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> I understand there simply not being enough manpower on Earth to manually review so many cases

This has made me wonder,

1) how many people would this really take to review appeals manually?

2) should a publisher be allowed to run a platform that they are unable to curate?
Maybe it's just best to let go instead of trying to mini-max your life's productivity, train yourself like Pavlov's dogs with XYZ productivity systems, and guilt-shame yourself over each day you miss out on part of an evergrowing habit list of shoulda-coulda-woulda's.

Maybe procrastination is an emotional regulation problem and tying your self-worth to your productivity leads to more internal conflict between guilt of not doing enough vs fear of failure.

Maybe we could approach improvement out of a place of genuine interest or self-care, instead of treating ourselves like a computer on a cron schedule and then inevitably getting frustrated when we discover that we're human.
In the past 2 decades, the trust I had in the mainstream news has completely crumbled and so while I haven't completely disconnected from current events, I've tried to as best I can in terms of where I get the information from.

I try to strike a balance in terms of being informed of what's going on, and the amount of time/energy invested into gathering that information.

Being informed is important to me, especially as I'm not a sports guy. It's something common to connect with others over and makes for decent casual conversation, and in bringing up current topics it's a good way to probe others to understand their points of view or how they think/feel about matters.

It also generally provides a jumping-off point into deeper conversations/topics that otherwise might never happen.

And so while I tune out where possible, I do keep a subscription to the Economist, read the daily espresso in the morning and try to get through as much of the weekly as possible (although, I will admit, usually skipping the US section these days - it has become fundamentally uninteresting).

So to me, unlike the author, Aaron S et al., it doesn't feel utterly pointless, but it's certainly not far from the periphery of being.
The Mysterious Anomaly Weakening Earth's Magnetic Field Seems to Be Splitting
The main innovation google has seemed to make is to create products that scale with nearly zero customer service overhead. They have half-assed algorithms that mostly do something approximating a thing that might sorta be kind of near almost the right thing. With no recourse. Their success is that they've gotten people to swallow this state of affairs because they're almost the only game in town.
Yeah, I think a true master could technically teach anyone, though that isn't always true. Also, if a master teacher teaches to a novice it would be widely different than to a professional, so, like you, I too have the question who is this targeted to? I personally haven't taken a masterclass so I wouldn't know. (Not that I wouldn't like to though.) I would believe it's the novice though they could have different classes for different levels, but you couldn't really prepare someone from novice to master in the manner of a few classes. I think you can be somewhat proficient, if not highly proficient in a new skill quickly say like 80th to 90th percentile of the whole world, but to get any further and really excel and be one of the best (keywords here are being a master) at something takes a lot of skill, knowledge, and determination. I'd say a master is generally quite well above 90th percentile of people in their field (notice I didn't say the world there).
What do the little “i” icons do? I can’t click them using Safari or Chrome on an iPad.
These stories are an attempt of Jeff Bezos to distract from the fact that he is profiting the most from the corona pandemic. It's the richest man in the world against the second richest man in the world. ;-)
> Since ads are the primary way sites stay in business

Flaw? It seems that the point would be to force FB to transact with currency rather than a bait-and-switch tactic. The site would also be more usable if they were forced to change business model.
It's quite clear that WD never properly tested these SMR drives in actual 3-8 bay NAS workloads. Certainly not a rebuild.

Based on their initial response to this scandal, it seems at some point they defined the "small NAS" Red spec as 180 TB/year read/written per year.

Then they later certified the new SMR drives as meeting this 180 TB/year spec, probably by testing they were good for 500gb/day.

They completely ignored the fact that larger home NAS installs don't use their 180 TB/year spec at a uniform rate, but instead tear though several TB doing a rebuild then sit near idle for most of the rest of the year.
Yeah, in general, there are many, many "unit collisions" that can really only be exactly interpreted from context. I think it would be great if everyone started using bracket notation (or similar) for prefixes. E.g. [k]B [Mi]B This is the convention used in pqm.js and it works really well. this would go a long way toward units that can be accurately read by a computer.
With the latest Unreal Engine demo out, I can't help but think that we've probably had enough polygons for a while. Maybe we could have a few iterations of game engines with really revolutionary procedural generation, and ultra realistic text-to-speech.
To be honest, I think that Diablo 3 was a pretty good game. The auction house certainly was a failure and the mechanics were a bit shallow compared to the previous well established hack and slashes. But otherwise, beautiful game, responsive controls, very enjoyable overall. The kind of game we love to hate as much as we love playing it.

The problem with the auction house wasn't really the real money part, it wasn't that much used. The problem was that the best way to get good items was to trade in the not-real-money action house, creating all sorts of unblalance. In the end, they completely killed the game economy, probably for the best.

