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Their need to develop so many cross-platform apps should have been more than enough justification to do an outstanding job of Catalyst/SwiftUI/whatever-is-recommended. They could have iterated internally to get those really good at handling every last important detail and make it a great experience.

Instead, they did things like: just forget about proper keyboard support in a lot of places, have really awful performance at times, weird gaps where entire UI elements were just not there, etc. And that’s before even getting into the apps, where they were clearly doing things lazily like leaving iPhone elements in place exactly as they were no matter how awful an experience that was on the Mac.

Almost every app they have now should not have been released in its current state, much less left more-or-less-still-broken 1-2 years later! It is certainly possible to embark on major updates like this but you do that internally, only releasing something when it is not full of obvious flaws (and certainly not worse than some previous version it replaces).
> It has nothing to do with economics

Nuclear power is not profitable. It has nothing to do with regulation and everything to do with economics. If nuclear power were profitable, you could not stop it. If nuclear power were profitable, the regulations would change with a quickness, because motivated investors remove any and all roadblocks to their money. If it wasn't for the absurdly bad economics, bad track record proven bad for 7 decades bad, you could not stop investors from building a nuclear power plant in every county in the US.

I promise you that you can have all the nuclear power plants you want, but all you need to do is make it make money. Make nuclear power profitable, and the world is your oyster. Because we need it, and the pronuke crowd is stuck in the mud moaning about regulations and doing nothing but being annoying. It isn't the regulations. Even if the nuclear industry were entirely unregulated, it still couldn't generate profit. There is a huge problem, and it isn't the regulations. Every new plant design is more expensive than the last. Make cheaper nuclear plants. It is that simple. Scale it down or scale it up, I don't know, but do something other than allow it to be unprofitable and keep bitching about regulations... rather than design a plant that has a sane build and operating cost, draw in investors, let them deal with the regulations, and retire with a fortune. But no, instead we get blaming and finger pointing. It is the money, and that is all it is. Make it make money, please, make it make money.
I worked in a job that employed lots of disabled blue collar workers.

It’s the joints: bad knees, bad backs.

It’s not like back in the day where you get missing fingers. That’s really rare.

But the steady grind of lifting, carrying, lifting, carrying, again and again destroys the joints.

That’s harder to regulate away.
The Xbox division is pretty user centric / user friendly these days, but the Windows and Office side has never seemed to care if the consumer liked their product, just that they tolerated it. Makes sense. They don’t sell to consumers. They sell to OEMs and Enterprises.
In fact, I can’t think of a time the company has cared about consumers or really even the consumer experience beyond it being good enough for users to tolerate and not demand something different.
AWS is hard by design. This created a cottage industry of consultants that further push AWS into enterprises and basically create a form of job security.
Finland was trying to get one VVER 1200 built, with an option to build another later. The political approval for the project was given in 2010 and the contract with Rosatom was signed in 2014. In the following 8 years, Rosatom failed to produce the blueprints and other documents required for the actual construction permit. Meanwhile, Russia bombed some factories in Ukraine that were supposed to build key parts for the power plant, and it's looking increasingly unlikely that the construction will ever start.

In contrast, the EPR reactor built by Areva only needed 3 years from the political approval to the construction permit. While Rosatom is probably more competent in the actual construction, they seem to have major issues in operating in countries where the regulatory authorities are strict (but still pro-nuclear).
We need more of this and less of "Learn how to speak in an American accent in 2 months!"

As an Indian immigrant, immigrants speaking with a fake accent is the most depressing (and annoying) things I've seen. We have one of the largest English-speaking populations in the world.

(Fake Accent != People's accents changing over time, which has happened to me, or rolling their Rs sometimes for others to understand)
I participate in the Vex Robotics Competition and have experience with the Vex V5 system. With $10k you can buy a Competition Kit [1] and many many parts.

With a kit like this and some 3d printing skills, the possibilities are endless, you can build lifts, intake and shoot balls and frisbees, pick up and pile boxes (albeit not super heavy stuff). You can use sensors to detect object colors and stuff.

You can use C++ code [2] to interact with the sensors and run basically any algorithm for autonomous use.

The biggest drawback is probably the lack of a raw camera and ability to run ML on the brain with a 'real computer'. However, it should be possible to add a Raspberry Pi and have it talk to the V5 Brain through a USB Serial connection.

[1] https://www.vexrobotics.com/v5-competition-super-kit.html
[2] https://pros.cs.purdue.edu/
All these professionals from vocational fields are horribly expensive in America. And then there are articles like these claiming they don't make money. BS. America has no public/private vocational school/training culture. People don't even teach each other unless you are born into the family of craftsman.
Are people still so naive as to use torrent for that?

