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Tried to freeze my credit today and Experian ironically “can’t confirm” my identity so they want me to call and sit on hold for hours.
US paramedic: Same here. If you have to run to a CPR to "save" that person, they're already dead. I had this argument with toxic bosses when I was an SRE - "If PagerDuty goes off I expect you to run to your computer, and have configured the escalations accordingly". No, boss, if I'm not running to a CPR, I'm not running to a "errors exceed 2% for XYZ API call".

There's also the adage of "if you get injured, now we're more resource-constrained, because we have an extra patient."

The only area where I could see "moving with a purpose" would be uncontrolled bleeding, and getting to a patient for a tourniquet, starting fluid resuscitation and getting you to a surgeon.
"Knowingly" is the tricky part. I could only see this as allowing a government approved set of authorities to push mis/dis/mal-information while suppressing any opposition: "Government/Coorporation/Industry says this is true, so it is all that can be reported, without question.", as has happened again and again within the big 6 [1]. How could opposition of the accepted be reported?

I think it would advance the death of the freedom of the press [2], disallowing truths that go agains the governing bodies, more than anything.

[1] https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own...

[2] https://www.cima.ned.org/publication/chilling-legislation/
I wish they would stop using complete hyperbole like this:

From a users perspective, Reticulum allows the creation of applications that respect and empower the autonomy and sovereignty of communities and individuals. Reticulum provides secure digital communication that cannot be subjected to outside control, manipulation or censorship.

Oh yes it can! Unless you control every aspect of this network, including hardware, firmware etc., you are subject to outside control.

Please stick to the actual facts.
It's not theft in any sense of the word. Please stop reporting this misinformation ASAP.

If movie productions were so concerned about profit, maybe they should stop all the Hollywood accounting nonsense.

The industry has just made several films surpassing a billion dollars. The industry is absolute fine. And someone downloading Deadpool isn't stealing or doing any harm to that industry.
Show HN: Simple logging library for Node.js/Deno/Bun/browsers/edge functions
Do Apple next!

App Store, inability to use runtimes, inability to web distribute, requirements to use Apple Payment rails, Apple user registration rails, Apple UI elements, and jump through arbitrary platform changes is equally draconian.

Apple and Google are both monopolies.

WASM, OS API sandboxes, and web distribution should be the basis for the entire mobile platform. First party should have no unilateral control over a world built on standards.
"There’s no change for them."

They would fundamentally have to change how app stores work with Apple. Yes, things will change for everyone.
You're kinda saying the same thing there.

As a developer, I don't want to rely on code from a project that "seems particularly profitable", because one day it's 100% certain they're going to start making their profit off me.

I'm _extremely_ wary of any "open source" projects that're VC funded, because the entire VC industry exists to make rich people richer at everybody else's expense, throwing a few bones at a few of the founders and a vanishingly small portion of the startup employees. As soon as they think that can get away with it because they have enough "free" open source users locked, they're gonna turn all the screws to chase the "100x or bust" exit strategy the VCs rely on. At the expense of everybody who foolishly built something on to of that project without an easy way to replace it.
I’m pretty there are two you can walk through. I only remember because the smaller one was a really tight squeeze.
Each with their own rules specially crafted to favor their own use cases, with no third party distributor to intervene on behalf of the consumer.

You may approve of that change, but you can't deny it's a change for the worse for the majority of Apple users who don't care about the flexibility but were happy to have an app store whose interests were more or less aligned with their own.
Can’t speak for all of NPR but what I listen to regularly pushes back on claims from both sides. My local affiliate had an especially critical interview with the state governor and the interviewer and governor agreed that they should do these hour long interviews more often.
This is true but still Gemini is by far the least restrictive Sota LLM out there (once all safety settings are none)
Weird that a judge would make that kind of statement. It seems very much unjudgely.
This is their way around non-convertable interaction. They don't want PCs because PCs won't use the idea properly. They hide it behind the idea of a laptop in traffic which is disingenuous but oh well.

Probably saves them a lot of headache and even costs for the site. I wish they were a bit more honest though.
I like it. I vote with my wallet and don't buy things that aren't on Steam, because I don't care enough about yet another store. Sometimes I do care enough about it, and I'll buy things from GOG, which is just the way I want it.

I want to support the companies I want to support, not the companies I'm being forced to support because I bought a piece of hardware from them.
You've been enjoying having to juggle five streaming services to access all the content that was previously on one?

Remember that I choose Android for the flexibility. I like the wild west of the WWW. I'm here defending the interests of a group that isn't well represented on HN: Apple users who actually like having exactly one App Store that they can count on to look out for them and moderate what apps can and can't do.

