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There's a lot of hostility on HN towards web developers. "Real accessibility" doesn't really have much to do with Javascript or not, it has everything to do with ensuring the site is screen reader accessible, ensuring the site is available for low-vision users, and ensuring that the site is available at slow bandwidths. Given that the site caters to those already (good kb navigation, stated future support for color-blindness, and the site is ~300kb/page) I think that they're in pretty good shape.

Ultimately, choosing not to run JS is your decision—but a vanishingly small percentage of users choose to do that, and as a company your focus is on providing features for the product, and not supporting every single user and their unique configurations. Should Github explicitly support terminal-based browsers like Lynx as well?

Plus, you can avoid 99% of the github website just by using git from the command line (or your favorite client) and using their CLI tool for repo creation/etc.
There was also a line "Including some that have millions of streams" but it looks like those are the ones in the 20% that didn't earn less than 200 in the year.

Maybe someone with more knowledge can answer this for me but what exactly is a label for these days? You don't need funding to distribute CDs these days so why can't the artist just put the content on Spotify and Youtube themselves?
Do you foresee that situation going any differently if you had experienced the same issue with a Surface Book or a Samsung laptop 5 years after you bought it? Because I don't.
The study mixed older children with younger ones. The younger ones have no handedness bias but the older ones may have. The presence of these older children may have been sufficient to cause the asymmetric p values that we saw.
> At least in the U.S., with for-profit medicine, you cannot and should not trust doctors. There is a financial motivation that is misaligned with trying to help you; they (and their employers) have very twisted incentives to try to get you to do procedures that are at best unnecessary and expensive, but at worst potentially damaging to your health.

This is an insanely over-cynical take. While there definitely are doctors who run their practices like a crudely-capitalist business [1], that's not what typically gets people into medicine. You mainly just need to be engaged in your own care and seek second opinions for anything major or if you're having doubts. IMHO, it's more likely you'll have find yourself with an incompetent doctor than one who's trying to screw you.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/upshot/covid-testing-doct...
> Estimates also need to capture the level of uncertainty.

As a junior developer, I was asked to provide LOEs for tickets and tasks. I just looked at my boss. "How should I know?"

"Come up with your best answer." So I did. I gave him my best guess, plus some error bars. The error bars were promptly discarded. And while when I went over estimates I didn't feel bad, there was obviously some static there from my boss when things went "over estimate".

I have harbored a lot of suspicion towards the process of ticket estimation and "story pointing" and the like ever since.
Indeed: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/principles/pragmati...
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Have you ever dealt with support tickets or read "normal" user forums for a consumer product that you work on? PEBKAC is often times a kind way to describe the problem.

Now engineers can (& do) get the analysis wrong (the famous "I can't send e-mail more than 500 miles). I don't think it happens with any less regularity than doctors. Thankfully our problem domain allows us to adjust the guard rails for a problem domain, or build better guard rails.
I do like the UI/UX better; I've always found Apple Configurator to be clunky and non-intuitive.
Ah LAN parties, I always hoped one day I’d go to some sick LAN parties, dragging a rig, seeing tricked out computers, fragging noobs, meeting gamer girls, maybe seeing someone pour liquid nitrogen to cool down a monster CPU. Alas, by the time I reached the age where I would be able to go, they had mostly died out and became less glamorous.

Maybe one day the sounds of gaming rigs on LANs will roar back again, for the sake of nostalgia. Maybe some kind of Computers and Coffee type meetups where people show off their powerful rigs and their elite gaming skills on a LAN.
In the 'zero-day' and related terminology the days start counting from the time when a fix is available. It refers to how much time a defender has had to fix their systems, a zero-day implying that even the most prudent defender could not have prevented the attack; and a day-1 (or day-x) attack implying that the defender might have closed the vulnerability if they had been sufficiently fast in monitoring for the existence of the problem and fixing their systems.

So there certainly could be zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities that are known but not yet fixable, perhaps because the vulnerability did not seem easily exploitable and thus not urgent to the vendor.
This is what is known in economics as a compensating differential. It's also my pet theory for why bog standard backend devs tend to get paid a lot more than game devs, even though the game devs tend to be more skilled and harder working.
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It seems like art consumption doesn't keep up with population growth, especially for art like music. Twice the population doesn't need twice the songs, so more people leads to fewer music jobs per capita. That alone is going to make it harder and harder to make it as an artist. Exponential population growth is probably making it exponentially harder to compete. I really feel for these super impacted fields everyone wants in on.

