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> it's that the system that made mandatory the concept of insurance for a dignified, modern life

You're talking like this is some kind of conspiracy theory, when there's not really any other way it could work. Banks will not give you a mortgage without home insurance, because then it would be an unsecured loan against an asset which would be worthless, with them eating the loss, if the house was destroyed. That's not sinister: nobody wants to loan against an ephemeral asset. And car insurance is mandatory because if you hit somebody, causing a million dollars of lifetime medical bills, and you don't have insurance, you've just fucked their life over with no possible recourse.
wait a minute...were you able to download chrome in the end? Or was edge straight up refusing to download it?
The only people with excess cash these days are NVDA and those who buy $40K chips from NVDA.
Your flight being delayed does not make you a refugee.
This is 100% a better reply than any of the silly wishful thinking; "maybe we can talk to Microsoft and protest and hope they change."

Ain't happening, y'all. Time to grow up.
> Even if it leads to more annoying cookie banners.

Those are not the result of EU regulation; they're not even compliant with EU regs, usually. I don't know for sure why companies put up those stupid banners, but I suspect it's partly a kind of protest, and partly an (illegal) attempt to trick users into consenting to data collection.
I mean, upper middle class are the people who bike, at least in the coastal cities. I've never met anyone who wasn't a tech worker/realtor/doctor/..., or at least a teacher or a PhD student in something abstract, who commuted by bike.
I do wonder what operating system managers of Microsoft use at home and what they think about stuff like those pop-ups.
I use one Windows desktop for a LLM & Stable Diffusion server (among others). I like to conserve power, so I have remote power switch (just a smart plug) and configured wake on Lan with very short time to sleep. I have been very happy with it working, until it suddenly stops responding.

I walk back to it and 5 out of 6 times it's Windows update blue full screen that essentially reads "we're changing settings for browser". That one time is BSOD
Definitely, and rugpulling "payments" with "only crypto btw" also sets up a huge red flag. Most people are heavily fatigued on weird blockchain projects and looking for any excuse to nope out of this and use a more familiar definitely-not-blockchain competitor. I was wondering if this was a supabase competitor (in the loose sense).
Implementing Google OAuth in Rust
Go in any app, highlight a word, "Search on the Web"
From Founder to CTO
it’s giving UDP energy
I don't really understand why everyone in this post is so hung up on this.

As long as there is no regulation in a particular area, obviously each actor will look out for their own interest. I wouldn't even call it selfish, it's just the natural order of things and an example of the tragedy of the commons. Nothing more, nothing less.

The fact that people here act as if learning how to drive better and getting an SUV is an either/or choice is ridiculous.
I was under the impression that most insurance was moving to an efficiency:cost-optimized model.

I.e. Creating fraud scoring engines and auto paying claims they greenlight (usually incorporating history and total value as major signs). Essentially saying "there's not enough potential fraud value here for it to be cost effective for us to apply human review." Although someone submitting claims at an abnormal rate would be flagged.

But I'm more familiar with healthcare.
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What problems have you had with the file system? I have had softupdates turned on for as long as I can remember, and haven’t run into any issues.
This is kind of like the Boltzmann Brain idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
What library are you using for visualizations? Does the AI generate the visualization?
It's somewhat controversial but there's no real conflict between the licenses at runtime.
I wonder if this will be another effect of higher-than-0 interest rates. With tech companies choosing to leave cloud service providers in order to reduce their costs.
I'm no free-market zealot, but in this case it seems like the market has spoken. They shouldn't live there!

Of course, there are ways to be humane about this, given that tearing people apart from their communities is bad for society. The government could taper off the program slowly, giving communities time to relocate. Or they could provide damage payouts with the stipulation that they are used to relocate somewhere else with lower risk, not rebuild in the same spot.

But to indefinitely subsidize building in doomed places? Doesn't seem right. I'm sure there's nuance I'm missing, happy to be enlightened.
The Night Agent.
A decentralized, blockchain-based messaging network for safer communications
Unlikely. AI projects are tied to Nvidia not to Linux. They just port their driver to FreeBSD or Solaris or whatever. The AI crowd will follow. But they can also just release drivers that as part of the driver install patches the end user's kernel to remove this janky stuff.
The main purpose of prison is not rehabilitation, or deterrence, but to put dangerous individuals away so they cannot terrorize others. This is why we put rapists in cells (or, at least we try to) - every year in a jail cell is a year they aren't raping women.
Leaving a negative review of the product because it doesn't work where you want it to work is absolutely not "toxic fanboy" behavior, its called being an advocate for your own interests. As the person paying up to 70$ for the game, consumers deserve to have their voices heard. Besides, is anyone actually worried about the rampant "toxicity" in the reviews section on a games steam page? Seems a bit pearl clutch-y.
God forbid things be intuitive.
ha, how weird it'd be if we're just a bug and not the feature. Totally throws the idea of a god out, I mean sure a programmer launched our instance but we were created totally by accident.
Either they use slightly-debloated LTS* version, or have unfortunately been desensitised to it too; just look at how a "normal" user browses without any adblocker.
It is true however that we're in a different world now with multicore processors. Back then preemption was about slicing up the usage of a single sequentially executing core.

