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I used to work in mobile web development. Playing with Android devices always felt sub-par. Not to mention, having to support Samsung's web browser was just terrible. I realize Samsung has gone to great lengths to try and make a beautiful experience. And truly, the whole fold-able (while not really my thing) is an advance in an interesting direction.

I did use an Android phone around 2010 (Nexus One) and it was "just okay". This was pre-iMessage. Now it really is annoying to have someone make the chat "go green". "So and so liked your message". I've seen people set up iMessage gateways just to get around this... but it's just not ideal.
I hate to say this, but OSS anarchism is not going to work. Most people cannot really work or live with those devices.

This is a problem that needs to be solved with legislation, lobbying, superPACs, and candidates who are not ethically flexible.

The solution to bad government is not "no government" and the solution to bad company behavior is better rules.
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1 - https://www.framer.com/motion/

2 - https://popmotion.io/
I agree about the pharmacist - but the drug regulator really does have to have a role. There is a serious information imbalance between patients and doctors and both big pharma and lunatic talkshow host millionaries. Regulation is important to help prevent junk getting pushed into kids arms to make bastards money. It's not perfect and they get a lot wrong, but without it you and I are at the mercy of some very mercy short people.
Software developers are a large and massively growing market segment. That's not niche.
I'm also in my 50s and recall when it was completely taboo. Except I worked at a startup a few years back where I was told going in that we were all making the exact same pay from engineers to CTO. We all knew it was below-market pay, but it was supposedly so the company could bootstrap. One day I was having a conversation with a Russian co-worker (on an H1-B, I think) and I said something along the lines of "we're all making $XK/month which is about 25% below market, but hopefully we'll get some funding and that will change soon...". The look on his face told me that something was wrong. "You're making $Xk/month?!" he said. "Yeah, you are too, right... right?" "No, he replied, $2K/month less." I was really surprised because this guy was doing pretty much all of our hardware development and he was pretty brilliant. Shortly after he went to the CEO and (rightly) demanded parity.
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This is business as usual in all industries. Companies don’t value tenure and you’re often better off changing companies for promotion, salary increases, etc.

To be honest, $3k sounds like a tiny variance. I frequently see 20-30k differences on middle management roles. Often 10%-30% differences. Getting several years of 3% increases can put you well behind the market.

This is one of the reasons salary bands are so wide. Employers don’t want to bring current staff up to market but want the ability to hire top talent. Also, there’s a fair bit of budget exceptions that get made when a great candidate comes along (whether they’re great or not, TBD)
I think that's the point that GP is making -- they were contrasting a straightforward approach to their mother's more euphemistic explanation, which was unsatisfying to them as a child.
As far as I can tell, the meta solution here is open source hardware and software. Otherwise it just doesn't matter who is doing this, why they do it, or who is affected.

The core issue is the lack of end to end encryption and open source hardware and software. Options today are okay, but they need to be great to reach the right people. See my post in this thread about Pinephone and Librem.
> I think to reduce social media to some of the crappy jobs it does serve artificially diminishes what it can be.

I agree completely with this. The article takes two bad parts of social media and assumes that those are the only uses for it. You've mentioned more. There's also keeping connected in a group context with family and friends that are scattered across the globe. I have an active family group in which my family shares pictures of nephews/nieces, vacation, and more - all stuff that helps keep us close when we can't see each other for long periods of time. I have an active friend group with my college roommates that does the same - when one of them discovered that his spouse was having an affair, we could all support him together.
Full openness is a good first step to make this insane system a little better. Next step would be for hospitals to quote the same price for the same procedure no matter if or where you are insured. I can’t think of another business where prices are different by hundreds of percent for different customer groups.

Also get rid of the whole in and out network system.
Yup. In the UK the benefits of owning are clear, but the entrance requirements can be very high.
That is a damn clever solution for one off landing pads. I wonder if a man portable "pad gun" could use the same idea, without throwing the human off the surface, to make a more permanent pad.
One of the features listed: "An interface for controlling THAT digitally to develop analog-digital hybrid programs"
This is potentially very interesting for certain regional operations if the price is right. It’s good to have a little bit of competition against cellular.

However, nothing really competes with the coverage of cellular networks yet. Even this press release boasts about being present in 29 states. An impressive accomplishment, but it’s a non-starter for any mass market products.

If the price is low enough then this could be very attractive for local applications like sensor monitoring, smart meters, and other low bandwidth operations.
Can I have 30? I need to get to my hyperloop pod faster.

Those modern transportation 'solutions' are a sign of local maxima of current city design. A bad design that cannot scale any further.

