skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s also confusing to refer to an Amazon microphone because I am not sure what product are writing about. I think most people know that an echo has microphones and doesn’t read brainwaves.
> I also agree with Nassim Taleb, who says that you should try to read the works from people who have actually done something (opposed to modern pseudo-philosophers like Alain de Botton, who is just trying to capitalise on the religion-shaped hole in western morality).

And is reading and writing books not 'doing something'? I don't know exactly what Taleb means by it, but it smacks of plain elitism.
> there are many devs in web development who are self-taught, with no CS background.

That's an excuse when you're just getting started, but after 3 or 4 years everyone has had time to figure these things out. There's papers, blog posts, youtube videos... even wikipedia can help in understanding performance on the web. If you've been doing web for 5 years and still don't know these things, it's not because you're self-taught; it's because you're lazy and/or being overworked with not enough room for learning.
Kudos on excellent comments and advice (here as well as in your other reply below). I'm curious about your thoughts on productized consulting, if any.
>Manufacturers push the term "gray market" to imply that resold goods are somehow bad [...] The term "gray market" is linguistic manipulation to benefit manufacturers at the expense of customers, society, and the environment. Let's stop using the term.

From my experience reading manufacturers' warnings[1] about this, they never use the phrase "gray market" because a lot of consumers don't understand what that terminology means. It's more that the dealers/retailers and some savvy consumers use the phrase "grey market".

There is a category of _new_ (not used) products that have the following attributes:

- sold by unauthorized dealer : i.e. no contractual relationship with the original manufacturer to buy from them and then resell the item

- sold without a manufacturer's warranty : any warranty must be honored by the unauthorized reseller or some other 3rd party or comes with no warranty at all

So instead of the cumbersome long-winded hyphenated term of "unauthorized-retailer-and-no-manufacturer-warranty market", the industry just shortens it to "gray market". It's a useful label of what the product is. You're right, it's not unlawful or unethical to sell unauthorized/unwarranted merchandise as long you inform the customers.

E.g. Most of the luxury watches sold on amazon.com (Cartier, Rolex, etc) are "gray market" because they don't come with manufacturer's warranty. If you buy a Cartier watch from Amazon[2] to save money and it's broken and needs repair, you can't take it into a Cartier retailer at the mall to have them fix it. There's nothing wrong with it as long as customers understand the tradeoffs of lower price vs service convenience. Even though the watches are genuine instead of counterfeit, they don't come with manufacturer's documentation to get factory-authorized service.

[1] one example of a manufacturer warning about "gray market" without ever using that terminology: https://usa.yamaha.com/support/unauthorized_sellers/index.ht...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cartier+ladies+watch&s=price-desc...
I think it's a reasonable distinction.

The Echo is much more than "a microphone". Yes, it has a microphone, and I don't think Amazon is trying to pretend it doesn't. But a smart speaker is obviously not just a passive listening device, as implied by "Amazon microphone".
As I recall, all print publications of the era used ][ and //

I remember typing it this way myself on the early BBS scene. Personally my system was a Radio Shack TSR-80 Model III. (That is III not 3)
The end of dispersed camping?
I've used Dillo, but unfortunately most web pages are seriously malformed. Would be nice if it was possible to get some better CSS support.

I would like to see better JS support, but the scope of JS is simply insane for such a small browser. It's unfortunate much of the web is completely unusable without running JS. Perhaps it's possible to first run the page through a larger browser engine and then send the processed content to the small browser (such as Dillo), that would massively widen the scope of what it could display.
Without a major dessert name these releases just feel smaller and not as noticeable. My Pixel upgraded this morning to 11 and just another day.
The R216 computer in powdertoy:

https://trigraph.net/powdertoy/R216/manual.md

A Forth for the R216 computer:

https://github.com/siraben/r216-forth
The go to LAN game when I went to uni was GTA I! I was taking a non tech course but I still remember vividly this was my first interaction with typing in an IP address. (you had to enter the IP address of the game host on the lan to connect to it)
TypeScript library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web apps
Out of interest:

One of my all-time favourite annoyances are websites which suddenly throw a full-screen overlay on top of what I'm reading, with some 'call to action' on [as they'd probably describe it].

What effect do these have on users of screen-readers? Do you suddenly get an intrusive voice shouting "SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST!" in the middle of what you were reading?
Doesn't sound very beginner-friendly.
React Native Navigation Tutorial
How is a demand that is easier for the childless to meet, even if only slightly, not a policy that favors the childless? That's not sleight of hand. It's just English.
“The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing; and their own errors, being now open and palpable, will not endanger us.”

— C. S. Lewis

source: https://reasonabletheology.org/cs-lewis-on-reading-old-books...
> if someone asks me for help on something because I'm more familiar with it, my spending five minutes to answer their question might save them an hour of troubleshooting.

