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I think Facebook is going to go after them on antitrust. I know a lot of the scam billers are going to be as well.

There have also been outcrys against the non genuine battery notices - getting rid of that will let the China battery folks in more for better and worse.

The big risk to apple - right now you don't have to think too much - there's a lot of trust. If the open everything up they may lose what people are willing to pay for in terms of trust as folks have to navigate more complicated business relationships

A more extreme example- they may not allow this now

working in education at a nonprofit you quickly learn that warranty support on the acer / Sony is not worth a ton unless your time is free.

You are working with folks reading scripts designed to waste your time.

Meanwhile you can take 5 machines to apple store and walk out w new ones - or if out of warranty pay not unreasonable prices to get them fixed

No question - HN complains and is outraged at things people like!

Absolutely - and the name of the person making false charges should be known more clearly. The current risk of false charges is too low. Same thing with death penalty - if you are on death row and project innocence proves your total innocense - prosecutors should be fired.

I looked into this very closely and opted against it.

For my side projects waiting for them to do the burstable / cheaper versions in RDS. It's a bit funny that the cheaper chip is not available in the cheaper instance options - seems like that would be a good market (whoever is too cheap to do M instances etc).

Edit: T4g's are available on EC2.

But the non CPU differences (compiler / linker / OS optimizations), number of drives etc - all seem to favor x86?

Cost is a key factor. It should be trx/$. That really makes clear the ARM advantage here.

Additionally the ARM version only had one disk vs two for x86.

I also feel like there is more headroom for optimization now that ARM is more visible as a server class target in the non-postgresql toolchains.

Exactly - I once used a more full stack provider, and we checked to make sure their stack was open source for key areas we spent time on, so if we wanted to switch to another HOSTED provider, all our config files, etc etc would still work - but the other providers also HOSTED this software - that wasn't considered a violation by anyone. This was before the days of the mega providers like AWS - where now I think you just have to accept lock-in - but AWS has never raised rates so it's not as scary as doing an oracle lock-in as an example.

"At what threshold should anyone with principals and a backbone stop caring?"

Good lord - the views on HN are wild. I'm aging myself, but open source licensing (used) to not be that complicated.

The principles of open source are being violated by Elastic not AWS - just so we are clear. That is not so complicated.

If Elastic wants to make it so contributors to the software have FEWER rights than Elastic, that is fine, but that is not open source.

The principles of open source are normally that if I contribute to something that is open source licensed, that I can then use the code in the same way as anyone else. That includes hosting it for myself, doing a small consulting practice to build out some hosting for others, doing shared service hosting etc etc.

Disappointing to see Kodah discounting all the open source contributors to ES. Please read this before you support folks like Kodah and Elastic hijacking ES.

In short - this feeling that Elastic owns Elasticsearch (other than maybe trademark) is totally false. Many people contributed and adopted BASED on a real open source license.

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/19/Elasticsearch-does-not-be...

I don't know why you are downvoted - this is absolutely true. Again, this is not because Chrome ships by default for Mac's or PC's, but because it's a great development target for corp environment and there is a feeling there that security is better on chrome than it was for IE (corps are slow / but have longer memories and IE has had some miserable bugs). Where I work the switch to gsuite and chrome seemed to knock down spam / malware amazingly (if you turn on the delayed delivery / strong malware protection) This does result in I think chrome uploading code or hashes of code you download to google or something as part of advanced monitoring.

CA has horrible distribution by the state. We need more details on where the 3m doses are stuck

Heads up - googles browser, despite not being packaged with Windows or Mac, absolutely dominates market share. They, not these other companies, developed a web browser that people want.

The point I'm making - GOOGLE, not these standards bodies decides what is a standard.

You really are making clear you have NEVER worked in poverty relief issues or traveled internationally.

It's kind of horrifying. Do you realize that 20%+ of children are so badly nourished they are stunted? The impacts this will have on their entire life and development?

Not everyone country is your well developed western country where the state provides food to everyone.

This is kind of scary to see on HN - programmers should really travel more (I'm a dual citizen with pretty extensive travel AND WORK in much much poorer areas).

