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Centralized distribution mechanisms are how people get software today, yes. Without those downloads, yeah, Snap would be in trouble.

What's not acknowledged is that perhaps other models might have got Snap the downloads it needs. It's not easy to tell how necessary Apple or Google are, because they are the status quo, because there hasn't been much opportunity to explore alternatives. Apple in particular won't even permit competition. Android has allowed alternate app stores- but also, Android 12 is the first release where a 3rd party app store can automatically update apps. The system's been stacked this whole time.

Being able & willing to imagine alternatives is really a pre-requisite that Evan failed to meet, when he attributed his app's success to these incumbents.
Government department in the UK:

This was for a Django developer contract. One question was around how to let people experiment with large amounts of data easily through a browser - my answer of provisioning & giving each (authenticated) user a powerful machine with a copy of the data that would give them the ability to run queries on it (through the browser) was spot-on. I also had questions around serving multi-gigabyte files where me answer of using Nginx to stream the file (behind custom auth - essentially your backend receives the request and authenticates it, but responds with a specific header instructing Nginx to serve the file - at which point the backend is no longer involved) was good.

They gave me a sequence of numbers and asked what it was (It was the Fibonacci sequence) - I couldn’t answer.

They explained me a little bit (but I guess not enough) about the relationship behind the numbers and asked me to write a function to generate them. I couldn’t. I had access to Google but I honestly told them that clearly the point of the exercise is that I wouldn’t search this particular thing (which they agreed) so I didn’t.

I couldn’t figure it out; in the end they showed me the solution and while it was easy in retrospect (a one-line recursive function) I wouldn’t have been able to figure it out.

That tanked the interview. Overall no hard feelings from either side and since then I’ve consulted for multiple clients and delivered successful solutions. I still wouldn’t be able to figure this out if this question came up again - realistically speaking this would never actually come up in my field of work (and when it does, I can Google it) so no big deal, but I guess they didn’t see it that way.
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I see you have an axe to grind, but those are two separate issues. And two different levels of government. The federal gov't does not issue stay at home orders.

FWIW I think this provincial gov't is mind bogglingly incompetent, and also a bit malevolent.
That's my point. Why isn't there a PDI for Tesla? As I said in my original comment, I'm guessing that's just the price we pay as consumers for Tesla's decision to not hold inventory and make cars to order.

imo, though, the "quality issue" with Teslas are greatly exaggerated. At worst, my 3 has inconsistencies between panels, but you don't notice unless you're looking for them.
Now I'm curious; who exactly told them to back off, and why?
It's surely a firable offense, but part of me is so tempted to give a dark-skin-tone thumbs up in Slack as a white guy.
They most definitely are. But they figured that aligning their interests with their users’ brings in quite a lot of money. Security and privacy certainly is part of the appeal of iOS devices, and strict sandboxing and app vetting is part of that. So is not having to leave your card details on the developer’s database every time you buy an app.
Seriously, every time I make a long recipe I wonder how that became the standard. It's not like everyone is on a cooking show where they lay out all the ingredients in the right quantities before they start cooking.
Yes, it will happen instantly.

Well funded app stores will just pay up front for exclusives. It’s completely standard practice in any comparable industry. Music, TV, Movies, books, podcasts, etc.

Developers might abstractly prefer to be on the main store, but some will be happy to take million dollar payouts from the marketing budgets of the new stores.

It’s hard enough for independents to be successful now, but once you have competing publishers like Epic in the game, the era of independent commercial app development will be over.
How often does your scenario happen?

If often, then there's a market for it.

If not often, then you're intentionally using a red herring to distract from the real discussion.
Although my immediate reaction to the Pyramid of Hate [1] was a similar jump to, “is this saying jokes will lead to genocide?!”, ultimately I don’t think that was the intent. People seemed to have interpreted it in different ways, specifically “You’re telling me I support genocide if I think someone’s name is funny?”

I think the people who brought the pyramid into the equation were pointing out how individual behaviors, in aggregate, lead to greater possibilities of increased oppression. I think it’s a simplification to say that they lead to genocide, because those sorts of results are dependent on many other factors (ie economic problems, political instability, etc). When combined, these factors result in greater oppression.

More apropos to the conversation regarding workplaces, I would consider them evolving into institutions where certain cultural norms are upheld. The more institutions within which a certain cultural norm is respected by individuals, the more other people/institutions in power have leeway to move in certain directions.

