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> We are talking about ARM chips, anyone with the money can design their own ARM chips and contract TSMC to manufacturer them.

So the first step is to have enough capital to design a state of the art microprocessor that can compete with the world's largest corporation. If this is feasible, why hasn't anyone done it? Every other phone chip is slower.

Then they have to make their own phone, and their own app store, and somehow get a critical mass of third party developers to make apps for a platform that has no existing user base or a get a critical mass of users to buy a phone without existing third party apps, and then drive Apple out of the market because even if they achieved 50% market share in phones they still could not distribute their app to half of their app's customer base.

If you want to write a piece of software that Apple doesn't approve, the barrier to entry has gone from "you post it on your website and people install it on their Apple computers" to "you must be a trillion dollar multinational conglomerate who can not only produce your own vertically integrated hardware and software platform but operate at a loss long enough to cause all of your app customers who currently have an iPhone to switch to it so they can install your app."

And that would only work for one entity -- then they're the vertically integrated conglomerate standing between third party developers and users.

This is clearly not a realistic option.

> If people are willing gk pay more for a gourmet burger at an upscale restaurant (Apple) than McDonalds (Android$ because they feel like the burgers are better, that’s people making an informed choice.

The whole point of tying is to take away your choice. Instead of choosing which phone you want and which OS you want and which app store you want, all of these are forced into a single decision that can no longer accurately represent the customer's true preferences. Having the information doesn't let you choose differently because the decision is still coerced to binary.

But if you want to talk about informed, why is the 30% cut hidden from the end user? Shouldn't it be on the statement when they buy something from the store?

It isn't because it would make Apple look bad to be taking such a large percentage from third parties you thought you were supporting, after you've already paid them hundreds of dollars for a piece of hardware you ought to own.

> Are you saying that video game makers should also be forced to license their IP so other manufacturers can clone their consoles?

Nobody wants to clone a console. They're sold at a loss in a dumping scheme to achieve a network effect so they can shake down video game producers.

What they should not is be able to shake down video game producers. Xbox and PlayStation should have Steam and the Epic Games Store. Which would render the dumping scheme non-viable, as intended.
This is a developing story, their earlier article (linked at the top of this article), covers the backstory and has links to sources etc

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/8/9/23825966/frances...
I think that you'll get a lot of feedback.

I would suggest to my peers, that the links you gave are "official channels," and are probably what you really want, as opposed to a rather rambling thread of comments.

But for me, you just get a rambling comment.

I made my career on devices. In particular digital scanners and cameras.

I worked for a company that was about as tinfoil as you could get, and they supported devices long past their sell-by date.

But I also know that my company was an outlier. They sold premium equipment, at a premium price. They were an "old-fashioned" Japanese corporation, and had a basic mindset of keeping the customer's workflow in the center of the screen.

I think IoT security is a huge issue, and I think that the solution could be that there are standard, open-source, open-license, free-to-use packages; maybe written in languages like C, that could be offered to the industry. These could enforce low-level compliance with security standards.

Oh, and keep the TLAs out of it. They would really like to put a bit of "extra spice" in something like that.

That said, I know that it will never happen. There's a gazillion issues.
Yeah I'm honestly amazed at how many software people don't get that the optimal strategy is cheap fixed price and incredibly high margin change requests.

That being said you need a good spec to do this, and that definitely isn't normally the case in software.
Why is this hex dump being used as a verification rather than just showing the two (supposedly the same) hashes of the entire executable themselves? Should be a quick 20 minute job for whoever call themselves "journalists" today.

I suppose it's possible for that particular string to get into the binary by some other means. Maybe failed anti-circumvention that checks for known strings in its own directory or something similar?
Then fire your shitty vendor or refund your customers.

Nothing will change unless everybody changes.
What I really like in the space is what OCaml and Smalltalk do, where ints are full objects unto themselves with essentially a bit in the object header that says "interpret the rest of this object header as an int and if you need to do object style ops, you don't need a pointer to the class as the class is int", so there's no boxed versus unboxed int distinction in the first place. So primitive types versus class types exists at the VM level, but not the language level.

Obviously Java doesn't have the luxury of that decision at this point. But a lot of goofy parts of languages are string of fairly rational choices with unintended consequences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino
How to Optimize SQL Query with Multiple JOINs
They are just honest about reporting these events. Others don't, so they look better. It's easy to lie without getting caught, because most people don't experience most outages personally.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observational_study
> Plugins are developed by or at least with third parties. It's a gatekeeper of an ecosystem that at this point is a common good.

