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o thanks never heard of that

it's taking all of my willpower to learn to use two-finger-swipe back instead of my lifelong muscle "right click" "back"

whats the new tab -> back button feature?
> Make sure to check out Notcurses!

This so much! Dank, Jart, Yatli and HPA are 4 people whose work is single handedly pushing TUIs forward.

There are others, but these 4 are the poggers, and I don't think the likes of me (or Christian, or Autumn, etc) can stand the comparison.

Notcurses is a unique work of love and art worth all the praises in the world.
It used to be more accepted, but as people have become more sensitive to the power differential, those sorts of behaviors are no longer treated as lightly.
I also do this! There are a few grumpy old people around doing this for a living.
Probably some truth to that.

A lot of these are also probably paintings he did for practice, never planned to show publicly, and just never threw away. Then, after he died, people found them and sell them as Picasso originals.
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There's no such thing as "downtown Paris". Paris isn't laid out that way.
Indeed, and I think 5% bots in the DAU and MAU numbers is very conservative. I used to work in this space a decade ago and specifically looked at Twitter and our research was far above that. Maybe it has gotten better but I doubt it looking at any tweet I see linked.
I doubt your story
I'm just a regular gmail user, with files in google drive and occasionally look at sheets and docs, I don't pay for any of it. What does this mean for people like me, am I a "Legacy G Suite" user?
I pulled a 5 out of my draw and was pleasantly surprised at the size and feel, but then I actually went to use it and it was quite bad. I wasn’t able to comfortably two hand the phone to type which meant my typing speed was massively reduced.

Personally I mostly use my phone two handed so even the pro max is usable even though I can’t reach all areas with one hand.
Maybe you're the unlucky one. For not applying this test to your subscription.
Dymo recently trashed their entire business reputation (hopefully) pulling the same crap.

They even went to the point of modifying their Amazon listing for their old label printer, so it has all the good reviews for the old product, but selling the new crap DRM-locked garbage product.

So all the newer reviews are people complaining, but the star average is still high for the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSDJRC0F6c
> they have to compete on content alone, and they're kind of getting their lunch eaten.

More specifically, they have to compete with all of their prior suppliers, who gave streaming rights away for a song, but after Netflix proved the business model, are now charging two arms and a leg for it.
Yeah it's an interesting problem, because those PMs are contributors in some sense, but just on a much lower scale, and single pricing doesn't really reflect that.

As far as running the service goes, they do represent non-zero cost (they're going to be looking through stuff, triggering async jobs maybe, maintaining Gitlab pages setups, etc. They also represent possibly increased security burden (though I don't think anyone is pricing risk like that in the SaaS world just yet).

If you don't mind me asking, what price would you happily pay for non technical contributors? Would you want a percentage of the developer/"full contributor" rate? Or do you have a specific number that would be reasonable in your opinion?
It lets you afford a million+ dollar house after a few years?
The short answer, from an American perspective: we love influencing the rest of the world, so they'd like to return the favor.

Plus, this way you don't have to pay US income tax.
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In a similar vein, if you have time to kill check out "Sunk Cost Galaxy" on Youtube
To understand , I think it would be important to understand what that "terrorist" student organization did to make him characterize it as such. It's such a strong accusation. Were they actually terrorists? Or is he just calling students that whose politics he doesn't like?
> I’ve never really understood why Picasso is considered as good as he is

Picasso (with Georges Braque) literally invented, pioneered, and perfected a new artistic style, cubism. It's like saying "I've never really understood why Isaac Newton is considered as good as he is."
I’ve known quite a few people from Netflix, the dream team analogy does seem to be, at least anecdotally somewhat true. They’re somewhat legendary for competing with the same engineering talent as Google and paying accordingly. 6 figure hiring bonuses are not uncommon.

With respect to the “generous severance”, if you’re engineer who’s being recruited by Netflix and know of their “Dream team” culture where they hire slow and fire fast, you’d have to have some concern about joining that team and fearing that you won’t fit in regardless of skill set. The “generous severance” is there to ease that concern and exists as a hiring tool, not a firing one.
The author is confusing concurrency with parallelism. Processes on modern OSes run concurrently. They may also run in parallel -- depending on how many cores the CPU has, or even the number of CPUs in the system.
I dont do the subscription, but i do install once or twice a year. Usually after a rebuild or reinstall to use as a benchmark. It's my current "Can it run Doom?" s/Doom/Star Citizen/

I see a lot of people only showing the albeit awesome footage of space battles. The game also comes with a FPS, and even some missions in the main game where you need to inspect some derelict ship or space station are missing.

NMS has done a good job addressing their shortcomings in the last years, but it still is no where compared to the detail and fidelity of SC.

