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> Missing HEIC support (and Apple support in general) is not an issue of quality; it's an issue of "knowing your customers".

The test portal "not responding" when receiving an unexpected file format is a quality issue. Not making it clear to the user that the upload has failed before it is too late is another quality issue.
It works pretty much everywhere. None of the major OS’s trust the extension for images.
The TI-84 and newer have USB ports, but the TI-83+ and older require a special cable to connect to a desktop computer. (USB-A or RS-232 on one end, a logic board in the middle, and a 3.5mm jack on the calculator end.) I never had one of those, so I entered everything via the keyboard. It must have been an experience very similar to my dad's, who copied BASIC programs out of Compute! magazines into his Atari 800XL in the 80's.
Typical Apple, trying to force some technically-superior crap down our throats rather than attempting to play nice with the rest of the world. Nobody else uses HEIC. I daresay most people don't even know what it is. Why not play nice with others by default!?
DataContractJsonSerialiser has been around since .net 3.5 which is 2007, so 13 years. And I think the open source JSON.net has been around for longer, but I can't find a version history right now.
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Hmm...I wonder if I'll be hearing from them again. I've been recruited a few times by FB, but the relationship ended when I told them that I won't be commuting into the city to work in that massive bullpen.

Unlike a lot of folks, I don't have much against them. The people I've interacted with have been a decent, diverse, crew, and I use the platform fairly lightly.

The chances are better than even that I wouldn't be considered a "cultural fit" with the company (I'm a bit "long in the tooth," and I've found that's a "showstopper," these days).

Also, I specialize in writing native Apple software in Swift. I don't think that's a stack they are really interested in.

Still not sure if I would take any jobs there, but it hasn't gotten past the initial phase anyway, so it has not been a decision that I've had to struggle with.
Do you know how much more? I.e. is a couple thousand or more significant?
I think you may be reading something into the term “adversarial” that isn’t there. A relationship can be both adversarial and cooperative at the same time, that is just the nature of human behavior.

My personal take on things is that if you don’t recognize the adversarial part of the employer/employee relationship, then you will suffer for it. It’s more healthy to recognize where parties have competing interests, and it’s unhealthy to ignore them.

I’d also say that the people who can ignore the adversarial aspects of employment can only do so because of a fair bit of privilege. For example, people will throw around the saying here that “HR is an advocate for the company, not the employee,” but many of us will never really have to deal with HR in a way where it really matters.
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Because you can't say "no, I don't think so" if they suggest you not show up at work on Monday?

Your employer needs employees, not specific employees.
Calling nitrogen mustard a ‘blister agent’ is unhelpful in this context.
You misunderstand what "totalitarian" means. Per Wikipedia:

> Totalitarianism is a political system or a form of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme and complete form of authoritarianism.

Also, free speech is not absolute.

Reasonable people can disagree how rights are balanced against the need for public safety. It helps not to throw around words unfairly.
And this is why I gave up some time ago when it comes to privacy/security. It just became exhausting to keep up with all the vulnerabilities.

But of course, giving up isn't the solution. So now I am working on it again...
I'm not sure where you got that impression. I think the parent was saying that software is extremely crucial now, and technology companies can't continue this trend of randomly breaking traditions for the sake of moving forward.

Software is critical to the function of society. And society can't afford to keep up with the rate of emerging technological trends, it's just not possible. Technology companies have to continue to support interoperability with the lowest common denominator systems.

This is significantly worse than Apple ending Flash support. At least that was announced well ahead of time and was major, major news. This migration to a new default image format is a blindsiding. Three years is not really an appropriate time window for such a transition.
Also, as someone who's been doing tech support since 1995, people here either wastly overestimate the dumbness of others or they just happen to have unusually dumb colleagues, friends and whatnot.

Most people aren't really stupid, rather bad software make them look stupid and bad tech support shifts the blame to the users.
It is in some cases and isn't in others. I wouldn't call it myopic though. Different people have different experiences.
Surprised no one here has mentioned the robustness principle yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

The layman's version is: "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept."
Ok, but if you're hiring 100% remote people, the "local market" is everywhere.

I get why management wants to do this, but I doubt it will stick with remote workers.
>After all, this is not the only case where they will run into this issue.

The AP exam is taken by high school kids. This very likely is the first time they have run into this issue. Blaming them for not knowing how to deal with it isn't "elitist", it just lacks empathy.
I agree, there is just no way for it to work. We'd be better off with less overhead versions of existing programs and higher tax breaks for the poor, maybe no federal taxes under 200% of poverty. Add in Medicare for all in the same bracket and we meet most of the "upside" in a simpler and sustainable plan.

