skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the reason the physical volume buttons on Android 12 on Pixel phones no longer adjust Chromecasted music volume, unless you are in the music app in question.

Are you f'ing kidding me? This has been driving me nuts, I assumed it was just another stupid Android bug that would eventually be silently patched. It's so annoying how functionality like this can be removed without a peep, at least inform me if you're going to do this.

(It's not just Pixel phones, same problem with my Samsung A51 and I just got a brand new Motorola phone with the same problem).
I was told autonomous vehicles in all weather was a solved problem...
I don't much courage in the promulgation of such half-cocked reasoning as in the OP's unfortunate (and unfortunately long-winded) missive.
The eligible word list is an array of 5 char words embedded in the script. After digging a bit it looks like it gets the word like this (pseudocode):

dayOffset = floor((today - 19 April 2021) / 864e5)

index = dayOffset % wordList.length

wordOfTheDay = wordList[index]

edit: It's literally just picking the next item in the array in sequence.
Can you name a few of the best companies, to get an impression of the best looks like ?
This is really cool.

I'm not sure I want to _use_ it, my experiments with chorded phone keyboards have uniformly been blah. But, I really like it and want to see people using it.
>Java didn't kill the desktop. The web - Javascript - has put a huge dent in it

Nah, I disagree. Mobile killed the desktop, 85% of that is Android, and most Android apps are written in Java. So yeah, Java did eventually "kill" the desktop. But I would point out it was mostly low cost, battery powered, untethered mobile, not the Java language or runtime. What Java solved was a chicken/egg problem where there are no developers because there's no market because there's no developers...

The web never killed the desktop. There are no high end games on the web. There are no native features on the web. The web provided forms and ssl; an e-commerce platform. That's it. Everything outside of e-commerce on the web is ad supported which leads back to e-commerce. All roads lead to Rome. That sums up the total contribution of the web on humanity as a whole IMO. Yes, you can list off small exceptions, but most people using the web are participating in e-commerce at some level.
The article linked said he knew it was a bat, they physically had the bat. They tested the bat for rabies and knew the bat had rabies. And still the person refused treatment.

At what point is it a suicide?
The old (non-beta) projects were quite useful as a simple kanban board integrated with Github. We used it in Firefox Graphics team with limited success. We use it actively in WebGPU group, and it works well for scoping the work for meetings.

I’m sure we’ve only scratched the surface of what can be done, especially with the new Projects. Excited to see how it’s going to work!
> This gives you a ton of “time in the market” and they generally appreciate quite significantly if you’ve picked a good company.

I think you can rephrase that to in this stock market boom tech market stocks are appreciated to crazy high levels. It wont happen again in the next decade.
Many candidates interview with multiple companies. Then they whittle the list down, and break off negotiations with companies that don't fit some criteria. Then they accept the offer from whoever is left.
We’ve been using the beta for about six months now and have really enjoyed having everything in one place. I don’t miss Jira. The GH team listens to feedback and is consistently adding new features. I would give it a try if you’re on the fence.
Yeah it's tough, I guess the bloomberg.com devs know what they are doing because I can't devtools my way through this one.
Brave needs to provide it's own app store.
The "novelty" (idk how novel it is really, but they present it as such) is not in speakers playing the same audio or L/R at the same time, but individual autonomous playback devices being grouped and ungrouped, so that they can be controlled as a unit when grouped.
Letting the fields go fallow to allow for rejuvenation rings like a very apt allegory to me. Breaking routines, finding out who you are outside of work is actually one of the most luxurious things one can do. It’s a great time for healing. But most can’t afford to do this at their lifestyle level.

There’s lots of cognitive dissonance over what makes our lives rich in the tech world.

However there also a lot in the post which seems to hold high minded eruditism as some peak of existence :) still some good point buried.
I have the impression this shittyness is inevitably coming towards the U.S., so Americans won't stay in ignorance for too long.
Freeze your salary and employment history
All this post is really saying is that "shoot first, ask questions later" policing affects whites no less than blacks, controlling for relevant factors. But it's quite plausible that the detrimental effects of this style of policing (euphemistically referred to as "proactive" within OP's post) are nonetheless most relevant to Blacks and Black communities due to the aforementioned factors. So "Black Lives Matter" as a shorthand for the movement towards more sensible policing seems like a reasonable claim, even though whites would also benefit from being shot at less.
> Free markets allow people to organize the way they like. Other systems don't.

Free markets are not absolute freedom, and private property still restricts the action of people without money. Poor people can barely do anything because they're too busy trying not to become homeless. The wealthy, on the other hand, can do what they want. That's not a very free system. More free than some Soviet dictatorship, 100%, but I like to think that we can do better. Plenty of coercion occurs under the banner of free market trade - just look at rare metal extraction in Africa, that powers our electronic devices.

