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Advancement in tech are nowadays driven only by profit, which in turn is driven by sales, which prioritise what people are likely to pay for. People expect technology to be affordable and they really don't care what the effect of this is. Put competition in the mix and you get a lot of stuff that sucks because the field of battle is not the quality, is pricing and marketing.

And then stuff dies after a short time. And/or is just left forgotten because it's more broken/an annoyance than it is useful. Or, and this is key, you are stuck with it because for a mix of reasons there is no viable alternative.

One would expect that on the long run the ultimate victims of this (the users of technology) would realise that rather then the ten thousand loads of tech crap they buy they would be much better off with a bunch of stuff that actually works without annoyances for a better quality of life but people just don't. Because again, pricing and marketing.

It used to be _create value and make a profit from it_, now it's the other way around: _aim for profit and consider creating value as a cost of doing so_ (and therefore should be minimised, who gives a frack if the user is annoyed or the thing is broken as long as there is profit).

People has been even trained for decades by major products in the industry to accept that tech doesn't work/is broken/sucks. The good stuff we have exist because at some point for some small time quality became competitive advantage, then on top of that other cycles of craploads piled on.

We did this.
Surely being in the midst of a pandemic with no cure is the time to be overly cautious about long term implications. We have nothing but anecdotal reports because the disease has been around for a year. If infections disease experts are worried about long haulers, I'm more inclined to trust their judgement than someone saying it's probably not a big deal because Americans are just fat and drunk.
Actually there is a recent publication which hints that bexarotene reduced the number of pro-inflammatory microglia/macrophages while increased the number of anti-inflammatory microglia/macrophages in mice:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32916173/
> In macOS context menu, “Tags” is in smaller font

If you think technology is broken, don't take a look at your physical stuff.

The baseboard in my hallway is a little wavy. The road in front of my house has lots of potholes. The tile in my bathroom is slightly off of parallel from the wall. The front door of my house sticks. My takeout order was wrong. My air conditioning in my car stopped working.

Technology is amazing. A friend sent me an animated gif, from hundreds of miles away and I was able to take that same animated gif, replace the face with my own, and send it back, in less than 10 seconds. All from a tiny brick that fits in my pocket. I'll deal with my scroll position being reset on instagram occasionally.
It's not wrong though. You will recover and get on with life much better than if you let it slowly eat through the population and take a huge economic and social/emotional toll. Sweden has it right.
The sane reaction would be to thank China for it's contributions to WIPO and wish them the best.
Just grab a book and read it, most of these channels are just a waste of time; they just keep going over the basics over and over again with long videos that could just have been a 1 minute read
Thanks for the feedback, will definitely take this into account and iterate on this feedback.

Someone opened an issue related to this too, so will update it on that issue https://github.com/Etwas-Builders/modfy.video/issues/88
You're asking this while trump is president?

Lol. Americans expecting a change in the middle-east then voting for republicans. Lol.
There is a difference between design trade offs and flawed design of deviations from the design. Your car does what it’s supposed to do, within the predictable limits imposed by the fact that it’s a gas-powered car. Since MacOS 10.15.4 or .5, my 16” MacBook Pro crashes waking up from sleep due to some glitch in waking up the GPU.

Of course, people perceive that software sucks because it’s more complicated than people perceive. I forget what book said it, but an operating system has more separate components than an aircraft carrier and they’re more tightly coupled. (I’m not sure that’s true, but it conveys the idea.)
I don't see them drone striking and assassinating the Emirs and Saudi royalty who are responsible much of the "freedom-limiting" activity in the Middle East though.
No need to manually install anything and sandboxing. Honestly if I had a suspicious video file I might prefer the browser option so that an ffmpeg exploit would not have access to my machine.
There comes a point where you need to decide are you writing a targeted article or a beginner's introduction. If you can't assume any knowledge and you make articles for a more advanced audience so bloating and winding that whatever point you were making gets lost.

Not every article has to target the "everyone" audience.

What if we applied the standard to programming article? What if an article on rendering issues in mass effect and a patch in directx for the same had to include explanations for variables and for loops? It clearly weakens the article as there is value in getting to the point.
> In my life I’ve never had a problem with a refrigerator, had maybe two problems with washer/dryer

I think blaming software for this is a little naive. Take a look at consumer reports for any modern fridge, stovetop/oven, washer/dryer, etc, and you will see complaints about fridge motors dying, touch panels going on the fritz, etc. -- none of which involve anything more than low level firmware.

If you want to put a tinfoil hat on, you can consider that it may be planned obsolescence, but to put the blame squarely on software, I would disagree with.
Yeah, if we didn't make those people afraid of swift death from the sky they might grow to despise the US and start working to destroy it /s
The drug is already available on the market as a cancer treatment.

