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Users are on average incompetent, not dumb.

It's a dauntins realisation that sinks in once you have to do support for a web site or app catering to the general population instead of a niche.

They don't read, don't know the diff between an app and a web site, don't know right click or drag and drop, think google or chrome is the internet and overall their startegy to solve any problem is as follow:

- look for something obvious that seems like the answer but is not scary

- click

- wait for it

- repeat 3 times until ok or give up and call someone or get angry or both

Working on a streaming video site really opened my eyes on this one. Most tickets we received were insults, some were incomprehensible garbage, a few were actionable request from someone not understanding anything about their computer.

This is nothing like your github ticket. Your parent number are being generous IMO.
The problem here is that you're basing your conception of what is "good," "interesting," and "useful" based off of what you might discuss in an undergraduate class in Real or Complex Analysis.

The notion of cardinality and how we can have different "sizes of infinity" is an enormously important and interesting idea that comes up all the time in mathematics.
When it was just Netflix, piracy was almost dead. Now, it's going to come back, unless content distributors can find some way to work together.

Right. They need to swallow their pride and realise there needs to be a way to have one interface that shows you all the content you can access from the subset of services you subscribe to, in a searchable way. My Netflix shows, Prime shows and Foxtel shows should show up side-by-side in the interface. They can put a ribbon on it and/or an opening title to tell me who the distributor is.

Purchasable/rentable content can appear in a separate section, and when I can buy content from two or more services I have an account with, present them all and let me choose which one to use.
The problem with TCP is usually that you also have send buffers, of data that the client hasn’t acked, and receive buffers of data that the user space process hasn’t read yet. That state is a lot larger than just a tuple stored in a database.
Last, but by no means least, the biggest developers of AV technology have taken a methodical, predictive approach to development of their product. They don’t bring something to market until they’re confident it’s fully functional and safe. They’ve tested millions of traffic scenarios with highly trained backup drivers. They’ve conducted testing in geofenced areas and select cities and under specific weather conditions to ensure safety.

In contrast, Tesla has taken an iterative approach to development. Although its vehicles still face challenges sensing stationary objects, Tesla is selling its autopilot feature to anyone who can afford it. Rather than developing a finalized product, Tesla is testing self-driving features on the public and making changes along the way.

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Right now, federal regulations limit AV companies to building 2,500 self-driving cars a year that don’t have human-driver features like a steering wheel, mirrors, or pedals. Those rules handicap the development of true Level 5 autonomy. Congress should ease those constraints, and federal regulators should finalize a long-awaited “occupant protection rule” for AVs. Allowing companies that have developed safe, tested AVs to put their cars on the road could save hundreds of thousands of lives over the long term.

Meanwhile, until its own vehicles meet a reasonable definition of “fully self-driving,” Tesla should consider the impact its marketing is having on drivers’ expectations. An iterative development might have worked for Elon Musk when he was designing rockets, but self-driving cars carry human cargo, and the stakes are higher.
Hannah Montana Linux is a Unix-like Linux Operating System based on Kubuntu
> 1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

Without them it would just be like Hurd.
I think they may have meant to link this instead:

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8857...

there's also another reply to the parent with a link to the chromium issue tracker confirming this
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CEQA has been used to block or slow transit/climate friendly projects while single family homes and highways have proliferated. It hasn't done a good job and should be eliminated.
Yeah but after how long.. 5 years and 10s of millions
Not just footnotes but also comments. I never saw a reader mode app that handles comments. I would use it to switch on TTS and have the comments read aloud, this increases my focus.

Well, actually I have my own hand-made reader mode that works with comments as well, implemented as a bookmarklet about 10 years ago. But other tools can't handle reddit and hacker news for reading aloud.
A good knife is rarely a weapon. Even people who use weapons as part of their profession don't use the weapon very often.

vs a woodworker who could conceivably use a carving knife multiple times per day.

I'm good at fighting. Which is why I recognize it is a losing game.

Tools win. Build something.
Ask HN: How do you track your progress across multiple projects?
Hi, I'm curious to know what are the tools that you (or your company) use to keep track of your progress across different features/stages of a project ?

Also, what are some downsides of your tool ?
> Allo was trash from the beginning (why did it exist at all?)

Allo, like Tez, which is now Google Pay, was targeting the Indian market considerably by way of using phone numbers for identity, instead of the Google Account infrastructure that already existed. The lure was that it was supposed to be easier to setup and already had a social graph. I believe Allo and Duo were supposed to be complementary and fight against WhatsApp dominance. Tez “won” only because they were giving out cash. Allo obviously never did that.

