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> Most of my time on it these days is supporting others

In general, I actually disagree with even this sentiment, that macOS is worse because it is harder to help others fix certain kinds of problems.

The problem with supporting people on "easier to modify" operating systems is that it creates tech debt. Modify some system files? On the next OS upgrade, they might get overwritten, or, worse, it might cause bugs. Teach a tech beginner that they can google and download an app that solves their problems? The next they they decide to try this on their own, they might unintentionally download a virus, and the OS won't give them a bunch of warnings when they open it.

A system with a loose security policy make it easier for things to work for now, but a tighter security policy makes it potentially easier for the help you provide to cause less pain down the line, even if it means jumping through more hoops right now.

When you help people resolve issues in other operating systems, consider the fact that they might run into just as much hassle, except that it is not visible to you because occurs months or years down the line. (Those issues are potentially more costly, since you might not be free to help at that time.)

No opinion about which system is easier to support in practice with all of this considered, I just wanted to point this out on principle.
Reminded me of this NPR story (https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-be...) in which they show that a blind person can technically see through hearing (echolocation), and then poise the (philosophical) question, what is seeing? Pretty fascinating.
I hope you're not saying I am trolling because I have no such malicious intentions. The aftermath is troublesome though, I need to get off of HN.
at the end of that they give Kelly Johnson a flypast and he is too far gone to realize what is going on. Ben Rich says "Kelly, they are saluting you !". That part made me tear up.
I agree with this mostly, except for:

> "copy and paste these config lines into this config"

Copy-pasting things you don't understand into configs on Linux is hugely dangerous. It just happens that Linux desktop users aren't high value targets, so you usually get lucky.
Not OP but I've been doing carnivore as well for the last year, and I don't eat across the board. I generally eat Ribeyes and can share a lot of the same benefits he's mentioned. Red meat in particular actually has a fair amount of the vitamins you need such as vitamin-c and the less you cook it the more they're preserved which is why I go on the rarer side of things.
Different camera setup on both device would have required twice the amount of training data for the models

So they rather doubled down on the more promising form factor
We were once negotiating an SLA and my colleague happily agreed to a 24 hour turnaround time. I asked him if he thought that was perhaps a bit optimistic and he replied, “24 business hours, that’s a three day turnaround time!”
> Exercise is a little important, but too much is detrimental

Why?
Yup. Also in late 30s, and damn. I used to pull off all-nighters no problem in my 20s. Last night, I needed to do some work that didn't get done before, and by 2am, I was falling asleep in front of my keyboard. Ah, naivete of the young. :)
In my line of work, its full time engineers.
https://glitch.com is also excellent. I’ve been using it to teach a website development workshop to 10-15 year olds and it’s the most intuitive interface I’ve found so far for those with no prior experience with HTML/CSS/JS.
I have a chapter on ripgrep [0], and I'm currently updating the book.

[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep
I didn't realize the new one was a web wrapper. I guess the point still stands though that even Apple can't be bothered to build a truly native app on their own platform.
> The ethical thing is to quit your job

The ethical thing to do is not to rape your subordinates. If they choose to persist in their chosen profession despite rape or sexual harassment, that in no way diminishes the severity of the rape and sexual harassment.
I'm not sure why you don't really believe this. I didn't really have to mention this, did I?..
You and others here are responding to this by noting that segments and leaderboards are their one defining, irreplaceable feature, which seems like a pretty strong case for charging for it :)
Python script to turn all PG essyas to an e-book
Economy isn't doing so well, maybe he needed money quickly.

Doesn't seem like it'd be worth the trouble to do that for 500 bucks.
Delivery at a loss or break-even to drive profitable orders is also a fine strategy, and worked for quite some time
Looks like this is finally being sorted out. Tweet from Hiroshi Lockheimer an SVP at Google (which puts him in the top ~12 execs at the company):

Apologies to Podcast Addict fans today. We are still sorting out kinks in our process as we combat Covid misinformation, but this app should not have been removed. Carry on with your podcasts, folks! ️

https://mobile.twitter.com/lockheimer/status/126255336932064...
Show HN: Turn an image into Unknown Pleasures style art
Not only that, but it really illustrates that even well-known, famous engineers can start contributing to a project with simple pull requests that just rename variables or add comments to code for clarity.

Not every pull request needs to be introducing complex/intricate code, and yet it still has value to the project (and the community).
I'm not a lawyer, but that seems super weird, to the point where I'm not sure any of this is actually true.

Why couldn't the actual design of a PCB be copyrighted, for instance? I mean, one could argue that there's as much intellectual property being created when you route a PCB than when you write a book.

