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> Because if we could run the real Chrome on iOS

You'd be running features that both Mozilla and Safari consider harmful and will not implement.
> It's simple, at least in theory: Don't go along with decisions you disagree with until you've voiced your concerns and they have been addressed.

Depending how I read "go along", "disagree" and "addressed", I think this either doesn't help or is unrealistic.

Like... suppose I say "this plan will run into scaling issues at some point" and the other person can say "that's true, but we don't know if we'll get enough usage for that to be a problem and in the meantime it lets us iterate quickly". I agree with this, but I still think we should go with the more robust thing up-front. How do I proceed?

I could say that I'm not going to work on that plan until I'm convinced it's the best plan. But if everyone followed this advice, approximately nothing would ever get done. If you have a team implementing a feature or product, it's important that everyone is working in the same direction even if they don't all think it's the best direction to go. It's not realistic to expect unanimous agreement on what the best direction is, even if everyone sits down to discuss it calmly and sensibly for a few hours.

Or I could say that my concerns have been addressed, and I go ahead and work on this plan. But why this plan, and not the plan that I prefer? There's a risk that we just go with the plan proposed first, or by the person who's most stubborn about liking theirs, or drawn at random from a hat. That seems bad too.

I don't think there's a good way to proceed where I don't at least try to answer: which of us is more likely to have a good plan? And if I assume I'm below average when I'm not, I'm more likely to get the wrong answer to that question, and then bad decisions are more likely to get made.

> Having valid concerns is orthogonal to whether someone is above or below average.

The things that make me a better dev than I used to be, and a better dev than most people just starting out, certainly aren't orthogonal to my ability to have valid concerns and not-have invalid ones.

If you simply mean that above-average people can have invalid concerns, and below-average people can have valid ones, then I agree but I don't know why you bring it up. I don't think I suggested otherwise.
If you'd like a cheaper alternative (and don't mind a little DIY) I wrote a library that lets you render HTML onto low cost ePaper displays using a Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/samsonmking/epaper.js
Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative
Right, Kindles presumably have a high attachment rate (owners buy more ebooks) so Amazon can subsidize based on that attachment rate, and also the base model Kindle prices include direct advertising subsidization. (Check the "without ads" SKUs prices for something somewhat more comparable.)

Don't forget too many of the screen prices above are essentially single screen "retail" prices and Amazon would likely have better bulk wholesale prices worked out in their supply chains.
I can't tell if I can trust this site or not, because it looks like one of those fake news site created to generate ad clicks. But I guess pretty much all the local news site look like this now. Sad state of the web we are living through.

Also interesting to note that the lead photo for loneliness in this article makes it seem all sexy and desirable.
A Twitter thread showing examples of 10 types of tweets that get traction
Backing a gingerbread supermassive black hole
Another, less extreme version: "Your most important collaborator is yourself six months ago, and they won't respond to your emails."
Compared to the life of a person, graphics standards seems like a trivial issue. It's like wanting to talk about how he didn't come to complete stop at stop signs while driving.
what are the benefits to mandating this?
My favorite unpopular opinion to share (I work in video) is that 99% of viewers don't care about resolution above 720p. Other encoding and playback characteristics are just way more important if you aren't building for videophiles.

Netflix limiting mac chrome playback to 720p is case in point if true (though I've never heard this). What % of their "high-end" users is this? My macbook has more than five times as many pixels than 720p... I've never noticed this, and Netflix surely recognizes that they don't stand to gain much by streaming higher resolution to most users.

Netflix, of course, does build for videophiles, but I still hold my conviction to the extent that I constantly question the priority of work to make something 1080p or 4K.

I will certainly concede that VR use cases need higher than 720p resolution.
NASA Spacecraft Conjunction Asmt and Collision Avoidance Best Practices Handbook
One possible issue is that the users of the data may place different prominence on a particular URL, and may decide that it warrants more frequent crawling.

For site owners, it may prove to be lower maintenance to simply whitelist such a bot for crawling, though on the downside they may want to pick and choose which search engines can index it, and since the crawl (assumedly) would use one UA it would complicate how site owners can tell respective search engines what they're allowed to do with the crawl data.
Destructive Scale
You are still limited by commute time. Urban sprawl can be costly to the local government, and ultimately the tax payers.
This is super cool! I'm going to add these classifications to my open source projects :)
> We know that the existence of the forest is extremely valuable in its natural state — for carbon capture, biodiversity, etc, but we expect to reap its rewards without paying for it. The forest is just as much a natural resource as the oil underneath Saudi Arabia, for example.