Sure, but allowing them to take that shortcut can also be taken to encourage them not to think, to prompt them into asking next time as well and deprives them of a learning opportunity. Since memories form best with an emotional connection, a tough debugging session might be a better teacher than your five minutes.

This brings up a related question, though: to what degree are we responsible for colleagues' evolution? For me, there's a lot of grey area between people/competence manager and just being a team player in the true sense.
Were there users that were asking for this feature?
If password is reset, protonmail says I will lose all my mails; Is it rational ?
The convenience is definitely a big part. However, Fontless also has best-practices for caching and performance built right in. It also has support for Google Fonts' CSS2 API.

You can think of it as a convenient way to self-host fonts, with best-practices built right in.
There is even someone in the twitter thread pointing out that Amazon uses the word "microphone" in their copy, as if that is some sort of "gotcha".

No, Amazon isn't trying to pretend the Echo doesn't have a microphone – they just think it's misleading to refer to a smart speaker as an "Amazon microphone", and I happen to agree.
While not precisely the same thing, it reminds me of the lesson of delegation in Tim Ferris' book Four Hour Work Week where he kept increasing the amount of money for which customer service subordinates were pre-authorized to settle customer service disputes. The result was a near complete drop-off in messages that passed the decision to him and an increase in customer satisfaction. The effect is the same -- have subordinates solve problems instead of kicking it up the chain -- but it's proactive and empowering as opposed to sending the message that I'm going to treat your concerns as so irrelevant that I'm not going to acknowledge the message unless it becomes a major catastrophe.
I think we might be talking about different things here. Up until very recently it was against the code of most publishers to broadcast things like murders, offensive language, acts of violence and gore. Some might say that the societies of the past were overly prudish, but I believe that this development is predominantly negative. For a modern Netflix series to take off, it is basically mandatory to have full-frontal nudity in the first season. Nothing is shocking anymore, which is what I meant by "sacred".

Growing up I had a mathematics teacher that told me that if companies could get away with it, they would just show real murders all day on the TV. In that way, popular culture is like a barometer for morality of a population.

I don't think anyone here is arguing for gender or racial inequality.
Arizona having active shooters wandering the halls of public schools all day long seems like an unlikely problem. Even given the number of school shootings in the past decade the likelihood of a single classroom getting one is way less than one of the students getting hit by a school bus in the parking lot.
Engineering has always been a tug-of-war between parsimony and completeness. The pendulum is constantly swinging.
Have a look at the Genode operating system (genode.org), I think you'll like it!
> When you say "longer hours" do you mean "longer hours than I worked before COVID" or "the same amount of hours, but longer than parents will be working during COVID"?

Reading these threads, I think the conversation has blurred COVID and non-COVID times. COVID has highlighted how much leeway parents get in general, regardless of whether people think they should/should not get it.
I think torrents should be vividly created/used;
If that's true, and I have to admit that's a big surprise for me, then I'm glad to hear that. At least for Australia.

I'm not even sure if the following is uniform across the EU, but I have always assumed (maybe even been told) that it is. Where I come from (The Netherlands), (afaik) when you do business with another business then consumer protection laws don't apply.

The rational appears to be that as a business you don't need the same kind of protection as a consumer. It's considered the risk of doing business, and companies suing each other in court (e.g. for fraud) is considered to be less unbalanced than it would be for private individual (consumer) against a company, in terms of (financial/legal) means.

In reality there probably are different (less savory) historical reasons behind it too, maybe even the preservation of the "natural power distribution" (euphemism for the already wealthy to stay that way) between smaller and larger businesses. That's at least how I have heard it being justified politically. Meanwhile, good luck suing a large company if you're a smaller business yourself. Either way, as I already implied, I think that's more or less by design.

Great if Australia is more egalitarian on that subject. If not for all of nature tring to kill me at every second there, I'd seriously consider immigrating over this xD
Trust me, my communist Welsh coal-mining grandfather would be disgusted by the modern left.
As a customer, I hate chatbots. They make it harder to look up information, mainly because one has to guess the correct keywords to trigger the wanted answer. I prefer any other UI over chatbots.

But since you are now into chatbots, here is a thing: What about exposing the configuration to users? This way, you could offer customers an alternative way of digging throught the informations encoded within the chatbot. I guess a lot of people would prefer that.
That seems absurd, why not just clear the secure area (or make it inaccessible until cleared) if the processor detects a different firmware instead of not booting?

Looks like they might be doing this intentionally to get some sort of financial gain: perhaps the plan is that this would lead to less used AMD chips being resold and thus more AMD chips bought from AMD itself and more profit for AMD?

