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Google, Facebook, and the other monopolies are itching to get their workers back. (Little Zuck is buying buildings in San Francisco like I buy beer.)

These companies hate not having their workers under their thumb, but won't come out and say it.

They know they will never have a hard time attracting workers. The 1 out of a thousand Rockstar might be another conversation, but the run of the mill worker--no problem.

They know they will be able to do whatever they want for years. I imagine Zuck, and the Google Boys, thanking their god, the dollar, they don't live in China.

(Xi is cracking down on certain big businesses. He, and his mates, don't like the extreme wealth disparity rearing it's head. He doesn't like companies that seem to exploit people. He doesn't like the fact that houses are rising in price so quickly, only the wealthy, and companies that buy up realestate, can afford them.

Xi is worried about the amount of credit certain businesses are taking on. I heard business debt is almost 3x ours. Business leverage that is, not governmental debt. This couldn't be right?

Xi is worried his unchecked Capitalistic experiment might come crashing down.)

Ok, back to employers salivating for the day they can demand everyone show up.

I've thought about it, and don't see an out. They will drag everyone back in. It doesn't matter if the tech works.

Maybe if we started using Global Warming as an excuse to not came back? All those extra cars on the roads couldn't be good.

(Sorry about bringing China in to the mix. I'm a tiny bit jealous just how quick they can move there. I liked city life when they were diverse, and then only for awhile. In all honesty, the only thing about city life I liked was the ratio of single women to men. I said it.)
Dashcams were common in Russia and it happened in the YouTube era, so there were plenty of videos of the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU
I'm fully vaccinated. I would bet the Pur.ism folks are vaccinated, too. Vaccination is a government initiative. Microsoft is a private company.

Originaly Windows had no ability to connect to the internet; it was for LANs only. All was well. Gates originally thought the internet made no sense. Then Microsoft added TCP/IP from BSD and people started connecting Windows to the internet. All was not well. Today, Microsoft actually tries to force people to connect to the internet, and stay connected 24/7. They do this with "automatic upgrades/updates". Windows computers will even try to automatically "update" themselves peer-to-peer from other computers on the LAN. Hows that for a virus analogy. Microsoft could never stop botnets targeting Windows proactively so Microsoft became a botnet. They now have remote command and control.

The root cause of botnets isn't the victims, it's the product. Its especially difficult to argue otherwise when owners have less and less control over their own computers.
The problem is that this article is true.

I see people make ethical companies, and they fail and other exploiting every single thing laws, workers, customers, to the extreme and succeed.

There has to be more than just playing to win. And it's not a scrub thing to look at the slackers and say that while they won, is that a good thing? So many dead, so much destruction of lives, all so one family can reel in the cash.

The best values companies seem to be those that throw out some morality in favor of market advantages. So I guess I see why they are winning, I just don't like it.
HN bubble at work, right here.

Framework does not even offer a VGA module, do they?
It is not clear to me that the metrics of attention people traditionally use are optimally desirable when evaluating Autopilot-like systems. Anecdotally, I have found myself not staring forward anywhere as much, but in fact I am more attentive at what other drivers are doing and taking control where necessary--in effect delegating the lowly work to the machine. I do feel this is much safer than constantly forcing me to look at the road in front of me or touching something.
What I'm talking about here applies to the urban downtown where traffic is usually congested and slow. The situation you're describing is more like stroads and highways where bigger is better. Driving a cybertruck in congested downtown traffic is not something that most drivers would look forward to. A zippy ebike would get them where they're going faster and more conveniently.
Somewhat related, Teams on Ubuntu recently has stopped letting me use the left/right arrows to navigate around a message I've written. However, shift + arrow or control + arrow still work fine. Haven't had a chance to dig into why, but it's been mildly amusing.
Oh wow. I built that circuit, on perfboard, with wire-wrap, using parts from a TI-99/4A, some summer in the late eighties. I had intended to drive it from the joystick ports of an Atari 800XL. I struggled to get it working, went back to school, and it may still be sitting in a box at my parent's house. If I could find it it would be a hoot to bring up with a modern microcontroller.
Last time I was in a rewrite the boss had the old software on a computer next to him with the label "Product owner of rewrite". He regularly when asked how to do something looked at what that did.
The infuriating part of this is, we keep complaining about all this horrible web UX over and over, on a web forum that a large number of web developers read daily. There are probably web developers browsing this thread right now, maybe reading this very comment, who are actively doing this to the web. Hey! Web Developer Reading This:

PLEASE STOP making the web terrible.

