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Ask HN: What is the future of newsletters?
Every other day an outage happens, and people remember social platforms are rented. And that an email list is the best you could have.

On the other hand, everyone is writing newsletters and it's getting saturated. What's the solution? Where is this industry going?
Apple’s behavior largely makes sense given what a huge share of their profits their racketeering of customer access earns them. If you ever wanted to see regulation pains as the cost of doing business, this is it.

But banning epic was just pathetic baby behavior.

I hope epic launches the epic game store for iOS and its dogshit but cheaper and the gacha gravy boats all jump ship
I think they meant once. Besides digital lollipops what else is going so great in EU? jobs? economic growth? housing? immigration?
Because Apple's share price growth now depends on services, not cool hardware.

The App Store monopoly generates billions in ad revenue from app vendors advertising their apps on search results. That will take a huge hit if there's an alternate app store they can potentially pay a lot less to gain exposure.
I don't support meta and apple's approach, but while something is done about it: I suppose you can use a (paid) vpn with servers in Europe, because meta shouldn't have access to your location by any mean beside the internet connection. Just a bandaid
I've subscribed to a bunch of ATC channels on YouTube for a while, minor incidents happen every day. Everyone is looking for Boeing planes getting in accidents and it's no surprise they find them.

That said, Boeing lack-of-engineered themselves into this situation and I have zero sympathy.
>I focused on identifying highly effective charities to avoid wasting my humble charitable contributions

(1) If you rank charities by effectiveness, how do you avoid making moral comparisons?

(2) If you are experienced at research into charity efficacy, how is it possible you have not ever encountered effective altruism before?
I would posit that Apple is the "untrustworthy" and unhinged party here.
Here in the midwest, the freight companies will intentionally pad the train with empty cars until it's just too long to fit in the passing turnouts and therefore forces passenger trains to pull off and wait. Detroit to Chicago and back is therefore a tossup between arriving early and arriving 12-24hrs late.
The full soundtrack is on youtube, and it's excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF_0W1cYPYo
It's interesting to see how the pushback to this is a lot more muted than when Bloomberg implemented stop & frisk for largely the same reasons.
Given the recent release of Dune 2, and the Apple+ Foundation series, I thought this would be a good topic to re-up. I note that the Apple+ series played up a kind of "prescience" ability and "savior" trope in Salvor Hardin that seems far more at home in the Dune universe than in Asimov's original fiction.

Note that Salvor differs greatly in the series from the original books in many ways. Far beyond gender, Salvor in the books was more of a political operator, manipulating factions and faiths to the needs of the Foundation. The character in the series comes off far more of a political naif; this role is given instead to Hari Seldon.

However, Salvor is where we get the famous Asimov quote "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Salvor_Hardin
I never give any Big Tech with nation-state influence the benefit of the doubt. This is a legal/PR stress test. They failed this one, but they won't fail others.
Not yet, I think they would be.
(Update: I emailed and cancelled the order, so I think they won't be)
It has to be, considering anyone who took such a nonsense philosophy remotely seriously would not be so many orders of magnitude wrong about when heat death is expected to occur. 500My isn't even in the right order for solar expansion!
The browser could hide the secret after it is entered.
YES! which one would you recommend?
Isn't there an time, where an domain is blocked after it expires? Why weren't you informed about the failed billing?
The more likely reason for the creation of the TSA was to prevent victims from suing airlines into oblivion for failing to provide security. The government knew that if the airlines were found responsible the entire aviation industry could collapse, so the Feds stepped in and said "it's our job" and created the TSA to make that responsibility clear.

The situation is not dissimilar to how power tool companies would not deploy SawStop technology because that would make it clear to consumers that said companies knew their products were unsafe and would expose them to millions / billions in liability claims.

https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/sawstop-boycott-lawsuit-ruling...
By responding with:

> it's just crazy person talk

you've absolutely fallen into the hole and discredited yourself.

You've unashamedly revealed a lack of understanding and demonstrated
extraordinary inflexibility and lack of curiosity at the same time.
You've basically said "Indeed, I am a disingenuous interlocutor"

You see, it's a powerful move :)
Worst case scenario a hundred or so people might lose their lives, best case scenario there might be a few more of the issues we’ve seen. Someone has probably come to the conclusion that it’s worth taking the gamble and not hurting Boeing unless there’s a more serious incident.
this is going to sound rude but I think the author is just a typical frontend developer.

frontend development used to be much simpler than the backend, in the same way that a car tire is much simpler than the engine. useful, valuable, necessary, but no one gets bragging rights for being able to replace a tire (vs working on an engine).

Over the last ~10-15 years the frontend has grown to be extremely complex. _overly complex_. Imagine a tire that can now play the radio.