Even then, why would Dell play along? Is AMD contractually forcing them to create a firmware that locks the chips? What about the massive liability of customers demanding refunds or suing them because the Dell firmware irreparably damaged their CPUs?
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What No Fan Has Seen Before: Remastering Deep Space Nine to Maximum Quality
This might conflict with a lot of corporate ball passing.

A lot of times (I find), such emails are intended to move something from the senders' inbox/todo list onto yours.

That said, there are times and place where delaying responses/involvement may help. Earlier stages of projects can be the time when everyone throws in their 2c, but no real decisions or actions can be taken. When deadlines loom and decisions must be made, that changes.

I wouldn't recommend adopting one technique or another very broadly, but it probably is a good idea to adopt the general approach of thinking strategically about these things. Also worth noting the Napoleon was dealing with a very new and radical approach to hierarchies and such. He was probably experimental generally in his generalship. A generation earlier, his techniques may have not worked.
Punching him in the nuts would have been even more 'successful' but that's by the bye. Of greater relevance is you've mocked him without addressing his point.
They were AMD CPU/GPU last time around as well
1. It's a request – it's almost always reasonable to request such a small change.

2. A smart speaker is much more than a microphone. Replacing "Amazon microphone" with "Amazon Echo" is objectively a better way to communicate what we're talking about. The original wording was used to be inflammatory, not for clarity.
> Slow responses give the impression that the other person is not paying attention. Any sort of reply, even a quick "I'll follow-up by the end of the day" is much better than no response at all. This shows people that you're listening and that they can trust/count on you.

Different communication styles and the fact that these communication modes are new to humans and we therefore don't have an actual common understanding of netiquette, I guess

I generally only reply when I have a good answer. Which might be 2-3 days later. And I don't sweat chasing people for a follow-up until a couple of days later unless I signified explicitly that it's very urgent to me (unless it's customer service/support kind of thing where they explicitly give expectations otherwise)

If you don't indicate you need this information NOW, why would I drop everything else I'm doing to answer you?
I cannot possibly believe this.

Something like 60% of devs I’ve spoken to have struggled seriously with COVID WFH. And a nontrivial portion of those are struggling in ways that are fundamental to WFH rather than due to the pandemic.
I don't think they are, and Amazon might not think so either. I think people would be less willing to install these devices if they were more often called Amazon microphones.
When everything's urgent, nothing's urgent.
Math algorithms are the one area where good enough really isn't good enough.
Android takes care of your contacts, passwords, wifi settings, browser settings, photos, etc. It requires a Google account but it's astonishing how quickly you can set up a new phone by simply logging into your Google account.

What's missing is better media management for third party apps like WhatsApp and Telegram so important photos and videos are backed up while unimportant ones are ignored and even discarded regularly. Every single family member's phone I've had to deal with has had this issue ("why is my phone out of storage when I barely have any apps installed?!" Meanwhile, WhatsApp is storing 20GB of funny videos).
Just here to thanks Evan (and friends) for building such an awesome technology.
No, because the money stakes to get into the console development game party is much higher than iOS, which apparently Epic is happy to pay for.
The biggest announcement here seems to be the "Security updates from Google Play"

I don't know if that means Samsung doesn't get to decide when you get updates or if it means "we're delaying security updates from being pushed to AOSP so you better have Google Services installed if you want your vulnerabilities patched in a timely fashion"
I am tempted to give up but let's maybe explain one more time:

1) The value that Epic have decided to charge for an App Store has nothing to do with the costs of running an App Store.

2) I said no such thing about a fixed fee - I said your mental model for understand the costs of selling something on an App Store is mistaken. Once the store exists your costs are largely fixed, I don't need to explain it to Epic - they do not represent my views and they can charge what they want on their app store.

3) Why do you think hosting costs loads of money - it's virtually free at the scale of Epic or Apple? It has nothing to do with the charges and each sale.

4) I explained what I think is fair for Apple - be grateful for the huge developer community and stop trying to charge people for content built outside of each app (i.e. you can't buy books on the amazon app or audible due to this stupid profiteering). You can't even purchase Netflix from the Netflix app due to Apple wanting a cut.

Anyway, I think I've tried to explain why you're not correct about the maths on the value/costs App Stores create for Apple and running them like a protection racket due to market dominance is ethically wrong.
By protecting the price of real estate through mortgage purchases, the Fed is undermining the legitimacy of private property and the concept of private ownership. This is not going to end well.
It's a form of art, no doubt. And you can consider it better or worse art.

I think the problem is forcing the label "poem" onto these utterances, probably because of the historically acquired status that it brings along. As such, I say: it requires a lot of goodwill from the reader.
Seconded. Using Vue makes me happy like no other tech has quite done.
Desktop mode. Please, desktop mode already. These devices have as much or more ram and logical processors than my last office computer. Office tasks have been more than capable to be performed on such a device. No third party hack, but native and official support for desktop mode.