I've spent some time trying to envision the goals of UBI from the other side. Could you supplement volunteers and artists using a closed loop rewards program? My thinking caused me to create The Good Loop, http://thegoodloop.org, it isn't implemented yet but hopefully someday.
The hiring/retaining employee incentive for FB is opposite.
So your posterior probabilities on most things will shift zero post intervention? Interesting.

I'm a UBI opponent, a short term HM proponent, but I think my posterior probabilities would shift depending on the size of the effect and the duration over which the experiment was performed.
Yay, GTA 5 a few days ago and now another AAA game.

I've claimed them both but don't actually have a Windows PC to play them on.
Meta: This is a very low quality post. It is accusing Karol Sikora of being 'either 'an insane person or an amoral profiteering liar' without a shred of evidence of such behavior. Assassinate the character of the messenger with no proof, then add insult to injury and wholly fail to address the message. What was so objectionable about content of the interview in question?
Personally I prefer to write the CSS (well Sass really). I've mainly used Bootstrap in the past.

I've moved on though, I learned flexbox and css grid and some atomic design principals as well as ABEM (https://css-tricks.com/abem-useful-adaptation-bem/) and I'm happy.
You sound like someone with an axe to grind.
The thing I don't understand in all the news articles I have read about this is the major complaint of the students seems to be that they have to retake the test which will mean they have to study for a few more weeks. Isn't having more time to study a good thing? Having more time to study and prepare should mean less stress, not more.
This is the largest building in Croatia, housing around 5000 people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamutica

It's a normal building with normal apartments, not a ghetto or a prison.
That's all fine and good if you're knowledgeable in the field enough to evaluate his claims. But I'm not, and most of HN is not, so how do we know the difference between an outsider with the vision to see what the orthodoxy can't, and a charlatan trying to profit off lies?

The the fact is, charlatans are far more common than visionary outsiders.

And in Sikora's case, there are a lot of red flags indicating he's a charlatan and not a visionary outsider. The virus is "getting tired"? Really?
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this is a very fair question, that I too, raised as a Christian did struggle with, and then found reasons to have the opposite reaction that you did - the evidence is there- all around us, and this explanation of faith might explain it?
https://www.rzim.org/read/a-slice-of-infinity/faith-trust-an...

Consider looking at other resources about RZIM, whose goal is to 'make the thinker believe and the believer think'.
> they are moderating the content on their platform with respect to their business process and company values, those decisions are not a reflection of credibility. YouTube is a corporate product

This is such a tired argument. YouTube is ubiquitous - it is the primary (read: effectively only) platform for video hosting, which today comprises a large proportion of all information transfer between humans. Companies like Facebook and YouTube are central to social discourse, at least in the west. When a medium of communication is that ubiquitous, the fact that it is owned by a private company is not an excuse to throw up one's hands and say "Well, I guess they own it - they can censor what they want".

The fact that it is so widely used and owns such a significant share of the "ways to spread information" market outweighs the fact that the company is private.
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This earliest this will be available is PostgreSQL 14; it was not added to PostgreSQL 13.
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As a landlord [1] I can answer that question. Btw, I have not found any UBI proponent addressing it either (they tend to avoid that with economic speak if at all) [2]

Rent will go up. All you have to do is look what happens in 'hot' markets (SFO/NYC/Bay Area) where there are so many dollars floating around.

[1] Both commercial and residential but not in a hot market a 'normal' market.

[2] Including Yang
It's really important to recognize that the current way people are Working From Home does not reflect how WFH works under "normal" circumstances for remote first organizations.

1. Companies have to invest in work from home practices and they have just started to do that. Using zoom and creating more meetings to replace in person experiences is not sufficient.

2. People have in effect just brought work into their home, into a house with no child care and generally no prepared work spaces

So please don't use this period as a reference for what WFH looks like when an organization is dedicated to doing it.
interesting...win 10 has a sniffer installed no usage documentation no fanfare

i wonder who was supposed to be the intended user and how this sniffer will interact with "telemetry" dumps
And these same people think they will just be hired right away and things will spool right back up. With nearly 40 million people claiming unemployment. Things that took years to build crumbled in weeks. It will take years again.
While on one hand I wish that they would have been better funded, the huge asymmetry in funding was a big reason they won their appeal, at least.
I like the stackexchange approach, where upvotes count 10x for karma, because no matter how obviously wrong and indecent, we still care for the share of good answers, and more fine grained controls may take care of the rest (sometimes manually). This isn't perfect, 1:10 is an arbitrary proportion, and it might give a wrong impression of being succesfull, and take too long to register as a downward slope; but very importantly, this detaches voting on content that is still immediately visible from karma, that is immediately personal and maybe not that important to other users.

