skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Does anyone else feels like that?
Yes. 2 multinationals. From bad to (much) worse. Highly pathological orgs in the Westrum scale. I was annoyed by it all in the first one but it hit the bottom with the current one. I hate every second I spend there now.

* What do you do to overcome this feeling?
I'm aggressively interviewing aiming to smaller companies. Hope I'll get out and into a healthier env before I get sick.

PS: Most of these companies are a dead empty shell already. It's just that due to inertia it will take years or decades for them to actually die, if we assume they operate in a mildly healthy market -and that's a big IF. There's loads of them out there. Actually the majority is like that. Bands that made a few good albums and are capitalising on past glory.
What? Why are you even trying to say that those constitute access to the source in any meaningful way to anyone?

Yes proprietary licensing does preclude source availability, obviously, because no one has access to those source licenses, and the few that do, have to sign nda's preventing them from publicising what they see. If someone is working for someone huge enough to actually have one of those source licenses, they can't use it to fork and publish a fixed version of the product, or even publish open source code to merely interoperate if the details end up disclosing inner workings indirectly. Whatever they get out of it, it doesn't do anyone else any good, and that fact itself means it doesn't even do them as much good as it could.

There may be some products where the vendor charges less than millions of dollars, because not all products are Adobe
CS or the PS5's os or Turbo Tax etc, but so what? The proprietary license itself defines the most important fact, which is who retains the right to grant and deny access and usage. The fact there may exist some products where the vendor happens to be small or cooperative means nothing at all, because others are not, and even the ones that are can and do change the deal at any time.

Those licenses don't matter, because the licensees are no different than employees. The employees who develop a proprietary product can also see the source. The special licensees are no different.

Saying the option to get one of those licenses means the source is available, is like saying you could always get a job at that company and the source would be available.

This is a baffling argument to even try to float. Not merely that the argument falls apart instantly at the first glance, the more remarkable thing is I can't imagine why anyone would even want to try.
You can certainly buy support contracts but they tend to accept liability primarily in regards to their support capability, not the total extent of what the law would otherwise allow. While FOSS may convey rights that proprietary software doesn’t, those rights are not necessarily valuable to any one user in particular.

This is why people choose different licenses. A software engineer in their dorm room cares about different things than an accountant in an office.
Zero, just my time. And the cost of fixing all the problems with new versions of Xcode, Unity, and whatever else was used and has now changed.

It can become quite the rabbit hole, and thus quite costly.
I call it a "pseudostandard". When you need extensions to use it at all, and half the clients are missing just enough of them to be useless for half the users.

Plus it's confusing. You have to look through feature matrices instead of just saying "Oh this is version 4, it has everything I need".
If you set warnings to errors, and upgrade your compiler from time to time, you're asking the compiler people to help find hitherto undiscovered issues in your code using the latest diagnostic tools that they have come up with.

If you don't want to be informed, then don't do that. But those issues could be real bugs.

For instance, one fine day GCC got the ability to diagnose situations when the indentation of an nested if statement is deceptive compared to the actual precedence of the clauses. So if someone had warnings as errors, and had such a statement, then their build stopped. If that was a real bug, they were grateful.
> rationale behind whitespace in Python

it doesn't seem simpler, and any argument that it's faster or easier to type seems to fall apart the first time you need to paste code across different indentation levels, right? what's the upside?
640K Ought to be enough for anyone ;)

Granted, it's beyond the definition of overkill (but I wouldn't mind it!)
The sync functionality has been moved into the Finder app, so it’s part of macOS. I‘m not sure what’s the best way on Windows, but Microsoft‘s Phone Companion seems to take care of necessary software installation.
"The class definitions are in quantiles which means proportional per capita. "

Yes - hence the problem with income inequality in the numbers.

The "upper quartile" is so low, it includes people making 60k a year.

More granularity in your numbers would show that actually wealthy people don't sign up.

It looks like you're using statistics to lie. It's pretty clear that "wealthy people are overrepresented" is only true if you do things like, define "rich" starting at 60k.
My apologies. I agree you don't need to be friends to be in someone's network and that's all I was pointing out. I deliberately couched my statement in "I think" and "seems to" because I understand how easy it is to misinterpret in this format. Rewording someone's statement is a way to ensure one understands and allows the other person to correct it, it's not meant to "put words in your mouth." I'm not sure why your tone is so defensive, but thank you for clarifying.
Most people's mental map has basically all of Africa in the southern hemisphere, but geographically that is far from the case.

We have 195 countries in the world and only 33 of those are entirely on the southern hemisphere.