> Cooperatives are cool and I have nothing against them but there's a reason for them being so few. They go bankrupt more often than other business.

They actually don't, they have greater staying power than corporations [1]. There's not many because investors don't want to invest in them due to the nature of their structure, and workers don't typically have the resources to fund their own business. Plus, they're a pretty niche concept, many people haven't heard of them. So once again, people can't organise the way they like because the way people can organise in the market is controlled by capital.

> Me neither but trust isn't scalable. On a large ethnically and culturally diverse population it's impossible to have trust.

That's a pretty weird thing to say. I hadn't even brought up race. I grew up going to a racially diverse school, had friends of various backgrounds, many of my neighbours and people I've worked with have been of different backgrounds, no issue. Maybe that's just you that doesn't trust people of other backgrounds.

> It's good to have choice. Engaging in negotiations can be boring but it's preferred over the tragedy of the commons or attempts social control that always end up being an euphemism for privileges for friends or authoritarian policy.

Do you not think that the ultra-wealthy are engaging in privileges for friends or authoritarian policy? They write the laws you must obey!

Any system where the primary incentive is in opposition to moral value is less than ideal. If I am incentivised by the profit motive to withhold resources to the needy (see for example: US medical industry, the military-industrial complex withholding "being alive" to foreign citizens) then that's not a particularly moral system because the people least affected by morality will rise to the top.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative#Longevity_a...
It strikes me as weird seeing the tech crowd choose which feudal lords/tribes they belong to, because that's all the fediverse is ultimately.

I'll chalk it up to poor understanding of social power structures.
It's like somebody wanted to write Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, attempting something really deep and profound, and ended up with gibberish.
Applying deep learning to computer game AI is just really hard. Not even a data center worth of compute and a big team of world leading scientists could create an AI able to beat the best players at games like starcraft or dota. It isn't reasonable to spend many times more more money making an AI for a game than you spent making the entire game, and the AI can't even run on any normal computer so you can't even use it at the end.
Perfect encapsulation of the critique to the point that this feels like a parody itself.
The is a reason why alternative medicine can be so (monetary, coverage, less healing wise) successful.
All. Of. The. Time.

A couple of years ago I was a tech lead on a project that “totaled” a 30 year old, perfectly functional application and migrated it to a big cloud solution.

Remember during COVID hearing about state unemployment systems running on obsolete mainframes? The dirty little secret there is that many states use a semi-standardized solution developed by IBM in the 80s (when the Feds spent a bunch of money to computerize unemployment insurance). The mainframe stuff is solid, the garbage bolted to it for IVR and web support 20 years ago is not. Because of that poor stewardship, the Federal government will probably spend billions over the next decade totalling those systems.
Thanks! I really appreciate effort you've put into this!

I will rethink the order of cards and recipes and maybe there is a place for recipe difficulty.

There is some lag on slow phones (< 11 android). And I already separated render for fast and slow systems. It's all about resizing cards. For some reason Chrome renders it badly along with the scroll. I will remove the resize and redo the render and it will work smoothly on all phones. Especially as pwa application.

Yes, I will add quantities for the ingredients and in general I will completely redo the recipes. Right now they are more
like a mock data.

The competition comes from my desire to build many features at once in one application. Perhaps it should be removed and added when there is at least a certain number of users and more understanding of what and how to compete.

Sync is inspired by my desire not to scare user with a login and to give easy access to the account.

I see the groceries list as a dataset. I love the idea of adding a set of products from a recipe to a shopping list or buying new groceries to unlock cards.
You mean, real estate would be priced in Bitcoin, and transactions would be carried out in Bitcoin instead of USD, the way they are today? That would be awesome! A huge vote of confidence in Bitcoin! It would really go a long way to damping Bitcoin's price volatility worldwide, too, by essentially pegging it to physical-world goods with durable value, even if they aren't portable goods.
There are many shops that either accept Bitcoin or host an ATM that takes Bitcoin, and have been for several years. There are also several "credit" cards that will spend Bitcoin by turning it into a local currency -- just like when using USD cards in Europe and having them automatically convert to EUR. Last, the number of such ways to spend Bitcoin and other coins is consistently growing.
just... why?
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29832525.
Been really is one of the greatest unofficial mentors of the greater development community
Of course! Rust was designed by the head of the chair-jousting advocacy committee. It all makes sense now!
Ask HN: Anyone else frustrated with the state of office apps (Chat/Email)
I have had it with unreliable productivity tools in my daily life!

