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I've had my app removed with zero notice, and it was due to an Oxford comma in the short description. No notice or warning of any kind. It was also a description untouched for several years.

It's difficult to describe the stress of having to deal with what is presumably an indiscriminate algorithm, potential heuristic, or some new quota.
> Windows has gotten much better

Yeah totally.

I've been using Windows since 3.1 and macOS since Panther.

These days I spend most of my time on macOS but I have a Windows 10 desktop machine and it works beautifully. Performance is way better than on macOS.

If Windows had a better text rendering engine I would probably switch. I just have an irrational disgust for how fonts are rendered on Windows. I know it's subjective but as someone that spends most of its time reading and writing text it's imperative I enjoy that.
> As one might have guessed, this is not an essay. It's a transcript of the following talk by R. Martin with some substitutions made (SmallTalk -> Haskell, Ruby -> Rust, and others). You are free to make any conclusions from this.

No wonder it felt like the author was living in a different universe.
I didn't know this technique had a name but I've often used it when I've written books and tutorials. Learned about it from Linda Liukas of Hello Ruby [1].

[1] https://helloruby.substack.com/p/no-03-computer-science-in-6...
blacks are vastly overrepresented in the prison population and NYC just forced them to bury COVID bodies with scarce protection.
I am just waiting untill car companies as "platform owners" start preventing you from driving to areas they don't like, or exceeding speed limit.

Afterall, you just paid for the car, they still own the software that controls the engine.
That probably works better for smaller countries. Here in the US mail in voting kind of works that way in that the ballots are sealed until they're 'accepted' and then the ballots are removed and the identifying shell envelope is discarded. The big slow down is actually going through all the submitted votes and validating then counting, most in person votes here in the US are counted via machine immediately at the polling place.

Somewhere between 25-50% of votes depending on state are cast through some early mechanism and under this none of those could be counted until election day which is a large increase in the number of votes that need to be counted and makes them more difficult to count.

One other benefit of being able to count everything in person on the day it's cast is the votes don't have to move outside the polling place for initial counting which makes monitoring easier.

It's a nice and convenient idea but I don't see the small benefit of being able to change votes (how many people honestly want to change their vote?) vs the large increase in complexity.
We used to pay $6 an hour (~$14 an hour in 2020 dollars) to play MUD1 (British Legends) at 300 baud on Compuserve in the mid 80s (plus phone fees which were ridiculously high in the 80s).
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I’m a loyal viewer of the KPIX5 local news YouTube channel.
The article never mentioned DNS as a factor.

I can remember when my house internet went from 20mbps to 1gbps. There was no perceived difference in web speed. 20mbps was fast enough and the conventions in place forced a low ceiling of performance.

As far as JavaScript goes any mention of performance improvements often results in hostility from JavaScript developers. Try taking away their 300mb framework or eliminating DOM navigation by use of clunky query selectors. The result is hostility even though you can prove performance increases of 500x in chrome or 20000x in Firefox.
Windows 10 themes can be abused to steal Windows passwords
I do think it's worse. You certainly do not get a lawyer, and you sure as shit do not get the right to a fair trial in china.
Yes, parent accrue more benefits from their children than do non-parents, but their investment is significantly higher than the minor difference in time off that you may see.

Regardless of any direct benefit to me, I am willing to accept parents getting some small benefits that I will not as a childless person as an overall investment in society as a whole.
All drugs have adverse side effects. The idea is the "therapeutic index" being the ratio of the good to the bad. In this case, balancing the risk of the vaccine against the reality of all the deaths that covid is causing.

Waiting for a zero risk vaccine is not the optimal decision.
>And wall street has already raised more money for democrats this past few months than republicans, because of the anti-China stance.

That's not why and you (probably) know it. In the off chance you don't: anti-China sentiment is popular among both parties. Pelosi has been chastising Trump publicly for delaying Chinese sanctions.

https://www.axios.com/pelosi-trump-china-uighur-sanctions-be...
> I work in a rather budget-constrained lab environment. “Beg, borrow, steal” is the order of the day. Just today I was pricing out pre-loved Gen8 HPs. In 5 years time I could be exactly the hypothetical the article outlines.

Likewise for me. I AM building a $20,000 HPC because simply put, no one will sell us one for anything close to what we can actually afford and when it affects the speed and capability of my research and publications personally, it feels like a waste to leave extra performance on the table.
I started using Firefox instead of IE way back when it was new, and (flirtations with Safari notwithstanding) I've never had a compelling reason to stop using it. So I'm still on board.

