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> Is it following the hacker spirit to get more people plugged into Apple's closed ecosystem?

Yes — it's adversarial interoperability, and that is always a good thing because it breaks lock-ins. Though mostly irrelevant to this particular case, adversarial interoperability also forces the service owner to compete with third-party clients which always put the user first; it removes the service owner's of control over the UX and presentation.

I don't know about AIM, but ICQ also used OSCAR protocol. The official ICQ clients were bloated, shitty and full of ads. Not many people used them. Most people used QIP, Miranda, Pidgin, Adium, Jimm, or even NatICQ. No one cared about how ICQ's owner would make money — and, really, no one should care about that, it's their own problem. Maybe if they made a client that's better than third-party offerings, then people would switch to it. But they never did.
Deadweight Loss as a Service
Well, I mean source code is easier to read that Unreal. And Unity does not even provide source code, so you have to wait until they fix the issue for you. In addition, the Godot community is really helpful, if you provide an example project with your problem.
Also, llama (a link to Meta's site which is effectively a roundabout way to get the model weights) is proposed as an alternative to OpenAI. Open AI offers a full API, chatgpt, etc, llama(2) is some weights, they're not really parallel alternatives. HF would be a better link, you can pay them to serve open source models I believe.
Eh not really that weird. Consider how Microsoft repeatedly reverse engineered AOL for compatibility reasons and AOL actively blocked their efforts with every update: https://youtu.be/w-7PjunSxLU

Stuff like this happens all the time and the internet has always been like this. I'm sure older users will remember even older examples
> There's an emergency. Power is out. You use your car battery to power your home. You have to go out for supplies. Your family is left without power at home while you drive off into the darkness

As opposed to your family not having power both when you are out for supplies and when you are home?

It turns a power outage from an event where your family is without power for the whole event into an event where your family is without power during the intersection of the time of the power failure and the time you are out getting supplies.

For most of your other scenarios where you need to evacuate and your battery is 50% depleted because you were powering the house before evacuating that will usually not be a problem because most unexpected evacuations don’t require evacuating a great distance.
The examples look straight up taken from the 90s esthetically [0]. Don’t get me wrong, for prototyping/internal tools that need a GUI to be usable by people not tech savvy enough to use a CLI it’s perfect, but what about the cases where you want things to look good?

While native UI are always best for performance etc, I’ve always found them harder to style than a webpage.

What is the equivalent of components (listed of styled components that go together) in python GUI? Something like for Flutter or SwiftUI, that look slick without much effort.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/ma...
I had my genome sequenced by Nebula. Honestly I know I shouldn't have from a privacy standpoint (especially since I signed up with my real name and details) but the idea of having my entire genome stored on my hard drive was too tempting for me, and now that's what I have. I have started looking into the software to analyze it, and I'm happy that it's a purchase that will be valid my entire life.
Societies are usual torn apart from the top, because that's where there are people with power to make impactful decisions.
> Maybe if you have burstable CI loads it's worth doing and re-rolling on failure.

We have extremely bursty CI loads. One push can kick off up to 60 different CI jobs. If a few people push at the same time, we easily have 300 jobs running in parallel. This happens the whole day long.

It absolutely makes sense to self host this, since the cost to run this on Github runners would be prohibitive (Github runners are 8x the cost of the equivalent AWS instance I think). All our runners are ephemeral, so we only pay for them when they are actually running jobs. After all the jobs are over, the runners are immediately scaled to zero.

I build this whole thing myself, so it's a bit sad to find someone had already built the whole thing before.
The article didn’t say “race” at all. Its wording tries to simplify, for a mass audience, the research that found at this Balkan site DNA that is mainly associated with sites in the east of Europe. Across archaeology and linguistics, there has been an archaeogenetics revolution in the last 15 years or so that enables tracing historical migrations like never before.

I don’t know why you think “attracted to the wealth Rome invested in its frontier zone” is a wording that implies jobseekers. It can obviously mean opportunities for pillaging, which peoples of the Eurasian steppe did for centuries. It can mean making use of convenient infrastructure left behind when the Roman military retreated from certain holdings.
Doesn’t a company the size of Verizon have specific procedures to reply to law enforcement requests?
Tkinter is fairly basic but feels very native on every platform I’ve tried, and it’s easy to use. There are lots of extensions available too. I just wrote a comment about it:

If you’re interested in Python desktop apps, check out TKinter. I have a piece of boilerplate code I typically start with [0], and within an hour I can have a finished piece of software that runs in the native windows manager on any OS with no libraries or frameworks to manage. It’s not the prettiest code but it’s very easy to write and I love how native it is.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/kylenahas/a07f2ce8ced689975eae56d6ea...
Generally agree with this, though they do frequent sales that bring the lifetime price down substantially. For myself, I thought that the bundled sequencing plus lifetime membership ($400) was fair just for the sequencing itself, so I didn't mind too much.
No, Russia haven't. Russia has also MAINLY abided by the laws of war and has not targeted civilian infrastructure.

