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It’s amazing to me that so many are blaming Apple. Despite the fact that this site is all about new technology (so ironic!), uploading a photo from an iPhone isn’t exactly an edge case. They should have tested this, and apparently they did enough to send a tweet about it.. as if that’s enough. Clearly the college board dropped the ball in adequately informing people of their not-great workaround, instead of either specifying the accepted types directly in the web page’s input tag (as many have pointed out, and thus would have just worked correctly in the background), or by accepting and converting HEIC files themselves. At minimum, they should have put their suggested settings changes into the webpage itself before you started, and/or given a practice website to make sure it worked correctly.

College board owns this process, and it’s their job to make sure the setup works correctly for all students, including those who might not all be technically inclined.
>> The robot trucks are cheaper than the humans that operate the non-robot trucks

not if you understand accounting. I can hire a guy today at <$20/hr operating cost to do it manually. That robot truck is a much more significant capital investment that will amortize over 10+ years.
Automation, immigrant, increase pay.
Tell HN: Mailgun just re-added 1250 free emails/mo
I just got this email: https://help.mailgun.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048661093

As many of you here know [0], mailgun recently got rid of their permanent free trial of 10k emails/mo and replaced it with a 3 month trial with 5k emails included per month. Well, I guess someone realized that transaction fees have a fixed component (or, less sarcastically, they were probably just trying to get people who had no intention of ever paying off), and they now offer 1250 emails/mo for free.

There was a pretty big thread [0] about this a few months ago when they got rid of the free plan so I thought people might be interested.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22192543
> Actually it currently houses less than 3000 people, and is serviced by enormous green space

That's just normal green space, at least for that part of city :) I lived a few blocks away when I was at university.

> amount of amenities which survive from Soviet times - skating rinks, public parks, ice skating rinks, bowling alleys etc. Added to which is a grey economy of apartment run stores selling fresh and preserved produce.

I would not say that is true of Croatia. Stores are mostly large chains (and it's for the better, in my opinion). Parks are there, sure, but other amenities didn't seem any more prevalent than what I saw in Los Angeles.

Anyway, my general point is that large density housing can be pretty nice and does not need to be ghetto-like.
> Libertarian leaning myself, sad to say, this is the first time I am now in full realization that monopolies do in fact exist and are very dangerous.

YouTube is not a monopoly. There are other websites where you can post or watch video. Not as many people choose to use them, but you're not entitled to their attention anyway.
It doesn't replace people making things, though. You'd still want to work and create value to improve your situation. It'd just function as a floor and provide some stability.

Bearing in mind the increasing rate of job destruction and creation. We're no longer in a world where you can rely on being able to have the same profession your whole life.

Having that floor would be useful to smooth those transitions out, and a boon to entrepreneurship if it's easier for people to take risks.
Ah ok that does make me feel better. I’ll try to take a closer look when I have time. Thanks!
You can still find places to work with other peoples, or spontaneously meet your colleagues in a much nicer (and possibly nearer) place. When the COVID crisis will go, you'll find tons of options to meet people thorough the day and enjoy a great social life. Working from home is a pandemic thing, afterwards you could work from anywhere you want.
What regulation would have prevented this bug?
yeah no. as someone who has worked at Amazon for 7 years I can tell you that it’s not true across the board and there are good “pockets” where there is respect for people’s boundaries.

To add to this, in my time there I worked during the weekend 3 times (i don’t count oncall here). My work day included 8 hours at most. I would get in at around 8AM and leave at 4PM. (optimizing the commute)

I started as an SDE 2 by the time I left I was a Principal SDE.

Do good work, be in a good org.

Amazon is not a huge, homogeneous entity. It’s more like hundreds of small companies that are forced to work together, bound together by senior leadership.
Oh yeah there it is, hah
Their approach to supporting the new formats is actually quite easy to work with and properly defined input tags will just automagically trigger file conversions on the iOS side.

I also really dislike Apple's usual "my way or the highway approach" (it's causing my nephews serious issues since some of their remote learning tools use flash which Apple refuses to support) but in this case they are using the right approach to make it a smooth transition.
How are you determining that all the winget telemetry is in fact getting categorized as optional and can be disabled?
Quote:

> If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals.
And on the other end of the spectrum we have people being indoctrinated into violent conspiracy groups like QAnon, or being prompted to set fire to cell towers, or bringing measles back from the dead, because of YouTube videos. There's a line to be drawn here - and it's a tricky line, to be sure - but "YouTube should be totally neutral and not pull anything" is not a viable answer.
> GitHub and Gists seems to alot of people's go to place for writing these days. I'll take it over Medium but still seems a bit odd.