However, don’t underestimate the impact of those side effects. If the drug accelerates heart disease (hypercholesterolaemia and hyperlipidaemia are among the primary side effects) and causes thyroid issues, then it might very well have the effect of worsening quality of life and shortening overall lifespan.

This drug doesn’t appear to treat the root cause of MS, but instead shows some efficacy in reversing one of the downstream manifestations of MS. That implies it would have to be taken indefinitely or at least cycled throughout life.

I know people want to be free to try different medications, but in this case it would be shortsighted to trade one set of serious, life-threatening health complications for another that might actually be worse.
Was taking important notes using Google Keep yesterday. Then, all of the sudden I couldn't take notes anymore. Couldn't type, it wouldn't accept input. Refreshed and got a 502. Then eventually could take notes again. And then I eventually ended up in a state where my new additions were DELETED.

And now I guess I am not using Google Keep anymore, which is sucky but probably good for me in the long run.
And also lots of devops likely these days:

- Infrastructure design

- Deployment

- Monitoring / log-based debugging and fault tracing / handling customer issues

In addition to wanting a "full stack" developer of course...
Remember when HN wowed to disrupt Hollywood? Because surely it couldn't be that hard to make better movies and tv.
I can confirm that the German freelance visa is really easy to get. I documented the process here: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/how-to-get-a-german-freela...
Because the US has benefited greatly from the current system of highly educated immigration?

To the point that those countries are trying to achieve what the US has.

I mean, why would you want to set your standard as “what the other guys are doing” when your current system is the most successful in the world?
> But it's the next closest thing

That's not meaningful; there's a reason why the FSF and OSI have very similar criteria that end up being essentially identical in practical application; the value associated with F/OSS isn't on a smooth continuum that varies with proximity to those definitions, there's a very sharp cliff near the edge and this is outside of it.

That other actors are free to commercially exploit, including offering SaaS versions without restriction, the software is a major benefit against vendor lock-in for users, even if they have no desire to exercise that freedom directly, and has important effects on building a diverse, invested community around a piece of software. Restricting this to allow rent extraction, while not unethical (outside of, e.g., the ideological framework of the idealistic Free Software community, as opposed to the F/OSS for pragmatic reasons communiry) in the same way other proprietary-licensed commercial software is not unethical, does not even approximate the value of F/OSS.

Vendors can keep having proprietary rent-protection licenses, they just need to stop trying to convince the Open Source community that they are somehow pragmatically equivalent to Open Source. They aren't, even approximately, and critically that is the entire reason that vendors choose them, so they need to stop the dishonest sales pitches.
> Is this a CFAA violation? No hashes were cracked

Cracking hashes alone is not a crime or I'd be in jail.
I don't personally have an issue with this, as it makes the market perhaps slightly more friendly to those who do take (a little) extra time to put in some quality.
Google Keep experienced a disruption yesterday too, which the dashboard does NOT show.
I think it's more along the lines of you can hit a car or a meeting without decimating everything nearby.

It's the difference between sending an assassin and a suicide bomber.
You're probably right about Graal, but there is no way that V8 has significantly more effort put into it than the JVM. At best, they're roughly similar, but I suspect that the JVM has quite a bit more development time and effort put into it.
> until the US is subject to this kind of targeted assassination?

I suppose this depends on one's definition of "this kind."

The R9X is deployed from a massive drone platform. Using it on our homeland requires air superiority around the target. That's not, in the near term, a significant risk.
How long are you expecting businesses to remain closed? What are the exit criteria? How many people are being infected in nail salons?
Well, digital services are much more complicated than a fridge, or a book. Not only that, but they also require a machine to run that is also orders of magnitude more complicated than a fridge or a closet.
A caffeine pill is way too much caffeine. A 24oz bottle of dew has like 50mg of caffeine compared to something usually closer to 200mg in those pills.

Consider normal tea, or my SO just recently accidentally found caffeinated sparkling water, which exists somehow
I actually agree that if someone is going to do it, it's going to be him.

Plus the "grabbing the mic" incident was bound to happen sooner or later. Music awards keep being given to people who clearly didn't deserve them.

I've heard artists (mostly rappers) speaking about this on their songs.
Kanye simply did what many before him, I'm sure, thought about doing but didn't have the courage.
Same here, it lost my note in Google Keep too, it was an important note too.