I had a funny incident, where I misunderstood a comment, thinking that "all your answers are negative" was very true, because I often disagree and try to be contrarian. SE has a policy that discourages discussion, so if users find it uncomfortable having their views challenged, when they really wanted an easy answer, howbeit simplistic, that may be lawful.

The situation is different when discoussion is the aim of the game. And it's a bit disingenious to say that SE doesn't have "discussion"; rather, they avoid controversy, heated arguments, or open ended debate.

Anyhow, regarding your comment that downvoting is terrible for civil discours, I agree inasmuch as it's often hard to tell what the downvote signalizes, as it might lump up many different opinions into one false agreement. Say, five different opinions compete, but only one takes on all of the answers and will accrue downvotes for the attacks, whereas the others get basicly ignored by competitors for being irrelevant, but yield feedback so that the vote is really one of popularity, as opposed to ...

Really says something about diplomacy. And I hate it so much.
What if they are wondering where humans went and are experimenting with luring humans toward the water? Not something out of necessity, but curiosity.
> The account has an exorbitant monthly fee, something like $15,

Maybe it is really exorbitant but I have seen fees even in third world for keeping account which maintain lower than minimum balance specified. Would it also be the structural bias all over the world that stores give more discount to people who spent more money there.
HEIC isn't supported in a lot of places. It's mainly (only?) Apple that uses it with iOS devices.

Perhaps Apple should make it easier or automatic to convert into a format that's universally usable.

Bet the same thing would have happened with webp images too.

JPG and PNG are like the FAT32 format of images. Always accepted, everywhere.
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HEIC was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group as an open standard.

Apple was early in supporting the standard. Windows, Android, others have followed. More to come.

When venting one's spleen, it's best to be at least a tiny bit correct.
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Fair, sorry for my histrionic wording. The "roots of the environmental movement" is more like what I'm getting at. Put it this way: I care about the environment more than ever but no longer consider myself an Environmentalist™ after learning more of its history :)
Each time someone complains a working program is not "idiomatic" in what ever language I die a little inside.

That makes it sound you approach this from a haughty presumptuous, uncharitable angle.

It sounds like you exclude the possibility that the author did not try it "your way" first, for example, but found a simpler way to implement it.

"That's not the most obvious to do it IMO" or "I would have preferred to do it like this..." are much better ways to approach this. Programs should be beautiful and understandable, but "idiomatic" sounds it excludes lots of simple beautiful solutions to a problem out of pure dogma.
Double edged sword I suppose. If you felt you did poorly you now have another chance to do well. But if you felt like you did well then you'll probably get a lower score.
Windows, macOS, iOS and Android all support it though.
The .net framework only got a json serializer recently.

If by "recently", you mean more than a decade ago...Unless you are specifically referring to the web portion of .net (i.e., core or asp.net) and not the framework as a whole.
>Sakora isn't a martyr: he's either an insane person or an amoral profiteering liar who doesn't care if his lies get people killed. But I don't think censorship is the answer to lies. Truth is the answer to lies.

> Non-science: calling Karol Sikora a "professor of medicine" hides the fact that he's an oncologist; if he ever had any expertise it was in cancer, not epidemics, and he has no business speaking outside his field.

Can you provide us with an image of your degree and job experience to prove you have the expertise to tell us "he's either an insane person or an amoral profiteering liar who doesn't care if his lies get people killed."? Or at least admit you're being hypocritical.
It's all personal preference. I love cities due to the density, walkability, and different types of people and events you can find, and have lived in rural areas and cities alike. I get depressed in suburbs generally as there isn't much happening and you have to drive everywhere. Rural areas I can live with in stretches since you at least can get more adventurous outdoor situations with more property and areas to wander
The US is a great example to consider: compare the odds of success of a violent secessionist movement in Hong Kong to those of the Confederacy winning the Civil War.

Or perhaps a French example might be more relevant, with a single city at stake: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune
People used to say the same thing about Internet Explorer
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yeah my 6 y/o hates remembering passwords. Fear of getting her password wrong almost made her afraid to use computers at all
I love this, I've spent time researching a lot of these topics before and I'm looking forward to saving time in the future.

One small feedback is to visually highlight the top pick more. My workflow with reviewers like The Wirecutter is to scroll straight to the "our pick" section. This assumes I have some level of trust in the reputation of the reviewer as being thoughtful.

Caveats:

- The top pick is noted in the summary but it's always one of many bullet points.

- It's also the first row of the summary matrix, but that wasn't immediately obvious to me.