Well I'd guess I might be the naive, given the ample amount of honey pots and such
What I find upsetting about these developments is that over a year ago I shopped around an offer to borrow at higher rates with an early repayment option, backed by an actual arbitrage opportunity, and raised way less than these scammers.
Exactly, spending 10% (!) of your business to buy something that adds no revenue, was built by 20 people, where your team is working on an alternative that is "better", "just around the corner", etc is actually insanely counterintuitive. If it were one percent of the business, sure, play defense, whatever--but 10%, over an abstract notion of "defensibility" is a really hard pill to swallow.

It would be amazing to know what the FB board thought at the time, and if zuck had to push hard for the transaction or not .
look - there are companies out there - Renaissance for one - who do make very good returns consistently. The difference is that not all returns are infinite. in fact, most good investments are finite - the market eventually catches on and then prices equilibrate. saying that there are no guaranteed 20% returns does not mean that with hard work and good strategy there are not 20% returns to be made on some arbitrary amount of principal at any given time.

put another way, its easy to earn 20% on a dollar. its hard to earn 20% on a billion dollars.
Because nuclear power plants and the associated fuel cycle industry is incredibly dangerous and the participants have consistently lied about that danger for all of history?

Note: not a tree hugger. I believe nuclear power (in conjunction with significant restrictions on consumption) must play a big part in decarbonization. But...so many lies for so long. Put down the Kool-Aid and admit these things are not safe and therefore need to be sited well away from human populations (as they were originally in the 1950s).
I invested money with Stablegains rather than in UST/Anchor more directly because of the YCombinator branding.

I figured that if the system collapsed, I would be able to notice it early and withdraw, and that YC-affiliated investor money would help compensate me with more luck than if I had to liquidate out of the system myself.

I withdrew after seeing a friend on Cryptography Twitter send a message showing the destabilization; this turned out to be many hours before Stablegains announced "we will honor withdrawals before this announcement at 1:1", and I got all my money back out.

The YC brand worked here, I think.
I would try to start on a contract first, maybe. Just put it in your resume.
how many companies lose money for a few years and fold? if the S&P is winners, then it is counterbalanced by all the bad investments, pre revenue startups, and other businesses which are losing money. balancing out to 3% is not impossible.
I'm not sure how a statement describing nuclear power as "too costly... too costly and risky... unsustainable... financially unsustainable... militarily hazardous... inherently risky due to unavoidable cascading accidents... subject to too many unresolved technical and safety problems... [and] too unwieldy and complex" can be construed as anything other than opposition to nuclear power.
i wanted for you to help me figure out the classic "is a hotdog a sandwich?" but against my best judgement I visited the page first :)
What's unsafe about the later generation plants and technology?

It sounds like the fuel utilization is at least 10 times more efficient?
Sorry, not directly comparing them. I’m only using that as an example to split the professional work / personal life.
Apply to rev.com and outsource all the work to a 3rd world country.
Article author response: I had a feeling as soon as I clicked onto the homepage that something was off. To their credit, the link to the privacy policy is on the homepage. Counter-point, the link text is "Lukol Protects Your Privacy."
Also see https://www.vexforum.com/t/anyone-else-using-vex-for-non-com... or
https://www.vexforum.com/t/vex-robotics-xylophone-player-pro.... They blur the line between toys and equipment that can do practical tasks but is made for learning.
A more in-depth overview at https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/05/oft-2-docking/
Your semantics are strong.
I don’t even know if they cared then. 7 only existed because Vista was an unusable nightmare for the first year and they had to do some damage control. They then followed 7 up with 8, an operating system where all early impressions and user testing indicated users would be bewildered and confused and they still pressed forward with it.

You could argue 3.11, 95,98,2000 releases were good, but beyond that Windows has been up and down with their releases.
Most of the individual boolean flags in the code I work with are retrieved on-demand from a feature-flag store. Well, aside from the dryRun flag that a lot of utility things take.

But this actually seems to be talking about having object state represented internally as a pile of flags when something more semantically meaningful is available.
Do you have any battery storage? How well do islanded microinverters handle startup surge on electric motors, or is it the case that you need a 20kw+ array to handle a refrigerator cycling on?
Are short-stroke keys available? My Thinkpad t420s is still the nicest keyboard I have ever used.
Check out the Preonic. Arrow keys, ortholinear, numrow.
Andersen, to be correct.
It sounds like you’re agreeing with the Dredd Scott decision: you’re saying the founders never intended to include people of African descent as persons under the constitution.
Where did I assume that Hispanics don’t discriminate?! I think every group would have a tendency to. I’m just saying that I don’t see where it’s relevant which group did, just that he faced discrimination and that it would be a relevant part of the “challenges” backstory.
It was a good movie, but not a great movie. I would be surprised if you would rate that movie in top 20 for the last decade.
OTH BTW. Solar panels on marine beacons and cellphone towers on Arctic Ocean lay most often flat pointing upwards. No point of trying to catch the sun at all. Scattered light from clouds can be upto 10-20%, better than nothing.
'Piracy' is a moralizing metaphor created to liken copyright infringement to murderously violent plunder of physical goods.

