skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those new viewport units only fix the issues with retractable chrome as commonly employed on mobile platforms. They completely ignored the scrollbars issue which has been a design bug from the very start (though there used to be a workaround—`overflow: scroll` on the body—but it was removed from the spec after only Firefox ever implemented it), which I cynically say is because it’s not an issue on mobile platforms which uniformly use overlay scrollbars.
I think it’s possible to make other App Stores work, but they need to be regulated.

Some of the things which 3rd party developers complain about Apple requiring are basically "comply with GDPR and no you can’t spam popups to try and bore people into assenting that’s not even allowed by GDPR". Without Apple gatekeeping, I think dark patterns would be the first thing to go wrong.

The "no adult content" rule seems very weird given that web browsers exist, even though I can understand why they would want to project a “family friendly” corporate image. That said, I am aware that my Overton window isn’t going to match America: I live in Berlin, and the spinning billboards here sometimes put erotic massage between family dentists and car repairs. But such things varying by county is still a good reason to have multiple stores with different rules, not just multiple availability zones for the same store.

The encryption rules… well, that’s a USA export requirement, even when neither the developer nor any of the end users is in America, and while I can easily see why the US wants to require it, that’s not going to be acceptable to other governments in the long term. I can easily believe that the EU would demand an EU App Store that has an equivalent requirement but reporting to the EU instead of to the USA, and so on.

That said, the fees structure is likely to be massively complicated by all this. The payment processing fee may be 3% (last time I looked was when Kagi was a payment processor and not a search engine), but the 15/30% that Apple (and on Android, that Google takes even though Android does allow other app stores) charges, also covers free use of iCloud databases, makes Xcode a free download, and likely helps pay for the development of the iOS/iPadOS/watchOS family the same way the same fees on the Play Store probably help develop Android.
Building mobile web apps back in the day was much harder than today.
> as evidenced by Twitter existing on iOS

there is no “evidence”. it’s a 17+ app with sexual accounts actively banned all of the time which you can’t even access if you’re not logged in, NSFW is disabled by default etc etc

> There is absolutely no reason that Apple should have the power to do that.

actually there’s a huge reason: they built it, they own it.

> Apple has the power to control what software you can download and run on YOUR device

the device is meaningless, it’s all about the software. and you don’t own that. so you can’t impose your own rules.
See you’re moving the goalpost here. You went from they can to they could. That’s exactly the point of people who require proof it has happened.

When we have proof of one manufacturer connecting to an open wi-fi network to send its snooping data, we’ll have a a reckoning on our hands. I guarantee it.
On one hand we have Facebook. A company with billions of users that is routinely used to destabilize democracy and spread propaganda.

On the other hand we have Apple. A company with a 14% market share in the mobile market that has restricted Facebooks ability to track users outside of Facebook.

For the good of Facebook, Apple must be stopped. -Putin, probably.
>I'd say "I am having a subjective experience" is tautological - "subjective experience" are simply words we use to describe the state of being conscious.

Please read the comment I replied to. That should clear things up.

>Though I'd agree much (most?) of it is made up of very strong illusions.

Not illusions. A narrative.

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806425
> Pornhub rakes in more monthly traffic than Google and FB combined.

traffic measured in visitors or bytes downloaded? any source?
DIY PS5 Slim
On the initial response, in case it's the Pro that can be explained by a known hardware issue that manifests as an apparently bricked device if the battery gets drained and regardless of charger it takes several hours to bring it back to life[0].

Even so, that does not excuse the rest of the story and hopefully they can improve. A friend of mine also had some frustration with communicating with their customer service (which appeared outsourced or incompetent).

[0]: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro#Troubleshooting
According to Adam Smith himself, competition only works in well-defined markets. Creating a phone, as it stands today require being a hardware vendor yourself, or ordering in such high quantities that hardware vendors would actually care about you, while simultaneously you are a huge software vendor who simultaneously managed to capture enough users to make it worthwhile for third-parties to target the platform.

Remember, not even Microsoft managed to pull it off and not for lack of money or try. There is simply an inherent local minima/maxima for these 2 platforms.

How do we expect a third competitor to show up? It’s like expecting a 4 years old girl to compete with heavy-weight MMA champions. The rules around a market are the only reason capitalism could work, otherwise we would only have paper-clip machines sacrificing everything for profit.
You can't do trigonometry on the rationals, which would prevent any games, graphics software, audio mixing software etc from using the rationals.
This Year’s Extreme Weather Is Just Getting Started
I never viewed full stack as knowing all the technologies. Rather, I view it as the ability to solve the problem end-to-end. Often, knowing a few generalizable recipes is sufficient to be effective in this regard.
I think they know exactly what they're doing. Nothing bumps an upgrade up the backlog like an attack on an old cashcow.
Jobs was a fucking monster, but people got brainwashed to love him.
Or GDScript, Godot’s language, which nobody knows. This is my major barrier to even considering Godot right now. Perhaps once their Kotlin bindings are ready for production…
> Yes, that was reason enough. They were scared of lawyers knocking on their doors and shake them with the threat of lawsuits over "GDPR violations". They had zero interest in spending more money on their websites to ensure they are compliant and Facebook made it convenient for them to outsource all of this unnecessary headache.

