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You would be amazed to know how many problems have been solved in software, but the client has no idea what the solution is or how to implement it if they did.
I assume they have mistaken “iCloud account” for “Apple ID with associated payment method”. In order to use the App Store, you need payment details with a billing address. Apple uses this billing address to decide which region your Apple ID is in for the purposes of licensing, region locking, etc. If they were going to distinguish between EU and non-EU accounts, they would use this.

Also, in order to change regions, not only do you need to add a new payment method with a verified payment address in the new region, you also need to cancel all in-app subscriptions and then resubscribe after you have changed region. Assuming the app and subscription is available in the new region, of course.

I’m skeptical they’ll do this though. Allowing side loading is a sufficiently large change in strategy that it doesn’t really make much difference to Apple if they allow the EU to do it vs the whole world.
> I missed the news of Doug Lenat's passing. He died a few days ago on August 31st.

Discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354000 (172 comments)
> It's another nerd trope that physical fitness means you must engaged in competitive team sports or toxic masculinity.

Oh please. As a lifelong nerd, I've never heard of these tropes.
The majority of users are not going to look at it from your perspective. The HN crowd is likely to be your highest intent audience, and your comment suggests they don't feel your product expresses enough of a value prop ahead of the registration wall. If you want this to grow organically, you're going to need to take a user-centered design perspective. It's not sufficient to say you yourself represent a user persona because you're biased by your desire to see a return on investment.
Show HN: Nix Snapshotter – Native understanding of Nix packages for containerd
Hello! This is Edgar and Robbie and we built nix-snapshotter. nix-snapshotter brings native understanding of Nix packages to containerd.

We built this because Nix is a great fit for making efficient containers. They don't need an OS because Nix captures all dependencies exactly. However, the current process of creating Nix images is subpar because one needs to transform Nix packages into a format that container runtimes understand.

Using nix-snapshotter, instead of downloading image layers, packages come directly from the Nix store. Packages can be fetched from a binary cache or built on the fly if necessary. All existing non-Nix images continue to be supported, and Nix layers can be interleaved with normal layers.

nix-snapshotter also provides a CRI image service, which allows Kubernetes to resolve image manifests from Nix directly too. This enables for the first time, fully declarative Kubernetes resources, all the way down to the image specification and its contents. With this, you can even run pure Nix images without a Docker Registry at all, if you wish.

We'd love for you to try it out, there is a one-liner for Nix users to boot a VM with everything pre-configured: https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter
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... only 2PB? You might be using a different scale than some of us.
No. Using a phone while you're driving is peak stupid. I keep both hands on the wheel unless I'm operating the shifter or touching a knob, then both hands go back. This is how you are supposed to drive. If you need to take a call or change where you are navigating, you pull off in a gas station or parking lot for the couple of minutes needed before going back on the road.

The world will not end if you are not accessible via internet-based communications for an hour or less. You can wait to answer that text message.
Twilio has a support number for paid customers.
From my experience with two cars with factory nav, it's nice because it will show the next instructions in the the dash area, so when you're looking down to check speed you also get that. And, one of my cars has an option to show the next several instructions (Ford Sync2, which everybody hates because the UI is really slow, and kind of ugly). On the other hand, pay to play for data updates sucks. And most importantly, safety requirements mean you either have to yell at the car and deal with dated voice recognition or stop to adjust things; even if you have a responsible passenger who could use the touch screen.

Mostly, I just use my phone. It's simpler and faster. My cars are too old for carplay/android auto, and my experience with android auto was that it was worse than the phone in a clip or a cupholder, but carplay seems nice. For longer drives to unfamiliar places, I'll put the address in the car too, sometimes the phone gets tired of listening to GPS.
Korean is the language I know. What I said is the same for it.

Hangul(Korean writing system) is not a logograph like Chinese/Japanese but an alphabet. Many words do have different meanings but all languages have this to an extent. I don't think that's the reason Korean is context dependent.

The bigger reason is that Korean is very pro drop.

Strictly speaking 친구 있어요 ? means Friend Have ?

And you would say exactly that for any of these English equivalents

"Do they have friends ?"

"Do you have a friend ?"

"Do you have friends ?"

"Does he have a friend ?"

And so on.

Plurality as a special marker doesn't really exist. Possessive and Article Determiners don't really exist either. Articles don't exist at all. Possessive markers are few and only used when surrounding context might not be enough to convey the needed information.

Subject/Object/Topic markers exist but are regularly omitted.

You might ask, well how would you know which of those equivalents 친구 있어요 means ?

There is no way to tell before reading or hearing the surrounding context.