While I guess that for many vendors they don't care whether it's open or not. For instance AWS. I doubt they truly care about it being open or not.
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United Airlines flights grounded nationwide due to equipment outage
You need to either be or represent the copyright holder. I'm 99% sure most warez groups have no interest in exposing themselves to any legal systems when it comes to what they do.
Yes, I understand that. What I mean is, how does it address the problems highlighted in the article?

It seems to me there's no fundamental difference for the context of this article; it's still flat rate vs unit-of-time based work, isn't it?
What you mean to say here is that time & materials project structure makes sense when there's a lot of scope risk. Hourly billing never makes sense in our field, unless your bill rate is so high that all of your projects are denominated in small numbers of hours.
Just a remark: if you want to play with WASM features like GC, use Binaryen's `wasm-opt` instead of WABT, as `wasm-opt` supports way more WASM extensions.
Cool, could you point me a link to the API for deploying, starting, stopping the app?
Is this the equivalent of pointing out people eating alone at restaurants because he thinks it’s weird? Contracting can be good and the downward pressure stuff is false because of trust issues and networking effects.
If you are happy with your choices, it does not really matter what others (especially random people on the internet) think so I'd say just ignore what others think :)

Plus I'd say that to have kids (in a family sense) does not necessarily mean they have to be your biological kids as I think that the bonding/family aspect of it is much more important than simple reproduction. Atleast for the mental well being of a person that is.
That's why modern agriculture is reactive. Instead of relying on "stable" conditions, you adapt them as needed.
He had a mix of random ones. They were telling him to buy a hub and hope for the best or go thru one of their vendors (more cost). Even if it that was slightly wrong that exact example could very easily happen. You have a group of devices in random levels of firmware states with no real nice way to tell what is what.
> but all the points you brought forward also apply to the manufacturer firmware but those are even less user friendly and cannot be modified.

That's more than a reach of a claim. All manufacturer firmware are buggy with poor security? That's very obviously false. With closed manufacturers the history is that it's a mixed bag, not a blanket. Some are excellent, some are very poor.

Openwrt has been mediocre and all the negatives about it do not equally apply to all closed manufacturer firmware.
So it's basically to avoid time micromanagement? A solid advantage, I'll admit, but I don't think that's the main thing TFA takes issue with.
Would also accept EZFS.
Yes, if you go to an "imaging center" they typically cost less than at a hospital. Strangely, my doctor's referral was to the hospital not the imaging center so per my insurance that is where I had to go. My insurance and the doctor's practice and the hospital they sent me to were all owned by the same huge health organization... Hmmm.
I really hate when people think that everyone else is a moron.

Do you really think that nobody else thought about using "science" for agriculture?
> This makes sense kind of, though. If you haven't realized any of your gains, what are you paying the tax with?

True, but only in a philosophical sense. It's an issue of pricing, and pricing securities assets to original purchase value is a falsehood.

People are very happy when their stock price increases dramatically, or their home value increases; they don't say 'well, those aren't my assets; all I have is the $100 price I bought it at X years ago.' People are happy when it's securities for which they only have future options to buy.
> This explains the myth of the retail MC2 crashing on Vista - the game is most likely innocent, as the demo works great out of the box. IT WAS AGAIN THE CRACK breaking it.

Myth? Innocent? That game was totally unplayable when it first came out (for 98/ME?) so I doubt Razor made anything worse. I'd get most of the way through any race before the game randomly crashed.

It would be funnier if it weren't so absurd, since I'd have to go through finding the opponent in the world, chasing them to the starting line and doing the race itself each time.
> What kinds of projects are you working on that you have no intention of sharing with others?

Not large projects, but little code snippets that make my life easier. Like shuffling a list of bullet point items, bash one liners for working in a Linux environment. None of these are advanced enough to release publicly on GitHub, although I sometimes paste helpful snippets into a Gist incase someone finds it useful.
When I covered IT hardware companies on Wall Street, I heard Apple's CFO say that his company could release a $799 computer "but we don't want to".

