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I remember when began using Linux. I was sad that installing software was complicated and there was no standard.

Then apt came and it seemed good. But I soon discovered that I was only good for software that was on the repositories.

Then I considered adding third party repositories and it seemed good. But I soon discovered that it could easily break my distro.

Then I considered compiling the software on my own machine and it seemed good. But then I discovered that newly available software required newly available dependencies.

Then I considered building dependencies on my own machine and it seemed good. But then I discovered that it soon becomes very complicated and could easily break my distro.

Then I considered replacing my distro periodically by newer versions and it seemed good. But then I discovered that it was unstable.

Then I considered using LTS releases only and it seemed good. But then I discovered that it was hard to use newly released software.

Then I considered compiling software and dependencies for my user only and it seemed good. But then I discovered that it was too much work.

Then I heard about klik, then I heard about glick, and containers and guix. And, during a long time, everything around these options evolved. And all that seemed good in different ways than before.

A few years ago I installed debian 10 from debootstrap, an incredibly learning experience. I then installed flatpak and guix on it. I loved it. I can finally have a distro with a stable core, long term maintained, where I can easily use newly released software without ever risking my system in a very simple way.

Linux, even considering only the kernel, evolved a lot for this to be possible. AppImages, flatpaks and snaps are a godsend for software installation on Linux. I really like the way all that matured along all those years. I had the beautiful experience of installing the latest released version of GIMP in different distros, different computers with different architectures all with the very same command a little time after it was made available.

I have just a vague idea how complicated it was to reach this point but I like where we are now. I know a lot of people worked hard to achieve it and I know a lot of good ideas died along the way. I don't know how harmful the ongoing "war" between snap and flatpak is today but I'm glad both worked as expected when I had to use them recently.

There's a lot to improve but I 'm hopeful and watching these improvements occur like someone who watches history being written. For all those who made this happen, for all those who made it possible: thank you all. You solved a lot of problems I had for years and I owe you a lot.
Before internet times I had a girlfiend that i often called.
That was our main connection.
After our breakup(dont remember how that happened)
I lost her number and forgot her last name. She could be dead and I wouldn’t know.
When it comes to disasters the phrases that come to my mind are "bana bir sey olmaz" (nothing will happen to me) and "teget gececek" (it'll be nothing), which are expressions of denial and minimization.
"this union is absolutely required for preventing death" and "i'm on the fence about unions" are two wild takes to see together.

Why the triangle shirtwaist factory fire isn't enough to encourage people to like unions, I'll never know:

> Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked[1][8] – a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft[9] – many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows.

link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...
I guess the closest thing you can get to that -- ssh into somewhere and get details on every human -- is to ssh into the government's database on everyone remotely of interest, or even accidentaly connected, (in essence almost everyone), both made of computer and human agent collection and analysis.
I'm not sure one is locked down. One can write the model and the controller in the style one likes and then they just bind to appkit/uikit for the Apple versions.

This could be done despite nobody I know working this way. This used to be normal when x-windows was thriving.
What lawsuits? They send updated terms of service ahead of it so it’s all totally legal.
>"Anti-drug user culture and laws = white supremacy," reads another sign

This tells you everything you need to know about the sort of people who put up these posters.

At this point, what isn't white supremacy? "I got a bad beat while playing poker, this is white supremacy manifest!"
A brain specialist can’t code therefore his argument is invalid.

HN at its best worst.
Exactly this. Nobody is holding a gun to their heads and demanding they operate at an untenable scale. Unbridled capitalism forces that.
Dumping? This is IBM we're talking about. They'll ratchet up the price to fewer and fewer customers, trying to keep themselves in that pocket where they're too useful and expensive to move away from, but still able to hold the irons to their customers.
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Europe mostly speaks a different language in every country, so the actual scale of Europe isn't the whole continent (or whole EU), but a single country. Sure you can travel to other countries, but there is a language barrier (though English is common enough to get by most places).

Note that GP was talking about Germany with seeming no awareness that the situation is different in Switzerland, France, England and Spain. (of the 5 countries I named there are significant differences that are unique to each - Swiss trains run ontime, French trains are fast...) God help you if you are trying to cross a border by train in Europe - it is possible, but often much harder than it should be.
> But they have no duty under U.S. antitrust law to provide equal access in the first place.

True, but they're undeniably at a scale where this would just be expected of them either way. We broke up Ma Bell ignoring this exact defense, because at a certain scale of infrastructure you're expected to do the right thing legal or not. If Apple drills down on their "technically legal" defense, they're liable to find out how technically subjective law gets at their scale.
Cover letters are a scourge on society anyway.
This article is framing this in the context of hypothetical numbers that Elon threw out "to maintain sustainable trips to and from mars". We are nowhere, I emphasize NOWHERE, near having a colony on Mars. Literal decades away.

