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I think it's (perversely?) a credit to HN's design that so many people never discover all of its features.

The core functionality is front and center, easy to find and use, so the extras don't get in the way.

(Having said that, the difficulty of tapping the correct up/down arrow for upvoting and downvoting on tiny phone screens continues to be a real sore spot.)
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> just Steam and regulate Valve

Welcome to the world where you can only use government approved software!
I think having a mercenary-like attitude is just as bad as naively sacrificing your time for the company. Why can't there be a middle ground?
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9.9.9.9 is supposed to have a filter against malware, phishing and exploit websites. That’s supposed to be its unique selling point.
Personally I come from Common Lisp world, so can't say much about other Lisps tooling. In CL I just mainly use couple of different implementations, whatever might suit for the job best. Mainly SBCL with some CCL and ECL thrown in there. Library-wise not much out of the ordinary. Either just built-in tools or maybe some usage of the most common libraries like alexandria (basic utils), cl-ppcre (regex), uiop (OS stuff), usocket (sockets), bordeaux-threads (threads), Closer-MOP (meta-object protocol) and some web tools like Clack with Hunchentoot or Woo etc. So nothing really out of the ordinary in CL.

The language spec of Common Lisp is pretty large (not necessarily a good thing) so the built-in libraries offer a lot so you don't necessarily need much third-party libraries. Issue with this along side the size of the spec is the fact that the spec is old, so it's missing some crucial stuff from it like threading etc. in which these third party libraries comes in handy.
Gasoline is 12,000Wh/kg.
Lol. The art is not dead. It has simply moved on from ancient forms. Nobody's mind is being changed by editorials in some paper-and-ink newspaper. Minds are changed through social media. The skill now isn't about formulated argument. It is about subtle pushes delivered through a variety of means. Want grandma to change her mind about politics? Don't send her a well-reasoned letter. Manipulate her social media feeds. Hit her with targeted adds/messages from apparently like-minded people. Manufacture something that she fears that will draw her to where you want her to move. The art of persuasion isn't dead. It is just now operating on a wider playing field and softer rulebook.
There are many different "athletic" body types. A distance runner doesn't look like a rugby player. There are some athletes in certain sports who have an "obese" BMI while maintaining low body fat but those are a tiny fraction of the population. (Most people underestimate their body fat percentage.)

BMI is accurate enough for a general population risk screening tool. We aren't dealing with precise numbers here anyway, just approximate ranges with significant differences between the results of various research studies.

On an individual level excess body fat is a critical risk factor for COVID-19.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430889/
When things work that way, then great!

But a number of high-profile publishers (Rockstar, Ubisoft, EA) force you to use their app platform even if you purchased the game on Steam. I bought Far Cry 5 on Steam, and running it first launches Ubisoft's launcher, which usually needs to update (why????), then I can launch the game. GTA Online freebie in Epic Store, first has to start Rockstar Social Club (which also usually needs to update), then finally runs the game. FIFA on Steam forces Origin, and so on.

It's a lot easier to deal with if you use a game launcher like Playnite, or should I say a launcher launcher, but with the rigarmarole you have to go through just to start one game suddenly your launcher launcher is now a launcher launcher launcher.
I think what he's trying to say is that instead of doing this:

L > > > C < < < R

Media outlets are focusing more on this:

L < < < C > > > R

But you're right, it's still persuasion.

It was all explained during the superbowl man.
Agree 100%.
Submodules should be instead be implemented through auto-published library semver jars which are auto-incremented.
Picking better names for variables, functions, and projects
H-2B Visas: The Complex Process for Nonagricultural Employers to Hire Workers
Would be awesome if this supported SVG for better accessibility/making code copyable!
Yeah popped up in our Slack community. Seems to be handy to embed it into READMEs?!
You don't delegate everything to a single person, you delegate the parts to the person best fit to do it.

And no, delegating a lot of those tasks doesn't mean that you as a manager have nothing to do. Instead you can spend 20% time doing management tasks and 80% time coding. Each person in the team sharing the "management" burden makes it pretty manageable. (it isn't really management to coordinate with other teams or present to people etc though, no reason you should have a bus factor of 1 for that role)
In my case, permanent unread counter.
Food exclusives aren’t that much a thing. Sure, I can’t buy Good & Gather or Up & Up (Target brands) at Walmart, but Up & Up napkins work just as well as Great Value (Walmart) napkins. An Epic exclusive requires the Epic Store. Maybe for things like flashlight apps or Flappy Bird clones you’d be easily able to find a version on your favorite store, but AAA games are different. For example, if GTA VI (whenever it comes out) is an Epic exclusive, I’m not finding a GTA VI copy of the same caliber on Steam.
Vaccines can have negative side effects, some of which take a while to show up. Can you imagine how much trust would be lost in vaccines if there were some serious side effects that started showing up months later? It would be a disaster that would ultimately kill way more people than the coronavirus.
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This is short-sighted.

