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> Personally I hate UI changes and I want Audacity to change as little as possible in that regard. It is not a tool that I use regularly so I want to be able to not use it for a year or two, get back to it and still find the same familiar interface.

And here is the beauty of non-web based software, you can guarantee that you always will! Same executable on your computer represents the same program launched, forever. Things don't change under the hood without you saying "yes", so if you want the UI to remain the same forever, you're welcome to. If you later want to upgrade, you can, but you'll never be forced to.
A lot more builders should be looking into steel framing. Light gauge steel has also gone up, but nowhere near as much as lumber. For the typical project, it's probably cheaper now than wood framing. Especially when you take into account that steel framing can be pre-cut at a factory with CAD software, requiring much less skilled labor onsite.

And steel makes a much better frame. Fire resistant, termite free, mold free, holds up better in earthquakes and floods, stronger, doesn't rot, doesn't warp. The problem with the construction industry takes way too long to adapt new patterns, even long after shifting technology and economics makes it compelling.
Where I'm at they can't build houses fast enough. Overall it's a bad market because home owner's are more motived to borrow against their property value (heloc, etc) than move. And everyone else is kinda stuck.

I own several rental units. Only freestanding homes. I definitely see myself as providing a value add. I fix things when they break, provide landscaping, provide housing to great people with not-great credit. They don't have to worry about a bunch of different utility bills. All value adds. And I take on plenty of risk where lenders don't want to. I don't get compensated all too well for it either. It's a very active way of investing long term, you may not see the value of, but it's definitely there.

I could easily charge 40% more in rent right now, as could many.
If you're going to reference the contract, release the specific sections of the contract. If you're going to reference Roku demands, release the emails.

It is tiring when 2 corporations sling it at each other without any backup.

Maybe after the HBO fiasco and now this it's time to reassess choosing Roku devices as the default.
I don't believe this is accurate.

As trust is spread across the network to an increasing number of people running nodes, the trust assigned to any individual participant approaches zero.

This can be observed in the resilience of the network, as it self-heals against any attacker or alternative fork from the consensus.

Bitcoin has democratically ossified into a store-of-value with absolute scarcity, deterministic monetary policy, and a priority on decentralization. It's extremely unlikely that those attributes will be compromised.
Apple forbids other web engines explicitly (or only allows the WebKit respectively) in § 2.5.6 of App Store Review Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

This means they cannot add a new API standard on iOS. This is why WebRTC was hamstrung until November last year.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208667
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=752458

If the browser uses WKWebView or UIWebView, you're right, you can "mock" an API by injecting JS, and through tunnelling you can recreate native functionality. Not if its SFSafariViewController. As someone who has done a lot of fiddling with JS to Obj-C/Java tunnelling for iOS and Android in production, it can be prone to errors and/or get your app rejected. Browser makers probably do not see the commercial value in going down this bespoke path.
The difficulty with ransomware attacks and the like, is that it's less a technical problem and more a people problem.

IT departments will never have enough money/time/staff to keep systems up to date with the latest OS (look at the number of people still running critical systems on Windows XP).

Users will always open attachments from people they don't know, click links, or even pick up random USB sticks.

The perpetrators know this. They don't need to be more sophisticated than the InfoSec people at a given organisation, they just need to trick one user in that organisation in to letting them on to the network.
Personally, I don't see the problem. 1. Bitcoin drives up GPU costs. 2. Bitcoin makes it ridiculously easy to commit certain forms of crime. 3. And Bitcoin's energy footprint hurts the planet.
“Some documentation may be out of date” is practically Google’s motto.
For someone living under a rock, what was the HBO Max thing?