But that’s why it wasn’t integrated into the rest of the ecosystem: it was a Google product but not tied to your account to try to fight against WhatsApp, et al., which left it on its own island, which didn’t work very well.
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>Feel free to stop reading this if your career is going great, you're thrilled with your life, and you're happy with your relationships. Enjoy the rest of your day friend, this article is not for you.

The disclaimer is woven neatly in the opening paragraph, above the delightful picture of Lenny and his large scarf.
I think 1TB[^] would be enough to hold most people's privacy concerns.

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I first ran Linux when a friend[1] at college gave me the boot&root floppy disks. I think it was the 0.96c.2 kernel and I remember being impressed that the "install media" (it was a distinctly manual process) were smaller than my slim paperback copy of "Portable Unix."

A year or so later, with high bandwidth connections in the UK still a bit thin on the ground, I downloaded the full 100 disk SLS distribution at work (a satisfying brick of disks).

The process was amusingly convoluted: using ICL's X25 email client I would email requests to a mail responder on one of the archives (funet I think?) for 64k uuencoded chunks of each disk. Then I saved the email, trimmed the header/footer garbage, stitched it into one file, decoded it to a binary, copoed it to a floppy, and repeated. It took about a week.

So just so you kids know, before you get off my lawn, I <3 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' :) It did used to generate a little cameraderie amongst us experience scarred afficionados though!

[1] jcday are you out there? I owe you one! :)
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Can artificially altered clouds save the Great Barrier Reef?
> Because web pages and simple web scripting is often done by non-professionals, who cannot be expected to follow standards processes in perpetuity to keep their pages/scripts working. They often author a few pages and move on with other things in life, which is why browsers being ultra-conservative about breaking stuff is important for the robustness of the Web.

I am a professional software engineer at my day job, and we strive to keep our software up to date etc as the world changes.

But I am also exactly this non-professional developer in my after-hours. I have written a number of little web apps that solve some small need, and I really have zero interest in maintaining them over time.

When I wear that hat, I really appreciate the conservatism of most web stuff.
I share you opinion. I'm a little bit horrified by anybody who is alright with digitally-represented information somehow "decaying". Why is that an acceptable thing? We should be working to create new less-volatile and longer-lived storage media, and to be documenting the specifications for the machines that process our data so that gate-level simulations can be made in the future.

Nothing we store digitally need ever be lost so long as some basic stewardship is performed. For now that means moving data to newer storage formats, making redundant copies, using error-correcting codes, etc. Maybe eventually we'll get the mythical "store all your data in a diamond" 3D / 5D holographic storage that always seems to be a few years off.
The same group that sued has also blocked new housing in Berkeley. This isn't a good faith lawsuit.
what do you mean, the courses with social political education? It was always there. From my education experience in the late 80s to 00s. But to be honest no one is ever taking it seriously and it's obviously a joke to students.
Every big boy UNIX would still be around, taking the best pieces of BSD that the community might have added, and probably NT OS family would have a proper POSIX subsystem.
The recurring calls for a "faster web" or a "safer web" are responses to problems for users that web developers, "tech" companies and their advertiser customers have themselves created. Users did not create these problems and yet, unless I am mistaken, these marketing campaigns for "pushing the web forward" are directed at users. As a user, I want those problems fixed but I am under no illusions about where they come from. It stands to reason that a user-controlled web would be much faster and much safer.
While things might have changed and improved at the back-end but this is impressive in 2021, makes it even more impressive in 2011 IMO
Poor idea in my view.

Going from "I have a claim that this entity exists", and when this can't be shown, adding the next claim: "There is an alternate reality/dimension/magistrate and we cannot see into it, and there is where this entity exists" adds yet another thing not being able to be proven, and sounds to me very much like Russels "and it is so small that our telescopes can't see it". So now you have two "teapots" stacked on top of each other that needs verification of some sort. Soon, Occam kicks in.

And no, "equally likely" is not a good statistical comparison of probabilities. One has observations that required dark matter/energy, the other.. not so much.

Sounds to me more like: 'all' scientists were once baffled by this, and also by that, so they are equal. Since they figured out parts the mystery of one of them, the other must be as real as the first.
> Finally! one that can import PDFs, a must have for tuning. For example, "Print to PDF" from the browser and import it in an editable format.

To be honest Boxy SVG is not the best tool for manipulating PDFs. It should be able to import most PDF files as it is using Mozilla's PDF.js library under the hood, but once you import the file you have to deal with limitations of the SVG format such as lack of support for multi-page documents, flowed texts and forms.

> My question, as you made it a PWA, why bother with Electron?