The App Store is good because it is closed and curated. That's a main driver of the product experience. Removing the App Store irrecoverably damages the iPhone - a curated, non-malware infested, high quality phone with a consistent experience.

I have yet to see any argument how the App Store harms consumers. It helps developers make more money (Play Store revenue is half that of the App store's apps), it helps consumers stay protected from malware infested applications and is easy to use.

Where, exactly, is the harm? Now Epic with their gambling games will be able to rip off kids even more in their own store? Fantastic.
And? They don't know any different or better, we don't make policy on anything based on people like that.

As I've said elsewhere, this is about tail risk not tomorrow.
The British HNers skew left. Boris Johnson could personally cure cancer and they would complain about the oncologists that would become unemployed.
> And if AWS hikes rates (or reduces discounts) on you once their algorithmic AI determines your switching cost exceeds the rate hike?

> "Oh they would NEVER do that"

Interestingly, what you insinuate is exactly the opposite of actual reality when you look at what has happened over the years: things have gotten CHEAPER.

Off the top of my head:

- Lambdas are now billed per 1ms instead of per 100ms which will be a significant cost reduction for everyone using Lambda

- EKS started at $200 / month for the cluster and is now at ~$72 / month

- Each bump in EC2 instance generation is always cheaper for the same or more performance

- DynamoDB added on-demand capacity which is at face value more expensive, but allows you to scale to 0 and will usually result in an overall cost reduction

- This December they announced GP3 which can scale storage and IOPS independently allowing you to much cheaper scale up your needs for more IOPS without paying for TBs of unused storage

and probably many many more.
I would note here that "consider" is not "supposed to". It's a suggestion that might help clean your lists, not a requirement.

Also, as someone whose mail client doesn't load external resources for privacy reasons, I'd be annoyed if you unsubscribed me because you weren't tracking my reading. However, an occasional confirmation (say, once or twice a year) as they suggest would be just fine. You could even restrict those to just those subscribers who do not trigger the tracker.
There are multiple argument in this case and it seems everyone are mixing things up. Like Multiple App Store, and 30% cut are different issues. There are people who simply want to access to iPhone without going through Apple. Which is currently the Jury, Judge and executioner. Cutting the 30% you would still have to go through Apple.
> 450C is very hot

Indeed.

> sure you mean

Yes I mean it. For a good Neapolitan pizza, yes you want 450C, C for degrees Celsius. Or around 850F

Or even a bit higher: "Ultra-High Heat 500˚C (900F) - the temperature you need for crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside perfect crusts." https://uk.ooni.com/
FYI, it only really reaches 500C at the back corner, the stone is closer to 450C at the centre.

Yes, a regular home kitchen oven can't reach that: mine tops our at 300C, as long as you don't open the door and put something in. Then it's more like 250C

That's why it's good to have a specialised oven, either a brick and cement dome, or a "portable" Rocbox or Ooni.
A home oven just can't make a good Neapolitan pizza because it doesn't go hot enough.
The point is not if Switzerland is better than the US or Saudi Arabia. What is crucial is sovereignty: giving away all EU dns requests to the US by using google public dns or cloudflare is a huge loss of sovereignty for EU countries. The American government would never accept, say, if Chrome were to send American DNS queries to a non-US entity by default. EU countries shouldn’t accept that either.
Any email tracking is user hostile. You don't need to know when or if I've opened an email for exactly the same reason nobody gets to know when or if I open traditional paper mail. It's a fundamental privacy issue and it is user hostile regardless of your noble intentions. It's not my job to make your job easier in this regard.
This is interesting to me, because you hear the same thing when discussing Japanese vs American culture, with the Americans being the more direct ones in that comparison.

I wonder what happens when Israelis work with Japanese people.
According to modern painting theory, photography is just one more technique that painters can use to put colors on the canvas. This is not a fringe use of the word "painting", but part of its definition since at least 50 years ago.
tried fish for some time for the implicit completion but the otherwise excotic nature of the shell has caused me enough headaces to revert to bash and live with C-R
Yes, it does: https://muspy.com/
>We definitely go through life trying to avoid damaging our bodies.

Depends on your risk tolerance.

Some people are agoraphobics, while others are BASE jumpers.
Many standalone downloads in fact come with the publisher app store. Thay must runs in order to start the game. The end result is the same. And the store will update the game anyways, often re-downloading the equivalent of half the game (we are talking 50GB scale here).