I no longer have HBO since AT&T owns it and pulled the channel from Dish.
The Arch Linux Wiki, which I find very useful (surprisingly even for other distros):

https://wiki.archlinux.org/
If you've memorized `~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}\|;:'",<.>/? then yeah, you don't need a backlight. I've memorized some, but certainly not all.
How do you know how much it costs to provide an extended warranty? If it actually costs money, that kind of rule would make devices more expensive for everybody.
>> Our agreements with partners have technical requirements to ensure a high quality experience on YouTube

This high quality experience caused my device to randomly reboot while watching youtube. Also because of this the last android update bricked the device that is rendered useless. Because of this great experience I am switching to Apple TV just like I did with my phone long time ago. Google does not give two shits about customer experience for a long time. Unlimited data collection is the only thing they care and everything else is secondary.
I love my original Xbox One. It has all the apps, a blu ray player and the hdmi in for a cable box or anything else you want. It's sad to think that it's unlikely that anyone will ever make anything like that again
I'm going a little bit on a tangent here, and this may not apply so much to recent Apple phones, but Apple phones had planned obsolescence in terms of the design of their physical appearance such that you can tell almost instantly which generation it is. This allows broadcasting of status, that this person can afford the latest while that person can only afford to use a 2-year-old phone, thus artificially driving the upgrade cycle.
Meh - I see one of the benefits of working outside of FAANG and other enterprises to work on something you trule believe in. Who truly loves working on improving the returns on online advertising to extract more money out of people's pockets?
> It took 6 months to land a client

How does one go about finding a client.
But Audacity right now does everything you need and you are not processing untrusted source files, so why would you ever need to update?

On the other hand, lots of people encounter Audacity maybe for the first time and the UI might be unappealing or confusing.

I think there is space for both you who wants an "eternal" tool and the new user who might want something more apporachable.
A wood frame is much better in earthquakes; it just happily flexes. Steel is an alternative but until the plague was more expensive than wood.
"to bring you the content you love"

Who writes stuff like this and thinks it sounds authentic?
This comes across extremely disingenuous.

If you read Roku's version of what is being negotiated and then read Google's, then note that Google only discusses the popular one (codecs) and seemingly forgets all the ones that make them look bad.

I don't consider Roku a "good guy" with all of these disputes, but on this one based on the information we have it seems like Google tried to flex and got rebuffed. They then thought the recent other disputes w/Roku would give them cover, but it hasn't worked too well so far.

PS - I do feel like Roku's position on the codec though is a little weak/vague. But Google's lack of statement about the other 90% of the dispute is worse.
> Or am I missing something?

That’s cheap compared to the code signing racket on PC.
I'm curious, how close is the Spacewarduino! that was made at MIT a few years ago?
Nobody stops Apple from offering an alternative "if your app is 100% free then there are no fees for you at all", beside the 100$/year they already have to pay.
None of this makes any sense. In modern smartphones, the PCBs (i.e. the parts that get hot and contain the sensors and other components) are usually screwed into the frame without any glue. Only the battery, display, and back covers are glued in. This makes repairs of the most commonly damaged parts much more difficult without providing any functional benetfits.
That's really interesting, I didn't know about these. $104 seems like a pretty solid deal too. Only thing is that the cable doesn't appear to be replaceable. I swap out different length cables quite a bit so this is a little disappointing.
Mhmm I would have expected the co-located source/destination numbers to be 1, slightly lower, and 2, more consistent between regions.

Ie, I would not have expected eu-central-1/eu-central-1 to be 1.68ms, and us-east-2/us-east-2 is 8.26ms (almost 5x)
At least in my area, brick houses are actually less durable because they crack on our shifty soils
While not representative, I would imagine that for most millennial HN users, 2020 was their best year in terms of financial gain: roaring stock market, wfh and CoL savings, insane crypto boom, record level bonuses, etc.

