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Scrolling through the comments, many seem to think this was unintentional, mistake, or overzealous AI. However, the author said this has been ongoing for 2years:

> "Google's Chrome Extension team has been giving me a complete nightmare since last two years."

What if the extension violated some policy that he either overlooked or is not publicly stated?
Guess that's engineers for you
I live in New York and I'm under the impression the hospitals were never overwhelmed. That was the fear, but it didn't actually happen.

They also thought they would run out of ventilators, but never came close to using all of them, started giving them away to other states, and then discovered that ventilators were not actually a good treatment anyway.
Because they didn't have to pay him $30k. They had a registered trademark and a right to use the name. And in the end, they didn’t have to spend nearly that amount. All they had to do was send a few emails to the npm maintainers.

I’d say they made a logical decision.
I was floored by this comment yesterday from one of their Developer Relations people:

> Did any of you actually read the article? We are passing the Jepsen test suite and it was back in 2017 already. So, no, MongoDB is not losing anything if you know what you are doing.

https://twitter.com/MBeugnet/status/1253622755049734150?s=20

Can you imagine saying the phrase "if you know what you are doing," in public, to your users, as a DevRel person? Unbelievable.
I was referring to the use of a union to give employees say about the products they make. They provide collective leverage far more broadly than in the negotiation of work conditions and compensation and can negotiate directly with the board, who would normally go to great lengths to avoid speaking to their own employees (in my experience).

Hell, I’ve met more investors footing my salary than board members per se, and they definitely have zero interest in employee negotiations—that’s what management is for.
SQLite isn’t a db-server like most other mainstream databases. It’s more of a db-file; almost an excel file. This means it’s usecases are quite different and perf comparisons don’t make sense.
"use a password alert to prevent a password being typed into a webpage. "

Out of curiosity, would you mind explaining what this means and how one would achieve it?
I just wanted to say, thanks for standing up for what you believe in. It took courage to do what you did.
>Older versions of C had the restriction that variables could only be declared at the start of a block.

Pascal also has that restriction

Although Delphi does not have it anymore. But FreePascal still has it, even in Delphi compatible mode. The FreePascal developers have also said, they will keep that restriction to improve readability. The code could not be read anymore if variables were placed willy-nilly everywhere
Well - "evil Boris" is responsible for one of the highest death rates in the developed world. And media trashing is the correct response when a senior adviser says that it doesn't particularly matter if some pensioners die, and the "herd immunity" strategy makes absolutely no scientific sense, and never did.

There is no practical way to "isolate the sick and the elderly" when there are no supplies of PPE or testing kits for care workers. The whole point is that the sick and elderly need care, and when there's a pandemic that care requires extra measures to prevent the spread of infection.

In reality the government did the exact opposite - knowingly sending elderly people with Covid infections back to care homes, and then saying "Oh that's nothing to do with us - every move was signed off by a clinician."

And that in turn makes even less sense when you realise that tens of millions were spent on Covid-ready Nightingale Hospitals, which were opened to great fanfare - and then literally left empty, while old people were being sent to nursing homes to infect others.

Evil, or "simply" stupid and incompetent? It doesn't even matter any more A lot of people are dead for no good reason, and far more are going to die in the UK before this is over.
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Latest study in Spain around 1-1.3. 70,000 participants.

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-05-14/antibody-study...

Most studies in Europe show this: 0,5 - 1.
The twitter account @CasioMaths seems to the be last remaining active Casio calculator twitter account (appears to be UK based) I can find. I've already tweeted them to point out the error of their ways. Perhaps others could follow suit, but obviously in a polite and civilised manner, let's not have an abusive pile-on.
Not years, but decades. However, I think the virus will hit an equilibrium state sooner than we expect because there will be less of an appetite for lockdowns when the fall/winter wave hits. Covid deaths will be seasonal but not headline news.
Actually if anyone behaved poorly, it was npm not Azer.