[1] https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/pyramid-of...
I bet they are using lidar to collect training data for their vision based depth sensing NN.
Maybe try reading the article.
This YouTube video breaks it down. Basically they are god awful for towing. https://youtu.be/S4W-P5aCWJs
Flash doesn't fail due to mechanical stress, it fails due to wear cycles which are limited in every case. In every PC or laptop I can replace the flash storge except in the newer devices of the famous fruity manufacturer.

And RAM may be reliable but when it's replaceable it means I can upgrade it and use the device for longer instead of having to buy a new device.
Yeah. It’s especially frustrating when recipes list ingredients like flour by volume.
Here's the best I could find... I was a little bewildered by this, TBH. I thought, as long as your political beliefs didn't cause a distraction at work to yourself or others, you were safe from being fired. Guess I was wrong. At least on a federal level. Different states have different rules:

https://sanfordheisler.com/can-you-be-fired-for-your-politic...
Looking at this, along with using all of Unity or Unreal's engine, make me think of the saying "standing on the shoulders of giants". I usually think of that more in an open source context, but the layers of abstraction that go into any area of modern computing are mindblowing at times. Humans are nuts.
In that same vein, shouldn't office dating/sexual pursuits be a no-no?
In fact they sell these noise makers, they're called BoomSticks and they also launch lethal projectiles.
Shunning is crap. Instead of resorting to such dark-age extralegal tactics, how about we get some prosecutors who do their damn jobs and prosecute criminal police? Unfortunately prosecutors are generally elected and many people don't want to admit the root of the problem is with the electorate who choose to elect and re-elect prosecutors who don't want to do their jobs.
https://archive.is/u27h4
I can say it's a lack of forward thinking policy. My city, for example, has a very small but visible homeless problem. The majority are housed in shelters and shared housing. The remainder are the mentally, pedophiles, and physically violent. There is also a quantity of pet owners, pets aren't allowed in shelters so they chose the streets, but will use the shelter's showers. Our chronically homeless count has gone down from 8,000 to just over 1,000.

SF strikes me as nice but not kind city. If you're destitute they'll give you a dollar. But building affordable housing is too far a step.
Yes you definitely have to get it installed by a licensed electrician (and possibly approved then by the local utility) if you are going to backfeed your own house.

It is good that people are aware of the risk, but in reality the risk is quite low. It is standard procedure for a lineman to ground a line he's about to work on, to mitigate the risk of any power source feeding it. But I'd never advocate a DIY setup. But damn near everyone I know with a portable generator has a suicide cord and just flips the mains. Ah well.
Ask HN: How does your company accept code test submissions?
My company is currently evaluating processes for accepting code test submissions from applicants for our various engineering roles. We have about four or five GIT repositories that have the "code test" project. Right now we're just doing a `git archive` and sending the .ZIP file to the applicants to complete, and then email their submissions back to us. This is obviously very manual and not ideal.

What we would like is to be able to host these "code test" repositories on GitHub (or GitLab or BitBucket) and just allow applicants to fork the repository and then submit their code test as a normal Pull Request. But the applicants' Pull Requests SHOULD NOT be public. This would be our ideal workflow.

How does your company handle code test submissions during the hiring/evaluation process?
It might also be 15% of what you purchased.
No one really jailbreaks for cracked apps. There are many small reasons to jailbreak. Most apps are paid via in app purchases that can’t be cracked. Very few apps are paid and popular enough to be cracked and not crash upon attempting to use. It is something that may have been true a decade ago. The cliche needs to stop ever since in app purchases took over most spending.
I'd check out coqui https://coqui.ai/

It's well-documented and works basically out of box. I wish the STT models bundled were closer to the quality of Kaldi but the ease-of-use has no comparisons.

And maybe with time it will surpass Kaldi in quality too.
TL;DW: it's got a clean, sweet, mildly acidic flavor.
Apple doesn’t let developers tell their users what Apple’s rules are, including the fact that up to 30% of their payment goes straight to Apple.

And of course people don’t know of all the good apps that never get to be on the App Store because of unwarranted rejections.

So people generally have no idea about most of the problems with the status quo.
I said the same thing then. The pre-print was public at that point and I had been following it since December, sharing thesis adviser doesn't make you associated with research conducted months prior.

Yes, they are bad patches and the research is also questionable. But this is not bad faith nor malicious.
I agree strongly!

The idea of some effort, cost, minor sacrifice or inconvenience for a common, public good is not strong here.

Couple that being basically as insular on a personal level as we generally are nationally, and we find more of us than we may expect are empathy challenged too.
Because twitch is a disaster, the openly hypocritical armpit of internet streaming. Less honest than an actual camgirl site, but preachy and idiotic at the same time.