IMO it's the lowest effort blogging platform (for people who already know how to use git). You don't have to go to a webpage - just write some text in the editor of your choice.

You don't even need to use something like Hugo since Github will render markdown files properly.
I didn't ignore it at all. The point is that allowing people to immigrate in place of having children would do very little to reduce carbon output of Western countries. Stopping both would be required.
on-call is standard industry practice, there's nothing especially egregious about this. the difference is that some places like google pay extra for it.
Where does your uncle live?

Does he have to pay $3000 for a 2 bedroom rent?
> You greatly increase your pay per hour of work

I don't think this is guaranteed to happen. Another possible outcome is that tech salaries will pin to the lowest common denominator, such that employers will "outsource" much of their engineering work to engineers that live in low cost-of-living markets.
> You may not agree but I feel that so much human interaction is non-verbal and it is very difficult to replicate this very natural form of communication over video link.

Maybe this will be the killer app that VR/AR was waiting for. Not entertainment, but enterprise.
Europe has very different legal traditions around free speech; it doesn’t necessarily work to map American understandings of free speech onto other countries’ legal traditions.

Besides, there are plenty of ways as an American I can force you to remove a photo without it being “blatant free speech” issue. Copyright and trademark come to mind, NDAs too.
Not a bad idea. At least direct advertisement or false information about unhealthy food should be banned. This has already happened with tobacco or high caloric drinks in some countries like Singapore in physical stores.

These are relatively simple steps that would improve public health dramatically, I'm not really sure why these kinds of arguments are presented like some sort of self-evident zinger against censoring dangerous content.
Or the revenue?
One thing seems to have changed since the OP wrote their post -- managers at AWS are open about the on-call requirement. At least the ones in Portland. They were proud that they owned the product all the way from the code on the back to the customer at the front. So if you didn't want to be responsible for some level of ops, you knew that going in.

I didn't move forward to an interview, this was just from a meet-and-greet they did a few months ago (they do it every month IIRC). I have other reasons for not being at all interested in working for Amazon, but I figured it would be interesting to meet with them informally anyway.
That's likely an issue with iMazing not properly handling apple's saved ui state mechanism. You could try checking if holding the option key reveals a "quit and close all windows" option in the app's eponymous menu item, or press and hold the Shift key while opening the app to forget previous UI state.

If you don't care for apps to remember their previous windows and ui state, you can disable this mechanism in the settings app: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204005#appresume
Yes, that's legal. The American belief in free speech trumping almost every other consideration is not shared by all countries.
In terms of pure work productivity, I disagree. Emailing, reviewing code, and reviewing and writing proposals are all activities that are best done in a low distraction environment, which the modern open office is not. Dealing with questions has a bit more overhead on both the asker and the answerer, but I don't think it's so much that email and Slack don't mostly cover it. For those occasional instances where written communication doesn't cut it, video chat is an acceptable substitute in exchange for the benefits in other areas.

Even for whiteboard discussions, you can buy a literal whiteboard for your work area, hold the meeting over video call, and exchange photos afterward. It's not quite as low friction as walking up to a whiteboard in the office with a coworker, but, at least you know the damn markers will work.

Maintaining WLB is something one needs to be attentive to. Having a dedicated work area as well as maintaining specific work hours (and sticking to them) are key. Other than that, I don't think maintaining WLB at home has to be any tougher than at the office. Kids present special issues, but, if you're a non-WFHer, you already have provisions for the kids during work hours, anyway.
We changed the url from https://gist.github.com/bricker/cb811b3b86d767124801 to the original source it points to, which also lists its date instead of obscuring it.
Interestingly I have encountered voices that using "elitist" language like Common Lisp, OCaml or Haskell combined with widening recruitment pool (by going globally distributed) actually increased some companies abilities to hire experienced developers - because it filtered popular languages that suffered from higher number of people who had higher opinion of their skills than warranted - or who just wanted to "fake it till you make it", especially after boot camps became popular.
Maybe we shouldn't allow companies to require on call without extra compensation?
The point is Bob doesn't need to work.
If only one country provides UBI to immigrants, that country will see a rise in immigration. At what point do taxes raised from the new residents exceed the money paid out?

Or maybe you're talking about UBI to immigrants, but not actually allowing any immigration.
I used allsides.com for my site too. I really like how transparent their process for assigning bias is especially compared to other sites that try to place news on a spectrum. They essentially try to assign a bias by having someone with each political bias assign a rating to the news and then collect how strong the crowd agrees or disagrees to that rating.
Yes. Added now. That was really misleading.
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ticalc.... I spent so many hours on their forums in high school. It's one of the first online communities I was super-active in. I did a TON of TI-BASIC programming and it's how I got my start programming. There are even 1-2 of my old BASIC programs on ticalc that I uploaded over a decade ago.