We already have Wild West platforms. For a while we had one that was better regulated, and people flocked to it. Large companies are lobbying government to dismantle that platform for their own selfish interests, and you're cheering it on rather than just picking the ecosystem that already provides what you want.
California adding mobile driver licenses to smartphones
You buy it on steam though. A tiny fraction of titles are not available on steam.

I would 1000% prefer the experience of steam over the App Store. Heck I would prefer the Epic Game Store.
I'd argue you could drop x as well. It's really an attribute not a permission, since you can copy a file without x then chmod +x it.

That fails for setuid files but that's a setuid thing not an x thing. It also fails I guess for executables that check argv[0] but probably not important.
Yes, but they can also be pretty accurate.

While I have never dealt with one of the paid services someone ran one on me as an example of what is out there (nothing malicious about it) and just about everything on it was accurate or close to it. Only one thing on it wasn't at least pretty close to the truth--it had me living in a state I've never set foot in. And quite a few other people seemed to have the same address at one point or another.
> surgeons had a line "hurry, but don't rush"

One that came to my mind when I was trying to help my step-daughter learn to drive:

"Be assertive, but don't be aggressive."
shrug works for me.

I told my boss I could quit or work from home but I wasn't coming back into the office. I work from home.
I tried WriteFreely, I really tried. I even wrote a bi-directional synchronizer for it, so you can write locally in Obsidian and sync posts to Write.as: https://github.com/Cyberax/writeas-sync

But I gave up on it. Sorry. It's not a viable project.

It's backed by a one-man team, and so the support is unresponsive. The API is bad, and they impose ridiculously low rate limits. Like, less than 0.1 request per second. I understand the need to protect against bots, but hey, Cloudflare exists, and I'm paying for a subscription.

I then tried to self-host it. There is no official Docker support, but I cobbled it up. It works ok-ish, but the open source version is NOT the same as the one running on Write.as! For example, there is no support for drag&drop image uploads.

I then looked at the source code, and it's just a mess. There is no layering, the view makes direct requests to the database, and there is very little customization potential. For example, you can't even insert a script reference at the bottom of the page, without patching the source code.
> GoG, Steam, Humble Bundle, Epic Games, Origin, etc. Don’t like Windows game stores, no problem just use a competitor.

This is literally their point. Windows gaming is a convoluted mess of stores that you have to juggle, a far cry from the experience Apple has been trying to offer to consumers.
I find that I have no need for AI or ML. I just don't use it.
> Meanwhile in rest of the World kids go alone to school....

In American big cities, they give public transit passes to kids and let them have the freedom to use them for exploring.

New York:

> You can tap a Student OMNY Card whenever you want to take up to 4 free trips every day of the week, any time of the day.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/transportation/stude...

Philadelphia:

> Each SEPTA Student Fare Card is programmed with a maximum of eight taps per day.

https://www.philasd.org/transportation/septastudentfarecard/

Los Angeles:

> Students at participating K-12 and Community Colleges can enjoy the freedom of going anywhere, anytime for FREE on Metro buses and trains.

https://www.metro.net/riding/fares/gopass/

Chicago:

> We’re your ride not just to and from school, but also to anywhere you want to be in and around Chicago!

https://www.transitchicago.com/for-students/
We say this in the operating room, too. Similar idea as “measure twice, cut once”.
We already have third parties meant to intervene on behalf of the customers: the government.

The FTC and consumer protection agencies are elected by people (even if indirectly).

Apple does not act in the best interest of its customers. Not when those interests are in conflict with it’s own.
> owner can have less rights than the others.

Indeed it's funny that you can `sudo chown root regularfile` and you'll then be able to read it, since the group now applies not the user.
weird story, I happen to have known the devil quite well. all the things they say about him are true, and that's the uncanny thing. you'd look at this man, slightly too large, objectively not attractive, impossibly clever and disarming, wealthy, seemingly impervious to any known law, known and welcomed everywhere, the exception to every rule and convention, accompanied everywhere by beautiful women, with literal horns on his head, and never once said a dishonest word even for the sake of politeness. Rationally, it was impossible that he could have been the devil, even if he specifically said it, broadcast it, and advertised it in every humanly possible way, the more he told you, the less you believed it, the more you felt like you were in on it. After all, he was harmless and fun, nobody around him ever did anything they didn't want to do. They always chose, they always consented with enthusiasm, and there are thousands of people who would rush to his defence and aid if anyone were to suggest he had ever done anything untoward. He is quite legitimately a great man in this world of men. Even when you knew, how much harm could be done in letting people who are already lost mislead themselves? We are not their keepers. They were having the time of their lives, but without him, their lives were less. He encouraged them up the hedonic treadmill to see how well they swam out of their depth. Decadent nights out became credit card bills, indulgences became needs, flings became transactions, familiarity contempt. They were all my choices as well, and I spent them unwisely, and at some truly astonishing personal cost, because we were spending what we wouldn't miss until it was gone. You couldn't know because you didn't know you were valuable. That was the impossible brilliance of it. I allowed myself to be seduced and misled because that was the whole ride. It's awesome. You can't judge the devil, it doesn't mean anything to him, but you can learn to appreciate and respect him for what he is, it's only a question of what you will pay for that education.