The very people who can fix this are reading HN. Just stop. Put the keyboard down. Put away the Javascript. Forget those modal pop-ups and newsletter sign-ups. Now do some meditation. Think about what you are doing to the user's experience when you start typing again. I'm really talking to you, mister web developer reading this, who has a JIRA ticket up next in the queue asking you to add a dark pattern to a web site. Please stop. Articulate to your manager why this is horrible, and don't do it. All it takes is people (us, here on HN) to stop doing these things, and things will slowly start getting better.
A vehicle starter's lifespan relative to the lifespan of the whole vehicle is probably very different than that of a component of a laptop relative to the laptop itself. As well as the cost of repair relative to the cost of buying new.
Wow, thanks for that tip. It's awesome and feels so natural.

I really hope Ubuntu and friends get "inspired" by all the touchpad gestures in macOS.
You don't quit smoking once. You quit smoking every day. I haven't smoked in >10 years and I'm still quitting. Physical dependence on nicotine takes a long time to recover from.
"Manual vs automatic" is mostly just a semantic problem IMHO. We could say "runtime versus compile time" to be more precise, but maybe there are problems there as well. The more interesting question to me is "how much time/energy do I spend thinking about memory management, and is that how my time is best spent?". In cases of high performance code, you might spend more time fighting with the GC than you would with the borrow checker to get the performance you need, but for everything else the hot paths are so few and far between you're most likely better off fighting with the GC 1% of the time and not fighting anything the other 99%.

The Rust community has done laudable work in bringing down the cognitive threshold of "manual / compile-time" memory management, but I think we're finding out that the returns are diminishing quickly and there's still quite a chasm between borrow checking and GC with respect to developer velocity.
Especially since there's a hardware camera built in to every Tesla, right at the driver's eye level. I'd rather have that system than the wheel sensor. Accidentally applying too much force on the steering wheel disables the autopilot while too little force doesn't register. It's annoying, trying to get the amount of Goldilocks force just right. But the eyes don't lie.
What are you even talking about? Vaccines simply weren’t made available for the general population until well after the election due to supply issues. It took until late March to get a first course as an adult in TX.

Tying vaccines to the president that happened to be in office at the time is not a normal or logical line of thinking.
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All of Intel's Ethernet/WiFi adapters have open source drivers on Linux too.
It's going to largely depend on the publisher. The publisher, not the platform, controls whether the book is sold with DRM or not. The majority are, yes, although the one genre where that's generally not true is Sci-Fi. There was a time, at least, when most of the major sci-fi publishers opted not to sell their books with DRM, because they thought it was an abuse of technology. Not sure how much that still holds true, but publishers like Tor still sell all of their stuff DRM-free.
Most slow languages make escape to C easy for cases where the language is the issue. Most fast languages make writing a C APIed interface easy, so if the language is your issue just rewrite the parts where that is the problem.

Of course eventually you get to the point where enough of the code is in a fast language that writing everything in the fast language to avoid the pain of language interfaces is worth it.
Like I said, it’s less “do your small part” and more “act in such a way that there would be good outcomes if everyone acted that way.” It’s basically the exact same reason to be polite in tiny interactions with strangers even though there would be no consequences if you were rude. If you disagree that there’s any virtue in acting in such a way because of the apparent lack of direct positive outcomes then that’s fine, but my point is simply that this is a common view about basic morality.
>Under the hood, scuttlebutt uses multiple independent blockchains, each tied to a single user.

Now wondering why the landing page for Manyverse prominently says: "No token. No ICO. No blockchain."

It makes the downside you mention "making it a very storage-intensive protocol" more interesting, and confusing for someone trying to understand the tech stack behind it.
Southerners would be no less free. They would have fewer rights.

Rights != Freedom

Freedom is the absence of restraint. A right is an entitlement. They often conflict with one another.

We have many laws which sacrifice our freedoms in exchange for various rights. Depending on the trade, that can be a very good thing. 100% freedom is not desirable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745275

Is it really worth it to jump into a completely new feature to get marginal improvements on the most basic stuff (io, networking, etc...), all of this, in exchange of working with unstable APIs and unproven security vectors?

My answer is no but I can picture people who would say yes. I guess it's a matter of personal preference (plus I work on stuff that has to be reliable, above everything else).
I may be greasier than average, but if I did that there would be a pretty big smudge on the screen!
The coins will keep trading in Western societies, too.
> BTW, why does caps lock even still exist?

Dunno, but in my country we use a QWERTZ layout where you can't write the letters Ě, Š, Č, Ř, Ž, Ý Á, Í, É without caps lock, because with Shift those keys produce 2, 3, 4, ..., 0

So that's why I need it. :)
John Safran has just released a book Puff Piece about the incredible way Philip Morris has rebranded as a "health enterprise" and released the "heatstick" with their "vaping" IQOS platform (quotes are intentional, because as the books shows, words mean nothing!)

https://johnsafran.com/

The podcast below sums it up perfectly:

Three years ago, tobacco giant Philip Morris announced they were moving away from cigarettes and that they were campaigning to "unsmoke the world".