"A United Nations-led aid consortium estimates that more than 234,000 homes have been damaged across Gaza and 46,000 destroyed, amounting to about 60 percent of the housing stock in the territory, which is home to some 2.3 million Palestinians."

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/11/29/as-truce-holds-...
Sounds like you'd prefer to keep inflicting to me and to yourself a degraded experience rather than making the tiny, one-time effort of installing a free app. Because that's the whole point of this issue: the fact that you can still get what you want (reaching me) is what prevents you from making the smallest effort to make both our lives better and easier. And I also don't expect my friends to behave like that.
hello,

yes.

why? everything in the world is bound to "trends", "hypes" or "fashions" ... and stuff tends to go out of fashion after a while of not fulfilling exaggerated expectations.

especially in IT - and especially AI ... we had that several times (!) since its inception in the 50ties of the last century :)

just look at its history: even neural networks are nothing new ... heavily simplified: they where with us after the logic-programming hype of the 70ties during the 80ties, displaced by fuzzy-logic around the turn of the decade to the 90ties. the logic-programming approach got reboiled by semantic-technologies in the zero-decade, replaced by machine-learning - applied statistics - and deep-learning - again neuronal networks - in the 10ths and up until now ... thanks to cheap computational resources - pumped up to billions of parameters etc.

don't get me wrong: great stuff, but less novel than some of us might think ;)

notice: i wrote nothing about when this will happen, but its more or less a tautology, that there will be such a downward development of the current trend sometimes in the future ... :)

idk ... maybe after people realize, that current pre-trained transformers/language models - as nice/useful/funny as they are - are not "(hard) AI" ... i think its now called "general AI" or AGI!?

cheersv
Your dates are off by more than a century though. Initial copyright terms were barely more than a decade. Cowboy Bebop would have been fair game.
> The problem you are describing is more like a social problem, and applies to many other aspects as well.

Yes! But it's a social problem created by an intentional product choice that makes their own users have a worse experience in service of retaining their walled garden at the expense of your customers relationships on a service that they are embracing and extending for their own ends...

And they could fix it too. There is zero reason to leave that original iMessage chat around from a technical perspective. They can even put a big scary banner at the end of the iMessage history saying Hey this is not encrypted anymore! watch out!

> Usually people know the consequences of their actions. If they don't use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or any other "currently" popular social platform, there is always risk that you isolate yourself from the part of group which prefers the former.

Yes, choosing not to use the three Meta apps you listed is your own damn fault. You're isolated because of your own poor choices. Just give up and feed the beast instead of, you know, trusting the phone/OS manufacturer you purchased your premium phone from and the carrier that you pay for your phone service.

> But it is still messaging service. It does not forbid you using regular cellural standards.

This is the part that's not actually true, because you cannot make an MMS group with only iMessage participants. You cannot opt out of iMessage on 1x1 conversations either.

Using or not using iMessage isn't actually a choice, it's an automatic "upgrade"

I'm not even sure it's possible to disable iMessage entirely. EDIT: This exists actually

EDIT 2: "Messages app automatically chooses the type of group message to send based on settings, network connection, and carrier plan." https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202724
> and then doing tech support for some redneck judge that owns more guns than electronic devices.

This is an unnecessary dig. Not all "rednecks" are dumb. They got us to the moon. Not all people who resist tech "innovation" in their space are "rednecks" or "dumb". They probably know a whole hell of a lot more about their domain than you do.

Be cautious of the toxic sense of superiority tech people have that they somehow know better than the unwashed masses, even before immersing themselves in the domain to understand and then solve problems.

Take delivery apps that have somehow made the previously thriving small business of delivering food a giant industry that loses money for everyone involved.

Adding a tech doesn't automatically make things better. When people resist your shiny new (and likely ill conceived) tech that doesn't mean they are dumb. They might just recall the sting from last time.
That.. is a tent.
> Calling BS on that because no one is going to pirate unknown movie/song/software.

