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Basecamp violates that rule often and they are doing ok. If I remember right they even make it a strategy to re-write their whole application every few years.

There's no hard rules in software engineering, and all best practices should be put into context. You don't know what monsters lurked in the old code base. So yes in some cases (but not often) re-write is a good / only choice.
Is it? If you go to any casino you'll see playing cards plastered on every wall and suit themed decor. Even games without cards use red/black. Media depictions of gambling are usually cards. People who go to Vegas take home a souvenir deck of cards. Casinos

A deck of cards which you can use to play non-gambling card games but that doesn't use the same "branding" I'm sure works really well. It's hard to feel "cool" when you're playing with a Fisher-Price deck.
maybe it's worth specifying in the title this is written by UK's prime minister
I stopped reading his essays some time ago, but it feels like they keep getting dumber and dumber.
Something like "Oh well now it will run a lot less well, obviously." Seems like the more or less literal translation.

"a lot less well" is the awkward part, a more natural construction would be a negation "is not going to run well" or something like that.
Do you at least acknowledge that some people hold that position for not-evil reasons. That seemed like the missing razor in your final couple sentences.
Should Canada privatize its postal service?
My point is the need for this ability is next to zero because it is extremely dangerous

That is an absolute non-sequitur. Yes, it is dangerous to carry a person out of a fire. But it is still an expected, though infrequent occurrence during duties of a firefighter. By deliberately striking this capability from list of demands, you are also deliberately restricting the total life-saving capabilities of the firefighting crew, all for checking some ideological boxes.

I am absolutely against this and I want firefighters in my city to be physically capable of doing such tasks. It may happen that my life or life of my loved ones is actually at stake, and such capability will make a difference.

On the other hand, I couldn't care less about diversity checkboxes. The idea that a firefighting corps is better for having more women is as weird to me as the idea that a firefighting corps is better for having more Taylor Swift fans.
The library developed and used by 3blue1brown [1] is open-source [2] and seems to fit the same use case. I don’t know about widely-used, though.

[1] https://3blue1brown.com
[2] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
Actually building things keeps you humble in a way that’s hard to articulate. You’re constantly contending with reality, not models/processes whose purpose is to smooth over things to present a facade of order.
We don't really structure business law to allow for the appropriate amount of risk. The whole point of incorporation is to limit liability and shift what remains off of individuals at the company.

If you try to change this, you'll hear screeching about how there's just too much risk and the "job creators" will just take their capital and ideas to more business-friendly legal climes.
They spent money on the acquisition and they would like to see some back. Isn’t that obvious?
I believe GP is referring to things like privacy-centric de-Googled Android phones, which definitely are an option. I would not classify those as "least bad" or even bad.

GP is correct about Apple products; even among the HN crowd they are likely the most popular devices. I think this is because most readers aren't trying to die on the hill of openness. They're more concerned with software and ubiquity, two areas where Apple is doing very well.

You do get many here enthusiastic about open access to your own hardware, but I think we're talking about a Venn diagram; we're not all the same. (I'm an Android user.)
So an engineer.
I love the game, but I know a lot of people who don't, for a variety of reasons. They were very opinionated about what kind of game they were trying to make, so you'd expect it to resonate strongly with some people and not at all with others.
I don’t like Zuck because, IMO, he’s a fraud. I don’t use his platform. I feel sorry for people who are forced to use FB for business or social reasons, such as students who need to stay in touch with their classmates… Facebook is just an ugly side of the Internet.
Gen Z exit polling data from the 2024 US Presidential Election shows a significant rightward shift among gen Z voters. Instagram is still popular with "the kids", and it does tend to have more lax moderation. It leans somewhat conservative/right favored through inaction/sheer mass of posts.

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-genz-kamala-harris-trump-...
as an Android user I can tell you that Sonos better fix this quickly because casting is going to work reliably any day now. And then they'll be in trouble!
In relation to something that is entirely a legal construct (i.e. copyright) in the first place? Yes.
Gonna say it's more than just a single bad app launch. The company's stock price is down 70% from its peak a few years ago. Their revenues have been falling quarter after quarter. Products are getting worse and yet the prices just keep going up. If any company needs an intervention it's this one.
You really wouldn't think that the tech in this segment would be so hard to get right.
> It doesn't change that we need security and privacy for our information handling devices, as well as personal control. The real conversation is about how to best balance these.