I do understand that it isn't a representative picture, but among my friends, none of us have ever done so well financially in our entire lives.
Mandated right repair would raise weight for battery containers and latches, higher failure as connections would not be soldered in place and hinges and latches may fail, less water resistance as seals may get bumped loose, easier access for hardware hacks for bad actors, more potential consumer injury device damage during repair attempts, and more likely fire scenarios in planes and public areas from incorrectly installed parts. It is attempting to deny consumers those benefits.
Iberdrola became world leader in wind and PV outside China
~7% is after adjusting for inflation. I suspect OP did not adjust.
>Also, if you were downtown and wanted a ride out to Arlington, they would sometimes just drive off because they knew they wouldn't be able to get a fare back into the city.

You understand how a precariat makes this type of thing possible, right?

It's not like Uber drivers wouldn't pull this type of shit if they had more leverage. They absolutely would. They don't coz they really need the $$.
What Are Floating-Point Numbers?
I'm only trying to help. Like, every PM has used gmail regard it as "normal" - so if you're different, you're abnormal.

also, if your PMs listen to reason here's a site with a table

https://www.outlook-apps.com/maximum-email-size/

which show the 10MB size at the low-end but still used by a huge carrier
Neutron Star “Skin” Is Less Than a Millionth of a Nanometer Thick
Each company has said conflicting things. Is one of them straight up lying?
Would you be open to publishing the code for your model?
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
PressureDrop.tv l Remote Across US l Founding CTO l www.pressuredrop.tv

We are building a music hub for musicians and fans that features a live streaming platform with built in creator tools + fan community. We know this has seen a lot of action in the last year but we’ve been live streaming for 10+ years, over 350 live broadcasts and have solutions for some of the underlying obstacles involving the business of music. Some of our products do not currently exist in any form.

Role: We’re looking for a senior developer interested in joining us as a third founder / CTO. This is an early stage role that will be responsible for building and launching our MVP, hiring and managing our development team, and helping to steer the direction of the company. An ideal candidate has experience designing scalable software systems and has worked with streaming video.

* Role: Founder and CTO
* Where: remote for now
* Team: small team based in SF
* Funding: currently self-funded / venture round coming soon
* Equity: founder equity
* Timing: immediate
* Experience in music / live video preferred

email- a.cook@pressuredrop.tv
The assumption that all stalkers are smart and informed and skilled is not accurate.

Plenty of them are in fact stupid, followed some advice from discussion forum without really understanding what they are doing and that is that.
> two WASM programs will be more strongly isolated from one another than two normal programs.

Innocent and naive as I am, I feel like this shouldn't be true in a post-spectre world? Surely intra-process isolation is recognized as, at minimum, a difficult problem to solve today? The attack surface of your host, given arbitrary compute powers (which wasm has), is quite significant.

It's not to say that intra-process isolation isn't a worthwhile goal, I'd rather see new systems designed with the idea if they can be. I'm just saying I don't know that "unsandboxed but has lots of mitigations" vs "sandboxed but trivially exploitable" is so clearcut.
We build that fab equipment in Europe.

The highest estimate I found was 20bn.

If we are spotting intel 50% of the cost, why not go all the way and do it ourselves?

There are a lot of small european semi companies, both design and manufacturing, that we could this with instead. Why not give that money to Infineon?

Makes no sense.
How does this relates to Debezium?
$100 / month (Coworking space, I live in a third world country)
$49 / month of ConvertKit (Newsletter sending)
$50 / month (DigitalOcean)
When market conditions drive up the price of labor, the owners of large companies will:

1. legally or illegally bring in (or lobby the government to allow) an immigrant workforce to increase labor supply and drive down wages (e.g. us low skilled labor market)

2. collude with other companies not to compete over workers (e.g. tech industry anti-trust action from a few years ago)

3. pass laws against compensation reaching market levels (e.g. US during wwii, Taiwan today)

4. use forced labor (e.g. China today, US 1800's)

I don't like it anymore than you do, but it's not new, and I wouldn't call it "silly"
where can i find "roku's version"?
I was talking about the NYT analysis linked in the comment I was replying to, but I'd be curious to see your numbers as well if this is something you've worked out!
With residential construction, most of the jobs are being contracted and subcontracted out, so promoting new foreman, etc. isn't even overhead the builder worries about. They just get new crews bidding on jobs out of nowhere
Covid-19’s far-reaching effect on a turtle sanctuary
You've gotten some excellent advice here so far but I wanted to add a few bits that I've picked up:

1.) You're going to do sales, invoicing, collections, bookkeeping and regulatory shit. At various points, these five jobs will make you want to go back to your FTE status.