You don't have to call anything piracy, if you don't buy into that propaganda project. You're welcome to instead use a label that encompasses all of the facts in this instance, like 'nominal copyright and trademark infringement', which acknowledges both the stances of the relevant laws and the fact that there's no material harm involved here.
I know multiple people which complained about it and made them unsubscribe (none from the USA, so these topics are neither interesting nor on topic for any of us)

It was definitely a contributing factory that's for sure.
I worked on the technical side of WhatsApp's special pricing program (aka zero rating) from when it started, through integration with the Facebook Mobile Partner Portal until I left in late 2019. We provided partners IP addresses (well a list of cidr ip/subnet lengths) and email updates when IPs changed. Some partners wanted hostnames, but it wasn't usually effective to manage that way; hostnames seemed to work great for WAP based special pricing, but not for direct tcp. But AFAIK, airline programs were done by the airlines (or whoever does their internet service) without consultation with WhatsApp. (A special plan for messaging without multimedia wasn't within the WA policy, at least while I was there, so we wouldn't have helped them build the product they wanted anyway)

There are lots of possible ways to identify WhatsApp traffic, but I never had a chance to figure out what they were really doing. During that time period, if I was on a flight, I was usually with my young child and it's hard to keep focus for debugging networking on a plane, anyway. What I saw when I was looking was more like what joshvm describes elsewhere. The messaging only plans seem to allow most low bandwidth connections, with high latency, but they'll actively supress some things, and others stall beyond some threshold; sometimes you could get a couple media files to transfer, but then it would stop, etc. WhatsApp was engineered to work with the world's terrible networks, so it will usually work ok for messaging as long as packets get through eventually; connection and ping timeouts are long on client and server, because sometimes it takes a lot of seconds. If DNS doesn't work, that's fine too. Multimedia would usually retry and resume enough to work even if connections didn't last long, so I'd guess there was something actively supressing that, but I don't really know.

FWIW, chat isn't TLS, so SNI isn't the answer there, although at least in the past, the protocol was very identifyable. Been gone for a while and don't regularly tcpdump my connections to WA anymore, so I don't know if that changed though. Multimedia is https, and probably has SNI, although that used to vary by platform.
When you have 1000+ cooks in the kitchen, all being judged by how many new features they can pump out, just doing:

import fbcorelibs;

Creates a 250+mb ios/Android binary that bump against app store limits
Sales < Science

A real institution doesn’t need a genius at the helm
At my last job, out of frustration, I built a thing that crawls JIRA links and builds a sorted graph to tell me what to work on next.
SPA movement has given us nice frameworks to build mobile apps in Ionic. I wouldn't build a website with Angular but combine Angular framework and the million libraries in npm gives a pretty powerful ecosystem to quickly build very high functioning apps.
See in the NYC subway when a tourist asks someone for directions. You'll get half the car chiming in, telling all their secret routes and spots to avoid. Tourist usually walks away more confused than before they asked.
You’re very close - it’s started in maritime law. The idea was if the captain of a ship had committed a crime, or incurred a fine, and then skipped town, you could seize the ship.
hmm...I recall my dad being a union plumber in 1982 and making $40k..in san antonio texas...granted there was overtime pay, I assume...but it seems that the wages have not really grown much...
> Make nuclear power profitable

I mean, I would like to say that "people have made them profitable" "but then they blew up"

But I would be being too hyperbolic, as I would not say per se that the rmbk reactors where all that profitable at the time, tho they were certainly cheap tho

But yeah, issue with nuclear is a cursed triad of

Having nuclear reactors be cheap
Having nuclear reactors be on schedule
Having nuclear reactors be safe

Choose 2 from above

Even the AP1400 fail the test above, as more than a couple of them at least in China have been build over/close by seismic faults and in shores with tsunami risk