So it isn't the fault of GDPR but of stupid business owners? That is according to you. You can't think of any other reason why businesses would kill their own online presence?

> I don't want to get into a tangent, but I'm yet to see a better example of how regulatory capture works in favor of Big Corporations

What, specifically, about GDPR favors big corporations? Considering that it is the best example that you can thing of I'm sure that won't be hard to answer.
LaMDA can emulate certain behaviour that we associate with consciousness based on our everyday experience, but it also fails to exhibit many other attributes we associate with consciousness. So, is conciseness a requirement for being able to generate what I'd claim is a very, very limited subset of behaviours we associate with conciseness?

I say no. These language model systems operate very well if you approach them in a non-adversarial way and feed them input similar to their training inputs. As soon as you adopt a more adversarial approach and interrogate them more thoroughly, it all falls apart quickly and spectacularly. It's actually quite easy to explore conversations around the edges of, or beyond the coverage of their training data and get them to babble helplessly. They're also incapable of performing many very trivial cognitive processes.

So I can't prove it, any more than I can prove that I'm conscious, but they don't come close to convincing me that they are.
I think GP's point was also that the Swiss look middle-of-the-league only when comparing their strict definition (>3m is counted as a delay) with the looser definition used by other countries (>5m is counted as a delay). Presumably, if trains with a 4- or 5-minute delay were not counted as delayed, more than 92% of Swiss trains would be on time.
That's pretty cool, thanks! The loading page between each section seems unnecessary though.
>What could IBlaha be? Anything! The type has not gained you anything.

You're confusing Java-type extreme (and also mostly strawmanned) application of OOP with static typing.

Not every type in your program has to be AbstractFactoryProxyBeanInterface, and if you don't write code like that it's either obvious or some kind of extension interface for non-core code.
> This is something a Reddit community now aims to tackle.

I see only two Reddit posts by the author, one in r/preppers with 3 replies, one in /r/biohackers with no replies. None of the replies indicated they want to try the software.
I have referred to the Second Month panel as "Two Pile Theory".

TPT would be the clothing article view of this system, I suppose.
You can ask it, but you’re not allowed to answer it correctly.
Hopefully European countries aren't prone to manipulating the statistics. An example that used to happen in my (Australian) city: if a train was running late, they'd skip stations: magically, it now arrived at its destination on time!
Ask HN: What is the difference between Mathematics and Physics in general?
I have seen an opinion which has impressed me deeply: Physics with its laws and equations is something bound to our Universe while Mathematics is something ultimately true in any realities possible. I don't have any understanding of multiverse theory but I want to define some boundaries about which part of human knowledge is Physics and which is Mathematics.

For example, is Probability and Statistics theory only a part of Mathematics or maybe Physicians consider this knowledge from both fields simultaneous? And one really crazy question: is there any possible circumstances (like other reality with other Physics or maybe kind of non-Euclid mathematical framework) which makes Pi non equal to 3.14~ ?
If I were the OP I would take this site down, and re-think. Any prospective company that is looking to hire you in the future is going to google & see this. It does not reflect well.
I maintain a third party telegram client and I am curious how you find the Bs about rarely update source
Sure, give me the complete wavefunction of your body and fifteen trillion years to simulate it.
Not sure how far along your career you are, but all managers certainly don't suck, there are good ones out there.

If you already have a long career with lots of different managers, and 100% of them suck, I'm afraid the problem probably lies with you.
Apple is actually did a really great job opening up (the bootloader of) their recent M1 laptops, in a safe manner (according to marcan himself). It is not an accident that the Asahi project can develop so fast.
almost like things are challenging or something

the newsletter signup thing for an email subscription really made me laugh, it's like this is what you make your money on while acting like people who rise to the challenge are victims?
It’s wrong, because 100vw is the document width plus any scrollbar width (including via scrollbar-gutter). If you have a body with zero padding and a vertical scrollbar, then 100vw > 100% except on platforms with overlay scrollbars. On Windows, this is likely to mean that or a 1000px-wide body, 100vw will be 1017px.
In summary, a contractor had an issue working with their client and instead of firing their client or trying to resolve it through the appropriate channels decided passive aggressive JIRA tickets and undermining the manager was the way to go?