Also, I like the way the black title bar frames the application window. :)
These are good points but in practice it wasn't that hard to deal with floppies, CDs, etc. I made a living the first third of my career programming products that used physical media (from my own language distributed on floppies to Visual Basic 5&6 at Microsoft). It wasn't fun, but arguably the product introduction/update cadence was not worse than what we have now.

Back then you had to be super careful about creating a strong product that wouldn't require too many updates. Now you have CI churning out multiple new versions a day, but one could argue we've got lazy about quality & documentation. And for the power user it was good to have complete control over whether you installed an update (and equally bad for the company because it was hard to know who had what version).

These days you have to look for release notes, newsgroups, Slack channels, Discord channels, tweets, FAQs, KBs, and so on to make sure you know what's going on. Gets a bit tiring. As a web developer I of course love the fact that I always know what version of the software my users are on, modulo browser differences.

Not arguing for a return to the past, not at all. I'm just saying that after 30+ years as a developer I don't feel that we've served customers any better in 2020 than in 1985.
A lot of your complaints could have been the US at various times. And we're still here.
Shunning virus and big oil, Alaska tribe fights on
A person being enslaved seems like a perfectly reasonable definition of an "instance of slavery." You turned up a source that seemed broadly consistent with this, and inconsistent with the "1,000 farmer busts" reading. Then you asked if the person was counting each person as an instance, which clearly they were. That's why I asked what the problem was.
I think you'd benefit by looking into the difference between "equality" and "equity".
It can be used as a slow cooker, but I’ve often used both at the same time. If you can only pick one, I’d get the instant pot.
Gravity is weak, but it's cheap. It is indeed surprising, but plenty of research shows that the levelized cost of gravity storage is cheaper than Li-ion batteries - even if you assume that Li-ion will get 4x cheaper in the next 20 years. There are other problems with Li-ion as well that will prevent it from scaling up to the amount of storage that our grid will need. I discuss all this with lots of citations in a white paper here https://github.com/syllable-hq/uphs-feasibility-study
And the graveyard grows. Found this nice log of products killed by Google: https://killedbygoogle.com/

From a business perspective, Google seems to treat products almost like VCs treat startups - shotgun them out the door and see what sticks. I can't think of too many other companies (maybe Ballmer-era Microsoft?) in the software space that have taken a similar approach.
Even most 'high spread' countries have less than 10% of the population that have contracted the virus.

To get to herd immunity levels, millions of people would likely die.
Your point one isn't making sense because the parents are not caring for themselves, they are caring for another person. If they wanted to exercise, they'd have to find the same hours as those without children, which is usually before work or after work. They probably have a harder time doing that, too.
>So good for security, but bad for e-waste and second hand sales

I concur, but it's true for even consumer devices like smartphones. Once the software updates stop, if security is the key then the devices are e-waste. Many times, I wish there was an International law which forces manufacturers to unlock their device when they stop pushing software updates to their device, so that alternate firmware can be installed. Of course this is just a wishful thinking, even those who abandoned their smartphone segment entirely(MS) didn't do this, So why would those who run profitable business out of planned obsolescence do it?
Who knows? I can tell you that my wife’s 60ish year old elementary school in Southern California finally got air conditioning last year. So the bond issues aren’t flushing schools in money.
Word 5.5 was incredibly powerful and amazingly stable. I used it to generate 1,000+ page manuals. Word has progressed in many ways but it is generally not better for huge documents than it was then.
Please stop using throwaway accounts in ways that break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.
Isn't pumped water storage the same thing but much easier to manage? Like think of a 10 ton weight suspended from cables 100m high vs a $300 above ground pool on a 300 foot hill. Isn't pumped water storage going to be hundreds of times cheaper for amount of energy stored?

I didn't do the math but this reeks scam to me
Not really. AMD is only selling unlocked CPUs, and the "locking" is done the first time it boots in a given motherboard. So crossing regions wouldn't be any more of an issue in the future than it is now, you "just" need to ensure your motherboard and CPU come bundled together. Or you need to ensure you get an "unlocked" CPU, which is what retailers provide via AMD.

This will greatly complicate the future second-hand market, though. Buying used Epyc CPUs off of ebay in 5 years will become very sketchy for example.
To the people reading this thread after the parent commenter deleted their comment, they equated questioning genocide to inciting a flamewar, and argued that there were two sides to the debate on ethnic cleansing. Apparently engaging in debate against those comments was also in contravention of this site's guidelines, which the poster linked.
Highly, highly recommend The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovitz [1]

[1] https://www.themeritocracytrap.com/
There is no way that git command-line interface can be called anything remotely close to fine. It's really sad that something as badly designed as git command line is taking over the world.
> VS Code is probably the most well written piece of widely-used software written in the last decade.