I'm shocked to see that something like this could happen on npm - where a single threat of getting lawyers involved can get your package transferred away from you. It really wants to make me not publish anything on npm too actually.
I doubt it would have to go to the lawyers, I am sure the exec's of both companies are members of the same organizations, country clubs, or other social circles
1. Do not set a goal that involves conquering the world, saving the world, or attaining personal glory. These goals have internal contradictions that will lead you away from doing good work.

2. Find a theme and follow the theme to set the goal. This can come from your personal philosophy and inclinations, from something you observe in nature, or by remixing an existing idea.

3. To help find the theme, keep a diary and try to build up a personal library of references. (Do not try to hoard data. Do tight curation.)
It's his work, and he had every right to pull every module he hosts there in protest. If this was a walk out or some other form of protest, nobody would be calling him a dick, I think that's a little out of order.

That said, the system is definitely broken.

His reaction to the Kik thing is probably where he was at fault, I think it would have been reasonable for him to back down there; companies, in the US at least are obligated to protect their IP in order to retain their rights over it (as far as I have understood from various discussions on HN), but perhaps the forceful lawyering got his back up?

Also I have no idea of jurisdiction of any parties involved, I just assume US.
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the rate of infection (and immunity development) is going down everywhere.

No, it's not.[1] Some places it's up, some places it's down. The US as a whole is flat right now.

[1] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&are...
What about HN readers/commenters on the inside?
It's not unusual for poor people who don't own cars to rent (with a Uber driver discount). Otherwise, they work using bicycles in the case of Uber Eats and other food delivery services. Source: I live in Brazil.
This feels like 1994 all over again. In 1994 you had one dominant software monopoly in Microsoft. Today you have several: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook with dominance in individual spheres of influence. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
>There isn't enough surface area on vehicles for that to happen.

Yeah, it's the old square-cube law in action.
That's the breading ground of phishing. If they have 5 login page a sixth won't raise any red flags.
> This would of course lead to injury. I don’t think anyone wants to squat heavy after sprinting.

That's a fair call. Heavy weight training was usually on separate days, but I recall some crossfit WODs would include deadlifts alongside other fast-paced exercises, and now I question the safety of that. Those deadlifts were likely low weight, high-rep though.
But it's the one that matters in that context.

Which was poor US areas are really poor and so are their hospitals.

In sweden there are no really poor areas and no underpayed hospitals.

(they are also not perfect, though)
In step 4, what would the legal standard be for company Y's analysis of the evidence they were provided? Would company X have a claim against company Y, if they rejected evidence and company X still feels they're right?
> Innocent bystanders who errantly put too much faith in dependency oriented programming

and who need an external package to leftpad a string... the most fascinating part of that story to me...
I hope you have considered sharing this with your team, especially, if any of them are at a point where job hunting & interviewing is ongoing.
We have a lot more than two data points for Google screwing Chrome extension developers.
Why not, might I ask, Firefox?

Edit: no need to reply, I've seen your answer below, thanks.
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Sega vs. Accolade (1992)
I want to own the database that my apps use
Surely, now that things are beginning to reopen, the deniers are the ones who believe that it’s not getting safer and we have to stay inside.
Clearly a lot of people are not in a position to make these decisions.

One they are being scared into thinking that if they get infected they will die a horrible death and so will everyone around them. This is obviously an exaggeration because for people under 40 the vast majority will not even notice the infection. And please if you reply grasping at the straw of ‘some people are ill for long’ specify how many people and if they are seriously ill or just tired for a long time.

Second they are not in a position to set policy. The people who make the rules are even more scared and make the rules much tighter than is useful.
>> A month later the hospitals were overwhelmed.

Really? There are well-regarded articles stating that most hospitals were well below normal capacities. The emergency hospitals setup across NY state were barely used, some are closing have not treated even a single patient. No doubt some parts of some hospitals were hit hard, but I see no evidence of the city/state as a whole being anywhere near capacity.
You could always switch to firefox. Hopefully they don't have stupid algorithms like that.
Ok, good points. But I am thinking some of that could be saved if perovskites, or silicon plus perovskites became more efficient than silocon alone.
> Well the same reason you don't share your email with the FBI and agree to be monitored at all times.