Here is one example of an illustrative map:

https://i.redd.it/w2tv9dda1xzy.png
Most people just buy whatever they had last, whatever most of their friends and family have, or whatever is cheap. I doubt more than 10% of people think about it very hard.
A lot of the comments here are focusing on indie developers, but honestly the worst offenders are huge companies that aren't focused on software, like HVAC, IoT, automotive. They'll hire out a subcontractor once to throw an app over the fence and let it rot. There's no market pressure up front when you are buying a washing machine to evaluate the support model for the companion apps, so this isn't a problem that solves itself. Apple has now forced these companies to maintain their stuff, and the market will be better off for it.
Generally, even if an app gets removed from the App Store, you can still redownload it anytime if you've previously purchased it. The only exception is egregious cases where the developer's account gets terminated. But even then, if you backed up the app's IPA in advance, you can reinstall it anytime. (This is distinct from sideloading, as an Apple-signed IPA is encrypted and tied to your Apple ID but has no expiry date.)
That last proposal is mine! Thanks for the Go implementation, I’ll have to play with it some time. Looks like you’ve built something very close to my intention. Did you come across any additional changes needed to the spec? Any suggestions or results from going through the implementation that would help?

Another thought is if it is possible and how to coordinate te re-using dictionaries.
Try Brave Browser on iOS for ad blocking.
Please don't be an asshole on HN, regardless of how deserving something is of criticism or you feel it is. Comments like this just poison the ecosystem, which makes everything worse. Maybe you don't owe Google better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ya, at some point, technical superiority has diminishing returns. Tesla may very well beat out all rivals for performance and miles per charge. But when your competitor can get 300 miles to a charge and 0 to 60 in 3 seconds, there just isn't that much difference to your 350 miles per charge and 0 to 60 in 2 seconds. There are a lot of other factors to compete on.
> the encryption ... would require a complex structure

Not a quantum information theorist, but am a scientist. We actually do have (conjectured) low-complexity one way functions, so this by itself is not necessarily true. I do agree that it's a fairly unlikely to be the case that natural processes execute this algorithm, though.
Mostly time and hassle I would imagine. Apples requirements also shifted in the meantime so you might also be forced to provide more info/pictures/etc. which again comes down to time and hassle.
What is your point? Are you taking issue with the current corpus of evidence that exists around climate change?
Book Impressions: “Accelerate”
Have you read it? Has your org put it to use? How did it work (or not)?
Games in particular usually don't use a lot of system UIs or other integrations (and so are less likely to break or visibly age), are often developed on a shoestring budget (so developers will have less time and resources to keep updating them over time), and have artistic value.

Kicking them off the only store on a closed platform is erasure of artistic history. It's doubly insulting when they still work perfectly without modification.

For comparison: I've never heard of a game getting kicked off of a console's store because of a "lack of updates". The stores themselves usually shut down eventually - which is its own problem - but at least there's a reasonable business argument for why the company can't be expected to offer that service indefinitely.
You are spot on, but that might even be the best case scenario. Thing can quickly turn south and cost quite a bit of time.
Finally Intel has some competition, this time a mighty rival.
Some, most of them not.
This tweet seems to be dated yesterday (4/22/22)
At some point it makes sense to update even if the content itself is "complete": supporting newer screen resolutions natively (instead of going with some kind of fallback behavior), making sure all the outdated and long since sunset 3rd party SDK calls don't cause crashes etc.

Also if you managed to build, prepare (App Store metadata in different resolutions etc), submit and finally get your app shipped to the end user that was no small feat a couple of years ago. Probably not a very useful skillset to have if you only do it very infrequently (read: waste of time).

Requiring additional screenshots, icon sizes, universal app (iPhone+iPad, also supporting split view), new copy for different types of meta (e.g app sub title) for all the locales you probably had translated externally at some point, new privacy guidelines etc.. all not very attractive to get into even if not forced to update like this, especially if you lose your ratings in the process.
I used the live version: https://www.xabber.com/web/
Extra tidbit: the number (exchange rate) is a visible marker of "The Western world is against us", and it's very hard to preach "Everything is fine" when that number is massively worse compared to before the war; so they're destroying the future of the economy just to make sure it looks right currently.
I don't have iTunes, use NextCloud to move pictures of the iPhone. But you're right, I really hate it that I can't just move pictures off with a cable. It worked for me on Ubuntu but has been nothing but pain on Arch, I tried a lot of different things. Really annoying. In fact, I'd say it's the one main annoying thing for me (that and the fact that the NextCloud docker image people refuse to add .heic support and I'm too noob to do it myself ;) )
It's not called iTunes anymore. It's called "Music".
> So what’s behind this even erosion of Android’s command of the OS Market? StockApps.com’s finance expert Edith Reads ... She attributes Android losing its ground to increased competition within the space ... ” Android’s loss of market share boils down to heightened competition within the OS space. A look at the data shows that iOS gained 6% between July 2018 and January 2022. From 19.4% then, Apple has grown its OS market share to 25.49%.”

