skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox on Amazon devices uses the Android Webview. Fire Sticks have specs that are comparable to several year old phones when they were released. This makes them poor targets for general use computing.
I don't like it but Zoom is soooo much better than Webex when I'm doing remote desktop support (those are the only options we're allowed). With webex the lag is awful amd makes it difficult to type, especially in a terminal, and the interface takes up so much space around the screen being shared for useless crap.
Those ten non-colluding platforms would quickly dwindle back down to the two we have now, for many reasons, network effects being the primary. Look at any other space with similar platforms, you have 1 or 2 at most.

Hell, look at PC gaming where there are no restrictions. You have Steam (same 30% cut) and... Epic?
> Don't write off accessibility as something too hard to implement

For a lot of these websites it would necessitate a lot of manual work, the unfortunate reality is that although producing accessibility features is not 'hard' it can be time consuming and most corporates won't go for it.
The whole point of the article is that communication on a very large scale is very hard. There's a point that adding more people makes things worse. What I mean is, one day, maybe more people will be able to collaborate by becoming one big brain.
This seems more like a bad omen for the future of firesticks than it is firefox. I say that as someone that uses a firetv and a firestick every day. They become unresponsive to input, freeze, and lag constantly. Even for amazon's own shows. It has only gotten worse over time. I'm slowly just moving towards getting a windows instance to every tv in house.
Fire OS 7 is based on Android 9 with API level 28. So, yeah, it's not exactly cutting edge.
Combined, not each.
‘A small, sanitised existence’:what effect will pandemic have on today’s babies?
I don’t want to be the product with my medical data, thanks.
In fact, people often do say that telecoms are monopolistic or oligopolistic, that they engage in anti-competitive behavior that is terrible for consumers, and that they should be broken up and/or strictly regulated. That has been a very prominent argument for many decades.
Didn't they try to do this as Google Health > 10 years ago?
Not enough blog posts have been written about this. "Ownership" is all too often weaponized in subtle ways that reduce an individual contributor's political leverage.

You get "blamed" for not taking enough ownership when shit goes south, but if things are going well the managers and product owners take all the credit.
Agreed. I'm a big believer in animal intelligence and I've lived with both cats and dogs, and this setup seems to me to be difficult for cats to understand, too abstract and removed from cat's natural capacities. They made no effort to establish that the subject animal had any understanding of what was happening before varying the experimental parameters. Basically I would say this experiment is useless as it is; it's just not good science.
On the software side, ink is open source and has C# and JavaScript compilers, a Unity plugin and a separate IDE called inky.

Inform7 is not open source yet, although they had plans in 2019. As far as I can tell, it's a single app that outputs its own format that can be uploaded to https://www.ifarchive.org/

Disclaimer: I've never used either, ink just seemed more legible.
> humans are the mold growing on technology.
No I didn't. I suggested that Eat Pray Love is not literature on the basis that it makes people feel good. My point was that "whether something makes you feel good" has no bearing on whether that thing counts as poetry/literature/art. I tried to make that point in response to the linked article.

If it's "gatekeeping" for me to claim that "X isn't literature" then I guess I'm a "gatekeeper".
your analogy is way off. a better analogy would be walmart refusing to sell your candybars which promote a charity, insisting this can only be done via walmart credits which earns walmart a 30% commission and vendor-lock-in.
County courts in my area use Zoom as well.
The problem is that we don’t know if it is unevenly applied because we don’t know how often those unblocked terms are actually used.

The article does a bunch of interesting investigation and quantification but the only point it actually makes is based purely on innuendo.
I agree that patent abuse and IP abuse extends beyond trolls. That's one of the reasons I started Letters Patent -- and that's why I linked to Cory Doctorow's piece outlining Apple's long history of IP abuse.
TFA mentions “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” by Christopher Alexander but doesn't really do the book justice: "things get exponentially easier if you take problems one piece at a time".

That's sort of what the book says but it's missing the critical part. The whole book is about how to split the solution space into pieces that can be taken "one piece at a time", as it's obviously not the case that just any split will do.

It goes through some real world examples of design and goes on to build a more general semi-formal theory of design, components and independence.
"any health data gathered as part of the feedback program will not be sold or used for Google ads"

But not after the feedback program has finished?

"The information will be encrypted"

So that only Google can read it?

"and stored in the cloud"

Yes, of course. What can possibly go wrong.

Hope this fails in the grandest of fashions long before they go to market.
Google has reduced the cut to 15% for revenue below $1 million.
Deploying often means a lot more than just “changing some binary somewhere in prod” too.
Reports suggest Samsung may reverse course on OLED TVs
In case you are a lazy js dev and you speak italian you could even apply here https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2474608042 :)
I see some people are feeling conflicted trying to balance 1) Making the web more accessible with 2) Increasing business/startup costs.