Sometimes you can use another publisher app store. Which will in fact start another app store upon starting the game. In turn starting the game. And the game itself will also ask you for a game studio account. So you need 2 app store and 3 account to play the game. And I am talking about single player game here.
Another HN today is talking about tracking pixels in newsletter mails so the sender can evaluate effectiveness.

I bet a general mail-rss bridge with many subscribers would make them sad.
> It is ridiculous right to have a radio or TV device put artificial limits,

I take it you then also demand that Sirius and Comcast broadcast anyone who brings them any old content, then? Everything should public access?

For that matter, terrestrial radio stations also must broadcast the End is Nigh clapboard kooks, too, right?
Anyone using Dask (dask.org)?
If you're looking for this, but with an API, I built https://sourcecodeshots.com to power syntax highlighting and Open Graph images of code for https://essay.dev.

I initially used carbon.now.sh, but they don't have an API, and the community-provided API is pretty slow because it uses a headless browser to generate the image.

Source Code Shots uses VSCode's syntax-highlighting engine, so the highlighting is about as good as you can get and I can fully support a lot of languages that CodeMirror or Highlight.js haven't gotten to.

The docs, https://sourcecodeshots.com/docs, have plenty of examples of how to use it as an API. You can email me at daniel@onegraph.com if there's something you need that it doesn't support.
Let's start with the obvious issue: Apple does not sell the most phones. It does not have the most phones on offer. It is not a majority, let alone a monopoly.

Now the less obvious issue: I like what apple does and I am prepared to pay for it.

I agree with those arguing for consumer choice, but I come to the exact opposite conclusion, and find those others hypocritical. I want an option to have a locked down environment. I want to have the choice to buy an Apple product. Given the choice between the Android system or the Apple system, I choose Apple. More people choose Android.

The argument that we should use "consumer choice" to remove this choice from me, and instead to demand that every business must make the world look like Android users want, is not logical.
Why is this always trotted out as a counterargument when other countries manage to successfully write legislature around hate speech (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Canada). The only 2 choices aren't all speech is unregulated and tyrrany. Hell, even in the US you can't yell fire in a crowded theater & the First Amendment doesn't say "except in cases the speech might cause mass panic or loss of life".
I understand that, but similarly to cloudflare/nextdns they could just provide unfiltered anycast service (with DNSSEC).
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GDP is a very questionable metric. Burn down your house, buy a new one and you have contributed a great deal to the GDP of your nation. If a cat. 5 hurricane makes landfall and destroys thousands of homes which have to be rebuilt, the GDP increases. That way a little bit of global warming raises the GDP (of industrial nations).
That's not really an argument against paper catalogs specifically, it looks more like an argument against consumerism in general.

But taken to the logical conclusion, that argument can look rather hypocritical, for example why is the discussion about paper vs electronic catalogs for buying furniture and not about why we even need beds and chairs to begin with, while people in japan are fine w/ futons[0] and kotatsu[1]?

One can take the argument to extremes and argue that amazonian forests burning in Brazil are partly due to you and I existing and needing to eat and wanting to have kids who need to be fed.

It's clearly a slippery slope, and if one draws the moral line to make others bad, while conveniently claiming to be "kosher" themselves, that's not really a convincing line.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu
Both of your analogies are flawed.

1. Huawei, in your example, didn't create the radio station platform. We're not talking about publicly accessible platforms, we're talking about a app platform that Apple created, cultivated, and maintains 100%.

2. Again, this analogy has the same issue. Apple doesn't own the entire internet. If Apple started blocking websites, that would be wrong because those websites existed and continue to exist without Apple. The App Store does not have that same providence and was 100% created by Apple.

No one ever said that you have to have 50% + 1 market share so I don't know where you're getting that from. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Amazon, Google... all these companies own the marketplaces for their devices. This is not illegal and there is precedent protecting it.
It seems what you are describing is manipulation, not persuasion. The outcome is the same but at least in my mind persuasion means to have a good faith argument.
http timeouts, but https and gopher both work for me:

https://forthworks.com/retro

gopher://forthworks.com/1/retro
Google has a pretty chill work culture where I think a lot of people work < 40 hour weeks.

Most don't advertise this widely, for obvious reasons, but you see it mentioned occasionally in places like HN, or tech-focused subreddits.
What the author said was a typical challenge in big enough company. Big companies over hire as time goes by, and the number of teams eventually outgrows the quantity of work. As a result, you have meetings all day to align, to coordinate, and to drive. The bigger an organization is, the more you hear about such phrases, and the more time you spend in meetings. BTW, I dare you to take away those meetings - so many people need those meetings to "assert influence", to get visibility, and to be promoted. In a large organization, people focus on Produktionsverhältnisse, aka relation of production, instead of production itself.

This is also why the Bay Area is a truly great place to live in. So many small companies are there for us to choose. They move fast yet have reasonable work-life balance. They offer great financial perspective too, which can be far better than big companies if one's lucky.