So maybe instead we start on fixing cities?
Probably a walled city is the only way to achieve that. Such a setup is like a closed mailing list in which all participants have to pass an 'entrance exam' of some kind.

This kind of setup imposes a cost for rude, nasty, aggressive and destructive behavior - since you can simply be excluded from the group in that case.

This is how most of the world works on a day to day basis; you don't let random people into a corporate strategy meeting or an academic council meeting. You only admit people who agree to abide by civil society rules.

Something like that can be incredibly useful, but it requires a lot of up-front organizing effort. Also, malicious types have been known to sneak into say, a closed mailing list, and leak the internal discussions to Twitter or whatever, so...
The longer and more impassioned the goodbye6ever post, the sooner you know the author will return.
Yeah, I admitted it on my SF-86, and while it prompted them to interview more people, and delayed my clearance by about six weeks, it all worked out fine. They don't really care if you've smoked weed. They don't even care if you're still smoking weed (although you have to play the "it was in the past" game). They don't care about this kind of stuff. What they care about is what you're trying to hide, because if you're hiding something, you can be blackmailed. So just fess up and you'll be fine. Try to lie or cheat, and you're blacklisted for life, and rightfully so.
Improving flight control automation is useful, and relatively straightforward. The hard part is emergency procedures. If an engine fails then should the system attempt to compensate with the other engines, or trigger the ballistic recovery parachute? Does the optimal response change if you're at 50ft altitude instead of 500ft?

The general problem with relying on automation is that software developers can't necessarily anticipate and code for every possible failure mode. Whereas an experienced human pilot at least has a chance to invent new solutions in real time based on knowledge of first principles. For a prime example look at how Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger intentionally disregarded parts of the official checklist during the US Airways Flight 1549 emergency because he recognized that the procedure hadn't been written with their situation in mind.
Yet, this drug was approved solely on it's ability to reduce amyloid plaque, without any cognitive effects.
I'm pretty sure that the newest iPhone is always the most important iPhone ever.

I will say, though, that the camera improvements are awfully appealing to me even though I would never in a million years upload anything to YouTube, Instagram or TikTok. We use the camera a lot on our phones, and these are good improvements and better battery life is also nice.

The weird thing is the thought that you need to upgrade phones frequently. It is important and good for a manufacturers to make frequent improvements to their products. That doesn't mean you should upgrade constantly. If you have the previous model, complaining that the upgrade is small implies that you are on some sort of yearly upgrade cycle - which is bad.

A few months ago, we had a 5c, an SE 1st gen and an 8 as our family phones. AT&T said the 5c was too old to be on their network, so now we have the SE 1st gen, the 8 and an SE 2nd gen. I'm now considering the 13 mini to replace the SE 1st gen - and that's a really big upgrade.
Every joke is a risk. Jokes are, at their very core, a violation of expectation. So whenever one is made there is a risk of rejection and offense being taken.
>>>> Cookie Monster carries a pipe in one recurring parody—and then eats it.

>> Translation of "pipe", into European? Intrigued!

> I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water.

In the context of the warning, I think it was talking specifically about a tobacco pipe (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_pipe), not a generic pipe used for liquid transport.

So it seems more of an issue of not wanting to model certain behaviors for young children that are now considered dangerous.
People greatly mis understand this point. Renting really is cheaper in the short term than buyng, especially if you can get a multi year lease. I’ve rented many single family houses in my life, and always, without fail, the rent was less than what the current mortgage (with minimal downpayment) + upkeep. This delta also tends to grow as the value of the house goes up.

So a very valid strategy is to rent, and take that delta and put it in an index fund. This won’t outperform a mortgage in a very hot market, but you will still likely be able to live “rent free” after 30 years of this strategy with a 4% drawdown on just that account.

The main argument I like for home ownership is that it really helps force this savings, since many have a hard time not spending money on frivolous things.

That said, I finally bought the house I was renting 6 years ago. Mostly it was a hedge against raising rents. My area was seeing 10%+ yearly rent increases. So far it turned out to be a smart play, but interest rates could have gone up a couple points, and I might uave been underwater for several years.
Conceptually, there is an important distinction between "mechanism" and "policy." There are many, many mechanisms for handling legal/technical control/ownership/system of record/etc. This is a problem with solutions that date to the beginning of civilization. Whether mechanism is pieces of paper in a vault or replicated records in different jurisdictions or hashes on blockchain matters only on the margins.

Policy is the hard part. What happens when mechanism fails or when the parties relying on the mechanism have disagreements about the implications. When there is disagreement about which blockchain is authoritative. (Sometimes blockchain people call this "governance" and wish to solve it also with mechanism.)

