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I have an adapter. I still would rather have a phone with an audio jack built-in.

> Time has marched on, TVs don't have RCA jacks either.

Bad comparison. 3.5mm audio is still standard almost everywhere else for audio. RCA jacks are not. Your laptop, speakers, Steam Deck, monitor, and yeah probably your TV still have an audio jack.

> You are an enthusiast and that's fine, I am too, but everyone else has moved on to bluetooth and wifi-enabled speakers and TVs. I'm happy to simply have the option, it's not like half-decent dongles are particularly expensive.

I'm not an enthusiast; I, like probably 90% of the US population, have wired 3.5mm headphones in my home that I like to use with my electronics. It's bonkers to me that people are calling wired headphones obsolete; this makes me think that they either throw away all of their electronics when something new comes out, or are under eighteen years old and have never owned a pair.
It does sound good, but not very durable. I got one recently because i got a phone without a headphone jack foolishly thinking I'd just buy an adapter and it broke the second time I used it, just making clicking noises.
not coincidence, one is "in good we trust", the other one is "in code we trust"
Generally, you take part of a union as a member. This includes that the union will deal with some negotiations with employers, will help you with legal issues regarding work and will help you with financial aid if you are let go.

In Sweden we have no laws for minimum wages and many worker rights are instead regulated through union-employer agreements.
> You say that overabstracted code is hard to change. I agree, but so is underabstracted code - or simply code with bad abstractions.

I am not against abstraction, but the attitude that the person's colleague should've *definitely* abstracted away this minuscule amount of lines immediately even in their first implementation is not just abstraction, it's premature abstraction and the kind of dogmatic thinking that leads to the problems I outlined. The blog post scenario is not unique; the correct solution is almost always to leave the code less abstracted and only abstract it when there are actual proven use cases.
I had huge issues with Kagi because I don't just use google for research, but to find local things like finding a coffee shop in a location or using reviews to see what's going on, or some product I need to buy in my country - 70% of my searches fall in that category and I generally use AI or some light research for programming topics. Although the google results are poorer, the facility offering is far superior and I found I was switching between Kagi and Google too often. I think it's great for research, but not so great for researching day-to-day things you use in real life outside of the computer.
It's one thing to implement a secret handshake and underdocument some procedures to make your competitors look incompetent, but actively breaking your product when it's in your competitor's shop - that reqires some chutzpah.
I was specifically speaking about the Nordic Model of which I am a member and a citizen. I could have been more clear but by "my" I meant as a citizen of a country participating in the Nordic Model. What the rest of Europe does is up to them. Unions are foundational to our (Scandinavia's) way of life. This fight ends with Tesla either agreeing to our model or losing our entire market.
Unions in Sweden works closely with the industry to find good deals that makes both companies and workers prosper.

Unions here know that if the companies doesn’t prosper, so won’t the people employed by it.

So the industry and the unions negotiate agreements that ensures we have the strongest companies with the healthiest workers.

Sure, one side represents the company leadership and the other the workers, but they have a shared goal and collaborate on that, knowing that government legislation would be worse for everyone and not be agile and adaptable to the needs of different industries.
Microsoft's links with OpenAI to be examined by competition watchdog
Yet most of their sales come not from GOG but from Steam.

..and I don't quite get your comment? Games sold on GOG are meant to be DRM-free. It's a requirement for them to be on GOG, not something they do out of the kindness of their heart.

If they were praising BG 3 for choosing to be on GOG as well as Steam then that'd have been a very valid point. But saying that there is no DRM associated with the game is false.

EDIT: I was wrong. There is no DRM.
This. The most fun I've had is thinking of some clever ways to kill bosses
> The UAE finally having to show face in such a way might shake up more people than it did harm.

I really doubt it. Climate denial seems to be on a sharp rise and they will use this as an excuse. "See, even the climate conference leader says there is nothing to worry about!"

> Right now, most political leaders are fighting to get the highest place on the sinking ship, either for themselves indivdiually or for their nations. And because many nations are uninterested in finding a truly powerful binding international agreement, this has become about who will be the king of the rotting trash heap instead.

Yup. But also the nation that start actually doing something is truly fucking themselves if nobody else follows suit. I do understand that part. Of course there's a few countries like Norway that are bragging of all their accomplishments but it's pocket change for them (with all the riches they've gained from fossil fuels no less).
> Lucky for Musk that he picked a Finnish supplier

https://efe.com/en/economy/2023-12-07/finnish-union-will-be-...
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Interesting. I was not aware that so many TLDs allow single letter domain names. Since so many single letter domain names are for sale, it really seems to be hard to built a brand with a single letter. I personally think that the most important domain names are not the short ones. The most important domain names are the ones with a very big brand. Looking at "google.com" gives me a much stronger signal than looking at "z.com". So the brand really matters.
Does the “lambda per api endpoint” part help with the application boot part or something? Otherwise I don’t quite see what advantage you would with that get over just one lambda for the entire monolith.