The lack of depth is to put into perspective. Such things only matter at high level, and many people didn't get that far. Also, many of the people who (rightfully) complained about that came from late Diablo 2, or even Median, and probably don't realize how much has been done since the original game. Like its predecessor, Diablo 3 endgame improved a lot since launch.

Now everyone is on Path of Exile, great game, but way too complex for casual players like myself. Basically Median's brainchild.
One of my unplanned consequences of the lockdown is that I sorta burned-out of covid news about 3weeks into lockdown and I just naturally stop refreshing (or loading) news sites. I don't use traditional social media much either so I def feel the benefits of news detoxing.
>A couple of months ago, I was a train wreck that ate too many cinnamon rolls and watched Netflix while laying in sweats on the couch. Yesterday, I ran 3 miles, did 40 minutes of yoga, meditated, ate steel cut oats with berries for breakfast, then turned on my favorite business podcast while I showered, all before work started.

This reminds me of this guy with the bookshelf in his garage that went viral on youtube years ago. I honestly don't think gamifying your life and jumping on the hedonistic treatmill is a step up from eating cinnamon rolls at 3 am, just the flip side of the same coin. It Reminds me of Baudrillard in America

"The skateboarder with his Walkman, the intellectual working on his wordprocessor, the Bronx breakdancer whirling frantically in the Roxy, the jogger and the body-builder: everywhere, whether in regard to the body or the mental faculties, you find the same blank solitude, the same narcissistic refraction. This omnipresent cult of the body is extraordinary. It is the only object on which everyone is made to concentrate, not as a source of pleasure, but as an object of frantic concern, in the obsessive fear of failure or substandard performance, a sign and an anticipation of death, that death to which no one can any longer give a meaning, but which everyone knows has at all times to be prevented. The body is cherished in the perverse certainty of its uselessness, in the total certainty of its non-resurrection. Now, pleasure is an effect of the resurrection of the body, by which it exceeds that hormonal, vascular and dietetic equilibrium in which we seek to imprison it, that exorcism by fitness and hygiene. So the body has to be made to forget pleasure as present grace, to forget its possible metamorphosis into other forms of appearance and become dedicated to the Utopian preservation of a youth that is, in any case, already lost. For the body which doubts its own existence is already half-dead, and the current semi-yogic, semi-ecstatic cult of the body is a morbid preoccupation. The care taken of the body while it is alive prefigures the way it will be made up in the funeral home, where it will be given a smile that is really ‘into’ death."
Why are Polynesians so big and strong?
SMB is not "small business". It's "Small and MEDIUM Business". And even larger business is often supported by smaller subcontractors.

In this area, k8s had been personal saviour where we could not take on a project otherwise. Just thinking of dealing with ~70 applications that had subtly different requirements leaves me shuddering. And that was pretty small deal.
Maybe a static blog (e.g. Hugo), hosted on Netlify and making use of their netlify-cms package?
Nothing unwise, it looks like the game that Diablo 3 should have been. Lots to be excited about there.

As for Blizzard falling off my radar, I just can’t shake them. They are still about as good as it gets.
Attention is the currency of media. Sensationalism is the fuel. American news is a business first and a service second.

Long gone are the days when there were legally binding rules for fairness and honesty in order to retain your license and maintain your business. Long gone are the days when the public owned its airwaves and the businesses that were granted their access were required to produce honest news in order to maintain their licenses. You can thank Reagan and Clinton for these changes and of course, the fleecing of American by Congress over the last 30+ years. (Insert Boomers suck comment here)

The PBS Newshour is the only televised news that is fact based and still run with integrity. If you're going to watch the news, watch PBS.
>“I was not aware the package was provided by Amazon.” Armstead said, “We’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Where did it come from exactly?

Did a segment just show up on his desk on a USB drive and he thought "oh look a video... we should run this"?
I love The Prisoner. I was so taken with the location that I sought it out and visited it. Portmeirion, in Wales. The very odd architecture was designed and built by an eccentric British aristocrat who was an amateur architect, Sir Clough William-Ellis. Because Britain.
Sure, here's one I just saw today: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-conspiracy-wuhan...

Here's a bunch more:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/youtube-not-doing-enough-...

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/27/671285261/critics-say-youtube...

https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/story?id=4889745&p...

https://coingeek.com/ripple-calls-out-youtube-for-not-doing-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-internet-meeting/inter...
This is why I like HN. I am always challenged with different points of view on here, and in a non-argumentative way. It's just a rational discussion. Often I will see something on FB or Twitter that is outrageous to me (by design), but when I look it up on HN and find some discussion on the details, truth is often more sane than it seems...
Adding "...and I don't really care to" could easily come across as smug and even condescending, though it depends on the tone in which it's delivered.
> Linux seems like it would be a bit heavy for a switch

Linux (and other Unix or Unix-like) kernels (and indeed full OS distributions) run fine on many low-end and embedded CPUs and hardware, and network switches are no exception.