Anyway, there are good reasons for human organizations to act in a policy/governance capacity. One may think of any particular organization as flawed, which is no doubt true. But in any context where people depend on the mechanism working "correctly" people are the only participants who can provide that assurance.
I've read a few books recently that referred to Alzheimer's as type 3 diabetes, since the root cause appears to be insulin resistance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_3_diabetes
>trust the WHO not to use masks early in the pandemic

That one was a very interesting story. The best informed people made rational decisions to mask up, semi informed believed the bad advice to do without, the least informed acted randomly.
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Sales GTM's have changed drastically. The movement from Sales led to marketing led to now product and community led is something that can be added to this analysis. Software is no longer bought by CIO's. The user and the buyer are the same for most SaaS companies and ARR is generated through the product now
Open to other ways of taking action. What are you doing to support the solutions you describe?
Yes, if a huge organisation tries to manage a huge software project top-down in waterfall fashion, it’s easy to imagine how things might not end well. I’m not sure anyone here is advocating that, though; certainly I am not.

My original comment on the Agile Manifesto, which seems to have attracted most of the responses I’ve read here today, was only intended to make the point that without knowing what you’re trying to build, you have no way to define whether or not you have succeeded. I therefore don’t think it makes much sense to talk about valuing working software over comprehensive documentation in general terms as the Manifesto does. You can only know your software is working to the extent that you know how it’s supposed to work in the first place.
100%. That's what Apple got right then and one of the reasons why Linux has never been able to really penetrate the desktop or professional desktop market. Otherwise you're constantly debugging things that should Just Work like external displays, random device drivers, etc.
If you're seeking performance, stick to Common Lisp? https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/how-to-write-slow-rust-cod... they sweat to great lengths to beat the non-optimized original Lisp program^^ (for ML-style type checking, check out the newly released Coalton library) TLDR; when talking Lisp, CL has still much to show.
Gates are built using transistors that are designed and biased so that they "threshold" themselves. You can just-about rig a gate so that it's output will be uncertain; but in general, gates are not amplifier circuits with some kind of threshold on the output. They are intrinsicaly electronic switches.
At least the SSD is removable / upgradable, unlike what I have seen with Apple's laptops. For a typical Windows laptop I would still go for a Framework Laptop rather than this.

This is for those who use Adobe software or use graphics intensive software / games on Windows and want to ditch their Wacom tablet. Microsoft once again surprises us with this impressive laptop and integrated graphics.

Question is, is the price worth it against a high-end Framework Laptop, Steam Deck or the upcoming M1X MacBook Pro? We'll find out soon.
The best parents are those without kids.
I think it's a bad analogy.

A clock losing a random number of seconds per day is actually correct more often than a stopped one.
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Out of curiosity, do you condider Reddit to be social media?

To me, HN is just a well-maintained subreddit (pseudonymous, karma-based voting system, recency bias, etc.)
Of course it's not lol, like anything Blockchain it adds no value and makes everything it touches worse. If Apple loses their domain NFT should they what, just re-brand the business?

There's a reason we have a chain of trust and authority leading all the way up to the supreme court and not just "yolo, SFYL."

[edit] Like all the distributed identity plays, "not your keys, not your life" is such an asinine model to try and foist on people.
"Talking about salaries have always resulted in better or equal pay for everyone involved"

What is the exact source on this? I highly doubt every company in existence has the budget to pay everyone "better or equal"
i think they meant to write 'phone number'

not sure about the port, most of my modem-to-modem communication was very low-level (and did not last long :) )
Now this one looks like a giant drone. And to have its propeller exposed, it seems quite dangerous to travel in a public place.
I've joked for a number of years that I expect to see boutique professional offices (lawyers, doctors, dentists, etc) springing up that offer 'paper records only' as a feature.
The CDC site has county-level information for COVID19 cases and hospitalizations for almost everywhere.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view|Cases|...

We're beginning to decline overall as a country, but I do live in one of the areas that's seeing an increase in COVID19 cases. National-level newspapers tend to focus on the overall average, but the overall average is meaningless compared to county-level information.

COVID19 cases are +20% in my area where I live, but maybe -10% as a country since last week. The local-case count is far more important to me than what is going on 10 states away.

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Both national-level and local data is important: I have friends all across the country, and its important for me to know how they're doing. But local data is _far_ more important and far more relevant.
A permanent analog computer is just an analog circuit. You can build a PCB with op-amps after you've proved it out.
Yea you’re right. When riding in group, it should be ok to stay behind, as long as the last rider of a split-group waits at road forks.
The website explains the primary actual use case for ROT-style transforms:

> It is used to enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for posting things that might offend some readers, or spoilers.