Around the same time, at an investor dinner with the Dell CFO, an attendee asked how sales were of a $299 computer on Dell's print catalog cover. The CFO replied, "the problem with advertising a $299 computer is that people want to buy it".
So what? Just because there are some atypical people doesn't make it a "no".
Agreed. Its a lot of hot air.
see also RFC 2828 and 4949

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4949.txt
SLAPP is common in the UK too unfortunately. Here's a particularly egregious example involving a Minister: https://archive.ph/dVard Another one involving the Wirecard fraud where Wirecard sued the FT: https://archive.ph/J05QO Another one involving Putin's cronies suing a writer: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/roman-abramovi... A bitcoin guy: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/09/12/who-can-say-who-i...
This is unfortunately the US legal system in a nut shell.
You don't have to be right a lot of the time, you just have to have more money than the person you are suing or who are in a position to sue you.

You can just bleed them to the point they have to surrender.
No such thing as a public defender when you are being sued. Plus the process itself is so complex, its pretty hard to figure out how to represent yourself especially while working a full time job.

600k to defend yourself from a defamation lawsuit brought by someone who's own employer has done the research and labeled them a fraud. So in the best case scenario all you win is poverty and debt.
One thing I never understood were people who paid money to go to an American university to major in a language like French, German, or Japanese.

Why don’t they just take their 60k a year tuition and spend it living in the country that actually speaks that language?

I’ve seen third or fourth year students majoring in French with worse language abilities than the engineering students
who spent a semester on exchange to France or Switzerland.

Some majors are a complete waste of time and money.
Give them some time to figure out what merge strategy they want to enforce - it was probably overlooked as a repository setting and they probably clicked Merge instead of Squash and Merge by accident.
Or you're in a company meeting and they thank the PM for "building" the project, not the actual team. It makes me kinda mad.
It's actually kind of like a bizarro version of open source: someone or some group may be the initiator of a project but some of the community that grows around the project also contribute back to it, making it a symbiotic relationship. Just, in the bizarro version, there's an even more complex ecosystem filled with people who get to play a game where they hunt down some of the members of this community and make angry faces at them and sometimes put them in jail.
We learned that Word Mark is the potential issue here.

Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordmark for more details

(disclaimer - env0 founder here, co-lead the OpenTF initiative)
Growing up I never really got into reading for fun, mostly due because the school I went too didn't understand reading comprehension issues and "incentivized" reading. They set a limit of reading 5 books within some time frame in order to go to recess this one special day and/or attend this party they were having. I wanted to go, but really couldn't catch up. I felt left behind. The reward should be the reading, not some external source or something a child should be getting by default.

I know this was a little part of my life, but It really stuck with me and still to this day don't enjoy reading fiction for fun due to the negative implications growing up. Occasionally I start to read some fiction but end up getting it on audible to listen too.
Its pretty unusual, I think it has to do with their local time coupled with a presumed enthusiastic and swift response on the part of github.

I'm more used to 'on crack' meaning like 'delirious, over confident'.
Things like what? That looks like a straightforward rename
I don't know why I have to write this comment but not every twitter user is a journalist...
Arm targets valuation of up to $52B in IPO
The article seems convincing but the ITIF is a bit biased.It receives a lot of money from the major players of the tech industry. I would be very wary.

https://gizmodo.com/tech-think-tank-whines-that-journalists-...
Does this implement symbolic algebra/calculus, or is it entirely numerical?
Not sure it is unique, but it is certainly a very real property of the system.

In many cases, the point isn't to ever get to trial, it is just to exhaust the finances, resources or time for the other party.

It has been manipulated over a long period of time to be particularly friendly to the people and corporations with the deepest pockets.
There were so many great shared systems that needed only a dollar or so and got you access to a shell and a community! I should go check out my sdf account!
I can totally understand it being too "heavy-handed" a solution for tons of cases, definitely! Thanks for sharing :)
Sounds like you want something like the Dygma Defy. It has (I think) 8 thumb keys in addition to the standard keyboard array. It's ortholinear, which I find way more sensible.
A simple scheduler for OCaml 5 (effects, multicore)
Amazing how little code is needed for that, and how clear the interface is... documentation and tutorials at https://docs.osau.re/miou/
FWIW I have a fairly wacky keyboard (36-key Corne) that uses lots of clever layering to hit different symbols. It took a bit to learn as my daily driver but 1) it's awesome to have all your keys so accessible to the home row, and 2) I haven't experienced any degradation in my muscle memory of normal keyboards, and I only use a normal keyboard (like my MBP) maybe a few times per month.
I think we also need to have mandatory access to devices for our own monitoring solutions
I've always been severely disappointed that these "gig apps" aren't actually gig apps - you know, that support negotiation and other such things. Because having Uber tell me it will cost $10 but I get no service at all is not useful, especially if there was a driver who would have gone for it at $11 or $15 or whatever.
The lottery is a tax for people who are bad at probability math. It's irrational when people bet full Kelly.
Let's dont act as if the Blind was the only place where you can have discussion about stuff like this
Initial Impressions of the Nostr Network
But that data isn't necessary to run their business, hence the restrictions on doing so. It really really really isn't hard to comply with these rules without asking the user for consent, all you have to do is not collect everything you can about them.