So the article (and its title) are built on a bit of a false premise.
Its already wild enough that AutoCAD and Excel are both broken partially in Win11 because MS changed something in classic Paint that effects how Windows 11 does image embedding.

From AutoCAD's known issues page: On the Windows 11 operating system, OLE image objects (BMP, PNG, GIF, and so on) don’t display and can’t be plotted as expected. This is due to a limitation in the Paint application that ships with Windows 11. AutoCAD LT is affected the same way other Windows applications are affected.
Not OP, but I'd use externalities to guide the decision. After all, it isn't the drug users partaking in the quiet of their home that we really care about. It's the junkies on the street making life worse for everyone else around them, the smugglers, the violence, the people dying from overdoses, etc.

Of course the problem is that almost all of the drugs in question have legitimate medical uses so we can't just wave a magic wand and make them go away.

I'd personally try the angle of making drug use completely non-criminal (but not the associated behavior problems that do impact other people; this is a non-trivial element), and then make dealing drugs punishable with a LOT of time.
Whatever harvesting your specific personal creative written output for profit without compensation is called, that’s not telemetry. Telemetry is usage statistics. This is bulk theft of your copyrighted works at scale.
Sentry customer here,

I understand that you don't want to be in the business of sharing your customer's IP, but it's hard to not see using your customer's internal diagnostic data for training as exactly that.

A universal opt-out of sharing data for training would go a long way in assuring me that I'm not about to find out that another customer is getting a snippet of quasi-private information (not sensitive to be PII, but not public enough to share). I can imagine that this'll be fine for a lot of customers but it makes me very uneasy.

Heck, you could probably incentive some users into sharing their data by gating "AI" features behind not opting-out.
You here made a list of "American Lobbies" and down another list of "Foreign Lobbies," which is clever but desinginious.

He is talking about America's most powerful lobby FOR a foreign country. So this list is useless. Also, your second list only includes official foreign agents, while most pro-Israel lobbying is not registered as such (notably AIPAC).
I at one point had a guy with pickup (without a rack) trying to load lumber and remarked at how much easier of a time I was having loading the same lumber into the fit. It was pretty funny and I was surprised at his candor given my usual truck owner interactions.
If Apple in 2020 had allowed third-party text message applications and in 2024 changed their mind because a competitor was eating their lunch, that would be anticompetitive.

It's not anticompetitive to never allow a third-party text message application in the first place.
woah never considered that virtual spaces could be used to model memory palaces, that's very cool
Yes. My needs are fairly basic, however!
> If it was possible to hot patch this crap out of existence I’d be in favor of it.

I assume, of course, you feel this way about all drugs, and don't want to keep the ones you like.

Goodbye alcohol, cigarettes & coffee.

You're good with that?
Yeah, as parents that's all we can do. I just want to underscore the sentiment of the original comment that - as a thought experiment - if it were possible to put the non-prescription or recreational drug genie back in the bottle somehow, that would be nice. I certainly don't know what the way forward should be.
Yeah, it really feels like people are going back to the pre-5150 personal computer era and looking at things from the ground up again.

This is especially exciting to me as someone juuuuuust old enough to have extensively used those machines (C64, //e, Atari 800, etc) when they were contemporary but now diving deep into an interest in the fundamentals of computing while in the middle of a completely different career. A project like this is specifically exciting because I could look at 8 bit computing from the ground up without having to worry about buying a vintage machine and a whole host of gremlins it might have built up over the years.
I think you make a great point. Still, the insidious way that Apple introduced iMessage is something right out of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" playbook that feels fundamentally wrong to me:

1. 15 years ago everyone in the US just used SMS to text between cell phones.

2. When iMessage came out, it wasn't like "Switch to iMessage!" Instead, it just was the default texting app you used with iPhone. So it replaced an existing, open standard with a closed one, but in a way where 99.9% of people didn't realize it.

3. In true "embrace, extend, extinguish" fashion, Apple added a lot of features to iMessage, but also didn't totally exclude Android users, but just made it seem to iOS users that when they got crappy photos or messages that randomly wouldn't deliver or crappy emoji responses "it was Android's fault".

Everything about the iMessage tactics (including getting teens to bully other teens for an out-group bubble color) is from the worst part of "protect the monopoly" playbook. Almost regardless of the legal nuances, I'm shocked when I hear anyone's broken logic trying to defend what they've done from a consumer utility perspective.

