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That is how I felt. Computers made everyone's life better!

My opinion is that "the big sellout" happened when apple introduced the iphone and the apple app store.

and it basically came down to a couple nuances in their policies...

#1 apps have unfettered network access

#2 apple would never approve security apps like a firewall (because #1)

and when a big player sets an example, it normalizes the situation for everyone else.

I think it was seen (or sold) as "advertising will fund everything" just like television, radio and print advertising did in the past.

Except the old advertising was one-way. Advertising today means ubiquitous surveillance and dossier building on every person on the planet.

It's been ~ 17 years of this iphone BS, and now behavior is creeping into every app, device and platform. Look at microsoft breaking new ground in appalling behavior with each software update.

Thank goodness for linux, open software, open hardware and people coming up with great hacks all the time.
Ask HN: What Programming Habit Changed Your Code for the Better?
Hey everyone!

We often talk about tools, languages, and new technologies that help us improve our coding. However, today I'd like to focus on the habits and practices that make us better developers.

1. *What is one programming habit you’ve adopted that has significantly improved the quality or efficiency of your code?*
2. *How did you come to adopt this habit, and what impact has it had on your development process or outcomes?*

This could be anything from a specific way you comment your code, to how you structure your workday, to a particular approach to debugging or testing. I'm looking forward to learning about the routines that have made a real difference in your work!
There was a period of time when to get the highest ROI you had a factory built, you hired a bunch of people and had them make and sell washing machines, fridges and vacuums.

Since everybody now has a washing machine, fridge and vacuum, the profits fell and the manufacturing just barely sustains itself.

Since the founders / owners / shareholders extracted all excess profits, the companies became brittle in crises, causing them to buy each other until there is just about 1 per continent, possibly 1 in the whole world.

The only way to jack up prices until then, barred burying the whole planet under a pile of planned obsolescence electronics garbage, is to invent new ways to introduce scarcity. Like gating certain features behind a subscription fee.

And temporarily also to lay off as many people as possible, replacing them with automation.

Please elucidate how do you envision next win-win capitalism-based boom. Time savings to everyone have been driving the last one. The only area with a low-hanging time-saving fruit remaining is time on job. Which is exactly the time capitalism seeks to maximize for workers.
Life Lessons from Hell-House Venus
I can see why people would do this with existing WordPress setups, but would there be any reason to consider it for a new build over a dedicated headless CMS (like Strapi or a bunch for PHP I don't know well enough to name) or headless CMS SAAS (like Prismic)?
Yes, the rail lines of Europe really are a boost to ones quality of life.

Just the therapeutic action of gazing across the landscape for a few hours, then returning to the book or laptop on the table in front of you can be rejuvenating in ways that sitting on the 405 for a few hours in the afternoon, isn't.
Free to do whatever you like. If you want to sit around playing musical instruments in your spare time nothing is stopping you.

We've had superhuman chess AI for decades and that hasn't stopped anyone playing chess. But if I want to review a game showcasing the highest level of chess play I wouldn't turn to human games. Similarly, sooner or later, if I want a specific picture of something I'm not going to be wasting the time of an artist to get it.
Problem with docx is that there's no real way to _just_ view a file. I don't really want to spin up an entire word processor just to read the meeting minutes. I honestly much prefer a PDF to docx.
I used Photoshop CS6 (purchased in a Box from a Store) until macOS dropped support for 32-bit apps. It was amazing.

I kind of preferred the aesthetics of its interface too.
> but likelihood that any of your potential heirs is also interested in it

That's not the issue, he set up the parts of his empire he cared about so they'd live on (Allen Institute for example) and instructed his sister to sell the rest. She could have gone against his instructions, but the point is he clearly he didn't care whether the Cinerama or the Living Computer Museum continued on. That's on him, not his heirs.

The fact that no other Seattle-adjacent computer billionaires like Gates, Bezos, Simonyi, Ballmer has offered to continue it just shows the generally low quality of people that have gotten rich from tech.
What is shoulder surfing and how to prevent it?
How much would you pay to get to see the DEC-10 again?

Is there that much non-sentimental value about a working specimen as compared to docs and pictures?
> No, but if you gave your friend Bob a copy of the painting, he's allowed to copy that copy as much as he wants once you lose the copyright.

Wouldn't this require Bob to outlive the artist by many, many years? My understanding was that copyright extends well past the death of the original creator.

EDIT: I'm curious why this is downvoted. Am I incorrect about the length of copyright being decades past the death of the creator? A quick google shows that it extends to 70 years past the life of the creator, [1] which means that it would be quite unlikely that an adult who receives artwork from the creator would live to see the time when it's not under copyright. That is, even if the artist died the next day, it would be 70 years before the copyright expires.