OC also mentions that they run a job to keep the lambdas warm. One disadvantage with the lambda per endpoint is that he has to keep dozens of lambdas warm instead of just one.
I think we really should adopt the name "X". Because Musk took Twitter and turned it into something else, which is not the old Twitter anymore. So giving it a different name is fitting. That said, I don't necessarily like the name "X".
In contrast to a non-union shop, where there's... management and ununionized workers? With every individual worker in their own powerless little caste of one?
There's echoes of the "defund the police" controversy in "abolish the FDA". I doubt abolishing the FDA will happen, and I'm not sure many people who argue for it really literally mean to completely abolish it. What they mean is something closer to "radically overhaul the FDA" or "abolish it in its current form and rebuild it in a different way".

These types of political positions happen because serious problems get dismissed by the status quo and nothing changes. There's a kind of false equivalence that's implicit — "arguing that X is a problem with agency B means you want all these other horrible consequences of getting rid of B" so nothing happens. After awhile, with nothing changing, it seems like the only option is to argue against eliminating the agency because valid criticisms just get spun away politically, and opponents of real change seem to frame the choices that way.

Even now, I suspect discussions like this about the FDA only exist in a small bubble like Scott's readership. Most of the US doesn't have these ideas in their consciousness probably, so the problems get swept aside, and only bubble up if calls for dramatic changes like abolishment are discussed as a kind of intellectual punching bag for entertainment, and as a distraction from making real, serious reform.

I would have been more impressed with this post if it had offered solutions to the problems involved. What it offers as proposals aren't bad, but sidestep the real problems and in one case just obfuscate things more.

I don't think the FDA should be abolished, but I do think its role should be restricted to labeling fraud, product purity testing, and enforcing transparency in product efficacy evidence.

For me, the FDA is just one problem in a litany of problems with healthcare related to regulatory capture. The US desperately needs medical deregulation — or at least reregulation. Arguments against this in the form of fear mongering without offering reform proposala are starting to feel to me like they really mean the status quo is fine and nothing really needs to change.
Does she believe that by preventing sharing of this video numbers of acts of real rape will be reduced or stopped?
> Historically, artisans such as jewellery makers, butchers,

the claim was that unions, today, disseminate best practices that make up for lack of companies training their employees to be able to do their jobs well, which I'm skeptical about.
n00b question: what are some important problems for which quantum computation has shown to have an advantage
I own 2 of the 2-character ccTLDs, it was a thing to boast around 10 years ago. Today no one cares, all they know are apps and google.
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) using Aspectj: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AspectJ https://eclipse.dev/aspectj/
My bad, didn’t notice your comment earlier. Yes it is, here’s the repo: https://github.com/brutalcoding/aub.ai
> The fact of the matter is that phones that still have headphone jacks don't sell that well. There's always something else that demanders of that feature find wrong with them.

This likely has more to do with the fact that the only phones that have headphone jacks are low-end "cheap" phones with worse specs everywhere else. If the new Galaxy came out with a headphone jeack, I don't think their sales would suddenly tank.
Encrochat wasn't E2E, which is why the Dutch were able to get all up in their servers.
Without unions you already have the management and worker castes. Source: I've worked in non-union jobs for 20+ years.

What unions do is provide an opportunity for the workers to collectively apply power.

Of course, there's a lot of nuance in the implementations, and of course people can be corrupt as hell.

But in no way, shape, or form did unions create the management/worker caste split. Holy hell that requires some twisted logic.
When I see a t.co (x.co now?) link I have literally no idea where it's going to take me at all and I am far, far less likely to click one of them knowing that it's a url shortener. This is such a common thing that there are browser extensions/slack(discord/teams/etc) options to unfurl urls.
Why did you have to mention your edit?
the American education system is being replaced by social media. all that's left is the american babysitter system.
Not really, unions provides the workers with representatives in the management which essentially bridges management and workers and lessens the divide
> What makes Tesla different from Klarna and Spotify

The "heritage" between the three is also different. Klarna and Spotify are/was Swedish, they know what going up against a union means, and it often involves going against multiple unions as they all help each other.

Tesla clearly have no idea what they were going against, as what is happening now is such an obvious fallout from not understanding the country they're operating in.
Tesla brought that unto themselves when they brought in scabs. That's the most egregious act against labour in the Nordics, from that moment they destroyed any chance to be seen as coming into negotiations on a equal footing. You don't do that here, period.

> but at the same time this kind of escalation, with all this economic disruption

What is the economic disruption? There's no "economic disruption" because of Tesla in Sweden, it's negligible for the overall Swedish economy, stop that...

