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At least in the urban northeast, the number of non-corporate restaurants that allow their employees anything more than a couple <5 minute smoke breaks is vanishingly small. I've worked in about 20 restaurants, clubs and bars and restaurants in several cities in this general area over 25 years, and had thousands of coworkers with the same experience. It's a very common griping topic.
Also a "reader app" is whatever Apple felt a reader app is, it's not something specific that an app should be.
Personally, I think part of it is that it hasnt been done well yet. Everyone focuses on one problem instead of looking at the entire experience holistically.

A feature that rarely gets put at the top of the list is true collaboration. Traveling with just a spouse or with a group, multiple participants have different wants, needs, preferences, interests. Maybe one person is in charge of travel logistics, one in charge of food, one in charge of activity discovery.

There's not enough auto scheduling where you say "we want two days of rest, one day of museums, and to eat out 4 time" where it fills in the rest.

Good collaborative travel software needs voting. It needs a way for teams of people to make wishlists and then helps determine which will work out the best. Is it smart enough to notice between 3 people they picked 3 different mexican restaurants, so it should probably figure out which of those 3 is the best, or ask if you want to eat mexican 3 times.

Maybe everyone saying it cant work just cant see how great it could be. If it was Apple level "it just works" a group of friends might click "plan a trip" and swipe through some options for a while, JUST FOR FUN, and an hour later have a complex entire everything booked. It could even include some Splitwise/escrow functions. It could help you use the right credit card for the right purchase. It could help you maximize points across vendors. When I travel as a family, vs when I travel with friend group A vs when I travel with friend group B, the brand of rental car may change depend on the best available deal given our different memberships. Ideally, this software has everyones usernames and passwords and knows how to access loyalty only pages from the vendors. Theres TONS of little complex interactions in travel that could be abstracted away by smart machines. If you think a group spreadsheet is the answer, we dont have the same type of friends. I'm not unleashing an 8 or 12 year old on the master plan vacation spreadsheet, but they can swipe through Orlando options all day long.

A way for it to be "used every day" is for it to aggregate Yelp and Google Reviews, and local events and let you plan more than just out of town travel. "What are we doing before the concert on Saturday, do our babysitters have the schedule?" Another way to make it "used every day" is to just make it damn fun to use. Friend groups sitting around, swiping and daydreaming about dream vacations they might never take. Does nobody sit around and bullshit like "we should go to Florida." "I want to go to Nashville." "How about Gulfport." "As long as it has casinos." Then once an amazing trip is planned, impulse takes over and everybody says fuck it lets just do it. Vegas doesnt need to be the only impulse destination.
If and when Apple is forced to allow other app stores (and Google is forced to give them the same abilities and privileges as their own), the wailing and gnashing of teeth when “competition” ends up like the much derided state of PC gaming will be hilarious. At least there’s the login with google/Apple ID thing and OS level restrictions on program privileges?
I really like this talk on the topic called "Stop Treading Water: Learning to Learn":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8KcCU-p8QA
Many companies (where I live) provided the option of moving company office (chair, desk, monitor .. etc) to the employees' apartments, and most of these companies pay moving fees as well. I personally have an office already, so I didn't need that. Some other companies [3] gave Cash Bonus to help people.

In EU, I have seen different opinions on who should pay for home office. In Germany, some entities pushed to introduce *WFH Tax* for those who work remotely (those who work from home need to pay a fee/tax), you can read more details here [1][2]. In Switzerland, the government asked companies to pay a share of rent for employees working from home[4].

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/deutsche-bank-proposes-a-5pe...
[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54876526
[3]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57750142
[4]: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/court-decision_companies-must-p...
Epic only has to pay out ~$4 million for their "damages" so it's largely moot and ceremonial for them. Nevertheless, I agree with you that it seems contradictory.
This is an interesting topic, but simply put one learns better when enthusiasm and joy is there... small children learn by playing and that is the natural way of learning, so i would say if you can play with your topic you can learn it and the knowledge will stick because there is an emotional attachment to it. Research on this topic has been done by Dr. Gerald Hüther professor and neurobiologist. Also you can look up how unschooled kids learn (since there is no school they play all day long) and even succeed very easily when they decide to pursue college degrees... that brings lot of insight on how we as humans learn about the world around us (and the topics we like too)
Kitchen gloves.
> This person really just needs to lean into Emacs harder.

hehe, +1

leaning into it harder means understanding it better, the internals, why it works and why it does things the way it does.

Now only if our phones were lisp machines.
DTAP is not near 100% at preventing, required for schools, and needs lifelong boosters.
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The headlines for this are all over the place.
And a great example of this? Airbnb. Pretty much disproved the entire post.
I thought your point was that Manjaro isn't afraid to try to introduce commercial software into the default installs...