I get a Slack message from a coworker on the phone. I read half of it before clicking on the notification. (In retrospect, I should have read whole message before clicking). So I know the topic, just not the full message.. anticipation builds... while I wait for the POS electron based Slack client to connect back to Slack to retrieve the full message and show it to me. Low coverage isn't helping. I take a U turn from the walk with my dog and rush back to my desk. No the Mac doesn't show the message either. Frustrated, I go back to my iPhone notification to see if I can re-read what they wrote. No, Apple decides I don't need the notification after I clicked on it.

Fast forward to rest of the day - Outlook has three version of Mac. The old-but-working version, the "new outlook" - someone rewrote a half-baked client in JS?? (another electron thing?), and there is outlook web version. The only one I can reliably get the search working is the web version. Yes, I know Apple spotlight controls how search is done in Mac. But the stupid client can't even show me the email I just sent out 10 minutes ago. At least for some case, I blame the suckers who upgraded to Monterey [1], but I am still on Big Sur, not even enjoying Monterey, but just all the problems :(

Sigh, before the young one yell "old person yells at the cloud", I need to call it a day and finish that walk with my dog. But wait, I can't close my stupid window because unending notifications popup and it is right where I don't want it [2]

1. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook/search-not-working-in-outlook-2019-since-updating-to-monterey-12/m-p/3040518

2. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/71989/change-location-of-macos-notification-center-alerts
> I don't know that having a high abortion rate is "manipulation"

It is because if you cannot take care of a kid with some kind of problem and dies young, it lowers the life expectancy. So they encourage abortion and remove it from the count.
I have seriously paid all my taxes in the past here in Argentina, because they weren't over 100% at the time. Now, the government won't allow me to.
There are a lot of people around the world who cannot buy and sell from each other; either they are in different regulatory regimes, or they are completely unbanked. There's also a lot of concentration of wealth to publishing houses - who aggregate the work of many artists and then simplify billing. Because money is so hard to deal with it tends to make it hard for artists to have creative sovereignty. They're always beholden to somebody else. We all suffer for this.

Effectively money is a form of communication; and when Mozilla bows to social pressure and social anti-crypto hysteria - they're continuing what they've always done - which is focus on insulating users, protecting users from risks, while also failing to foster a healthy ecosystem. Why do we have an arms race between people who want to violate privacy and people who want privacy? Why do we have so much sound bite media, with hugely emotional banner headlines and warped narratives? Why are the walled gardens so much more successful than the web (in the sense of much of the creative work and creative community moving to native apps?). We have these phenomena because there is no legitimate way for people to have direct transactional and healthy relationships on the web with respect to money. Mozilla is not "helping the web" they are hurting the web. Their fixation on the wrong things injures the ecosystem. They shouldn't waste their time begging for crypto, but what they should do is enable people to pay each other.
I know how Viagra works. Do you know what the word blunted means?
You need to add another $20K for taxes. And potentially another $10K for health insurance, depending on location. At $70K/yr you’re well into the top tercile in the US.
Is it an option to put all the setup and configuration into a script? So the Dockerfile becomes effectively just:

RUN ./setup.sh

I have seen that in some cases as a way to reduce layer count while avoiding complex hard to read RUN commands. Also seen it as a way to share common setup across multiple Docker images:

RUN ./common_setup_for_all_images.sh
RUN ./custom_setup_for_this_image.sh

However this approach of doing most of the work in scripts does not seem common, so I'm wondering if there is a downside to doing that.
You should reevaluate your opinion of Mozilla then. They did not say crypto has a bad eco footprint. They said they are going to pause accepting cryptos to investigate that question.
Why Doesn’t Webb Have Deployment Cameras
I wonder at what point would these be unsafe to look at without eye protection because they're too bright?
No these messages are not spam there either, because they are not spam period.

What you might mean is that the carrier's draconian probabilistic anti-spam system incorrectly categorizes them as spam. And that this causes a practical problem for Twilio, which lacks any recourse against said carrier's incorrect classification. In other words, a similar problem to what OP is complaining about, one hop away.

You're doing nobody any favors by elevating technical details out of their narrow context and stating them as an unassailable description of high level behavior.
Yeah a lot of people think those industries are "ripe for disruption" and then they realize no you can't represent it in JSON and you can't manage it on a phone-sized UI.
2038 is coming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Would you care to share the IPs? (both for the Hetzner PTP one and the local ISP stratum 1)

Is the 2.33s stable? If so, after deducing the stable offset, it could still be valuable.
Exactly. The person you're responding to is mixing business and engineering decisions.

