skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been an iOS user for about 5 years now. I switched from Android because after 6 months of owning an Android-based phone it was practically unusable form a performance standpoint. The hardware companies used was low quality. The experience with Samsung, Motorola, etc. bloatware and half-baked features basically forced you to root and flash the device if you wanted a decent experience. iOS may be a walled garden, but it works. Well.

My partner switched from Android a little over a year ago. These problems, on her current gen, top of the line Samsung phone, still persisted. While the quality of the hardware had definitely improved, she was essentially stuck with a phone that was seemingly trying to become obsolete.

IMO, Android has a longggggg way to go before it really shakes that perception. I realize a lot of the problems aren’t Android’s fault. I’m sure they want companies to provide updates to their devices for years. I’m sure they don’t want some Bixby crap taking over. But, in the end, that’s really what you can expect from their approach.
In my experience, I lack the talent for truly graphic swearing that would be required to adequately communicate just how much worse it is. Wrapping frameworks is like throwing water on a grease fire. Or maybe like someone else throwing water on the grease fire while you're standing inside the splash radius.

The only way to win is not to play, but the best way to minimize the damage if you can't avoid it entirely is this: escape out of the framework code into 'normal' code as fast as possible. The framework only calls glue code. All of your real logic and investment is in code that uses Plain Old <Language> data structures and that's it. That'll keep you sane.

It also is a great way to pop out bits of your logic into separate little programs where you can do things like write utilities that let you reason about the bigger system in bite sized chunks, or even to use benchmarking tools to do A/B testing of different implementation details of one subsystem, without the noise of the rest of the system getting in the way.
nope.

I used to say: "40! ha, i'm going to buy motorcycles and fast cars and eat badly and drink too much and have dangerous hobbies and hopefully die young before i get old like you 40 year old geezers."

then I had kids and that kinda doesn't work now. so now, sadly yes. I don't want to be doing this at 50 or 60 or 70 or ...

now go give your dad a hug
Hm, not in my app (Android)? Unencrypted messages have an open padlock next to them, whereas encrypted ones have double checkmarks. But no difference in color, even in conversations that contain both.
It's used in machine learning pretty often.
For the tech to succeed they need to sell to enterprises, scale manufacturing, and be making the right bet on the future of work

In my opinion google has the wrong instincts on all 3.

This is not really a tool for hybrid work (it’s too expensive to deploy in homes) it’s a tool for communicating between offices.

Google is betting on everyone being back in the office at some point.
That is simply not true. If you did not work you would file an income tax with 0 earned income and be eligible for basic income up to the percentage of the break even point. If the break even point was 10k at a 50% rate a person with 0 income would be entitled to 5k.
Nit: Even if assume that all global population (7B) have smartphone and tablet (so 14B), 1% is 14M. It's too low count for how much PC used. Also popular better input system for long text hasn't used now. I don't think keyboard is the endgame device, but keyboard era is very long than we expected.
Your comments in this thread have broken the site guidelines shamefully. We ban accounts that post like this.

I would have banned the two of you, but I don't want to ban you without a warning and I'm not going to let you off the hook while banning the other person, so I'm going to let you both off the hook. However, please don't ever vandalize HN like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I find it highly improbable you have never encountered a Facade pattern.
;)
I was against frameworks until I used re-frame in Clojurescript. If the framework is sufficiently pluggable it can be incredibly valuable.
AirBnB: emerging "yea i was cheap to rent, but you won't like the cleaning fee" -the cost basis here being "... is cheaper than hotel" rapidly becomes un-true when extra fees are added.

I see an analogy to LCC in flying. Its "better" for a specific subset of people who never wanted a full service outcome. As soon as you add full service deliverables like ticket change, luggage, it can be cheaper to go direct to full service.

With house/room rentals/short-term let, it can be cheaper to go to traditional travel accommodation, once extra fees are taken into account.
For a starter, i don't rembember having a choice to replace the default messaging app with signal when i installed it. Also don't remember any settings to split it back to default messaging. It has always been All-In-Signal or no-Signal-at-all, and no user choice. Am-I wrong here?
and made it so rent and mortgages were free
Unfortunately, many companies are adopting leetcode as well...not just in SV...but in APAC region
It's been a whilst since we've had one of these on HN. What a bit of fun.
My 2c. There's a choice about the work you do. does your work satisfy a business requirement, or does it satisfy your ego.

I need a site for work for a 3 year project, CRUD, users, auth, sessions. Django's perfect for my team of 1.5. It wouldn't be responsible to roll my own, when I can have the bare bones of that site up and ready to go within a day.

This is like complaining that X company is locked in because of a chipset, and suggesting they branch out into lithography to ease that burden.