Tesla fucked around, now it's finding out.
What is the cause then?
That is of course exactly what it is.
True. I think the optimism and grandiosity of the engineers with gems in their eyes keeps the passion going to work hard - some are just are terrible at grounding ourselves in reality. Genuine science needs to take more foothold, skepticism and curiosity over certainty of accelerated outcomes or non existant (heck even fraudulent in some situations) capabilities
Many people expect a ‘daily driver’ to run Teams, Outlook and a browser with a couple of tabs running client side apps.

There is absolutely a lot of bloat out there, including Office apps, but that’s just the landscape these days. People get used to running a lot of stuff when they have lots of resources, and will start closing apps once they start to see some performance issues, but there doesn’t seem to be many apps outside of the Linux ecosystem that promote a lightweight ethos, and even fewer sites are built like HN.
> Some newer languages don't even deal in classes at all (Rust for example)

When you first write a struct, and then you below write an implement block for that struct containing functions that can only be applied to that struct, it really looks like a class to me, it just has a syntax that differs from what we're used to in other languages. Why wouldn't you call that a class?
I’m not entirely sure what the GP commenter is trying to say, but I’m also not sure how they imply Sweden, Germany, and China are working together, as I think is implied in your comment in that their power or authority is combined. Could you maybe rephrase what you mean, or how you interpreted their comment?
> What is striking here is that the Government offices all use the services of PostNord.

Why is it striking? They own PostNord. It's 60% owned by Sweden's government, 40% by Denmark's. It's a state-owned corporation.

The US government tends to use USPS for similar reasons.
> Judges often rubber stamp search warrants on the flimsiest of circumstances.

I have personal experience with this. A warrant to search my apt was approved by a judge because I was suspected of credit card fraud. Their evidence? Packaging for a new external hard drive found in a recycle bin shared by 4 apts, that's it. No evidence of who put it there or how it was acquired, just a hard drive package.
This is one of these cases where one would assume that it's a joke, but because Naughty Old Mr Car is involved, Poe's Law is in full effect.

So, assuming you're serious... Eh?

Tesla shareholder meeting, 2024. "We're going to spend 26 billion dollars on attempting to build a parallel economy in Sweden." ".... Why?" "Oh, spite, mostly."

How do you think that would go over?
As difficult as it might be to wrap our heads around it, no, there's no forcing, but it's the workers' collective decision as a union to not deliver to Tesla. A union is not some god-given abstract concept, it's a assembly of elected members of the workers which collectively voted to proceed this way. So the only "forcing" you could talk about is Tesla forcing them to accept unacceptable conditions, and even this wouldn't be really "forcing" - as we can see there are two parties negotiating their rights, all within their powers.
But, without talking to the other person is the problem.

This made it sound like it was checked in, and this guy jumped in and re-wrote it the very same week without talking to the other person. That is probably the biggest problem here.

So, there was a project happening, one person did a section, someone else jumped in and re-did it (double work), without talking about it (risk another future triple re-write).
Why is Stripe so hypocrite and incompetent?
A few months ago, I participated in research with two friends about a company using Stripe to do a sexual fetish (findom).

We started this research because a minor was involved (the founder knew about the minor, interacted with her, and congratulated her for doing findom several times).

I really want to be specific, so I will explain what is findom.
Financial domination (known as findom) is a relationship between two people where the dominant one takes control of the submissive one through money. In few words, people (mostly men) pay to be humiliated.
•The person paying and being humiliated is called: paypig, slave.
•The person receiving the money is called: Goddess, owner.

Demanding money also comes with degrading and demeaning the submissive partner. Their role as the money slave is to send tributes at the whim of the dominant partner.

The company is Wishtender, they state that they are a wishlist for creators, but we provided Stripe a document with evidence about:
•The founder being aware about the minor, interacting and congratulating her (15-16) for doing findom (the user was removed after several months and just because another user doxed her).
•Founder promoting findom (Wishtender had a findom leaderboard that Stripe maybe told them to hide after we reported the company, still you can find a leaderboard with profiles that have explicit porn)
•Minor using Wishtender to do findom and her Stripe connect of allegedly making 80k in 5 months.
•Pictures and videos about how users use Wishtender to promote physical harm to men.
•Wishtender congratulating users for doing findom on Discord.

I can list at least name 10 different ways that Wishtender misuses Stripe and astonishing evidence we have found about the incompetence of that company.

While doing our research we found out that a small competitor of Wishtender was banned for doing the same.

But what is worrying is that Wishtender had been already reported so we devoted more time collecting evidence and after we contacted with Stripe the result was the following one:
•NOTHING, Wishtender still uses Stripe to do findom and the minor is still doing findom but using Stripe on her website.