1: https://www.copyright.gov/history/copyright-exhibit/lifecycl...
These systems are likely under heavy sign up attacks and so must have a way to guard against that since their costs are quite high.
Piracy should be legal if there are no other means of obtaining the content.
Many US newspapers block users from the EU because they fear GDPR.

Not sure why newspapers are "leading" on that front. All the tech sites are open.
I don't know what you're trying to point out here. The models aren't trained on themselves.
Another module in linux isn’t half a million of lines. A whole new class of hardware with all the drivers may be.
Can I buy exclusive access to 10x10 checkboxes?
> I have no idea what the performance impact is and honestly I don't care.

Then why are you writing C? You could be writing some other, higher-level language instead if performance is not your top priority.

Perhaps you use C because you must interact with other C code; many languages have quite usable C FFI. If you must use C because your code is part of another project (e.g. the Linux kernel), you don't have control over the flags anyway. If you must use C because of low memory availability (e.g. a microcontroller), then perhaps fine — but that's quite niche. (And there's always Rust.)
I wonder why no trust fund has been set up to keep it going.
They got an estimate for the audit on expired copyrights and media use and though "fuck it". Probably going to monetize and re-release cleared highlights at a later date.
Anthropic CEO on Being an Underdog, AI Safety, and Economic Inequality
Copyright does not require public publishing of the content — just "fixed in a tangible medium of expression". This would have been accomplished when the painting was created on paper.
That share of income from wages started its downward trajectory in 1971, when the US removed the gold standard and money-printing replaced hard money. The result was a man-manipulated interest rate fueled economy. Low interest rates benefit existing asset holders the most since they most definitively increase asset prices. Think about the simplest discounted cashflow, a perpetuity. When you change the discount rate r from 4% to 1%, the perpetuity value increases by 4x.
Everyone in silicon valley is a transplant.
The glymphatic system clears brain waste during sleep
You'll be missing context aware fill and healing brush. Those are by far the tools I use most in more modern versions of Photoshop. Other than that not much has changed, for moderate users at least.
ChatGPT says the same about capacity for Pro I think.
What is propaganda? I was asking for a proper carbon model, not a link to an opinion piece.
Damn, this sucks. I hope they don't backpedal on the new curriculum.

But girls weren't ever going to get excited by computer science via word processing and spreadsheets.

I wonder if half the girls doing proper computer science will still be a net increase going into undergrad studies.
Thank you for your honest words, I needed that.

I am one of the tiny wheels in the corner of this industry in an organization not built on top of loose bullshit from the start with the speed of light but made to build useful tools for engineers decades ago. However along the road the 'do whatever that looks good' overruled the 'do something good' in the competition with the pretentious capitalists and their servants wandering in all corners of the industry now poisioning good places with attitudes they learned and grown with in bad places and now being considered 'experts of the industry', not to mention the need of survival pushes you in this direction, the must pick up the indutry trends or die panick makes you do things you hate, and all this sweeped in to my low level of building parts so I have to make things that look good with degrading quality tools and degrading quality operating system built to look good to sell instead of helping the user so my every day, yes, every day work is a piss in headwind uphill. The products of the industry serves itself rather than the users, we can do a lot very fast that we wouldn't need to do if things were made right not pretentious. The life got difficult on a whole different level, not easier, with the products of the industry. I see little option than getting out, it is poisioned to all parts now. I have two babies so it is hard and very risky but I will need to show example to them soon and this is not something to show with integrity. Not to mention that staying is also risky when you are increasingly handled as commodity (Human Resources is a very hones title indeed!!). The previous personality of yours made this happen with the likes but still thank you for not doing it anymore and for spreading your story. I might never be in a position to work with you but if I will I will recommend you.
The dude was sick on and off for years, could have had an army of lawyers setting up these places to continue after him, and didn't bother. Don't blame his sister who was left this mess.
Public Relations used to be known as Propaganda. It rebranded, because of the use of its techniques in war, but it's still based on grabbing attention on the masses who are then put through the sales funnel. It doesn't matter what you are selling, all that matters is that you follow some basic rules. It is not for people with conscience or those who are able to see that what is being sold is not good for the buyer. One of the early commercial successes claimed by that field human activity was successfully encouraging women to smoke cigarettes by hijacking women's liberation movement. When you start that low and are paid more to do more of it, you have to choose money or conscience.
Good points, but the answer is simple. Torrent it.
2fa and those services are different. LLM api calls are relatively costly and in demand so they must have a decent barrier of entry so people couldn't just spam automated accounts with automated requests to use the app for free. There are systems that abuse that and even existing API integrations are being abused by proxying and using for other purposes if they are free and don't have good security. Any place that wants to defend against bots can't trust those phone numbers.
> during the 90s because there was so much techno optimism then

Was there? I remember the 90s as an intermittent software dark age we had to crawl out for the next decade until things started to improve around 2010. The unbearable OOP hype, turds like CORBA and Itanium, UML, "Enterprise scale" software development with Java, the first big VR hype cycle, the worst of the desktop operating systems won (Windows), and I could go on and on... there was also the same amount of human bullshitters in important positions.