And then I wanna mention the other weird fun tech they have. They have face point tracking for your avatar. That have done crazy stuff with spatial audio. Im not trying to stan them, but theres way more under the surface of than the game.
Yeah, think like equity analysts during upturns, and in a downturn think like credit, ie. map out the sources and uses of funds.

The big caveat here is rising rates on floating rate debt, and the marginal response of revenue to higher rates.
Relay attacks (not specific to BLE) had been demonstrated at least more than 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608452

The lesson should have been to 1) pick or come up with an adequate protocol that includes tight time-of-flight checks or 2) not use proximity auth at all, if it is impossible to mitigate against relay attacks, in terms of physics and maths.

I'm saying Tesla's engineers should have known better, by 1) paying attention to news in the industry; and 2) properly understanding BLE before choosing it as the auth protocol.
I don't understand what your DCF example is supposed to illustrate. A higher interest rate also enables wealthier people to stay wealthy without doing anything. Meanwhile, Wework and similarly useless companies circulate wealthy investor's money into regular people's pockets by renting out office spaces at a loss.

For the most part, I don't think low interest rates are a bad thing (though I don't think that they should have ended quantitative tightening prematurely in 2019). I share your sentiment that too much money is circulating around, but I don't blame the Fed. They have no way to stop Wework from receiving cheap cash without hurting useful small businesses. IMO, if Congress weren't so bad at balancing a budget, the government wouldn't have to issue so much debt, and in turn the Fed wouldn't have to buy so much of it back to achieve a similar effect with QE.
I got an iPhone mini, and I can tell you that it is truly a wonderful experience.
A small premium android would be a great idea.
Then it is all nice and fair. I knew the other company where the bosses were singing about "being a player" but they would screw a "team player" over as soon as it would save them another buck.
Could it be adhd?
We read the books after the series. Very enjoyable.
Maybe you're relatively young and you don't know/live-with anyone that's at high risk. Good for you. That doesn't mean everyone else has the same risk tolerance as you. My wife's (healthy) friend/classmate in nursing school contracted COVID, spent 2 months in the hospital and subsequently died last year. My 10 year old son is a type 1 diabetic. While he's now vaccinated, we still try to avoid large gatherings.

Just because your risk tolerance is higher than other people doesn't mean you have to be an asshole about it.
So they're trying to improve America as revenge?
YMMV, but I quite like Render for the sorts of things I'd have used Heroku for ~5 years ago.

Plenty of folks I respect absolutely love fly.io--I have less hands-on experience there, but they've got a fantastic crew, too.
I'm reading over NASA's 10 rules for safety critical code and it's littered with the word simple and keeping things small. I don't think NASA is an example for large and complex at all.

Not to mention NASA is known for many of the the most famous software bugs in history, but I'm guessing that's just related to space exploration more than anything particularly novel/incorrect about their approach to software.
Not everyone knows what it is. As a Muslim I still regularly get people asking me to explain what exactly Ramadan is.
You really only get to have one obscure requirement. If you want a small phone, the mini exists. If you want a phone with a headphone Jack, those exist. Once you start stacking up two, three or four odd requirements, you’ll never get what you want.

The problem with targeting small markets is almost everyone in the group wants absolutely everything the way they expect. There isn’t a “small phone market” there is a “small android phone with removable sd card and 3 cameras” market and a “small android phone with one camera but a replaceable battery at $400” market.

And then it just becomes literally impossible to make work so we have mass market products only.
There's an undercurrent of special pleading in this reporting: conservative judicial activism is what got us into this mess and the last decade has seen conservative groups trounce progressive ones in terms of raising "dark" money, but it's suddenly a problem when a progressive foreigner plays by the same rules. Hmm.

And in case it isn't clear: I'd like to ban all private money from public elections. But there's a clear bias in the reporting here, which is unfortunately consistent with RCP "losing the plot" w/r/t being a nonpartisan news source.
One theory for the iPhone mini's lack of success is people currently equate an expensive phone as a somewhat larger device (but not huge). The iPhone mini looks a bit like an old iPhone 5 from a distance. Paying a premium for something that looks like what everyone already has two or three of in their junk drawer is a tough trade-off for many people. The longer battery life then becomes the rational anchor.

In any case, I certainly hope they make a smaller devices again in 4-6 years.
> yes probably most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference on a smart phone small screen

This is the dismissive part. See, for instance -

https://www.dxomark.com/smartphones-vs-cameras-closing-the-g...

And this was written a couple of years ago, with 2019 phones used to compare. The conclusion is that the non-smartphone market is likely to keep shrinking because the pictures keep getting better, but that people who want to 'tell a story' and tweak everything will probably stay with cameras.

