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If you want to fix this, here is what we need to require all OS vendors to do to keep their copyrights:

1. All abandoned/EOL digital products deserve some level of support if at least 100,000 people are using them and willing to pay $20 per year for support. That's $2 million per year, which can hire a few developers and run a few servers, especially if large downloads are done by torrents. The torrenting program can be invisible to the user. Part of that support is implementing #2, #3, and #4 (below.) Another part of that support is security updates for the software or firewall definition files that make a venerable system less venerable (think Cisco ACLs.) A final part of that support is support for new file types and protocols.

In the UIS, the Federal Trade Comission (FTC) will define "products" according to their having at least 51% shared source code, and the platform they run on. For example, Windows XP for x86 is one "product." This prevents someone from claiming that Windows XP is actually 2,000 separate products.

2. All digital products must be able to be run in a virtual machine (VM.) For example, with old versions of Windows this is simply releasing a license key to upgrade the licensing.

3. No digital product can be licensed in such a racist way that it is not accessible in any part of the world. Everything must be available to people of all races, everywhere. A "this product is not available in your region" message is always unacceptable. For many digital products, that might mean allowing the download of new versions that are compatible with all regions. Download by torrent is 100% OK, but the process needs to be as idiot-proof as possible.

4. All digital products must support multiport systems, meaning one PC can have multiple local users on it simultaneously using different keyboards, mice, audio devices, and monitors. Microsoft Windows Multipoint Server used to do this.

5. All new OSes must be able to rip an image from an old system drive from that same processor architecture, and/or from a previous version of that OS (which has enough people paying for support) and run it as a VM. Imagine installing Windows 12, plugging in half a dozen old system drives, and having all your old PCs as VMs represented by icons on your desktop.

6. All source code and design documents for digital products must be made available to the Copyright Office. Such documents are released when a product is no longer offered free and reliable security updates or is otherwise considered EOL.
I'd have a lot more sympathy for the guy if he wasn't selling his fanfic.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if we should be thrilled with the idea of companies searching though all the fanfic they can find with the intention of stealing fan's original ideas and storylines and then suing anyone who complains about it either.

In the end, it's copyright that needs significant reform. Under a sane system of copyright tolkien's works would already be in the public domain and this guy would have been well within his rights to sell his story and sue if his original contributions were used without his permission. Given how things are currently though I can't see things playing out any differently.
American pharmacies aren't just pharmacies, they're hypermarts. Combined with lax FDA regulations on supplements, beauty, and wellness products, totally useless crap like "wrinkle vanishing" creams, copper bands, Kino tapes, and CBD "pain relief" creams are heavily marketed to customers. Following that, it should come as no surprise that herbal remedies and marginally-useless OTC medications, tantamount to vitamin B12 shots, sell an apparent power to defy science and the appearance of agency in instances where only palliative care is possible. Emptor nimium pecuniam habet.
As a bicyclist: no.

The problem is the disparity of speed between travelers, same as for a highway. Pedestrians appear suddenly or don't know about your sudden appearance or intended motions, and pain or injury results.
It “is” the drivers fault who hits from behind. It’s their responsibility to maintain a safe distance required for breaking in such situations.
Of course they're suffering mental health consequences from loneliness and lack of connection. However, how does it compare to the past, when people suffered in dysfunctional and abusive relationships and couldn't get out? Back in those day, "mental health" wasn't even a known phrase, and no one tracked this at all; people just put up with the misery.

As a divorced person, I'll say from firsthand experience that being single can be very lonely at times, but it's 100 times better than being in an unhappy relationship with the wrong person. And my marriage wasn't even that bad, objectively speaking; I can only imagine the misery some married people have put up with.
The Singapore thing is about status, not freedom.

For the last 15 years I've lived in various places around the world, and for all of them a private car is the most frustrating, least enabling method of transport available. Finding parking is a nightmare, traffic is a nightmare, having to concentrate on the idiots around me is a nightmare, not being able to drink when I go out is a nightmare, dealing with the mechanical problems of the vehicle itself is a nightmare, dealing with the bureaucracy of owning a car is a nightmare. This isn't what freedom looks like.

Most freeing? Riding a motorbike in Phnom Penh. Berlin's 5 different public transport systems. Walking everywhere in Bristol (UK). Mexico City's excellent underground.
We should stop glamorizing criminal activities.

Even if someone's door is wide open, any self respecting individual wouldn't step in and steal. The urge is always there and is natural. But everything natural isn't the right thing to do.