An irrelevant false dichotomy argument. There's no inherent conflict between security/privacy and personal control. I would argue that a device which has to phone home to the vendor to get approval for everything results in both less privacy and less personal control.
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Google Assistant also stopped working abruptly on many devices, Sonos included for months. This guy did exactly what some Google exec wanted, which was to exact revenge on Sonos over a patent loss.
PraccJS: Practice JavaScript with real-time code execution
There is a lot of road between "reasonable return on capital invested" and "we are going to rake you over the coals so badly people are going to publicly flee to not be captive to us."
We don't micromanage their online access, but we do try to encourage being online in healthy ways:

We did no smartphones before high school. (Have had zero problems with that in terms of their social acceptance) Also, no computers in their rooms - everything is done in more shared space, with monitors facing the rest of the room. We talk about what kinds of content to watch out for, how to think critically about it, and what kinds of content or people are more serious, that they need to let us know if they run into. (Stalkers, scammers, other such actively harmful stuff.)

That does give them enough freedom once they hit high school to be more secretive about what they do. But we feel that is also more appropriate as they grow older. There have been problems. When they occur, we talk openly about them and help them both resolve the problems and learn from them. We are big believers that wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes from doing, so we try to focus on letting them expand their autonomy as they grow up, while at the same time minimizing harm when mistakes are made and learning from them.
>Already it’s pulling teeth just to get literate commit messages…

I usually push back on this because those commit messages almost never actually get read. It's an investment whose dividends are nebulous and hard to pin down.

It's rare that I look at a commit, and it's even rarer that I read it and wish that it had a better message.

There are all sorts of other documentation I routinely wish people put more effort into writing (comments, a "why" attached to every test, how to guides, tutorials), but rarely ever a commit message.
Tom who is stepping in is an awesome executive. He was OG Pandora and Snap before Quibi and was on the Sonos board. He's a true product person. I'm sure he was enjoying semi-retirement and see him dropping in as CEO is a huge upgrade. :-)
Ah, so it is gambling adjacent! Can't allow that then.

Just like us banning certain medicine because it can be turned into drugs...

And how we ban knives or certain guns because they can be used for evil purposes...

And words/phrases(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675025)...

Really the only thing I haven't seen recently (the US specifically) is sexulized content restrictions...
AirPlay and multiroom is still a struggle though
Lambdas I would agree with and iterators, but in many other situations, e.g. templated collections it's easy enough to make a descriptive typedef.

And... I have seen this in the wild: 'auto isFalse = true;'
> to fall for a scam that made them follow the complicated procedure of rooting

If you are unable to imagine how a 3rd party might root a device without the principal being aware of it, then maybe it is a shortcoming of your risk survey, not theirs.
Some people are scared of what trump et al might do.
I see a lot of negative comments in this thread about Sonos in general, which is interesting to me because I'm currently thinking about buying Sonos speakers. What exactly don't you like about it? Is there a good alternative to Sonos that ticks all the following boxes?

- Connect two or more speakers wirelessly to get stereo sound (I hate cables)
- Good support for different audio sources (bluetooth, Spotify, AirPlay, aux, etc..)
- Ability to connect speakers of different models (which means you can upgrade your setup later as you see fit, for example add a subwoofer)
Remember when you could just plug in anything with an "aux" cord or line-level RCA connectors to your stereo and everything worked. We have gone so far backwards.
There's a youtube channel out there that used to be a sort of nature channel, but seems to have devolved into 'Get stung/bit by painful animal X'. I haven't watched their stuff in ages, but I'm very aware that the original channel host isn't the one getting stung anymore. I have to wonder what it was like from their perspective, watching the view counts go up and up with each successive "Hurt yourself on camera" video, and wondering what to do next.
The military uses the gun of the taxman to force us to pay for them. If they're going to put me in a tiny cage for not paying up while they're galavanting around the world drone striking brown people and us citizens the least I can get out of it is the records.
It is like chocolate cigarettes, they are not real cigarettes, they don't have nicotine nor smoke, and yet they serve to present and normalize real cigarettes to kids, so there is an argument for banning them. Where you draw the line is a difficult ask (a chocolate with packaging and wrapping copying exactly a cigarette pack seems like a clear case, but what about cylindrical chocolates that vaguely resemble? Probably not).

I think it is fair to argue where to draw the line, but I think some "looks like gambling but without gambling" do in fact deserve more scrutiny just because of the resemblance.

(On the other end of the spectrum we as a society should really crack down on the "doesn't look like gambling but is gambling" epidemic.)
Haha, you know what would prevent that? That's right, having less submissions about it. :P
Not if they do a quick internet search and find this thread.
A Bad App Led Sonos' CEO to Resign
You know who is a good writer? LLMs. Imagine a model interrogating you about a piece of code and writing perfect documentation.

JK, the LLM will get bad input and it will spit out bad output.
In terms of VMware customers it isn't a ton of VM but not peanuts either. E.g. the last healthcare place I was at (single customer rather than cloud provider) had ~30k VMware VMs and we were still small fish compared to some others. I've heard of places 10x the VM count as this making the move post acquisition - albeit less publicly.

