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The best counterargument I know to "Apple should support every app forever" is Windows.

Microsoft did that, and modulo 16-bit Windows 3.1 stuff still more or less do. The four or five different flavors of Control Panel UI, reaching all the way back to Windows 2000 in a totally inconsistent and barely comprehensible farrago, is the very least of what came of it.

The underpinnings of the OS are, by all appearances and accounts, just alike: so totally fragmented and incoherent that it'll take them another 20 years to do anything about that even if they start the day before yesterday. That makes it nigh impossible to do anything both new and worth having - hence Windows 8, 10, and I assume 11 as well as whatever the next at least three to five versions are called.

(I'll have to assume, because after Windows 10 I will never willingly buy another consumer product from Microsoft for the rest of my life.)
Amazing! Is this a game changer?
Rust uses the platform-default allocator by default for good reasons.
Have laws caught up for this new way to work yet? Last ai checked there are non-insignificant legal and tax issues for small businesses to have employees in other states.
There's a difference.

You can say what someone got right and also say it would be even better with this correction.

Or you can call them a useless moron who doesn't know what they're on about.

Shoot straight, but don't leave people feeling bad about themselves.
Are you missing the part where the model gave two scores for the same picture based on extreme desaturation?

Terrible pictures don't make you more attractive on dating sites...

It's just a bad model. There's bound to be bias in the model but ML 101 would be randomize saturation and hue on your training set
Just stop making shit up.
I will note that not every airline has a “United Airlines” approach to animals. (For those not from the States, UA has a bit of a reputation for killing animals, amongst several other things). We took our dog transatlantic with BA and though she was forced into the hold the airline was fairly aware of the conditions that the animals would be subjected to and we actually had to delay her return due to adverse temperature conditions for several weeks.

Not that BA is really great about much else, frankly, I think that their handling of our dog is one of the only nice things I have to say about that airline.
This belongs on reddit, not HN
Look at the luxury stores being regularly robbed in cities like LA. Not exactly “civil”, but it’s an inevitable consequence of inequality: rich people can’t easily enjoy their nice things.
Not usually, and no don’t feel thirsty.

The signs I easily ignore are a little bit of brain fog, some reduction in physical energy, and dry skin. The dry skin is meh, and the other two are solved* with food that provides energy.

* = It does not actually resolve it, but it does “enough” and has a long enough lead time that it’s easy to have an instinct of “Oh I’m feeling run down, time to grab a snack” followed by “that didn’t quite get where I expected, I’ll give it time to digest” before forgetting about the whole thing as the project reabsorbs my attention.
You might find drums and percussion instruments to your liking. I had a good friend who likely had ADHD, or something like it, with over-active mind, constantly shifting attention/focus, expressed in his manner of speech and fidgeting (always jumping legs up and down). He was a drummer, and it was very noticeable that when he played drums, his mind could stay focused for hours, and even his fidgeting stopped. It was like his nervous energy would get channelled out of his body into the music.
California investigating oil companies role in plastic pollution crisis
I cannot tell if technology work has always been this way and I'm just too inexperienced to know it, or we are in the midst of a massive employment bubble.

People are very excited about adopting new tech x for zero reason, writing lots of Jira/Confluence salad to describe it. But at the end of the day 0 justifiable business case. Just pointless developer evangelicalism and nodding business heads.

From my first hand experience that for any of this VC money to actually work out, the real projects have to have just astronomical returns to make up for the rest.
So how is this distinguished from existing commercially available continuous electrodeionization?
https://watts247.com/product-category/solar-panels/new/palle...

I don't know what, where, or how many you want, but these are by the pallet (~30ea) and about $6500. You can get much cheaper with used ones.

You get conservatively ~3hr of effective peak power per day (so a 400W panel will give you 1200Wh). You also need a DC converter for these to charge a battery or go to AC. Of course you'll want to mount them at the correct angle with a good view of the sun.
Challenges with Alternative Name Systems [pdf]
Sounds nice in some ways. The stickler here is the focus on working in PST still. You’re not gonna get to travel to the EU and work async it sounds like. Which - while making sense - isn’t going to make a good portion of people who want this particularly happy.

After all - remote but stuck in one time zone for working hours isn’t really a huge win. It’s dangling a carrot.

In other news - sounds like comp is going down at Airbnb. Not a surprise.
Their business model is being a Trojan horse for China. How long did they think that would last?
Can you give a concrete example of that which isn't obvious?

This seems like pretty much the most basic principle ever, but I feel I must be missing something.
So what? If you look at the average speed of a racing car shortly before it crashes, it will be very high.
If you're remote, cost of living isn't really something Airbnb has to care about. As long as they get good work from you and don't incur office costs in a specific area for you, they can pay you what they believe is a good rate for your services and let you spend it in as cheap (or pricey) of a city as you want.