- I may be more of a skimmer than your target user.
2 things: we’re going to see pay cuts (because convenience and it’s easier for the drones) and your life quality is also going to be impacted (work/personal life separation? bye bye and good luck)
Partial matches on a secure hash don't break anything. They don't get you any closer to a full match. And it's trivial to match the first few bits of a hash; just try a hundred random values. Or for 20 bits, do about a million, etc.
No, it's not acceptable. They might be able to get away with it, but that doesn't make it okay.
> School quality in the US is very location dependent, as public schools are largely funded by property taxes

Also because curricula are designated at the state level, and teacher certification requirements vary by state and county.
Perhaps it's the iPhone that's broken then.

HEIC isn't exactly a commonly used, or widely accepted image format outside of Apple's world.
Car financing has gotten weird...it seems very clear that the auto manufacturers have heard the good news of subscription pricing and are doing everything they can to turn their industry this direction.

In any case, you have a few factors:

-- Car prices accelerating rapidly over the past few years

-- loans as long as 7 years (!!!) in order to get the monthly payments down to something people can afford

-- Used cars holding their value much longer, making the choice to buy new vs used much less clear than in the past

-- Lease terms that are significantly cheaper than buying new

You end up in a world that is very different than the past, where if you are going to be paying out hundreds of dollars every month for a vehicle, you might as well turn it in and drive something new, assuming no other financial penalties in the exchange. In short, vehicles are now a subscription in all but name.
I think it's silly (and borderline divorced from understanding how business works) to expect bay area salaries when you're living in Nebraska or Uruguay. After all, when you move to the bay area, you don't say "give me my Kansas salary". No one gets paid that way. Pay is always tied to comparative salaries in that market.

Why should I hire someone and pay them a bay area salary if there are equally talented folks in that geography that are perfectly happy making what's market for _their_ location?

This is only a perspective that highly paid engineers living in the bay area share. The rest of the world doesn't work this way.
The CEO has specifically said that he wants to convert all Take-Two games (of which 2K is owned by) into subscription models.

This was driven by the seemingly "easy" profits from the GTAV Online marketplace, and also why Grand Theft Auto V has also gone free, with bi-yearly "big crimes" that players can buy into.

Same is true of XCOM, which they also own and has been releasing yearly DLC for.

I find this sort of thing a bit short-sighted because although I loved all three of these games, I still get bored of the same mechanics and would rather dive into something new.

If they're putting DLC deployment ahead of fresh IP development (which they seem to be), then I guess that's why I sold my TTWO shares yesterday.
You mean well but I don't think this solution is robust.

-many of your pods will become filthy without the gov also agreeing to cleaning services.

-people will find ways to own multiple so that gov will have to continuously moderate ownership.

-the residents won't pay i presume, so this cost will never recoup itself for the gov.

-requirements for applicants will want to prove homelessness and what else? citizenship? they may quickly become to stringent, unable to qualify most of the homeless population.
If sanctions and diplomacy fail, what else is there?
Maximizing productivity can be a shared goal of employer/employees if the employer pays fairly for higher performance (which many tech companies do). At that point it becomes a tradeoff for the employee on cost of going to the office (commute, wasted time) vs. cost of remote (potentially lower chances of future higher pay). That tradeoff is probably worth it for some people.

And this change isn't going to improve employee leverage, it's going to decrease it substantially when all companies develop processes to have a significantly higher pool of candidates to hire from. Long-term employees will look at having a company-provided office with a good work environment as a luxury.
More specifically, it needs labor and most employers could care less where it comes from.
> The website got stuck on the loading screen until Bryner’s time ran out.

If I am to write a system that accepts user uploads, verifying the uploaded file and giving proper error message on failure would've been the first thing come to mind. In this case, per the article, the system was stuck. This is simply unacceptable.
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I know a lot of people that do this (in their vans). Its not actually as crazy as it sounds - the van is comfortable and you can shower in a gym.
The Britain signed the treaties with the Qing government (the last dynasty in China until 1912), and the bearer shares of the treaties were brought to Taiwan by the KMT government before 1950.

So the issue is: who represents China? The government in Beijing or the government in Taipei?

Later, Britain signed the Sino–British Joint Declaration of 1984 with Beijing to decide the (then) future of Hong Kong. If the Sino–British Joint Declaration is revoked, things could be different.

Just recently US is asking the Beijing government to repay the debt of Qing dynasty [1], which Beijing said would be the responsibility of Taiwan. Following this logic, receiving Hong Kong from Britain could also be the responsibility of Taiwan.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-29/trump-s-n...
If interested, this provides a brief historical perspective, with the pros and cons of UBI: https://news.stanford.edu/2020/03/24/moment-universal-basic-...
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Well technically all programming languages can be encoded with just two characters. :)