"Apple for effectively funding that [starvation or bust] environment".

Heads up. Apple is one of the FEW western companies to actually cut off chinese suppliers for violating supply chain codes ($ lost, not just lipservice). I have no idea what you are talking about in terms of apple funding child exploitation. You are probably buying chinese made goods including those made with essentially forced labor. Do you not understand the situation in these countries? That US and European countries CONTINUE to sign new trade deals despite horrific labor and other abuses?

In all likelihood Apple factories, and even the factories of third party suppliers working for them, are probably one the least likely (not most) factories in china to be employing child labor as a result of apples efforts.

This is a very western mindset - if a family is starving, they will put children to work EVEN IF you are demanding they be educated. Even if that's the law. They in some cases sell their children to even worse outcomes. This has been shown to happen over and over again.

A ton of drug eradication programs have had this fight as well. Their message, don't cultivate - starve. And they wonder why normal people fight them.

But go ahead and keep on parachuting in with your demands on people barely scraping by.

How is intel getting all this capacity from the other players (AMD / Apple?)? That is some fantastic negotiation! I thought apple made capital commits to allow factory build outs on leading nodes so they had first dibs on capacity. Amazing to hear that Intel is getting to take over the 5nm and future production from Apple / AMD. Not too long ago they were a fab competitor, now TSMC rolls out the welcome mat!

The number one way to reduce child labor is to empower (economically) poor, rural families. A lot of child labor is coming from families without resources / reduced education coming from rural to more urban areas.

You are pretty clueless about supply chains. A ton of companies pay lip service to supply chain ethics, but do nothing in reality. To actually drop a significant supply chain supplier is pretty major in this space, even if it takes 3 years to spin up a new supplier with capital build out (necessary at Apple's scale), QC, integration etc.

I'm not saying whataboutism. I am saying this story shows that if you care about ethics, Apple is probably one of the few firms out there willing to make these kind of major decisions.

Apparel - it's all a lie in terms of the ethics pledges. Kimberly process for diamonds - badly manipulated - so again a lie in large measure. The list goes on. I could go on. There's a reason I bought a mad made diamond for my wife.

I am saying that you and these other western whiners seem to have no clue about the rest of the world. And if this is the reason you are going to dump apple - I feel bad for you, and everyone who will be abused to give you the cheap crap you end up buying. Because this story is not a bad story for apple in the global supply chain game. And it's super frustrating to see these endless stories that have become almost a joke.

Definitely a pretty new concept.

I worked a paper route growing up, did lawns and opened a store in the morning before school. My first paycheck (was printed on a dot matrix printer and paid in cash) I framed and put on the wall.

Making great money now - and I loved those jobs.

The news here is that apple cut off a subcontractor. It does take time to shift supply chains. I wish these folks trashing apple spent even 10% of their effort on the cheapo android phone companies. Environment, device longevity, privacy, supply chain issues etc - I'm convinced some of these activists are getting funding from these crap companies because they turn such a blind eye to what is rampant and truly terrible behavior in other supply chains.

The Nikola subreddit is funny. Instant ban for the slightest questioning of any of Nikola Motors statements.

There are a bunch of other reddits where stuff just silently disappears.

Then you should absolutely know that pending deletion is not a black swan event. Can you talk to someone with some data in this space? You will find pending deletion -> restore is a surprisingly common pattern.

As to govt agencies - sure, many use .org and .com domains routinely. These do not get special treatment - and I do generalize my experience from .com and .org to these govt run websites without hesitation.

Despite ideas - just because a public agency is using these domains does not make them magic.

https://www.sfcdcp.org/

https://acphd.org/

to pick two domains within 10 seconds.

I'm going to stop here. Despite your claims that folks don't go into pending deletion - they do. I am responding to top comment - people fail to renew their domains on time routinely. I've seen it happen with some surprise in govt agencies (ie, someone in a dept spins up a website, and renews when someone complains its not working and they get permission to spend the money to renew - which is not instantaneous even for small purchases) as well.