It's important to remember making websites more accessible often benefits everyone in some way. e.g. providing an alt text description for images on your website obviously benefits visually impaired users, but it also benefits people who can't afford high bandwidth or people who are moving through a remote area. In the Microsoft framework these three scenarios are called:

1) Permanent (Visually Impaired)

2) Temporary (Can't afford high bandwidth)

3) Situational (In a remote area)

There's good online resources for understanding these concepts [1,2,3].

Anyway, for companies as big as WinnDixie, with $10B in annual revenue, they should be designing their websites to be accessible by everyone. For small businesses it would be nice if website building providers like SquareSpace and Wix made this as easy as possible for their users.

[1] https://www.iweb.co.uk/2016/10/inclusive-design-why-our-webs...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAzkrXTGEOM&t=55s

[3] https://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
How legal are cartels?
Are Turkish police (somewhat or totally) integrated into the military hierarchy?

The US seems to have lost its way in this regard, doing so in a half-hearted manner. When indeed it should be the opposite : civilian policing is a community function while military action is if anything a specifically “anti-community” function.

The US military actually understand this distinction; since WWII they trained and operated their military police forces differently from standard combat forces. While the civil authorities have since the 70s at least been going the other way.
No one is arguing we should abandon rule of law for some abstract notion of "fairness". We're having a public debate about whether this behavior is fair. If we decide it isn't, then the next step is legislation to correct the problem (or Google doing so voluntarily). No one is going to directly enforce an ambiguous notion of fairness on Google.
Because ink is a type of markup language, using it to write narrative is very easy. You're writing the script for your game and ink will handle how parts of it connect to eachother. It is also very portable owing to being plaintext with relatively simple syntax. There are currently ports of it in both Unity and Unreal, and many developers have used it in some capacity for html/css/javascript games. Procedural generation can be done in ink, however you may need to use the frontend language to save them for later; ink does procedural text very well but has a weak concept of objects.

Inform7 is a declarative programming language with english-like syntax. It's quite good compared to ink at simulating objects with a lot of metadata. However, the runtime isn't quite as portable as ink; as a result, Inform7 has no easily located Unity or Unreal packages. Ordinarily, I would recommend Inform7 where you need to process lots of content and randomly generate things. But it seems in addition to having an arbitrary runtime entity limit of 1000 things, those things must exist before you randomize them. Although counterintuitive, procedural generation is more challenging in Inform7 than ink!

Use Inform7 when you need a language that can reason "because Alice's relation to Bob is at -50, Alice hates Bob. Because she hates Bob and he is walking nearby, she can trip him. If she does, he will take a random amount of damage and Bob's relation to Alice is reduced by 20."

Use ink when you need a highly portable language that can script /other/ frontend frameworks or languages. Ink has been used in 2d games, 3d games (notably Heaven's Vault), on the web, and on three different game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot). Ink is also very good at making variations on text and tracking how often parts of the story have been visited.

They're both excellent tools for interactive fiction, but they excel at wildly different things.
Most of the folks are ios-only.
Funding Open Source Software as a Third Party?
Ha, interesting. I actually wrote something that matches the same thing a while back. https://alexandrubucur.com/blog/2020/why-developers-should-b... (insert Spiderman meme)
This is the party line, but it just isn't true. Patents are obtained & enforced on ideas all the time, especially in software. PMC is enforcing a patent on the idea of DRM, on the idea of error-correction in streaming video. They never implemented either (beyond a prototype which may or may not have had these features, and never sold).
In my experience, Starlink isn't suitable for many uses right now without some kind of wan bonding(speedify, speedfusion, etc). I currently have two cellular modems + Starlink bonded with some routing rules forcing connections(streaming) directly to Starlink. Since I installed in early March, it has improved significantly and I will probably switch the default routing rules to use Starlink and only use the bonded connection for ssh and similar.

Overall, I am very pleased and looking forward to the continued improvements.

More on my setup, charts, etc here: https://jpoehnelt.medium.com/upgrading-to-starlink-bc6d4cd7e...
> In response to her new detractors, she unapologetically stated that she undertook the Hallmark enterprise because she wanted her work read and put in the hands of people who did not buy books.

The Hallmark Card medium is extremely demanding in terms of not only brevity but clarity. Angelou was setting herself up to write something compelling for a mass audience.
> It does seem to dance around the issue of how easy bridges are to build without major flaws

ahaha what

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E...
> Avoid

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last_name,
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> Prefer

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Couldn't disagree more. One letter abbreviations hurt readability IMO.
Or they could change how the country thinks of itself. Secession is not the only possibility and there are many examples of both.
Yeah that's what I was thinking (although with hard buttons, and touch on the display only for flexibility). Still kind of hacky though. Like on a dishwasher, it would just stick vertically to the front? Shrug.