I think the purpose of the article is to highlight companies like this are starting/continuing to migrate post-acquisition rather than this particular customer was impressively large and did so. Particularly with the bits about the relative cost increase even though the customer was willing to walk away if needed.
he didn't invade in 2018 because he was still preparing -- and because Trump was still a wildcard that could work out for him. If he won the Presidency in 2020 then Putin could slow walk the invasion.

Biden + COVID changed the landscape enough that Putin and the FSB advisors who did the planning were convinced they could (and arguably, had to, since his Trump ace-in-the-hole was not certain) make a move. Thus a 2022 invasion.
LA wildfires could be the costliest in history, estimated at more than $250B
As an aside, a woman I was dating about three years ago wanted me to take a look at her Sonos to see if I could get it working.

We never quite got to that stage before the relationship ended. Sounds like I dodged a tech support bullet.
It's really not that far out, considering the backdrop of what actual Belgians were doing to actual Congolese at the time.
I didn’t say I was offended, because I am not.

What I said is it is a sign of language policing, and that means a sign of the sort of people that like to deliberately misinterpret things so they get to be offended and virtue signal about the response. Normal people, unlike myself, simply shut up as a defence mechanism.
Which bit exactly do Milankovitch cycles explain? Isn't the current orbital configuration such that the earth should be slowly cooling?

Do you have any sources for what you're saying?
Iframes and when JavaScript worlds collide
Why is no one talking about Ukranian debt? Billions of foreign debt that keeps piling on while their Economy is reliant on EU and US donations/debt to even function.

What is the end goal? What happens when Zelenskys friends are no longer in power? How does Zelensky plan to repay his debts during/after war??? Become a satellite state like Japan and S.Korea??
They're planning to. The prime minister wrote some points on reducing bureaucracy in NHS/public services through AI his FT article: https://archive.ph/MpOOZ
What’s a good way to Airplay to your own speakers?
Denmark promised to allow a fair independence vote. They certainly didn't promise to respect the results of an unfair independence vote with significant outside interference.
I think reading in detail about the origins is just sad, and while it doesn’t invalidate the metaphor, it does make me think twice about using it. Just like I think twice about “drinking the kool aid” or similar metaphors.

The author has a great point that “cargo cult” is used to describe anything in tech that someone doesn’t like. You could even say there is a cargo cult of calling things a cargo cult...
This seems like a strange gripe for this thread. That is something you could have looked up before purchasing the speaker.

I also might be in the minority but I much prefer Wi-Fi streaming to Bluetooth in my house.
Well, it’s Broadcom and they just spent the money so they want some back. It’s like IBM: acquire and rake.

Hey IBM employees, it doesn’t matter how upset you get. It is what it is.
It's never too late. Better yesterday than today, better today than tomorrow, better tomorrow than the day after tomorrow.

When you have a leak in the plumbing in your home and you only notice when your whole house is already soaked, do you just learn to live with it, continuously cleaning up, installing pumps, ... ? Or will you fix the leak (and deal with all the water until things are dry again)?
I don't actually remember how good or bad mirc was. It was the most popular client at the time but lacked things I don't really remember, it was time to move on. I tried Quassel which was nice but it got slow as the logs grew. Then i tried a lot of clients.
You're looking at aggregate patterns of human behavior, which originate in the pre-existing inclinations and motivations of those humans, and then trying to attribute them to some externalized, reified abstraction.

"Capitalism" construed as some entity unto itself simply does not exist. There is no "end of capitalism" that isn't itself an element of a general collapse of social organization and economic exchange.
>> American management being more of the power tripping variety

> That’s not an explanation. That’s just restating it. Why would Australians be less tempted by power

Sir would do well to compare Australian police with USA police. Unfortunately, such power tripping really is a thing in USA culture.
The military base is already there, why not?
Also, IIRC the base is of dubious legality. It was built during WWII when Denmark was part of the Third Reich.
>Perhaps most surprisingly, this includes even the case of potentially concurrent writes of the same value by different threads.

Can someone explain to me how this is possible?
Eh, that’s more an overstatement than you’re claiming of GP. Just my opinion, but yea I guess I don’t see how this isn’t a return to the centrist-status-quo-liberal perspective of like 2005-2014. Massive hand waving implied
Right, so by that rule, someone could stage a theater production or movie of the exact text of one of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books, but could not make anything similar to the characters and relationships of Holmes and Watson. Forever.

And exactly how similar must the new production be? Can there be any deviation from the exact words written by Doyle? It seems your rule would certainly ban the excellent BBC production of Sherlock [0]

What about Shakespeare? It seems this would ban the entire writing and production of West Side Story (of course a 1950's riff on Romeo and Juilet) [1,2].