What the author is seeing (I hope) is an acknowledgement by our industry that the frontend need not be that complex to successfully do it's job. That feels bad for "frontend developers" who feel they can display much of their skill solely in the frontend.
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The very idea that anyone would call html and css a programming language kind of says it all. To use an analogy, I can program my VCR, that doesn't make my VCR a programming language. words can have different definitions but industries tend to have more specific meanings than the general meaning.

These same developers like to rail against the idea of a fullstack developer. A fullstack developer is someone who can move between the frontend, backend, and data at will. They exist (I'm one of them). The frontend has gotten so complex people have started arguing fullstack can't exist because no one can be an expert in everything.

As if they themselves are even an expert in the frontend (hint: you're not).
Usually the remarks tend to be as if they already had a compiler ready and were building stuff with it.

Meanwhile, the last public talks were about building the frontend.
The EC heavily hinted at swift enforcement and it's most likely that Apple retreated after that.

So technically they "worked it out" but only after a "parent" threatened to send them to bed without dinner.
I had no idea air traffic control recordings were public!

"Interesting recordings" are available for download here: https://www.liveatc.net/recordings.php

Direct mp3 link for the incident in question: https://forums.liveatc.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1...
You do literally everything with your healthier body! Every moment of your life is lived inside a body which is more capable of physically influencing the world around you. A big physical change is like going from notepad to vim. It takes time and effort and attention but it's so damn _powerful_. Eating healthier and especially, _especially_ exercising is such a boon to generally feeling good throughout the day. I've never been more motivated, productive, and capable than when i was running every day. It was honestly astonishing.
> where they’re the judge, jury, and executioner

Yes, typically democratically elected governments include judges, juries, and executioners. They'd be pretty ineffectual otherwise.
Digital services are global. Regulation can be different from physical good regulation.

Heck, in the US even taxes are global

Edit: For US citizens
Where I live it costs $1500 to create a new corporate entity and $500/year to file taxes for a trivial corporation.

A limit like that is entirely unworkable against large corporate interests. All it would do is prevent local, small-time landlords from expanding.
If you say this then you’ll surely also be fine to just not use other app stores if you don’t want them. Right? Just don’t use them!
Just 2 cans of soda per week is too much – even if you exercise
Thanks--you just saved me an hour or two of debugging. I thought, CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y, what more do I need to do? I should've just RTFM though: even an unpatched kernel mentions this in the help for that config option.
Still waiting for 4:3 to come back, as vertical real estate is precious when you're coding. Not holding my breath though. The market has spoken, and the market appears to want screens optimized for watching videos rather than screens optimized for writing text.
1. I've written, at most, 10,000 lines of Rust. Calling me "the Rust community" is quite a stretch.

2. For comparison, I've almost certainly crossed the million lines of C mark years ago--if anything, I'm the C community.

3. You and I remember very different things about the C++ community. In fact, I also remember a number of other languages being offered as alternatives to C over the years including some obvious ones like Pascal or Basic, and also including some real absurdities like Lua (nothing wrong with Lua, but it's really not for the same kinds of projects as C). The idea that comparing your language to C is some sort of new phenomenon, is flat wrong.

4. You're ascribing a lot of intent to me bringing up Rust which isn't there. I'm not trying to derail the discussion--if you want to talk about C, do it.

5. The idea that the Rust community is threatened by C is a bit bizarre.
There are some games that attempt to simulate the political process. "Democracy 4" for instance. PC game, not tabletop, but might be a source of inspiration.
Update title to remove landing gear failure reference: Boeing 737 Max 8 ran off Texas runway
One of the more enjoyable aspects of this whole issue is watching people with a vested political interest in Apple's fundamental point of view criticize their dealings with Epic.
I think the answer is no but just to be sure: are you able to trigger step executions programmatically from within a step, even if you can't await their results?

Related, but separately: can you trigger a variable number of task executions from one step? If the answer to the previous question is yes then it would of course be trivial; if not, I'm wondering if you could i.e. have a task act as a generator and yield values, or just return a list, and have each individual item get passed off to its own execution of the next task(s) in the DAG.

For example some of the examples involve a load_docs step, but all loaded docs seem to be passed to the next step execution in the DAG together, unless I'm just misunderstanding something. How could we tweak such an example to have a separate task execution per document loaded? The benefits of durable execution and being able to resume an intensive workflow without repeating work is lessened if you can't naturally/easily control the size of the unit of work for task executions.
Only 10% of the increase in medical cost in the US is attributable to doctor salaries. The remainder is administrative overhead, Rx costs, insurance administration, etc.

There are now 10 administrators for every 1 doctor.

Since 1970, the number of physicians has increased by 2x. The number of administrative staff has increased by 38x.

If each administrator is making 100k+ - 150k+, that's significant cost.