Is your core business getting things done, or is it flexing by rolling your own framework.
Microsoft Introduces Preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
The Confidential Consortium Framework (https://ccf.dev/) is an open-source framework for building highly available stateful services that leverage centralized compute for ease of use and performance, while providing decentralized trust. It enables multiple parties to execute auditable compute over confidential data without trusting each other or a privileged operator.

The feedback from customers of CCF had been that building apps was easy but managing the infrastructure and framework was not. This preview provides a fully-managed CCF deployment where Azure handles all infra and framework tasks so that developers can focus on their apps, without any change in the trust model.
Exactly! I came here to post this.
You will understand why you use Kalfka
I'm on my fifth smartphone (since 2009). But I've always used Android. It could be that iOS users are more inclined to replace perfectly working hardware.
Obligatory Podcast on this : https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subject-to-change/id14...

"Subject to change" is a surprisingly great podcast and this is a pretty good episode.
I've not looked at implementation details for long enough that I don't trust my answer, but I presume it has something to do with getting 30-some bits of data from the RNG, then coercing it to a floating point with zero on the left side of the mantissa.
In most situations installing trash-cli and its dependencies is a single command (apt/dnf/etc), while with rmt you need to pick the right tarball for your system, download it, unpack it and then install the binary, or manually build it from source.
What is a budget option, then? The reality is that most people get these phones for free with trade ins to AT&T or Verizon.
1. Why is it the low season?

2. What is there to see/do?
Django is definitely a framework.

Its not just Django that locks you in, it's all the third party apps people end up adding. All these integrate tightly with Django.

They often block upgrades as they have different python and Django version requirements.
If we’re not using the equivalent of 100% of the total solar input striking earth in 400 years, we’ve gone down the wrong path
"It's an expensive effort, and the ability to fund an effort like that can be inversely proportional to the willingness to take on the risks you mention."

I'd say you're right and replicating Windows now would be hellishly expensive but it wouldn't have been so some decades back. After all, ReactOS has essentially proved it's possible.

Despite the fact that it's not practicability usable it sort of works in limited circumstances (I periodically test it). Given that it's a smalltime backyard effort but can run MS Office on some hardware demonstrates to me that if serious effort were put into its development it would do most of my needs.

The other problem of there not being any other API-compatible OS in competition with Windows is that Microsoft has never fixed the many problematic issues with Windows—as it simply never had to. It's too complex to discuss them here but if MS had had fair competition from another OS then end users would have had a much better run.
I like your garden path sentence.
>> A team that defines the standards, processes, practices, frameworks or architectures that other teams must follow..are amongst the lowest performers.

It is a matter of degree. If teams responsible for this are legitimately trying to make things better (and not just trying to infallible high priests), it can be helpful. If there are established ways of doing things, it can sometimes alleviate the need to make the same decisions over and over again.
This is sad because this is a brilliant enterprise product from a company that has few of the fundamentals required to sell it into the enterprise.
Now this brings back memories!

I learnt assembly and graphics programming from this in the 90s.
Hoping they eventually relent and provide authentication/authorisation themselves. Not keen on relying on Microsoft or Google for this low level control over my network.
Then you push back on that.
You don't have to give up, it's not all-or-nothing.

That's sort of the history of the law. You outlaw crime (new types of crime are variations of fraud, deceit, etc) and then people "innovate" their methods to get around that and you outlaw that too. Hopefully suppressing them more than they "innovate". But we don't have to just hope, we historically suppressed these new crimes when it became a big problem.

You dont just give up and let them create and do new types of (yet to be classified) crime just because they will always predictably want to do it anyway.
Yeah, with the possible connection to the Spanish Flu epidemic this gives one pause when considering long covid and covid's neurological effects in general
No. Why does this one employee get to vest early and the others don't? It's a legal minefield and sets up the wrong precedent.
Automatically Disabled Tests in PyTorch
This is irrelevant. If Ford or Toyota have 10 bad years, people will not suddenly start talking about all of the superstar, legendary car designers they should pull out of book signings back onto the field.
We're still so early in, web3 accessibility is still the biggest priority
It seems like "mid 2000's was the perfect time" because these fortunes take 10-15 years to get to any meaningful number.

These opportunities exist today, it just starts out with really low numbers in a niche that everybody thinks is super boring and takes forever to build up organically.
It was for some things, "record of note" status on an assumption radio and tv reportage was unfaked. So we believed BBC footage of Belsen, we believed BBC recordings of test match cricket. That it turned out the test match was in fact, an announcer talking to a tickertape report of the game, and the sound of the bat was a pencil on the desk rather un-did this. But as record of note, it remained true for the play events, and outcome.