We are much better off today than in the 90's in that good stuff can actually win traction (at least as long as no money is involved - once there's money involved, the bullshitter will home in like flies on a pile of shit).
Sadly it's not money. It's inequality. To build a stable business, you need to carer to the rich more then to anybody else.
Ugh, I wish we could put the adobe suite into the ground.

The company is hostile and scummy, and the tech is only slightly above alternatives in most cases.

It survives today on pure inertia, because everyone knows it. Which feels absurd to me- worst idea wins because it's the one everyone knows. And we'll keep using it so that the next generation only know that one thing.

Great for Adobe's profitability, awful for humanity.
Gardening? The vision stuff for plants has always been terrible guesswork. Is it actually good/useful now?
I agree there's a lot of crazy stuff happening in the US these days, but this just isn't an example of it. This school, and these crappy christian churches trying to brainwash Native Americans out of their culture, is nothing new; it's been going on since the late 1800s. This particular place and what's happening there looks like nothing's changed in over 100 years. Why the Native Americans there continue to put up with this BS after all this time, and don't just kick these assholes out of their reservation, is beyond me.

It has absolutely nothing to do with things like abortion being banned in many states due to a SCOTUS decision, the ever-growing polarization, etc.
Sure but there is still a particular communication style that prevails, and people adopt it, or try to adopt, to fit in. It’s less about the accent or vocabulary and more about the tone.

A lot of this was parodied pretty effectively by the Silicon Valley TV show.
Haha. Cutting rate limiting to speed things up
Feedback that is based on evidence is not defamation.

False statements that damage your reputation are defamation. And managers can engage in defamation.
I just copy and paste snippets and ask gpt to fix it or translate it
The monopoly Windows currently has allows them to create a user hostile environment.
Belief in higher power gives you the coordinate system that is not moving with the train. Doesn’t have to be religious really, bit it gives more credibility if the value system if X thousand years old.
I honestly doubt it’s in a global optimum, as evolution is easily stuck in decent local minima.

Simple example: “C4 carbon fixation”, which allows photosynthesis to proceed with much less water available, only evolved ~30 million years ago. This was the revolution that allowed modern grasses to emerge, and thus changed enormous barren deserts into the savannahs that early humans made their home. Despite being such an improvement, this is not yet a “standard”; trees, for example, still use the “old” inefficient “C3 carbon fixation”.

Despite photosynthesis having been around for hundreds of millions of years, fundamental improvements still happened just 30 million years ago. I would suspect that there is more that can still be improved.
There's this comment that I read said that the world really did end back in 2012. Because today's world seems way different than it was before 2012.
Surprised nobody mentioned GIMP yet.

FYI, I have Macromedia Fireworks MX running perfectly under WINE on Fedora (I think the only tweak I did was to increase the font size to cope with modern HIDPI displays). Highly recommend it as a web-friendly image editor (it was what I used before Adobe killed off Macromedia).
Rates were low, the cost of servicing $14 billion in debt was $0.

CEO's had the company take the debt on, paid themselves fat bonuses and hoped that the little people downstairs would invent something new that would save the company.
Interesting! Acrobat (for preflighting) and Photoshop (for CMYK conversions) are the only reasons I still boot to Windows. Will have to try this out.
That’s just acid, no religion required for that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation#...
Might be the worst but at least it is better than the ones that came before.
correction:

sed -n '/pattern/=' file|yy092|sed -nf/dev/stdin file
The government could make upgrading the infrastructure and lowering prices a priority.
Afaik the is a significant drop in performance through this route, especially when working with large files
Yet you haven't seen any AMD or Intel deal from them.
While I use GIMP for 90% of my use cases, it unfortunately cannot do print at all. For that, it seems Photoshop is still what you need (though the Affinity suite is getting close)
Here’s a fun fact that may interest you. There was an attempt in the 1990s outside of Microsoft to make the Windows API an official standard to help other operating systems run Windows software, but Microsoft balked, asserting its IP over the Windows API:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Programming_Inte...
Assuming that there is a difference and it's on the "wine side", rather than the original developer having anything/much to do with it...

