skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deno is a full server-side JavaScript VM - it doesn't even solve the same problem as Babel...
Ask HN: Why are large finance brokers so bad at formatting emails?
I've noticed a pattern, large legacy financial brokers are very bad at formatting emails. Especially on mobile.

When coinbase or Robin Hood sends me an email the formatting is always perfect, but TD Ameritrade or Charles Schwab are predictably bad.

Is there a reason for this?
Photography, video creation & editing is really good on iOS.

I can take my camera, a card reader and iPad Pro and have a complete darkroom with a calibrated screen with minimum weight.

Even my iPhone X can post-process files from my 24MP mirrorless camera and create really high quality images.

iPad Pro is a multimedia powerhouse both for creation and post-processing. Development is hard, because it needs unfettered access, due to nature of the beast.
Very few Prompt users will be confused by seeing two whole versions of the program.
149€, third year onwards, individual use
What's the alternative? Why would you leave the old version on the store? I don't understand why anyone would benefit from both (hypothetically) Prompt 2 and Prompt 3 being for sale at the same time.
you'll have to pay Amazon though
I don't see it. Either you run a company and earn money and deserve every penny or you get donations and be thankful for every penny.
"Dumb TVs" would cost more. It's hard to market something that costs more and has what most people would perceive to be fewer features.

They would cost more because post-sale content sales and advertising generate revenue for TV manufacturers, which they use to subsidise the device sale price, because it's such a competitive, low-margin, market.
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I looked at the mail I really wanted to read from the most reputable entities (banks, government, business partners,...). Usually there is a logo at the top and the rest is mostly plain text with minimal formatting. A nice, colorful email, sometimes from the same companies usually mean one thing: ad.

This is no different from snail mail, where important communication is usually on standard white paper while ads are high quality prints on nice goossy paper.

And obviously, "average users" notice the pattern. Just like my father who almost trashed an important tax-related mail just because it looked too nice, he thought it was an ad.

So the "average user" prefer to see nice ads, I can get that. But what the average user really prefers no ads at all.
I built a Go library that would track units + errors when I was doing my undergrad... but never published it anywhere and lost the files, sadly. Anyways, I agree this would be neat.
Kinda absurd how much effort Panic has put trying to fit into Apple's vision of the future of computing and operating systems almost to backtrack again at every turn a few years later when the initial investment doesn't translate into money.

Definitely feel for their engineering team.
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It's really not that hard. The user loses freedoms because of technology monocultures and Amazons move will further facilitate a whole television market that semi-covertly spies on the user.
> Family and friends don't give performance reviews and push other such metrics down your throat

Oh, but society sure is hard at work moving towards this.

Edit: I'm short of time, but as someone asked me to elaborate, I'll briefly give a few examples:

- "Networking" replacing genuine friendships; related things such as "cut out friends who don't let you grow" which may be valid but usually translates to "replace them with someone who will lead you to material success" (that is, "networking")

- Parents micromanaging their children's lives, measuring their performance on various tasks and rewarding/punishing them accordingly, often without regard to possible underlying issues (e.g. mental illness)

- Parents making children pay rent after they turn 18

- "Tinderification" of relationships, followers as social currency, etc.

My point is basically that family and friends are being replaced by the individual and advertising oneself.
I don't think you need to be so negative about this.

Most people are unaware that Unicode has that kind of character and even fewer people know what it does to screen readers.

The difference between showing off knowledge and trying to be show people a cool thing you know about is intent and it's REALLY hard to get that across on the internet.
You have yourself a testimonial, that made me
chuckle! Being your own customer is fun though.
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Interested to know the source of this income. Is it through affiliated links? Selling your product?
For casual family game nights, there’s a flip book and dry erase marker version of this called “Telestrations” which I can highly recommend.

(No connection other than happy user.)
I suppose, in this case, because there isn't an alternative to the iPad on the Android side. There are many Android tablets (I have a few) but they are not as powerful and the battery always seems to last a lot less than the iPads.
Possibly interestingly, I just bought a 2nd hand MS Surface Pro 3 tablet for about US$300 (8GB RAM, i5 Cpu, 256GB SSD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Pro_3

Specifically because I'm looking for something to run Blender (blender.org) on. The iPad Pro could only run it via Sidecar from a real Mac (eg tethered laptop or similar).

Android has an ancient version (circa ~2013), which isn't a real option.

Could have spent money on a new Surface Pro, but trying things out on an older model seems to be working so far. :)

From my point of view, there are more options than just iOS and Android for tablets. Apparently Linux can be installed on Surface Pro's too, though that's a future "maybe" item for this one.
But he should get a part of the upvote money.
How his compares to other columnar stores of this kind? e.g. MariaDB ColumnStore? others?
I don't think "It's a scam" - just every implementation of it I've seen.