Wow, Android share went down because iOS share went up? Thank goodness we had a finance expert to provide this amazing insight.
The migration process has never been easier.

Just hold the phones near each other, scan the QR code on one with the other and wait a bit.
Complete clone of the old phone, no need to go anywhere near iTunes or even a computer.
https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github...
I still feel bad that the M1 brand name has relegated M1 the rapper (even more) to oblivion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-1_(rapper)
plenty of people cared about Ukraine; what the fuck are you on about? the previous US president tried to withhold aid to Ukraine in quid pro quo.

>Apparently, people had another pet cause to read about in those years.

You mean they weren't literally at war, so they didn't take up as much of the spotlight?
Bloodletting and the practice of medicine as a whole both predate organized science. Transforming medicine into a scientific discipline is an incomplete work in progress, and discarding bloodletting is one of the consequences of that transition.
I thought they had moved security updates to be delivered via Google Play so that users could keep receiving them even when the OEM doesn’t deliver OS updates anymore? Or are those separate security updates from the "normal" firmware security patches?
As an outsider, of course I dislike the average Russian and hold him at least somewhat responsible, for two reasons: 1. his collective historical actions led to Russia being led by a mafia regime and 2. his taxes directly fund the war.

> aside from diving deep into the history of the conflict after which many things started to make sense

I'm very curious about that... would you mind sharing?
Or switch to Prompt, which is actively maintained by one of the best iOS/macOS developers out there.
Browsing the web, using normal apps. Things are just snappier on iOS in my experience. It is not a big deal. But it is one area that android could be improved.
I've never seen a support contract that conveys all liability the law allows. In general the more you spend the more the lawyers get really specific about what SLAs, etc. actually mean. And the baseline is never 'the developer is responsible for everything'. This is just as true for FOSS and it is for proprietary software.

And to talk about FOSS as happening in dorm rooms is 90s level FUD.
Related:

Aphantasia (and how not to do math in your head) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30573004 - March 2022 (2 comments)

Aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29365277 - Nov 2021 (276 comments)

Not spooked by Halloween ghost stories? You may have aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29049356 - Oct 2021 (10 comments)

Picture This? Some Just Can’t (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997320 - Oct 2021 (1 comment)

Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27588905 - June 2021 (1 comment)

Seeing things a different way; simple test for aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532946 - Sept 2020 (1 comment)

Picture This? Some Just Can’t (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22800815 - April 2020 (103 comments)

Aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20267445 - June 2019 (72 comments)

Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19618927 - April 2019 (422 comments)

Aphantasia: Ex-Pixar chief Ed Catmull says 'my mind's eye is blind' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19612122 - April 2019 (2 comments)

The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18799550 - Jan 2019 (100 comments)

What it’s like to be unable to visualize anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730505 - May 2016 (11 comments)

Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554894 - April 2016 (202 comments)

Aphantasia: A life without mental images - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10148792 - Aug 2015 (73 comments)

Aphantasia: A Life Without Mental Images - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10121678 - Aug 2015 (2 comments)
I loved my lumia 520. It was cheap as chips, fast as hell and at the time more user friendly than whatever overheating droid alternatives were available. I think it was one of the fastest selling phones at the time.

I distinctly remember Google making it a right pain to use Google's products on the phone, namely Youtube and Google Maps. In addition I remember a bunch of articles talking about how Google prevented Microsoft from developing a native youtube app and doing shady nonsense regarding User Agent filtering.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/google-maps-windows-...

https://geekinsider.com/google-blocks-youtube-on-windows-pho...

How Google got away with that is beyond me.

Certainly makes me somewhat glad that Microsoft just chose to yoink chromium for edge. At least now Google can't do any more shady nonsense with the browser to filter them out.
Selling my own GPL software part 3, prior art (existing GPL software for sale)
What's interesting is no one said that.

Inventing your own false statement so that you can point out how false it is, is an utterly uninteresting approach.
Nope, I'm going to stick with the view that it's self-centred to not only think even inadvertently confusing idioms are invariably more important than clarity, but also to insist that even if some people want pointers on avoiding gendered terms or words which have obscure controversies associated with them, corporations must restrict their grammar checking features to stuff which doesn't trigger you.