Unless I'm misreading this blog and its tone then this blog serves as a red flag for working with this person.
I have the same personality with the OP and maybe a far similar experience way back. I just quit the company and find another, how ever it may be painful to leave a job you really liked, it is so much better just not to post stuffs like this and just move on.

You are also at fault too.
> If I had to generalize the struggle between design & engineering, they felt they couldn’t meet the requirements given to them in a reasonable amount of time unless “mobile” and “desktop” were scoped separately.

If I had to guess, they think the amount of people who would actually use something that falls outside of the standard desktop/mobile/tablet presets is very low and not worth the amount of extra effort it would take to implement.

In other words, this is one of those things the boss says they want but realistically it's way down the list of real world priorities and if nobody does it, nobody gets in trouble for not doing it, so it wasn't actually important in the first place. Whereas if something's wrong on the desktop or mobile designs, they'll hear about it and hear about it quickly, so they know that IS important.
Certainly viable but your non-modular system might not support all the features you want. The Linux system I am using to post this comment is running without CONFIG_MODULES and have been so for years, but I am not using ZFS nor anything from NVIDIA.
Evolutionary Trajectories of Traits in European Populations of Modern Humans
Yes, there are.

Mostly, but not necessarily, within regional transportation networks.

As a for example: I pay roughly $1200 for one year of travel within the city of Zurich and the adjacent zone including the airport.

This includes any mode of transportation, except taxis.

A Generalabonnement makes more sense, though, commuting from, say, Zurich to Basel, which is not uncommon.

Edited to add: Regional commuter passes also allow for use of intercity trains, provided that they stop within your zone of validity.
Modern finance is literally indistinguishable from maths and tech.

Law isn't a guaranteed way to a high status career anymore, far from it.

Medicine sure. But the initial investment is multiple times that of a tech career, for fairly marginal gains in quality of life (when it isn't actually worse).
See the link. Looks like Solend.
> Not that Facebook is any better, but Facebook is not the gatekeeper for millions of peoples lives. When Apple boots you as a customer, you most likely will lose everything about your digital life.

What??? Maybe you're referring to one or two countries. Facebook is the gatekeeper for billions of people's (online) lives around the world. With WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, etc., the influence that Meta has is huge. It's far larger than Apple in terms of number of people who rely on it.
No, they couldn't. Multiple developers have said that Apple did not consider this acceptable. The Apple app review team is capricious and does not follow their own published guidelines, and that is not news.

This was also an issue with Discord - Discord still doesn't (by Apple didact) permit some servers with adult content in the iOS app, because Apple said there was no way to do so and remain in the store.
Not light. It's electric potential that moves around. No visible photons involved.
This implies that consciousness is some sort of “magic”, not obeying the laws of the physical universe as we know them. I’m not willing to completely discount this idea. However, it seems likely that both mammals and birds all have this magic. It’s pretty wide spread. Why assume that humans can never figure it how it works, and replicate it?
> a few introductory-level books on number theory, calculus and combinatorics

Any particular recommendations?
If everyone just sucks it up then nothing gets solved. Ever been told to do something by a developer and you firmly disagree? I'm not going to give in and do what he says, I'm going to make an argument and hope it changes things for the better. If I just put up with the shit then it's me who has to deal with it in the future when it all falls apart.

Giving in to shit management will just reinforce it. Changing teams isn't a solution if your enjoy the team. Standing up for yourself and the team is.

Could he have gone about things better? Probably. But your job isn't just to follow directions, especially as a senior engineer.
Is the Pro worth it? I like the idea and I own the og, but it is painfully slow. At this point I just check on the progress each month and put it back in the drawer :/
> we're in a country with better privacy laws

This is the important part. Laws are not about trust.
I stopped reading the original article when the OP started including politics.

Invoking anger by reminding your audience that some 'current' government of $random_country that they are not 'having a clue' is a really cheap trick to grab attention of lesser informed people. Of course it only applies to the 'current' government, because everything was obviously better in the past.

It makes me sad, and angry at the same time to see that even on forums like HN, people fall for it. This thread is mostly hijacked by a 'discussion' about politics, completely ignoring the subject of the OP.

What's even more sad, is that if you look at the 'social proof' section of perfecttableplan (the company the author is promoting, and where he is CEO), you'll see that they serve loads of government organizations. So here is the 'CEO' of a company, making cheap shots at their own customers, just to get some eyeballs on his content marketing.
There are so many variables it can be hard to say. I've had the fortune to have some great managers over the years.