BBC social/political to-air radio pre-WW2 and during WW2 is said (Mass Observation? Angus Calders books) to have heavily influenced popular opinions on the war, and on current affairs, and arguably on things like religion/atheism.

"why we fight" was a constant of the BBC in these times. It probably influenced the end-of-war Labour victory over Churchill.

The BBC acted as a communications channel (one-way) to inform partisan networks. So, it directly influenced tactical outcomes towards strategic outcomes.

I would argue that mass communications effects on popular support is a form of influence to history. I suggest this applied to the Beveridge report, to postwar expectations of what housing should be, racism in Britain, attitudes to smoking, to the emergent understanding of the magnitude of risk in thalidomide.

BBC provided gaelic language services to the western isles of scotland, and so altered history by preserving non-english language in a small community.

The BBC broke ground by converting Hansard (post-event record of parliament) into live (real to-air recording of what was actually said) and so had a huge democratising influence.

More malignly, the BBC probably participated in the US/UK/AU repression in Kenya and Malaya, and the intervention to displace Sukharno in an anti-communist era. In the Vietnam era it acted more as social concence, but on some things, I suspect it fed the fever and helped hide the "black ops" side of what was going on.

I totally believe the BBC had a net positive influence on history, over time.
I also had a successful SAAS around that period while my later ones failed.

Start a SAAS in a new market, not an established one. Back then every market was wide open.
How I fixed git-grep macOS UTF-8 support
Batteries begin to degrade the moment you start to use them. All phones do this. Apple does not have some sort of magical technology to stop it from happening. No one does.

I wouldn’t expect a device that’s likely being drained and recharged daily to retain full capacity after two years. To suggest that shows a lack of understanding in the basic physics of a battery.

No company, Samsung, Google, etc. will “recall” your phone for normal wear and tear items like a battery. If that’s what you’re expecting, you’re going to be very disappointed.
I mean the answer is that you just feel it out. 1 month is soon enough to wait, 2 months is gray area, 3 months is probably fine. And if it's a huge vest, then you give more leeway.

You're not appealing to some objective rule here. You're thinking about what would look like shitty behavior to the rest of your employees.

Firing people gracefully is a really, really important part your relationship to your employees. It's about whether people feel like they're being respected as professionals or abused like they work in a sweatshop.
You can affect this by picking the framework properly.

The chances of Spring Framework, React or .Net being deprecated are zero to none. Even if they are sunset, there will be a) years of warning b) a cottage industry of open-source options.

Or you can hamper your project by abstracting EVERYTHING in your software to be 100% free to switch any library or framework at a moment's notice with minimal work. In essence building a meta-framework yourself :)
"It may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.... Every constitution then, & every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, & not of right"

- Thomas Jefferson to James Madison in 1789, expressing feelings on why laws should automatically expire

Full letter: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-12-02-024...
I switched from iPhone to Android (Fairphone 4) recently, but my reasons for doing so prove the point, I think. I was willing to give up a slicker UI and a nice camera (and getting-a-bit-too-much-now postprocessing) in order to have more control over my audio files. But this thing wasn't cheap and to 99% of teens I assume it would not be worth it, even disregarding social pressure.
I agree that would be cool.

FWIW, there is a 2d in a 3d world side scroller called Fez

It's way more limited, you can only rotate to 4 faces around the world. It's been a decade, but I remember it being a fun and short game.
Of course wikipedia is far from perfect when it comes to reliability.

However, given you did not include a citation for the sale of that bridge that meets wikipedia's guidelines on appropriate sources, i am not sure it is quite the comeback you think it is.
Languages that use this pattern, in decreasing order of familiarity and increasing levels of Googling:

Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Perl

languages where it's optional:

C#, Elixir, Go

That's about when I got tired of Googling.
Unfortunately, people don't like to hire sysadmins these days.

Of course this makes companies very fragile to things like this.
...a (good) tutorial for website developers
I that case you could try to emulate bash before sourcing the script
There have been some articles that suggest that Covid can linger in the gut.

I am not advertising it, but I certainly don't regret looking into alternative self-therapies with supplements (vitamins, minerals, probiotics, antioxidants) during recovering from Covid. In my case, the moderate CFS that I had for years before Covid miraculously mostly disappeared as well.
These this always reminds me of x2ftp.oulu.fi. One of my biggest influences as a teenager. Soo much info
This is the best solution. Shows you’re “extra generous” instead of just letting someone walk with their equity. Shows “the company will take care of me.”
Yes, in the mists of time it had value. But it dropped down pretty rapidly. I personally stopped caring when I noticed the lag between novel things being shown to me on HN and on slashdot had clearly flipped to slashdot got some things later, and indirectly.