Similar to 'self-guided learning' - Sure it's nice being able to get cash to pay for any online course I like, but it doesn't give me the "week in a room just focussing on a topic" that a more formal course would provide. It's the time given, not the course provided that was more valuable.

It can work though if initiatives are related, ranked clearly and measured.
(Hypothetically) A company might provide bonuses to management for the profitability of projects. Simultaneously, it might wish to discourage weekend working - people quit and quality suffers.
With those two goals disconnected, you can guess what happens.

If you link them - say internally bill for hours worked and double for weekends, rather just time-elapsed, then suddenly weekend work mainly vanishes - and projects are better resourced at the outset.

To loop back to the "Wellness" you could implement it with commitment to resources, metrics, stated goals and I think it would work fine.

Why are we promoting wellness? How are we going to measure it? What resources are you providing I didn't already have? etc.
Because the APIs offered by Android are a mess and a joke compared to what you get on iOS. If you want to make really polished software, iOS is much, much easier to work with.
Yeah, they mention your suggestion (remote machine to run the compiler(s) and debugger) in the post, and it sounds like it was too cumbersome to make sense to build a product around. I personally suspect that if they kept at it, it could've eventually built an audience... but I can imagine the cost of developing and maintaining that exceeding any potential profit from selling copies to iOS users.
Core to all of this is that anything provided by an employer could be used against you. Even if I wanted therapy sessions I’m not going to share my work related issues with an employer provided coach, hell no.

One thing I’d like to see is independent co-operatives which a group of tech workers (across different companies!) chip in to pay for. They could include veterans for mentorship, agents to help with negotiations/job-hopping advice and possibly even representing you during negotiations, lawyers to help cross out stupid post-working-hours IP clauses etc

Something like a union but minus the grossest parts like mandating actual pay, employment terms, and benefits. More of an easily accessed professional services group. I’m sure this exists in other industries.
What about Deno?
Microsoft Surface Go is a technological marvel. Full-blown x86 computer in tablet form. I’ve used it for the past year as my only machine (I’m a fulltime + hobby software developer). It’s 100% on par with Apple hardware (including the foldable keyboard & trackpad, and the lack of RAM). Software is a different issue, but for development work it mostly doesn’t matter that much (I use IntellJ, conda, Jupyter & Chrome, and all of those are completely cross platform). I haven’t tried Surface Pro but I imagine it’s equally good, just bigger.
I almost don't want to read this because for any company I work for its almost pointless to try convince them not to use Redshift. I'm slowly seeing the future of software engineering just us being switchboard operators for AWS.
What apps do you use for photography?
I had once thinking about this type of system, and later found that the SNMP(1988) as well as NIST/Army 4D/RCS project(1980s) had this train of thought before I was even born. Now I'm wondering why this type of distributed, synchronized, hard realtime decision making framework don't seem to exist as some Apache Foundation project or something. It just sounds right and massively useful but I can't find an implementation, at least on public Internet -- why?
Just give me the technology without all the anti-consumer cruft that companies love to bundle it with.
It's insecure.
It was only 150 years ago that consumption was the preferred medical term.

To put it into a little perspective: the Brooklyn bridge was built while this was still in general accepted use.
I think you can reason it like this.

Assuming certain constraints (what you can define bounded analysis rules for) you can prove that things terminate. These rules things are usually far more advanced than we suspect initially, but they're not still not fully unbounded.(And we can often come up with more rules to make things practical even if unwieldy)

Deciding termination for an arbitrarily large program in a turing complete system CAN require no less than execution of such a program thus we CANNOT guarantee to be able to verify termination for EVERY program. (This is the halting problem)

I spent a lot of time on my thesis learning about type inference systems and as many such systems for uncooperative languages(JS,Python,etc) need to do abstract interpretation they fall into the same kind of issues and this is why practical systems use JIT compilation instead of AOT even if there are exceptions (Shed Skin Python is quite impressive for example).
They definitely do not. macOS is not designed for use with a touch screen, and Apple are not interested in releasing half-arsed, unusable systems.
You’re missing my point pretty hard.

Most of the people getting outraged about $130k are the same people ready to defend Musk and Bezo’s billions.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
This appears to be a rather different issue than the one you started with - are you you now objecting to journalists being careful not to inject anything that might be construed as their personal opinion? There are obvious reasons why journalists would do that.

With regard to your example here, it does not fit your original situation of a claim being being corrected - and it is a remarkably small issue to ge worked up about.