Traditional models are unable to decipher this context and translations are only good with close language pairs. Google translate can be very good for English to French and Japanese to Korean but fail on Korean to English.
I cancelled mine. I was told I couldn't get a refund until they were all shipped. So finally I can get my $750 back!
I suppose they do not consider it a ‘truly convergent operating system’ since you cannot (officially) get root on it.
My Purism phone worked for about 48 hours. Then it bricked. Disgusted with myself for buying it on an impulse, though in my defense I was - at the time - happy with my Purism laptop. Purism is forever on my do-not-buy list after my phone experience.
Well, people in the PRC aren’t really working for peanuts nowadays either. They’re not making US/EU wages, but they ain’t working for free, either. China has been doing its own outsourcing of cheap labor to places like Vietnam.

Labor is nowhere near the only factor that makes Chinese sources cheaper. It’s the ecosystem. There’s an entire industry that can do every possible thing, and they’re doing it all the time, so they’re flexible and configurable and can quickly spin out a variant on your standard-issue smartphone like it’s nothing.

(Well, assuming Xi’s recent megalomania hasn’t slowly started to destroy all that…)
Hi, Brandon from GCS here. If you're looking for all of the guarantees of a real, POSIX filesystem, you want to do fast top level directory listing for 100MM+ nested files, and POSIX permissions/owner/group and other file metadata are important to you, Gcsfuse is probably not what you're after. You might want something more like Filestore: https://cloud.google.com/filestore

We've got some additional documentation on the differences and limitations between Gcsfuse and a proper POSIX filesystem: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse#expandable-1

Gcsfuse is a great way to mount Cloud Storage buckets and view them like they're in a filesystem. It scales quite well for all sorts of uses. However, Cloud Storage itself is a flat namespace with no built-in directory support. Listing the few top level directories of a bucket with 100MM files more or less requires scanning over your entire list of objects, which means it's not going to be very fast. Listing objects in a leaf directory will be much faster, though.
I’ll add some nuance here. You can implement append yourself in a clunk way. Create a new multipart upload for the file, copy its existing contents, create a new part appending what you need, and then complete the upload.

Not as elegant / fast as GCS’s and there may be other subtleties, but it’s possible to simulate.
No, not 100%.

I've already outlined a number of things that are not under one's control.

We don't have to keep going in circles. You're free to disagree.
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> but generally tech things get cheaper as time passes.

I don't think that applies at all to super small high-skill manufacturing runs.
There is a difference between spending $2000+ on a new computer and $10, which is about what a terabyte costs.
Probably just having the discussion itself would waste more resources than just giving the storage space.
There were things before Dex even, but I guess they're talking about the OS vendors.
Can you guys please give me any feedback on this app? It would be greatly appreciated!
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Despite its potential flaws, modern capitalism is still a thousand times more preferable than any kind of communism.
I just filed an abuse report, I'm wondering if they work without any kind of social bump.
Isn't PBS/NPR sort of close to the BBC?
In the above described scenario (US-based retiree moving to Germany), its likely the social security totalization treaty applies, giving them access to the health system: https://www.ssa.gov/international/Agreement_Pamphlets/german...
I think it depends on how you explain the history and structure of the UN. One one hand, eh, maybe the UN was just enough for the US and USSR to hold off launching nukes. On the other hand, they may look at the structure with the US and USSR/Russia being permanent security council members (or the idea of permanent members in general) self defeating since we are often opposed and the UN can't really do much without the sign off from the Security Council. So they may say, the UN isn't an argument against because the UN is badly structured designed to not have any real teeth in the first place.
Yeah, excessive modularity can be just as bad as any monolith. I'd tend towards sticking to a few libraries with well defined boundaries like target OS, or perhaps one for native cpu architecture word sizes and the like. But that still leaves some optional oddities like IntInf without an obvious destination.
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It was a joke about stepping on one of my kids' legos in the middle of the night while half asleep.
Personally this is my experience. I've had a couple of very distressful/low times in my life and I've always instinctually exercised rigorously in terms of weights, running, swimming, etc during those times to take my mind off of things outside of my control and have found it very therapeutic. The adrenaline and pain felt from pushing yourself through a hard workout takes your mind off of things and also makes you feel more alive and energetic. It is very difficult to feel down when you are experiencing these feeling from working out IMO. From my perspective, I like to describe it as I could not escape my own mind of a stream of negative and impending doom of thoughts but when working out and giving it your all, it allows you to feel and focus on the environment around you and get outside your head or negative thoughts, giving you a break mentally from that constant stream of bad mojo.