Some of these crazy billing practices are due to the private equity buy-ups and consolidation, creating workflows and fee structures that are hostile to patients and doctors, but benefit the PE firms.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

Lots more data here:
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/
OpenAI doesn't give stock, they give "Profit Participation Units" that are directly tied to how much profit the company makes. If they aren't making a profit and you can't find a buyer who thinks they will in the future, then they are worthless.
Of course, because there are so many bedroom communities surrounding NYC. The people looking for a cheap place to stay when visiting NYC just stay across the river. Also, for AirBnB being "basically banned" there sure are a lot of them you can book!
Inflection have denied this - it could be that Pi has a very long memory and hence the results this user got were influenced by a much earlier conversation: https://twitter.com/inflectionAI/status/1766173427441049684

I'm withholding judgement until more information comes out. It's a really weird situation.
If you say so.

> The number of deaths per passenger-mile on commercial airlines in the United States between 2000 and 2010 was about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles. For driving, the rate was 150 per 10 billion vehicle-miles: 750 times higher per mile than for flying in a commercial airplane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

I'll take 1:750 odds.
ZeroMQ is a library that implements an application layer network protocol. Hatchet is a distributed job server with durability and transaction semantics. Two completely different things at very different levels of the stack. ZeroMQ supports fan-out messaging and other messaging patterns that could maybe be used as part of a job server, but it doesn't have anything to say about durability, retries, or other concerns that job servers take care of, much less a user interface.
Huh. That sucks, I'm sorry to hear that--good luck out there.
> It says "art theft", but right in the panels before you have "allow unrestricted access". Well, if you allowed it, it surely can't be theft.

Those are two different things it's talking about. AI headshot-type stuff with the permission of the person whose headshot is being made vs generally the scraping of source data to build the models.
Psychedelic news: The government fast-tracked LSD as an anxiety treatment
You can't write this in any random function that you don't know who will call:

do $$

begin transaction;

update page set change_count = change_count + 1 where page_id = 1;

if (select change_count = 100 from page where page_id = 1) then

rollback;

else

commit;

end if;

$$
Rules should be different if you're running a platform. A platform is essentially a market within the free market, so special regulative care is required.
> We may criticise our society in this forum and not be arrested by thugs.

In the US because we have constitutional freedom of speech. But plenty of people in 'freedom-loving liberal democracies' are arrested for criticizing their societies. Unless you think the UK and Germany are authoritarian?

Besides, there are things we cannot even criticize in this forum.

> That should be evidence enough that for 80 years since the last world war we've maintained an alliance of ideals that were worth fighting for.

What alliance of ideals? What are the ideals? Other than maintaining the european domination of the world?

> 80 years ago people chose to make the "ultimate sacrifice" by giving their lives.

What? You sound like the morons that think we invade iraq to bring freedom and democracy.
From a home perspective, the best way to think about a (full depth four post) rack is as an extremely high density shelving for specific types of things. You won't make any gains with one or two machines, or several SBCs in small cases, that you couldn't have made with similar non-rack shelves. Having a few pieces of gear with rack ears not in a rack will forever call to you though. In general I'd either say commit to it (42U and understand you'll be paying a premium for shelves/gear/accessories), or regular shelving will suit you fine.
I think monopoly is the right word because their really are two markets.

A customer is only looking for either iOS or Android apps, and isn't going to choose an Android app if they have an iPhone, or vice versa (IOW, iOS apps don't compete with Android apps).

Imagine only one company sold diesel fuel, and only one sold gasoline. Wouldn't you say they each had a monopoly?
> - the industry would be better off if someone with her education (and likely experience) was actually providing healthcare.

Worse the odds are good she was hired to help the insurance company prevent people from getting healthcare.
There was a year of protests over a 0.02 EUR/liter fuel tax.
I think if you follow where the money goes, that will be whether UBI causes inflation or not. In the best case, it results in a virtuous cycle where growth is created and sustained. In the worst case, it further inflates the value of low supply goods. This will most likely be up to market conditions along with business models/strategies and productive capabilities of various industries and marketplaces and how they will weigh out.

In the example of housing however, I don't think UBI will help because the business model is dependent on inflating prices of homes as investment vehicles. The price must go up one way or another. What actually bring home prices down would be something like a market crash where investment expectations are muted.

Cheaper labor however comes from offshore countries that have a lower standard of living. If average wages go up, then domestic workers will expect that as a baseline. A business can pay above the average for above average workers, and vice versa. The expectation of hiring cheaper immigrant labor is getting the same level of expertise for cheaper. This does not always go to plan, which is why there is still some demand for domestic workers and their expertise. Automation may have a similar effect but without the same virtuous cycle to offshore countries as before. (Not to mention that the difference between revenue and cheaper labor cost is incentivized to be kept as business profits, which doesn't mean that prices go down since demand and supply now expects higher prices as the market baseline.)
It's not about whether it's worth using, it's about having the mere option of building an app without the overhead of paying developer fees to Apple.
Surprised of not seeing Smalltalk mentioned on the article.
If it were really that simple, we'd all be leasing AT&T cell phones. The only reason Apple can sell iPhones and run an app store is because AT&T got broken up 40 years ago for similar issues.
thank you. yes. that's what I was thinking too.
> in the US eggs are washed so thoroughly they have to be kept in the fridge afterwards to keep them good.