They said they would offer people a better alternative to the cigarette, a device that would give you your nicotine fix from a "HeatStick".

Author and documentary maker John Safran discovered the HeatStick is made primarily from tobacco, and that it still generates carcinogenic tar.

John soon found that Philip Morris were financing "anti-smoking" initiatives all over the world.

They look just like conventional Quit programs, but they are designed to shift people onto this new device.

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/john-saf...
A Chrome extension that keeps you always available on Microsoft Teams
It doesn't exist until you need it.
>I'm quite surprised that Tesla continues to lack such a system to monitor the drivers eyes on the road

I'm not sure if it's documented anywhere but I think the 2021 Tesla models do this [1]. That said, I'm not sure if this is enough - this is the same issue Google faced which led them to believe they had to go L4 of bust.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/27/22457430/tesla-in-car-cam...
I wonder why there is Canada, Cayman and Singapore version.

I thought YC requires Delaware C Corp and it is gold standard for startups, has something change?
AWS would undercut them.
Everything I read on the internet suggests that UK tech salaries are extremely low, and that the profession has a low level of respect overall.

I have many many foreign or first generation immigrant coworkers, but almost no one British. I'm surprised, because there's no language barrier and a minimal cultural barrier, but still the vast majority of my coworkers are from places that are much harder to immigrate from.

If any UKites have made it to this thread, is be curious to hear why so few people leave for countries with a stronger and higher paying tech sector?
I got a Kingston MicroDuo. Both USB-C and USB-A and it's small enough that i keep it in my wallet with the coins.
> I need space to park a car and roads wide enough to support them because I have a lot of things to haul.

> I'm sure there are folks who live in places like SF with families and ride around in heavy urban traffic with 2 kids on an electric cargo bike, but that's just not for many of us.

Maybe riding a cargo bike with your kids on the back is unpleasant because the suburban lifestyle you are talking about has bled into American urban planning. If American cities were designed around people instead of cars many of the problems with urban life you are talking about would be moot.

I point this out because you thesis seems to be that getting older and having kids is orthogonal to urban life. However, historically, and in many cities outside of north America, this is not the case. If you look at the Netherlands for example, where a deliberate effort to plan cities around people has been ongoing for 50 years, many people don't own cars, their kids bike to school and use public spaces for recreation, and they can pickup furniture from Ikea on their cargo bikes while never touching a road built for cars.
Ask HN: Mobile development – two native apps or cross platform framework?
I'm working on a startup and need to develop a mobile app for it. I do not have any background in mobile development (but have experience as a developer), and was curious about whether I should develop two, separate, native apps, or use a cross-platform, mobile development framework. I am also open to the idea of offering the app as only a mobile website.

As far as app features go, my app will most likely need to access location and the camera.

So, what is your advice on the best approach and why? Also, is there an approach more suited for someone new to development in this area? I am grateful for any and all feedback!
Theoretically you could emulate the signal with software/drivers given that USB-C has 24 pins. But there's actually display standards/signals built into USB-C so you "just have to" convert the digital signal to analog for VGA, but then it's no longer a stupid cable and more like a dongle.
I play to play in a sense for a different reason: I didn't get to choose to be here (as far as I can tell) and what is winning anyway?

Winning is achieving your goals. Maybe your goal isn't money, or to dominate a market or whatever. So to me, winning is setting your own goal and then trying to achieve that. In a game with no clear rules, as most games in life are, letting everyone else set your goals for you is deciding to lose from the outset, no matter how much better you are at their game, you're losing your game.
A component of my work is in digital identity, so I hope you don’t mind the question: what would make you comfortable doing so? For Roblox, I can see the exception taken, but some applications do require this level of identity proofing (scanning your passport in an airline mobile app to book an international flight comes to mind).

Edit: Thank you everyone for your feedback, it’s very helpful!
I understand the massive investments into "rolling your own" system for ID verification, but I always feel sketched out when companies ask you to send your ID and your photo to "a third-party" - where the privacy terms of that relationship are so obtuse/vague it's not worth reading.

Is it really that hard on the privacy front to hire someone to keep watch and manually verify that someone is who they say they are? I assume the amount of people verifying will be massive at first, but after 2-3 months I could see the amount of people signing up (AND verifying their ID) would be in the thousands per week - easily handled by humans instead of "a third-party service"
Thanks for the report on Arch compatibility!
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That was always my dad's pitch to me. Don't give those fuckers one thin dime. I casually smoked cigarettes in college, but never seriously and every time I bought a pack I looked at the logo on the back and reminded myself that I hated those fuckers and I wasn't going to keep doing it. I quit before my first kid was born.

