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Pot calling kettle black. All mobile os are just ad delivery platforms that the user never truly owns as they are completely sealed and locked down.
For most of the professional work I've done, I'm doing a CRUD web app. So if Rails or Phoenix lets me get to market faster with a tested solution, I'm sold. I've even got a talk I used to give about getting Rails to work with a legacy database, which has gotten much easier from the early days.

Now that I'm hiring devs, I do not want to pay them to build a CRUD framework from scratch, I'd rather have them building business logic we can't get off the shelf for free.

But whatever ends up working for you is cool!
> "It doesn't matter how; all their skeletons should be somewhere in the fossil record."

This is false. Most skeletons decompose. Only some happen to end up in the right spot to remain intact long enough to become fossils. Also, these mammoth remains aren't fossilized, they aren't old enough. These are just remains that have been preserved.
Yes. Rust encourages version pinning. You go to "crates.io", and it gives you a specific version number to put in your "cargo.toml" file. Now you're nailed to that version for your program or crate. Crates have their own "cargo.toml" file, with their own versions, and it's quite possible to pull in multiple versions.

Right now, I'm using the latest version of "reqwest" known to "crates.io." It's pulling in Tokio v0.2.23, not the new tokio v1.0.0. No surprise there, the new version only came out yesterday. So we'll see how the new version works at some time in the future.

It's good to get to version 1. The semantic versioning rules allow breaking changes without changing the first digit when the first digit is 0. Typical complaint on forums: "bignum happens to use rand internally, and it happens to only use version 0.5.0, with restrictions against using a higher version due to breaking changes." Rust still has many low-level crates at version 0.x.x, from "bytes" to "uuid". Reaching 1 indicates greater stability.
> They can’t hire people with good ideas anymore because as we know money isn’t a great motivator

This is not entirely true. I have seen excellent people go to Facebook because they gave out the highest offers. Now whether they get people with good ideas is something I don't know.
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I agree. I got like 10 chargers at home and instead use a wireless charger.
> The Hospital Group, which has a long list of celebrity endorsements, has confirmed the ransomware attack.

This isn't a ransomware attack, they're not encrypting the company's drives and demanding a ransom to unencrypt them. Not every "I hacked you now pay me or bad things happen" situation is ransomware.
One important consideration is how you’d get contributors. The vast majority of a language tool’s users would be most proficient in that particular language, and using that same language maximises the project’s sustainability. Tools implemented with a foreign toolchain require a much longer initial runway, and may eventually still die simply due to the small intersection between people who care about the project and and who understand enough to maintain it.
Why not?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboard_Air

They claim up to 9800 feet in altitude, so it seems very likely if anything.
While much of the blame still falls on Apple for pushing developers toward subscriptions in the absence of a straightforward paid-upgrade mechanism, requiring a subscription for an app with no cloud dependencies remains an instant disqualification for me.

It's buying into a promise that your monthly payments are going toward continuous improvement of the product – a promise that might be kept, or might not – and even if it is, for how long? If updates stall out after awhile, or if the new features don't solve anything for you, it's not like you can choose to skip an upgrade. And the more you use the product, the higher the barrier to switching away. I agree, Craft looks lovely, but there's no way I'm locking myself into its business model.

I say this every time, but this is a solved problem. Developers of software like Sketch and Bitwig Studio have the right kind of subscription model, where you subscribe to updates, not access. If you don't care for the latest version, you can let your subscription lapse and keep using the last version you're licensed for. Apple has all the pieces necessary to simply gate App Store updates via subscription, but they apparently have no motivation to do so.
Machine learning algorithm parameters for audio are very different from visual, so it makes sense that advantages can be had from this approach.

The language of music also communicates information which for some reason humans find very meaningful. I don't think we pay enough attention to this faculty.
Those people won’t be excellent for long in a Dead Sea.
The fact that someone would have to Google how to do this is what Windows is lacking.
I built a hackintosh and bought an iPhone after I got tired of those disparities and disconnections. Why can’t Windows just work with Android already?
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Yes, Odyssey feels much more like Mario 64 in that regard. Each level has many moons (like the stars in Mario 64). There’s even one level which is straight out of Mario 64, just expanded and updated.
Rogue 1 is great, how many mainstream movies kill off everyone at the end of the movie - brilliant!
Add to this list of fun uses of comic sans, the Cleveland Cavelliers owner writing an angry open letter in response to LeBron James leaving for Miami.
Amazing. When android application will be available?
For many if not most people, an iPhone's raison d'etre is to connect to these ad driven services. It is annoying that Apple gets a pass because their business is merely selling shovels rather than mining gold.
I bought the Zojirushi thermos bottles per recommendations on the Internet, but found that the silicon seals take on the smell of coffee and/or tea very easily. And once the smell is on them, it's impossible to remove. While Zojirushi does sell spare parts, the cost is usually not worth it.
Thanks for the heads up. It's good to get confirmation that that actually happens. I'd be surprised if it didn't. I'm not too far from implementing my final idea to get profitable bets in. If that (probably as you say) fails, then it was a fun learning experience.
What is not true is your position that the company culture is not responsible anymore at Google.