Perhaps you could spell out this reason, and explain how it also applies to wearing face masks?
If you are still questioning whether infection confers immunity, then what other strategy than herd immunity do you suggest? If we don’t develop immunity naturally, there won’t be a vaccine either. Permanent lockdown?

As for the death rate, the rate to the non vulnerable population is immaterial. With appropriate isolation we could absolutely achieve herd immunity with minimal losses. Instead we have sent covid infected patients back in nursing homes in both the US and the UK with catastrophic results.
>, 2. deaths are at any particular number at all

excess deaths over a given time period are a pretty good indicator, which haven't increased at all compared to recent years.
Your reply would be better if it bothered to address the other sentences in the paragraph you quote from.

It's incredibly tedious that you didn't.

It's fine if the reply would be about the same, the problem is that you don't address the meaning of the words you quote!
Every single time I've had to work on top of a Mongo cluster, it has gone into "three stooges" mode, where each node insists that one of the others is master.

I pretty much refuse to deploy a new instance of it now, I've been burned too often.
>Similar to you, I've had to increase text sizes gradually over the past decade. Currently I have 3 monitors, from left to right

I find using a dark themes for everything really helps...Maybe I'm returning to my roots, but I use a lot of Ambers, Greens and Yellows for good contrast without blinding myself. If your a VI(m) user, I found the 'elflord' colorscheme comes pre-installed on a lot of machines (just ':colorscheme elflord' to try it..) Its a decent starting point.

On the other hand, I never seem to have enough light on my workbenches. I've fallen in love with ultra-bright LED fixtures from Home Depot for work area lighting... Dam screws get smaller ever year!
(extendable magnetic 'wand' is awesome for finding them when you drop them...)

> I'm not a fan of the LG monitors I got, model "27UD68-W" in 27 inch.

I run 3 x LG 27UK650_600. Most of my gaming tends to be MMORPG stuff, so I don't need anything more then 60Hz. But I am wondering how they'll handle CyberPunk 2077
> I wear a mask, and I choose to wear a mask. I also wore a mask before it was "supported" by the CDC. If tomorrow it was legally required, I would stop wearing a mask.

How ethical.
Totally agree. I'm shocked to see that people actually think less of Azer because of what he did. Why keep your work on a company that bullies you like that?
A large hamburger contains approximately one kilowatt hour worth of kilocalories.
> The fact that YouTube receives many legitimate complaints of infringement is common knowledge.

No, the fact that YouTube receives many complaints of infringement is common knowledge. How many of them are actually legitimate is impossible to judge since in many cases the content is now invisible and no due process was ever applied.

> look through their transparency report

And then look at this, for example:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/top-10-takedowns-googl...

> Is the 14 day period for this to happen really that objectionable?

It's not a matter of how "objectionable" the 14 day period is. I object to the entire premise of the law in the first place, that someone should be able to make a claim that someone else is violating the law (that's what copyright infringement is), and have that claim acted on as if it were valid with no legal due process. Taking the content down based on the claim alone is acting on the claim as if it were valid. It doesn't matter if there's a way to reverse the action in 14 days, or even 1 day. Legal claims are not supposed to be acted on as if valid at all without legal due process.
In 1994 Microsoft didn't arbitrarily ban applications on their OS.
> You mean as a hobbyist?

Yep.

I had a much longer comment about this, then grew tired of writing up the caveats - because HN :).

So, me neither, not if I relied on it for revenue generating work.
They are trying to automate the g-code generation that controls the CNC machine. At the moment a human operator uses an intermediary piece of software to create that.
Okay, so you propose all books should be written for noobs just in case noob picks up something for already advanced user?

That just doesn't make any sense.