Besides that, article has no technical hints as to why that happened. Rockstar level of IT environment is not that misconfigured I suppose or there are some inherent design flawa Internet protocol suite that can be exploited with a Firestick?
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I hope you come across some better friends soon, or help your friends and family with their security a bit, because Pixels are cheap, install takes minutes, and Graphene with Play Store is easy enough for most grandmas.

Even easier than the default Android UI/UX, arguably. Less distractions and unexpected behavior.
This is not Elon Musk's The Boring Company though.
https://itnext.io/modern-storage-is-plenty-fast-it-is-the-ap...
Okay link it?
Literally everything about this is disappointing. "Almost" full support, for an "aging" machine, as long as you "don't need raw performance", and "the 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage may be a letdown". It's like they wrote an article about my love life.
The adoption of tip screens in PoS terminals seems to have trained me not to tip.

I imagine I'm not the only one.
For ARM laptops intended to run Windows? Yes. Vendors can abstract away portions of their hardware design behind a HAL module that Windows will use in a way that can't be done on x86, and if the vendor doesn't make an effort to get code into upstream Linux then it simply won't boot. The ARM world is much more loosely defined than the x86 world. The vast majority of x86 laptops will largely work with a modern kernel.
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Are you forgetting which site you're on? This is HN, which is a hotbed of anti-vax, QAnon, and various other crazy conspiracy theories. This shouldn't be a surprise: it's an American site, and most of the readers are American, and half the American population has become big believers of that stuff lately, so of course a sizeable fraction of the readers here are strong believers in such things.
Thanks for the kind words, but some corrections:

1. My name is Deyan (hi!)

2. ar5iv was the latest frontend incarnation, but our actual work on converting LaTeX to HTML goes back nearly 20 years behind the scenes.

3. I was an undergraduate student when I was introduced to the project back in 2007. It was started "in spirit" by 3 senior co-conspirators back then: Michael Kohlhase, Bruce Miller and Robert Miner. And I am by no means a solitary actor today, even if I may be the chief online presence of the people involved. Bruce is doing the bulk of the hard work on LaTeXML to this day.

I documented some of the history in an invited talk for CICM 2022, which you can find on youtube, or see the slides at:

https://prodg.org/talks/welcome_to_ar5iv

It's really great that the HTML has now reached "home base" in arXiv, and I hope their team gets a lot more of the positive attention going forward - today's achievement is entirely theirs!
I still don't understand what the thinking is with mandating a TPM is present. Windows works perfectly fine without it and it is trivial to bypass.
"I've been doing this for 25+" Indeed, people from the early days actually know how a computer is internally structured.

I seriously consider becoming a Plumber everyday.

Had to develop esoteric personal projects to find the fun. =)
I've heard that exact same adage used in reverse by those "6-7 years at the same company" engineers against engineers with careers of shorter stints. The logic being that if you never experience 5/6/7+ years of continuous ownership, you never get to see how your decisions pan out, and you miss out on other forms of longitudinal experience.

If one thing is a constant, it is that engineers will always come up with these silly little adages and cliches to discount the experience of their peers and continue telling themselves they are the smartest kid in the room.
I’ve heard the “undetectable” bit with Epstein-Barr.

Suffice to say, it’s pretty uncompelling, as far as contrarian evidence for viral involvement is concerned =]
Where did I suggest such a thing?

And everything discussed is consent driven anyway. It’s not like a smart phone is mandated.
Because my lack of experience in the subject matter, I'm afraid I can't be more specific rather can only speculate.

AOT sounds great but what matters to me is that I cannot afford a Windows machine. For me, developer tooling must be first class citizen on Mac and Linux, equally.

I'm not up to date on that either.
In the context of the thread and post, I’m referring to US prescription/pharmacies.
FWIW this was a great write up. You are an excellent storyteller. Also the app execution looks superb, and the idea itself seems pretty good to me (but I can’t say I know much about this niche/market).

Keep building and keep writing!
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i used to work with these so called "software architects". they didnt ship any code but wrote articles like this at length that everyone pretended to read.
>The point was, I think, that they're giving more than what was asked for.

They're not. You just turned out to not actually want what you asked for.

>I have a tool that manages this for me and they're telling me I can't engage with some of their content because I won't engage with other of their content.

Yes, because they provided the former free of charge solely on the basis that you'd accept the latter as well.
Istio is really quite interesting of a project it promises everything, has a lot of frequent new engineering solutions, and then people have to hire consultants to make them be able to do a fraction of that. It’s the SAP of the kubernetes world.
[dupe]

More here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38712326
Do you know the exact model that is supported? Acer Aspire 1 A114-61-S94P (Acer P/N: NX.A4DEB.002) currently retails for €250, and it looks like a great device for many usecases.