The dashboard neglects to mention Google Keep experienced a disruption too.
You should look into kinto, it completely remaps the modifier keys system-wide and worked pretty well when I tried it (I switched to i3wm so I use super for i3 shortcuts now)

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
ECC adds significant cost, and the benefits are stastically meager. I ran a fleet of a few thousand servers with all having 64GB and some having up to 768GB ECC RAM. I'd estimate we had no more than one swap a month. Most systems never had any (reported) ECC corrections.

I still think it's important, but it makes sense that people don't want to pay more for something to detect errors that are quite unlikely.
Ha, that must be a classic that has sufficiently percolated for I don't remember it but I have a feeling of knowing it.

Thanks for the quick reviews! :)
I worked at Bing/Yahoo.

There are two mechanisms helping keep search up when considering ads:

-> Search engine pages can be served w/ no ads, or even no personalization if components are down or lagging

-> Ad logs can be lost if necessary, since we'd under-bill in that case, which would be our own problem. That happened a small handful of times while I was there.

The billing system is indeed transactional, but has less need for 100% up-time and 0 latency in comparison to search. Not nearly as big of a deal if there's an hour delay on billing ads as compared to search being down for an hour.
PG benefits from self-confidence as well (certainly to a less degree).
Being extremely self aware and re-questioning ones positions constantly doesn't seem to be a winning trait in business and promotion. At the very least, if it's being done internally you want to continue to broadcast consistent and confident messages.
Is the yellow background some sort of a inside joke or satire?
For me it is unreadable without changing it through the browser's dev tools.
> buyers of software expect the product to at least mostly work in the first place, but they also expect bugs to continue to be fixed after the sale,

Contrast that to traditional physical goods, where buyers expect the product to work as advertised, right out of the box, or their money back. Software in the Internet era has it easy, because it gets to release shitty half-finished versions, and then keep charging money while never quite finishing the software.

> subscriptions are actually the ideal way of aligning incentives for products that involve ongoing maintenance. but buyers tend to consider this a ripoff if they don't actually see a stream of new features in development

Because software does not decay on its own (despite the misleading term "bitrot" being popular in tech circles). That's literally why digitizing data has taken the world by storm: digital data does not decay; as long as the physical medium is readable, you can make a perfect copy of the data it contains. As a buyer, I don't expect my software to need maintenance. I expect it to work out of the box (just like I expect every physical product to work out of the box), and once I find software that fulfills my needs, I expect it to work all the way until computing technology moves forward so much that it's no longer possible to run the software. Which, in the era of virtual machines, may take decades.

So yeah, there's a need to clearly justify to the customers why you're charging subscription, because software in its natural state does not need maintenance.
> lose all the data you typed into a web form if you accidentally backspace while not in a text field, because it navigates off the page

Nowadays, I would consider this a problem with the browser. How often does one navigate backwards with the backspace key?

Recently, I had some doubts over whether or not I should clobber the native browser behaviour for "ctrl-s", but then I realized that nobody anywhere EVER saves a web page to disk... and if they really needed to, the browser toolbar is right there.
>HN should require a reason to hit the downvote button

That's an interesting thought. What if there were an optional drop-down menu that allowed down-voters to provide canned feedback?

Either way, I think you'd enjoy the discussion more if you worried less about voting. Unless you're selling something, the popularity of the sentiment you're expressing isn't especially relevant.
there is an idea of a PG, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real PG, only an entity, something illusory. And though he can hide his cold gaze and you can shake his hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense your lifestyles are probably comparable: He simply is not there
There's already a VM. If Graal really brings better performance then I don't mind.
You have to maintain a torque pressure on the steering wheel. Otherwise it will alert and ultimately bring the car to a stop with the hazard lights on and disable autopilot for the duration of the trip. The system notifies you that you must keep your hands on the wheel and keep your attention on the road every time you activate it. It's communicated constantly through text, flashing color changes on the screen, and audio signals.
That was my first reaction — why is the car not slowing down at the first sight of something that looks like a human at that distance? Might be perspective but it looks like it's driving far too fast to begin with, not to mention to avoid a collision.
I can’t statically link with it because I would need to release my own software under the GPL.
I remember reading fairly recently about a city that banned the one-off plastic bags and the sale of plastic bags increased to fill the gap.

No doubt, one-offs aren't great. But if ppl are going to fall back to buying anyway then how big is the win? It feels like we need education and no more broad stroke legislation.
I thought it was kind of a mental thing where you're so used to technology sucking you don't even know that it could be better.

There was another comment about a developer getting RSI and having to use an Android as their main device and not being familiar with the UI and feeling restrictive. Iff that's your default computing mental state and you don't expect computing devices to give you a lot more power you just expect and know them to be restrictive devices that you typically consume media from then you don't even have experiences to compare the suck to.

The suck is what it is and you expect it to suck why would you say that.

