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Sorry for ranting,

Your comment is very much appreciated.

It is a central issue that I wrestle with. I think I know useful information. I think that information is better than a lot of what's out there. But, yes, it takes time to create good content that conveys anything useful.

So either I can try to convey that I think I know something of value, which will get me attacked as arrogant, full if m yawl, etc. Or I can try to be humble about it, in which case people think blogging isn't actually worth anything.

I am quite frustrated.

There are people making money online via Patreon and other avenues. A lot of that seems to be essentially entertainment. And then we wonder why the world is going to hell.

I sometimes get told that people really value my participation in online forums and the wisdom I share in comments. Guess what? Participating in online forums pays for even less than blogging.
Also a pro developer here, also a non Touch Bar-user - in my point of view its a piece of junk and not worth the effort.

So I'm curious how you find it so useful?
More of this sort of article please. This is the sort of thing I come to HN for.
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This article does a really poor job explaining what memory leak is and barely even mentions JS specific pitfalls (what could be expected by reading a title).
> SPA routing is a solved problem.

Is it? I'm new to web development, so I don't understand your statement. E.g. does any SPA framework offer support to the stop button? I've been learning Vue and Mithril recently. Apparently, both libraries/frameworks have no support for the stop button, so you cannot use the browser's stop button to cancel routing/loading stuffs after you clicked on a link.
EA is actively selling SimCity 2000 at least on GOG.com. With that in mind, I think there can be no real gesture of goodfaith on the author's part.

It's lazy, maybe just the "easy way" to do it in the beginning, but when the game is being actively sold, it's also slimy.
Can you explain the benefits of a timing chain instead of a belt? Stumbled upon a Suzuki Liana while looking for cheap used cars and there was a large emphasis on the chain in the ad. Possibly related, a car rental business near my home has a Liana-only fleet.
> If someone just bought a new TV, then showing then TV ads is pretty much the dumbest move you can make. The target is at an all time low for probability of purchasing that item. And worse, you risk triggering buyer’s remorse. Repeatedly.

While I agree with your subjective experience -- right after buying product X I'm done, I wanna look at other stuff -- from a marketing/advertising perspective repeated ad exposures right after purchase actually do a lot to eliminate buyers remorse and reinforce our decision making. We're creatures of emotion first, logic second.

Seeing car ads after buying a car, unless it's the same model for less money, make you feel better about your purchase. I don't think that's why it happens online, but that's no small part of it in print and TV.
> it blocks spotify

I can't think of a reason justifying this.
> You are kind of saying you want some perfect solution from your end and content creators can starve until you get that

No I'm not. I already support content creators who create things that are valuable and that I enjoy. Unfortunately, current payment methods mean that this value has to cross a relatively high threshold before payment is feasible and so creators are often left with nothing.

And yes, $1 is a high threshold - especially for something like a blog post. There aren't many articles on the web that I'd pay $1 to read. There are however many articles on the web I'd pay $0.02 to read - but that option isn't available.

I'm not going to manually spend my time sending sites a dollar here and a dollar there. If however my browser can automate micropayments based on site usage and I can opt in for how much I'm prepared to pay per month in total, then that is something I'd pay for.

> It would require everyone to have the same browser.

No it wouldn't, it would just require all browsers to standardize on a given system. There is no technical reason other browsers couldn't implement automated payments using the Basic Attention Token (or something similar).
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I've seen a few that do offer a single-article fee, and that /might/ work -- except that the ones I've seen usually want a dollar or two which in my world is a disproportionate ask for the value offered -- and I'm not even sure that the value I end up receiving will match the value offered/promised until after the fact. The risk/reward ratio is just all wrong. (I don't mean to imply that this is the case for your work.)

I do agree that it's frequently used as an excuse, though.
Network effect isn't that relevant since people don't actually have a ton invested in Facebook beyond just the social graph and that social connectivity. It is thus rife for a preference cascade if it turns out a competitor hits all the right buttons with some other compelling reason to switch. All it really takes is for a competitor to be actually superior on the merits (so, not something like google plus that was mostly the same and in many ways actually worse) and then a critical mass to start forming there. Once the "well, I guess I should have an account over there just to keep up with my friends X, Y, and Z every once in a while" cycle starts and that becomes common then a preference cascade becomes possible. Nobody really understands social media very well today, which is odd considering its age, so nobody is really hitting all the right notes with an offering but the potential exists.
By fervor I was referring to spending $51k in fees just to avoid $50k in taxes, which is a net loss. If intentional (or intentionally risking such a net loss), that's just spiteful. I don't see how such an ethos could lead to anything but a self-fulfilling prophecy about government.
> Also, the UX of Spotify Connect is great.

