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I understand this perspective! But as anyone who knows me will tell you, I would be the worst person in the world to try and build a business around Svelte. As others have said, the expectations from investors would make it far less likely that Svelte could remain a community-centric project.

It's important to clarify that Vercel (which has earned its open source bona fides) hasn't 'bought' Svelte or SvelteKit. It's more accurate to say that they're supporting Svelte's development by paying for a full time engineer to work on it. There's a healthy core team of developers who certainly won't relinquish _their_ independence because of _my_ career choices.

It's fair to be sceptical about all this! But I've had multiple conversations throughout this process where the importance of maintaining independence was expressed by both sides, and I truly believe this is the best outcome for Svelte and its community.
It was sold as "basically English, so programmers are obsolete since everyone can write their own software". Which is pretty much the same pipe dream as "no code".
> Wow. Thomas Massie is fucking insane. This has to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard, and I've heard some real whoppers in my time.

I'm pretty sure if you look through all the bills proposed by every Representative in Congress, you'll find a lot of insane stuff, but almost all of it has zero chance of going anywhere.
Simple. Think big.

He valued it enough to know about naval problems to know its huge value, and wasn’t unfair and left the silk washer whole. The silk seller’s motivation out of poverty was noted, solved by the traveler and not unfairly so he was “bought” and cooperated fully with what was a great deal for him, which lubricates away resentment, half effort, and unhappiness because giving a good deal to someone is similar to “buy once, cry once”. Negotiating costs time, energy, and paying less might not yield the full secret especially if the seller feels taken advantage of so he also will do his best not to cooperate.

Imagine if Steve Jobs paid Woz half the profits with what he knew.
If Apple can do it and get away with it, why not MS or Google?
What GM did to Nader ~50 years ago is nothing compared to what Chevron did to Steven Donziger recently: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/27/steven_donziger_judi...
To an extent. But if you give asses free money, that doesn't tend to change their behaviour.
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I observe that the vast majority of people are not worried about these things. Some of them do talk about it, but do not make even simple changes to their lives that would reduce their impact. (Single most important impact anyone can make: stop buying stuff you don't actually need.)

In my area smog and air quality from exhaust is not a concern. I don't worry myself with climate change because it is not only inevitable, but an inevitable part of living on earth. We can try to shift and reduce our impacts, but we cannot eliminate them, and at any rate it's much too late for the CO2-caused climate change concerns. My buying one more ICE car does not matter. It doesn't affect my consumption behavior or that of most other people.
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> In one of the cases, the changes are larger and therefore more meaningful descriptions of what each commit does are probably a good thing - if the refactoring of code would break anything that wouldn't be immediately apparent but would later be detected, being able to click in the commit in the IDE history and see what exactly was changed as a part of it could be pretty useful!

This has happened to me when tracking down bugs a whole bunch of times in our various svn codebases, where commits can't be squashed like in git. Once it even happened in a linting commit when someone accidentally messed up indentation in python.
Note that, because snaps are stored compressed on disk, many snaps are smaller on disk than their regular package counterpart. Take the chromium package as an example.

However, a bunch of snaps are full of unused libraries because a bunch of packagers use a shotgun approach to including libraries. I've seen a bunch of snaps which contain the entire build environment for the app itself, for example. After cleanup, such snaps are often only 1/3 of the original size.

Because many snaps are created by app devs themselves, they don't all have the same quality as packages from the debian repository.
The dutch privacy authority, with GDPR in hand, can fine them up to 2-4% of their annual revenue for not disclosing the data breach: such disclosures are a GDPR requirement.
Fool me once … I forget how the rest of that goes.
Helpful, built-in browser UI elements are being left to rot rather than improved, so I doubt that'll happen. See, for example, the HTTP auth login prompt. That could have been improved into something actually desirable to use for authentication on most sites, and saved god knows how many developer hours across the globe that go into making login screens & flows. Browsers should have started building in payment input screens a decade ago, for similar reasons. It'd give us better security, better compatibility, better accessibility, and save huge amounts of duplicated effort. Many millions of dollars saved across the economy, every year, with something like that.

But no.
Why does anyone still interact with Microsoft?

No other company is as openly hostile towards its users, at least Google, and Apple and the likes have the decency to pretend they care.

But the confusing part with Microsoft is that there are a multitude of alternatives. There isn't nearly as much lock in as with some of the other companies.

It seems like enterprise is what keeps them alive and let's them get away with all of this stuff but it's not clear to me why big enterprise feels so locked in on Microsoft in 2021.
What do you think of issues that have a much bigger impact though, like people giving up or greatly reducing meat+fish consumption, flying and private transport?