On a much smaller scale, if I hire someone to edit my book, I probably won't know or care where they live.
To me, the reason why the game industry has little open source libraries is because games are usually a once-and-done approach to software. So open sourcing part of your game has little benefits because you're not going to go back update the open source libraries. Whereas other software is a constantly updating behemoth, so open sourcing your software can get small beneficial increases from external changes to your open source code.

The profit motive doesn't really seem like the main reason, since most open source software makes no money. Facebook doesn't get money from open sourcing React for instance, but they do get functional improvements to React that comes from it being open source and having more people help work on it.
If you're allowed to use that as an example of a selfie stick, then I should be allowed to use James Wallace Black’s 1860 aerial photography. :-)

https://time.com/longform/aerial-photography-drones-history/
I've always been amazed at the hypocrisy of all of this. A portion of attractiveness is culture-invariant, and quantifiable based on measurable factors such as facial symmetry. Study after study have demonstrated that humans innately treat attractive individuals better than others.

Yet we obsess over skin colour and genitalia, without a single peep about the physical appearance discrimination that most humans take part in.
Yes it does harm, honestly it gives a totally unrealistic idea of how fast a person can get a plumber to show up to their house... Honestly though don't need to porn because I have such an active and creative imagination, then again, had to deal with while repair websites as SAAS so sometimes seeing reminds me of work.. It's more sicking though see how much money some of the sites makes, and how the work around all the laws meant to prevent them from making such money... Shells with shells...
It is, and it’s pretty much what Shopify has announced more than a year ago. Nice to see other big names joining this trend.
The one about kids on road trips and candy is pretty good.
Experiments on Air by Henry Cavendish (1784)
Yes me too. I hope it can join forces with https://github.com/sunfishcode/mustang
It is clearly possible to find workaround, but it seems weird to need one on a $2000 laptop when other companies manage to fit it on cheaper, thinner laptops.
Eh, unless your company’s threat model includes malicious IT workers it’s w/e in my book. I could just reset your password (and put the hashes back so you wouldn’t know) or keylog your machine.

The whole reason you even have a password is to authenticate to my systems. If I can’t be trusted with it we’ve got bigger problems.
No one with experience who currently makes top dollar would take jobs that pay them significantly less, especially as cost of living all over the country is skyrocketing. Companies will need to compete for those developers, and they'll have to compete on wages, as well.

I used to work with developers in Eastern Europe who made the same amount of money as their peers in SF made, despite living in countries with median salaries of ~$8,000 USD a year.

People with skills can and do command high compensation packages that are independent of where they do their work from. Market rates for talent already factor in domestic and global markets.
None of it really matters tbh. Without proper taxation and building policy - it’s all moot. Small town with a bunch of millionaires is just as bad as a big city with them.

Policy is what will dictate whether or not this is good and that’s not within the hands of any company. That’s up to the federal, state, and local governments. (Of which are all fucked - of course)
I normally don’t say things like this, esp. on HN- This is disgusting. No good can come from it.
The year tag is also very useful for when you might have read it the first time, and want to know that it hasn't changed, or if you don't need/want to re-read it (while still participating in the discussion). It's also interesting to see how things have aged.
Every list like this should probably end with a final line:

Take all advice anyone gives you with a large grain of salt. In the end, you are the one who will be making the decisions that change your life in one way or the other. If you can't trust yourself to make the right decision, then who can you trust? At the very least, you'll have noone but yourself to blame if you happen to make the wrong one. Those are the mistakes you learn the most from, by the way.
Thanks, hmm, so shift up/down deselects anything that was selected for me. Shift left/right works and mouse select works. Shift+fn+left/right makes me switch tab. I'm guessing my keyboard shortcuts are different compared to your setup but I don't remember changing anything here (using the regular Terminal app for Mac).
What are those? For instance jemalloc is generally better than glibc malloc, so platform default isn't necessarily the best choice.
You generally have to buy them by the pallet-load, FOB ("free on board") at the source, which means you arrange shipping. Home Depot marks up 4x for local purchase.

But used panels, at 80% rated output, are even cheaper, as low as $150. A few of those will fail, so you keep spares. They are often repairable in a few minutes if you are not afraid of a soldering iron, e.g. replace a diode or MOSFET.

Any roofer will put in mounting brackets, and almost any electrician is happy to put in the panel.
That’s an interesting practice… I’m glad this is not the case in the states, aside from maybe applying for acting roles. I don’t know if it’s common practice nowadays but I remember there was a period of time when employers would request your social media profiles.. did they encourage something similar in England? Im asking because if they already encouraged photo submissions, this seems like a related piece of information they might have also liked to receive. To be honest I don’t know why they would want an SWE candidates photo in the first place, it’s not a PR heavy role… maybe they want to use A.I to measure a level of greasiness or the size of a candidates head (kidding!)
The problem isn’t vastly understated, and the retirees have largely been subsidized by the current system, they aren’t losing anything. That said, I’m just as favorable to a writedown of the asset and liability. The banks can now invest in productive enterprise.