Electron-based apps feel much more native than PWAs on macOS, for example you can make the app use native menubar and tabs. The gap between PWAs and Electron/native apps is probably going to be closed at some point in the future: https://fugu-tracker.web.app/

> BTW, I bet you have it tasked, but having a shortcut profile selector with AI and Inkscape ones would help.

I will try to implement this functionality later this year, it is tracked on https://boxy-svg.com/ideas/42/keyboard-shortcuts-presets
You don't need antibodies to be immune. The body also develops T-cells which are much longer lasting.
Still…thanks for sharing.
“Kids” are actually the least vulnerable people, when it comes to this virus.
That is slightly wrong.

The launch-to-promo culture in engineering is real. But no engineer has any bearing on the "new product"-level decisions. What us mere mortals can do, is to try to convince the product management and UX designers to launch a feature in the vein of "clear the clutter" in Photos or "walk between nearby public transport stops to transfer" in Maps that we know how to implement.

But "replace Hangouts with a SMS client, personal chat, personal calls, enterprise chat, enterprise calls and some auxiliary apps" is definitely decided at VP or even SVP level. They don't get promoted on "code launched to production".
They sold out in minutes of the initial batch. Expecting a centralized bureaucracy to create this is so moronic I don’t even know where to begin. Or maybe I don’t understand your brilliant “communitized production” methodology but certainly it takes freedom away from entrepreneurs and results in higher taxes to fund some politician’s project.
100% of Web apps never turn off the phone.
This is super clever!
I’m afraid they aren’t as both ‘map’ and ‘flatmap’ are defined as a single function; ‘then’ (so it won’t hold true to the monad laws).
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Around here, people view him favorably but are wary because his choices make him look like an agent for Russia. I think it would change only after a pardon.
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but it could and did leak your images to random people for several months

not to mention the whole crypto debacle happening concurrently
Paywall bypass → https://archive.is/ghYCS
Have you seen peer review catch issues in papers you've submitted?

Of the papers I've submitted, exactly one received a quality peer review. The rest were nonsense. Both accepted and rejected papers clearly weren't read. All incentives align to giving a paper a quick skim and being done with it. NIPS showed the process is indistinguishable from noise in an experiment a few years back.

It's like QA testing with a six-sided die.
It's been a long time since I saw 'apenstaartje' spelled out somewhere.
Arguing won't work. Find a better solution, make it work so that it is easier, etc than Excel and only then suggest it to the PM. If that's too much work, then just grin and bear it. There are more important things in life than arguing with PMs.
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I am saying that even if you think it is extremely reasonable for them to act this way - then you have to admit that in pretty much every college town/renter town in America it is reasonable to act this way. If every single town acts this way it is really not good overall - since even homeowners have family/friends/customers who must now spend a huge amount on rent in large stretches of their life.

That is what I mean when I say it is coordination.
Or better still give the vaccines to countries and people that actually want them. Or is that much harder?
My main asset is the content I write and maintain. My tech stack is Craft CMS on Docker on Digital Ocean. Super simple stuff.

I think that Craft's data model allowed me to create a better website than if I used WordPress. It's trivial to create content types that aren't blog posts. You can have a real data model, with custom, interlinked post types and taxonomies.

Templating is also a breeze with Twig as its backbone.

I had issues, but they're caused by my own docker setup, and my aggressive caching practices. The lack of a plugin ecosystem is also frustrating if you're not ready to make your own.

The main issue is Redactor, the default wysiwyg editor. It's quirky to a point where I wouldn't feel safe letting someone else edit the website.

Edit: allaboutberlin.com
Ask HN: Where to find agencies/startups who could be my first few users?
Hi, I'm working on an automatic time tracking tool and I'm looking for agencies/startups who could be one of my first users.

I'm a good engineer but I've no clue where to find users in this domain. Please drop your suggestions in the comments.

Thanks!
> No, we are talking about a cabal of very few people (...)

Do you have any evidence that supports your accusation?

Meanwhile, the Reddit post you're commenting on has currently 140k upvotes.

That post is immediately followd by the repost on/r/TIFU that has 70k.

Shortly after, the post in /r/bestoff has 40k upvotes.

On the second page, /r/LeopardsAteMyFace shows up with the same post with 70k upvotes.

In /r/futurology that post got 27k upvotes.

On the third page, /r/YouSeingThisShit shows up with 25k upvotes.

I mean, how do you go from multiple subreddits on the frontpage of /r/popular with tens of thousands of upvotes to a conspiracy theory bases on the idea that all this is instead "very few people that disproportionally mod a lot of subreddits"?