I agree the plastic straws issue is a token gesture. If people really care about sealife, they should stop giving money to companies that are destroying the ocean with overfishing (which also produces lots of plastic waste) and stop eating sealife.

This recent article is interesting. It talks about how many people aren't willing to change their own lifestyle habits (i.e. plastic straws vs actual sacrifices):

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/few-will....

"Only 23% felt that reducing plane travel and charging more for products that did not respect environmental norms were important to preserve the planet, while banning fossil fuel vehicles (22%) and reducing meat consumption (18%) and international trade (17%) were seen as even lower priorities.”
From the lack of details, I can only assume it detects brain activity with future funding/development.
I don't think it's a problem, rather I'm challenging a touted benefit.

In large monorepos the supposition is you've got a class of compatible apps and services bundled together. Version dependencies are somewhat implicit: the correct version for each project to interoperate is whatever was checked-in together in your commit.

I don't know how it works in practice at different orgs, but there's certainly an idea I've heard repeated that you can essentially test, build, and deploy your monorepo atomically, but the reality in my experience is you can't escape the need to think about compatibility across multiple versions of services once you use techniques like canary testing or targeted upgrades.
US wants to stop drunk driving with tech any tech at all
Thank you! I feel a bit guilty about re-posting hence my confession :D
Wow! Windows is using internal links with the scheme microsoft-edge:// to make things (Windows things) open Edge so that then Edge can nag you to set the default.

It's sad, it's user-hostile and smells of desperation.

In other news, in the pandemic my parents (+70yr) switched to Xfce on Gentoo when their Win7s died. And are actually getting on quite well (they are pretty good with computers, we've had them at home since before Win3.1)
I used Delphi a lot in the 90's and early 00's, but I never really considered it "low code", with the exception of the drag and drop forms designer of course.
And you don't get downvote powers until you've been vetted.
Wouldn't Vercel benefit from being the defacto platform to deploy Next & SvelteKit apps?
There is versioning through Git tags, which I don’t consider true versioning because you can always edit those tags to point somewhere else or remove them entirely. This is breaking. I suppose there is not an assumption of GitHub, but rather Git. I probably got that impression from all of the Go documentation using GitHub as an example (perhaps to seem more familiar to readers).

No, I _like_ crates.io because Rust is very explicit that that is where the packages come from. We can get into the benefits and risks and whatever about centralized vs decentralized package managers, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I just want to know how Go does what it does so that I can code confidently in it. A lot of Go packages are specified like so:

go get -u github.com/username/repo/version

But this is not enforced (you don’t have to specify a version) and this is also not a valid Git repo path and where exactly is this dependency stored and I can go on and on. When you import this package it’s usually

import “github.com/user/repo/version/module”

But then there is not always a <module> directory in the repo and… you get the idea. This sort of stuff hurts my head and I get it that Go is maybe trying to appear simple but this black box handwavey stuff can and will burn you (this very reason is why the Go community is generally against frameworks) so I just want to have a simple, clear answer and it seems no one else in the Go world has any of these questions. This turns me off.

I’m confused by your last bit. Neither Rust nor Go have installation time execution and this is good. I was referring to how you can’t just say “Oh Node has it and this is bad but Go doesn’t and this is good” because Rust doesn’t have it either.
Other categories not tested for--how do people outside the vehicle fare? How do occupants of another vehicle fare?
(Author here) Do you think that "figure it out" attitude helps make you become more present and alive? The moments I come out of my numb and autonomous ways of operating, I feel "alive," and it's often associated with that "figure it out" feeling.
This is some ridiculous, “doing an already common idea but on a computer” has no ground for “invention”. Doing math is math.
The problem that VC has become a new normal is the asymmetry between how big corporations and wealthy people are taxed versus employees. It's not uncommon that a millionaires effective tax rate will be in single digits, whereas an engineer may be paying even as much as 55% of tax and that even before local taxes and bills.
The taxation needs to be rebalanced otherwise you create those new gods who gatekeep who can run with their business idea and who cannot.
I'd say VC is a result of improper regulation of capitalism and the fact that corporations and wealthy individuals through lobbying and corruption were able to amass wealth that is anomalous.
The solutions for this won't be pretty.
One time I found a booking.com lanyard on the ground and wore it and people thought I worked for them so I got free drinks at bars and shit in tropical tourist areas when I said 'yeah!'

Before anyone harshes me for this I met a chick with a smirnoff lanyard who was getting free shots without being from them too
Or, one could claim that the poor parsing of a text interface shouldn't dictate the for-human names of files, especially when an exceedingly small percentage of users deal with that text interface.