I never got into assembly much because it required a a computer and I could code and run BASIC on the calculator itself. I remember a few ASM programs you could drop on your calculator and then call them from your BASIC programs. So certain things that could be done faster in ASM were all put together in a "library" that you could use to speed up your BASIC programs (most were visual in nature, clear screen, draw sprite, etc). I still have my TI84+ SE from high school, I really love that calculator.
Chrome accounts for ~70% of browser use. It is a majority, but it's not total dominance.

For reference, IE accounted for ~96% of browser use when that whole antitrust case was happening.
Maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio so that the platform continues to be useful and interesting.
Does this mean that, broadly, under GDPR if anyone in any photo you've ever taken and put on social media complains, you have to take it down?

Or is this because the subjects are minors? Or some other technicality, like whether or not the photos were taken in a public place or similar?
Didn't they also had to deal with wanting to use threaded architecture while simultaneously deciding to run on less supported platform (FreeBSD)?
So what you are saying that a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch is not biased to the right?
Thanks.

I guess this is just Cunningham's law in action.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Async/await is the wrong abstraction
> I agree completely.

No, you don't. See below.

> People work more than they currently need to because they don't have a trust fund.

No, people work more than they currently need to because they are exercising prudence, common sense, and planning for the future. Which every adult human being is supposed to take responsibility for doing for themselves, and not expect a "trust fund" to magically take care of for them.

You're arguing that if people had a "trust fund", they wouldn't need to plan and save for the future. But no such "trust fund" can exist in the first place unless some people are exercising prudence, common sense, and planning for the future. You can't get rid of uncertainty about the future or the need to plan and allow for it. So, again, you are saying that the people who are going to take responsibility for planning and allowing for that uncertainty are going to be punished by having the fruits of their planning be taken from them to provide a "trust fund" to people who didn't bother to plan and allow for uncertainty.

In other words, you disagree with me completely. I think I should plan for my future, and you should plan for yours. You think I should plan for both our futures, and then you should get to just take resources from me when you need them in the future since it's a "trust fund".
If you actually use the tech, it's really not that confusing
It does make you wonder if this whole time the Intercept has just been a spook front to manage the revelations known to be coming from 'unfriendly' media. This is all confusing and none of it any good.
People will always to things they enjoy. No one questions that.

We have paid employment to get people to do things that need to be done!
> to allowing ICs to have a choice, doesn't that treat them less like an undifferentiated drone...?

No, on aggregate it will be the opposite, I think. Each dev will be treated more like an API--requirements go in and products come out. When the entire country is your labor pool rather than a select population close to your office, that's easier.
all you have to do is click on his name to see a list of his work.

https://nypost.com/author/michael-goodwin/

"Susan Rice's email exposes Team Obama's 'by the book' treachery"

"Shameful media still slamming Donald Trump during coronavirus crisis"

"Trump passes coronavirus test with flying colors"

"Deep State snakes slither back after FBI, CIA swamp draining"

yeah, definitely not a right leaning columnist.
Windows and macOS do that in order to hide EFI system partitions, I believe. (Not that they should have to; MBR and GPT both define a specific tag to mark a partition as being an EFI partition. But so many partitioning tools don't bother to use that tag—or to adhere to any other standard that could be used to identify an EFI partition—that OSes are stuck with a very bad/loose heuristic.)

They may also get some other benefits from this bad/loose heuristic, e.g. hiding Linux's common FAT32 /boot partition; OEMs' "backup" and "BIOS update" partitions; OS Recovery partitions from unknown (and therefore unpredictable-in-approach) OSes; etc.

What the consumer OSes really need is a bit in each MBR/GPT partition's bitflags, that has a meaning equivalent to one of those "no user-serviceable parts inside" stickers. I think it's too late to fit that bit into either standard, sadly.
If we really still want them, the law of demand will help us out. The price will go up, and people will start working to be able to afford it.

If it turns out that we don't actually want smartphones, new jeans, Starbucks coffee, etc -- then that's great too. We'll end up with a lot less pointless consumption and people can spend their lives chillin' with their buddies!
You're welcome to personally finance south pedoka county's multi-million dollar purchase of robo-garbage trucks. oh, and figure out how that garbage collector can now support themselves.