That probably applies to our field eventually too. You don't need twice the google workforce to serve twice the population. Hopefully by the time it's relevant to us, population growth isn't particularly exponential.
I just got genuinely curious how it's being taught in Western schools. The image I remember (from Poland, but media, not schools back then) was entirely single-sided, "evil communists murdered hundreds of thousands of protesters". There was no mention whatsoever about the whole context, or _why_ people actually died. It was being portrayed almost as a kind of mass execution.
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I always read "Breached by Nation-State Hackers" as "we have no idea what happened, but do not want to look stupid for considering security a cost center, and cost cutting it to the max"

I am rarely wrong in this.
I didn't have an iPhone when I first bought AirPods. They are the best for working out at the gym, so I went for them, after trying some alternatives.

The phone I used them with first was the Pixel 2. They worked perfectly fine. The only heartburn I had was once I had paired them with my Macbook, the bluetooth connection would prefer the Macbook over the phone, which was sometimes annoying.

Others might be upset at the lack of support for the Google Assistant, but for actually using the headphones, there was nothing better, even on Android.
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I think it’s irrelevant.

Post 2005 is when cloud computing & the web as an app platform began to gain traction, and a lot of open source software from ‘big tech’ is either cloud or web related.

The adoption of more permissive licenses is just because the big players favour those licences.
What made you buy two different headphones?
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Erasure coding was already used in storage tapes in 1985.

> some clever information theory tricks is mind bending to me

It's a pretty trivial first-degree linear function, y = ax + b
Then complain about devices that hardcode settings and don't allow changing them, rather than complaining about people taking what devices could already do and standardizing it so that anyone can use it in a more uniform way.
There's a metric ton of street performers (during the better times) in throughfares of most European cities. So no, not that different.
There are many places in between the place we are headed, aka "everything is streamed, streams pay basically nothing" and where we used to be.

A collective action by artists to force streaming services into a better deal seems like what is required, tho the general appetite for collective action in 2020 still seems a little lacking.
It's hard for me to dismiss what is the closest to a "Mutually Assured Destruction Pact" in software licenses as merely "FUD".

Absolutely the commercial license business model is driven by that threat of "nuclear" retaliation. But that doesn't necessarily make that business model correct. (In some ways it seems rather skeevy, negotiating with someone that has an untested "nuclear device" and is threatening to use it.)

Also, just because it is untested doesn't make it any less of a nuclear device. Einstein and Bohr and a few other mathematicians had a very good idea of what a nuclear bomb could do before one was ever built or tested. We can make, based on the (poor) wording of the AGPL, some pretty good assumptions about how badly it could be used in a court of law should someone actually try to call in their threatened strike. (Everyone is too afraid to let that happen, but should it happen, it may be devastating, and worse no one knows in which direction: if the AGPL will prove to be so virulent as to be toxic or if the AGPL will open questions about enforce-ability of copyleft clauses in what are ostensibly presented as copyright licenses that risk even the GPLv2 falling to a dangerous counter-precedent. Either way, a source for great damage to the software industry should the AGPL ever go to court.)
Lots of my friends are musicians. I have every sympathy for artists that can't live off their art (because that's the dream, right?). But I'd be curious how any of this would compare to record sales and artists that made money in the past. Arguably your chances of "getting heard" now are far, far greater than previous generations when you'd actually have to get out and play (or sign a deal with a label). Now you can have fans without ever leaving your bedroom (assuming you understand a little bit about marketing), you can operate completely without a label, or distributor, or manager, or anyone but yourself - if you choose.

I think the trouble is a lot of people are literally equating streams to record sales, a bit like an extension of the old MP3 argument (every download is instead of a sale, but now every stream should equate to a sale).

A rough google reckons a PRS royalty for a Radio 1 play to be about £38 for the song. The Radio 1 breakfast show is 5.13m listeners. I'd hazard a lot of the plays on Spotify are just as passive as the radio (and it's probably replaced the radio for a lot of people). If you're working to the same metrics, Spotify pays considerably more per play (again, based on some Googled numbers).

Not everyone is going to make a living from music. Even in a world of hyperconsumption there's still more music being shared than ever before and can ever be heard. And I keep seeing this argument about how awful Spotify is (and YouTube, and streaming etc etc), but personally I think it's fantastic. And I say this will a box of unsold "I was in a band once" records under my bed.
Some professions are lottery professions. Others aren't. I suppose a lot of it is a demand/supply thing. Also independent contractor vs. employee.

Not to say employees all make a lot of money. Janitor probably makes a fairly predictable minimum wage level in the US.

