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> have empathy and keep coding.

This.

I worked for a company that didn't encourage managers to be technical. In fact, they sometimes deliberately interfered with my efforts to remain technically relevant. They really lost some good stuff, that way. I'm no tech slouch.

Luckily, I didn't have a "shower clause" in my employment contract, so I did a lot of open-source work, in order to remain relevant.

They directly benefitted from that; though they would never admit it.

So did thousands of others. I did work for NPOs, and the work I did went towards a lot of lifesaving stuff.

The "empathy" part is every bit as important. It pays huge dividends, as a manager. It needs to be real empathy, though; not the two-faced kind that only appears when someone's watching.
it's not consumed as text
Too many MBAs ruining companies, Musk
"managing up can be an effective way to protect your autonomy at work" This is everything.
I'm sure every company already has infrastructure for distributing digital resources over the internet, nothing more is needed unless someone builds a toll road into their platform.
QMK is only one repository I ever spend time working with, and it has some submodules. I find it annoying that they must be pulled each time I switch branches. Should I look into changing them so that they at least point to a repository on my local machine instead of having to re-download from GitHub each time I want to create a new branch? Is that possible, and does anyone else do it?
I think it's great to have a record of all my vaccines accessible online, and knowing that my doctor knows, and that researchers may have access to looking at say vaccinations and harmful effects. It is also nice for the children that someone keeps track of which vaccines they've got and can pick up those who missed a vaccine for some reason.

> All vaccinations are subject to notification to SYSVAK, and shall be registered without consent.

https://www.fhi.no/en/hn/health-registries/norwegian-immunis...
So, to be clear, there's no successful antitrust prosecution of Apple under EU law, nor one that relates to iOS or the App Store.

On the other hand, there is a €4.34bn fine for Google for market abuses relating to bundling of Google services in Android, as well as a €2.4bn fine for favoring Google Shopping in its search product, and a €1.4bn fine for abusive practices in Google AdSense.
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I avoid being a persistent fanboy/hater toward any company, and try to consider each case on its merits. Some of the concerns regarding multiple app stores on the device (which raises issues of security, privacy, and even storage space) are valid. But they fail to address a huge problem: Apple's draconian policy on in-app purchases. If IAP were to be opened up and become more competitive, I might stick with Apple's just for security and convenience, but the alternatives would be there, and I personally wouldn't mind a lack of alternative app stores.

Edit: to clarify, I'm saying I wouldn't mind having one app store if Apple's stranglehold on IAP could be relaxed (whether by choice or by law).

Another edit: Apple could also allow one-off sideloading, but not allow an app to install other apps (i.e. become a separate app store). This would be a win-win for consumers. Assuming that's who everyone cares about, of course.
The designer behind Paper (by FiftyThree) is calling for an end to minimalism
They are very good at minimizing packaging. Also, my kids use my IKEA dresser that I had when I was younger, bought in 1989. I had to replace the rails and a few of the knobs, but it's still in fantastic shape even after going through several changes of residence.

Just throwing this out there -- it's not like all of this stuff is ending in the trash. This dresser is over 30 years old now.
Do any email clients do the opposite and just download and save all images by default? This would allow your email client to render every email as intended, but would give no useful information to the tracking service.
A lack of any real time pressure may lead to unusual or unjustifiable architecture decisions, or needless complexity. It's true that not every place needs to be a meat grinder, but you should timebox your projects.
Big Tech opens wallet for publishers as Australian news code looms
The generic term "abuse" would have been more precise, and I have used it elsethread. However, it is common for these incidents to take the form of sexual assault: see Harvey Weinstein, Les Moonves, etc. In any case, "voluntary exchange" is a spectacularly inapt way to characterize sexual coercion by entertainment industry executives.
“Putting effort into helping low performers improve or find better fitting roles” is called “leadership.”

It’s mind-blowing that you see a 6 month investment in just doing basic leadership 101 as a massive bureaucratic hassle. I think it’s safe to say that the low performer you’re referring to is not actually the real problem.
Outperform on what?

Different structures yield different results. Venture backed startups produce results different to internal R&D departments, for example. Open source/open culture projects yield different results than typical startups.

I don't think a VC fund would have invented the internet, not in the 60s. I don't think the worldwideweb could have been invented by a typical corporation. If it had been, it would have been more like facebook than the www. America Online and others were attempts at a proprietary FB-esque www. The web would have been different if they won. Linux is different from Windows. Different types of organisations make different kinds of things. If we only have one type of organisation, we limit the possible outcomes.