(The FreeOffice version included was essentially feature-limited shareware, also requiring registration after 30 days)
The compliance costs aren't what worry me. The part that worries me is ending up with FIPS but even worse everywhere. Just because of how slowly it evolves and how people are stuck on old things because of that.
The work that coined the term meritocracy was actually describing a dystopia - for the very reasons you mention around education:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
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I am a design technologist [1], so I end up doing things when specialists are too busy or unavailable or they don't exist. I do research, build prototypes, design interfaces, and even write growth strategies.

Over the years, I have to learn things ASAP to get things in place before world breaks loose. I follow an approach that I call : SPOTS. It stands for Survey, Prioritise, Organise, Test, Show. Lets go through it one by one :

1. Survey : Collect all possible things you need to know about a new topic or thing. Make a mind-map. Do not forget to check out academic sources for possible models. Reddit and HN are cool places to look. This should be done in a time boxed manner.

2. Prioritise : Now we bring the goal and see our mind map in context. So, you want to build an app and you know, say, Nuxtjs. How can you do it so you have to acquire as little skills as possible. Or you want to write a research protocol for conducting a simple user test for a product. This step will help you find possible ways to reach goal. Now, you have a prioritised way to achieve the goal and maybe have a sense of how things could be.

3. Organise: This step is very important. The prioritised 'knowledge elements' have to be revisited again and again. Using a small notes app or Athens[2] you can make a list of key steps or if its a tutorial, the major steps. In short, take notes. This will help you bring more clarity in terms of various approaches you can use the knowledge elements. Say, you need to use low power mode on ESP32, you have the documentation + sample code and you know how it works.

4. Test ( or Try) : Now you need to keep trying and testing the various arrangements of knowledge elements and what works and what not. Dont get attached to any particular way. Keep figuring out. With code etc it is easier, with research (and human things), test things with friends or cousins. The idea is to be iterative and see if we are able to get to the goal. Iteration is the key. Sometimes you might need new 'knowledge elements' that you might have missed out.

5. Show : This is the most important and something all good humans should do, as philosophers would say, further the epistemological understanding of humans— write a f#$king blog, post a documentation, or answer a stack overflow, heck at least make a tik-tok. This will make sure, if someone gets stuck solving the same problem in the future, your knowledge element will help them. Also, it cements the concepts for you as well.
sings "You may say, I am dreamer...But, I am not the only one"

[1] http://rohitg.in/portfolio/ or http://rohitg.in

[2] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
Sure, this is my attempt to learn CompTIA Network+ :

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjzG1BVufekQgscNkc27rVB9QMApWQ

(This is a onedrive link - hope it works!)
Apple Trial Ends in Mixed Verdict After Epic’s Monopoly Allegations
Nice, my pet fish has a private office that looks really similar!
Personally, I'd prefer the submission title kept the webpage title's "Open-source headless commerce engine". Much more descriptive of what it actually does. Some Shopify customers use it headless but I'd be surprised if even the majority do.
Fish shell's joke tagline is "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s".

I believe that the developer experience for all sorts of tooling has improved dramatically over the last 15 years or so, coinciding with GitHub's rise in popularity.

e.g. the plugin ecosystem for Vim or Emacs have improved, let alone options like VSCode. Tools like Vagrant made it easier to work with VMs. Containerised workflows have similarly improved some cases. Languages like Go-lang or Rust seem pretty nice in some cases. etc.

Shells are also the kind of thing that developers use. I don't believe bash is the best we can practically get. -- Though.. I have heard of other, fancier shells; (or cool ideas like https://ambrevar.xyz/lisp-repl-shell/ or http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html). These haven't caught on.
I guess the judge's logic is that Epic could have sued without breaching the contract first, even if the contract was actually illegal. I don't agree that it should work that way, but the damages are immaterial. The bigger issue is: can/will Apple permanently terminate Epic's developer account for breach of contract and prevent them from releasing Fortnite despite this ruling, and possibly even cause problems for Unreal on Mac? It seems to me that they can.
Thank you!

We're close to hitting our next milestone, about ~20 users away. This will allow us to purchase more commercial data licenses to expand our current coverage.

Growth is tricky as we'll need a healthy marketing budget to put us in front of enough potential users. I think we'll need to start raising capital once we hit our next milestone. Capital would also allow us to start working on this full time, which we currently are unable to.

That's an interesting approach, I think we have plenty of work to do on FINLO, so I wouldn't want to spread ourselves too thin. I go back and forth between having a free, limited plan or sticking with our current trial and premium system.
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TripIt's been a great product for a long time, but not the kind of app he's talking about.