The color scheme and layouts are beautiful.
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So its just Javascript? Why run it on Electron? Does it not work in a normal browser?
So... I don't care what the rest of the population is doing?
Yeah, and the Daily Mail went apeshit over the so called "garden tax". Lord Rothermere's country estate is taxed enough already, see.
Guess not, possibly Firebase or something 'cause Glitch doesn't give you that option yet.
Also, this is an easy-doable bot, stick some Express to receive payloads on /c/your-chat-id and some Telegraf to send the messages to your-chat-id perhaps.
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To put it bluntly, online content creation is not a feasible income source. As you've discovered, ad-free content is almost impossible to sell.
Ad-based content has a too big social cost, which we're only now starting to talk about.

Society should support everyone to live a dignified life, and have a decent income. It shouldn't leave them to fight for an income and make deals with the devil to get it.
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Define 'boring'. Boring for me would be an homogeneous stream of code babble, possibly in mainstream languages that barely interest me.

Also worth noting that languages/ecosystems grow kind of slowly, HN couldn't be possibly entirely filled every day with quality programming content.
There is a very large amount of free content of extremely high value. This predates the internet, but with the internet we are flooded with it. That's why this statement (at least made so generally) is definitely wrong:

> That's the issue here. You can't really have it both ways.

The fact that you can access it without paying for it doesn't mean it didn't involve substantial resources to create it. Acting like one should not have to pay anything to cover those costs is the essence of expecting slave labor.

In every single discussion I have seen on HN on this topic, that is what boils down to. Whatever time, education, experience, effort, and other resources it took to create quality content gets hand waved away with "well, I can get it for free now. So why would I pay?"

Never mind that these discussions are inevitably in relation to an article about advertising, how much people hate it, how evil it is and so on. Those ads are how free content and free services and free internet stuff came into being.

You ultimately can't have it both ways. People want ads to die. Those ads pay for all this stuff you take for granted will be available for free. Reiterating that you aren't willing to pay doesn't solve the problem under discussion here.

Ads are the mechanism that made stuff "free." If people want them to disappear, then they need to find another means to finance that content. Without that, ads are here to stay and their aggressive, manipulative approach just gets worse in the face of ad blockers etc.
There is a difference between being abandoned and having the latest shiny new features. Not that I don't understand your feeling.
I'm in the exact same spot. Android can be ditched for LineageOS. Gmail is risky because of security; using anything else is a big gamble. Maps is also irreplaceable right now, but over time competitors will get better.

You should ditch Chromium as well.
Maybe, but I don't really care to use Big Brother AI. I mean, you and I are pretty clever and yet we don't require an internet connection to function, do we? Maybe it'll take longer to perfect but I hope we'll get there eventually when it comes to artificial intelligence.
The social graph and the social connectivity is huge. You're asking people - 2.2bn of them - to incur the overhead of another platform to check, which they're not going to do unless all of their friends are already on that platform in the first place.

And those people (and the advertisers that pay for the servers, the hosting) are not going to turn up unless ... well you get the picture. And the reason why advertisers pay to advertise on Facebook is because of the strength of their social graph in identifying people's preferences and profile of device usage, which Facebook has because they already have all the users.

Facebook is already 'good enough' in so many areas, and for the areas that the core FB app is not so strong (visuals, low friction messaging, short form communication), guess what, Facebook has already bought a competitor.
Definitely Instapaper. I like the design better, pagination mode in the Pocket iOS app ist just plain buggy, and I already used Instapaper back before Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) even existed..
Really. Just like the Gesture UI Tom Cruise used in minority report. If it looks good on TV is usually strainfull in reality.

I have yet to see a classic gui with a decent NN- which learns your default behaviour in every step, applying those by ctrl+left-click.
> Whereas languages that achieve memory safety via a GC, allow me to focus my mental energy on writing correct code, not on memory management.