On the other hand an employed software developer or other engineer might have a 5-10x wage disparity (even within a given country) for various reasons. But it won't be an "actor" waiting tables versus an A-list celebrity.
Genealogy graphics: a niche within a niche.

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The problem is floating point math. Mostly we want GPU's (and TPU's) to crunch floating point match really quickly. However, FP units are complicated things and take a disproportionate amount of FPGA fabric. Add to this the lower clock speed and suddenly GPU's start to look really cheap.
I would say it’s probably almost exactly the same situation for AppStore developers.
I would say Zimmer (and also Ramin Djawadi) have some very obvious Glass influence in a fair amount of their work.
Raptor Abort at T-1.3s... try again tomorrow I guess.
Here are a couple:

- Papers We Love: https://paperswelove.org/

- The Morning Paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/

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I understand the concern. I spent the vast majority of my career not at Google while also involved in open source communities, and I can empathize with this. I think one place we have a leg up here is that we do have documented processes for performing this type of work. It's certainly possible that the outcome of a proposal is rejection, but the hope would be the process does that quickly. We're all human and we don't want to waste anyone's time.

One of the cases that people cite for Go rejecting the community outright is the modules work. My perspective is that could've been handled better, but I didn't have a stake in that. But then I look at the error handling proposals, all rejected, including the ones originating from Googlers. And the iteration on generics, which has been reworked several times due to dissatisfaction expressed by community members of all experience levels. I think it's fair to say that even though there are deciders of what happens, they hold themselves to the same standard.

I hope you'll consider at least taking a look as a hobbyist. It's a large system, so both lots of opportunity for contribution and lots to learn. I think many of us are very eager to work with people outside the team, especially as many strive for more social interaction in general, and I know many of us are individually looking forward to welcoming external contributions. Certainly we can never find out if the process works if no one tries.

edit: redundancies
Covid-19 obviously impacted festivals and touring which makes up most of the income for smaller musicians.
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Although if that's the case there then the average earning of the top 20% of musicians is at most £800 a year.
To start with, the business account is not only about paying a better rate. It's relevant for your internal accounting, taxes, etc...

You can't just start handing out business credit cards to everyone you send to the store, the alternative is to ask employees to pay out of pocket and pinky swear to reimburse them.

Then there's the question of liability. If your business account shipped something, any questions of liability are clear cut and easy to deal with. If a random employee shipped something, who's liable for any issues?

And how about efficiency? Not only are you paying a reduced rate with a business account, but the provider comes and picks up your packages from you on a regular basis. If instead of putting things in the right place and answering the door when the UPS driver comes by, now you're paying however many employees to pick up a bunch of packages, drive over to the closest location, and wait in line. I don't know what the lines are like at UPS right now, but I do know that the USPS lines around me are about 45-60 minutes depending on the time of day. Not to mention that line starts outside in the cold.

And that's all assuming your employee brings 20 packages to the clerk and has no problems shipping them all in the same transaction.

Which means it's possible that your employee(s) didn't do their normal job, got frustrated and cold and risked infection standing in line instead, you paid a premium to do so, and some of your packages didn't get shipped regardless.
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1) For a PCP that does ear cleanings, you could have done that for peanuts. I used to know an FM guy who would do it regularly for patients (maybe a touch too regularly).

2) Heh, it's actually a standard board exam question about "homeless guy comes in with scratching in one ear." The official answer is that you /don't/ scope first, because if it's a roach, the sudden light can make them scrabble deeper. Which is actually funny, since different bugs respond differently - there have been case reports where people have reported repeated success with taking the patient to a darkened room, opening the ear as much as possible, and having a light pointed near the outside of the ear - luring the bug to crawl out on its own.

Actually, on second thought, I don't know if it's a "standard" board question. Rather, it was something I studied for boards once upon a time. I'm not in EM/FM, so it's not something I've ever had come up again.
> At least 40 people worked on designing and engineering this new headphone.

You're probably off by an order of magnitude. 40 people is nothing for a largely produced product.
> tight hips and a bad back

To the contrary, that's from sitting.

Remember we already lie down for 8 hours a day while sleeping. It's restorative, not harmful.

What you do need to be careful of is generally weakened bones and muscles. But provided that you're getting up every hour to walk around for five minutes (and stretch, ideally), or at least every two hours, and you go to the gym moderately, then there's absolutely zero problem.
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I am giving it a try, and I like the hexagonal keys. But I would need swipe functionality to make it my daily driver.
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Ah, I didn't realize the comment above was about the Eng Council. I'll raise the issue at our next meeting. Thanks!
Paid subscription? As an artist you pay to be on Spotify? Tried finding it just now but it just says

> To get your music on Spotify, you need to work with a distributor, or with a record label who already has a distributor. They handle all the licensing and distribution, and pay your streaming royalties.