As far as I can tell, nothing in your latest post has anything to do with the claim in the post you are nominally replying to.
There are very legitimate reasons for not sharing networks, eg: security, not having latency/throughput issues when others are using the network.

And personally I would need a wired connection anyway, so having a wifi network built in to the network switch isn't really a big deal, since the fiber is to the apartment.
> I’m not convinced there’s a benefit

I've seen it work well once, but others struggled to contribute to it because it was so complicated and it added little benefit to the usual busy loop approach. So I'm in the same boat as you.
You can buy commercial displays (ie. the ones used for signs). It's worse and more expensive, but it's still an alternative.
Look for older people. I know I contracted my ass off while I needed to build my wealth, after that I changed to less demanding jobs and started caring about holidays & colleags & raises.
There's a lot of carriers around the world, yes, but they're often "subcontractors" to some of the bigger ones like T-Mobile and Vodafone, which often operate a network covering a whole country. Those are more than happy to offer a long term data contract for purposes like this.
> for the needs for 90% of people

You could say the same thing about a Chromebook. And they are half the price of a Macbook Air.
Complicating the matter there is also a tradition of an invisible college, people who are very active in the intellectual tradition of their time but seek to remain obscure rather than feted for their accomplishments.
> I am not sure if there is data to prove this, but my gut feeling is that employees are more productive and their compensation has not kept up to the increased productivity.

You are not wrong, from the BLS:

"For several decades beginning in the 1940s, productivity had risen in tandem with employees’ compensation. However, since the 1970s, productivity and compensation have steadily diverged." [1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/understanding-the-labo...
> Exactly, I thought the reason that US developers are so highly paid compared to everywhere else in the world was to offset the high cost of living in silicon valley.

Cost of living is one input into cost of labor, but far from the only one. E.g. Canadian salaries are much lower for programmers than American ones, looking at comparably expensive areas.

A huge part of the reason Silicon Valley coders are expensive is that the ecosystem there has made for phenomenally successful tech companies. They have both the money and the motive to engage in a bidding war for talented developers.
A faraday cage around a TV kind of defeats the point. Although it would improve some films a great deal :-)

I think this has to get sorted out in the wash with regulation. If you collect data about someone, it needs to be treated at HIPPAA levels of paranoia. That just makes so much of this rubbish go away.

It might increase the costs of TVs. Certainly there are many areas of global markets that have incredible deep tech that just are not seeing expected market pricing.

(Off topic but eye-tests. In the UK there are branches dedicated to performing a medical test by post-graduate trained operators, for token cost, just so they can upsell me on expensive frames. I mean I would rather pay for the eye test and buy online.)
It isn't hard to market something that costs more and lacks a flaw.
But the individual license can be used at work, it just can’t be transferred to another person since it’s licensed to you.
Yep, I literally my own customer, because my hs managed the same way as other customers :D

Sadly, not every customer wants to post review, because of privacy. I understand them, tho
i feel the same and would like to see buildings get connected as a whole paid by part of the utility billing or similar. something akin to how central heating is paid for.
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This is just the reality of iOS software development, the amount of work required to keep it working on newer versions of iOS costs more than the initial purchase from the users who then get a perpetual licence.

Only routes to sustainability is this ship new version, support it for a few months then start working on a new version that will be another purchase, or well you know subscription which I'm sure we all agree is the less preferred of the two.
That is unlikely unless contributors got any legal document signed
I'm referring to the more recent iOS 14 changes, especially that it defaults to "no tracking, don't even prompt" - users have to specifically turn on a "let apps ask me" setting to even get a prompt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075180
I can't agree. I quite like html email. I just wish that it had an extremely cutdown subset (just colors, a few "header" sizes, italic, bold, underlined links), NO CSS allowed, no specifying of fonts other than say mono or "other". Maybe inline images links so that attached images could insert. No tables. Only <li> or <ul> Such a system would still be completely readable as plain old text. Now everyone thinks they have to use the kitchen sink approach or that there's not a middle ground.
I disagree... can you honestly tell me that you absolutely require to have an Amazon device? Or a smart TV?

I can understand if they were putting microphones into the electrical sockets when your house was being built... you need to have electricity.

The solution is don't fucking buy the items... when they see a drop in sales, even a few percent, they'll take notice. Or, god forbid, get your old TV repaired!

Mandating that the government steps in is crazy... we're talking about governments that are paid, openly, by lobbyists from these organisations.
It's not so much about people having to choose, it's people that bought Prompt 2 being forced to upgrade if they for example set up a new mac.
> It's hard to market something that costs more and has what most people would perceive to be fewer features.

I'd pay for privacy and control.