And if it's about manufacturing, why wouldn't the argument apply to books too? According to this document's logic, the inner meaning ("schematics") of a book could be copyrighted, but not the book itself, so that I would be free to print and sell as many copies as I want of any given book. Doesn't seem quite right to me...
Revolutions and fuel consumption don't really correlate. It's not like the engine injects a fixed amount of fuel every cycle.
This is an awesome intro, thanks! Will definitely share.

I can't recommend fish-shell highly enough for anyone spending significant time in the CLI. It can't completely replace bash et al, but it's not really meant to. Just install it and give it a try and you'll get addicted pretty quickly.
>This should contain a big fat caveat, this appears to be a very young person, maybe early 20's based on photos?

The second sentence of the abstract:

>I’m a 22-year-old male and normally I sleep 7-8 hours.
Friends don't let friends read forbes.com when it comes to Windows or Microsoft. They have a serious hater on staff that is willing to lie to bring people aboard the "hate Microsoft" bandwagon.

I mean seriously... there are many valid reasons to dislike Microsoft. Just pick one. You don't have to make up reasons, Forbes.
How exactly is their stock price not reflecting this at all? Is the market really that irrational right now?
Mostly unrelated, but does anyone know how apple managed to make the macOS Apple Music app feel like electron?

I imagine that they didn’t actually use electron, but the app feels pretty far from native imo
For the lazy:

* Page 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219&p=2

* Page 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219&p=3

* Page 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219&p=4
Assessment of the CDC’s New Covid-19 Data Reporting [pdf]
Starlink Constellation Build-Out Animation
Also consider power consumption. Polaris RADEON is cheaper but power hungry compared to Turing GeForce.
Analysis of all available papers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1545C_dJWMIAgqeLEsfo2U8Kq...
My understanding is: they announced they would do layoffs 1-2 weeks ago, so it's priced in. And usually your stock goes up when you announce and do layoffs because your costs are lower
I think lately we've seen stock prices increase after layoffs. Not saying they're causal
Isn’t it built on their iOS application framework that lets you also compile for macOS?
https://www.strategic-options.com/insight/2019/06/13/the-bes...
I don't know about chess but I coded a lot during the experiment (on day 7 I spent 11 hours coding, starting with a big block between 8am and 2pm) and felt great.
People who think they're right when they're wrong are frustrating for anything. Try talking with conspiracy theorists about the science behind vaccines and COVID-19 these days? I have. I'm apparently a sheep that easily trusts the mainstream media and will probably be first in line to kill myself when vaccines become publicly available, only so that Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci can become richer.
When acceleration isn't happening (i.e travelling at a constant speed under constant load), it largely does correlate.
Ask HN: What is the best domain registrar?
Customer service, business ethics, etc.
Well, I wouldn't use the word "bullshit" to describe the book.

Reading (most of) the book caused me to change my priorities from basically "I don't care about how much sleep I get" to "getting enough sleep is an important priority for me". Presumably you would agree that that is a positive effect.
As someone 2 or so years into coding professionally and constantly looking at my own work and sort of frowning, refactoring, wash rinse repeat, I keep telling myself this is the process and that's ok.
I used to be on my local pub's darts league team. When I was first playing, objectively, my best accuracy was after 3-4 pints. A couple years in, my best accuracy was after about a pint and a half. The effect was most noticeable with the "Around the World" game we used for practice, as Around the World forces you to keep throwing the darts at one number until you hit that number. Other games, such as 601, 301, and Cricket give you points for hitting things you're not aiming at, so inaccuracy is more hidden in those games.

I suspect part of it was state-dependent practice. I'd practice throwing darts in a bar, much of the practice was after drinking several pints, so I practised my release timing with alcohol.

I also suspect that part of it was the muscle relaxant effect of a moderate amount of alcohol probably does help improve the consistency of motion in releasing the dart.
This is getting to embarrassing. Not only that it doesn't help your cause. Propaganda doesn't work when it gets cringey. Also it helps if the propaganda actually makes sense.
I think a beer can help with anxiety. A few beers just results in overconfidence.

I will admit it helps with conversation if you don’t normally talk and you’re around equally drunk people, but a few beers plus a crowd of sober people doesn’t work as well as most people think it does.
I think one could argue that one could accidentally re-create the same PCB without knowing about the "copyrighted" design.

Versus: No one is going to magically re-create peter-pan line for line.
When I was working at Stanford, a new colleague came rushing out of a meeting ready to start a big new initiative because our VP said something should get done. I had to explain that patience was important because no single person at the University could make a project happen, but hundreds of people at all levels of the org chart could stop a major initiative in it’s tracks if they felt threatened.
I hope to test skill acquisition during the next experiment!
Perhaps, but making the assumption end users care about resource consumption seems a bit silly. Most of these apps run perfectly fine, sure they use a bit more resources than their native counterpart. But even for a technical person like myself, I barely notice it.