Fred Foldvary also discusses the transition and who would ultimately need compensation in https://www.progress.org/articles/the-transition-to-land-val...

I see no evidence that it would be difficult in the slightest to disentangle such things but I’m willing to be convinced otherwise by those who have done an actual analysis of the issue.

Of course, as Foldvary notes, “First of all, compensation for the loss of land value is not morally required. The typical landowner has been receiving an implicit subsidy from the government, as public goods generate higher rent and land value. One could argue that justice requires the title holder to pay back the past subsidies.”

What you see as a problem is not an ethical or economic problem merely a potentially political problem.
How to negotiate rates? What do you usually tell them in the phone ?
Some people don't care about the local timezone, even without a need to stay up odd hours.

And for western Europe, you don't even need to work ridiculous hours. If my current core hours (9am - 3pm) were in PST and I worked in Paris, I could finish my workday at 11pm in Paris.
You may be able to guarantee it in this particular case with region-based allocation (also called arena allocation); discarding a region, or resetting its allocation pointer back to the beginning, is a constant-time operation. If your very large tree is in a single region, and it's the only thing in that region, then you can reclaim the entire thing in constant time as soon as you no longer need it.

Region-based memory management is commonly used, for example, with per-frame heaps in games, or per-request heaps in servers; but in those cases memory is not reclaimed immediately. The MLKit implements Standard ML with regions instead of garbage collection, though recent versions also have GC.
Often the people who know the limits of their knowledge overcompensate for it when speaking with others. There's a lot of "I think", "it should", "I may be wrong" and other noncommittal hedging to cover the slimmest of chances and be on the safe side. It goes beyond simply conveying the known risks/probabilities clearly and objectively.

To someone in the same domain, all of those caveats are commonly accepted/implied, so they become tiresome and muddy the points being made.

To someone outside the domain, it unnecessarily erodes confidence in the supposed domain-expert speaker's abilities and recommendations. It's even worse when put up against someone else does speak with confidence. I've lost count how many times I've seen that leading to stakeholders accepting a suboptimal solution.
Ask HN: Reasoning for Animal Rights
Is there a sound argument in favor of (inhuman) animal humanitarianism? I understand that excessive hunting and habitat encroachment is detrimental to the global ecosystem, but what about actions taken in a semi-controlled environment, like slaughterhouses and labs?

From what I've seen, parties who object to animal cruelty/mishandling don't cite an ounce of logical proof behind their stance. It's as though they believe that their sentiment stems directly from common sense and as such does not necessitate a formal explanation. I understand that this is often a defining characteristic of interest groups, but it seems unusual for one with such great traction in modern western society.

Nearly all of these activism organizations rely on shock and gore media to garner support, taken to extremes by the more popularized instances (e.g. PeTA). At the end of the day, their sole plea is to eliminate suffering inflicted upon animals...for no other reason than because it is within humanity's capability to do so. I've scoured through a dozen sites in the past half-hour, and this generally holds true to each one.

The only legitimate thesis I could find essentially claims that animal abusers are liable to harm humans due to moral desensitization, which actually makes a fair amount of sense, until you realize that "abuser" might simply be referring to the common pet-owner or whatnot. Do you guys know any others?
You are telling me how things currently work, I am talking about how they should work.

I never said to reject things arbitrarily. Only if there is not enough time for an examination. Think of it as putting things on a backlog. If faster turn-around is wanted, more funding can be provided. Lack of funding should only make the work slower, not broaden patentability.

> I'm afraid that you don't know what you're talking about here. Obviousness is a prior art rejection

I'm sorry but this is absurd, and if the patent office functions using this definition makes it no less absurd. Why would US patent law require both non-obviousness and lack of prior art, if the two are the same? The fact that claiming obviousness without prior art "never works" in the USPTO is just evidence of its deep dysfunction.

I sympathize with working in a bureaucracy that seems built to produce bad outcomes, but conflating arbitrary rejections with asking for more time/putting things on a back-log, obviousness, and prior art, really does not inspire confidence. It smells like reasoning deformed by a broken bureaucracy, rather than sensible application of principles or the spirit of the law.
Wow, this is so good. One of the best things I've read via HN.

Wisdom:
"The best way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post an obviously wrong answer and wait for someone to correct you."
> I must say, I’m surprised you think I am defending prejudice.

You are literally arguing in favor of the idea that "it's ok to discriminate against anyone who isn't protected".