For very specialized (probably embedded, but maybe other) use cases, I can see the value of specialized operating system which dispenses with time slice scheduling within a core and just assigns waiting tasks to a free core when/if it becomes available. On systems with very high core counts, and with lots of short lived tasks, there could be some value to this.

Even back then, on many machines and operating systems it's not like the whole world stopped when a process would not give up time slice. Things like mouse cursors, keyboard buffering, and often even some I/O were able to proceed because the hardware assisted in making that possible.

The thing is, I don't think going cooperative simplifies much.. you still have to handle concurrent access to shared resources, and re-entrancy etc. By the time you've made your operating system able to handle that (memory, VM subsystem, I/O, etc.) from multiple cores... you may as well just go implement timeslicing as well.
In Threads’ dwindling engagement, social media’s flawed hypothesis is laid bare
I do not agree with the assessment, personally, that it looks like advertising. That said, on mobile, the images could be under the title rather than under the tags, and they could have the same width as the other elements.
I don’t want to feed your Ad Hominem monster. Find some actual arguments in the debate as presented.
Unfortunately I cannot confirm that SW is solid. Massive problems with GPS when the fairphone 4 got out and still (very rarely) have to restart the phone to get a GPS fix.

Also there was this recently hot patched screen sensitive reduction for touch (where they wanted to fix some "screen ghost" issues) and you now have to press slightly more than necessary.

And then there are still problems with dual sim (not being able to see that phones come in from the other sim when you are on call) and many more (tiny) issues.

And yes, I can confirm that the HW seems to be robust. I also don't have a case only a protective glas.

The walled gardens could be avoided as there is official support for other OSes, I think calyxos and /e/os which themselves seem to support living without Google.
I got curious and tried it. Yes, the installer is downloaded, but there are a bunch of banners when attempting it.
I don't know about Myanmar but I am a little bit skeptical about "hundreds of thousands" in the rest (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia). I've traveled the region extensively and am in a remote place in Laos now.

I think the UN is using the word "trafficked" way too liberally. While I heard stories from fellow travelers and citizens (only in Cambodia, be careful in Phnom Penh and don't go to Sinahouk); my guess is that the majority of these are in some kind of situation (like owing money to the boss) or maybe justifying what they are doing (it's not a crime if you are forced!).

For some reason, I find this "hundreds of thousands" quite sinister. It devalues the whole issue as it normalizes it; while there are some people now in real need of help and in real danger.
> there's presumably no technical/compatibility issues that would stop the rest of the world using it to.

There never were an technical issue in defining the default browser. It's something that worked on any OS since nearly 30 years, including Windows.

It's 100% disrespect.
This seems like an important point. Either this element is being exaggerated, or some aspect of their society itself is enabling this at a fairly deep level.
All good points. All I was saying was why there is a need for DNA over photos and fingerprints.
> It is appalling that no social platform is taking this seriously.

The big social media corps won't eat into their profits by hiring people to find the scammers.

It will take a law that says something about keeping a human in the loop, or that your reports should always be validated by a human.
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My buddy Freinet [1] and I wanted to share Pyas with the HN community. Pyas is a developer-first calendar integration platform/API. Try it out and let us know what you think!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=freinet12
When I highlight text in `Terminal.app`, right-click, and then click "Search with Google" it opens Safari in spite of my preferences.
Makes sense. China was already a big battery producer. That kind of lowers the bar to start producing EVs. So not surprising to see those eating market share quickly (especially with China heavily relying on import for oil).

So... Big Oil will recede. Say hello to Big Battery!
I'm going to get raked across the coals for this but I think it's time for the Linux developers to finally put a stop to NVIDIA's antics. Force them to release an open source driver - they will comply, otherwise their AI conquest dreams will be over.

Start playing hardball with these vendors and either put an end to proprietary blobs or make it a living hell to achieve it with no compatibility guarantees. You're playing in the GPL sandbox so do things their way or get lost. NVIDIA should stick to Windows or another Unix if they don't want to play nice.

I'm betting people would rather not take on the operational burden of a different OS in their stack long term and would prefer a vendor that works with Linux well.
Uninstall drivers? Wtf
Firefox on iPhone is Firefox on iPhone, but it uses WebKit instead of Gecko.

Chrome on iPhone is Chrome on iPhone, but it uses WebKit instead of Blink.

