skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an organization that values diversity and inclusion, we are investing in the accessibility of our services to make them available to as wide a range of people as possible. As many as 26% of the US population has some form of disability and may rely on screen readers/magnifiers, captions in videos, alternate input devices, and other tools to help them access information on the web.

It's rather bold for the CNCF to describe themselves in this way, after the controversy around last-minute dropping their mask mandates for their conference, thereby putting any immune-compromised members of their community, and those with other underlying conditions, at risk (or stuck with non-refundable travel plans)... then accusing community members of Code of Conduct violations for speaking passionately about the change.

https://twitter.com/Dixie3Flatline/status/151748563846280396...

https://archive.ph/Add8E

More context: https://twitter.com/jpetazzo/status/1518251896611516418

Of course, this doesn't detract from the fact that what they are doing for web accessibility is a good thing! Organizations with flaws should still be acknowledged for their independent initiatives to do good. But statements like "an organization that values X" should not erase the full context of their actions as a whole.
1. Install Windows
2. Double-click the first image
U.S. takes unprecedented steps to replenish Colorado River's Lake Powell
> And you never once considered going premium to remove the ads?

I’m pretty much “no” on paying for a product that encourages clickbait and misinformation. This isn’t a uniform “no Google” thing, I use GCP, but paying for YouTube just seems icky.

If it can’t survive as a business (or become so ad-heavy that it’s a UX nightmare), hey maybe there’ll be new opportunities for others. Vimeo, maybe Twitter, with Musk’s new zeal for making orgs pay for Twitter?

UX nightmares always get competition. Altavista, Experts Exchange, Skype/WebEx… all faced nimbler competitors. I don’t see YouTube being an exception.
It is FFI from JavaScript point of view, a way to call multiple native languages from JavaScript, requires import and export definitions, a wasm file is no different than a .o, .a, .obj, .lib, other than not using instructions of a real CPU on the market.
> The reason other OS's don't support that macOS feature is because their open and save dialogue is usable on its own. In my opinion the open and save dialogue is one of the worst designed interfaces on macOS (and easily the worst open and save dialogue across all of the popular desktop environments). The fact that it's "killer feature" is having to use another file navigator to find the target and then drag that file into the first dialogue (ie dialogue that should have been used to find the file to begin with) is more damning than anything.

It is not a browser, or a file manager. It is a file selector. So it allows you to select files, not do some file management. It is not rocket science. I get bitten at least a couple of times a week on Windows when I stupidly drag and drop the file I want to open, and instead of the sensible behaviour it gets just moved to whatever the app thought the default directory should be for its open file dialogs.

> a completely redesigned open and save dialogue that works a little more like Windows and KDE

Hell, no! Let me double that: hell fucking no.
Aha yes RCA it was I remember now! If your memory is better than mine you might remember a very lost and confused Spanish boy with messy hair who was barely surviving in Tokyo, that would have been me. I remember a get together with your crew in a house way in the outskirts of Tokyo. Also remember trying to get an internship with Maywa Denki and failing, but someone in your class did get it.
My pain levels have completely dropped’: how medical marijuana changed my life
When I became a tech lead, I found

"The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change By Camille Fournier"

very useful. There is a chapter on 'being a tech lead'.
This is an OS-level thing where apps can act more "iOS-like" by saving and restoring their state when they're closed/opened. I agree, it's annoying.

There might be a way to turn it off but in the meantime you can press command-option-W to close all windows.

EDIT: You can disable this globally in System Preferences, or on a per-app basis by writing to the app's defaults:

defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
Oh wow, I use iPhone Notes to scan documents when out and about quite often, but I had no idea Preview could connect to it. Thanks!
Ask HN: APC adding monthly fees / remotely defeaturing existing UPS's?
I got an email this morning saying that APC has "changed" their cloud offering to add a premium tier, and that my current cloud service will lose features such as email notifications and firmware updates when the warranty expires (unless I pay a subscription fee).

Is this new? I don't remember agreeing to pay for firmware updates when I set it up. They recently had to patch a remotely exploitable security flaw, so it seems foolhardy to continue to use remote monitoring moving forward. (Will put entire email in thread).
all cowboys are wfh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_on_the_Range

"Home on the Range" is a classic cowboy song, sometimes called the "unofficial anthem" of the American West.
Remote, distributed, asynchronous - they're not all synonymous. Remote is simply that, far apart, so I think it's fair to say that if a company primarily employs people who work from wherever they may be, then I'm fine with them wearing the "remote" badge. There is absolutely nothing in the word "remote" that implies synchronicity or otherwise, everything else is just a matter of opinion, or taste, or what's practical and works.
Some of those buildings remind me of The Objective Room in "That Hideous Strength."