Prejudice is still prejudice even if the particular characteristic on which that prejudice is based isn't protected (yet...).

> Kind of an odd example to use to defend ...

I'm not using that example to defend my statement, I'm using it to discredit the idea that the law can be used as a basis or guide for morality.

Edit to add: Feel free to have the last word. I can't respond at the moment because I'm "posting too fast", even though I'm posting less often than some others here...

I will say simply that the point is to oppose discrimination against a marginalized group. I don't understand your confusion about that.
Maybe. I think Atmospheric Water Generators are much More likely to change the game since they don’t need a body of water other than the atmosphere.
Very nice. Could you add one about the waste cycle? Like, it feels true in one sense (maybe there's less fuel waste that matters, or so the claims go) but way false in another (molten salt is nasty as hell and requires a lot of maintenance which means a lot of irradiated waste).
Meta comment: I wish more older people would write things like this. Based on how much more I know now compared to 10 years ago, it’s hard to imagine how much wisdom a 70 year old must have about the way the world works. It’s so valuable.
In the short term, with tons of well-funded or high-revenue companies struggling to hire, remote is a way to make your existing comp more attractive by opening it up to a new set of people and out-bidding their local employers.

In the long term salaries will likely equalize a bit, but maybe not that much. Even in today's tech hubs, the existing range of salaries is VERY wide. Not every dev in SF is making 300k+, and yet the FANG companies have been in an increasing comp arms race for several years.
Duh — but a reference/baseline you don’t share and showing only de-contextualized change scaled to “look scary” is classic lying with statistics.

How much change does 200 ZJ represent?

We’re purposefully not told that information because that chart is propaganda meant to make an emotional argument and not informational argument — and I think it speaks to the person I was replying to that they’re using emotive arguments rather than fact based arguments.

Particularly when lobbing ad hominems at others.
One frequent market research question starts with: if you had magic wand ...

I've see it at Lays, P&G, Google, Mars and others.

It seems a great trick to get humans to cast off the current status quo.
Listening to audiobooks while playing American Truck Simulator. It's like taking a road trip without leaving the house.
Eventually - and it might take a recession - the downside of “work from anywhere” will be that companies can “hire from anywhere”. That means the Bay Area salary you previously enjoyed may be knocked down through greater wage competition.
For companies like this that profess to care about their employees (and I believe them), what’s the justification for paying less in e.g. London than USA given London is just as expensive? Will progressive companies start adjusting pay according to cost of living rather than the local labor market?
> In this case it sucks because never built out the public transportation capabilities that could facilitate this being as "pleasant" as it is in Europe.

Or the publicly subsidized healthcare and higher education!
Underscoring the importance of native type methods in Python
I wouldn’t be upset or pity someone who doesn't refill the tank — I just wouldn’t go out of my way to help them again, like I would for someone who does refill it. If you make a point of showing your appreciation when I do you a favor, I’m much more likely to do you more favors in the future.
None, we remember thinkers, not engineers.

They will remember Einstein and Newton and Aristotle, just like we do.
Thanks for posting, this is amazing!
The reverse is also true. At the beginning Airbnb employees will be making SF level salaries. As Airbnb continues to hire and churn employees, average salaries will come down since they won't be paying SF salaries for new positions. They might pay better than other companies, but won't keep SF as baseline.
the fact that so many capable humans have constructed this orgy of greed which is purely financial, at a time when the global economy actually requires massive definancialization, is of profound interest.

this is a huge distraction, and another way to divide people, and use tricks or marketing to cause them to act out of FOMO and greed.

it would be "interesting" if we were debating how to solve the supply line fragility, the need for soil, the need to keep the temperature down, the need to achieve some modicum of equality here in North America so that millions of intelligent humans dont become slaves and have their potential as inventors and scientists wasted.

who survives all this will not see your comment, probably, but the facile way that you declare these fundamental questions of survival as .... uninteresting ... makes me despair.
Some people are willing to give product feedback others aren't (like me). Recognise the latter quickly and don't bother them.
Why build it with an intimate dependency on Chrome, and not as a general HTTP/HTTPS proxy?

Not that it doesn't look neat, sure. But I do a lot of browsing from my phone, and I've just been spending some money and considering spending more on even a partial archiving solution for that.

If this could support that use case, you'd have a chance at a paying customer for life. As it is, you've already told me you don't want me, or anyone with a similar use case, as a customer at any price. I assume there has to be some engineering justification for a tradeoff like that, but I admit I can't fathom what it might be.
Judging by my employer, small businesses are able to have their payroll companies take care of all that hassle without much cost, so it’s not really a problem.
Agility Starts with Trust
Unless the company is not interested in successfully creating any software, rewarding devs for fixing bugs is how the system normally works.