You're entitled to your opinions, but I think your judgement is skewed.
Post 9/11 Terrorism in America – What Is the Threat to the US Today?
I was mulling over this exact issue the other day but couldn't find the words to express it. Thank you for this.
Ok. This is a story I've gotta hear. What was the sentence in question?
It also represents a change in the mystery of computers and games. It was esoteric and fascinating to see stuff even happen on screen. This made people want to try and dive in.

I think this issue is even larger, the web also suffers from this. It's all streamlined and a commercial endpoint.. very very different from the beginnings.
> Mobile page weight increased by 337% between 2013 and 2020. This is primarily driven by an increase in images and JavaScript code.

Not surprising. Most webpages are over-engineered blogs. If you're not organizing data other than text and a few multimedia elements then you probably don't need millions of lines of code of JS libraries. Not only do they slow transfer, they take time to execute and make most web pages do quirky things for 1 to 10 seconds before the page finishes loading.
Does the policy disallow Oxford commas?
I’m confused, how did increasing speeds slow down service? There’s a safety issue there but I don’t see the connection to service.
Parking lots don't have culture, they take from it.
Bro, your pitch deck is 100 slides!

But also, getting your quadratic gain on a mile deep hole requires a mile of weights to lower into it. That's a lot more above ground infrastructure than just the single shaft!
I run a problem validation platform where people can post the problem/need gaps for startups to solve[1]. You're welcome to post this and perhaps someone would do it if there was enough need.

[1]https://needgap.com
Thank you for the deep response, alongside with the links.

I agree that Facebook has a power to choose what content gets promoted, which is very dangerous. My key point is, that given this state, they must tread very, very carefully. The second order consequences to changes can be dire. A common argument is that inaction can be worse, but given that most solutions involve _more_ intervention rather than less, the tail only grows more catastrophic.

Not only that, but I think Facebook has a lot less power here than people think. There are competitors, and not everyone will choose to reduce addictiveness for the greater good.

These two questions I think are what leadership / great eng are grappling with the most. In my opinion, the solution involves removing slowly the intervention that Facebook already has, while introducing other means to keep people engaged (or else, they will simply leave and join whatever other thing will radicalize them)
imagine saying this about microsoft when they were dominant
> scams in Europe where someone will grab your hand and put a bracelet on or put a flower in your hair or something and demand payment

This used to be commonplace in the US, particularly in airports, in the 70s. It's the source of a gag in the movie Airplane (or one of those comedies). I don't know why it faded out.
Don’t blame the algorithm, blame the orchestration of RCU on a non RCU optimized instruction pipeline. Which is the traditional out of the box Linux offering.
fstat is not a mechanism for being notified when a file changes.
My go-to vendor’s business model is to do that for me. So I say, I want a DL360. I pick processors, ram, disk controllers from their stock. I can even tell them how many caddies I want (looking at you, Dell). And they ship me a build-to-order server from second-hand parts.

So in the future I’ll likely have a smaller bin of CPUs to choose from. If firmware keys get more specific than per-vendor, it could be potentially a very small bin. And small bins typically mean higher costs. The cheapest cpu is typically the biggest bin, not the highest specced.
Technically yes, in reality you can't ignore iOS if you're in the mobile space. You think people would keep using say Evernote or Spotify if it didn't have an iOS app?

Also, it's not only about the App Store. You can't simply tell the iOS users of your mobile web app to use an Android device.
To Save a Way of Life, Native Defenders Push to Protect the Arctic Refuge
They are having difficulties for very different reasons.
Society ultimately needs children to function. At some point it can’t always be a zero sum game where everyone thinks it’s totally fair. People with kids pay less taxes. There is an implicit understanding that children are a burden we bear as a society. I have a hard time being upset with concessions parents need right now when this is ultimately the federal governments fault. They let this fester into what it has become and we are all eating the shit sandwich that followed. 4% of the worlds population and something like 22% of the Corona Virus cases. I would encourage you and all the other single people, purposefully childless, etc to have more empathy. Most parents in competitive fields work insanely hard to keep their kids as their problem and no one else’s, even though children are a requirement for society to function as it is structured now. Parents didn’t choose this pandemic, it’s not something you can plan for. Struggling parents can use a little help, this is an immensely stressful situation. It isn’t fair to everyone and society as a whole has to bear the cost in different ways. It’s not like most parents with previously solid work records in deep work jobs are any happier than non-parents. It’s not some reward they are suddenly getting. Their life is categorically worse even if they get some minor concessions at work.
"Unchallenging" isn't quite right for the food comparison, you're correct.