(One side note, yes, I fully know the situation outside the US isn't comparable due to the high cost of SMS in the late 00s in other countries that forced a migration to WhatsApp, etc. earlier. That still doesn't give Apple a break for their monopoly-preserving tactics in the US).
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Heroin is an easy target because it is only used recreationally (in the US, at least), so we don't have any legitimate patients who'd be impacted by eliminating it.
Summarizes a paper published in Nature "Satellite mapping reveals extensive industrial activity at sea", already linked on HN. [2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06825-8

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856394
It'll do whatever they spec it to do.

The good news is, whatever they spec it to do will be available to Linux and other OSes because there's really no practical way to spec something Linux couldn't handle as well as Windows without risking antitrust action over something far too stupid to justify such a thing.

The bad news is that people do sometimes do dumb things with keyboards for no reason. I'm using a Dell laptop here. I'm used to the common Fn key on the laptop keyboard mapping the Left Arrow to Home and the Right Arrow to End. Instead this keyboard maps Fn-F11 to Home and Fn-F12 to End. No problem I sez to myself, I'll just map Fn-Left and Fn-Right myself. I've got a number of keyboard customizations already set up anyhow. Alas. The Fn key is supermagical bullshit, and according to XWindows, Fn-Left is nothing. Not an undefined keycap or something suprising... it's just plain nothing. I haven't dug any deeper to see if maybe something lower than X is eating it because I don't care enough (I remapped Windows-Left and Window-Right, retrained my fingers, and called it a day), and I judge the probability that the keyboard hardware is literally emitting no key events for this event too high to be worthwhile.

So, they could spec the Copilot key to be a super magical key that doesn't let you play with others and blocks all other keystrokes while it is held down or something. The good news is, I doubt they'd even want to do that; they're going to want to be able to tell people "Use Copilot+X" to do things themselves, even if they don't have anything for that on day one. They could in principle do something like my Fn key, though, and rigidly insist that only certain defined shortcuts could be used and everything else results in no events, and that is at least an outside chance. Hopefully they don't do anything like that, though, it's honestly more work than just letting it be an otherwise normal key.
I agree that it's reasonable to hold platforms like Apple to a higher standard. The issue is that it would likely require new laws be passed, like the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act from the European Union.
Since you're willing to write since code apparently: have you checked the internal databases? They're just sqlite, moderately understandable at a glance last time I looked.
This is an absolutely perfect archetypal HN comment

The way someone can post an article on a really complex topic and the comment instead talks about the style or formatting of the article.

That to me is pure HN distilled
> Created by an entity called the Drug User Liberation Collective

Interesting, did the organization acknowledge it was them? I could also see the opponents creating the same flier and posting it. "Yeah we're going to be buying, selling drugs and shoplifting here and nothing you can do about it" could just as well be a way for those against those things to raise more awareness and drum up support for their own cause.

I am not saying this is the case, but I could also see it working that way as well.
For SMS? Maybe, but that's just a basic phone feature. An old Nokia also only offers one way to send SMS. It's just part of the phone-bits of the phone. And didn't Signal used to be able to send and receive SMS on iPhone, anyway? Thought it could.

Messaging apps that compete with iMessage are plentiful and Apple doesn't get in their way. You can also disable iMessage with a toggle on the Messages settings screen (it's well "above the fold" for me, fourth entry down, on that screen, it's the first thing they show other than security/permissions stuff for the app)
That's not really an issue, as European lawmakers have demonstrated.
In December I could not even buy tickets online to a train from Berlin to Warsaw because DB website is terrible. Had to cancel my trip — this is really a shame, that EU cannot fix cross-border connectivity.
it's not about WHERE they flew, it's about the fact they have _experience_ flying large, heavy, mechanical machines filled with fuel, in the air! These days, there are extremely limited possibilities to get experience flying planes because of drone usage. The military barely needs pilots anymore, what with all the drone usage.
The only factual questions are non-sequiturs, in that they do not lead to any of the conclusions the post seems to come to.

Perhaps I just don't fit in with HN anymore.
Another way could be host it on a Tailscale network, then it can only be accessed by your own devices.
In google? That's surprising to hear. I was under the impression it was on a blacklist at google since I've never seen PDF.to rank. https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/82597748/my-sit..., it was also in the "bing jail" for what ever reason, but that was fixed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35677086

I don't do any SEO/Ads, although one of the noteable links came from paying a outreach company to reach out to reporters and one wrote an article https://www.lifehacker.jp/article/lht_pdf-to/, although that was many iterations ago. Just been focusing on improving the functions and design since that initial launch phase back in 2019
They'd probably put it in lightbulbs (to get a long lasting power source and good viewing angle).
I agree with you and am confused by so many replies to your comment essentially suggesting that drugs are the only means to enjoying life or being recreationally unproductive.