There's always a fix, it might just be expensive. If this was a critical safety issue that had the ability to kill tens of thousands of people and cost the company billions of dollars, teams would work night and day to rewrite the code and they would bring the cars in and replace the navigation systems with ones that work. But this isn't a critical issue...

Someone has done a cost benefit analysis and decided it's cheaper to just tell people to wait until August and make whole any customer who throws a fit about it. There's "no solution" because no solution is cheaper than the actual solution to the problem.

<insert Fight Club quote here>
I held a similar view about fishermen and nets. Fishermen is a low margin business and nets are a massive investment, and loosing one would cost a lot of money. Look at any picture of fishermen or a fishing town and there is always a large number of nets being repaired. Repairing nets is almost an icon for the industry.

So why does there exist a massive waste problem from nets being dumped in the ocean? The answer lies in large scale fishing fleets which is an industry that is not a a low margin business. For them the cost of repairing or properly disposing nets is a cost compared to just dumping them into the ocean, and even if they get fined the cost would be less than the savings.

Small farmers are in a low margin business, and yes, if they use too much nitrogen they make less money. They would also get fined by local government, risk loosing farming rights and so on. Large scale farming and factory farming is not a low margin business, and sometimes the cost of violating regulations can be seen as the cheaper alternative. There is always the option to let a sub company go bankrupt, and route the profits away from the costs. Those are options not available to a small farm.
The USD inflated 6% over the last year, and getting it into the country is often difficult, but it is indeed very popular here.
If you are banking on activism to stop/start anything, you are in for a huge disappointment.

Profits / Self benefits are the most powerful, natural forces of the world. If you want any positive changes, you should harness them rather than fight it.
Tip: Step #1, move out of North Korea.
Closed source is a deal-breaker for some of us.
Imagine what would happen if we go in lock down every year. And keep making kids learn remote. And keep letting governments gain more authority without the reasonable discussion
What are you comparing against when you call it insanely large?

Do you know what is the carbon footprint of choosing an SUV when a compact car would suffice summed over everyone who did that? Frankly, I do not know, but I suspect it is more than 0.1%
Being illegal is crucial to citizens of a totalitarian dictatorship.
Yes, that is exactly how it works. Well said.
So it does become magic; just more like Faust and less like Harry Potter...
Is this a myth? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

This is also a myth? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Jap...

I wonder what they would not do to a local if they do that to foreigners.

How about this? https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/19/north-korea-horrific-pre...

The hair cut stuff is irrelevant, and sorry if it was not accurate. But the level of freedom there amounts to zero. I do not trust westerner media either all the time like a kid. I am not this silly. But hey, there is way more than that...
Isn't it interesting how you're saying a capitalist system you don't like "isn't capitalism", but you complain when others do the same with socialist systems?
I definitely find that part of the stack interesting

I really find that todays trendy “muh energy use” detractors will wind up contributing to alternate consensus models for distributed ledgers

Which means its still more beneficial to have prior experience in this sector than simply hoping it goes away
Ah thanks. Fixed above.

Submitted title was "Is America headed for a civil war?"
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Ish. In that APIs never die, yes. :)

I really do need to update it since significant advances have been made since it was written nearly 25 (!!) years ago.
It's so hard to imagine the entire industry being held hostage like this.

My second thought is that this radically enhances the need for good IoT standards. Right now many devices are built to grant Google & Google alone the capability to control & orchestrate. Our devices are all vulnerable to legal attach because Google is the sole arbiter of control over our systems, and no one else has much of a say in how these devices run or operate; their capabilities are not up for general use.

By making devices which are more API centric, by having them expose what capabilities they have, in a networked fashion, not solely controlled by Google, there would be the possibility for other folks to step in & try to navigate & make offerings here. The risk to product owners would be diffused, there would be more resilience in what would be possible with devices, rather than this being such a 1 vs 1 battle. Things like group volume control seem like ideal candidates for tech that even a bone-headed laymen could implement in a couple lines of code, if specifications like the upcoming Matter IoT specifications were available & in use.

Some of the capabilities covered by these patents may need to be baked somewhat closer to the firmware. But for many of them, it feels like the rigid, fixed, top-down control system we've relied on is an epic legal vulnerability, one Sonos is driving a mac truck through. Letting our devices be scriptable and controllable would be safer, healthier, & help shirk off such flamboyant legal assaults. Devices should be general purpose, scriptable, because anything else is unsafe & unfit for users.
There are some equally extreme leftist groups. It's pretty unfair to base your opinion of nearly half the country on the actions of a very small extreme minority.
Here’s the repository they mention: https://github.com/appworldng/momocentral
I'm sure it would be even higher if we had the figures for the classified programs that are going on up there.