But it has 8 GB RAM / 128 GB eMMC. Other posts suggest the first generation (4 GB / 64 GB) is the only one that is supported. For instance, https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_1_A114-61_(ac...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38730846
The average data include literal drug addicts and people driving under alcohol influence or people who drive distracted while texting.

I am neither, hence I will not trust any system that does not perform at least as well as I do. The bar is much higher than the average.
Interestingly, Qualcomm was shipping its ARM-based/Windows laptop chips prior to Apple's intro of the M1 Macbook. But they have failed to make a dent in the market. I think having something that amounts to ~parity in performance is not good enough to help lure customers to a new ISA. Like the M1, you have to give customers a really great story about switching.
Clearly, it made a number of women at the company very uncomfortable. So maybe you’re missing something.
If you know your buckets you can pretty easily get most LLMs to generate structured outputs using something like zod-gpt [1].

[1] https://github.com/dzhng/zod-gpt
Unless your project complexity is on the order of blinking an LED, there isn't enough time in the day for a monolith, I'm afraid. You are going to have to build in coordination with other services (OSes, DMBSes, etc.)

It is a nice idea, but totally impractical.
I still have all 5 of the various Toshiba laptops that I purchased over the years -- they all still boot as well.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723309
> they could have asked him, and it might have cost them orders of magnitude less.

from the article:
> He broke into the company's internal Slack messaging system to declare "if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code".

he was extorting them.
Wow, that's a lot of text to describe things that are never going to happen... dear Santa?

It'd be easier to make a lot of people aware of this upcoming "fuck you, environment", maybe get the news, celebrities and politicians talking about it. How about John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, or Greta Thunberg (or has she been cancelled because she said "Free Palestine!"?)
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They probably want a mashup of Proton + Rosetta2 for gaming. I know I do.

Apple's Game Porting Toolkit is tantalizing (as is Crossover) but Proton seems to work really well (at least natively on x86.)
Um, yeah? Can't assign rights to an entity that isn't legally eligible to have those rights.

I hear the same used to be true of various groups of humans in some jurisdictions.
Scaling can indeed become a consideration, especially with a large number of connections. In our case, we've optimized our backend to handle a substantial number of concurrent connections efficiently. Also, each game is limited to 64 players max, although we tested up to 100+ connections and didn't notice any performance issues. Each game runs in isolated containers.
You can do stuff that's pure automated transactions. Stock trading, ad bidding arbitrage, that kind of thing. Of course those are pretty competitive spaces, but there are probably similar niches awaiting exploitation.
There's good reasons to count robo-only miles. The other measure is confounded in both directions:

- Safety drivers prevent incidents

- Safety drivers cause incidents

Since the human+robo isn't the intended deployment mode, the only reason to count its numbers would be if there wasn't statistical power any other way. And that's no longer true.
Are you talking about absorption refrigerators?

That's another name for them.

I thought they were not efficient at all, and used a different principle compared to a heat pump.

The principle is different but very similar: a continuous cycle of pressurisation, followed by expansion where that part of the system takes in heat from the surroundings and making them cooler.

Kerosene has an efficiency approx 90%, according to one site I read. Using gas lowers that efficiency to about 70%. (I don't know why the difference in efficiencies, I would have thought it would be the same, no matter the heat source.)
This is awesome! Push to Kindle (HTML to EPUB) isn't converting the page properly but I'm sure it's coming soon
I can't even begin to imagine how horrific the world would become if our way of determining whether all drugs were safe was reduced to just Googling for reviews about them.

In what world does Googling for reviews result in accurate, unbiased, independent product information? Can I have some of what you're smoking? (I'll be sure to Google it first.)

The idea is getting a negative response because this is a tech savvy community, everyone here is well aware that Google is an abusive monopoly that's far more concerned with leveraging its market power to line its pockets than it is with delivering accurate information.

I can maybe buy that a free market solution could work for this, but citing Google as an example of a free market... nah, actually, I can't buy it at all. Are we really floating the idea that we don't need an FDA because Consumer Reports could do all the research we need to determine whether drugs are safe after they hit the market?
Therein lies the problem. Most people are apathetic and incompetent. Winning rat race points requires some amount of competence and "oomph", so rat race points will always correlate positively with applicant quality. Most rat-race-losers, unfortunately, aren't Socrates.
To be fair, some are busy reviewing PRs.
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i think it’s because he was running an extortion group: https://www.tenable.com/blog/brazen-unsophisticated-and-illo...
ARM devices running Windows didn’t even focus on or reach performance parity before; it was mostly a winning-on-price strategy (but the savings were not quite worth it).
They should also add commenting capabilities under the paper.. a good discussion will lead to more research and information discovery
If each app has its own password/passcode that you can bypass with your fingerprint, and fingerprints suddenly stop working, it absolutely does shut down the thief, unless you also use the phone's passcode for all your accounts.
There’s another exception for non-judicial requests too.