I would have to guess working out like that puts you in flight or fight mode. Which I think is part of our evolution when in fight or flight mode to have a heightened sense of awareness of the environment around you which due to our limited locus of attention, shifts attention or focus from inward negativity to the "immediacy of being". This also seems to coincide with my normally perceived fast tempo of music that seems to slow down when in a hard workout.
For fun / temporary, sure.
Revealed preference is that people move to countries with free speech
That's news to me. I'll definitely take a look.
I'd like to know what percentage of people who bought this are using it as their smartphone? I heard the battery life and hardware quality isn't great.
Sorry to hear that!

I have a positive outlook. I deal with the problems I encounter and enjoy the little things. This year was pretty good, I pulled off some stuff I didn't know I could do. Now I feel more confident that I can deal with lots of things life'll throw at me (not everything of course).

Happy to chat some more outside a public comment thread :D There's an email address in my profile.
I had to force myself to run regularly. But after a year of this, suddenly I realized I was looking forward to running. Now, it's one of the best parts of my day.

I couldn't run for a couple months because I sprained both ankles, and I sure missed it.

Lifting, though, I just don't enjoy it.
It is? Are there success stories of companies using Cyc?

I always had the impression that Cycorp was sustained by government funding (especially military) -- and that, frankly, it was always premised more on what such software could theoretically do, rather than what it actually did.
There's the USA edition and the standard edition. AFAIK it's the US-manufactured one that's so expensive, they're also short of parts AFAIK.
I'm sorry, but you must not be familiar with Duplo tracks. This is an over engineered child's toy, specifically designed with knowledge that they will be abused.

Again, if it's flat on the ground, it's far from the point where something breaking is a concern.
True, although I have some hope -- people have been disabling the onstar hardware in cars for decades and I assume this kind of thing will expand as these systems become even more invasive.

The solutions will probably have to advance. I assume the first stage will be just unplugging the telematics ECU (Electronic Control Unit). Then the automakers will get wise, and punish the driver if that ECU is offline (reduce/remove some unrelated features). Then we'll have to make hardware that plugs into the telematics and gps antenna connectors that acts like a man in middle to ensure only the minimum (and possibly fake) data is received by the ECU. Then they'll probably add something that calls home every so often and requires a valid response to know everything is ok... etc.
You can set up lifecycle policies. For example, auto delete or auto archive versions > X date. That’s one lifecycle rule. With custom naming schemes, it wouldn’t scale as well.
Has anyone actually tried using the "convergent os" features for work?

Could I hook this up to a monitor and actually enjoy using it for web/email/slack?

I don't expect a good experience for using VSCode to develop locally on the device, but perhaps using VSCode via github codespaces or gitpod
Playing with genetic algorithms in Python
Einstein never mentions communism. The essay's topic is socialism.
I felt that.
But also : how do you deal with testing interaction with an external API.
Or code that you control but require a large effort to instanciate? ( you want to test f but need to standup a,b,c,d and e.
I find it tempting to mock e and call it a day.
It allows to use it to train other models, right?
My family had a friend who was an officer in the Marines. In the Vietnam war he was one of the people who went in and burned villages, you know the bad stuff. When Apocalypse Now came out he got a copy on Beta-max, brought it over and insisted all his friends watch it. He said it was the only movie that really captured the insanity of that war.
> it's not worth putting in all this effort for someone who isn't willing to even register for free

Keep in mind that most products are not successful and thus, in theory, "not worth putting in all this effort".

The feedback from people saying that they bounced because of registration is a signal that you can choose to address or ignore. If _enough_ people bounce before they can see the value, then ignoring the signal means you're effectively giving up on this becoming viable. Another alternative, though, is to find more ways to demonstrate the value before registration is required to make sure you're not losing people too early in the sales funnel.

I feel like asking people to look at it from your perspective is not a great attitude in product management, which is more about figuring out the prospective customer's perspective and making sure you're offering something they want.
> The UN's biggest flaw is the security council veto power.

100% the opposite.

The UN doesn't have any power to do anything that its members don't want to do. Because there's no enforcement mechanism except military action.

And no one is going to use military force to enforce anything against a nuclear power.

Which means that, in order for the UN to function, it needs to keep countries willing to participate. And the security council veto is a pragmatic means to that end.
I would bet a high percentage of humans would do the same thing if prompted as such.
There's a good chance the modem is on its own fuse. There's also a good chance the modem is 4g only, so whenever that gets shutdown, the car will be trackerless, as happened to cars with 2g or 3g modems. :D
I do scientific computing in google cloud. When I first got started, I heavily relied on GCSFuse. Over time, I have encountered enough trouble that I no longer use it for the vast majority of my work. Instead, I explicitly localize the files I want to the machine that will be operating on them, and this has eliminated a whole class of slowdown bugs and availability bugs.