I have spent some decades now enjoying life and being very enjoyably unproductive at times while remaining sober.
Well, the competitors in this case would've been taxi companies, not other car companies.

The case was basically that for every $35k Model 3 that comes off the lot can be sold for a profit up to $35k, or be added to the robotaxi fleet where it can generate whatever revenue it can produce. For example, if every Model 3 could generate $5/h of profit, then running it 24/7/365 would be $44k.
Looks more like a band-aid to me. Either way, now that you've said that i'll never un-see it.
yes it has a few
Not financial capitalism?
The delivery solution reminds me of the why-dropbox question. Delivery is fine* if you know exactly the amount you need or are fine with paying for extra materials. There were a few times I needed an extra piece or just needed something else.

And yea, I can still just wait for another piece of wood to be delivered - or I could just ask someone who has a truck to help me.

*Also Home Depot / Lowes lumber is garbage tier. I don't trust them to just send me whatever 2x6s I select online. If you don't go to the store and actually inspect the wood, you're just gonna get curved pieces.
> most productive work years

Yeah, no. The 18-22 years may be years where you have a ton of energy, but that doesn't mean they're the most productive.

American 18-year old high school graduates are basically children in all but body size and have no experience in doing complex things that the modern economy requires.

They still would have to spend 3-5 years learning skills (whether they do it in college or outside of college is less relevant)
WHAT!? This is my day job, but I'm embarrassed to admit I never realized that!

Thanks for the book rec, I'll probably start digging into it this weekend.
So there are two different things that need to be looked at.

First order crimes. For example drinking, then getting in a crash would be a first order crime of alcohol use.

A second order crime could be something like stealing money to buy your next beer, or running an illegal bootlegging operation.

In deciding how to police the issue, the last thing you want to consider is punishment, and the first you want to consider is harm reduction.

Going after dealers just doesn't fucking work. We've been spending billions on it, and in doing so we have a non-stop line of dealers and manufactures making more deadly and addictive concoctions every day. The more you bust the dealers, the more the price goes up, the more stealing occurs by the users, the and more corruption of law enforcement by the dealers paying people off because of the huge sums of money involved happen. As they say "There was a war on drugs, drugs won".
In the Netherlands, you can tap your credit card when entering the railway station, and tap again when you exit the destination station. The exact amount for the trip will be deducted.

Works with all types of public transport and in the entire country.

https://ovpay.nl/en/
and thats red hats job.
> That's worlds worse than just making sure your app is the most convenient option, while other options can easily be installed.

I disagree.

Apple is actively hostile to third parties integrating with their own protocols, but Microsoft has been caught several times trying to subvert standards for their benefit, e.g. when they added extensions to their Exchange email servers that would work only with Outlook clients.
Everyone knows the hf leaderboard is actively being gamed (Goodhart's law strikes again), but the guy who wrote the Medium post is active in doing stuff with models, and the tutorial is (clearly) pretty good.
> Apps are not even allowed to link out to their website or tell users that Apple/Google is taking a 30% cut!

What business in their right mind would want to sell or stock a product that comes with a label that says, in effect, “Don’t spend your money here, go somewhere else”?
The same reason Babbage never built the full Difference Engine. Design of this sort allows some tinkering unbothered by the constraints of actually building it (if you know history of the Difference Engine you know how many ideas it unleashed even if never really built to completion except in recent times for display at a London Museum :p).
Since you're a fellow New Yorker, I'm also puzzled how you conclude there is a water scarcity problem? My first reaction was that you might be living in a water-stressed area. I'm sorry if my first comment sounds trite, it wasn't my intention. (Maybe I have social media fatigue?)
Either the journalist writing the article was using Dutton as a source accurately, or Science is not a reputable source of news. This is mutually exclusive.

I took the story prima facie. And, if the story (journalism) is accurate, Dutton is indeed suffering from hubris. Someone brought up the collapse 100,000 year ago in a direct comparison. It was either Dutton or the journalist. If I take Science as an accurate source, it was Dutton. Or it was not Dutton, then Science is not reputable (are they adding implications and misquotes?). If that is the case, why the HN story? HN curated it (that is, HN readers) so I have to give credence to Science magazine (because I give credence "to the crowd of HN contributors"). Again, both sides cannot be argued at the same time.

As to reading the summary for policy makers: the IPCC is a political organization, not a scientific one. Why would its publications that are for policy makers be of interest to me? I need a condensed version of science, not policy. The IPCC doesn't have anything to do with the claim -- (except CO2 causes global warming which the IPCC doesn't actually claim, but does imply, as best as I can tell). Either Dutton made the claim, or Science made the claim -- they have to back it up and defend it. I made no claim EXCEPT that Dutton is suffering from hubris. Which I just backed up and defended.