I've done it. I'd bet that most people who have pirated anything have.
If you were around for the Napster days you'd know that people would often download things they'd never heard of before and had no idea if they'd like it or not (and that was when it could take many hours, even days, for a single album to download!). Piracy is a great way to try out new things. Napster led to an increase in CD sales as people were discovering new artists and music they'd never heard on the radio or MTV (https://www.zdnet.com/article/study-napster-boosts-cd-sales/)

The objection to P2P file sharing was never about money. It was about power and control. It was about gatekeeping. The RIAA wants to decide what you can and can't listen to and what is popular. They don't want their new artists/albums to have to compete with everything ever released. They know piracy would increase sales. They don't want to give up the control over our culture and they don't want the internet to cut them out as useless middlemen. With computers and the internet we don't need them for distribution or advertising. We can do it all without them.
Console support and porting effort in general is the main biz of some companies, the most popular being M2 (mostly emulators) and MP2 Games (handles Clickteam Fusion ports to console like Freedom Planet, Baba is You), but there are many other smaller studios. They mostly seem to have their own proprietary tech.
That kinda work also can't be open source as official console SDKs are expensive and covered by NDAs.

If the next Undertale/Minecraft gets built in Godot, W4 Games would be the easiest way to get that game to consoles and rack in tons of royalties, so I think the investment is justified (though hoping it doesn't poison Godot in some way)
We finally need a giant lawsuit and final verdict to end messenger lock ins. This has been going on for nearly a decade now and all started with facebebook and google closing their xmpp apis. I just hope that the EU Digital Market Act interoperability requirements have teeth and we can finally get some freedom.
GCHQ spy gets life for stabbing NSA spy
What really struck me was this part

“After Bunn intervened, he said Bowles told him he would understand his actions if he knew what was being done at GCHQ and said he was appalled by the work of the NSA.”

I can only imagine what is going on in these spy agencies, but is their work really that immoral and unethical to cause their own staff to lose their minds like this?

To survive in that line of work without losing your mind, would it help to be free of morals, humanity and ethics? And for some people, can they feel justified because their paycheck comes from whatever Govt. in the world that employs them?

I would love to understand the psychology at play. But I wouldn’t want to share the psychology!
For the sorts of things I do, a (hierarchical and potentially even non-DAG) symbolic formula* is both much smaller and more easily reproduced than a (necessarily linear) sequence of physical actions. Therefore I tend to write myself CLI tools, with the occasional output via a graphical window or a browser.

Maybe this is why I don't have any voluntarily-installed apps on my phones? The phone form factor is suitable for entertainment, tolerable for consuming information, but horribly tedious for manipulating or generating it.

* it is a commonly held belief that "avoiding syntax errors", an activity most typically found only at the start of the learning curve, is worth spending person-decades on. Who (since Englebart, Iverson, et.al in the 1960s?) is attempting to tackle "avoiding semantic errors"? We have billions of USD spent on making more approachable vuvuzelas; where are the violins? (or better yet, pianos: both initially more approachable and ultimately more powerful than any of the strings)
Why would we downgrade to a tent?
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They mention this: “Access to blockchain based secure storage”

What does that even mean? And do they completely destroy the sampled data from all their systems incl. backups? Can’t find that anywhere.

If not: is it really anonymous?
No, that's the second part: restricting access. If a library would not allow a paying subscriber to lend books, they would break the contract. Same for bricked phones or DRM.

But "piracy", is it's meant here, is the first part: lending/taking without paying.

It's not meant as a blanket condemnation of piracy, and certainly not as support for subscription access, but as a counter-example against the headline: even if you don't own, piracy still can be stealing.
> Their clients and partners include The World Bank,

You are speaking to the startup crowd. Anyone can put anyone's logotypes on their website and claim they are your partners. It's not even that hard.

Mind your sources folks.
If, as they say, “ The CNAF trains its models on households who were randomly investigated”, then the model is fair in assessing the risks of fraud.

The fact that street junkie vs Google engineer have a different propensity in mugging elderly ladies is definitely partially explaine by variable household_income is not economic discrimination.

You’d have a problem if you did regressions on a sample selected by the results of previous regressions, but this is not the case. And in this case you are looking for a biased sample of high-risk individuals.
you be the judge - https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Uh, surely "I know it is more complicated but I will not mention that" is the lazy stance?
Yeah, of course Gaben will say that (while providing developers a Steam DRM mechanism). A good PR example: he knows the importance of antipiracy, but he also knows the importance of downplaying it to not irritate the gamers.
That's kind of what I thought before I saw inside.

What actually happens is the reverse. 99% of engineers can have amazing values that you share, but they do not ultimately make the decisions. The board, Zuck, and the $ do.
Unity itself was once seen as the "mobile and hobbyist platform" compared to "big kid engines" like frostbite, cryengine and unreal.

I think Godot is there, and they are seeing the start of adoption by AAA devs even before the Unity licensing shenanigans. But as Unity's own rise shows, it's not going to be a matter of flipping a switch and having comparable share amongst big games tomorrow.