I haven't seen him in many years and it's hard not to miss him, but with some distance and respect I'm good with that. If you don't believe me and maybe think I'm insane, it doesn't matter either. If you ever want to prove it to yourself and find him, all you need to do is want for the material things in this world a bit more than others for whatever reason, and I guarantee he will find you. Bye old friend, you're missed, and may we never meet again.
These NDAs are backed with extremely onerous jail sentences, which is IMO a meaningful distinction vs. other types of NDAs.

Beyond that, all your paperwork to get that clearance is in the government’s hands now. In my case that included a full SF-86 and fingerprints, which the government would otherwise not have from me. So it’s IMO accurate to describe the consequences as “lifelong”.

Truth be told, having left that line of work long ago, it bothers me these pieces of info about me are out there somewhere in Uncle Sam’s possession.
You can't grow to 10s or 100s of millions of users without some kind of network effect or viral loop. It's pretty much impossible.
Wildberger is a crank
Contracts are one thing, reality is something else though.
That's not accurate. For a couple years, Firefox limited extensions to a very short approved list, but even then, uBlock Origin was on that list.

That restriction has since been removed, however installing from local storage is limited to nightly.
It's pretty common for people the misuse the terminology but not the semantics.
Your thinking is exactly correct.

Economists have been saying this for over a century.

Look up land value taxes. They are what we need right now.
Gotta wonder how much of the compensation and investment portfolios of those CEOs is in commercial real estate.
Having to click, once, between different stores if you really care about a game is not some convoluted process.

And analogies to streaming services don’t hold up for a few
reasons:

1. There’s no ongoing cost to have an account at the each, purchases are one time.

2. Games do not leave services the way shows leave streaming sites.
Or you can paste the following JSTOR link into sci-hub.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2320923
The search deals reinforce Google's monopoly. While the deal clearly benefits Apple, it doesn't benefit in an anti-competitive way.

The Google-Firefox deal is also included in the antitrust case.
Do as I say, not as I do!
It’s not convoluted. There’s just multiple stores. You can get 99.9% of the games you want on steam.
A friend of mine is an attorney and during the pandemic as soon as in-office work was allowed again the entire firm was ordered to return immediately to their Manhattan office only to find that the managing partners were still calling in from their homes in Long Island or Connecticut.
Same. It was disappointing.
I disagree - I think more intelligent people have always had a more nuanced view of things like religion and magic, but it wasn’t accepted to talk openly about it. You don’t need science or modern philosophy to be curious and critical of what you hear. Marcus Aurelius touched on this in his private journal ~2k years ago, and it was clear that he understood magic and religion as useful metaphors.
All of Us is great for disease labels and for genetic validation (and discovery). I like it a lot. I just have... ideas for how they could make it more valuable. Ideas that I stole from Rory Collins. https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/media/gnkeyh2q/study-rationale.p...
Current ML will be replaced by something fundamentally different. We are in the pre-jquery days of ML.
I tried to get this working based on the other articles presented today on hn, but was unable to connect to a peer. Can anyone explain how to get this up and running?
Seems great for consumers and bad for Mozilla and Google as companies.

Win Win imo.
Another advantage startups have over big companies.
See my other comment. Streaming services are not comparable; games purchased on one store do not leave your library the way shows leave streaming services. And there’s no “juggling”, none of these have ongoing costs.

If people can juggle getting weather in one app, videos in another, and banking in a third, they can “juggle” the hassle of a one time search to find where to purchase the game.
I'm wondering where you experienced the "fairly severe limp mode" -- our REx can keep up with 75mph driving on a level highway, and will recharge the battery even at 65. Rain and hills have been able to overpower our REx, but never anything that prevented us from maintaining 55mph. Not really limping.