So I’m not sure this arguments outweighs the cost of having to maintain different native apps.
They had 2 years to react to that change.

I am the first one to decry the absurd power that apple and (to a lesser extent) google have on what you can run on your own device, but this isn't it.
Exactly -- practice effects should have been averaged out by this.
I remember using this software last time, it is wayyyy~ too buggy, it stalls, crashes, and slows down the browser. Also that import feature is actually crawling the site, beware if you are using a proxy or something with rate limit.
But since most people buy monthly payment (not total price) lower interest rates drive prices up.
I very much doubt that a paper simulation could keep up with real-world events, and would immediately fall irrecoverably behind them, but if that simulated mind existed in a corresponding simulated world, then that world's pace would define realtime as experienced by the simulated mind.
The tasks he's chosen is uninteresting at best.

Did he attempt to learn anything new while sleep-deprived?
Tiny websites are indeed great. They load fast, and minimize the steps involved in publishing content. I think my sentiment however, practically (i.e: in a business, startup, big company) conflicts with two things/requirements:

1. People who usually write content are not developers
2. People tend to trust sites that are minimal like the one OP posted.

Content writers traditionally come from background where they are trained and use tools like wordpress. We are now asking them to write HTML. I believe Jekyll here is a good compromise. We can generate static sites using Jekyll while still allowing simpler tools pre-publishing.

Regarding my point #2. Not a week ago, there was a thread to discuss how cool Stripe's animations are. There were multiple conversations in said thread that attest to this fact. Many people look for a sense of branding on product or service based businesses and relate those to their legitimacy.

I think my sentiment for small/simpler sites is a pretty common one on HN, but I think it all boils down to who your users are and what they prefer.
Jaeger is used for traces between distributed systems (external)

Traditional APM products are internal traces
I think for large companies this is true and by design. Companies don’t like single points of failure so by design should be able to afford to loose x% if engineers (or marketing etc).

Of course any large company with staff in the thousands or tens of thousands will have bloat. But I’d guess a lot of the engineering headcount that is not in “core stuff” are adding value. There is a lot of value to be added by making relatively minor tweaks when your revenue and costs are in the billions. Reducing a few percent server load or getting a few basis points of additional revenue / members etc can be worth multiple teams of engineers.

The company will survive if those teams are gone, but it’ll probably hurt long term growth trajectories to some extent.
I should add that Clang is happy to turn c&x|(c-1)&y into cmov.
> save a bit and have that buffer.

This kills the economy. If everyone saves then by definition spend goes down. And spend is what pays everyone, the cycle goes broken and and next year pay decrease. and if you keep saving, it keeps going down, until everybody is on survival mode and nothing else is consumed.

A healthy economy is dominated by debt that can be serviced, with a saving that is comparable. The larger them both are, the more healthy the economy.

Jacking up the rates to 5-7 percent today will cause the fastest collapse in economic history. It's like communism: Yes there's equality but it means everyone is equal in being dirt poor. You might be able to avoid volatility, but at what cost?
On OSX, the "StackExchange Search" workflow for Alfred is also fantastic for doing this.

Firstly, you can bind it to a hotkey, so don't have to type "how do i" before the query

Secondly, it updates the list of results as you type. Then you can select the one that seems to be the most relevant to open it in the browser (with a hotkey)

https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-stackoverflow
How come the same logic doesn’t apply to any other engineering piece of work?
It's an esoteric language artificially coupled to a finite pki designed to enrich early founders.
The language part doesn't allow anything new, nor does it do anything better - it's most similar to a lisp machine, but written in a much, much less expressive language.

It would be harmless if not for the pki part. It lives on ethereum anyway, it has no excuse to exist. Eth addresses or ens would work as well, but without the ponzi mechanics.
I understand where you are coming from here, I see it a bit differently. But I recognize that I see it differently because I have a weirdly particular definition of the word 'need.'

I have come to define the magnitude of need to represent how far out of your internal value system and the law are you willing to ago to satisfy a "need." I'm not sure what the units are, desperation perhaps.

For example, I "need" to eat to live but at the present time my need is modest because I have enough money to buy food to eat. At my current level I wouldn't steal food (go outside the law), or misrepresent my state of poverty to a food bank (go outside my internal values) in order to acquire food. So the magnitude of that need is "small."

However, if I was unemployed, out of savings, and behind on my bills, the calculus changes. I really need to eat, and in that situation might do things I would not normally do (like rummage around in trash cans for discarded food).

It is clear to me that Google, like every company, needs revenue in order to survive. The stronger the need for that revenue, the more willing they become to compromise the user experience, the law, and/or their internal values.

To me, their actions of the last few years appear to directly contradict what at one time were core internal values. Whether its the level of monetization of their own properties, or their willingness to cooperate with an authoritarian state to keep information away from their population. I see their taking of these steps as an outcome of their great need for revenue.