Obviously, the author of the book can explain the book is really meant for a user with some prior knowledge and experience of the matter. If the reader ignores it it's not really a problem of the author to deal with.

My background is mathematics and, as an example, just recently wanted to pick up some control theory. It is absolutely normal I pick up a book I have not enough knowledge to even start reading. It is normal. You get something else, study it, then go back to the one you tried to understand.
I’ll look into it, I would love to have that functionality back
TIL that CBD was kind of "invented" around 2011.
TBH, it'll work for a lot of multi-process apps, so long as the app runs on a single server and the app doesn't do anything foolish like write to the database on every page hit. For read-mostly applications -- like a blog, wiki, or even a small web forum -- SQLite is a surprisingly adequate database.
They invented the term shadow banning because "gas lighting" has very negative connotations.

Shadow banning is 100% a form of gas lighting, and IMO should be considered just as unethical. If you are going to ban someone, words, or actions be upfront and clear about the rules and bans
> Now 1 in 6 Londoners have had the disease.

Please do not spread misinformation. England has had 132k reported cases. London has a population of 8.9M.
The annoyance over non-functional code is real.

I can't tolerate OOP stuff that `obj1.calls(obj2)` and changes `obj2` anymore. I didn't care before, now it makes me want to refactor everything or not write it at all.

Using Elixir kind of made me not want to use anything else.
Did it though? This seems to be his MO.
I prefer PostgreSQL, but MySQL provides a better clustering experience if you need more read capacity than a lone node can provide.

Oracle is great if and only if you have a use case that fits their strengths you have an Oracle specific DBA, and you do not care about the cost. I have been on teams where we met those criteria, and I genuinely had no complaints within that context.
Virus also evolve to be less deadly I understand. Thus Covid19 becomes more like the common cold over time. How much time required? I don't know that.
> Accepting a DMCA complaint doesn't mean it's factual or valid.

Yes, it does, because the content gets taken down. That means treating the content as if it does infringe copyright. That means treating the claim of infringement as valid. Saying "well, we aren't accepting it as valid, but we're still taking down the content anyway" is just sophistry. Taking down the content is accepting the claim as valid, or would be in any sane legal regime. But we don't live in a sane legal regime.
IIRC, noro is too infectious for a lockdown to work, even though you can only catch it from the… emissions… when the patient goes off at both ends.
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Unrelated to the brouhaha on the West Coast, tobacco farmers in Kentucky were seeking a new cash crop. In 2011, James Comer won the race for Kentucky state agriculture commissioner by promising to legalize industrial hemp.

“That raised a lot of eyebrows, including in McConnell’s office,” Eric Steenstra, a hemp lobbyist, told me. “They saw the winds were shifting.”

Along with Representative Jared Polis, now the governor of Colorado, Mr. McConnell included a hemp pilot program in the 2014 farm bill — for “research.” In the legislation, hemp was defined as cannabis containing less than 0.3 percent THC — an arbitrary threshold, not a scientific distinction: Nothing in the Farm Bill, in case law, or in the Controlled Substances Act seemed to say anything about CBD. So entrepreneurs interpreted this research-oriented pilot program as the de facto legalization of cannabidiol.

The Drug Enforcement Administration disagreed, but couldn’t stop the tidal wave of CBD production. In 2018, over 60 percent of the hemp crop in Kentucky was grown for CBD. Then, long after the country was already flooded with CBD products both dubious and legitimate, Mr. McConnell inserted language into the 2018 Farm Bill explicitly making hemp federally legal.«
> “Most current deployments”

I doubt it but we’re both guessing. Personally I’ve never worked on a professional project that had all readers/writers on a single computer. So in my bubble SQLite is not an option.
Wait, is dark mode bad for productivity?
Kafka is a very different beast from RabbitMQ.
The alternative is being disappeared without recourse, if you have to pay 40 bucks when they screw up, it is what it is, and you can make a decision.
Also, as far as I know, even couldn't.
This is an extremely dangerous line of thought. That’s not the type of country I want to live in.
I mainly use RSS on my phone, it's useful.
I probably edit ~/.bash_profile every couple of days, but reimaging my machine is a big deal. Code can live in a git remote, but what happens to my homedir and notes and ad hoc analyses if I recreate the container that often?
>it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the Apple I once loved is moribund