The company culture at Google was proven by the facts to be responsible not long ago (the refusal to negotiate with China, the refusal to make a contract with the Defense Department), and not enough time or not enough turnover has happened since to justify a change of mindset.

I agree that the culture of a company can change, but that only happens as a result when a lot of the staff change, and that they draw in different demographics for the newcomers (with different values, etc).
> I'm told it's easier to self-learn the guitar

This is false. If you want to strum some chords, then, yes. Guitar's difficulty curve starts out very gentle. But then it quickly gets really, really steep. I self taught classical guitar for a couple of years (after already having played violin for many years), and it's easy to get yourself to the point where it's hard to advance without a teacher. And the harder you push on that knee in the curve by yourself, the more time you'll probably have to spend unlearning bad habits.

Piano's difficulty curve is more even. It starts steeper than guitar, and has a long stretch at about that same slope, before it starts getting steep, too. Compare that to violin which starts basically straight up, but once you get past that initial cliff is fairly gentle for a long, long way.
This might not be around what's asked, but I remember that people in Silicon Valley and around Google had buzzwords like "Social Mobile Cloud" back around ~2010 or ~2012.

https://www.wired.com/insights/2012/05/social-mobile-cloud/

Some people rolled their eyes, maybe including myself at time. (I was never dismissive publicly, but probably didn't pay as much attention as I could have). I would have to say that the buzzword turned out to be pretty accurate: those 3 things largely defined the last decade in terms of software technology, as I see it.

Especially for young people -- there is no world where they don't use some form of social media on their phones (including ones that didn't exist in 2012).

They use cloud applications rather than desktop ones -- that's the "default". Businesses also use cloud infrastructure -- that's the "default".

Lots of money was made in these 3 areas.
I hope they move to Colorado with Palantir and get the fuck out of our community.
I agree. (Edit: to add to this, I've always thought that the third-last episode of Futurama, 'Murder on the Planet Express', was a return to form and reminiscent of the heyday of the show).

On the subject of tv shows, ‘Peep Show’, the British sitcom, also had a very strong final season and final episode.
> It's amazing the overhead the "traditional" or "agency" model brings with software development and how it reduces engineers to developers who just need to execute whatever is decided by people up the chain.

It's a good approach if you can't attract great talent to begin with. You'll pay lower and have a higher head count so costs are about the same.

SV has the talent pool and the compensation to make it attractive to work there.
Very little of it is inspiring unless you think 650bhp in an SUV is interesting.

Depends on where you live. I drive a really small but acceptably fast car, but I'm frequently surrounded by giant lifted trucks that block all visibility. I want a taller vehicle just so I don't die, but don't want to give up the 6 second 0-60.
> I don’t see too much ethical differences between selling users privacy for ads and aggressively taking advantage of the average consumer and trying to lure them more and more into more paid subscriptions (many which they don’t need and also are overpriced, but since it’s a monthly charge it is harder to tell).

If you buy something, you're consciously making a transaction. You're handing money to someone in exchange for a good. In contrast, Facebook entices users to join their platform, and then subtly collects analytics about users through a variety of ways across the internet without any indication that they're there, save for some very subtle fine print.

I don't see how consciously exchanging money is even remotely close to ad-tracking networks. If anything, there should be at least the same level of friction for tracking as there is with a normal transaction -- which is what Apple is doing here.

Yes, Apple is totally motivated to push this, but in a capitalist society, what's your proposed alternative?
As a med student, my ads are 90% ads for Caribbean med schools, nursing schools, and online nurse practitioner degrees that can be completed part time in under a year or two (these are the most worrying).

They target me about as well as a celebrity pitch.
Seriously if I see this show up in me 4 year old out of warranty X3 it will be the last BMW I buy. What marketing numpty thought this was a good idea...
In other words, "I don't mind that my vote carries less weight for as long as the decision-makers happen to share my political views."
Parker definitely mentions her input and discussions they have about these topics in other videos and interviews.
I don't know if this generalizes across the company. They still have brilliant technical people, some of the best ML researchers, have open-sourced increbidly popular and influential frameworks like React and PyTorch. Just because their upper management or their business model might suck doesn't mean that they don't have great people working there.
This is interesting. Would love to see an interview with Dino Ignacio / Deadspace which has a super futuristic in-game UI.
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Sure, but it's still not enough.