You don't need Photoshop in the same way that you need a particular game. There's only one piece of software that provides the (e.g.) Death Stranding (strandlike) experience. There's any number of tools you can use to do most of your favourite Photoshop usecases.
> The 90s were peak humanity

Yeah, sure. At the same time a large European country was falling apart in a bloody and cruel war that saw many innocent people outright murdered or displaced.
See, that is where you got all wrong, they dropped Vulkan for CUDA, and even made a talk about it at GTC.

https://www.cgchannel.com/2023/11/otoy-releases-first-public...

https://www.cgchannel.com/2023/11/otoy-unveils-the-octane-20...

And then again, there are plenty of other cases where Pytorch makes absolute no sense in GPU, which was the whole starting point.
Active-X was AFIK a common requirement for banking e.t.c. during crypto export restrictions but once they where lifted almost everyone switched to https. What different about SK is the laws which keep their IT security in the past.
I wouldn't comment over other statements, but...

> Distribution of porn is illegal there and they do their best to block it from outside.

Incorrect, it's yet another incorrect meme. Legal pornography is always possible in South Korea, and while the actual threshold varied over time (because you know, there is no objective metric for them anyway so it has to be a function of the approximate social consensus), legal pornography is not necessarily "milder" than illegal pornography distributed via blocked websites. (EDIT: incorrectly put "stronger" there...)

The South Korean treatment of pornography was extremely distorted mainly because of the rampant copyright violation over pornographic materials produced elsewhere. That blocked virtually all attempts to sell legal pornography and profit from it, why would you pay when you already have tons of free porns out there. Technically speaking, a large portion of the current adult population should have been found guilty if foreign producers could sue them, and I can tell you that the name of a certain blocked but still popular pornographic website [1] has became a household name for many males in their 20s and 30s!

And here is where the SK law's technical distinction between legal pornography and illegal obsence material turned out to be handy. Since those websites distributed pornography illegally, you can just consider them obscene and thus exempted from the copyright protection (!). I really hate this situation and like to see the radical change, but I can also see that it would become a massive and uncontrollable international affair otherwise. So that's why those websites had to be banned (to signal that it is indeed illegal), but the ban itself is so weak that it can be easily bypassed (more effective ban would be harder to justify).

[1] I don't like to quote its exact name, but as a hint, it is often followed by "꺼라 turn sth off".
At least a few months. I don't think it has been more than a year.
But it has Presenter Mode (a feature that PowerPoint has shipped with for the last 20 years..)
> See your presenter notes and preview the next slide—all within Presenter View
What makes you think you’re entitled to other people’s work?
that will be easy
I also haven't gone to a library recently to read the Iliad, that doesn't mean I'm ok with all copies being burned.
If we allow the copyright for the whole work to be extended indefinitely through subsequent updates, that kind of defeats the original idea.
makes me think of webvan and peapod.
South Korea has a far crazier history [1] than I think most realize. This [2] is the first president of South Korea, installed by the US, and then eventually ferried off into exile in Hawaii by the US after a revolution, leading the 2nd Republic of Korea. That was followed by coups and all other sorts of great things, including 4 acting presidents that did not serve more than 50 days a piece, eventually leading to the 3rd Republic of Korea which was another dictatorship who then had his dictatorial powers codified in the 4th republic. Then he was assassinated and you get the the 5th republic where the dictator's friend was put in power. Then you get the 6th republic in 1987 (!!) and that's the South Korea we're somewhat more familiar with.

Even in modern times, I think most don't realize how wacky Korean politics has been. For instance the president from 2013-2017 (Park Geun-hye, daughter of a former dictator) was involved in some sort of weird cult-like grooming controversy where she was being groomed and controlled by what some media called a 'Korean Rasputin.' She was eventually impeached and imprisoned for corruption/abuse of power, and is now serving decades in prison.

And it seems the current president of South Korea has an approval rating in the 30s. So I have no idea how Koreans view their government, but it's really unlike anything I think that we can compare elsewhere. But I suspect "trust" and "integrity" are not the sort of words that'd be on top.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Korea#

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee
The Guardian has to make everything over-ly political and about class struggle.

The title is misleading. The article says:

"In numerical terms, 40,000 female students took ICT GCSE in 2015, with a further 5,000 taking computer science. In 2023, with ICT no longer available, just 18,600 females took computer science."

So actually, the number of girls taking computer science has gone from 5,000 to 18,600.

What has happened is that they scrapped the GSCE that was more computer skills than computer science.

Computer science is a very specific subject and schools do try to make everyone interested. In our school everyone tried programming through graphical "language" then Python. My daughter was very good at it but did not want to take GSCE computer science because she "hated it" although her teacher said she was "a natural". So what can you do? Everything is not about alienation by the "white patriarchal elite"...