2.) You will eventually become your own pointy headed boss (at times).

3.) The difference between net income, profit and cashflow will always surprise you in the wrong direction. Try not to spend theoretical dollars...
> Miner's de facto control of the network is a huge problem. It's why Bitcoin will never solve its energy use issue, and why Ethereum set up a "delayed difficulty bomb" to force miners to accept changes to the network.

Not sure we should go as far as stating their control to be "de facto" as there has been no major cases of miners splitting a mainstream chain and "winning". Most examples are miners going one way, then slowly dying until they move back to the main chain.
My best advice would be to partner with other consultants, agencies or contractors and create a productized service that they can include in their offerings. Seek out agencies in your area and cold call them - good way to train your sales muscle without really selling anything to them.

That's what made the difference for me. I partnered with a marketing consultant and she added me to her services every time she got a new client.

The best book on this would be Million Dollar Consulting from Alan Weiss. Do your job well and then promote yourself to reading Trillion Dollar Coach ;))
FB JavaScript SDK down
TailwindUI, mostly copy paste and tweak a bit and you have a decent looking UI
Likewise with delivery driver tips. Why is it a percentage of the order instead of a flat fee/tip? (Get rid of tips and pay fairly, seriously).

The driver doesn't know what's in the box. They don't need to know what's in the box. At most it should be based on the size or weight of the box but not what's in it.

What's next, tipping hotel bellhops based on the value of items in your luggage? Got a $5000 camera in there? Oh yeah that'll be a 1% or $50 tip. Oh, it's just $100 of clothes? I guess it'll be $1.
People with dyslexia have skills that we need, says GCHQ
Even without a ton a money, I would pay for this in almost any startup environment.

As an early stage founder, my time would be way more valuable than $70/month. I need to do as many (practical) things as I can to focus on delivering the unique value of my product.
I would understand if:
A) Roku were not paying to have it on their platform
B) Consumers weren't paying for the service as well.
> For example, by not supporting open-source video codecs, you wouldn’t be able to watch YouTube in 4K HDR or 8K even if you bought a Roku device that supports that resolution.

There are two sides to this, the encoding side and the decoding side. Google can frame it charitably towards themselves by saying "the Roku won't be able play 4K HDR", but we could just as easily frame it as "Google doesn't want to encode non-AV1 4K HDR". Both companies are trying to save costs, but Google's trying to frame it as Roku failing its users (users which are Google's as well, if they're trying to watch YouTube TV).

To be clear, I think open-source codecs are great, and it makes sense for devices (especially plugged-in / home internet devices) to support as many as is reasonable.
Traders who engage in such behavior are also humorously said to "eat like chickens, shit like elephants"
Yes, I got stuck on "Powell" High School. For non-locals, that's Lowell.
A contracting "role" is not being an "owner-operator" of a consultancy.
Looks like the piece forgot Los Angeles. There's a huge technical pool down here working at the likes of Disney, Hulu, Space X, to JPL.

Has its homeless and high tax issues as well, but at least there is lots of room and nimby's have lost their tight grip preventing development.
Here's an earlier thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26992358
> Is the App Store really an obstacle to apps getting on the iOS platform?

Yes. A tremendous amount of effort goes into playing the game of guessing what you need to do to pass the approval process. And I don't mean things like tracking. I mean things like removing any links to your website, because users could buy a subscription there instead of on through the app.

> Is it artificially raising prices?