> yes smart phones did cut in the consumer grade camera market but the professional level cameras continue to do well and have increased in sales.

No, they haven't, see the link I gave you before. Sales of all changeable lens cameras as a market sector are declining, regardless of how Sony's range is doing. In the mean time, sales of just body units are up as a percentage, meaning fewer folks buying starter kits - i.e. even in the pro-sumer sector the casuals are dropping off and the remaining market is people who are really into it.

> thing is about cameras you can't make a small sensor better then a larger one its not physically possible

But you can use multiple sensors with different characteristics and very smart software to do incredible things. You're getting into audiophile territory here. Phone cameras continue to improve faster than the camera-camera market can keep up, adding all sorts of stuff like depth sensors, IR, physical zoom capabilities etc, and they are a massive win on convenience. So this is cutting the market down to those very few individuals who do care about tweaking ISO levels and setting up the perfect shot.

I'm not saying "nobody will use DSLR/Mirrorless", but as phone cameras continue to get better and better, that market shrinks. This is borne out by the market figures.

And this is just like the hifi market, where good-enough + smarts + convenience is winning out in the same way.

Frankly, even if the market sector were holding steady, your objection to the comparison is bizarre. It doesn't have to be 100% exactly the same for the comparison to stand - the convenient/polished/not-necessarily-technically-superior product has eaten the vast majority of the market in both cases.
Netflix never willingly removes any popular show. What happens is that the original rights holder doesn't renew the license, because they want it on their own streaming platform.
So basically the Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact[0], then. Unfortunately this phone is approaching four years out of date. I owned it (still do, technically; I just gave it to a relative) and it was by and large the best smartphone I ever had. Even 4 years after purchase, the battery still lasts for 5+ hours of screen-on-time, the front-firing speakers are extremely powerful, and there are no noticeable slowdowns. It experienced some water damage early on, so the screen likes to randomly spazz out on occasion; there is also no headphone jack (this was when Sony attempted to follow the trend, to tremendous backlash).

Addendum: I daresay many of the demographic here at Hacker News likes phones similar to that of /r/Android: headphone jack, notchless rectangular display, SD card slot, notification LED, not-too-crazy design, and there's literally only one company doing all this: Sony.

[0]: https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9082&idPhone2...
Fair. But as the previous replay says that Netflix actually compensates very well my argument is then mute.
> Might be the only war he ever lost?

He was fired from Citigroup in 1998 by Sandy Weil, who he had worked with for 15 years. So there's that.
Python is great for plumbing, R is great for new analyses. I use Python to knit Rmarkdown documents from premade templates.

Of course you can achieve something similar with Jupiter notebooks. The real benefit is the perceived ability to get going with a new dataset.

With respect to massaging and visualizing rectangular data, I can get much further much faster in R tidyverse than python. Just as we see python as a language that allows for rapid development with its straightforward syntax - I see R tidyverse providing a faster data analysis exploration “experience”. Tidyverse also introduced me to functional programming which I have found to be very useful for data analysis; you can very strictly separate procedures in a way I have found beneficial. (Not to say you cannot acquire this knowledge another way, however.)

I remain an avid user of pandas data frames inside the python ecosystem. On more than one occasion, I have translated rapidly written tidyverse data wrangling routines into more maintainable functions in python with pandas.

YMMV
Mirrors the previous comment. Makes sense to invest in Workstation and help it sell to the big boys and show that they have "full service" solutions.
Thanks for sharing. A good read and fascinating insight.
Richard Gabriel's "The Rise of Worse is Better," written around the same time period the Unix-HATERS Handbook was written, gives some clues. Unix was contrasted with environments such as Scheme (which is rather small, but because it's designed as a "crown jewel"), Common Lisp (the exemplar of a "big complex system" that is complete and correct, but large and complex), and the ITS operating system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_Syste...). Thankfully there are many open-source Scheme and Common Lisp implementations, and ITS is also available as open source (https://github.com/PDP-10/its).

Of course, modern Unix-like systems these days are large and complex, though Plan 9 and Inferno are quite architecturally refined, reducing some of the complexities that you'll see in contemporary Unix-like systems.
According to the Wikipedia page Wilson has the highest adjusted average gross income in the US[0].

I guess that's not too surprising when, out of just 1500 residents, one's a billionaire, one's a former US vice-president, another is a former Hollywood big shot, etc.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson,_Wyoming
Every time I read about some school doing something stupid and think “this has got to be the bottom, adults will step in and fix things;” a new story comes up with more surreal, Kafkaesque procedures.

I’m trying to think of something that might help and perhaps tort over libel and defamation.