From this HN thread of two months ago:

Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert usi...

check out the influential book - The Forest and The Sea by Marston Bates - that I mentioned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820550
And still no proper support for pinch to zoom or proper scrolling with touchscreen laptops or Windows touchpads. Every release I hope they will resolve this extremely basic feature. Every release I'm disappointed. Every other browser just works - I don't know if it's native functionality or if they put in the work - but Firefox is just absolutely rubbish here.
Strange to consider that stuff like this is (part) of why browser apps took off in the first place!
Wow this is pretty cool. What's the tech stack?
> Provides no benefit

It's sugar, it provides energy. Some people like the taste and the bubbly sensation of soda.

Here is Zdeno Chara, one of the best defencemen in recent hockey history drinking one during a very important game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVA7lgJRHQQ

Just because someone who is burning 2,000 calories is drinking a small bottle doesn't mean it is appropriate to drink 2L everyday. Everything in moderation.
Very cool.

> Thus the full image can only be refreshed once every two frames, effectively limiting the maximum framerate to 30FPS - although the test scene runs at closer to 20FPS (primarily due to some bottlenecks with the logic on the SNES side at present).

Getting around this would make this even more interesting. Like most other console PPUs of it's day, due to bandwidth/etc the normal 'flow' is to have a background and a series of 'character' sprites preloaded into VRAM and then shuffled around (this is why in some 'busy' games you would see clipping or game elements disappear on early consoles; too many sprite objects for the PPU to keep track of.)

To that same end, I'd be curious to see what could be done like this on Genesis/Mega Drive hardware
The funny thing is that I remember doing exactly this with PHP in the early 2000’s on a small team. We didn’t even have version control on the project and just did all of the development in vim, relying on its lock files to ensure we didn’t edit the same files at the same time. Deployed changes with rsync.

That project ran in an enterprise environment, customer facing for 10 years with almost no maintenance.
I’m sure this is one of those things that’s on the launch roadmap once you can get developers to actually adopt the badge. Then once there’s a critical mass there’ll be a combination of manual filters and/or automated ranking (ex: if my kid is in the App Store, they only see privacy-friendly apps.)
Since the last few weeks, I have been having a lot of imaginary conversations with my friends. Sometimes I actually tend to act them out: for example nodding my head every now and then or lip syncing. Or that I am usually awake for an hour while in bed because I cannot end the imaginary conversation. Is it normal to have these conversations all the time?
No, probably not generally, I must have misinterpreted the post I commented on, I thought it was general policies leading to people leaving.
CloudLinux Promises a CentOS Replacement
People in PA get pushed out of homes due to the tax too. It's especially common among seniors in high cost areas like Delaware county.

Paying $5k-10k every year perpetually just seems outrageous to me. (I don't make a silicon valley wage)
This. Even ignoring the number of students that go study banking/finance in college, the banking/finance industry also employs many CS and math graduates.
Over 60% of people view journalism as more dangerous than ten years ago
Transcription factor network analysis offers hope for CNS axon regeneration
American news outlets generally don't report on issues outside their borders unless...

...they think there's a chance to start a war. Compare the coverage of protests in India to those in Hong Kong. In India they want the government to coddle big business and rich people less: zero coverage. In Hong Kong they wanted to embarrass Chinese communists: wall-to-wall coverage. Often we can see this phenomenon in a single nation. When a few relatively wealthy capitalists protested the duly elected government of Venezuela a couple of years ago, we heard all about it. Two days ago Maduro's government won reelection in a landslide, and we haven't heard a peep. The fact that large majorities of Venezuelans support their current government makes it more difficult for us to start the war that John Bolton wants, so that won't be mentioned on CNN.
Deprecation without an obvious replacement is pretty toothless, because people will keep using the deprecated thing for lack of an obvious replacement. This is how we ended up with disasters like the Python 2/3 transition.
Isn't the reason why many applications and libraries use Chromium due to Gecko's too Firefox-centric APIs?

I read a post here on HN a few months (years?) ago where a developer was really trying to use Gecko for their own application and got frustrated so much that they gave up and switched to Chromium.
Most startups don't care about taxes or regulations. Taxes are a rounding error (or literally zero) when you're small and not making any money, which will be the first several years of a startup's life. When you get big you can hire an army of lawyers and accountants to keep all your money in Ireland and avoid them. Regulations just get ignored. When you're small, you're too little a fish to go after; the regulators are busy suing Uber and Lyft and Facebook and Google. When you get big, you can hire an army of lobbyists and PR people to change the regulation, just like Uber and Lyft did.
There's a link to the Nature paper in the first sentence, so this site is already doing better than 98% of local news outlets.
Interesting story. Touches on something I remember on here recently about SS7’s vulnerability to abuse.
We could always call it AWS SeaShell (C. Shell).
We played Wizard in the breakroom at lunch, back when people were actually in the office...
Ah but GP wasn't talking about real-time in that context ("And if you're not...").