Of course, I'm not saying big companies are all bad. Indeed, some people are great at navigating company dynamics. They build solid relationship in a complex environment. They make things happen despite bureaucracy. They lead multiple teams to achieve impossibles. They cut through red tapes like hot knife cutting through butter. They build a company to last.

So, the real question one should ask is: which type of person am I?
> IE, Torrie/Boris corruption is the only topic.

Only because he's so enthusiastic and shameless about it. Open corruption is corrosive in a democracy, they deserve to be hit on the head with it until they stop.

And there's no point lamenting these poor (!) tories. If you were around when a bunch of ministers and high-ranking politicians were sacked, some of them thrown in jail, for using public funds for their benefits, you know they did not get away with it. Both media and public opinion were relentless, and that was under New Labour. And the sums were much, much smaller than these phony contracts to old mates.
> Insiderism exists. It existed yesterday, last year.

I'm guessing you're not living in Britain? The last few years have been on a different scale entirely. We've had to get used to a government that delivers contracts free of tender to shell companies owned by friends and donors that fail to deliver and don't even pretend to be legit (have you heard the one about the "ferry company" that thinks it's a takeaway restaurant?), while on the other hand openly jeering and mocking such causes as health worker pay.

In such light, tell me how you would expect "New project, £X hundred million initial fund, will use novel legislation to remove public oversight" to be received. It's not rocket science to work out that if you want people to be grateful instead of angry and you're a cabinet with a documented history of lying and corruption, just remove the last clause.

I appreciate the faith in progress, but in honesty, our legs are being peed on from a high height while you're in here nobly suggesting it could be raining.
Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
I'm pretty sure on the Play Store, only games are required to use Google's payment method. (Others can optionally choose to of course.)

On iOS though, apps need to use Apple's payment system for any digital good. Unless you're an Amazon Prime member renting a video.
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>I should not be forced to say pay Apple a tax for shit like soem subscriptions or books I sell from my app

If you're selling them from within the app, you're making use of Apple's payment and subscription infrastructure and the customer base of iOS. Those things are not free.
Likely more than you ever wanted to know on the topic: https://benjaminreinhardt.com/wddw

A couple things I'd pull out:

Program managers sit limited terms to prevent empire building

Program managers have a great deal of autonomy once funding is initially allocated

DARPA has a high appetite for risk. They're ok with 90% of projects failing to hit their goal.
> everything has to come from Apple’s app store?

See SetApp for MacOS and for iOS:

- https://setapp.com/

- https://setapp.com/how-it-works
>I make $15/hr

This is a dishonest statement.
> I think his derision of entitled ladder-climbing employees is valid from the perspective of someone who sees "building something valuable" as the point of employment.

Call me cynical and jaded, but I don't believe "building something valuable" is the point of employment.

"Building something valuable" is the point of my vocation. I used to believe that the employment and vocation should align. Over the course of more than 20 years of my professional career, the vast majority of the employers I've had have done their best to disabuse me of that notion.

The way I see it, the point of employment is to ensure you have the money and the benefits you need to live comfortably. If your employment and your vocation align, it's a nice bonus. If they don't, do what you're passionate about in your free time.

> Many hackers want to both provide the best possible life for their families and participate in a grand adventure of changing the world by creating something people want.

If you can get that, it's awesome. But if you can't, then you have to choose. And I know what I'm choosing.
These are not coherent reasons why it would be different, they are assertions that you think it would be. None of them even speak to any difference between the platforms.

Just saying that it will be isn't a reason. None of this has happened. Every attempt at doing this has failed horribly. Most users are not technically capable enough to even go about installing an alternative store.

Why, given that this has not happened in the case of the leading mobile platform, and in fact all attempts to even mildly break with the play store have been resounding failures, would iOS be any different?
Right, the equivalent folklore saying about selling options is "picking up pennies in front of a steam roller". Looks like the plaintiff got steam rolled.

Sore loser it seems, but it's hard to judge the merit of a case without seeing the details.
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Optimize for consistency to overcome your brain’s inertia in creating new habits
Superbowl? Reference?
>The "post-pc" world suggested by Apple/Jobs never materialized.

Clearly, it was in Apple's interest to emphasize the ascendance of mobile where they were strong vs. the PC where Microsoft was. I doubt Jobs thought desktops/laptops were going away, just that they'd become a less important part of the landscape--and that's almost certainly true among consumers as a whole.
Seems like a lot of folks wanna have SVG support. We’ll take a look on how to support it. Do I understand it correctly that this is better to add it to a README?
> Minds are changed through social media.

Respectfully disagree. I think minds are being changed by news sources and real-life experiences, and social media is reinforcing the views of each tribe.