"They suggested some kind of pattern. Their peculiar ugliness consisted in the very fact that they kept on suggesting it and then frustrating the expectation thus aroused."
We had a second phone line for dial up internet - I remember spending three weeks downloading a copy of Age of Empires (roughly 250mb), praying it wouldn't be corrupt or a bad file. It downloaded successfully, but to my dismay it was the expansion. Took me another month to get the actual game to download, at least at that point I had the expansion as well :)
I am aware that there are people who succeeded despite their debt and now say that it wasn't a mistake. I am also aware that there are many reasons why someone can't pay off a debt. However, there are also reasons why the part of society who didn't fall for the college debt scam don't want to pay for the part of society who did fall for the college debt scam.
Agreed. In this case the modified title was extra hard to parse because "Tips" is also an iOS app.
No, no, no, this is letting YouTube off the hook. The whole reason content creators started doing in-video promotions is because YT kept squeezing them for ad revenue. The top comment is absolutely correct - adfree should be adfree - that is YouTube’s problem to solve, not the customer’s.
Battery hipsterism. Oh HN, you keep giving.
I begrudgingly agree with many of the comments here saying remote/not and a/sync are orthogonal, and that most software work requires a lot of synchronicity.

If someone really wants to work in software as asynchronously as possible, where could they find such work? What sorts of companies, industries, roles are most amenable to primarily asynchronous work?
I wish we had some view of how the customer service dysfunction works at these companies.

I get that they really don't 'care'. Programmatic bans happen and whatever.

I just wonder that after someone finds some sort of avenue to contact these companies, what happens exactly? Are the front line customer service folks just instructed to close their ticket if they can't solve it? Does it get forwarded to some other customer service system where they do nothing?
Fun, I thought my sentence would trigger the pro-ad people, not the other side.

I don't think there is any legal definition of "piracy" (except for ships). My own definition of piracy is "accessing content without paying the official fee". Here "official fee" is the ad. Also, it can be seen as equivalent to DDoS, since you are voluntarily using Google's cloud resources while breaching their EULA.

Personally, when using newpipe, I do feel like I'm stealing unrightfully bandwidth from Google, though the price for that bandwidth is definitely not worth a tenth of the ads Google show me.
Urgent Facebook warning as scammers target your FRIENDS to hack your account
Money. You'll make more money even in non-tech jobs if you can write scripts to automate stuff, or understand technical concepts to be able to articulate business needs to the tech team.
It's the difference between using mostly meetings (real or virtual), IM and phone calls versus using mostly email. If you use mostly email for your comms it is perfectly possible to be both remote and async.
They are just not accepted by the conductor. But those policies can also change in the (IMO) "right" direction, e.g. the German Deutsche Bahn changed their policies a few years ago and now digital tickets are accepted[1] in PDF form on digital devices, while they previously were not.

[1] https://community.bahn.de/faqs/muss-ich-mein-online-gekaufte... (german source, just saying that it can be used in the app or in PDF form on your smartphone, tablet or notebook)
When you have a product that is marketed towards the masses, support costs can be astronomical. A not-too-small number of calls won't even be for your product.

My uncle works tech support for a major ISP. He gets at least a couple calls a day from people thinking they need to call him because their Windows PC won't turn on or some other non-Internet related issue.

And then there's the sheer number of trivial calls. Do you know how many people call Amazon because they forgot their password, rather than just using the password reset function? Or how many people call their bank to find their balance rather than checking the website? And of course, these people demand to talk to a human.
True. My car came with ATT sim installed. It uses that to remote start via App, and to tell me the location, miles, other data in app. Also, to show me directions on its display screen. There is no way for a user to switch off that data connection (not that I want it, its free of cost, and it helped me few times).
Love Preview, but the markup features are seriously confusing. It isn’t clear how the shapes and the colours relate to one another, so even after 12 years drawing a filled box is much harder than it needs to be.
For scanning there's also Image Capture.app which also comes with the OS. I haven't tried using it with the phone though, just a normal printer/scanner.
Of course personalization works. On my previous job, we achieved two times action rate using trivial collaborative filtering, e.g. without using any prior knowledge of users except their actions history.

