agile means some suits can look at a dashboard and see, with a granularity of one sprint at the coarsest, whether the project is proceeding on schedule, who completed what, which individuals and teams are ahead and which are stragglers. Information they need in order to make budget, risk, and resource (read: hiring and especially firing) decisions. That's how the consultants pitched it because that's what executives want to hear. They read about Agile in CIO magazine, its promise of quick turnaround times, and its need for communication between the developers and business experts, and their takeaway is that it's an efficient micromanagement strategy, a panopticon that will help derisk persnickety programmers by having them under constant observation and forcing them to provide constant feedback.
> 'cisgender' is the rough equivalent to the rather dry technical term 'heterosexual'

I'm pretty sure 'cisgender' means "identifies as birth gender" and has no connection to your sexual preferences (hence 'cishet' being 'identifies as birth gender, attracted to opposite gender'.)
> Why do you presuppose that others infer & arrive at the same interpretations you do? Isn't your own form of generalization from the subjective inferences made from your own individual mind, to the thoughts of others, presumptuous?

No, you're just being stupid.

This isn't a new issue. There's an episode of The West Wing about the evils of the Mercator projection. It aired 22 years ago.

When you write an essay doing nothing more than repeating a several-decades-old cliche, people are going to assume you don't have anything to say other than the content of the cliche they heard decades ago. And they will be right.
Holding the space bar and just moving your mouse works best for me
In an OO model, you can implement exactly that by having FILE and DIR derive from a common base class, then you can have your function take such a base and either act on the common subset or do a type query and cast to the derived type as needed (this is usually frowned on, but not uncommon).

But yes, of course shoving everything under OO is bad. A bit of OO should be a mean to an end, not a inflexible design principle.
It's less that you have to do the hard parts yourself - the browser brings solutions for almost any SPA issue. The problem is more that you have the option to work around those nice browser implementations, which many big web apps choose to do. Some do so because the APIs weren't available when they were developed, while others do it for analytics purposes.
I don’t understand why doing this with normal Java is difficult. Just have a list of objectives. Each objective is a class. The autonomous loop picks the next objective from the list and each tick, asks if it has finished, if so get the next objective and so on.

All the details about the actual commands to complete the objective and checking the state and so on go into the classes.

If no more objectives in the list, mission accomplished.

You can also easily test each objective independently.

Maybe the trouble is trying to fight abstraction so hard in the first place.
Wait for the next election in Germany. AfD has just climbed to the 2nd place with 20% of support and is still growing. Believe or not, one day you will miss someone like Orban.
Well, ok, but since the tools and libraries don’t exist yet… Instead of waiting for somebody else to build middleware and hope it will be good, what would it look like today to design and implement an app that works on both visionOS and OpenXR?

That’s a question that I find interesting. Even if I don’t end up building such an app, it would illuminate the differences between Apple’s SDK and the rest of the industry.
That's fine, but online MTBF is much shorter for hard drives than flash. If you don't use your computers then hard drives make for better cold storage.
Apple Vision Pro – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movies on a Plane
> Likewise, the critical attitude towards technologies, and in particular to Big Tech (Google, Amazon, Facebook Apple and Microsoft, GAFAM)

Like more than half of HackerNews :/
Hi, I like discussing these topics too. I just created this for this purpose if you want to join me here https://discord.gg/r3vK4xY4

There's also an existing larger "gpt hackers" Discord you might be interested in checking out that I'm not involved with: https://discord.gg/pMjHMvkK
From the first blog post linked above:

> We discovered evidence of fraud in papers spanning over a decade

> We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data. Perhaps dozens.
Frenchman, pro business too. Completely share your analysis. This is slowly turning into a shit démocrature.
I feel the same wayy now that I'm older. The nitty-gritty of some of the memory management stuff just isn't relevant. The work I'm doing now is at a different scale and I let the language designers worry about this. It is still useful to know some details as they apply when I'm programming, but a lot of this stuff just doesn't command my attention!
I think they meant "any more".
A lot is still just becoming more clear now the SDK is here today but as usual there are definitely fine print gotchas. There are waay more restrictions in the MR Shared space mode so whatever (Unity/webXR) exports only to RealityKit for rendering with tight Apple conditions. In Full VR mode without Passthrough you have full control so custom shaders but no gaze and a 1.5m motion range limit. The MR mode itself has two flavors single or multi app modes with some tradeoffs like no hand joints with multiapp. Hand Joints are non OpenXR standard so need translation to be crossplatform anyway. And so on. All that said it's great so many experiences can port and there is a lot more interest in WebXR now hopefully WebGPU will fall into place too and it will be interesting to see what we can do with the Internet in 3D.
Me too, I signed up "for free" to get faster a package that ended up coming later than originally, went ahead to forget about it and caught it while I had been charged 3 months.
Pretty sure Francesca Gino identifies as a she! But then, who knows?

[0] https://twitter.com/francescagino
There is definitely a tendency to authoritarianism and confusionism from the current government, directed at political opposition.

"Security" laws extending the powers of the police and creating new ways to criminalize protest have been passed at a constant rhythm over the years since Sarkozy's time. After the state of urgency of 2015, part of the dispositions where simply put into law permanently.

Police has been increasingly violent during protests, bringing back old forbidden tactics and squads formerly dissolved for their violence (voltigeurs).

While there has been no dissolution of leftist movement and no political violence from the left since "action directe" in the 80's, there have been multiple ones (or attempts) in recent times, like the one from yesterday of an ecological movement.

Anti-terrorist laws are used to detain ecologists or protesters indefinitely, like in the case of the "8th november" affair from this topic, which has seen a person kept in solitary (hence, tortured) for 16 months without even being convicted.