Do you believe these upvotes are falsified and don't reflect support? Do you believe tens of thousands of registered users mindlessly upvote these posts even though they don't agree or support the message?
"I had Windows computers back in the day, late 90s, where I only upgraded the hardware, not the OS."

How would that be possible since Windows almost invariably came pre-installed by OEMs. New hardware would have the latest Windows version pre-installed. Downgrading would be extremely difficult if not impossible.
The work that most (even highly skilled) people do is more like playing chess or writing a novel than proving theorems.

Not pushing the boundaires of human knowledge, but requiring skills which are not easily learned without experience and within which there is a huge variation in human ability.

Can you really say that the existence of an agent (or a million) matching or exceeding the 100th percentile in many different skills would not be a massive change?
It's not information that is protected, it is the giving of advice. Giving it away without establishing a formal, confidential relationship with accountability is bad for so many reasons. Probably the biggest one is that if lawyers do it, they can be fined, or face other disciplinary action by their professional body.

Go to any for-lawyers-by-lawyers subreddit and they will happily explain why. Here's the Australian /r/AusLaw's explanation, linked in the sidebar and in a advice-request-detector bot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/auslaw/comments/zuv4m/why_cant_we_p...
According to TechCrunch it was initiated by the board: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/25/the-sec-and-the-doj-just-c...
Yeah, except Web apps use telemetry in every single request, to profit for marketing dashboards.

Spend some time learning about marketing solutions.

So native apps may use, Web uses it all the time.
Society locked me down for 18 months already without any regard of my individual wellbeing, risk tolerance and the fact that I got natural immunity early.

So why should I care about the well-being of the society?

(I still do, because I’m a good person, but I feel no “social contract” obligation whatsoever.)
... The article is about a single bit of potential churn that was significant because it was so unusual for the web to have churn in standardized features, and regardless the churn didn't end up happening. The web seems like a success story as far as backwards-compatibility goes.
I know nothing about finance but I'd love to understand how such a scheme can fool inverstors.

At the end of the day cashInBank==investment+sales-costs. How can close to $80 millions be missing on the balance sheet without anyone noticing!? Genuinely curious.
Nice! It looked like there were a lot of similarities. Fun language looking language you made.
I had never heard of the company before but really interesting how there was no due diligence by the financiers/VCs before they wired in the money. Is this generally the norm?

Also surprising that a company that became a unicorn at its last financing round didn't have a CFO and that the CEO 'maintained control over operations, sales, and record-keeping, including invoicing, and he was the final decision maker on what revenue was booked and included in the company’s financial records.'

Googled the person, apparently he co-founded a company previously that was acquired by Google and he claims to have previously served as the CTO of Zynga and holds 60 technology patents - so perhaps the stellar credentials were a check in the column against auditing financials.

Other tidbits:

- Founded in 2015:
- Series A: $11 mil (at inception)
- Convertible Notes: $24.7 mil (Apr '17 to May '18)
- Series B: $20 mil (Sep/Oct 2018) | valuation: ~$500 mil
- Series C: $60 mil (Nov '19 to Jan '20) | valuation: ~$1.1 bil

While raising Series C round, overstated ARR by about $51 to $55 million in investor presentations. And after audit (in May 2020), valuation dropped to about $300 million.
Bad for the environment, and why we're dependent on foreign oil.
It's also worth reading from the same author the update on the same matter: Breaking the web forward[0]

[0]: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
Yeah, sure. I like desserts. I’ll eat a tasty looking one if presented with the opportunity. But it doesn’t mean I want my kitchen or living room filled with desert ads.
https://blog.whatsapp.com/on-e-millio-n?lang=en English version
What thing? Adding the current leadership 'works' to curriculum? From my education since the 90s it's always the case. No students ever take these 'social political conscience' courses seriously. Most regard them as a joke and a scoring tool to join the party (that is if that's advantageous to their undergraduate degree). At least what I know.
And yet increasing cases of such censorship are exactly what we observe. A recent extreme example was an Oxford professor of epidemiology who had his post removed for 'false information'. They're also outright banning all News in Australia now: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/02/18/exper...

>feel free to "lobby" the mods about it.

Sure, we both know they won't remove you. If I were an elite and actually had the power to have your voice removed from all popular platforms, as well as access to Visa transactions and banking etc. like it happened to Jones, you'd still support it, right?

It's of course known these Silicon Valley corporations aren't really multi-billion dollar businesses, but collectivized people who have personhood and free speech rights. By creating oligopolies and controlling what information we view, they only exercise their rights as citizens the world.