The article is referring more to pre-trip planning for leisure travel, which is a very popular product to build but never successful. I've seen new ones pop up each year since I started working in travel 10+ years ago, and none has ever achieved scale.

FWIW TripIt was acquired by Concur in 2011 for about $100M, so it was seen as valuable, at least to Concur, as they were able to make it part of their offering to corporate clients, which generate huge revenues for them.
The ruling explains the logic near the last page of the decision -- it's basically "Epic didn't have to break their contract in order to sue". I think it's the judge slapping Epic on the wrist for grandstanding, even though they basically-won.
Auburn University in the United States was big on Ada in the 90s but eventually Ada was mostly replaced by Java after 2000. One of the popular Ada IDEs, GRASP, was developed there.
> For general content sites, it’s not good to be too different from the mean.

The mean is decided by those designing sites and they are overwhelmingly younger people - in fact, usually they're among the youngest of all adult workers - and it shows. If sites were designed for the mean amongst society then the move would be to larger fonts.

Personally, I welcome sites that use larger font sizes, I'm not sure why I need to strain my eyes one iota for text in a virtually infinite space. I know I'm not alone (though perhaps for different reasons). Deviating from the mean would work for a substantial part of the population who are currently treated like second class citizens on the web.

> But once you’re in the range 16–18px, going larger just doesn’t help—the people that want to go larger will (or should) already be used to going larger by zooming in,

I've had to show several oldies how to zoom. They do get used to it because they have to.

> and you’re making life harder for everyone else by preventing the screen from fitting much content at once.

Do the people who need this not know how to zoom out?
UK supermarket shortages will be permanent, trade body says
Yeh, that's science. As we learn more the guidance is refined. Generally speaking for decades the guidance has been to eat a well balanced diet—that hasn't changed.

There is also a second issue, government agencies have been co-opted by industry to make recommendations not supported by the science. I'm specifically thinking about recommendations around fat&sugar, the same thing you called out that indicates the problem is not the science but rather regulatory capture.
I think each has its benefit and you need all three

Cardio - Keep your heart health up and for endurance

Weights - Strength training

Yoga - A neurologist I was talking to mentioned yoga, because it builds balance, something that as you get older gets worse, especially in older people where most injuries are because of falls. Besides that I just like doing yoga after weights to stretch.
I just dislike HDMI for a lot of reasons. That is one problem. Another problem is HDCP. Those aren't the only ones. I would prefer to connect audio and video separately. HDMI doesn't have captions. etc.

Due to this, I have my own specifications (not fully written, although I did write a lot of it), which are much simpler than HDMI. (It has digital video (with no inherent picture size limit, although implementations would be limited), analog audio, and an optional IMIDI (which is a two way command stream; it is safe to avoid connecting it). The IMIDI can be used for captions as well as for control, and can also be used with IR, as well as with the special IMIDI port.) (These would be fully free, although there may be trademark licenses (perhaps to avoid many of the problems that HDMI and others have) but no other restrictions.)
I’m reading Tom Sharpling’s memoir right now and he mentions noticing as a teenager that his comedic skillset was better than his peers. One thing that stuck out to me was that he’s able to string one thought to another easier than most.

I found it interesting because I hadn’t thought about comedy being about making connections in a funny way but that’s what a lot of it is, and some people are probably predisposed to make those connections with less effort.
The Limitations of Existing Deep Learning Frameworks: Dynamic Scheduling
This article, starting from the key issue of thread pool allocation, introduces the computation graph scheduling mechanism, discusses the defects of the traditional frameworks using dynamic scheduling and the problems of setting the optimal number of threads, as well as explains the more elegant solution implemented by OneFlow.
I don't find myself in either a pro-Epic or anti-Apple stance but I believe this is the best outcome for the industry. I'm less interested in having competing stores on iOS and more interested in building businesses that have a mobile component.

At this point the app store is so crowded there's no way Apple can say it's "providing the customer" but still demands an incredible amount of money for what they provide developers.

Hope this sticks. Couldn't care less if Epic gets allowed back on.
It does apply to troubleshooting in other languages though. Tryin to fix my dad's French software issues over the phone when my own computer uses the English version of the software is its own version of hell.
Watching “Threads” made me realize I want to be at ground zero if I’m ever in the vicinity of a target for a nuclear strike.
“ 650,000 people have died and that's with taking some pretty extreme precautions (for what we consider extreme anyway). It's not just the old or the infirm. Healthy people in their 20s and 30s. Toddlers. We have gone to war over much less.”