The fact that Toshiba nearly went bankrupt trying to build ap1000 nuclear reactors ought say it all
$10 billion for a gigawatt of the cleanest, safest, most energy-dense, most thermally efficient, and most reliable power you can find

vs $4 billion for a gigawatt wind farm that takes up 100-1000x the land, always has a few % of its installed capacity down for maintenance, and doesn't provide predictable output unless you mine about half a million pounds of lithium
Electrical/embedded guy here. My similar law is "if you can blink an led, you can do anything".
Working on a project in a similar space and the vast majority of people I have spoken to have said they don't care if it is in the cloud and find managing files on their devices to be a huge hassle. I think the Hacker News audience is a bit out of touch with the ways most people use their tools and devices.
On the other hand the family sized ones do jobs that aren't economically viable for a large unionized one because of too much overhead. The difference between a large construction company and a small one remodeling your home can be in the five figures. I think it's not fair to say that a family one lacks career advancement, it's like saying that a small web development shop doesn't have the same career advancement opportunities as Microsoft. It doesn't mean that working for a small shop is a dead end job. In reality an experienced tradesman is always in high demand by larger firms or has the ability to be an independent contractor, regardless of where he started. In large cities a licensed plumber or electrician can make six figures and trying to get them to come out to your house can take weeks because they're so busy. The independent nature of the work makes it very resistant to national franchises, and different start ups have tried to make "uber-like" services for contracting tradesmen, Amazon has tried upselling "pro" installation services but nobody's been able to really centralize it yet.
Upvoted :-)
You're mixing up the matters and has gotten it backwards. The industry has been regulated to teeth after scare mongering by environmentalists post Chernobyl/3-mile-island. It has wiped out any hopes for private industry to build and hope to bring down costs by economies of scale.

Too much regulation leads to death of economies of scale.

If software was regulated like nuclear power, say because of hypothetical AI risks; then we'd never have anything. Software would have been written by large corporations who have the funds to penetrate the regulations.

Let's not take one iota of blame away from regulations. It needs to be brought naked to people to see why environmentalists have gotten themselves into a chinese finger trap (want to save the world but without nuclear).
This is one of the biggest DHT search engines I know of.. though it'll just tell you if something exists or not, you have to find the magnet data somewhere else:

https://torrenthistory.org/
How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution? A human historical view
teach your kids how to love themselves. it will be enough to have an awesome life. everything else will come if needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGg07FpmcKc

I'm waiting for your explanations.
I don't trust big tech to regulate truth, but let's not dismiss misinformation with such broad strokes.

There are deliberate attempts by politically and monetarily motivated groups to spread objectively false propaganda. FUD/HODL to mislead investors, conspiracy theories to sway public opinion, pseudoscience to peddle ineffective medical treatments... The people doing this effectively aren't individuals disagreeing with mainstream discourse, they know exactly what they're doing.
These were technically coins which were processed as smart contracts in Ethereum. Even if these coins "cease operations" their history will continue to exist in the Ethereum blockchain, forever.
> know what the game is and are playing "yes, and"

Do you have a source for this?
Discrimination against the unvaccinated is justified, morally and scientifically. Public health policy should be made, and was made, based on good data.
Huh. That is an interesting point about carpentry not being as easy to self-teach. I don't think it's entirely impossible to do so, the Youtuber Mr. Chickadee being a counter-example: he's mentioned in interviews learning techniques from books, such as Japanese joinery.

But then if you watch channels like Essential Craftsman it's clear there's a great deal of know-how that has to be passed on by someone who knows the trade. Stuff about how to work efficiently and tricks you wouldn't think of. Even if it were in a book or videos exist, you don't necessarily know to go looking for it.

It is definitely possible to self-teach auto repair. I did, out of necessity. Things you try either work or they don't, but there's logical reasons for it that can be derived from first principles.

However the computer is in a class of its own when it comes to self-teaching. Instant feedback and infinite capacity for experimentation. Carpentry doesn't have a built-in objective critic like that. Auto-repair is somewhere in between.
the wikipedia page for nitinol is fascinating!

so it seems like very much part of modern materials science. (and I'd guess bimetals are standard in many heat-related engineering applications, nitinol is just special because of how fast it changes shape, and because it's an alloy not 2 pieces of metal stuck together.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_titanium#Biocompatible_...
Yes, you can see people who bookmarked a link (if they haven't made it private).
At this pace, JavaScript will be gone and we will be back to the joy of making web apps in all Java before I retire.
Oh ok that’s much better
Wonderful advice.
> DeFi isn't a single market, it's millions of micro markets that are accessible through what amounts to a single API.

Millions of micro markets that produce what, exactly? Last time I checked there has to be at least something on the other side of the calculation what a coin is worth.

You think crypto coins magically make people work harder, better, faster, stronger?

That's not how the constraints of the physical world work.