But, of course, if you mix the abstractions of metadata (filename) with location, things won't be trivial.
What we need to do is make planes more expensive, instead of making trains cheaper. That would be relatively easy, but people wouldn’t like it because they want change that doesn’t affect their lifestyle. But if we’re to take climate change seriously, all lifestyles have to change radically.
Such a shame, I'll put the xmas wrapping away for this one.
I actually did end up hiring a W2 employee who didn't work out. He moved cross country for the job too.

Let him go after only a couple of months--but that was several months of pay that produced literally no positive results. And I was running a small development house at that point; dumping two months of salary down the drain was not a good thing for the bottom line.

So yeah, totally agree. Paying everyone who "seems good on paper but who just can't pass the programming test" really doesn't work, despite wishful thinking to the contrary.
This is so HN, in an Svelte thread memories from Ember (sharing your sentiments though).
What is their thinking here? Lets annoy users by opening up a worse version of Chrome at every opportunity. They must be deluded to think that even non tech savvy victims won't notice that the navigation is different.

MS is making a fatal error of not realising that the job of an OS is to do whatever the user wants and then getting out of the way as fast as possible. A desktop OS is not a "lifestyle platform", or whatever it is MS calls it, it's a tool, like a screwdriver.
What Tesla did IIHS test in 2012, the Roadster?
Support contract and backwards compatibility.

And also pretending those things don't exist on Linux.
Planes don't have to pay any fuel taxes in Germany and other things. The government-owned train company "Deutsche Bahn" increased the prices shortly after government lowered taxes on train tickets. For fuel and electric, trains still have to pay full taxes. So not suprising that planes a cheaper with better tax conditions.
It would be so awesome if they did this but instead of edge it forced you to open everything in IE7. Just to rub in how much they hate you.
> We need everyone to be vaccinated.

I don't need this. How is that your needs have a higher priority than mine?
Safari much?
Vercel's increasing control over the frontend ecosystem worries me a lot.
I’m not surprised Microsoft is pushing their platform in this direction. Apple has done this fairly effectively for years and people claim it as a security perk. The next step will probably be to only allow Edge-based browsers on the platform.
> How do engineers sleep at night, knowing their role is to be a malignant, user-hostile, value-destroying force in the world?

They sleep on their USD $200K/year bed (if college grad). Or if experienced with 5 years of experience, then their $400K/year bed.
>Your shell should be intelligent enough to provide tab completion for option names, assuming it is configured to.

Wait, are you saying that I need to change my shell or config to make up for another tool's poor design?

No, thanks.
I mean "maybe," right? It just seems like a sample-size problem rather than indicating any bias one way or another. And of course, as far as these things go, you only find out the quality after you watch some or all of it.
Trains require a lot more infrastructure, which is why they are at a cost disadvantage. The miles of constructed track, power lines, bridges, etc cost a lot of money to build and maintain, while planes just use the air, which is basically free.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, for very short flights, we still used planes once they convert to electric (which is relatively viable for short flights now).
Just this weekend I learned that the Espressif Framework doesn't like it aswell.
> stable & forever-supported API

You mean like RFC1738?
It's the PMs from Google
I've made my peace with body design but I really don't like the huge pillars they are putting in cars these days. I test drove a Mazda 3 recently and visibility in all directions was really poor compared to my current 09 Fit. The sensor suite is cool but it's not like airplanes where operators can be expected to pick up an instrument rating.
> 7. End Automatic publication of patent applications.

This seems very problematic. Publication of pending patents gives others the opportunity to demonstrate prior work before the patent is granted.
I'm doing my own thing and won't be joining any existing company ;-)
God, I hate HN discourse sometimes.

I guess you'll just have to take my word for it. Or not, Internet Stranger.
> I'm working on improving monorepo-scale Git tooling at https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless

I'm intrigued by this but the readme could maybe use some work to describe how you envision it being used day-to-day? All the examples seem to be about using it to fix things but I'm not at all clear how it helps enable a new workflow.

Even if it was just a link to a similar tool?
So some MS apps are calling Edge specifically instead of the user's default browser. This seems less egregious than many users here are suggesting. Am I wrong?
Won't get fooled again!!

Eeeeaaaaahhhh!

Then Pete,John and Keith with the monster sound.

Also, that song mentions "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" which is apt for this post.
How Tesla's Marketing Hype Got Ahead of Its Technology
I've written this before, but I think it's worth saying again: lots of consumer tech treat their users like abusive partners treat their victims.

"I want to know everything about you and who you talk to."

"You can't leave me."