Ownership type systems are supposed to rule out synchronization errors (say, data races), which is something you may want regardless of how memory is managed. Say, the research on ownership types that came out of MIT in early '00s worked with a subset of Java (see OOPSLA'02 "Ownership Types for Safe Programming: Preventing Data Races and Deadlocks").
Can you point to more details available publicly? (Do you have time to flesh this out a bit?)
If you share an iCloud account, you're going to find things painful, its really not the way that things are designed to work.

Here's how to get back to where you were, if you want to use separate iCloud accounts.

1. On your device create create a Shared photo album.
2. Share it with your wife using her new iCloud ID
3. Select the photos that you wan to share (basically all of them initially)
4. Tap Share > iCloud Photo Sharing
5. Select the shared album.

From then on, you and your wife share all photos you want to share to to that Album.

Same thing works with shared Calendars, Notes, To-do list etc.

If you share an iCloud account across multiple people you will find yourself fighting the system all the time
I wonder how monetization of users compares for those alternative platforms though. Instagram seems to be okay, since you can insert ads and probably deduce user profiles for targeted ads pretty easily from who they follow. Even image analysis for marketable things in the pictures to show relevant ads for is surely possible.

WhatsApp on the other hand seems much harder to make money with.

In both cases though, I guess the good thing is that it's a step back from the all-encompassing and creepy global social network Zuckerberg had in mind for Facebook. Instagram and WhatsApp seem more moderate in scope in comparison.
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Ask HN: What kind of database to use for a Facebook like social network?
I am a self-teaching beginner. I am not asking this question to build the next facebook but to understand when should a particular kind of DB be used. Does using a graph database for users and a NoSQL database for the contents, posts, etc, while using an SQL to establish the relations between a user and their contents make sense? Or is using an RDBMS always the way to go and only start looking for alternatives when you hit a wall?
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There should be a keyboard with integrated voice recognition, and a "voice assist" button.

Remove any superfluous keys (anything you might have to look down for) and just keep the typewriter keys.

and add a voico-correct to operating systems, not "auto". you mistype and you can dictate the correct word for it to fix for you.

once we have this paradigm the os will evolve for it.

I think FULL voice has privacy issues, and annoyance too. I want to quietly instruct my pc, not talk to it all day (and I don't want to have to hear someone else do that either)
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Have the same issue with airbnb, stupidly created the account via facebook credentials, tried to migrate it to proper standalone user later, airbnb support claimed they can't do it due to technical constraints, I would have to close the account and create a new one.

No problem if you're the traveler, but if you're the host, losing hard-built reputation would be a short term disaster... for a effin' login.
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For media what they measure their growth in is total time (attention) spent on the platform. Even with 2 billion people signed up being the growth ceiling in terms of number of people. We need to see whether they manage to increase (# people) * (average time spent on Facebook). That number still has a huge upward potential. Declining number of daily visitors is a sign that this growth is negative too though.

I don't think that messengers can really replace social media. I don't spend time on a messenger if I'm not messaging someone. Facebook is more about posting something you find interesting, and consuming what other people post (+ adds interspersed). This is a completely different market. Will something replace Facebook? Surely, at some point. But I don't think it will be messengers. It will be another service that makes people feel like they get more of the content they want from their friends.
Spotify has a desktop application for Linux. Apple Music doesn't. So Spotify wins, right out of the gate.

Add to this that Spotify's auto playlists are a hell of a lot better than Apple's, and I really don't understand why people bother with Apple Music.
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Excellent article for a dinosaur like me.

So much of CSS seems like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole.

I've had to occasionally delve into webdev since 1994 and despite progress CSS still seems clunky.

Currently I am going through Udemy's Jonas Advanced CSS course

I love the idea of grid layouts, SCSS rocks, BEM sort of makes sense.

Still I hate the fact that I can't quickly iterate layout/design with CSS unless I am really proficient with CSS.

I do not want to keep all the CSS quirks in my head!

Reading questions like this(oldie but still): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/396145/how-to-vertically... makes me recoil in horror.

For one there is no software tool that can let someone visually move elements around and still produce reasonable CSS.