I realize this runs against the reality of HN, but not all solutions are technology, and not all technology solutions are as simple as "just do X". It's like the "dropbox is just ..." meme turned up to 11
Who said anything about a hot fix? They knew about the problem well ahead of time.
My misspelling was intentional... but now it's not funny
I wondered that, too, but I couldn't find any HTML documentation that blessed one form as superior to the other. And I would be surprised if Apple automatically converted images for "accept=image/jpg" but not "accept=.jpg".
Definitely not. The requirements on https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-tes... say:

> Only the calculators listed on this page are acceptable for the Math Test—Calculator portion of the test.

The page has a table of calculators which does not include the SwissMicros DM42. The brands present on the table are Texas Instruments, Casio, Helwett-Packard, Radio Shack, Sharp, Datexx, Microtona, NumWorks, and Smart2.

If you had one of SwissMicros scientific calculators (rather than the DM42, which is their only graphing calculator), you could try to bring it in. Farther down the page:

> Calculators permitted during testing include:

> * Most graphing calculators (see chart)
> * All scientific calculators
> * All four-function calculators (not recommended)

So you could make a solid case for bringing in a scientific calculator which doesn't have any of the disallowed features (wireless connectivity, QWERTY keyboard, touch input...), but a proctor might still tell you it's not on the list of specifically-approved calculators and therefore not allowed.

---

Amusingly, some of the allowed calculators have disallowed features. Off the top of my head, the HP 50G has wireless (infrared) communication, and the HP Prime has a touchscreen.
Spencer's file might be on the server but it sounds like their servers flat out refused to accept any files that looked like HEICs - so they never even got them on the server.

That's a stupid decision, especially when the submission window is timed - fiddling with file formats should never be a task you need to do inside of the testing window.
No, they won't run out of people to hire but the cost to hire them will go up. At a certain point, they may have to pay more and offer more perks to attract the level of talent they want. The culture will mellow once the payroll expense starts climbing.
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I like this idea too. Also temporary bans are good for offering a cool-down period for users who generally are constructive but tend to lose their tempers from time to time.
Some fold, some raise wages, some invest in automation. Inflation is possible, but not guaranteed.
Chinese friend: "If you use pinyin not at all. There are other ways such as stroke based, I have never learned it."

This matches my prediction. Typing Japanese isn't hard either (and I'm just a beginning learner) -- typing ha in JP mode gives は, or if you're only in JP mode the typical layout assigns that to qwerty 'f'. Like Chinese, IME drop-down selection works well for kanji.
Ah ok. Then that goes back to my last sentence - there's a handful of trolls and I think always will be, but the majority of what I see is pretty decent.
I could subsist while working only 10 hours a week, yet I usually put in 50+. Can you explain what's wrong with me? Or is everyone similar?
well yeah, me too, but if they announced it you'd talk to your manager and she'd say "don't worry about it." then we'd wait and see.
But people who set education policy or companies that lobby for education policy aren't in it to teach kids new things.
Well... some of us join teams that have problem software that is going to take a long time to fix, and don't have the manpower for it. And sometimes the alarms are overly sensitive.
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Is Facebook iOS engineering supposed to be impressive for laughing you off? I don't understand how they let slip crashing any app that used their iOS SDK: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374.
Workers on vias, H1Bs aren't really affected by remote work too much. They are affected by the rules that the administration has put in place around them. Visas are not being issued currently (I've got one co-worker stranded in his home country when he was getting ready to do his final GC interview). This really means that individuals on existing visas won't move jobs, foreign students graduating won't be able to get jobs within the US, and foreign citizens won't be able to get jobs within the US. Essentially, a significant portion of engineers in the hiring pool are no longer available. This may result in high engineer pay, although that's probably cancelled out by the number of companies who've had to do large layoffs.
You know, I thought so too, but I would probably instead just work _less_, maybe half time for half pay, I dunno. Seems like a great way to transform how we think about work and the economy. Fewer hours, when it's by choice, are pretty much always a good thing.
Amazon's 401k plan is terrible when compared to competing companies. I cancelled my Amazon interview the second I saw the terms of it. I had to find the details for myself because the info packet the recruiter sent me, conveniently left out any details except that there was a 401k plan and some matching.

Only 50% match, and the maximum match they will pay is 2% of salary. (Competitors match 1:1, high or no limit).

Three years vesting on the match. (Immediate vesting elsewhere, e.g. Google).

No match on catch-up contributions. (WTF? Naked age discrimination as policy?)

Source: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/benefitsoverview-us
If you have bound the server to localhost and not all interfaces, then no, people on your coffeeshop wifi cannot connect.
>...a single company dictate formats.

It's an ISO standard. Samsung phones use it as well.
Why doesn't MS just stop forcibly collecting data from my machine? Is it just that I don't know that they're already stopping?