OpenWRT is Linux-based and runs on extremely low-end switches such as home routers and access points.

Arista EOS is based on Fedora. (Of course Arista switches have real server CPUs and lots of memory. People do crazy things like running KVM on them.)

Juniper's Junos is based on BSD.

Remember that on a high-speed switch packets usually pass through the switching hardware without touching the switch CPU. Programmable switching chips like Tofino typically run pre-compiled pipelines that execute on-chip at line rate. The switch OS is primarily used for running management software that programs the hardware, runs the CLI, and/or provides other services. The OS can also run software to provide higher-level protocols and services such as BGP, DNS, or DHCP.
btw, How does AWS amplify fit into this?
> I don't think it's the kind of thing that should (or even could) be taught to teenagers.

This makes no sense. It all depends on the goals of the teaching. However, it's probably more meaningful for more people to be exposed to the capabilities of version control so they avoid creating one-off home grown solutions.

There was a time when the joke was that only teenagers knew how to set the time on the VCR.
I started using my new account yesterday.

I already got a surprise, because in one place it says t2.micro and t3.micro instances are free for twelve months.

But, if the instance runs Windows, or the zone is this or that, or something else I don't know, the only free tier instance is actually the t2.micro.

And then there's the Unlimited option, and CPU credits, where if your CPU use goes over 25% for some time, it will either: Be throttled so slow as to be useless, or, not being free and you still have to pay for each hour of use.

And that's just the beginning!
Pressure measurements/specifications are part of my daily work. I have never seen "b" referring to bar, also not in any of the many American (imperial) papers I have come across. So this is either properly old usage indeed, or very specific to certain regions or industries (like usage of relative v absolute pressure). Or Wikipedia being properly pedantic.
>UPDATE: Amazon responded by stating the video and script were published to Business Wire as are many other companies’ in-house produced content for media organizations.

Local news doesn't have budgets to do in-depth reporting 24/7 so they use the newswires to get stories to fill time.

You can see the wire post here.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200521005268/en/Ama...

Title is very misleading.
This is incredibly irresponsible advice in an age of weaponised, persistent misinformation.
https://blot.im/ might be close to what you want. I think it's run on ec2 instances though.
Where's the case of this being a true Zoom competitor without some type of comparison, or any other info that pertains to the specific solution it is supposed to be the answer to?

Scratches head.

Me = Zoom user/admin that doesn't love Zoom.
Perhaps my previous post was vague, but I meant 'FAA requirements [of commonality, required to] maintain the current certificate'.

The FAA may be in the right or in the wrong, but it has made certifying new designs almost prohibitively expensive and time-consuming; for evidence of this, simply look at the Cessna 172 (still in production on a 60-year old certificate), and what happened when Bombardier tried to put a new airliner into production.

You're definitely right that the airlines wanted interchangeable type ratings for crew, but the issue slightly more complicated than you're painting it.

I never argued the old certificate forced the issues, the certification system just strongly incentivized 'upgrading' the 737. This was one of many causes.
I only go to my homepage which contains about 20 subs I actually care about - and nothing related to news/politics etc.

Once I stopped going on r/popular or r/all my mood when using the site improved drastically
Voting as a block is both less effort and more powerful.

Asking your friends what you should vote for builds organization.

Having heated debates about how your friends are wrong after reading the news destroys organization.

Btw. I don't live like this at all. Just some thoughts I had recently.
Not everyone in Y Combinator's latest batch could fundraise
Skimmed the piece but it reminds me: it seems there is a thin line between a psychotic and a mystic. But yes, once you expose yourself to a certain level of crazy and/or you come to see how everything appears insane and/or you see the mirage of necessity of it all, the rest of life feels like a gentle breeze. From here on out: detachment, joy, and peace. Nothing hinders you. Even more so: Your capacity to ground yourself in what-you-are - meaning, the unconditioned you, as gooey as that may sound - is proportional to the capacity that you can play life with lightness and humor. Although, that's not to say you won't suffer, you certainly will. But your conceptualization of suffering will be reconfigured and be understood as a sort of "good" thing - a necessary process for the evolution of your consciousness, if you will. As naive as all the above may sound.
It looks alright but to me the simple-web ideal is rather like.. no design. Like, you don't design an essay, or a comment, you just write one. And so was the web. Initially you did not do "web design", you wrote hyperlinked documents with some markup to support formatting (not design!) and embedding images; how it looks in the end is up to the user agent (and transitively to the user who could pick and configure their UA).

Then web design happened and it all went to hell. Web "designers" started doing "cute" things and business owners started wanting more and more branding and fashionable stuff.. and here we are. I've said it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22608293
That’s wrong: technically it is nothing like the vertical grated sheet you see on cheap 3D posters etc.