Of course if any specific model became popular enough someone could fab a dedicated control board that fit in the right spot, or at least had matching aesthetics.
> My bigger issue is that frequently there is no or very little trust around engineers

This is a problem. But at any given time management hears programmers arguing for both sides - the "if you're not using Kubernetes you're a moron" and the "learn how to sysadmin and you'll realize you don't need Kubernetes in the first place" (quotes from the top of the thread). In many cases folks in senior management do not have any idea of these things, and they rely on one of these two opinions, resulting in the other half claiming here on HN that management is all bull.

What the profession lacks is a code of practices - like a Joel Test accepted by every accredited engineer.

I am not sure that is net positive for such a rapidly evolving space. Even now people are debating if unit tests are needed and other basic topics. The only "settled" thing about the profession seems to be that gotos are bad.
This depends on your current latitude and obstructions - my starlink terminal above 49N is averaging 0.22% packet loss (1/5th of 1%) to stuff in a telecom facility in downtown Seattle. Its overall packet loss over a multi day period is actually better, and jitter is lower, than on a docsis3 cable connection at the same place.

The simultaneous density of satellites and gaps, or lack of gaps at your location will have a big impact on the terminal's availability and packet loss to gateway at the other side of the ground-to-space-to-ground link.
Maybe people think it’s “the right thing” even if it’s not in their own interest. Or is that inconceivable?
Do we have the same definition of lazy? A truly lazy programmer does neither. If they still have their job it’s because if stuff blows other people know that it’s easier to fix by themselves rather than chase the lazy programmer to fix their shit.
> People don't want solutions to yesterday's problems. These are considered trivial and already solved, such as invoking a shell command (which just hides a lot of complexity under the hood). Noone will pay you for invoking existing solutions. They pay you to push the boundary.

People are paid to work on products which provide value to the business. There is always a Minimum Viable Product, MVP. Meet that. Exceeding that is the boundary that needs to be pushed, not grabbing the latest, possibly untested, tools off the shelf.

> And random access memory model breaks down completely, because it is just a leaky abstraction. For full performance memory is only accessed linearly. Any random access structured programming language completely breaks down for working with GBs of data, in parallel and on a cluster of machines.

This is why constantly re-engineering (for the purpose of engineering) is not the most useful method. I used to work in FoxPro with databases that were GBs of data. If today those GBs are difficult to handle, which they aren't, then there is a problem with how the stack was put together. GBs are trivial.
Don't expect Wayland to ever come to OpenBSD.
> In the 1970’s

Ops, 1870’s
Sorry, but if all you got from Toyotism was Lean, than you got somewhere already fully geared into Taylorism. There is much more to it, and yeah, even one of the tenets you will get from Deming is that short deadlines and performance-tied bonus and careers can't work. He also goes a great length about empowering employees to change things like part sourcing, but yeah, not the final product.

(I don't know about worker health problems, and I imagine that poor as Japan was at the time, any empiric data on it would be useless. But, anyway, I don't think the management structure is the correct place to fix that one problem.)

And I'll have to break into your Marxist narrative, but all that was once incredibly successful in a fully capitalist framework. It never became non-competitive, it was only replaced by order of top-down command structures.
CRISPRoff – new reversible CRISPR technique announced
This is one of the reasons I like gaming on GeForce NOW. I can use my primary laptop, play any game without having to install anything, instantly alt-tab back to the desktop between rounds without any weird bugs or crashes, etc.
And there have been some other cases too in addition to the circuit conflict. For example, the DOJ told Berkeley it couldn't have videos online that weren't closed captioned. https://www.adatitleiii.com/2017/03/uc-berkley-to-remove-mor...
> I'm fine with independent repairs voiding warranties

This is already against the law in the united states and has been for some time.
Are you saying this as a FreeBSD core development team member?
If you don’t get prompt medical attention for the likely infection from the bite, sure.

But that’s a bit of a delayed effect.
I totally agree this is kitsch and not worthy of being next to great American poets such as Whitman or Elliot.

I wonder if people will read her in 200 years.
Thanks for the detailed criticisms, you raise some good points.

>4. China is praised multiple times for its "near-elimination of SARS-CoV-2", but the official data is comically suspicious[3]. A total of 4,851 deaths in a country of 1.4 billion people. That week of April 13, 2020 was rough.

Indeed, the same day China decided to censor all covid death counts was the same day Chinese activists who were reporting on covid deaths using Github were dissappeared.

https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/22/silenced-china-archivist...
Kraken Kratom: The Complete Review in 2021
Any store with a combinatorial explosion would probably have a hard time creating any serial interface. The phone is such an interface, but in some ways it’s also the best because it’s one that comes with a human.
maybe via infection, and over a few days at that. unless the cat gets spectacularly lucky, it can't scratch you badly enough that you bleed out on the spot. cats typically kill by severing the neck vertebrae with their jaws. a house cat isn't strong enough to do this to a human.
I really like this one. In my opinion, good long term successful software is best built by a bunch of this kind of 1x engineers.
A duopoly is just a monopoly with two CEOs
And the charity is producing the candybars?
I'm not sure why this was downvoted, but perhaps some context may help.