Also, i am so tired of renting phones - give us the root account by default. If i would buy a new device, i will want to gain control of it.
I forgot about those! Hahaha good times
That's not very fair. The main value of the App store is that it is the only store.

Let other store on iOS, then we will see which one provide the best value.
This is an amazing quote -

William Gibson - "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

Expect it's a lie. It's not cyberpunk. It's boringpunk.

It's teaching midwives how to wash their hands before delivering a birth.

And that is the future. Knowing about incredibly small things you can never see but still exist and how to kill them, which just washing your hands. And a thousands other boring things that are not yet evenly distributed.

This is how you tackle big issues, like Grab which is just a copy of Uber, but for the poor. I think there is a Generic Uber framework that came first that laid the way. But I could never find who created it.
The market is mobile phones, get a device not produced by Apple and be done with it.
That's exactly what it is, Plan 9 does not have $PATH. You just mount directories with binaries under /bin. When multiple binaries have the same name, the one from the last mounted directory is used, masking the others. You could have something like:

mount /usr/bin /bin
mount /usr/local/bin /bin
mount ~/.local/bin /bin

Since binaries in Plan 9 are usually under additional subdirectories, conflicts are rare. For example instead of 'ping' you have 'ip/ping' which would be expanded to '/bin/ip/ping'. The same way binaries from different system architectures can live in the same filesystem, you just mount the directory for relevant architecture under '/bin'.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_mount
Me & my buddies had bootable DOS floppy drives with Scorched Earth installed. It was funny to see the reactions of others when we were playing the game on a "broken" computer (damaged hard drive).
Could you please give an explanation of panpsychism applied to software that make sense? Spoiler: you cannot and it's totally refuted empirically.
If I code a hello world, what kind of cognitive abilities does this have?

BTW I guess panpsychism researchers should start talking to rocks maybe one day they'll find one that is an AGI! /s
Referring to an Amazon Echo as a "microphone" is reductionist to the point where it could actually confuse readers as to what is being discussed. A smart speaker has a microphone, but it is not "a microphone".

It would be like Tesla taking issue with someone calling their car "an electric motor". Sure it has those things, but that's not what it is.

Totally reasonable change imo.
I remember having a version in which buying one of the shotguns crashed the server.
Consumers get their apps, there is no undermining taking place.

Maybe I should complain that Sony abuses the PS4 market so I can't run Switch titles on the PS4.
Didn’t Samsung offer desktop mode at one point? I think it got canned because no one used it, sadly.
How to train folks to conduct job interviews
Unconscionable is not the same as "unfair" in the commonly understood sense.

I would be interested to see a solid case decided on unconscionability where both parties are multi-billion dollar companies with substantial resources to spend on negotiating contracts.

If "I really want what you're selling, but it's kinda expensive" is the new standard for unconscionability, then we're all in big trouble.
I've built one in a few minutes, not hours. Our main requirement was releasing tested code to production ahead of when other interacting pieces are ready (other API's, UI changes, etc.) Usually there is an API contract in place with the other party at this point and feature flags help a CI/CD process keep things moving instead of sitting on a feature.

In Rails if you have Active Admin, you just define the migration for feature flags and you are basically done. AA gives you a UI which you can protect with roles. Put a couple methods on the model and then you can toggle features anywhere in your code.

Our use case is very small, feature flags get deleted after all the moving parts are shipped and working. I'm sure your product has many more use cases and capabilities.
>In modern society it's basically required that both parents work full-time jobs. It's not the 50s anymore; you can't support an entire household with children on one income.

What an absurd claim, only 21.1% of (Americans) two parent households with children under six have both parents working full time.

https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/indicators-child-family-and-comm...
Yeah, I was wondering if I was going crazy. Even the very first screen was kinda giving me a headache. It was supposed to be exhibiting elegance and simplicity.

But I know enough from a decade of using Android to see all kinds of segments of the interface that have their own special context behaviors and features, with new menu layers and questions and assumptions that I will need to train myself to figure out.
As an operating system Android is continuing to get a little more modular, allowing more "user observable functionality" to be updated independent of an OS version upgrade (or waiting on a carrier or OEM to approve such an upgrade). Unfortunately, even more of capability of "Android" is being delivered by the very-closed-source Google Mobile Service (GMS) while the feature set of AOSP is dwindling to being "mere phone without the smarts." At this point what we call Android is about as closed source as Apple's iOS. It's too bad the tribes and factions wanting to build a truly open Linux phone can't bury the hatchet and rally behind a single implementation.