However the country you work in and your industry means that the great:shit manager ratio can vary pretty wildly.
Sometimes the idea is to do things wrong and then use that experience to do things correctly later and if possible use events to sweep aside the current political order.
It reminds me of this talk[1] and a conversation[2], both hinting at the possibility of the emergence of consciousness from a matter due to quantum properties/effects [edit] and having nothing to do with computation.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5CxsyKwxg
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0
There are always 2 sides of the story. I'm sure reading the other side would paint a different picture.

Having said that, based on this description: yes, the manager seems weak, but as the OP themselves state, these were annoyances. Couple of pointless chat messages, badly run meetings. Annoying, but it doesn't sound like such a big deal. Esp. in a fully remote setting, where you don't have to sit next to an annoying person all day..

Also, towards the end it turns out the manager was new at the company (first 6 months), so they were probably figuring out whatever upward reporting culture Spotify has, and maybe that's why they were asking seemingly pointless estimation questions?

In any case, openly challenging the other person in a group setting and making fun of them [with a ticket], which is what happened here, is not the right thing to do (whether a peer or a manager).

Good options are: (i) have a separate 1v1 where you talk it over with the person (ii) put up with it for a while and/or (iii) switch teams (iv) switch companies, if it's that annoying.

On the flipside, firing a person for what is described in the OP seems like an overreaction. But, judging based on one side of the story is not a good idea.

Overall, I personally cannot draw any conclusions about Spotify based on this, nor do I want do :)

Also, I'm questioning whether it's a good idea to write a blog post like this. I assume the contract had NDA / other clauses that prohibit this. In many cases, those clauses are a good idea. Eg. imagine if now Spotify, with all its marketing power, were to reply to this person's claims and represent their side of the story. That would probably suck for the author here. Fortunately that will not happen.
If you are petty enough to make a website about how you made passive aggressive Jira tickets to show the manager who’s the boss I bet he is not one of the good people you want as employees.
Thanks for correcting me. To add insult to injury, I even checked first to see if there was a rule about that!

This really should be added to the Guidelines. It might avert some future embarrassment for others.

I want to follow the rules. This was a discoverability failure (as your need to link to a third-party search tool as the "source" should demonstrate).

Thanks again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "Can you tell me how long X, Y and Z will take?"

> "We're almost finished with X, so only days left there. Y will take a few weeks, but I cannot estimate Z. It's something we have never done before and without exploration time I don't even know the scope of the work."

> "I need the time anyway. Provide it in a spreadsheet by end of day."

I feel your pain man, that's one I've had a few times before. Just a complete failure by the manager to take the point on board, followed by a demand to just do it. That's a total morale and productivity killer.
I write one sentence per line as well, but use line wrapping to make it more readable during writing. Reading long sentences on a single line is unpleasant imho.

I‘ll try switching from line wrap to full display to get a better picture of the overall structure.

If the structure is easy to recognize I would probably prefer a simple model that tells me a good line length for the current line I‘m in, e.g. a simple writing plugin for the editor of choice.
> 3. In the government case, minimizining flailing and tyranny equates to minimizing the size of government.

Whoa there. There are plenty of very small governments that have plenty of flailing and tyranny. In the limit, if government is just one guy, he clearly won't have clue about 99% of what he's doing, and will be extremely easy to corrupt since he has no-one else to hold him accountable.

If you want to have even a chance of having a competent government you need at least three fully independent branches of government with their own internal systems of accountability.

I could just as easily argue that you need to maximize the size of the government.

The problem is you hit issues both at the small and the large end. It's like goldilocks. You shouldn't minimize or maximize. You should aim at just the right size for the country/region you're trying to govern.

What's WAY, WAY more important is HOW you govern.

What's really scary these days is how many people think we'll solve all our problems if we just make government smaller and smaller. I guess so much time has passed since the various parts of our government was set up that we've kind of forgotten why the government is the way it is.

Not that we shouldn't have a process that trims down parts of government that has become redundant. But we should have a deep understanding of the problem that part of the government is solving before doing so.
Appears to me to be a bit of a misleading title; the hack cost Capital One $270m in fines and compensation. Title seems to imply $270m was stolen in the hack.
Interesting...the same Richard Butler who came to fame as the head of the UN weapons inspection team to Iraq prior to the US invasion. Deep state operator, or just a career bureaucrat who moved from department to department to jump pay grades?
It's like the author is looking for more bullet points to add to the website.

"I made a website to complain to the world about Spotify's management, and Spotify somehow held that against me."
Old-school blogging, retro computers, and decentralisation
The title is a bit misleading, the hack was a theft of personal data, not money. The data also wasn't sold for that money.

The $ 270m is an estimate (on the low side) of the total cost to the bank, based on being fined $ 80m by the regulator and paying $ 190m to affected customers as settlement in a class action lawsuit.
Why do you do contract work still? Surely you should be able to find a full-time gig at this point?