The vast majority of current VC success stories are neither here nor there in terms of public benefit. The next tiktok is a great return for VCs, but consumers are not likely to lack for social networking innovations either way. I think this is a sign of overinvestment in one category. They're fighting over the pie, more often that baking it now. This wasn't the case circa 2005.

Funding structure and organisational structure are kind of similar for these purposes.

Tesla's uniqueness is another case in point. Musk funded it himself. There isn't really a type of financing, besides self financing, that could have done that. Banks and hedge funds don't want high risk projects. VCs don't want projects that require lots of funding once successful. Despite being a superstar CEO, Musk's initial investment diluted him from 100% to nearly 0 at one point. Technically, the shares that he owns were earned back as CEO performance bonus. Not attractive to a VC... compared to a facebook.

I doubt that Tesla is the only such project possible, technically. Funding structures just make it less likely.

In much of the west (UK certainly), our economies have gotten very intangible. Software, Banking, financing, entertainment, patentable tech. Some of this is because the world presents those opportunities. Some of it is because of financial structures. We have bigger/better financing structures for some things more than others.

Silicon Valley developed a unique economy based on a pretty unique web of financiers, angels and VCs.

All that said, I have no idea if this agency is good/useful. Sounds dubious, honestly.
Reddit removed 6% of content on its platform in 2020
Of course, thank you for it.
What line of work are you in, if you don't mind me asking?
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>could have reasonably been a data center or scientific supercomputer instead.

Which would have been used for what? Supercomputer centers are having difficulty selling their cpu cycles. A data center for what? Figuring out how to better serve ads?
I gave mine to some relatives.
So Apple allows Epic to put their store on iOS, but of course has to allow anyone to put their Store on iOS since otherwise it wouldn't be competitive. What about when Facebook makes Facebook its own marketplace, and the apps it distributes bypass the IDFA and track users without the popup, and of course don't have a privacy nutrition label? What about the hundreds of other $adtech companies bootstrapping their privacy-invasive, scam, and malicious apps (think 'your phone has a virus, call apple support' scams), is that not bad for the consumer?

Surely we can just apply the Windows argument of "well they should get antivirus software and stop browsing shady sites" and go about our day having improved the landscape for the tech-literate, while having increased the risk other people take on by using their phone if they don't know the first thing about ensuring the apps they download are safe or privacy-preserving. That's why people buy iPhone - you literally do not have to worry about malicious App Store apps.
If sender reputation is tracked that way, maybe reporter reputation should be tracked the same way. If someone reports a legitimate confirmation mail that they signed up for, as spam, then it's the spam report that shouldn't be taken seriously.

Overeagerly classifying legitimate email that someone subscribed to as spam is no better than classifying spam as legitimate. Especially on a system like GMail where one person's incorrect classification would lead to other people not receiving their subscriptions in their normal mailbox.
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Tell that to Restoration Hardware (RH).
You may have but the rest of the world did so with a lot of hand-wringing and a boatload of viruses, toolbars, malware, and everything else.

As someone who has worked in IT and in tech support, I get and agree with what Apple has done.
I know someone who signed up at 42. They ended up getting a full ride to medical school (in the army)
> You install those yourself you know. I'd rather have a choice than not.

yes and No. When some games are "exclusives" to a certain store, if you want to play such games you end up having to install every store in existence which is not very consumer friendly. It would be better for stores to have every game possible, just like at the time of good old physical retail. It's not like there were Wallmart exclusive games, right?

But to be fair, devs are almost as much to blame as store owners for this situation.
Reddit’s transparency report: big spam problem and few government requests
If we are to take your assertion and those sentences at face value then the article title and hook is false. It is not about running a home server. It is about padding his resume and skills for providing services for pay at a corporation. It has nothing to do with running a home server. Perhaps a better title would be, "How to practice paid work (that's irrelevant at home) at home".
Remotely Exploitable 0day in Internet Explorer Gets a Free Micropatch
C can bitrot too, especially academic C. A few things I’ve seen are missing headers, builds that only ever worked with what the prof had in /usr/local, conventions that become warnings that become errors (500 invocations of strcpy!), and “beginner” stuff like assuming int’s size or that you can poke hard-coded memory ranges. I do think both languages will be better than Python over decadal time scales.
Really varies on the company and where you live. Where I am, unless you’re at a select few companies, you’ll barely make ends meet or have to choose to live a particularly subpar lifestyle for a professional.
A trivial point, but I don't see that anyone's made it yet: one reason it's easier to report spam than to unsubscribe is that the UX for reporting spam is a lot better in Gmail.

If I want to politely unsubscribe from a newsletter I have to: switch from the keyboard to the mouse, hunt for the link in the email and click it, switch contexts to the browser tab it opens, hunt for the primary action on the page, figure out whether that action will confirm the unsubscribe, or whether clicking the button will sneakily re-subscribe me, and then close the tab.