On one end you have mockup(Mockplus for one) and beginner(shades of Frontpage) level tools which produce monstrous write only CSS.

On other end you have regular developer tools(VS Code, browser dev tools etc), which do not really help you with layout.

So it seems for making SPA you need 3 people:

1. Designer making mockups
2. CSS expert converting said mockups to usable HTML/CSS
3. Programmer actually working with DOM manipulation

My complaint is that when I am doing regular desktop development, I can wear all 3 hats only consulting designer ocassionally.

With webdev it seems incredibly hard to go alone.

SVG seeems such a normal standard compared to CSS.
Small nitpick: I'd relate "about office space/working environments," also to programming, because this is an important aspect of professional software development.
I'll challenge you: You shouldn't have many paths, should keep them at a centralized location in the code, and there you could just use a normal function with a proper self-documenting name.

It's not like programs consist of path operations to a significant degree, so using fancy syntactic sugar doesn't seem like a worthwhile optimization to me. At all.
He's just saying stupid gonna stupid. Can lower them with education. But I've told people "yo it's 100% MLM" after first sentence and still had a "I want to believe!" mentality. People that have finished university.
Sim City 2000 is on GOG, where it is playable on modern computers. They also sell Sim City 3000 and 4, without DRMs.
I suspect the reasoning was with CPython dominating, people would eventually make this assumption in their code, perhaps unintentionally, and reduce compatibility. Better to make it official.
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The new syntax is some mild syntactic sugar. (Which isn't a bad thing IMO)
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One corollary of E=mc^2 is that the rest mass of a bound state of fundamental particles will not equal the sum of the rest masses of the individual constituents. For example, the rest mass of a Helium-4 nucleus turns out to be less than the sum of the rest masses of the four nucleons of which it is composed. The difference is only about 0.7% but is famously quite a lot of energy when interpreted using E=mc^2.

It's a lot more fun if we go one level down though: protons are far HEAVIER than the sum of their constituents. Apparently almost 99% of the rest mass of a proton is the binding energy of the zero-rest-mass gluons that hold their three quarks together.

I think it's fun that the vast majority of the mass of ordinary matter, of which we are all constituted, is best explained as gluon binding energy via E=mc^2.
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Google Play Music's catalogue is absolutely terrible. They cram together artists with similar names, put wrong artist pictures on artist pages, and there is absolutely no way to get them to fix it. I have submitted a large number of support requests and error reports for mislabeled content, and exactly none of it has been fixed.

In comparison, Spotify usually fixes reported content errors within a week or two, and they're started a thing called Line-In, where users can directly submit edits to content information. The edits are obviously still vetted, but it speeds up the process significantly.
Where's the Linux player? Spotify has one.
One of the biggest issues declared for many cryptocurrencies seems to be that they are 'a store of value that has no backup use', which is also a major complaint about gold, being that so little is used for electronics et al.

Naive question: Would copper have been a suitable contender?
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> if mass can be converted into energy, then you would have more energy and less mass, so E=mc^2 would no longer hold

I'm confused why this wouldn't hold? IANAP so I don't know if E=mc2 comes into play in a "non-nuclear" mass -> force conversion. Say a rocket with x kg of fuel mass lifting off with y J of energy spent. Naively I would say that before liftoff there was x kg of fuel which is equivalent to xc^2 energy and no(?) energy y = 0. At a later time (b) When the rocket has spent half of the fuel, the energy yb spent this far could be calculated as (x/2)c^2 and energy left in mass (xb) would (x/2)*c^2. So that the total amount of energy/mass is the same at start and at time b.

Hmm, this got really confused, so... I just hit "reply".
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I don't think UBI makes sense. I also think positing that as the answer is essentially another dodge because it is some hand wavy imagined future, not something we can really act on in the here and now.

Ads are paying the bills now. We don't like where that has taken us. But most people don't want to address the issue in the here and now of how else to cover the bills if not via ads.

Every single discussion I have seen of this issue boils down to:

1. People want ads to go away.

2. They still want content to be free.

3. Content producers need to eat? Oh, well, not my problem. Sucks to be you.
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I don't think "bad faith" and "slimy" should really apply to 24 year old game assets.

I value useful creation much higher than dated intellectual property. Or in other words, I do not support long-tail profit and control of any creative work.