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

Given that 10% of the population has been exposed at this point that makes likelihood of dying in the young age ranges extremely low. So many commonplace things people do in these age ranges have a vastly higher chance of causing death.
My company never really went remote. I would more describe it as office-from-home. And most are going back to the office 4 days a week.
Reading only a snippet of the opinion, 100% chance of appeal. At the very least, the court effectively says it has no authority as to why it can issue a nationwide (instead of statewide) injunction; you'd be a fool to not at least appeal that. The fact that the court also came to a different decision from both Apple and Epic as to what constitutes the appropriate market for determining monopoly also seems like it would be fruitful grounds for appeal.

Will Apple win? I don't know 9th Circuit or the applicable law anywhere near enough to answer that question.
TripIt is owned by or at least integrated with Comcur which is owned by SAP. It’s extremely useful especially for business travel. When you have 3 or 4 trips in various stages of planning it’s useful to see what you’ve booked and what you haven’t.
The don't get bored part is really important. If it's not something you are required to learn, but instead you want to, then keep being interested and passionate is the best thing. There's no use in trying to optimize your learning at the very beginning if you drop it entirely in a month
Honestly in some cases, yes. Subscription in-app purchases are the only subscriptions I have ever signed up for that are easy to cancel.

I prefer to subscribe to services through in-app purchases over the service's website itself because it's always easy to cancel subscriptions made through Apple, and I never forget I'm getting charged because I get payment receipts.
When you get hacked and your account is destroyed, at least all your eggs won't be in one basket.

There are always pros and cons.
They seem to have ruled only that you can’t prohibit links to alternative payment methods (which would not be IAPs). You can still prohibit alternative actually IAPs, so Epic’s alternative IAPs must pay the fee.

Edit: Note that this a descriptive statement regarding the ruling, not a normative statement of my opinion.
It means that our political and economic system is set up to favor the rich. Our healthcare system is a good example. It works well for the top 1%, but overall we pay more and get worse healthcare outcomes than almost any other developed country.
Yeah, I do this with the channels I like and save them directly to my DLNA server at home using a systemd timer (i.e. cron job).

I patreon the channels, and an added bonus is no ads. I don't care too much about deleted videos, and when YouTube Premium Lite rolls out to the USA I'll pay for that (I don't listen to music so YouTube Music features are wasted money for me)
I think this is not a very charitable interpretation of what I was trying to say, so based on your reaction I probably did not make myself very clear. My qualm is that Facebook alleges that something as innocuous as putting some tape on a piece hardware you bought is a breach of contract, and might thus essentially render your hardware unusable. For a comparison, you wouldn't expect your car to become immobilized because you put a sticker on it. Body cams of different shapes and sizes have existed for many years at this point, many of them built for the express purpose of covert filming, so this device isn't anything too new in that regard, if not for the new form factor.
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I'm in the same boat. Even for nontrivial shell scripts just having shellcheck around, assuming bash availability everywhere and treating `set -euo pipefail` (optionally -x bit too for some scripts) as a required header means I'm very happy writing and reading shell scripts.

The only thing I've seen after well over a decade of Linux usage on desktop and servers that I've thought "this shouldn't have been a shell script" was xdg-open. But even then when things when wrong I was glad it was a script I could easily tweak and debug, at least.
This doesn’t stop Apple from controlling which apps can be installed. It stops them from using a link to external payment as a criterion.

I do think this will have some effect that you describe (e.g. perhaps Epic suffers a breach in their payment system) on the end user side but it’s not as bad as the android store situation. if anything it will make iOS users more attractive to devs as they can now keep a larger percentage of IAP sales.

But when IAP costs less than 30% I expect all paid apps to go the IAP route.
I'm wondering if anyone here on HN actually knows if any of this has teeth and if corpos are legitimately worried or if it's more of a feint. I'm generally skeptical of SEC enforcement.
I seem to recall reporting around some Supreme Court ruling that was phrased as "there is a ruling but the question is still undecided". It may have been Google v. Oracle, where it didn't say APIs are copyrightable or not, but Google's use fell under fair use irrespective of that. So just the existence of a ruling doesn't mean there is an answer to the question that was asked.
I don't think all companies should be forced to maximize democratic values, but the ones like Facebook that have become so large that they are used by 2/3 of the people in the country absolutely should.

A local website with a few hundred users shouldn't be held to the same standards as one that has made itself a dominant factor in public discourse.
I mean, the tweets are funny, but the guy gave the fridge his email address at a time, no? So what was the expectation?
Definitely steeling myself for a long hard slog to get to a decent standard, but fortunately I can be very motivated when it comes to things this interesting!
They also get their food deliveries from the opposing party, so maybe we’ll see something else.
Maybe you made it then. Most places I see only recreated the office-from-home, failing to actually create a culture of remote work.
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