On the other hand, if I report it as spam, I just press "!" one time and (in theory) I'll never see its ilk again.

Reporting something as spam is such a clean experience that I'm trained to use it for things it wasn't meant for, like unsubscribing from a legitimate newsletter. I suspect that this is true for other users as well!
> The current UK government has a blacklist of left wing journalists who they won’t respond to freedom of information act requests

Source?

Also, isn't it illegal to not respond to valid FOI requests? Otherwise wouldn't that defy the whole point of FOI?
I thought so. At 20 I used to go out dancing every night for fun. After being repeatedly groped I decided I should get paid for dancing. It was a perfect decision. But not for the money. The thing is it's not the 'getting literally fucked' that is bad. It's that when you choose that as a way to avoid starving their is a social cost: You are a fucking dirty whore. And it follows you the rest of your life. I became a sex worker activist because in Toronto being a stripper/sex worker meant no protection from the law (if cops found you doing a lap dance or on the street they arrest you if you don't give them a hand job (stripper) blow job (hooker).
> Fake internet points (clickable, often animated icons with incrementing numbers. Likes, reactions, upvotes, retweets, etc.). This creates ADDICTION.

Sounds like the HN karma system ;-)
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Go ahead, there are plenty of startups that will gladly own you in exchange for some breadcrumb percentage of the company. The rest of us have balanced lives to tend to.
Not really. It would be perfectly possible to have just one store offering multiple repos/curations etc. .
And in any case "but having like three stores" is an annoyance at worst. Having one grand holy arbiter of truth is a bigger problem.
It's unclear whether you can sustain permanent damage, and be asymptomatic.

We definitely go through life trying to avoid damaging our bodies.
This is an eternal struggle in design but it bothers me that the highlighted designs look so boring or cheap.
> Hypothetical: if you modify the software in a Tesla, and your modification allows a hacker to remote control it, and this power is used to commit vehicular homicide, how much of the burden of responsibility do you have?

Hypothetically: a friend borrows your car, but you didn't fix the break fluid leak, and he runs over someone.

Who's at fault?

> With regards to phones however, I explicitly want the devices heavily locked down by law, to the extent that other people should not be allowed to put random software on them

that's the definition of a phone.

IMO Apple is to blame for creating the "smart" phones that can run arbitrary software.

They have created the problem that they are allegedly fixing by imposing walled garden on their users.

It is like handing guns to kids and then locking them up in their rooms so they are safe.
Idk about you but I’ve been sideloading apps for years on my iPhone. There’s an entire subreddit for it if you’re really that interested.
You mean like for purchasing a tesla?
no that doesn't seem like the reason, India has more languages than Europe and Europe has mainly two writing systems Cyrillic and Latin while India has a lot more. If India can do it with such low resources, so can Europe.

In my opinion, China and Russia have their own ecosystems because of the language barrier and the physical firewall that their respective governments have put in. India is able to build its own eco system because it has got the fundamentals right, it probably is the only country which broke the Master Card and Visa duopoly allowing local vendors to slash costs by a good margin. I already see a lot of Apps which might pose a threat to the likes of Google in the coming decade(if they are not bought over) but in the long run, I don't see India having a separate ecosystem, India and it's way of thinking is more like the west than it seems to be and it will eventually merge in with larger western ecosystem.
thanks I will try your style receipt. it's fascinating to see how these things effects one emotionally.
I can’t tell my 12 year old stepson to stop playing fortnite because it’s a large part of his social life in connecting with family on another continent. At the same time, he has spent nearly every dollar that has come
his way in the last 8 months on the game, talks about it all the time, watches youtube videos when he can’t play Switch, etc...

I am happy he has a medium to socialize but the anxiety he gets from this machine is intense.

I generally advocate for users rights, but I am siding with Apple on this one. There is no monopoly - Epic has many (mobile) platforms to distribute their games/platform, including switch and android, that I can’t imagine the EU sides with them - especially in europe where iPhones don’t constitute the same market share.

However, what I would advocate for is a possibility for officially rooting your iPhone (with lots of big scary messages along the way) and mutual app store exclusion.