The reason this is important for you to keep in mind is because Firefox is whatever Mozilla says Firefox is, and Chrome is whatever Google says Chrome is. There's no reason to suppose the iPhone version of some product should share any code with the Android version of the same product.
No, there shouldn't be a law, unless you intend to outlaw in-app advertising entirely, which will make a lot of people sad that there are no free smartphone games anymore, but okay.
btw: CalyxOS has Android 13: https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/device-support/
As I said in an earlier tweet, private transactions are possible
Who is 'deputizing' a landlord? The police are going to be much slower and ineffective in dealing with the problem than the landlord is, and why shouldn't a landlord take into consideration the effect their renters have on the neighbors in deciding who to rent to.
I can verify this. Setting Firefox to my default browser doesn’t change the behavior of “Search on internet” word lookup on long press: it still opens in Safari.
Should definitely be highlighted.

Property insurance is always in tension between actuarial statistics (estimates of ground risk) and politics (governments of various levels wanting insurance to be as cheap as possible).

I'd be fascinated to take a peek at whether actuarial models have changed in California and Florida (I can't imagine they haven't), and it might not make sense to sell property insurance there from a risk:marketPrice perspective.

On the other hand, I'd imagine the Fed boosting rates should have made the cash streams that insurance companies are more profitable?
All the facts you state about the environment are true. But it makes zero sense IMO to make this an individual decision governed by the whims of the market and replicated anew across every single person. That is a purely reactive stance and, being humans, we can do better than that.

We are smart enough to be proactive about these sorts of things, and considering we already have such an apparatus called "the state" to use to our benefit, we can provide assistance to people to reinforce their homes or move when necessary (in a rote economic sense, to keep them net-positive productive, in the utilitarian sense; in a humanistically compassionate sense, to keep them dignified) instead of trying to guide systemic patterns of behavior by punishing individuals for making impossibly complex choices regarding where they chose to and already do live.
The laws of physics are computable; why would a sufficiently large computer not be capable of simulating a universe?
Russia is just centuries of unending melancholy and tragedy - from the beginning with the Tsars, the Communists and then Yeltsin and now Putin - it has always been the Tsar (Putin) vs the Boyars (regional leaders/oligarchs) - the common folk don't really matter.
My wife's niece is from Laos and works for one of these chinese scam shops in the golden triangle. She is there voluntarily because it makes 5 times more money than her best alternative. Morally repugnant of course.
What should Windows 11 users do to let Microsoft know that such behaviors are intrusive and offensive?

Downgrade to Windows 10.

If enough users did this, they might realise that people still want to use Windows, but without the user-hostility, so will be more incentivised to change things back to how they were instead of just squeezing harder on what remains of their userbase.
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That page of chart drives me crazy from an information visualization point of view.

All of those charts could [and should] have the same Y axis scaling, including being anchored at 0% at the origin, and the information would be much more easily consumed at a glance.
Yep, I looked into this ~5 years or so ago for a side project and the money transmission licenses made the idea dead on arrival without outside funding which I really didn't want to do. Bootstrapping MTLs is pretty much unobtainable for most people. (This project had nothing to do with crypto at all, it was tool to help manage and pay off debt).
If I had a dollar for every time HN confused HN for the real world, I'd be a trillionaire.
Carrying this forward, stop buying shit. Humans today consume an ungodly amount of unnecessary crap. Just in terms of clothing the fast fashion industry has absolutely demolished our sense of longevity and repairability and convinced us we need entire new goddamn wardrobes every other year.
> The reality is a lot of consumers are still in the mindset that there's no problem with their individual behavior ("it's the fault of Exxon that our planet is doomed, not little ol' me buying a new phone every year!"). So Fairphone is enabling that bad behaviour, here.

So it is the individual's fault, except it's not the individual's fault?
This seems to ignore situations where you're coming in to any codebase you didn't write from scratch. Naming and conventions are already established - they're bad. Refactoring entails moving, renaming, consolidating, etc. Personally, I've found most of these activities are usually much simpler to run using tools crafted for that purpose vs crafting my own from a variety of tools.

I've had a few interactions with folks who were staunchly "anti IDE" (not saying you are), but was watching a 'director of engineering' give a walk through of their codebase via vim, and was bashing on IDEs. "If you need an IDE, you probably shouldn't work here. You should always be able to know everything about your code, where stuff is, etc. I wrote most of this and it's not that hard". When I brought up that he had a multi-year 'lead' on people new to the codebase, and that IDEs often make it pretty quick to explore and familiarize oneself with new-to-me code... he just 'pffft'-ed that away as 'sounds like more of a you problem' comment. They were also trying to hire, and having a hard time (this was... 10 years ago... so no idea how they're doing now on hiring front).
If CTO is a choose your own adventure role, why does it get created prior to a recognized need? I've never worked in a startup, is it because you just need roles to promote people into?