Absolutely. That 30% has to come from somewhere. And since you aren't allowed to charge more for an app purchase than a subscription online, that means it raises the price for everyone. Not just people who use the app.
Please don't forget how jailbreaking your iPhone was illegal only 9 years ago, and jailbreaking the iPad wasn't legal until 2015!
Awwwwww.... Is it annoying when a company cuts you off from a service you took for granted? Look in the mirror, Google.
Try and increase prices by 1,000,000,000x and say the market doesn’t set prices. Markets give you wiggle room, but maximum profit is the goal not simply moving some units.
In music production, mixers/producers will sometimes zoom down to sample-scale and draw out a click or a pop from a bad edit that wasn't properly smoothed. Otherwise, no. I wouldn't say it's common for audio editors to draw samples.
What's the deal with horizontal scroll bars on the top of web pages indicating the vertical position of the page? Do browser scroll bars not work anymore?
If Google did indeed offer to continue under the current terms, then I would say that Roku seemingly is the one that is at fault. If Roku is trying to renegotiate other items under different terms, it seems reasonable for Google to be able to ask for things they want as well. For example, if Roku wants a bigger cut of ad revenue, it seems reasonable for Google to come back and ask for silicon supporting AV1 to be installed on future Roku devices. (I have no idea if that is the source of contention, but I'm just saying it seems like reasonable, good faith negotiation.)
In that case, then your manager could not support you going remote and require you to come back. If that were the case, I would understand (though it would be a bummer for you).

I am saying there are employees at google who a performing well remotely now, their manager/VP support them staying remote, but Google HR is saying they must return to the office anyways. Google should just allows managers/VPs to let employees stay remote if they are good employees and are performing well. Instead they are pushing a one size fits all policy and haven't said anything about possible manager/VP exceptions.
The lack of cleanup needed for the bread machine is a big point for me, too.

I tried a couple juicers, like JuiceMan. The ads say it is easy cleanup, just rinse it off. The reality is you'll spend 30 minutes cleaning that screen. If you don't get it all, what's left will quickly rot. Not fun. The JM also had all kinds of nooks and crannies that were not reachable with a sponge and really hard to clean. I finally gave up.

The Vitamix is the solution here. No tedious juicing, just stuff everything in the machine and turn it on. The cleanup is pouring water and soap in it and turning it on for a minute.
Ah yes, real estate, the classic example of something "growing consistently with low variance over a long period of time", is akin to "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller".

Nah, actually, I think that growing consistently with low variance over a long period of time means that the asset is objectively a good buy...
Non-credit rails are region specific and usually avoid higher fees typical of credit card rails (often even free).

The processor fees for credit card rails exist primarily nowadays to support two things: fraud and perks.

With a debit transaction, your fraud protection is usually much, much lower (often non-existent). It's usually equivalent to handing over cash. With a credit card, you can call them up and get the transaction reversed pretty trivially.
I've created a website - https://sievejobs.com - to allow job seekers to hard-filter out companies with this sort of interview process, and also to quantify to hiring companies exactly how many job seekers they're missing out on.

(The site treats other job elements similarly: open seating plans, remote-ness, etc.)
children = young black men aged around 16-17 and 364 days

edit: flagged for what, exactly?
Project Azorian: Stealing a Sunken Soviet Sub
See 'Can I post a job ad?' in the FAQ. The regular thread https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring will be posted Monday 9am US westcoast time.
I believe that this right to repair stuff is really a reflection of a superceding market breakdown: oligopolistic power.

Consumers want to do what they like with the things they own and some want the information needed to repair those things. Some companies don't have to offer this information or can get away with locking down their devices because they are immune from competition. This immunity is generally acquired by having the best product but then maintained by an abuse of market share.

The solution is to encourage competition somehow. If someone made a tractor that could compete with John Deere, John Deere might be forced to entice consumers with the feature of repairability.
He was involved in selling it (see TFA)