I prefer prime source. I also prefer the nature of discussion here. But in the early days when /. was mostly all we had, before it got overtaken by "how to make a beowulf cluster of this" meme behaviour, it was good.
true but it's not just about the price here. The expectation at an AirBnb is to also do chores on top of the extra fees. I expect some fees but AirBnb charges as much as 60-70% of the base room rent.
Firefox is ratcheting up the tracking protection for normal users and GNOME enabled Thunderbolt protection by default, so there is definitely precedent for protecting regular users too. Also with the rise of stalkerware, normal users are definitely targets too. I think the interface I proposed would be reasonable enough for most people and you could make it easy to turn off with the right UX.
Such attitude is fine for the Fb company, but please don't for the technology itself.
Like I said, I don't really have an interest in arguing with folks about it, unless they tell me what will change their mind. Otherwise it's just okay but one more thing.

"Switching the US to be open shop would change my mind"
Literally, closed shop is illegal in the USA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop#United_States

Give some names if you want to provide anecdotes, otherwise I think you're someone arguing in bad faith on the internet.

Look at the data, look at how kneecapped unions are in the USA, and you'll begin to understand that you're being manipulated.
I don't see how my own personal views matter in regards to what I said.

Even if I was pro vax, and had every booster under the sun, I could still just as easily post about how people on all sides of the covid spectrum have their own anecdata points... And bring up my coworker worried the vaccine is unsafe because his vaccinated and boosted boss, that seemed perfectly healthy, died in his sleep last week and now he's wondering if it was the vaccine.
New ScyllaDB Go Driver: Faster Than GoCQL and Its Rust Counterpart
You severely overestimate the quality of care you would receive in a psychiatrist's office when thinking that lithium and lamotrigine wouldn't be prescribed for no reason. Prescription of pramipexole should have given it away.
Not using a framework will harm the existence of your software
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That's beside the point.

How do we handle the heat?

From the same link (as my previous comment):

> the Earth has only one mechanism for releasing heat to space, and that’s via (infrared) radiation. We understand the phenomenon perfectly well, and can predict the surface temperature of the planet as a function of how much energy the human race produces. The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate (conveniently chosen to represent a 10× increase every century), we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years. [Pained expression from economist.] And this statement is independent of technology. Even if we don’t have a name for the energy source yet, as long as it obeys thermodynamics, we cook ourselves with perpetual energy increase.
How goes the progress on scaling your infrastructure? I signed up ages ago and haven't heard back.
> Try with arguments instead

Your original post had no argument, either, so I don't see the necessity.

Now that you've provided an argument, we can have a discussion, starting with:

> Intel was really sleeping on this one to be kicked that hard by Apple on the first release of their desktop chip

This isn't true. The M1 in a desktop isn't competitive against Intel chips.
You earlier brought up gerrymandering, electoral college, protests and your "white shields". Now you avoid the solution to the present day lack of representation, a solution which would make gerrymandering and lobbyists irrelevant in the House, by undoing the cap on the House. You instead want to go into 1930s whataboutism with an unexplained reference to Trump.

We can fix this together and everyone could have better representation in the federal House. Neither of the big parties, nor you, will discuss it. America is addicted to arguing for their team, while the lobbyists and special interests feed at our tax trough.

> how would that have worked in 1939

About the same as 1839 and 1937 and 1938.
Even if this were true (and sibling posts make compelling counterarguments), you've completely overlooked that the value of a unit of engineering time varies wildly. Spending weeks of engineering time re-implementing all the security features Django provides out-of-the-box is suicidal when you're trying to get off the ground. It doesn't matter that it could save months down the road if your project literally doesn't exist anymore.
no disagree. I am going to a simpler model of worse == cost. You're in a different plane of what is better or worse. Before AirBnB there was only hotels. I can't think of a basis that you can go non=financial and compare them.

But, it has gotten worse. So judged against itself ab initio, its getting worse. Uber, is worse now. For both drivers and pax. For drivers there is much less profit and for clients, its still better than most taxi services, but it isn't as much better than it used to be and some gaming of the system has emerged.
Same here and I started searching for a comment stating the same before I write my own.
> a commercial landlord [...] somebody converts the place into a small restaurant, coffee shop

Charing Cross Road in London is a prime example - used to have a whole bunch of small book (and other) shops. Now it has a whole bunch of pastry, coffee[1], sweet etc. shops and a couple of small bookshops (who probably don't have long to go, really.)

(Also has a huge bookshop, Foyles, but that's a soulless corporate monstrosity.)

[1] I am particularly aggrieved about the nicer of the two Any Amount Of Books being turned into a squashed coffee shop.
I've seen another comment saying their revenue is way up YoY. What does this mean when compared with share price changes?