Also, exactly half of this website is taken by popup "Subscriiibeee!!" pane without close button. What a waste of time.
Question: Preview used to have automatic detection for "lines" and stuff so you could click on one and it'd create a text box for you to start typing, correctly sized and everything. For some reason this seems to no longer work for me. Has anyone else had success with this in the recent past?
> Another great related feature is how easy it is to “print” to Preview and save as PDF.

It's an OS-wide feature. Any application can print to PDF without specific support from that app.
A second set of vehicles is required for long-haul anyway.

Per the article, it appears that isn't the case in NYC. The 53'ers are driving downtown despite regulation to the contrary.

It should be the case. And is now the case in London. Just not here in the US.
You're making an excellent argument why centralised power is bad. You're not addressing how those same power dynamics won't be recreated with "smaller government" if large businesses are already so powerful they can influence governments. It sounds like you're arguing the problem isn't the amount of power being centralised but who gets to control it and your solution is to replace any semblance of equal democratic control with unevenly distributed capital. So in other words, feudalism with extra steps, but instead of the divine right of kings we have a supposed meritocracy built on generational wealth.

Now, I'm with you that representative systems are undemocratic and centralised power leads to corruption and is a bad idea. Where we apparently differ is that my answer would also dissolve corporations by eliminating the concept of private property and use the minimalist government structures to provide social services and infrastructure rather than to protect private property.
Socrates was a man.
I am a man.
Therefore, I am Socrates.

I am not making a category error. The OP has committed a malapropism.
Preview and Automator are a powerful duo.

When applying for mortgages I needed a lot of paperwork and it was so nice being able to point Automator to a folder of pdfs and documents and quickly set up a little workflow that collated everything, then it opened the documents in Preview, I fixed a few minor tweaks, signed the forms, and sent them off. It felt like I had superpowers.
This is agile: https://agilemanifesto.org/

If the result isn’t “working software” created with “customer collaboration”, while “responding to change”, then it’s not agile.

There are also twelve principles (https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html). My favorite is: (7) Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Vanta’s 6 principles for pragmatic startup security
> Select the group of photos.

Not that easy depending on the number of pictures and the folder content.

> Use the arrow keys to move between the different files.

Won't work correctly in grid view.

Also: I don't want to mess with the way I set up Finder to display/sort the folder just to view the pictures.
> To drive app installs? Completely asinine.

Because you cannot do all the reddit features on a web browser. /s It drives me crazy that everything has an app. Need a pizza, get an app.
Interesting you mentioned revenue and not net income / profits. How are revenue and growth detached?
My cross-platform goto for manipulating PDF pages is PDFsam: https://pdfsam.org/
> Remote is about getting things done asynchronously. Is it perfect for every type of work? Of course not. But should we default to copying the inefficient processes of physical offices because you’re used to “talking it out”? No!

This is _exactly_ how I feel, where, and I've tried and failed before to express this to colleagues pre-pandemic, when I was already part time remote. Instead of demanding people be at a desk where you can walk over and interrupt them to 'throw some ideas around', make the effort to write your idea down and share it asynchronously, and others can thoughtfully reply and collaborate.

Comes down to people's brains working differently than you and I expect, where thinking only gets done if their mouth is moving and sound is coming out. These are the people that the in person offices and meetings and shoulder taps are built for, at the expense of those who can manage a coherent thought in silence, and are able to outline a problem or a question using the written word.

One is not better or worse necessarily, but being more independent in preparing communication of ideas should be something that all can work towards. It's just more flexible and "async" and adapts well to "remote".

A rough analogy might be packet switching - if you have to be in the same room with someone and only share data in real time, as opposed to being able to prepare data ahead of time and transmit it over the wire... Which of these is more robust and adaptable to changing network conditions?
Learning Linux kernel exploitation – Part 2 – CVE-2022-0847
FYI, despite the source, I personally know of several people that had this happen in the last 24 hours.

Messages generally look like this :

"Hello. How are you doing.... ?"
"What's the alternative? SMS 2FA is abysmal."

It seems to be forgotten that email 2FA exists.

I can't quantify the risks relative to SMS 2FA because there are such broad ranging implementations but given the broad adoption of gmail, how many people can really snoop unencrypted email traffic at backbone chokepoints ?