It's probably also worth mentioning that it's possible to build pretty much any game in any framework, or without, it's just a matter of time and effort. Like LWJGL still is seen as a "toy" framework despite being in one of the most successful video games of all time (Minecraft). Factorio used just Allegro as a layer on top of SDL before migrating to bare SDL2. Conversely, many of the technical problems for KSP1 or Cities Skylines 2 have been attributed to Unity being a poor fit, despite being widely recognised as having "made it" into the "real engines" tier. There were also some EA developers with not very nice things to say about frostbite for games that don't look like Battlefield in the era where EA was pushing for all their devs to adopt it.
"...Canberra), and find it's actually more car-centric than where I lived in Sydney, which is a shame."

I don't live in Canberra but from my many visits there my experience is that it's harder to go from A to B there than in Sydney (and Sydney is no shining light when it comes to getting about).

That said, Burley Griffin's planning and layout for Canberra is a delight when compared to Sydney's dogleg-like haphazardness. Thus, it's likely that Canberra's openness makes getting about more difficult but there are probably other factors that locals are more aware of than I am.

I suppose I am sensitive to issue because for a period I lived and worked in Europe and my main base there was Vienna. Getting around Vienna is simply a dream when compared to either Sydney or Canberra and I put this down to the way the Straßenbahn (tram) and U-Bahn transport networks work in that they are tightly coupled together in ways that facilitate the easy movement of people.

Somehow, despite the fact that Vienna is a very old city with for the most part very narrow streets, the Viennese have installed a transport network that works extraordinarily well in the circumstances. (I would concede however the city had one advantage in that the old city walls were demolished in the last quarter of the 19th Century which made way for a ring road (Ringstraße) which greatly aids public transport.)

But the Ringstraße was only part of the solution. The main issue, not only in Vienna but in many other European cities is the attitude of city planners. There, much more attention is focused on public transport and it seems this attitude has prevailed for many decades unlike the haphazard planning in Sydney (it's always been a political football here).

Some say we can't plan like the Europeans do as we've not the population density and no doubt that's partially true but for some reason their attitude to planning is much more utilitarian and long-term than here. I think this is the key difference.

Edit: to be fair I must add that in recent years Sydney's public transport has improved significantly even within confines of its existing infrastructure. Whilst some new rail routes/infrastructure have been added what has noticeably improved is the service, buses and trains are reasonably plentiful and importantly are usually on time. This makes public transport much more attractive.
There's a few projects that can package a python environment into a single executable (the main tradeoff is you end up including a copy of python with every single executable if you have lots of tools) - when I wanted it to create an installer (.msi/.dmg), I've found cx_Freeze came the closest to "it just works".
sounds technically correct

Gödel's really was a rather unique mind, and the story of his death is kind of sad.. but I wonder if it takes such a severe kind of paranoia to look for how math can break itself, especially during that time when all the greatest mathematicians were in pursuit of formalizing a complete and consistent mathematics.
Many contemporary artists are good at associative thought but pretty bad at rational thought.

Several popular French philosophers say a lot, so there will always be some interesting hook for people to catch on.

The rational thinker will get annoyed, because the drivel is unfounded. The artist will feel inspired and enlightened.

(Source: have formal education in both mathematics and fine arts.)
You’ll notice that I already spoke of the Moroccan occupation in my post. Repeating the point in more strident language only makes it look like you are trying to engage in political battle on HN.
To add to your example, UK school hours are (or were when I was going to them) 09:00-15:30.

I'm not 100% sure the hours here in Germany (sadly lacking the need to know), but I think many are 08:00-13:30.
One of the greatest charlatans of postmodernism
West TN USA
> Now I’m not saying that what’s happened

Even if it was what happened, it doesn't really matter.

Why do companies that pick open source licences get annoyed when someone else profits from their work?

I am all for open source, but it is a lot harder to profit from your own open source product when the bulk of the development cost is yours. It will be a lot easier for a third party to do so.
In software engineering schools in France, both in my personal experience and other Bac+5 people I’ve hired, the entire Bac+4 year was dedicated to group projects. When you have 8 group projects in parallel at any time, it does teach team work, management, quality control, all the good stuff.

After the first failed project, everyone agrees that they need a boss without assigned duties. Then in 5th year, we’d have one or two class-wide projects (20-30 people).

This, along with joining event-organizing charities on the campus, where you’d work 3-5hrs a week to build a hundred-thousand-to-a-million dollars event (NGOs on campus, or concerts, or a sports meeting, to each their preferences, but it was the culture). And it wasn’t always a good time together, it’s not flowers all the way down.

I’m only surprised some school might consider engineering without group effort. On the other hand, I deeply deeply regret spending this much time in charities and not enough dating, as I have never been recognized for charity service, and family was important to me.