My grandfather had lung cancer twice. He quit smoking after the first time. His wife couldn't. She spent 10 years in long, slow COPD decline after he passed.

Don't fucking do it. And don't buy fucking nicotine vapes, either. Fuck those assholes.
For some people giving up an addiction is an ongoing battle, not a one time and done thing.
Where would that line be though? Would you never consider reducing your water usage by a liter per day until there was literally someone near to you that was dying of thirst who you could directly give the liter of water to?
> So no, when rates go up to x+5 you will never be able to find bonds that pay x+5.

What? If the current rate is x, this means that this is the rate a bond being issued right now is paying. If the rate goes up to whatever, it means that bonds being issued right now are paying whatever.
A thing you can ding Go for is that you can find yourself relying on `reflect` (under the hood) more than you expect, because it's how you do things like read struct tags for things like JSON.

But that's not what the problem was here; the product they were building was using `reflect` in anger. They were relying on something that did magic, pulling a rabbit out of its hat to automatically compare protobuf thingies. They used it on a hot path. The room quickly filled with rabbit corpses. I guess you can blame Go for the existence of those kinds of libraries, but most perf-sensitive devs know that they're a risk.
Generic error handling with panic, recover, and defer, for Go
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Maybe I'm getting some semantic distinction wrong. Each user's thread is essentially a cryptographically linked list. It differs from Bitcoin for example in that there's no change of ownership, and so no forking or input/output transactions, it's just a linear list of events. There are no gas fees or tokens, since there's no need to pay for anything, each peer voluntarily gossips information.

The description you cited is also probably more for marketing purposes than technical explication. No one wants to use a social media platform built on ETH, the experience is just horrible.
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You are not being given X, you are getting paper that lets you pay X to get shares worth X. Their value is zero.

At best, they're a lottery ticket. You can look at something like http://www.valuation.vc/ that uses data from other startups, to get an idea of what your odds are that they'll ever be worth something. Usually the odds are not very good.
those PCMCIA cards were very expensive.
Yeah I did. Anyone that actually harbored that opinion should feel silly now.
> there is either no way to refactor the old code to the new model

That doesn't happen. Write facades as needed. Even if they are slower than everything else write the facades so you can keep in production all along.
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I'm also a pretty seasoned cyclist (as in "a nice XC bike, wild downhill riding, steep technical sections, hitting speeds over 60 km/h" etc) and compared to anything you can do on a low-cost mountain bike, the e-scooters are very tame.
Ironically, given that the data on tobacco use and COVID gives the medical establishment fits, now may not be the best time to quit. Not an argument for starting, of course.
The question wasn't if they can use it. The question was if it's a good experience for them.
I respect people who choose not to eat meat. It doesn't affect me at all. To me it would certainly be punishing myself though.

But you aren't going to convince me that it's fixing any problem.
How are cities like NYC not diverse?
Are there any good examples of this already out there?

It feels like a good idea, but I imagine it would be very fragile in black swan events.

Maybe a mix?

Provide the dashboards, but allow users to set up alerts/workflows, they understand the problem well, and if they know what they're going to be going to the dash to find, let them skip that step. In case something new happens, they can set up a new alert/workflow/whatever for the next time it happens.
Can't comment on mobile, but I've set my laptop to sleep after 10min of inactivity and 3min after lid close and it lasts the whole day (4.1Ah). I'm not using it for 8h straight, but rather a combined 3h or sth probably but with this aggressive sleep settings it easily stretches some 8h and I don't feel afraid of it just going out at the end of the day.
Given that there really is scant proof that backup cameras work in keeping people safe, the hypothesis that autopilot makes people safe is shaky at best.
Yeoman felt a little too much like a vehicle for one class of developers to foist architectural ideas on people. I'm glad it lost momentum. It would have accelerated the frontend tech churn if it took hold, not simplify or slow it down. It was also clunky to use, and created a situation where 2 or 3 people would compete to vend the canonical Yeoman config for a new frontend technology.

In a way, it's been superseded by create-react-app and it's ilk, but I think those kind of tools are fine. If you're reaching for a tool like create-*-app, then you've already made a specific choice about a number of things, and it's just helping you to bootstrap the project.

It going to happen again soon with WASM. But I'm welcoming that.
We'll probably all end up writing full stack Ruby, or something.
Well, computers used to be more interesting. A 2006 laptop was at least 2x times faster than a 2003 laptop, with lower power consumption and better thermal design, better screen, etc.
On newer Macbooks the battery is literally glued in. An Apple authorized repair center is going to charge you $200+ for a replacement.
I just noticed this today on my windows. They probably pushed out a change to the underlying web interface that broke stuff
>playing dirty is a form of cheating.
this is the scrub mentality that the article talks about
I'm not even playing. I'm straight up losing and getting heckled by the drunks on the sidelines.
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