> Though the university did not formally sanction Katz, it did include him on a list of racists—such as the notorious segregationist Woodrow Wilson—who have marred Princeton’s legacy, which was published on a university website and presented at a mandatory orientation session for freshmen in August.

This clearly seems like t damaged the professor. But it would take a judge to rule that their evidence of racism is not sufficient.

If Princeton has to start paying out multimillion dollar settlements, it might force them to rationalize their approach.
I don't see a revenge motive. More like "I believe my country/business/whatever is unduly influenced by this superpower, so I'm going to influence the superpower directly."
No, not at all.

I was there for 10 years and I don't recall any mass layoffs. The article says this is about reducing expenses. Note that the article doesn't say if the layoffs were in Los Gatos or in the Hollywood office, or both.

The keeper test is mostly about helping managers be effective when they need to remove someone from their team. It eliminates the bureaucratic red tape that most companies have for firing someone. Managers at Netflix are still expected to give feedback to everyone about their performance and if there is a problem, give someone an opportunity to improve. No one should be surprised if they are let go for performance reasons.

The difference is that at Netflix someone who isn't keeping up will not be subjected to a 1+ year long process driven by HR before they are eventually fired. Instead they will be given specific time by their manager and if the problem isn't fixed fairly quickly, the manager can decide to let them go.

Most people have been on a team where there was somebody who was constantly slowing everything down or causing other problems. If you're a manager, you know that those people end up taking a huge portion of your time. At Netflix, managers are effective at removing those people.
Or, it's trying to create OS/360 with a team helmed by a designer.

A game with 10x the level of interactivity does not take 10x as long to create. It takes 10^10.

Star Citizen is the exact opposite of every lesson we've learned about successful project management and software development in the last 75 years.
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> Control for #2 by having a "tech lead" or senior engineer be directly responsible for their developer's performance. Whether that's a 2 parent leadership team (people manager + tech leader) or otherwise, developers must have direct oversight of their personal productivity.

Tech leads in most engineering firms don't have that kind of control. That's why OP mentioned "manager". You can't make someone responsible for stuff they don't control. Even if a manager "tasks" a lead with this they usually don't in fact own it. The paradigm you're asking for requires a people manager to be leveled the same as their tech lead so that they share responsibility for outcomes. Most places don't work that way.

> Have an appropriate incentives in place for developers to improve. A couple of places (IBM) actually have an excellent infrastructure for providing productivity. But no incentive.

OPs point is that developers are a reflection of their environment more than they are of their own knowledge. There's a DevOps study from DORA that covers this I think, as well.
Very subtle differences, can be heard, but I have my headphones on. For example, in the last example, "borne" and "commission" seem to have some kind of artificial noise inside the "b" and "c" sounds. The "th" in "clothing" sounds artificial too. Still, it's extremely amazing, and probably in 90% of settings, people won't be able to find a difference at all. It even does breaths: "scientific certainty <breath> that".
Elon isn't going to win any legal case over fraud, his best outcome is to (1) drag a case out for a long time before paying something substantial, with the cost that (2) nobody will ever trust Elon Musk in any major business transaction again. Better to find another partner than risk Elon Musk inventing fraud allegations and blowing you up.
> The colors are very distracting on my monitor.

It's interesting, because I sometimes also find colors distracting, so for my Vim and other terminal tools I make an intensive use of text attributes (like bold, italic, underline and their various combinations)

Your comment may incentivize me to release my monochrome vimrc: it looks quite good on mintty/msys2 or Windows Terminal, and still very decent with xterm!
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It’s not even close to possible. Phones are likely the most advanced items in human history. So far beyond anything else you’d interact with. It’s only possible through hundreds of thousands of people working on mass production and research.

You could make customisable phones but they wouldn’t be anywhere near as good as mass market phones.
> The claim, possibly false, is that a sizable portion of HN users want small phones. That could be just visibility bias as well!

All you need to do is look at iPhone sales metrics. The iPhone 12 mini and SE2 collectively were 10+% of iPhone sales in the second half of 2020 and first half of 2021. 10% of iPhone sales is 24 million phones per year.

> if we're assuming that the narrative on HN around small phones is not just sampling bias

_We_ aren't. You shouldn't be assuming anything about some supposed narrative on HN at all, and you definitely shouldn't trust your own perceptions of such a narrative when you've already shown that you mentally translate "I and also I saw some comments some times" into "90+% of everyone here".

Such a narrative not only doesn't really exist, even if it did exist it still wouldn't matter, because, again, we have sales numbers for small iPhones that prove that people buy tens of millions of them annually when available.
Don't they have major stakes in Twitter? Spending $100M to collect a $44B bill doesn't sound entirely foolish to me.