All my points stand and I remain unconvinced by your claims that these govt agency websites can't expire (they do routinely), that pending deletion is a black swan event (it is not) or that folks don't fail to renew on a timely basis (they do frequently).

It's certainly impressive, they'll have done two full architecture shifts now on their desktop product line pretty seamlessly.

Wow - old ticket. Don’t they do this so security - anti spoof hints show up - some web apps hide location bar etc. or is the request to force location bar display and not force site info into title? That seems likely to be more annoying.

We could only wish - Apple doesn’t help getting stuff running (which would be easy) much less give a single thought to breaking third party software not running on their OS. They are switching entire architecture to M1 / ARM

Yay - I dodged the noSQL hype! And agreed on postgresql (and sqllite if something small and simple needed without any overhead)

You clearly have never ever worked in domain renewals before. Many people only renew once dns stops resolving. I've seen govt agencies use this as their reminder to renew.

And yes, many scammers out there send postcards to businesses offering to assist for $1,000 on the renewals - and many people pay. So people do send out "alerts" the way you ask - most commonly exploitive and at least I give the advice to ignore ALL such renewal alerts. If you are telling people to respond to those you are sending people down scam ally.

That's a bit of a special case as well - historically overall good relationship even when there were cuts / restructuring in 2017.

Situation is very different in places like greece / italy / france even with much more militant unions and more protectionism for sectors. So it's def not EU wide.

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“I cannot complain about the cooperation with the works council,” VW brand chief executive Herbert Diess said at a news conference, citing “very constructive” dealings with the unions.

VW’s mass-market brand has been undergoing heavy restructuring since it agreed with the works council on plans to cut 3.7 billion euros ($4.41 billion) of costs per year from 2020 and slash 23,000 jobs in Germany via natural attrition.

We've been down this path before.

We were told nothing would change.

Oh wait, the time of last login will be shared with facebook family of companies? Despite this blog post showing no sharing icons at all - they ARE sharing and now lying about it by not showing a single icon to reflect this sharing.

Oh wait, we need your phone number for 2FA? Sure. Bam - now you've given us permission to spam you! They lied about that.

Check out signal and get away from the lies. This blog post is such a good example of it, all the things not showing as not shared are probably SHARED! So despite EVERY icon saying nothing is shared, they no doubt are pumping your phone number over to Facebook family of companies.

They are trying to do the fake apple privacy label thing - but only including non-sharing labels, not the sharing labels.

Totally disgusting. I'm signing up to signal today and pushing hard for my network to switch.

Now if only signal used go or something lighter weight instead of a monster java stack they could probably scale a lot better.

I actually know a bit about the german union model.

A couple of factors - the overall labor force is pretty highly educated and skilled - so less free riding overall.

Strong social safety net - so folks not suited to a job have a place to land with health care etc.

a MUCH more cooperate relationship with management -> the unions in Germany at least also want productivity / common sense stuff.

In the US, you can have totally illogical and inefficient work rules and unions will keep them on purpose just to drive up bargaining power, even though it hurts everyone (ie, being able to no show for work with no call etc).

Not all of europe is the same. The french unions have a different approach than german unions etc.

The propaganda unfortunately also comes from folks direct experience with unions. In the US, most unions are public sector. So folks see that

Police unions may protect bad apples via union.

Teachers unions may care more about teachers including bad ones then teaching kids. We had a famously terrible teacher at my school - unfirable - as kids we thought it was hilarious. As a parent now - not so cool. Non unionized schools seem to be coming up with innovate workaround during pandemic (outside / park / hiking classrooms etc).

Absolutely horrendously drafted laws that make life miserable even for folks trying to do right (AB5, schools not allowed to keep reserves) that are union drafted, and require endless exceptions and modifications.

Google employees unionizing and striking and walking out and otherwise throwing very highly paid fits over things that don't connect with average person.

When you call what people have first hand experience of "propaganda" they may immediately will discount everything else you are saying.

The real rule should be all poorly compensated folks paid $14/hr or less should automatically be in unions. That's where the real need is.