That sounds like a permanent extension of copyright, with a limited media exception.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ttws

[1] https://www.westsidestory.com/

[2] https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/west-sid...
But if that junk doesn't work (which it likely won't for any worthwhile problem) then you have to get it working. And to get it working you almost always have to figure out how the junk code works. And in that process I've found is where the real magic happens. You learn by fixing, pruning, optimizing.

I think there's a whole meta level of the actual dynamic between human<>LLM interactions that is not being sufficiently talked about. I think there's, potentially, many secondary benefits that can come from using them simply due to the ways you have to react to their outputs (if a person decides to rise to that occasion).
takes off hat
This was always Sonos' destiny, from my perspective the current state of affairs is not an accident, it was always the whole business model of the integrated "home audio system" brand they are building.
Difficult to say. That could conceivably fit in one rack of 60 compute nodes (1/2U size) at 200VMs per node, leaving 15U for networking and SAN. Maybe $100/year/VM (rough cost of a lower-end cloud VM like EC2, droplet, etc.) in that case so $1.2 million per year cost.

Or it could take 10 racks and $50 million per year.
As I said, no points to Google for consistency.
What about the rest my points?
As a kid I felt algebra >> geometry (like I want to divide an angle by three and why waste my time with a system that can't! sure you can learn what a system can and can't do but that can be taught more directly with examples from computing) so as much as I read about Elements in math books by the likes of Martin Gardner it struck me as serious malpractice that "Great Books" advocates wanted kids to read it. (It's better than reading Newton's Principia if you want to learn physics or calculus though...)

I like what that site is trying to do but the upper levels don't communicate the affordances you would find if you drilled in. Also there is graph structure in Elements that I don't see visualized; also Elements uses a lot of weird vocabulary that would be a lot easier to deal with if it were hyperlinked to a glossary.

I've been interested in old Asian texts like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojiki and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms where I have, charitably, 5% reading comprehension of the language but could get a lot with the graph structure materialized (like the chain of succession from Amaterasu to the Emperor) and also would like to see the original text, plus human-generated English translation if available, LLM-based translations, links to properly resolved characters and words in the dictionary, etc. (Right now I am digging into about 800,000 images with Chinese language metadata with some crude tools, really just getting out named entities makes me tickled pink.)
Entirely depends on context, like asking how long is a piece of string. One VM could be 200 cores, or it could be 1 core. It could also be a kubernetes/docker worker as-well so one VM may be thousands of containers. Finally they could instead just be important VM's. You could imagine a small or medium company having maybe 4 VM's each for prod, staging, testing etc... letting CDN's handle scaling (with everything else running on local dev machines) and so that 12,000 could be an entire 3,000 companies whole stacks.
Ok, so now I understand what you meant.

Technically, you're right. May be there's no chance to fix it. But may be false vacuum will decay tomorrow. "may be" is not very useful here.

Is it probable that we're beyond the point of no return? I don't believe anyone can answer that with any certainty.
Burat
Ideally it's crap umbrellas all the way down. Everyone should be shielding everyone below them from the crap slithering its way down.
Just because there's currently no legal basis for something does not mean that the perspective that it shouldn't happen is invalid
The rewrite couldn't have caused this, because there was a single German developer who wrote a usable app, see this comment elsewhere [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683999
It's my (unsophisticated) understanding that any country/territory in the world could petition US Congress for statehood. The only qualifications are that it be a republic, and have an explicit constitution (no wishy-washy UK "we sort of have an unwritten constitution").

Any of the Canadian provinces could do this on their own (though, maybe they should consider getting the divorce finalized first), Greenland could do it, hell, Argentina or Mongolia could do it.

The catch being, of course, Congress doesn't have to accept.
Soooo maybe Sonos could just put bluetooth on their speakers then?

I get that google is shitty, but that doesn't make sonos a saint.
Balatro having an 18+ age rating is insane. The only thing gambling about that game is it uses poker hands for scoring, and has an element of luck. How is that different to any other mobile game with a luck component (see 99% of them) with a scoring mechanism inspired by poker?

To me gambling requires betting of long term/valuable resources. In Balatro, the only thing that you'll affect is each individual run, you're back to square one after each as it's a rouguelike. Games like Clash Royale where you can spend actual money on chests for items that affect the game long term, not just for a single match, to me is actual gambling, whereas playing a poker hand using fake chips that only affects that single <1h run absolutely isn't.

It looks like whoever came up with the ratings just saw it uses poker hands for scoring and represents a score with chips, therefore it's gambling, and gave it an 18+ rating, when you're not actually gambling anything (either real world money, or long term items in the game)
Not using VSCode, would be great to have Sublime Text or Zed support.
It's amazing to see the masks come off even before trump's coronation.