At least when you complain about the weather we both can acknowledge that the weather changes, unless you're a technological power user the weather doesn't change.
I was a professional poker player in another life and I agree; learning not to be result-orientated is one of the biggest life-lessons it thought me. Deciding to flip a coin for money where you get paid 3x your bet if you win, as long as you can afford to lose half of the time, is correct, regardless of outcome.

The other one is not being afraid of "tough" decisions - often, decisions are tough because all options are close in value. The closer their value is, the less it matters to choose the "correct" path, keeping in mind the future is unknowable and we always have imperfect information.
But it's not just Apple. Apple has its own set of issues, but they are not really worse than others at this point, just not much better any more.

I have mostly old, 'dumb' appliances in my house. My car is more than 20 years old. I have become a total luddite with respect to things. As far as I'm concerned a lot of 'smart' technology is still in the unproven, experimental stage and I am too old now to deal with that shit.
While it's tempting to think "mmh, another todo app?" - I must say that as a professional procrastinator and prolific never-to-be-read-again note taker, I'm drawn to the concept. Clear and concise. Might just work!
Total clickbait title. I now never want to read anything from that author again.
Or dig deeper and deeper into a rabbit hole, and come out almost unemployable 7 years later while the entire industry has moved on.
It is true. So much as stating that the Republic of China (Taiwan) is a de facto independent country with its own territory, military, government, and permanent populace is political. The existence of many Wikipedia pages about Taiwan that reflect that is an inherently political activity (from CCP perspective).
Never because the US tightly controls its airspace. Targeted killings in the first world tend to make use of poisons and bullets.
I don’t expect software to fail generally, but I’m getting used to a recurring stimulus quickly, especially if I underestimate its importance. Perhaps it’s a kind of habituation.

I feel like it’s getting harder to estimate importance properly as the complexity of an abstract system grows. People tend to click the same error message they don’t understand away each day, because it hadn’t had any negative impact (so far).
Having been in and around other “copycat” programs, I agree YC hasn’t been replicated, and it’s kind of a microcosm of startups in general: Unlike YC, most of the people starting copycat programs were not nerds, were not software developers, did not focus on encouraging programmers to start businesses, and most had not started their own startups despite having almost no business doing so (i.e. lack of traditional business background or classic business personality traits). And, to make matters worse, the people that funded these programs also self-selected for typical traits that YC proved were unnecessary (and possibly counter-productive!).

It’s both painfully obvious and maddeningly difficult to replicate.
My partner suffers from relapsing-remitting MS and it's horrible.

Out of nowhere, body and brain half-quit working. Needs wheelchair, constantly confused. And then suddenly one day it stops.

I like to hope we'll figure this out during our lifetime.
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You are only describing subset of such people, and maybe even a minority. Many people who suffer from these generalized symptoms you mention are not middle aged. Many of them lead generally healthy lifestyles. Many of them have specific symptoms that don't go away with regular exercise, and many of them do not lead very stressful lives, aside from the symptoms they feel.

It is simply a fact that medicine is ill equipped to deal with generalized symptoms in the absence of obvious test results. It is also a fact that many of these symptoms are attributable to things we DO have tests for (take hyperparathyroidism as an example), leading to the perfectly reasonable assumption among sufferers that there might be a solution to their problems, if only they could figure it out, leading many to self experimentation because they have no other recourse. And of course, there is an answer for each person. In some cases it just goes away, in some cases the general advice of "try sleep and exercise" works well, but in many cases they simply can't be helped by medicine. We don't know what we don't know.
Much better thanks!

Probably should've mentioned that!
What updated title would you propose?
Do you realize you're defending al-Qaeda?
Given that the Doom Reboot is all about juggling an insane number of tasks at once you’re better off playing it on PC anyway. In fact I suspect this series is limiting its potential audience because the core play style of fast weapon switching just isn’t very viable on console.
So, that wouldn’t be a good way to address basic medical research for some sort of Manhattan project.

To make great progress over a decade, we’d need to do something else to advance medical science.
Emotions are killing America. Basement dwelling incels called antifa.
As a non-native English speaker, I actually hate that there is a split.
But most of the time we're not actually pushing anything forward, we're just adding more features that we think people need (not to mention many developers enjoy creating new features, not polishing existing features).
One way would be to have less institutional power and a society where power is more decentralised.

But we're going in the opposite direction.
Probably straight to 1984.
> yet he's ready to accept others' suggestions and stand corrected when needed.

Over the years, the community has volunteered time and time again to develop a new UI for Calibre that would at least bear some resemblance to all the other applications we use on our computer. They would do all the work. His response has always been no.

And there has been his hostility to criticisms of security flaws in his code.