If there is anything more pathetic than an adult expressing love for a publicly traded corporate entity regardless of what they make or where they're from or how cool their marketing is, I haven't found it.

edit: Never mind-- writing a 1600 word essay about the lover-who-must-file-10Qs who is disappointing you and then publishing it online is definitely more pathetic.

Compare and contrast:

1. it's increasingly obvious that the White Rock Beverage Company, Inc. I once loved is moribund (followed by a SIXTEEN HUNDRED WORD ESSAY about how they changed the recipe of Sioux City Root Beer and it sucks now)

2. it's increasingly obvious that the Apple, Inc. I once loved is moribund (followed by a SIXTEEN HUNDRED WORD ESSAY about how their laptops suck now)
Natural herd immunity is an utter fantasy. There has never been herd immunity for polio, measles, or even for chicken pox.

Herd immunity only happens when a critical mass of the population - >70% at a minimum - is given immunity by a vaccine.

This creates a population with a low enough R to guarantee that outbreaks die out, even if some people aren't vaccinated.

Even then it still doesn't guarantee personal immunity, because people in small clusters can still become infected. But instead of a national health emergency which threatens to overwhelm primary care, you get small localised individual/cluster outbreaks which are very much easier to handle.
This list was helpful when searching for a unique domain names or for social media handles. It was inspired by the original gist by @marcanuy [1] and by an article from LeanDomainSearch [2].

Unfortunately both lists were not as easy to search and sort so I converted it to a tsv on gist.

[1] https://gist.github.com/marcanuy/06cb00bc36033cd12875

[2] https://leandomainsearch.com/top-domain-name-prefixes-and-su...
SQLite: I enjoy using reliable and correct databases even at the cost of scalability
Blogs: Not Dead, Yet
Assuming that the JWT only stores the user_id, and you then load the full user (protecting against stale data), a counter or a timestamp on the user object can be used to control logout.

There's a good Go library detailing this approach, along with a blog post:
https://github.com/endiangroup/compandauth
https://endian.io/articles/compandauth/
Did PB fall through the cavernous CS cracks or are they competition?
It’s not unique to Apple, but that didn’t used to be the case. I’ve used a Mac for almost 15 years. My previous Macs had issues, no doubt. Got bit by the peeling anti glare issue on my 2013 MBP 15” (after 5+ years of heavy use). But I’ve had maybe two kernel panics in all that time. With my new 16”, I’ve had half a dozen in two weeks. Waking from sleep used to be the basic functionality that “just worked” on Apple machines and where Windows and Linux laptops struggled. That was the benefit you got in return for spending extra on closed hardware platform.
It's a shame that so many of the comments have to do with left-pad. Kozmos was a great piece of software and I will miss it even though I haven't used it in a while. It came very close to how I personally think a bookmarking service should work, which is pretty incredible for something made by a single person. Seems like a lot of people have been complaining about the Chrome extension store lately. I wonder what's going on behind the scenes there. Anyway, looking forward to your next project Azer.
> too much faith in dependency oriented programming

Which is why it's a distraction to even consider this particular person's track record.

Even if this same person pulled one critical package a month for the next year, the fundamental problem is still that the ecosystem in general relies on parties with no obligations to manage critical dependencies.
I like it, but I don't really really chime in on threads where it's mostly Mongo bashing and jokes, and I'm guessing others who like MongoDB do the same.

But I'd think MongoDB the company increasing in revenue isn't totally related to the quality of MongoDB the database. In fact a lot of their products seem to be targeting the "I don't want to learn how to set it up and understand indexes" crowd.