You can still have 100ms buffer without 100ms latency: within 10ms of the drum being hit, write 100ms of the drum sample into the playback buffer and immediately trigger its playback (or write it into the buffer starting at the cursor position that is just about to be played).

The only trouble is when you need to modify some of that 100ms before it is played back, for example if the user hits another drum 50ms later. In that case it becomes more complex, you'd have to overwrite some of the existing buffer with a new mix of both drum samples. The complexity is not worth it for that kind of app.

For a simple app like a video player, the audio stream is much more predictable so you can buffer more. Volume changes and pausing can still be applied with no perceivable latency by modifying the existing buffered data [1]

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documen...
Welcome to the world of proprietary software. Flash was always a closed source product controlled by Adobe. I don't find that disturbing because it's incredibly common in the closed source world.

Hell, this is precisely what Gatekeeper does on macos, in that it reaches out to the cloud to decide if you should be allowed to run software on your machine.

It's even justified on the same basis: enhancing security.
Legendary Hollywood Research Library Finds a New Home at the Internet Archive
We usually play Skribbl.io, Among Us, Mafia, and Poker.
Terathon Math has been open-sourced
Gradslam - a fully differentiable dense SLAM framework
This might come as a surprise to you, but being a slave is not in fact a job.
If there were any wages to be stolen in the first place they wouldn't be slaves.
But considering how many times you've been wrong and are just moving the goalpost to keep arguing and are behind a throwaway I assume at this point your just trying to waste time and lowkey troll.
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> It's hard to have a ramen startup when your garage costs a million dollars.

Word.

Peter Thiel had something to say about this - basically, he said that so much of the VC money that a start up would raise would go to rent that it no longer makes sense to start a company in the Bay Area.

And those garages in Austin, Nashville, Charlotte, Railegh-Durham, and basically every where else are starting to look very attractive to savvy start up founders. Especially under the WFH circumstances bc of covid.
Redirecting Godoc.org Requests to Pkg.go.dev
What's there to be afraid of, so long as your workflows aren't made significantly more painful?

A local development environment should still be possible in many cases. One shouldn't need to call AWS services.
The coronavirus exposure notifications are only "safe" because we assume no single actor can put Bluetooth receivers every square meter, thus rotating the IDs every so often is an effective defense against potential tracking.

The same couldn't work with the internet because essentially every ID would be known to potential bad actors, as they'd be tracking every single one of them (among other data points) and can easily defeat the rotation of those IDs based on other data points which don't change.
Depends on your location. In 2010 Firefox had 60% market share in Germany.
Agreed. Also, an infantile and power-mad ruling class is unlikely to go gentle into the good night when oil revenue tumbles. That's gonna be an epic shitshow eventually, one way or another.
Delusional coping mechanisms seem to be a pretty rampant aspect of loneliness. You see it a lot in the homeless population. But it also effects anyone who spends too much time alone.

Reminds me a lot of bush-fever, where you've been living out in the woods for so long you start to get a bit nutty. Highly recommended life experience btw.
50% of the US population would never allow this in their body - the same set of people that are anti-vaccine.

Edit: odd that I'm being down voted for speaking facts. Note that I didn't say that I myself am anti-vaccine.
Can confirm, we are older but waited until we were financially stable before having children. I am loving it.
Am I incompetent if I thought all browsers all did this already by default? Or was this typically enforced at the OS/networking-stack level, and now Firefox is adding an additional guarantee that it will happen directly in the browser, even if the networking stack would say otherwise?
It's nice from May to October.

I almost died when I visited in February.
It's in Apple's financial interest to have people install more apps with IAPs, as Apple currently charges their captive audience 10x the market rate for payment processing inside of apps and makes a lot of money from these purchases.

I wouldn't hold my breath for Apple to develop a filter that lets you find only non-IAP apps.
Meh. Yes, sure, by statistics. But those rates come from neighborhoods that most likely don't have a lot of six-figure salary tech workers in them.
So for search they are not a monopoly, not even close.

For iOS/Android, I'm not seeing a problem just because they are popular. Is there some specific legislation you would like passed which would interfere and most likely overreach into their companies?