There are many cases where I would be perfectly happy with the risk profile of either SIM swap attacks or email interception.
Sound like they implemented Vetinari’s clock from Discworld. That’s a waiting room clock that would slow down and speed up the seconds hand (and also the ticks and tocks) but the minute and hour hands would run on time. This was to make the waiting person extra nervous before their meeting with the patrician. He is by far my most favorite characters in the books.
Right. The APIs are actually the place where the different runtimes are most similar to start with -- most of the APIs implemented by Workers were standards taken from browsers in the first place. The Workers Runtime is hugely different from other runtimes under the hood, and has been intentionally designed that way to meet the needs of our product and network. We couldn't plausibly switch to another runtime.
Agreed, on a Mac I feel like a PDF document is a stack of paper that I can rearrange, copy, rotate, and otherwise handle however I want to.

On Windows it's more like a hardcover bound book that I can download and attach to an email to share with someone, but god forbid I want to change anything.

They can make me use Windows in the office, but next time something dies in my home PC I'm just going to sell the rest of it for parts and replace it with a Steam Deck.
Awfully Christian.

There is no inherent good to suffering. It’s just incredibly difficult to go through life without it.

You can’t have a baby without a painful birth, but you wouldn’t argue that the suffering associated with the pain of the birth means that suffering is a necessary condition for having meaningful life with your child.

“Pain is mandatory; suffering is optional”

This misguided professor (he is of course well-known) does get at something genuinely true though: meaning can be more worthwhile than pleasure. But the suffering part has got nothing to do with it.
That's an interesting take. Thanks for sharing. Sure, I can definitely see the "google this error" effect as having permitted a higher degree of complexity. Or, maybe to be more accurate, lowered the barrier to entry to create more complex systems. There are probably pros/cons to this. It takes less sophistication to build something very complex, thereby democratizing the ability of building sophisticated systems/services, but it also means there are many more complex systems out than there is a community of people who have a more-or-less "good" understanding of what they do and, possibly, whose overall behaviour is likely only partially understood by their own designers. Cue in all sorts of security implications, etc. Food for thought.

I don't mind the quoting, but, just in terms of mental hygiene, I generally dislike posting unequivocal opinions on the internet ... because it's often come back to bite me ;) I'm especially skeptical of my own writing when I use labels such as "ignorant" or "arrogant". So long as you understand that I don't take myself very seriously, I mostly stand by that quote you mention.
You probably don't even need to go to court, you just want to move from talking with customer support to talking with legal, as long as you are trying to navigate their customer support they can just blow you off with no risk or consequence.
Yeah, I get that and it happened to me too. That can happen in any design though. Even with a microservices approach.

As I said in the previous comment, you have to design your way out of the thing you are building. Not easy at all, and sometimes, not possible to predict.

I mean successful companies do grow, but a lot of times they pivot, etc.
The thing is, that "selecting them" might not be that easy depending on the number of files and how the content of the folder is sortes.

On Windows/Linux you would just open the first file which is a lot easier.
> We’re now busy revamping Wordle’s technology so that everyone always receives the same word. We are committed to ensuring that tens of millions of people have a gratifying and consistent experience, every day.

I wonder how much longer until the NYT requires a free account to play Wordle as a way to gently nudge more players into opting for a NYT Games subscription down the road? At this point, I wouldn't mind if it meant my stats/progress were written to a database that I could access from any browser.

Ultimately, they shelled out the money and it's their game now. I think they've done a decent job with it, and am glad to have found Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, and the Mini Crossword along the way.
If you made a list of all the "everyone should work in <xyz> at least once" that people proclaim as universal rules, we'd be doing nothing else but switching between all these jobs our entire lives.
It’s written in the article:

> Incentivize written communication and by all means use synchronous meetings when necessary, but don’t default to it.
After the first year of the pandemic I deleted all work apps off my phone — just remove the ability for Slack/Teams, GCal, Lattice, Figma, etc. to constantly badger you.

People will call if it’s actually urgent. But gotta protect/prioritize yourself in this new faux-remote reality.
I live in Philadelphia behind a door with an entry code, and the only carrier that actually listens to the signature requirement is the USPS. My carrier rang my Nest doorbell to tell me he signed for me. (this was actually ideal, my mail carrier is amazing)

UPS and USPS are pretty good about using the door code, FedEx is spotty at best. Lasership, DHL, etc., will drop the package at your door without even ringing the doorbell, and where I live, there's about a 15 minute window, if you're lucky, before someone else grabs the package.
In context of the above discussion there is a general idea that fewer people are trying to get better at their job or career, leading to lower quality work as fewer people are trying as hard as before.

I'm not saying those people are wrong for not trying harder or should be trying to meet my expectations, it is their lives to do with what they want.
What left arrow?
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