AFAIK, this has been a common use of ROT13 since the 1980s. It also preserves substring search and message length (unlike BaseN encodings), which are occasionally useful properties.
Right. MiAdBlackListConfig does not include English versions, according to the 32 page research article. Therefore "Free Tibet" is not relevant.

A user here testing this is irrelevant. If someone wants to verify, figure out where we can get the codebase and search these strings ourselves.
Do we need to have a moral panic every time we ascend a level of abstraction? Hierarchical folder structures are mostly for the benefit of human organization, and over the last decade we have found different ways to present information such that the average user of newer tech doesn’t encounter it.

Recently I’ve be de-foldering a lot of my digital life and getting by with tags or more powerful search tools. I wonder if it would be more worthwhile if we started teaching basic querying methodologies rather than worry about underlying file systems. The next generation will grow up with far more data than can be easily traversed in folders.
I actually had the opposite problem when I went for one about 20 years ago. They didn't believe me when I told them I had never smoked weed. At that point in my life, I hadn't. It took interviewing all my friends to finally convince them I wasn't lying.
I suspect that this is one of those areas where cross-national/regional/cultural mismatches are having an effect. The audience here is distributed all over the world, and what would be taken as an obvious mild joke in one region can land as a serious provocation in another. This happens all the time, and unfortunately it's largely unrecognized.

If we were together in person, these differences would be apparent and people would automatically modulate for them. But all we have on this forum are little text blobs which don't come with any of that metadata. I think this is probably the biggest source of conflict and misunderstanding on HN; certainly one of them.

Edit: there's another clear example of this in another part of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28614998. That was a rare case of people actually figuring out the mismatch.
I think that it is a trap to feel like all time needs to be productive. Not only is it an unachievable ideal, it also makes time spent doing "unproductive" stuff less restorative.
I don't know what this is supposed to mean, but a close family member took ivermectin instead of being vaccinated, and caught a serious case.
Time wise, absolutely true, but as someone who is a reasonably seasoned runner I can say my 3:30 marathon feels lightyears away from 2:00. It doesn't sound 10x harder, it sounds impossibly harder.
In my case I assign each error message a unique code and prefix the message with the name of the function. Makes it very easy to find where things went wrong.
Yes, I understand. To quote myself:

> I know the borrow checker aids in correctness beyond what a gc does
I'm not sure it's anything mechanical. Facebook is a wretched hive of scum and villainy for sociocultural inertial reasons. You may as well ask why Detroit is a crappier place to live than Madison. Facebook succumbed early on to echo chambers, disinformation campaigns, and marketing of snake oil and pyramid schemes. Hacker News set rules and followed them consistently, moderating the discussion in accordance with those rules.

Maybe for a better example, just look at Reddit. Something like AskHistorians or SilphRoad for Pokemon Go are terrific communities full of great information and productive discussion, whereas many other subs are as bad or worse than Facebook. That is in spite of exactly the same interface technology. The difference is culture.

If Facebook has a design problem, it's not having any sort of guiding principles other than engagement. The purely algorithmic curation isn't really curation. It doesn't create a culture at all. It just creates addiction. Infinite scroll is in service of that, but it doesn't create it. In fact, the mobile reader I use for Hacker News has infinite scroll and it doesn't make the site worse.
I address that in the second half of the sentence: "in my experience, and the experience of everyone I know."

I'm not claiming a universal truth. I do think that the original post is much farther away from the truth than my claim, though.
I cannot tell if you're being facetious or not, but it was a fun paragraph to read as well. All communist regimes are Potemkin villages.
> As far as I can tell, the meta solution here is open source hardware and software. Otherwise it just doesn't matter who is doing this, why they do it, or who is affected.

I agree with you there, but I want to know how to analyze devices that are closed source.
This is a GREAT idea! I'd love to see this happen.
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Because you're running an emulator on a damnd phone!! A PHONE! Wild!
More directly how many cpu hours are needed to be saved to compensate for the carbon footprint of a single SV engineer? I'm guessing that a lot.
Network isn’t even the only egress route out of a cellphone. They have sophisticated radios, so a low-level (e.g. on-silicon) backdoor could send your data out to a nearby agent using all manner of electro-magnetic emissions.

You just have to trust the manufacturer and its supply chain, and that applies to open source too.
At my first US startup the CTO told me that all engineers are making the same slightly below market salaries and receiving same options. A few months later I found that most actually made almost twice and had way more options. I fix this quickly but i still don’t understand how people seem to think that it’s ok to blatantly to somebody
"made" in this case tends to refer to created, not just manufactured. it (as the article states) is mostly an issue for chinese brands with poor quality control or ulterior motives.
damn... Brave is just crushing it. I've been using brave search and its amazing for development... the code samples are front and center