What's the point of protecting their reputation when their reputation is the home of camgirls and hot tub streamers pushing their onlyfans pages already? At least if they were honest about it I could respect that, but they're not.

I hope they fail.
The test of "the people who like that kind of thing also like this" could also apply here to decide whether a stream is sexual or not. Recommendation engines cut both ways.
The problem is not the thinness of devices, but the fact that manufacturers go out of their way to make these devices harder to repair.

They include things like special screw, limiting sales of parts, and serializing parts so you can't use replacement parts to repair another.

The fact that certain devices or parts requiring specialist tool is a non-issue.
Yeah, our local utility won't let you feed the house from panels without grid power unless you also install a battery.
I’m a father of fraternal twins who will be 25 this year. One boy, one girl. My wife wanted to raise them in a gender-neutral environment - provide “boy” toys and “girl” toys and let them play with whichever they wanted. My wife was a stay-at-home mom so the kids never went to daycare.

What happened?

My daughter played with baby dolls - mothering them and taking care of them. My son? He ran around the backyard using sticks as guns. He also liked to use Barbie dolls as hammers.

My wife and I learned there’s some things girls like to do and some things boys like to do. It appears to be biological. We’ve known a few other couples who tried the same thing and had similar results. Leads me to believe the difference between the sexes is nature, not nurture, and probably goes back tens of thousands of years.
> Which is entirely irrelevant.

If it was irrelevant, Epic would have just created an Android store and let Apple go their own way.
>> No Autopilot. This is a big sell for many EV users.

Ford is targeting Truck Buyers, not "EV Users", and I can assure you Ford knows Truck Buyers, and i can also Assure you we do not care or even want Autopilot. We love to drive our trucks.

>>No comprehensive supercharger network.

I fully expect Ford to have this solved by the time the first Truck rolls off the line, I could be wrong but Ford has a ton of partnerships and pull. Hell even if the only chargers where at every dealership that would likely rival Telsa's network out of the box. However I fully expect deals to be made likely in concert with other Manufactures over the next 12 mos so I think this will end up being a non-issue

>>Software rollouts. Ford has been working on this but it is still not Solved.

I still not sure how I feel about this "feature", one of the reason I dislike Tesla is their belief they should be allowed to modify the car I supposedly bought from them anytime they want over the air. Treating the car like it was an Apple iPhone (which I also do not own)

Ford has a careful balancing act here. Ford owners want to OWN their truck, not rent it from Ford
They close down. Obviously you can't operate a retail store if that type of conduct is permitted.
>Once shops start closing down, people will ask and complain why stores don’t exist in their neighborhoods, or they’re too expensive but low quality.

And the answer by the people who implemented this policy will, no doubt, be “institutional racism” by walgreens…
Switch away from AWS global accelerator — seems like a common issue. CloudFront should be more than enough!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62380583/tls-connection-...
Err, that's not a definition, that's a example of pathologically useless 'documentation' that a perverse implementation might provide if it were allowed to 'define' implementation-defined behaviour by deferring to the hardware. Deferring to the hardware is what undefined behaviour is, the point of implementation-defined behaviour is to be less vague than that.

> may be documented to produce arbitrary results, and that documentation may be so vague as to be useless, but those overflow/null pointer checks are staying put. [emphasis added]

Yes, exactly; that is what undefined behaviour is. That is what "the standard imposes no requirements" means.
> Coinbase and Basecamp, which each lost 60 employees after their bosses changed the rules, have apparently been inundated with applications from people wanting to work for politics-free firms.

Basecamp had 57 employees at the time of their announcement. Are they down to -3?
Recalls work just fine, because in e.g. replacing a defective airbag, they don't also decide to swap your engine with a smaller one or repaint the interior and rearrange all the controls. It's mainly the forcing of unwanted extra changes that has caused people to refuse updates, and that is IMHO a problem that the software industry has entirely self-inflicted.
Isn't body positivity supposed to be celebrating bodies that aren't traditionally attractive?
> And reading further down, the article claims the change in magnetic field is slow. It's not. It's very fast.

The average speed of a CME is 500 km/s. I think they've been seen to go as fast as 3000 km/s. At 3000 km/s, that would take about 4 seconds to traverse the diameter of the Earth, and much longer to traverse the magnetosphere.

I would call that slow, especially compared to the timescale of the EMP from a nuclear weapon.
I was in downtown SF, in the Financial District. There’s a Walgreens there, run by a group of older Asian ladies.