Like you said, it's not cut and dry because there isn't a monopoly. If an upstart company came along and wanted to make a new mobileOS, I wish them well. If Google or Apple did something wrong to interfere with their success, bring a suit at that time with specific claims.
...more painful workflows
Top Instagram influencers on the rise in 2020
I agree with everyone's sentiment that Oracle and HP are dinosaurs lead by people in the finance department, but I also agree with yours. These companies are also canaries. We've crossed the tax and bureaucracy threshold that companies are willing to deal with.

I predict that it will continue to be a slow transition until a tax friendly state with a decent tech hub joins California, Montana, North Dakota, and Oklahoma in banning non-competes. If that ever happens, California is in deeper trouble.
Earlier posted in 2015 with 60 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10083420
How do those contrast with the contortions upon "shall not be infringed?"
Nowhere does this change disallow app makers from collecting data, they just need to be transparant about it. Apple should be held to their own standards just as much.
To your second point, which big company nowadays doesn't? Not saying that it's a thing we should accept but why bring it up here?

Also, pleas don't use gaslighting when you mean marketing, imo it takes away from the severity of gaslighting.
Hmm, I'm a very lonely person [1] and have a cat, but I never thought of a back story for my cat, nor have I seen anyone with this. Can you give an example from pop culture?

[1] (I saw my friends a grand total of 4 times in 2020, pandemic has been awful for my mental health lmfao)
You're not living unless the winter weather almost kills you when you're walking the dog!
Quality through quantity: A structure of practice, motivation, and experiments
Or even just browser apps that are easy/encouraged to run locally, like Jupyter Notebook.
This is tech for a dystopian nightmare.
When the privacy commission in my country acted against facebook, it retaliated by issuing a country wide ban [1].

As far as I can tell, this had no noticable effect on the political parties. I think you are overestimating the power of large tech companies to influence foreign EU democracies.

There are other examples, including one involving google, where they tried to block access to certain services and expected the population to blame their government.

Unless you can give me a counter example, I think it's more likely people will blame the tech company.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/9c9bf084-994f-11e5-95c7-d47aa298f...
It also annoying when you set up a new client that is has to sync all your messages then for security reasons not show any of them.
REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better
AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Zoomjacker, lol!! I'm stealing that word.
The tech and the society around it are the problems, not the solutions. The solutions are cultural. If you want to re-establish a private sphere after its complete erosion in the last 25 years, you will have to take on the entire leviathan. IMO, the next wave of disruptive technologies are going to be about providing just that.
Your complaints are down to the nature of the "one size fits all" approach in use here.

If an app offers 99% online experiences, and there's one part of the service where you can choose to have something physically shipped to you, they have to say that they collect your physical/mailing address. There's no way for the app to tell you when it does or doesn't do that.

The same is true for many other things - optional 2FA via SMS (phone number), optional search for nearest location (location tracking) etc.
From their perspective, of course it would be unfortunate that your parents cannot continue to have their lifestyle subsidized. For the rest of us, that money could gladly be used for schools, infrastructure, etc

Luckily, if someone is being priced out by fair property taxes, they still own a valuable asset.
This is LONG overdue and I hope it at least shows users as much info per app as Google Play does where you can inspect the permissions the app requests/requires (though the distinction between request and require would be nice). It would also be nice to have persistent search filters in the app store search like "don't show me any apps which request access to my contacts or location"... though I suspect it will take people dying because their stalkers found them through an app's location info for this to happen.
Yeah, now that you mention "progressiveness", I see the distinction. You don't have to know how to accomplish the task in its entirety before you attempt it, and the system exposes more relevant affordances as you make progress on your task.
> who's to say this decreased expense is going to be passed down to consumers in the form of lower prices?

Because economics. I know this intimately. I have a product we manufacture and sell on Amazon along with other channels. And if I am saving $1 on a customer acquisition, I am lowering my price one dollar because that would mean I can sell more at the same profit. Because if I try to keep that extra dollar, my competition will lower their price. Basically the cost of keeping that saved dollar is more than the gain from lowering the price a dollar. That’s how competition is supposed to work.

I know my cost of goods sold and my cost of sales down to the penny and have a pretty good idea of the elasticity curve for my product: if I lower my price by $1, I would sell x more bottles. However if I lower my price by $1 right now, I would decrease in profitability unless my costs also decreased by $1. There is a point on the curve that represents the optimal price.

It would seem that fundamental microeconomics is something not taught in many schools and that’s tragic because you get statements like “who’s to say this decreased expense is going to be passed down to consumers.” Because competition is what makes this statement silly in principle.
I would be interested in hearing the dissent here. To call it a myth would imply that it is intrinsically wrong, but is that proven fact or just newly popular thinking?

The medical establishment still maintains that saturated fats are less healthy than unsaturated fats as standard advice.