The other option like I've said is to recycle and mod smart tvs and rewrite their logic so that the user can do wathever he wants. Maybe marketing the modding kits. That would be more akin to those people who install custom open source bios on IBM Thinkpads.
So long as I can download my previously paid-for Prompt when I get and setup a new device, no problem.
Comrade, you were pretty slow about liking the latest BLM redistribution of property on FB, are you feeling a bit counterrevolutionary?
I wonder how this dragnet could be disrupted.
If this is true it should be great for traders who are trading on performance/news/economy etc. when they made their profits they have an index fund wanting to buy their stuff so very liquid. But then such trading activity should allow price discovery and if not there is a gap for more traders
I don't think they have to make it mandatory, all they have to do is remove all the other choices. Simple to do if you have amazon or google amounts of money. Politicians are surprisingly cheap but they aren't as reliable as narrowing customer choice behind a mask of competition. Once the barrier to entry is lifted sufficiently high the job is done.
"Said they had a much better track record."

As I've said, the track isn't important, the current market positioning is. Apple will not care about what they did in the past if their market position and positioning is changing.
As long as Apple makes money from allowing people to buy "Pro" apps like IDEs, REPL , other creation apps then you wrong, otherwise Apple should reject this apps as not allowed because the device is not capable for Pro creator usage.
Tell HN: I think the diversity push is to distract from other bad practices
Lately a lot of companies in the software world has been strongly pro-diversity even when it makes no sense (I've seen companies in countries where 99% of the population belongs to the same group, pushing to have people from all groups).

Even the Brazillian Game Developer association created a "Diversity Seal", then I realized: Wait... but where is all the previous talk about crunch time, poor pay and lack of benefits?

Then I realized, the more companies are talking about diversity, the more they can hide their previous heinous behaviour.

Basically diversity is being used as "get out of jail for free" card, or a distraction, it is avoidance of future "EA Spouse" letters.
not enough users.
They don’t work worldwide though.
Debatable - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apple-brass-discusse...
For now? Yes, because they build their market positioning on this, it's part of their branding.

If this changes they will sell all your data without a second thought.
That’s a great move and I applaud you and also I wonder whether LG would start disabling TVs unable to get their requests through if they noticed a critical mass of them doing that.

“We noticed you’re using an ad-blocker” ...
That sounds like a nice environment, but it just doesn't hold a candle to working in a place where everybody from the office staff to the devs to the artists to the managers just lives and breaths gaming.

Let me put this another way: there's a gaming group like you have where you have to drag everybody to the table occasionally at lunch time for some casual games, and then there's gaming groups where 6 of you show up to play Twilight Imperium every weekend and every person memorized the rules on their own time. Working at a game company is the later.
Wellbeing, even when it's sincere, is a top-down effort - as in way up the tree-tops - and usually raining down diagonally from a different org.

Meanwhile, down on the leaves of the org tree, you have delivery pressure from users, peers, and so on. If the pressure is high, no amount of messaging about wellbeing will make any difference. Taking time off, whether it's some kind of leave or for some wellbeing meetings of some kind, just takes time out of your workday, resulting in increased pressure because now you're even further behind.

It's quite hard not to become cynical about the disconnect between aspirational messaging and these pressures.

There are answers, but they require cultural and managerial enforcement. Heroism needs to be discouraged. Delivery slippage and failure to make dates need to be seen as organizational process and planning failures, and not as individual failures: feedback that schedules are too tight, expectations are unsustainably high, resourcing isn't right.

If your team or org has a culture of heroism - people risking burnout, working into the night, on weekends, on holidays, to make deadlines - stop it. Don't reward it. It's not sustainable, it creates peer pressure to do the same, and it is one of the most damaging things you can do to employees' wellbeing.
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As a somewhat outside observer (socially liberal/democrat country, in SWE but outside of VC/Silicon Valley/FAANG - for now!), I wonder if the community think the rise in "F** you, pay me"[1][2] sentiment will be mediated in any way? I can definitely see the rise of this feeling with record profits, sky high stock prices, big Venture Funding rounds paired with rising income inequality it makes sense. If a group of workers are core to a companies profits, as Software Engineers are for tech companies, demanding a larger share of said profits also makes sense and should be encouraged. However if this new mercenary attitude is to just move at will because you can[3], I don't know how that endgame plays out. Is this a feature of the winner takes all/gold rush era we're in at the moment, does it fizzle out, is there a crash? Just thinking out loud as how this progresses...I dunno I just find it interesting.

I'm sure the response will come something about the company do not care about you, however now I've started to see people here regard anyone just one "level" above them as part of the global capitalist elite.[4] All seems a bit unsustainable to me.

[1] https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1359940513621827592
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27114714
[3] https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1381474017773641731
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27116464