A guy came in and started grabbing things from the shelf, and putting them in his bag.

The ladies started shouting “Thief! Shame! Shame! Shame!”

The guy left quickly.
Yeah, they should have made it such that Epic is required to say (“mention”) that any items purchased with V-Bucks from outside the AppStore cannot be used on the iOS app. I don’t see how advertising another platform in their iOS app would be fair, though. It’s not like you’d find it ok if Google pushed ads for the new Pixel phone on the notifications in their iOS apps.
Nobody is fighting over theological differences, they are fighting over land. Specifically, land that was conquered by the British who promised it to both parties, failed to manage a compromise, tossed the problem to the UN who drew up horrible borders, then allowed Israel to settle beyond those borders without consequence.

The entire history of this issue is roughly 100 years old and almost entirely due to imperialism and mismanagement, not some ancient bickering over who has the most correct supernatural beliefs. That’s a line we are taught to feel ok about ignoring the issue, which conveniently benefits Israel.
51% attacks don't destroy anything, they can temporarily censor transactions and have some ability to perform double-spends.
Its heavily paywalled.. I'd love to read it though
Unfortunately, in the never-ending struggle to force employees to conform to some platonic ideal of efficient production, companies have spent a lot of time and energy - not just in their own policy, but also in lobbying to the government and the public at large - trying to make work the center of the average American's life. Think of all the things you have to pass by your boss before making decisions about your own life: which doctor you go to, where you might live, when you might take time for yourself and your family.

So, this is the flipside. We're not like Germany or Sweden, where the means to simply exist are widely accessible outside of work, and where work ends when it ends, on the dot. Our companies spend millions and millions of dollars going over our heads to influence our legislative representatives, and seek ever greater and ever more direct influence on employees. You have to expect pushback. And political activism within companies, and pressure from employees for companies to be active in the way they desire, is the predictable - and, frankly, justifiable - form that that pushback takes.

Kick everyone out of the office at 5PM and you'll see a lot fewer people so invested in the political environment within and driven by their employers.
> Android is at 45% and apple is at 55%.

These are the wrong numbers to look at. App profits are what count here - that’s what Epic wants to tap into.
Try UK receipe sites - that's the default.

I recommend the excellent https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes
People don’t want to dig too much into it as either it will show it’s a problem, or show that advertising is ineffective.
Pedestrians should get the benefit first though, because they are not the ones choosing to drive cars. I’m much more OK with drivers making choices that hurt themselves than I am with them making choices that hurt other people who never had the option of choosing.
This was going to be my suggestion. Give an easy conversion so I can use weight for the dry ingredients.
I'm not sure why you'd assume if I can afford and am willing to buy a $50k truck that I wouldn't buy a $50k car or SUV. So now renting is in addition to that, and it's not as convenient.
All of this is available if jailbroken. There aren’t many people caring too much about most of these.

I personally enjoy parts of the first two. They aren’t deal breakers if I can’t jailbreak/root though.
My mom had a list of these. She used it as, "well ponder that, but it's not going to change.'

She also said:

"go sew buttons on your underwear" - what your doing is just about as useless

"and, if horses were wishes, beggars would ride" - stop wishing and just do it
If Apple is so concerned about user security & privacy when it comes to alternative app stores, they should adjust their policies so that the apps most users want will see no reason not to be on the App Store.
Great effort.

If I can make one suggestion that is admittedly very hard to implement, I'd think getting closer to the human way we'd describe certain units would be an improvement.

I think most people wouldn't say "Put in .11 sticks of butter", we'd say something like "Put in 1 tablespoon of butter". Or 6 ounces instead of .75 cups. Or 1 gallon instead of 16 cups. Etc.
Interviewer: At a rough estimate, how many birds are there in the entire world?

Applicant: 50 billion

Interviewer: Ah, I see you also read Hacker News!

/culture fit: check/
No, you will just not be able to shop in San Francisco. This is a massive country and San Francisco is a tiny city that doesn't even have a million people. There are over 9,000 Walgreens locations nationwide. The company will do just fine after closing a few dozen of them.
Hopefully they license it to Tesla so that my car stops misinterpreting 'call Jodie' as 'cool jodi'.
That sounds way better than the current “parrot the right politics as you’re told”.
Well, the major US cities like SF and Seattle have major issues you don't see in most European cities. It's very clear when visiting those places. The homeless and drug addicts are visible everywhere. It's not very pleasant to visit these places. I'm not trying to start a flamewar, just stating my experience traveling. The US is still my favorite place to travel, but outside of NYC not because of its cities.