FB recruiters are super aggressive and I have zero qualms unloading on them for their BS behavior, every. time. I've asked five (5!) times to be taken off their list and added to a blacklist for candidates and I still get emails, calls, and LinkedIn messages. The first two "buzz-off" messages were polite, but now I'm just downright rude and respond with my actual opinion on their employer (and subsequently what I think about them working for that employer).

Facebook is a bad company that does bad things. If you work there, you're gross.
Do we know much about osteoporosis outside of humans, let alone dinosaurs? Seems to be a bit of a jump.
> I slapped frets on my violin to make the learning curve easier

It's not totally crazy. Fretted, bowed instruments have a long history, such as the viola da gamba. The frets there have more to do with tone than pitch, though.
Graphene? Where is it actually used today?
I am a big fan of musicals and theater, been to a lot of shows living in NYC. I finally saw Hamilton on Disney+ because I could never get tickets for the show or didn't want to drop hundreds of dollars on it. I was worried before watching it that it was going to be over-hyped and I was going to be underwhelmed. I was wrong. It totally lived up to the hype and now i wish I had seen it live. Post-pandemic I might still go see it.

The show that WAS over-hyped and did NOT live up to it for me was Lion King. I saw it back in 2002-ish and was very disappointed. Sure the costumes were cool but the rest of the production was minimal and boring.
Try obsidian.md ?
Parent comment isn't talking about just the people mopping the floors. Why are you resisting giving engineers some credit for spacex's success?
Privacy aligns with Apple’s revenue model (selling hardware) but not with Facebook’s (selling ads). This is the only reason you should have faith that Apple will work to protect your privacy, while Facebook will work to undermine it.
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Keeping data on live hard disks costs quite a bit more than archiving it to tape or DVD and sticking it in a file cabinet.
That was true in the past, but at least for me Steam Proton has completely removed my need to use Windows for games.

It’s a point where you can apply aforementioned anvil (something I frequently make use of) and just not buy/play any game that doesn’t work on linux.
My first comment on HN; I have strong feelings on this topic.

I was specifically taught as a child that zero is neither even nor odd, because zero has no value. I don't think it was confusion or misunderstanding.

Understanding the value of "nothing" or "the opposite of something" is what separates us from most other brained-animals, correct?

I understand there are patterns that can be applied. However, I never once was misserved by that understanding, either through academics or physical life.

Ultimately, it's more upsetting today to try to reset that thought process in my mind. So to me, zero is neither even or odd, and I'm happy with that.
I don't know man?

Running afoul of hunting humans should leave fewer remains than, for instance, an elephant graveyard. Now it's possible mammoths didn't do the graveyard thing, but the point is the humans would have left far less of the animal than an elephant grave or a bog.
Ask HN: Do you know an Obsidian-esque file explorer?
I'm looking for an Obsidian-esque file explorer that works in combination with the Johnny File System.
There needs to be a better way to browse through files without the Windows Explorer. You should be able to tag files/folders and connect/link them together (like in Obsidian). Is there such a tool out there?

References: https://obsidian.md/, https://johnnydecimal.com/
> that if you want to do what Rails is good for, it's going to be super easy, but if you want to do something a little bit different a lot of times it feels like you have to almost break Rails to make it work.

I feel like this is implicit in the name: these are the guide rails, stay on them and you will deliver more value in less time than you ever have before. If you need to do anything where you have to leave them, you have deRailed the whole thing.

The train metaphor is actually a pretty good one.
This isn't the end of facebook. These privacy changes will affect all social networks and they all run a free membership model. It will certainly change their profitability but facebook is earning so much money there's a long way to go before this becomes an existential problem. If anything these new changes might eliminate some of facebook's competitors because they will have a much harder time to grow their user base without the additional revenue from spying on their users.
Whew. If true, that is quite a fall pretty quickly from a world where they owned a lot of the market.
Fitbit has these data already, in arguably more vulnerable places...

Your concern is legit, but then the whole concept of connected wearables should be avoided.
Also, ad loading causes the page to shift around all the time while you're reading it. Many big sites have become unusable because of this.

I should point out WeTransfer here for doing the opposite. Their background ads are full screen, often video, and don't distract from what you're trying to do (upload a file). Nicely done.
Again, that’s only good for extortion. Only worth tens of thousands if you’re going to sell them.
At least they used to try to be look a very precise, very german, drivers car. They stuck with rear wheel drive, and used fantastic inline 6 engines until CAFE regulations pretty much made them unfeasible. They lost me and become a marketing company when the model names started being what i would call “un-german”. With the model, you used to know what you got. 325t? 3 series, 2.5l displacement, has a turbo. 540ci? 5 series, 4.0l, coupe. Sometimes in 2007-2011 timeframe, the number no longer corresponded to what the vehicle was. 330 was a 2.0l turbo, 335 was a 3.0l turbo... they just couldn't put smaller numbers on the model. Thats marketing, thats not what I want in my very precise driving machine. Its been a downhill slide ever since. But thats what the masses want and buy... so whatever. Also they dont make a manual M5 anymore, ultimate driving machine my ass. Their maintenance has always been a gate-kept rip off though.
Thanks! That helps, and JzAzBz is complex when it comes to calculations.
It's just some armchair redditor trying to gloat about how scientists are incapable of sexing animals and doesn't consider the chance that behavior can lead to death that preserves the body.
I'm a music producer and the FabFilter Pro-Q3 equalizer plugin has THE most refined, intuitive, and quick user interface I've ever experienced. They've taken the most frequently-used audio tool and found a way to really let you fly with it.