If Epic wants to run their own app store, great, but I don’t believe Apple should be obligated to make it comfortable.
Definitely a great tool. I used to use it but now mostly use the Newsblur native version of this feature. I blogged about my specific stack for reading newsletters because it takes a surprising amount of configuration to read newsletters in a streamlined way. Once you get a Gmail filter set up for the big services like Substack it becomes pretty painless though.

https://ylukem.com/blog/how-to-keep-up-with-newsletters
And this government has form for corruption.. awarding COVID PPE contracts to their chums!
Use https://mailnesia.com/ or https://tempr.email/ and rss.
I was arguing with someone earlier today about the "sweetheart" deal that Amazon supposedly got from Apple and it cracks me up that we have these situations live in the world and the only company working to make this easier for end users is Apple. The fact that Amazon (and other video services!) can rent out movies within their platform as long as they allow for integration with the Apple TV app is a net benefit to consumers, imo.
Instead of making the split at the app store level, enabling other payment processors within the iOS app store would solve most of these issues without creating a UX nightmare. That said, I wouldn't mind competition at the app store level too.
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The major email clients could easily fix this. Instead of having choices to not display images and display images, the choices should be no images, show embedded images, and show remote images. The latter should come with a big privacy warning and require dismissing the warning for every single email. Problem solved.
FYI, there's another season starting in just a few days. Just sharing in case you weren't aware.
I like Pixar a lot. But maybe it’s just a matter of personal taste.

Letting go is a unifying theme in Up but my problem with the movie isn’t that it’s bad but that you had a table of all the guys at Pixar spitballing scene ideas and then glueing them all together. The result just feels episodic, in a bad way, and commercially manufactured. Up is a really good movie but I don’t want every CG film to have the Pixar preproduction process. (And I still think they are a bit overrated and that the technical side of their creative teams are doing most of the heavy lifting.)
THIS! Say it a little louder for those in the back. I work in IT. I do not want to have a mini IT project in my pocket that I have to fiddle with. I want a device that is dependable above all else that I don't have to work on for my everyday driver. This is the same answer I provide every time someone at work ask my why I carry an Apple phone. To me the curation is part of the draw. I know that this phone will require the least amount of my attention to keep it working day in, day out. That is the feature I wanted most.

But every iOS post I read is along the lines of make it like android, and I have the same prevailing thought. Why?? I would not own a MacOS machine, I wouldn't like it. But I don't feel the need to get on every Mac discussion complaining it should be more like Linux. The fact the differences exist is a good thing.
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This is to enable Safari's legacy EME implementation. I wonder if there are any vulnerabilities waiting in those unmaintained legacy codepaths

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/...

I first noticed this bug a year ago last February and it's been unchanged ever since.
"Fatal error: The table 'sessions' is full query"

Anyone know who runs this? It's a great website, I wonder if they know it's down?
Sounds similar to the improv skit mantra of "Yes, and...", where any improvisation ("and then I found the cat on the shelf!") must be accepted and built on.

(e.g. "Oh BooBoo, how did you get on the shelf you silly cat?")

If an actor instead said "No, the cat wasn't on the shelf, the cat wasn't even in the room" the skit ends awkwardly.
The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch (the Queen) - not the Government.
Doesn't that take away from useful aluminum production?
Right. At launch, leveraging ipod marketshare was key. After those same users got locked in to the app-store, the music library lock in became less important. So they started out by letting you pay extra money to break out of their walled garden. I'm pretty sure purchases made in the ipod era are still drm encumbered today.
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Antitrust is wider than monopolies, so it totally makes sense that they are not talking about that, and weird to insist on the term. (and no, I don't think they have a particularly high chance of actually getting anywhere useful with this)
Interesting. I thought software developers were paid better than most other professions almost everywhere. Out of interest, is this because you live somewhere with low wages, or because you live somewhere with high living costs?
The author says in the post that it's a 20x20 image. That's only 400 pixels, and 4 bytes per pixel (RGBA) would only make it 1600 bytes with no compression at all.
Been using in hobby projects for a bit now, absolutely fantastic framework, especially the data handling. It also gives you a few goodies by default that Next.js doesn't.
Great account - thanks for sharing! Can I ask what you are doing these days?

Personally, I see the problem solving skills of coders as completely transferable into other industries. I'm interested to hear where people go with their valuable skills.
I like StackOverflow; whenever I have a question about how to code something I Google it and the answer is on StackOverflow about 95% of the time. I don't know what I would do without it. But I guess everyone here hates it? Seems a bit of an odd situation for a community of hackers to be in.
I use this: https://notifier.in/

Same thing, works well. Newsletters are plague.
I liked coding but I got tired of staring at a screen all day especially when working from home. Just felt lonely and pointless.

I also never seemed to get a seat at the table. I was paid well but I always felt like just a pawn in someone’s game.

In my last job the new boss spent three months moving everyone to new locations around the office. Made up all kinds of rules about who was worthy of a window office or the bigger cubicles. I literally felt like I was a doll and the boss was playing dollhouse.
Jeff Bezos at Startup School (2008) [video]