I grant that other climates and situations may have different experiences. We're on the west coast.
The conventional forces all have a strategy. That’s not what separates special forces from everyone else.
I think it's more important for CEOs to be located in the same city as the company HQ than it is for any randomly selected employee to be. When VIPs visit the company, they expect the CEO to be present, not on Zoom. Plus, there used to be this thing where leadership had a more than tenuous connection to the legacy and culture of the businesses they ran, and even to the cities their companies were a part of. That's harder to pass off if you can't be bothered to go there. Imagine hearing a CEO say something like "I care about Company X" but they're saying it from a thousand miles away, over a Zoom call, while all their employees are on site and hating being there. That says something about work today.
Yes? To counter your anecdote, I have never worked for a company (6) where the CEO wasn’t local.

My team and I are fully remote but our execs are not and are not permitted to be.
> Not when those interests are in conflict with it’s own.

Which they very rarely have been for the majority of Apple users. There's a very small contingent of Apple users who spend time on HN who feel differently, but for most Apple users the experience that Apple offers is far and away better than that of any other tech company precisely because Apple's interests align with their own so well.

I'm just flummoxed why that small contingent of Apple users on HN gets behind the large companies' efforts to dismantle the ecosystem rather than just picking the other ecosystem that already offers the flexibility they want. It's inconsiderate of the majority of people who actually like what Apple is offering.
It seems to me you are missing the forest for the tree here.

A society where we have open, legal access to all the cultural pieces of the last century is very different from our own. And it seems difficult to know how it would affect both the consumption, but also the creation of media.

Sometimes, when I argue about this IRL, I'm told that we are practically there because of piracy. But this is a debate of tech enthusiasts, we know how to download, we now how not to get caught. The majority does not
> (Seems to already be the case in the UK)

[Citation needed]
Non-paywall: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ceos-are-running-compa...
Until they get bought up and founder is replaced with one of these generic MBA types as a CEO
"Here's a very simple rule of thumb: If the judges' opinions happen to divide along party lines, they are by definition partisan."

Very simple and very wrong.

Yes, partisan politicians appoint judges with legal principles that they favor but that doesn't make the judges themselves partisan.

Trump's SCOTUS appointees have all decided cases in ways that were distinctly not partisan, based on their legal principles and not any kind of party loyalty.

Partisan people (like yourself, presumably) don't even notice these decisions or try to downplay them. This is hyper partisanship itself and it's toxic to a democracy.
The only thing i can think of that dumb phones do better than smartphones is battery life.

But even with that in mind it's not that big of a deal. My phones last for days because i literally use them only for calls and alarm, as i use my PC for everything else.
Yeah AFAIK you'd have to make a frontend to `rm` and execute with sudo. I've done this a few times.

Relatedly, and possibly helps you implement half of the scheme. You can make a dropbox[0] style directory by removing the search (x) attribute and having some program continuously scan and rename dropped files to some random string.

[0] dropbox in the traditional meaning of course, not the cloud storage
you mean the newlines that make your text readable in those contexts I mentioned? :)
I prepared taxes in a past life. I think we need a drastically simplified tax system. There are too many carve-outs, caveats, and complications. A simpler system would be more fair, everyone playing by the same rules.

Most people don’t treat taxes like paying money, they treat it as making money. That should change too. People should be angry when the government wastes money. It might change the political makeup of government too, which is why change is unlikely to happen.
Prices lowered to $1.25/hr... still 2X vast.ai prices.
I second this, everywhere I have worked the executives have been local, but I’ve also never worked anywhere with more than 200 employees. I wouldn’t be surprised if execs at big companies need to travel to different offices all the time, and frankly that sounds worse than just staying in one place
The use of the word "permitted" makes me think about how working for individual investors is a lot more like a normal job than heading a public company.
Great job on putting stuff out there.
I understand the reasoning behind using spreadsheets, but wouldn't a flow chart/node based interface make more sense for this and be more intuitive? That way people can just upload their sheets/list to the beginning of the node and the subsequent actions/nodes would be the agents.

I have more comments/feedback if you're interested (mostly UX).
Presumably anything that walks the syntax tree.
Of course there is corruption but if you think that means all (or most) judges are corrupt, you're confused.
China has a local market 5-10x pretty much everywhere else, a huge trade surplus, the ability to borrow tech and people from around the world, a cheap labour base, and massive government incentive to dominate a new industry.

Anyone doubting China will steamroll most markets given the current situation is in for a shock.

Australia has already experienced China weaponising trade (banning wine and beef imports). Other small countries will experience similar.