At 6 min 30 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EA2FQXs4dw they show the pixel sub mapping - and it isn’t just vertical bars.

Edit: If they used a vertical grated sheet, there should be vertical lines at high contrast edges at a 45 pixel pitch. look at the green book at 6:22 and close-up at 6:27, and there seems to be vertical smear (not just what you might expect from horizontal smear). Example of a 3D lenticular print without the lenses to compare against: https://cdn.instructables.com/FKG/KDGQ/I0290WOV/FKGKDGQI0290... from https://www.instructables.com/id/Computational-3D-Lenticular...
Sounds pretty similar to the concept of “software agents” which was popular in the mid ‘90s: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/pubs/iee-re...

Part of the concept was that the agents would actually roam onto servers on the internet on your behalf raising complicated questions around how to sandbox the agent code (came in useful for VPSs and AWS-style lambdas in the end).
The only person I have seen do really good videos for guitar is Jimmy Bruno.

And, eventually, even he gave up.

Doing really good videos for training is really hard and takes a lot of work. Fundamentally, most people good at it conclude that online isn't worth it and that meatspace pays better.

Covid has flipped that around for a bit, but I suspect it will hold true again within a couple months.
Do you happen to have your PowerShell profile in a GitHub Gist or so?
Am I alone in the feeling that a lot of privacy related solutions are just paying for a promise? For example, a VPN can record all my requests, they just promise not to and I can’t verify it.
The problem with "Souls-likes" is it encompasses non FromSoftware games, whereas people saying stuff like "Soulsbornekiro" are referring to their games only. I think Souls-like is a fine descriptor for things like Salt and Sanctuary, The Surge, Nioh, etc. It's harder to find a descriptor for FromSoft's games. Honestly, I think tacking Sekiro on is my biggest issue, because that game is by their biggest departure from the Souls formula.

> for example all these games don't have to have basically the same minimalistic light vs dark story

I would argue From's games themselves don't fit in the simple "light vs dark" mold. Dark Souls is honestly more of a deconstruction of "light vs dark" tropes.
> A more interesting question is why is abortion consistently used as a tribal issue in US politics.

I think a factor here is that the US pushes the boundaries of what it really takes to have a free country with a diverse population more than other countries do.

Other countries--or at least other developed countries--have a more homogeneous population than the US has, and also do not have the same tradition of skepticism about and distrust of government that the US has. Also other countries do not have quite the same Constitutional provision for the free exercise of religion that the US has.

A less homogeneous population means there is a wider range of traditions that people are brought up with. That creates a lack of common ground about a lot of things. For example, I'm not aware of any other developed country that has a significant population of young earth creationists.

A tradition of skepticism about and distrust of government means that people are less willing to accept a legal rule that conflicts with their personal convictions, and more willing to complain about it publicly (or indeed to take even more drastic action). Note that this applies to both sides of the abortion debate: to extreme pro-lifers who feel that any abortion at all is wrong, and to extreme pro-choicers who feel that any restriction on abortion at all is wrong. Current US law and jurisprudence is actually not close to either of those extremes, so both extremes have plenty of reason, in their view, to complain.

The Constitutional protection of free exercise of religion means that "personal convictions", if they are backed by a religious tradition, carry a lot more weight. This is most obvious in the US on the anti-abortion side of the debate.

> Does someone benefit from these divisions

I think someone taking political advantage of divisions within the population can happen in any country, but it might well be true that the US, for the reasons I described above, presents more opportunities for it to happen.
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On the other hand many people (I can think of a number of them from my personal circle of acquaintances alone) learned to be terrified of the virus to a wholly unreasonable and panicked degree that doesn't even let them rationally consider risks vs. benefits in going out for a bit of exercise or to buy needed groceries.

This happened because of the news, frequently reporting tentative theories and information about worse case scenarios or extremes as if both were given and much more common things.

Just one example: A piece of recent WaPo reporting whose headline very clearly implied that a whole wave of deaths among young children was being caused by "strange symptoms" of COVID.

Then when one actually read the piece, a slow admission that they were talking about only a very small number of cases out of thousands of pediatric COVID cases.

This is just one example, and considering how many users of social media don't even bother to read news pieces, instead simply sharing them among their friends because the titles sounded scary, it's irresponsible nonsense for a major news outlet to phrase its headlines with so much hyperbole.
Don't watch entertainment news, because its primary function is to keep you entertained long enough to sit through ads and sponsor content.

I find PBS, Propublica, and other similar organizations to rely less on entertainment and fluff, and to report more on what matters to actual human beings who aren't their sponsors.
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It’s only worse if you’re invested in the current surveillance capitalism of the current ad system that exists.

We need a better way of funding websites that doesn't involve selling people's personal information and tracking data.