China is the second largest economy on the planet, and Google does not appear to be willing to hold true to their values and forego the revenue that economy could potentially produce for them. That is the reasoning by which I come to the conclusion that Google needs China.
Iosevka, Version 3.0.0
Thanks! I didn't notice any effects on mood but I wasn't measuring them either.
Your comment proves the guy's point. Hate speech is subjective. There is no "blurred lines" around hate speech. All hate speech is protected speech. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled on that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

If we don't have hate speech, we necessarily don't have free speech. All speech should be allowed. Hate speech should be criticized but not banned.
True, this was just an observation that, as the article said, there probably is more waste when you eat at a restaurant as compared to eating at home. They have a one-size-fits all problem in portion serving.
Anglerfish Matriarchy
according to henry george, the natural rate of interest is equal to the lowest productivity plot of available land. Which I think is an interesting perspective.
This is a great line from a Wired article on hardware copyright and copyleft:

In the US, copyright does not cover the functional aspects that the design describes, but does cover decorative aspects. When one object has decorative aspects and functional aspects, you get into tricky ground (*).

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/richard-stallman-how-to-make-h...
Real-Time Animation Tool for Unity
namecheap? I've used them for a few years now for a personal domain. I've never had to deal with their customer service though so I can't comment on that.
Ask HN: Now that Giphy sold, what can RightGIF do for you?
Hi folks, I'm Alan, one of the founders of RightGIF. We originally built RightGIF as an alternative to Giphy in our own Slack teams. It quickly took off and became one of the top "social & fun" apps in the Slack marketplace (behind only Giphy itself which was the defacto first-party GIF app at the time).

It got very expensive for us to run, and we very nearly sold the app early on, but decided to keep hold of it and just add some little premium features to keep it afloat. Since then it's been running pretty close to break even. We kept it because we always had the intention of one day picking it up and getting serious about it.

Now that both Tenor (GIF Keyboard) and Giphy have sold to Google and Facebook respectively, we feel like it might be time to get serious.

What I'd love to know from the HN community is:
a) do you have privacy concerns about Giphy/Facebook tracking?
b) what platforms would we need to support to get you onboard with RightGIF
c) are there app developers out there that would make use of our API if we made it public?

Thanks heaps!
TLDR he means microservices. We now have a generation that doesn't even recall a non-MS world.

Tristan, the generation between us has created the IT world you describe. You'll probably spend the next 20 years of your career dealing with that mess. Sorry about that.
A/B tested products are terrible. Please don’t do that to an actual product people pay money for.

“On this page, 12% more users clicked save if the save button was green instead of blue”
Looking for feedback on copy / pricing from HN!
I believe your past work is a great indicator of your progress. If you look at your past work and frown, chances are you are frowning because you now know something you didn't back then. This is a great sign of improvement. If you look at your past work and go meh, it was great back then and it's great today, chances are you've not learned anything new.
Pro tip: There's always room for improvement.
It works in Firefox for Android.
Right, so then the startup should sell nonrefundable tickets several weeks in advance. As soon as American starts flying those routes below cost, move your own planes to a different route, book all your passengers with nonrefundable tickets on the American flights and pocket the difference. As soon as they stop, start flying those routes again.

There is presumably some regulatory burden preventing someone from doing this. Maybe you can't move planes from one route to another so easily etc. But then that's how the company does it. Without that method of forcing the new competitor to incur unrecoverable costs, they can't do it.

It's theoretically possible to have a natural market barrier like that, but in practice to be a barrier that large it's nearly always a regulatory compliance issue. The law says you can't sign up customers on long-term contracts, preventing new competitors from locking in customers at the current price rather than the below-cost price. The law says an ISP has to serve the whole city and not just one neighborhood, increasing the startup capital required by a factor of a hundred. The law prohibits adversarial interoperability, so you can't distribute your own apps unless you can manufacture your own phones.

Most monopolies don't come from natural causes.
integrity issue IMO. you're OK with making commitments and not delivering on them.

controversial, perhaps, but fixing your integrity issues can go a long way. part of that means making commitments that matter, not role-playing about them.

most try to fix their integrity issues overnight by doing things like dieting, planning to go from 0 to insane exercise, or whatever else. that's tough, and probably won't work unless you've got the reserve capacity of someone who just took the cloth for like 12 months or something.
I worked on DICOM images sent to Blackberry apps in 2006 or so. It was a pain then. Assume not much has changed.
The big worry for many cities is they've eviscerated their docked bike-rental program. Those are municipal infrastructure... If Uber is abandoning this product, there are a lot of cities that are going to have an orphaned bikeshare service with hard infrastructure installed all over town.