Any website who asks you about cookies or tracking thinks they are collecting more information about you than they need to do their work. Meanwhile the EU has signaled through lax enforcement that they aren't interested in going after anyone but the largest players, and seemingly more for recovering lost tax than shutting down their data collection.

There is no justification for the cookie and tracking prompts. By definition, they are direct evidence of a website trying to track you in ways they aren't allowed.
A VS Code extension that manages stacked pull requests
"Topics of interest are based on your recent browsing history and are used by sites to show you personalized ads"

"Sites you visit can determine what you like and then suggest ads as you continue browsing"

Chrome collects data on everything you visit and sends that info to its "partner" sites when you visit them. IMO, in a properly regulated environment, this should result in jail time for everyone involved.
The longer the unit of time, the less pressure there is for either side to micromanage the work, or to avoid time-saving optimizations, or to invoice random conversations that could lead to new business, or to cram multiple clients into a single day when that's not what you want to be doing.

I've written a lot about this on Hacker News over the years; like, a lot a lot. Here's a starting point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6105004

I don't think anybody in our field should ever be billing hourly. Day/week/month/quarter vs. flat rate? We can go back and forth on. Just don't do hourly.

This comment is I think too subtle to lead off with, but it's the essence of where I'm coming from on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103207

(I have had some moderate success with this approach, which makes this a rare case in which my confidence in arguing something here has at least some colorable basis in reality.)
I think it should be mandatory that we have access to these devices with SSH or something to be able and retrieve logs or possibly create fixes ourselves
They disbanded some years ago :*(
What? I said nothing of the sort.

In what we laughingly call "normal" geometry, given a line L and a point P not on L, there is exactly one line L' through P parallel to L. In this case, the interior angles of a triangle sum to 180 degrees.

In hyperbolic geometry, there is more than one line L', L'', etc., through P that are parallel to L. In this case, the interior angles of a triangle sum to <180 degrees.

In elliptic geometry, there are no lines L' through P parallel to L. (You also have to alter Euclid's 2nd axiom, defining a line as extending indefinitely.) And in this case, the interior angles of a triangle sum to >180 degrees.

Triangles are triangles; they have three points and three line segments. Their properties, however, are inconsistent in the three axiomatic systems.

If you are operating in a relatively small area, say a bronze-age farmer's field, Euclid's axioms satisfy all your geometrizing needs. If, however, you are on the somewhat-spherical Earth and are dealing with a large enough area, you can make a triangle with three 90 degree interior angles. You can tell which geometry your "physical space" is dealing with, and if you use the wrong one then you will get wrong answers.

For more than 2000 years, geometers assumed their space was essentially Euclidian. It turns out that is not really true, and it also turns out that there are (now, common) situations where the difference matters. So when you do any applied math, you assert that your axioms "faithfully reflect reality". And you may be wrong. And you may not have any way of knowing you are wrong. And you may not even have the mathematical tools to know what "wrong" means.
The actual analysis: https://github.com/alasdairforsythe/tokenmonster/blob/main/b...

> Summary of Findings:

> - Comparable (50256-strict-nocapcode) TokenMonster vocabularies perform better than both GPT-2 Tokenizer and tiktoken p50k_base on all metrics.

> - Optimal vocabulary size is 32,000.

> - Simpler vocabularies converge faster but do not necessarily produce better results when converged.

> - Higher compression (more chr/tok) does not negatively affect model quality alone.

> - Vocabularies with multiple words per token have a 5% negative impact on SMLQA (Ground Truth) benchmark, but a 13% better chr/tok compression.

> - Capcode takes longer to learn, but once the model has converged, does not appear to affect SMLQA (Ground Truth) or SQuAD (Data Extraction) benchmarks significantly in either direction.

> - Validation loss and F1 score are both meaningless metrics when comparing different tokenizers.

> - Flaws and complications in the tokenizer affect the model's ability to learn facts more than they affect its linguistic capability.
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Good point, we should enforce squash merging.