The provision that pharmacies are using is, I believe, this one:

> To respond to an administrative request, including an administrative subpoena or summons, a civil or an authorized investigative demand, or similar process authorized under law, provided that: the information sought is relevant and material to a legitimate law enforcement inquiry; the request is specific and limited in scope to the extent reasonably practicable in light of the purpose for which the information is sought, and de-identified information could not reasonably be used (45 CFR 164.512(f)(1)(ii)(C)).
No, but you could have public-rideshare in some of these places.

Level 4+ cars may be quite expensive for some time. Operating costs of L4+ vehicles will likely be low compared to human-driven vehicles (counting the cost of the driver). So, it could lead to car sharing in situations where we don't accept it currently.

> that are 50+ miles from the nearest paved road, stop sign, or restroom.

US population density is lower than most of the developed world, but what you describe is a tiny share of miles driven and can be effectively ignored for now.
Wait, what? When did this happen?
Function objects are mutable in the sense that you can define new properties for them or assign new values to (writable) existing properties. This is sometimes used to simulate static variables:

function f() {
f.count ??= 1;
console.log(f.count++);
}
f(); // Outputs: 1
f(); // Outputs: 2
f(); // Outputs: 3
> Calling this anti-consumer is rather subjective.

This is the entire fiasco distilled down to what is the root of the issue: to apple, non-apple users are not consumers. Substandard. This is the exact sentiment behind "Buy your mom an iPhone"

Messaging is by definition something that needs interop. This is why Apple (begrudgingly) supports at least SMS and MMS, because obviously you need to interop with "the others." It's also why they're being dragged kicking and screaming into RCS, which in all likelihood, they'll make equally shitty.

The fact that one company can dictate the terms of that interoperability, and make it as excruciating and inferior as possible, tells you all you need to know. But if you're the "in group" you can't even see what the issue even is.
Highlight all the code you have written / are responsible for. Have you highlighted just one single project that gets deployed as one unit? Then you have a monolith. Monolith doesn't mean you never talk to other services; it means you only own one.
He lied intentionally, for the lulz

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990
It's not worth working on - the problems with it are insurmountable at any reasonable cost and verifying that could have been worked out just with engineering analysis and simulations...

It's a fun, futuristic idea, but just falls down when you start to think about the problems. Sure, they could be solved if we were willing to spend hundreds of times as much per kilometer as we do for high-speed rail (which is already really expensive), but that's not practical in the real world.
> I work at a big tech co with a lot of millenials making pretty good money, and no one that I come across seems salty.

I think some of them probably are pretty salty in private - at least about some things - but they wouldn't show that saltiness to their coworkers.
They paid to create the content, they decide whether you get to see it. Simple as that. No DRM or other shenanigans needed.
I’m not defending Google. I completely excised them from my life almost a decade ago already.

I’m simply freeing people from the illusion that Google has “won the web” or whatever. Google is effectively giving everyone a free ride with Chromium. They aren’t forcing anyone onto Chrome (where the real tracking happens), and if they did by making Chromium private from now on, again, forks and upstream swaps would happen at lightspeed.
It's ironic that they use pictures of failing bridges, after describing software architecture practices which are never used to build bridges. Yes, let's experiment with this 300 million dollar bridge for a few years, and make sure the construction workers are part of defining the fill type and dimensions of the structural pillars.

The way I wish software were created is more like physical infrastructure. There's still huge problems with construction, to be sure. But it lasts longer and is more likely to succeed when completed. There's all kinds of requirements, analysis, and inspection to ensure it works correctly. The people putting it together don't need to be very skilled; they're working with off-the-shelf commodity parts, manufactured to a minimum specification, with specific dimensions and attributes, which loosely couple in many configurations with identical parts from different vendors all over the world. Combining them in specific ways has quantifiable, predetermined results. And you know that for the parts that require being designed correctly, the people designing them had very specific minimum qualifications that take years to attain.

Companies today, whenever they want to build a software product, think they need to build an entire factory first. But companies making physical products wouldn't do that, because building a factory requires factory-building skill, that has nothing to do with the widget they want to make. Instead they would find a factory and hire them to build their widget. Software may be "modern", but its production is antiquated.
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