https://www.fabfilter.com/products/pro-q-3-equalizer-plug-in

Upon opening, it displays an empty field with a live frequency readout of the sound on the channel. You can click anywhere in the frequency range and it generates an EQ/filter node underneath your mouse. It's as easy as thinking about the aspect of the sound that you want to alter, and immediately having your tone-shaping underneath your fingers. You reach out and grab it.

It's most-used features (gain, frequency, Q) are all changed by dragging the node or a modifier key (Cmd). These can all be done simultaneously in what feels like a unified gesture. The default filter type is context-dependent, based on where I grab on the spectrum. So if I grab a new node in the sub-bass frequencies it will automatically provide me a high-pass filter to start filtering all unwanted low-end. Ditto for the top-end, shelving filters, etc.

The fine-controls all appear in a secondary window just beneath your mouse that follows the filter node with you as you drag it, so you won't find yourself moving back and forth across the entire screen to tweak controls. When you click on another node the fine-controls appear nearby and the controls for the first node disappear, keeping the GUI empty and very easy to read.

These features may seem simple and obvious now that I've explained them, but an EQ is easily the most-used tool in my toolbox, and FabFilter's design choices have made the process quicker, easier, and far more intuitive than any other interface out there. It really puts a lot of pleasure back into the process that would be reduced fighting with inferior interfaces.

For comparison, most software EQs are either skeumorphic to resemble classic hardware EQs like this:

https://www.uaudio.com/uad-plugins/equalizers/pultec-passive...

or a hopelessly cramped and slow panel with every available parameter on display:

https://www.waves.com/plugins/h-eq-hybrid-equalizer#h-eq-hyb...

I cannot praise FabFilter enough for the elegance, flexibility, and musicality of their products.
You got me interested, What controllers does stadia support?
They're not using cryptography, but aren't they demanding ransom? Is the use of cryptography an essential part of what it means for something to be ransomware, or is it merely a common implementation detail?
I have learnt many lessons from Harry Potter and consider them real. The beautiful scene of Death and the Three Brothers [1][2] has so much to teach us.

[1]https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Death_(The_Tale_of_the_T...

[2]https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Three_Br...
Thanks for the tip! I need a good holiday game. (I just tried Baldur's Gate 3 and my system isn't good enough because it crashed three times in 30 minutes... got a refund tho)

> The game is much more solo friendly

Music to my ears. I don't have a gaming posse anymore and need more flexible play hours due to family. Downloading now...!
The entire industry is slowly moving in this direction. What do you do when there isn't a competitor that meets your needs?
Love this.
Once while studying the uses of programming font preferences on Hackernews (http://www.highdimensionalcoconuts.com/Work/FontResearch/pro...), I found a single vote for Comic Sans. The motivation: “to remind me to be humble”.
I really appreciated the sentiment, though the kerning on Comic Sans makes this a visual nightmare for programming. Having a monospaced variant is a nice feature for programmers.
One significant difference is automatic back linking (bi-directional linking). Craft looks a bit like Notion but it has some of the functionality of Roam and Obsidian. Plus, decent native apps, which Notion and the others lack.
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Why does everybody keep data hanging around forever? It's easier. You don't have to think about it. Just keep kicking the files onto new media every few years / at a new server refresh.

I did some IT work for a plastic surgery practice in the US many years ago. I was adding some storage to an existing server. I was shocked to see that the practice was keeping all their before / after photos online going back years. Not encrypted. Hanging out in Windows file shares with lax permissions.

It certainly gave me pause.

Maybe some software providers in this space will think about handling this better.
These systems are created for some intent by humans. Studying the ethics of AI is really thinking about the ethical issues surrounding the practice of implementing AI systems.

Ethical reflection on the intent and impact of the systems one builds is not mandatory in our field (it is for other professions) but probably still a good thing to consider if you want your contribute to society to be a positive one. Taking time to think about this stuff in a MOOC sounds like one way of avoiding doing that thinking alone and without the input of society.
Sounds like a good excuse to pull out the ol' SOIC clip.

https://wiki.mrchromebox.tech/Unbricking