The scale of data for my work is modest (~50TB, ~1 million files total, about 50k files per "directory").
I have a 5-year-old and we frequently assemble wooden BRIO train tracks in a variety of configurations. As he's building out track, I'm often a few steps behind him, silently reworking the track configuration so it's not over-constrained. It typically ends up being a fun, if not simple problem solving challenge that I get to spend time with kid my at.
> As someone who grew up as a nerd and only later discovered the joys of sports and fitness:

> This idea that physical fitness is "war" and excruciating painful and only for jocks is largely self-inflicted by nerds upon themselves. It comes from movies and TV and internet tropes more than the real world.

As someone who was a nerd but also in a variety of sports through most of school, had parents who were active in coaching, and has been involved in some organized athletics beyond school: no, its not “self-inflicted by nerds upon themselves”.

Its not inherent in athletics itself, but its deeply involved in a lot of sports culture, is extremely common in youth sports of all kinds (even sometimes in notionally non-competitive organizations) which is probably whwre most misperceptions of its universality comes from—not just through coaches, but very often through parents, many of whom will put pressure on coaches they don’t see as embracing it.

Jock culture is not a product of nerd culture imagination, nor is it a fictional media invention. You can kind find social athletic groups/venues without it, but its pretty hard to predict where you will.

> In fact, your local amateur soccer club or climbing gym is probably full of nerds. I run into a lot of engineers at these activities.

Not all engineers are nerds and, contrary to media myths of an exclusive dichotomy, being a nerd or engineer doesn’t mean not having a stereotypical jock-culture attitude toward athletics.

Amateur adult sports clubs are a mixed bag, but (IME, at least) generally better than what one generalizing from youth sports might expect, same with gyms.
If you find this article interesting and are curious about Nim then you would probably also be curious about https://github.com/c-blake/cligen

That allows adding just 1-line to a module to add a pretty complete CLI and then a string per parameter to properly document options (assuming an existing API using keyword arguments).

It's also not hard to compile & link a static ELF binary with Nim.. I do it with MUSL libc on Linux all the time. I just toss into my ~/.config/nim/nim.cfg:

@if musl: # make nim c -d:musl .. foo static-link `foo` with musl
cc = gcc # --opt:size trades more speed
gcc.exe = "musl-gcc" # NOTE: This also works as a ..
gcc.linkerexe = "musl-gcc" #..per-module foo.nim.cfg
passL = "-static -s"
@end

Lisp is often cited as one of Nim's inspirations.

EDIT: https://nim-lang.org/ has much more detail and there are over 50 small CLI programs at https://github.com/c-blake/bu as rather extended examples. Using that musl approach I get tiny little 100 kB ELF executables that would work on practically any Linux you can `scp` them to with none of the boilerplate/language limits/hassles or speed-limits of, say, Go and run-time start-up times on the order of 100 microseconds. There are all kinds of great libs in Nim, too like @V1ndaar's https://github.com/SciNim/Measuremancer or all sorts of goodies over at https://nimble.directory/
You know your work's worth, the users don't know yet. OP simply wants to know more about your product before willing to put in the time and effort for registering.
did you try to exchange it?
Doesn't it come with standard warranty?
Check deposit and Zelle is only available in the app.
When I open iMessage and send a message to somebody using an Android phone, they receive it. When they reply, I see it in iMessage. When I react to something, the reaction is transliterated into text and sent via SMS. When I send an image, it is sent via MMS. It’s fair to say that there’s interoperability.
These cars are simply indicators of what smart homes would look like if marketers got their way: mechanisms to capture the hormonal state of inhabitants to better advertise to them.

That isn’t a joke btw. For example women are far more susceptible to advertising based on their menstrual cycle. Gad Saad, of all people, wrote a very serious book about basically that.
Have you given them an opportunity to repair/replace your new bricked phone?
oh great that's another 7 interesting books i'll download and never get to actually read

jk thanks for posting this!
I would have guessed church and related groups but if you want to make it gendered...
Human social structures concentrate power, not capitalism. It's all still there under socialism.
The idea of social bookmarking is really cool. Thank you for sharing.
It was also published when USA was de facto more "socialist" than it had ever been (FDR admin/1950s).
This is neat, thanks. I was looking at your HN OPML file on GitHub [0] and noticed that the `xmlURL` and `htmlURL` attributes are the same for each entry; the `htmlURL` currently points to the feed rather than the site. Do you happen to have the original HTML URLs available? Would be nice to have both.

(Secondarily, I'm guessing some of the `type` attributes should probably be "atom" rather than "rss"?)

[0] https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs/blob...
Modern capitalism has a lot of socialism in it. Socialized fire dept, sewage, roads, police, in most cases socialized healthcare, in the US they socialize bank & auto corporation losses whenever there's a recession, etc etc.