EDIT: upon re-reading the article I realized my misunderstanding. The role is created at the outset when there's only founders it seems.
So-named because you "fatten up the pig" before slaughter.
Agreed. There should only be a cost associated with punitive action. The incentive should be to get them out of the system (or, don't laugh- maybe rehabilitate them?), not to keep them in it.
Battery is indeed best on macbooks.

> ASUS Zenbook S OLED (AMD)

I went for the asus proart studio book. high screen resolution, high refresh rate, the oled display is gorgeous (although the touch screen overlay is slightly visible, not an issue once used to it) and it feels more robust than a macbook. also trivially upgrade-able short of cpu and gpu. had to patch my acpi tables for sound support, and no asus dial compat yet. every now and then i get my hands dirty and i might be able to hack something to get it working. thus got a new hobby as well :-)
Sort of begs the question, doesn't it? Just kicks the existential mystery one step up the ontological ladder.
Nope, they do not comply with the GPL licenses for their User Terminal firmware. I've sent them GPL requests for the GPLv2 Buildroot based firmware build system they use but they have so far refused to provide the source code. They have posted some kernel/uboot sources.

I am both a major Buildroot contributor and have Starlink internet service.

Their router firmware is OpenWRT based and while they have posted some source code for that it is not the source code corresponding to the binary firmware builds they actually distribute.

I have NAND dumps of both the User Terminal and router.

Funny enough a few years back their internal firmware CI even accidentally sent me some emails about broken builds since they applied some of my buildroot patches from upstream.
Modern hardware can power VMs within 1-5% of native and passthrough PCI-e devices... there's virtually no excuse to risk your machine's health and security by exposing it to Windows on bare metal in 2023.

Stay smart, stay protected.
That seems to be making some bold assumptions about the power of future technologies. We have no idea what the future might hold. And we have no idea about the true reality of our existence.

All of these conversations delve into the same uncertainties as faith. We’re trying to understand things we can’t truly ever understand or comprehend.
No exceptions, particularly when it comes to your operating systems.

Apple does it. Canonical does it. Windows does it. Google does it (kinda a duh, I agree). Stop this madness.
> It's easy to say this, as neither you nor I have the requisite knowledge to prove/disprove your assertion.

I actually do have that knowledge, you just speak for yourself. The fact that experts are able to distinguish earlier and later variants doesn't mean that this is trivial, nor does it mean that this is something that is error free. So your statement simply does not stand. Whether or not you can make a statement about the order in which mutations happened (which is the genetic basis for all evolutionary biology) hinges on a large number of factors and not all of those may be in agreement.

I've been somewhat involved in a bunch of issues around determining the sequence in which a plant mutated historically and in spite of a good idea of the overall picture the final call was less solidly supported than the parties involved would have liked. And that's before we get into the thorny issues of gaps in the record and sequence alignment, which by themselves can give rise to all kinds of interpretations.

> Incidentally, I noticed that you edited your first response several times while I wrote this. The tone of what you wrote first was a bit less considered than the what I'm responding to now, but I hope it's ok to just leave it at this.

Yes, I added some more information but the gist of it stands: this isn't trivial. Not by a long shot.
> Apple is using the settings app to shove ads for TV, Fitness subscriptions, etc. in your face.

And system notifications to shove ads for Safari in your face. Same with Windows using system notifications to advertise Edge. Luckily, the popular Linux distros aren't that tacky yet.
That might explain the document, but that doesn’t explain some of them keeping slaves themselves. Jefferson even went on to be president and while he did things to restrict the trade, he kept slaves and opposed some measure to restrict slavery (for reasons much as you describe).

https://www.crf-usa.org/images/t2t/pdf/HowShouldWeJudgeOurNa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_slavery
I'd call it the last acceptable one. 2000 felt like the last one that was actually controlled by the user.
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I think this is totally right. But some things really do need to be as close to perfect as you can get them. The things in that category that I've run into most are security, privacy, and legal compliance. But in other applications, safety issues would also go in this bucket.

So those things really do need a proactive gate, or maybe in some cases, at least an extremely fast reactive response capability.

But this just means it is more important to identify the smallest set of considerations like this, in order to give them special treatment, rather than requiring higher scrutiny for everything - if everything is special nothing is special - and to invest in ways for work to be done without implicating those special considerations.
No, for the same reason it's not a vehicle even though it has many moving parts. A vehicle is something used to transport an agent. A computer is something used to do computation for an agent. Computation is the process of making reliable, rule-driven inferences about one system from another. If the universe is considered as a whole, there is no second system to which to applies the inferences made using the universe as a first system.
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