And no, it absolutely isn't disingenuous to suggest that a feature which suggests some words might inadvertently assume the reader is male or has negative connotations isn't somehow qualitatively different to one that tells you your Flesch Kincaid score could be higher, advises you to avoid the passive voice or starting sentences with "but", and even spellchecks have a subjective component (as I'm reminded whenever I decline a tool's suggestion to substitute Noah Webster's spellings for the ones I was taught). All style guide stuff involves judgements by humans based on what they think is better for other humans to read and none involves any behaviour control (at least not unless the style guide checker is your boss).

You can't have it both ways, if word choices are incapable of alienating people it makes bugger all difference to have a software feature with some words suggesting using some different words. If the beaty of words matters deeply to you, maybe their etymology or gender implications matter to some people who are not you too. Personally I'd say people thinking that landlord is a pretty worrisome term are a bit over the top, but they're not half as over the top as people insisting there's something akin to the suppression of political speech about suggesting "proprietor" as an alternative and anyone who doesn't agree with them is a bully.

BTW bro, thanks for checking out my website. Not sure why you think that old pic gives you great insight into my background, but let's just say I haven't lead such a sheltered existence I feel bullied by a user configurable linting tool and people not agreeing with my opinion on linting tools.
I found the intro on multiple personality disorder and tiktok interesting, but the article is really about politics, which isn’t reflected in the title. I lost interest when he mentioned leftists
No way I let Facebook get access to my phone contacts. I guess this is worth billions for them, because it’s a huge social graph they were missing. Interestingly the option to use the app without giving away all your contacts has been removed years ago. It tells a lot. Note that Signal still works without your contacts.
I'm not clear that policies and rules should be immutable, nor as immutable as possible. Rules are an adversarial game, and being responsive is useful
it would be hypermeta levels of satisfying if indeed these results are maybe 500 or so human-written precanned responses.
Here I was thinking of the M1 rifle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Garand
What makes them the same?
Well, if it was nearby, we would see something. A camera would capture an image.

Perhaps our brains would not do well understanding the actual object producing the picture though.
There are plenty of cases where things have moved much faster than that - e.g. the adoption of QM and relativity, dark energy becoming a respectable hypothesis, plate tectonics, dinosaur extinction via impact... In each of these cases, either new evidence or a new explanation for previously-puzzling evidence was key.
Microsoft somehow manage to maintain backwards compatibility for much longer than two years.
Rise of Super Gonorrhea
If only it where only that simple.

There are many dependancies that require some kind of reimplementation, it's a pain.

I have made things easier (in the long run) with my last game. I wrote it all in c++ with all dependancies under my control. I was thinking >20 years ahead for that one.
And people used twitter to disprove those?
Clicked into it, didn't read the description, and got an AI-based project that could perfectly hedge my fixed income portfolio. I won't lie, got a bit excited and then I realized what site I'd clicked on.

Very nifty! Is this your site?
> Twitter is so close to being perfect

That's an unusual take... Twitter is pretty widely regarded as about as far as perfect as it can get, putting it mildly - and this is across the political spectrum. I'm curious to understand your perspective on why you believe twitter is near perfect.
Same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2idut9tkeQ is the relevant episode from Space Time.
Those extensions don't work with other browsers, though.
There is a systemwide ad-blocker available called MYbloXX[0] that I've been using on a jb iPhone, but you can also use it on a stock iOS device with the caveat that you have to do a device restore to be able to apply the configuration. The web site is a bit cheese but the developer has been doing this for years and it works really well, across all apps. You can see the PAC file it uses here[1]

Alternatively, I've just signed up for the Orion browser beta[2] for Mac and there is a testflight available for iOS. This can apparently use (some) WebExtensions, notably uBlock origin. I cannot run testflight apps on my old jb iPhone so I can't speak to how well it works

[0] https://myxxdev.github.io/depictions/MYbloXXforiOS/MYbloXXfo...

[1] https://myxxfm.com/script

[2] https://browser.kagi.com/
> Maybe someone should tell twitter, google, etc that science isn't supposed to work on consensus. Politics works on consensus.

This was Twitter, not Nature or ArXiv.

This is sad, but good. It’s sad that this is the least bad of two bad alternatives.
"Many of these will be scams or harmful" but that's a risk you're willing to take? Personally I'm against pharmaceutical industries fleecing people with rare diseases for which no current interventions currently exist. Medical regulations didn't come about in a vacuum—absent these we'd have many more examples like the Tuskegee syphilis study.

I'm fine with people critiquing the medical industry. Most people doing so are coming from a place of emotion, though. This anti-intellectualism in the US has always been bad but it seems now society is willing to turn the dial back on germ theory, vaccines, antibiotics, etc.

People can innovate without breaking things, I know suggesting such to an audience primarily composed of software engineers is taboo. However it is definitely possible to move at a decent pace and not break shit when you're working with sick human beings.