"I'll do what I want when I want to you."
Catenary may still be better in trainyards though. Lots of shunting, relatively short distances.

I remember seeing a YouTube about overhead wires for electric trucks on a busy German road. IIRC It was about 20 miles between cities.
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Seems like NL. Do you need the income from dividends? If not, the "growth" sectors have more total growth compared to dividend stocks/etfs.

Note that dividends are also taxed at the company level. So Apple pays USA 15% and then you also get taxed your 15% pre-tax. This doesn't happen when not distributing the dividend.
They don't really defend their point, they just restate it.
Google plus the internet only works if you're learning about things that are:

1. Public (if it's non-public systems, information, etc. that you are learning then Google can't help you).
2. and either shallow or of one of a small subset of areas that has in-depth discussion online.

There are plenty of situations in knowledge work where Google will not cut it.
I feel like he isn't producing as much of that content any more. I liked it better when it was more watch me make a milling machine from a cheap chinesium drill press and less watch me press go on the $200,000 Haas CNC. I feel like he is a bit of a victim of his own success. I still love the BOLTR content.
The current generation Accord went on sale in the US more than 2 years before it went on sale in Japan. There aren't any factories even producing the Accord in Japan. Any of them that exist there are imported. It's primarily a car designed for the US (and other) markets.

The most popular Honda and Toyota models are just as American (or more so) than anything the Big 3 produces. Some of them are even designed in Detroit.
Why dramaticize? It was probably someone assigned to "encourage user-retention". This was definitely a terrible, anti-competitive move, though.

Don't push the narrative that only "evil" people can do bad things. Then, since almost no one thinks they are evil themselves, no one will believe they're doing bad things.
This is specifically an apparently intentional regression from build to build that breaks this specific use case (and no others) of a pre-existing API for managing URL scheme associations, not a need for a new careful API to be designed.
> Presumably the engineers on the windows team are either in golden handcuffs, or actually derive sadistic pleasure from making the world worse for users,

I think there is a 3rd and more likely possibility, namely, that they've either been brainwashed, or convinced themselves, that the actions they're taking are right & righteous.
> Are there other fields so thoroughly invested in making the world a worse place to be a consumer?

Facebook with creepier services and dark patterns (e.g onboarding literal children despite internal data pointing to adverse mental effects)

Google + ads that favor their own services

Everything on killedbygoogle.com

Apple's on-device file scanner

Spotify forcing auto-play on connected devices as a feature

Amazon charging $10 shipping for whole foods despite whole foods already making a healthy profit

BMW charging for apple carplay (this changed last year to Free I believe)

Mercedes and Tesla charging for vehicle DLC

everything that's ever required a library of Congress dmca exception to work around

Etc.

....it's life, unless you can seize political power and not be corrupted by the many machinations of corruption that have evolved in the US in the last few hundred years.
Being scaled down too far is a good thing, based on the assumption that a larger female is better represented by the male dummy than a smaller female would be. IOW an average female is probably well protected as long as both the small female dummy and average male dummy are. If we used an average female dummy, then any female smaller than average isn't covered by the test.
You could probably construct a decent Asana workflow around this using forms, custom fields, and automation rules, but it's not free.
Five hours on a train between two cities are five hours of focused work on a laptop for me. With an enjoyable view and a lunch break.

Compare it with flight where you spend half of the time not using your laptop or without connectivity.

After COVID, how many people can do remote work? Don't underestimate the percentage of population that can use the time on a train in good ways.
I didn't know this, thanks for the context. Well, if at least the common features useful for most games are improved, that's not a loss.
Yes sure and it's not Vercel's fault that there's no other competitor left out there. I would have hired Rich as well if I were Vercel. But the market will suffer because one (and the better) player just left the market. We can only blame Rich who got weak but yeah, nobody is perfect.
> the internal political wars for the ultimate GUI framework started

Any more info about this?
Fair. I probably spent enough of my youth on mountain bikes and rollerblades to develop those instincts.

An AI driver should have those instincts too imo. I’d expect my car to crash in the safest possible way if it can’t not crash.
Very weird coincidence. This morning before I read this post, as I was trying to respond to a comment from a friend about "rubber band, bailing wire and bubblegum solutions," I began searching google for a reference to a related French word I had read about many years ago but couldn't remember.

That word, which I eventually found in a google books excerpt, is bricolage.

I was very surprised to read this post only a few minutes later.
Fox news also publishes lot of BS, I consider anything ranked up by Google/Twitter/Youtube or have a "fact checkers" to control narrative be MSM.
If only there was a more generic/portable solution for opening links ...