Kinda odd, why would Spotify not just let you enter an IBAN and send you your share as soon as you accumulated a minimum of €10 or something? Regardless, I see this is not as easy as signing up for YouTube and making money off of adds there.

I suppose I didn't mean Spotify very specifically, it just happened to be the example and I figured they'd rather have a broader selection of music for their subscribers; the point however works just as well with YouTube or other services.
As far as I understand it: OP thinks people who complain about the price, think that they won't sell while people who complain about the price are either:

- making fun of people who would have to pay the price because they feel the peer pressure or

- are pissed because now every other brand who thinks it's fashionable will push their price because they know people will pay it or

- have perfectly working headsets already which were significantly cheaper or

- are jealous that they can't pay for them

...which makes OPs comment look quite ridiculous.
Yeah I use them too and feel vaguely guilty about it.

But now... no more. The time of anti-Q-tip tyranny is at an end!!
music is a hobby. u could earn money with it, if you are lucky. some people earn thousands of dollars a month for eating food on stream. and that's great. if u think this musician not earning enough thing is an issue, then you are crazy. If this is an issue, chances are, everything in life is an issue for u. Grow up.
It’s not as bad these days with SSDs
> due to lax oversight

That is an important point. Not only realisations are needed, regulations need to be enforced if we expect the banking system to work.
Seems like they are seeking attention more than anything.
I mean, FireEye has a pretty good reputation for attribution and investigation of nation state intrusions. This doesn't seem like the type of thing they would just make up. Bot saying we should take them 100% at their word, but investigating intrusions is their entire reason for existence
I think there is something about my brain that just wasn't meant for music. I found it really easy to teach myself programming but after years of trying to understand music I was never able to progress past learning other peoples songs.

There is tons of info online about music theory and such but if you follow it literally you end up with something quite uninteresting.

I recently took up drawing after quitting music and found it somewhat easier. I guess it makes more sense to my brain when the target is "Replicate what you see with your eyes but with a pencil" instead of trying to understand the complexities of why music sounds good.
That assumes the community isnt evil
If it's an "outdated model" the first questions to ask are about what came before that model.

How much did 80% of musicians make in 1990 from radio? And from all sources, for that matter?

It seems very dishonest to have a discussion without those numbers.
> Except how hard is it to learn to code, write an actual app, pay money up front to even get in the exclusive store and have your stuff vetted, versus…

… how hard it is to learn to play an instrument, write an actual song, pay money up front to go to a recording studio, and have your stuff "vetted" by a curator after pitching it?
Most of the data I've seen around music streaming and revenue still applies the out-dated mindset about plays. In the past, an album on CD sold for ~15 dollars. With that, a purchaser owned unlimited plays as well as the ability to copy the CD.

Now, with streaming, 1 play is nothing more than 1 play. Sure, the argument that a musician used to make more off of 1 CD sale than they currently make off of streaming, but I'm not understanding where this perceived value is from? If I only stream 1 song, off of 1 album, I would assume that's worth less than a single cent to the musician.

Most musicians don't make money selling their music - this has always and will always be true. 80% of musicians make less than 200 a year, but compared to pre-streaming tech, would they have made more?
GPLv3 effort was made in order to address two main problem. One was that the market dominated manufacturer who held close to 90% of the market was going around and claiming royalties for claimed software patent in free software, and if I remember right against actually members who participated in the drafting of GPLv3. People saw how a dominated party would distribute GPL software and then go and try shake down same people for patent money, and people were really scared at the time. Quality patents like "1-click" were being fought in courts and companies like Microsoft spent billions, with a capital B, of dollars on patent deals. People did not assume Microsoft just did that for laughs and so the drafting process had a distinct goal of addressing this problem. After gplv3 release Microsoft did halt their claims on Linux users, which could naturally be just a major coincidence.

The second concern was that millions of devices with Linux in them would be sold for which users could not modify, share or distribute changes for. This happened beyond what anyone could have imagined. FSF fought and lost that fight, but I am not sure I would have called it a mistake. Mobile phones are full with anti-patterns, have zero security, zero privacy, zero control for the user. Their operational lifespan is a small portion of that open platforms and when the developer cuts updates then the device is unfixable. At any time the device can stop working and ransom the user for a subscription in order to regain operation. It is hard to imagine how those devices could get worse in term of user agency, except if the manufacturer join hands with an oppressive regime.
They are seeking attention by saying they got hacked, when their entire reason for existence is to defend networks?