That isn't actually true, you can keep them out, they'll be just fine.

> Chicken has to be chlorinated in the US.

It doesn't have to be, rather it's permitted. There is no chlorine left in the final result. And don't imagine the EU is against chlorine washer, vegetables are chlorine washed in the EU.

> You're not allowed to sell cheese made from raw milk in the US

That's not true either, the cheese just has to be aged more than 60 days.

> I bet there's more examples.

Your examples were quite poor, actually I doubt there are other examples.
BTRFS raid1 for now. I’ll try to push for raid10 maybe by the end of the year since SSDs draw very little power.

Device is finicky with sata adapters. I’m using some Marvell controllers at the moment.
I'm going to recommend everyone ignore this poster, just don't reply to them.

They're not going to accept anything other than "yes, you're right jerf" and any attempt to do so is going to be met with squawking about motte and bailey fallacy because they believe internally they've found the perfect defense.

it's not worth engaging.
Personally, I've like to get the old audio jack socket added back to iPhones and laptops.

Maybe that's just me though. ;)
This article from yesterday is quite timely:

> US NTSB probes 'stuck' rudder pedal issue on Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight

> The safety board reported the captain said that during the landing rollout, the phase just after touchdown, the rudder pedals did not move in response to "normal" application of foot pressure while attempting to maintain the runway centerline.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-ntsb-p...
> trying to precisely to-the-pixel move or resize windows with the keyboard today seems silly

I've recently discovered that GNOME switches between fast and precise keyboard dragging with Ctrl, and snaps to window edges on Shift. See process_keyboard_move_grab():

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/blob/main/src/compos...
It's also easy enough to just add a mount command to your initramfs init, or embed required device nodes in the CPIO.
In North America, I believe so. South America is another matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamuses_in_Colombia
Frontend and raw SQL are the steepest and most effective, yet lesser regarded skills you can have imho. The entire backend stack feels like a giant relay. You connect the meaningful dots in the database and whatever the user sees. That's where most projects I've seen shine and fall the harshest. This didn't seem to be the case when MVC was a thing. Nowadays REST APIs just mirror a domain or CRUD where you offload the thinking to the frontend. I have seen horrendous amounts of spaghetti...
Great britain?
My job just asked me to do a week across the country this summer. At this rate I'll be looking into the rates of passenger train crashes to see which is safer.
Epic doesn’t sell loot boxes in its games. Apple however, does happily take a tax on loot box profits from other companies.

Edit: sorry, loot box revenue
It's not.

ER - life or death (if you can drive yourself, it's probably not an emergency)

Urgent Care - you have the flu, and your PCP isn't available; minor emergencies (but you can still drive yourself)

PCP - flu, check-ups, whatever

The balance billing and OON charges are separate issues from over-use of the ER.
Regulators immediately started calling for an investigation and we're going to look into Apple’s termination of Epic’s developer account as a matter of priority.
Played their card too soon. They want to take it back so they can play it again in the future.
Ok I see, I interpreted the phrase "association with" to be more about the people he's associating with than the beliefs, but the article is incredibly vague so there's no way for us to know what these criticisms actually are.
Between this and the PWA decision, Apple seems to be flailing. What is leadership doing?
What does this have to do with LLMs?
It's not interesting! If you argue I should light my pants on fire, or shoot myself out of a canon, or dunk my head in tar bucket, what am I supposed to respond with?

"That's nuts!"

It's not a lack of curiosity, the position the opponent is arguing doesn't have legs and that's readily apparent.

"Renounce your sinful ways of sewing machines and egg beaters! RETVRN TO TRADITION!"

Like, what? That doesn't deserve a dignified response, there's no argument there. If anything, engaging grants it a kind of credibility that is more harmful than just saying "Move along sweetie, leave the crazy man be".
I've been sticking w/ very compact units, mainly ThinkCentre M series "Tiny" and Dell OptiPlex "Micro" form factor, which are both practically identical in size. Both use a laptop power supply. You can get current versions for many hundreds of dollars or generation(s) old ones for as cheap as $30 USD. My most recent ones were older 3rd & 4th gen i5 & i7 CPUs but they still blow current Raspberry Pi, etc. out of the water, have M.2 for network, etc. & SATA for storage. A Dell I have that's a generation newer than these adds NVMe too. It's hard finding these small PCs that have multiple Ethernet but I just added a gigabit Ethernet M.2 card to the one.
they stop and frisk people on the street in NY too