For instance I don't consider The Beatles, say, or Michael Jackson or Jay-Z or Frank Sinatra or Mozart necessarily "challenging" (for some people some of those artists are), but would consider them "healthy".

Healthy food can be tasty and delicious, too ; ).

I do think if someone listens only to music without any depth (again, I'm using the Beatles - or Led Zeppelin, or Jimi Hendrix, or Taylor Swift, or Robyn or Daft Punk, or Lauryn Hill, or Billie Holiday, or Kanye West as examples of popular artists with depth), it is a lost opportunity for development of the self, and in a sense, "stunts" the growth of one's own self.

It's also just a huge loss. There's so much beautiful art that is not "challenging", and much of the "challenging" work simply requires a friendly environment and an introduction, and they yield huge rewards.

At the same time I think the emotions which a lot of art can stimulate cause fear to a lot of people, which can be cause for avoidance of them, but that's a separate (albeit related) conversation : ).

I dunno. I did start off talking about "challenging" art. But, the line is so thin!

I don't think Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" would "challenge" many people - it's maybe the most popular jazz album, one of the best, and a beautiful piece of listening. It has lots of depth though, and his other work can be considered challenging, for sure ...

Really I guess I'm making an argument for the value of cultivation of the self through education, which includes the arts : ).

There's just so much out there: Indian classical music, Afrobeat, Latin jazz, country music, tons of electronic music from everywhere, traditional Chinese music, etc.

Not unlike programming/computer science, there's so much neat stuff that people have done in the arts that often people don't even realize exists.

Not all of us have the time and the inclination to do the deep digging, but, I think it's important to have a balance and at least an appreciation for the vastness of what exists in our lives, and that doing so enriches our selves.
We’re told that we need capitalism because people are naturally lazy and won’t work unless compelled. But we see counter-evidence: people want glory (even lame nerd glory, like HN karma or writing a FAQ), and they’ll work for that, not just money.
Pretty difficult to make film and television with the level of polish expected by Netflix Customers without being able to be in close proximity.

Seems a bit like Elon promoting ideas that just so happen to align with the sequence of events which makes the company literally billions of dollars.
People should procreate if they want to and not as a service to society. It’s ok. I think we will manage at 8 billion.

You have people who essentially outsourced parenting to have a career and that’s not a ‘sacrifice’. It’s a choice.
I sure do get to decide that they are a shill based upon my perception of their post, their post history, and the manner in which they post.
My opinion is that this person is part of china's disinformation campaign against western criticism of that country's policies. If that person is not a paid or unpaid shill, they are still serving the purpose to shill china and their framing of the debate.
>"Our patented technology is based on a simple principle: raising and lowering a heavy weight to store and release energy. The Gravitricity system suspends weights of 500 - 5000 tonnes in a deep shaft by a number of cables, each of which is engaged with a winch capable of lifting its share of the weight. Electrical power is then absorbed or generated by raising or lowering the weight."

Idea: Could elevators be retrofitted with something like this?

Then they could use/store energy only while going up, and regenerate some of it going down... and take passengers to various floors while doing that!

"The Regenerative Elevator"!

Stores energy going up, regenerates some of it while going down!

Invented here on Hacker News, by yours truly, 9/8/2020!

(Yes, I know, it's a stupid related idea! <g>. But my other related idea was more stupid, and that one was to fill up a U-Haul truck with trash, put a steel cable on it, find a hill, and use the steel cable (in conjunction with the overweighted U-Haul truck and hill!) to drive a motor/generator/winch assembly that uses electricity going up the hill, and regenerates some of it back, going down the hill... <g>)

On a serious note however (for non-passenger elevator energy storage), I think Gravitricity has a good idea, and I wish them much success with it!
Erroll Garner
This must be the disconnect. As an Android user, it wouldn't occur to me that the "default" messaging app (usually something barebones and ugly) would influence how I send my messages. I just use whatever app I want, SMS or not. But unlike Android, Apple managed to popularize its own all-in-one messaging solution and in so doing brought encryption to more conversations. Google could try to do something like that with Android, but thus far they've simply remained agnostic.
It’s not, and I would say that the aggregation of those text guides happened at a special time because it became so much easier to share game knowledge while the guides themselves retained a DIY paper feel.
That doesn't change the fact that it's still painful to hear when you're wallowing in misery alone. I second this. Say what you mean.
I think "lack of development/enrichment" might be a better term than harm. And "challenge" might not have been a great word-choice of mine, either. Depth? Craft? Some value.

For example, imagine a programmer/software engineer who never, ever, in their entire career, saw good code written by others?

Does that lack of good code (and there's lots of ways for code to be "good") harm their development as software devs?