Here nayuki linked a few posts made by kens about mining Bitcoins using weird old hardware (if you classify pencil and paper as hardware). A Gameboy is perhaps not vintage enough for kens :) .

Old HN discussion of these links:

* Pencil and Paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380110 (653 points, 104 comments) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15950599 (642 points, 158 comments)

* Apollo computer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383561 (217 points, 107 comments)

* IBM 1401: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593412 (162 points, 34 comments)
Thank you, mooreds, for introducing me to the “lite” cnn site. The regular one is unusable.
Are you claiming that the 30% (or 15%) cut is to only support the payments infra, and isn't supporting the android ecosystem as a whole?
Does this means that it will likely be in a release prior to version 28? I'm not too familiar with Emacs release scheduling.
I Don't Care About Cookies (https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/) was on here a while back. Comes as an extension, or simply a filter list for uBlock if you prefer. Note that this assumes you just wanted an automated way to get rid of the banners. Unsure about mobile, but FF's mobile version used to allow extensions. Who knows with the way it's been going though.
Not a question: I followed and really enjoyed your series on [REDACTED] as each video came out =)
> most of their projects failed. I think they need to rethink their management and strategy before everything goes to the ground.

Lots of projects fail. It's the nature of R&D. You should see the number of products Google has shut down.

Besides, the project that Mozilla gets the most flack for? Firefox OS. Turned out to be a great idea? Why? Because Apple and Google anti competitively bundle their own browsers with their own mobile OSes.

Yes, sadly Firefox OS failed. But the future (now, present) of web is mobile: Mozilla had to try.
Isn't this typical HN though: the quality is most often in the discussion, rather than the original link?
Not by that definition, I'm not.

Look, I get that you're trying to cleverly put in a bunch of rules that "make a good programmer", but rules do not the master make. A master knows the best practices and rules, knows why they apply, and knows where their usefulness ends. Many of the properties here range from naive to downright dangerous.

Example:

- "A lazy programmer do not deploy in production, they instruct Jenkins to do that. Therefore a lazy programmer is not afraid of deploying on Friday afternoon."

Using a tool to deploy does not remove all of the risks of deployment. If you deploy on Fridays, you WILL eventually be there on Saturday fixing a problem.

- "A lazy programmer is a master of delegation. After they delegated a task, they immeditaly forget about it."

Also very bad advice. Forgetting about a delegated task removes you from the chain of responsibility. If you're delegating, it's on YOU to follow up. Otherwise things get lost in the chaos.

I'm not going to run through all of them. Please just disregard this site and take lists of "a good programmer does..." as a red flag for the company promoting it. A good engineer is not made through lists and rules. If it were that easy, we'd all be good engineers.
Diablo II Resurrected impressions: Unholy cow, man
But as long as they force you into their payment plan AND not allow competition (ie additional stores) there definitely seems to be anti-trust problems.
Moreso, at some point it may be more responsible to exert real pressure and a time concern on them to fix it by revealing the flaw.

It depends on whether you think there's a reasonable chance that someone may be using that exploit by now. Carrot and stick approaches do not work without a reliable stick.

Edit: I suppose it also depends on how much you value going through the exact same process with valve for other bugs in the future. But in a situation like this it seems like little would be lost.
> With the airbnb analogy, people are also free to list their vacation house on reddit, craigslist or just tell people about it and as long as they have a method to take payment - that just works.

And on Android, developers are free to list their apps on F-Droid, Amazon Appstore or just let people download & install it from their own website. Unlike iOS, the Play Store is not mandatory.

> However whole foods does NOT require me to white label. (...) And they would not require me to change my website to not have alternative buying choices.

Grocery stores can and do ask anything they want of suppliers. Trader Joe's buys many products from suppliers like PepsiCo under a white labelling agreement. Walmart will fully dictate the packaging and pricing of your product (eg. demanding that Vlasic sell a Walmart-exclusive $2.97 gallon jar of pickles). Don't like their terms? Tough luck, it's their store.

I'm not saying that the grocery store analogy is a good one but it clearly works against your point. Actually I've only seen it mentioned to support dictatorial app stores.
Would you add that caveat for any other demographic?
They did and retired it 4 years later saying they couldn't turn "limited usage into widespread adoption in the daily health routines of millions of people"[0].

People didn't like the idea then, and I'm not sure they will adopt it this time around...

[0] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-hea...