Good job Stripe, keep messing with real founders who are just out there hustling and fighting scammy chargebacks so Stripe does not block their account.
> You alert the user, problem solved.

How do you alert the users that are running the problematic software and haven't yet updated it? The very premise is ridiculous.

> What really happens is someone has a 20 year old mail no matter what, itcwill always exist, and the choice is, support it or not. Support it to be read, support it to be converted, warn the user, suggest fixes.

Well yeah and the choice should be to not support it. If the user needs those letters they can either decrypt or just re-encrypt them. It's silly to claim that a message can somehow be both so vital to be protected by encryption, but not upgraded to something more modern.

> And your SSL example is senseless! In what world do you envision super secure stuff alongside weaker legacy, on the same damned server.

I'm not envisioning it. Nobody should be running such old useless garbage. What was suggested earlier in this thread does not work and must not happen in practice.
Amon Tobin fans unite!
Exactly.

It was a big issue but they still manage to get in, with difficulties. Now, E2E encryption is much harder to crack if possible at all. You probably need to compromise each specific phone/computer/app you're interested in.
WhatsApp wording is usually very specific about e2e when you send a message from you to your contact. Nothing about eg all this also being dumped on FB servers in plaintext.

This wouldn't be an outright lie - it may well be e2ee but just also shared around.
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Yes we should absolutely go back to keeping our humors balanced, bleeding people, treating syphilis with mercury, dying of an infection from a minor injury and insane level of mother and infant mortality.
It’s $10. Is there anything you use less frequently than a search engine in your life that you pay $10/month for? Coffee, eating out, etc?

And sure, I hope they lower the price, but for the hundreds of searches I do every month, not dealing with ads in my face is wonderful. And companies need to pay the bills somehow.
How much would it have cost back then to buy a broken, used FP3 with a cracked screen as a donor phone?
It’s the Swedish transport authority that ships the license plates and PostNord has won that tender and there is no way this will impact that.

You can’t have a “should not respect strikes” clause in your tender, especially not as a government agency
It is quite amazing to see the UK gov PR focus so exclusively on child protection and not one mention of terrorism remains. Given their failures to protect children when the evidence was right in front of them (the Jimmy Savile situation) they clearly cannot expect this messaging to be taken remotely seriously, especially given the way we are all supposed to forget about Epstein.

These people really have not internalized what it means to have all your communication able to be intercepted by AI and they won’t until someone uses AI to fake a whole load of crime being committed by them for which they are then punished.
For me the biggest red flag in all of this is changing a coworker submission without any kind of communication.

Second red flag is that the refactor is not a good refactor, it lacks modularity and is still coupled, yes, you reduced some duplication but that's mostly it.
username checks out.

it's my first time reading it, and i'd recommend it to anyone who has an interest in LotR and has only seen the movies; it adds so much context and nuance.
Cybertruck is the first Tesla vehicle with 800v architecture. The S3XY lineup uses 400v.
Hetzner is terminating contracts with all users who had a Russian postal address
Just received:
We regret to inform you that due to the tense geopolitical situation with Russia, we will be ending our contractual relationship with customers from Russia.

Political decisions have led to changes in the legal regulations that affect our business with Russian-based customers. Unfortunately, we can no longer have contracts with customers with Russian postal addresses. This will affect everyone with a Russian address stored on Hetzner Accounts.

After we analyze the customer databases, we will send the affected customers a notice of termination for all products and services on Friday, 15 December 2023. It will take effect from 31 January 2024. We recommend that you take appropriate measures now.
No! Just because a game is on Steam does not necessarily mean it has DRM.

The developer is in charge of what happens when the game is launched and the player does not own the game on Steam. Steam does not require you to shut down the game immediately. For instance, the games we port will just run fine in, what we call "DRM-free" mode, when the Steam API cannot be initialized.
The point is that it's not Tesla's employees that are behind it.

It is people working elsewhere -- or rather, the management of the labour unions that organize those other people.
There are different definitions of “end” in “end-to-end”

* One being you communicate from your device to the servers securely; in that case, you can do keyword matching. If you try anything like that, a few engineers will insist Meta clarifies that is not the intended meaning of that word, Alec Muffet will probably be the loudest.

* The other, device to device, would indeed prevent Meta from doing data collection—unless they apply the keyword detection on your device directly. But that also means the list of keywords would be accessible by any user (unless you use a bloom filter, where it could be more challenging to guess), and that’s not something the cops are found about. You’d also have to let your own device send the message “Phone 1234 used the banned word 5678,” which criminals would learn to block.

So yeah, in principle, end-to-end would make it hard to do well. I‘d be really surprised if Meta got away from something that egregious, though: there are still people internally who know that government power can be abused and would not let people lie about how safe the tool is.