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> to the point we can't make enough surgical masks in the US to protect our people

Fake News. The U.S. used to have a huge stockpile of surgical and N95 masks as part of their pandemic preparedness plans. The stockpile was gradually depleted and not replenished adequately. It was pure complacency on the part of government; please let's not blame trade openness for this.
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hopefully the virus kills the most number of people in the U.S. by mutating so no masks work and millions of people in the U.S. die.
The reasons you give around "keeping up with new developments, new technologies, ...lack of creativity", lead me to believe it isn't the job that you dislike, it's the environment you're in.

I have a friend who was in a very similar situation to you and he just kept sticking with it year after year. He talked about going back to school and finding a new career, but it was always just easier to keep doing dev work, and it was well paid. He hated the tech stack he was working on (particularly everything javascript/typescript), didn't see how his contribution was meaningful, etc etc.

He was ready to cash it all in again when he found a start-up that he really loved the product. He had a big say in the initial tech stack, and had wanted to dive into Rust. He was enjoying learning about hardware, etc etc. After a few months, he realized that Rust was a great language, but he was getting into more of the "new technologies" and it was a bit of a shiny thing, so he went back to C++. He doesn't care about the "technologies" so much as he cares about the problem he's solving for customers, and how that is implemented.

You mention you "don't see the value...beyond the paycheck.", well, that's the value. Can you find something where you love the problem that you're solving for the customer, and hopefully love the product as well. Something where you can see the impact your having on the customers (and maybe even the world).

I know it may seem all "we're changing the world" start-upy, but some people really are, and it isn't only about the money. From my experience, SF is full of the "we're changing the world" people with no real reason behind it. The less startup focused hubs I think have more to offer because they're not so caught up in the bubble.

Just my two cents, hope it helps.
>That’s why we’re working with trusted financial institutions to create Plex, a new mobile-first bank account integrated into Google Pay.

Plex is already a product.
Google got rid of automated Google Fi group payment splitting/management, does this add a feature that will replace that?
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> Books never had thousands of engineers observing realtime metrics to make small tweaks to make you use something just a little bit longer

Books and other forms of media have been optimised to be addictive to read/watch for decades. It might not happen at the same scale, but the increase in scale also means that the mediums get less personal. I think that balances things out in some ways.

It really does not seem different to me.
You know that Mike Wallace interviewed an Imperial Wizard of the KKK on his show in 1957, right?

And Ayatollah Khomeini.
ROCm built executables aren't targeted towards an IR, it means pains for each switch to a newer GPU architecture for the user, with you having to distribute binaries again.

Also, no Windows support whatsoever...
My laptop is better than what the company can provide! Just because I work at a "for-profit" startup doesn't mean they actually make a profit. I even had to transition our servers from AWS to DigitalOcean just to save on server costs.

I'll probably first look into running it on a dedicated SSD on the spare laptop, and if that goes well, move some subset onto my main laptop (2014 MacBook Pro 15" with 4TB SSD).

For a "slippy map", I use Leaflet with some scraped MOBAC tiles. https://github.com/peterburk/bamb

Search/geocode is missing though, and that's what would really make it more useful. Particularly if I can cut down the geographic range to squeeze it onto my 64GB phone.
Cost of framework development is a fair point, and they do continue to add things like ARKit, the Swift language, and a million new submenus in Xcode ;)

But that's been true of all OSes for decades and doesn't make iOS specialized compared to macOS or any more deserving of 30% of every developer's gross profits.
"Fortnite Tech" aka "Unreal Engine". I get that many people won't have heard of the latter, but it still feels like clickbait, especially in a slightly techy publication like WIRED.
Ask HN: What do you think of humankind’s ever-growing military capabilities?
I understand military technology also has overlap with medicine and other fields we benefit directly from.

I can’t help but wonder though, what is the end goal here?

We are creating advanced weapons designed to kill en masse.

This is cause for concern in general, though I wonder the outcome as power falls into the hands of a few, and the people are not just outgunned, but met with drones, lasers, bombs, tanks, facial recognition, fighter jets, AI, satellites, tracking and EMP.

Not even touching on that which is being designed under the shroud of secrecy, with incredible resources.

What are we doing? Is it necessary?
I think we're actually in agreement, but saying the same thing two different ways. Notably, I consider "setting proper incentives" to be an organizational issue. Organizational issues of national and social significance are political and social issues pretty much by definition.
Yet they're still ignoring Flexgate which affects devices made across a number of years. I paid an arm and a let for a Macbook Pro (that's what they cost in my country), only to have it turned into a paperweight by a manufacturing defect that Apple acknowledges but won't remedy except for devices made in 2016.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-sued-over-macbook-pro-f...

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/20/apple-faces-another-fle...

https://support.apple.com/13-inch-macbook-pro-display-backli...

EDIT: Astounding to see I'm getting downvotes here. I mean, what kind of mindset must one have to see regular people getting screwed over by a multibillion dollar corporation like this, and then side with the corporation. It boggles the mind.
I wish those corporate giants would invest into some fresh satellite data for the whole world. With date tags on it.

It's really hard to work on remote areas of the planet while it's where I currently have the most fun exploring but sometimes it's just impossible to judge which satellite data provider has the freshest material and even if you find out it's more than often really badly outdated.

Unfortunately those big guys probably have no business interest in some backwater districts of Kazakhstan.
This isn't a binary choice between a fully state controlled internet and a fully free and open internet. There is a spectrum. I believe the ideal internet rests much closer to the free and open side than the state controlled side, but existing at the extreme of free and open would be come with its own set of problems. Just look at all the most popular places on the web that champion their lack of censorship or moderation. Most of them end up as cesspools.
The Awk Programming Language has to be my all time favorite programming book https://archive.org/details/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7 Just like the language it's still very relevant today.
I have had many friends share with me that they have decreased their meat consumption.

I am not under the illusion that I was the person who caused that change. Change rarely works this way. Our decisions to do something (especially this drastic) are composed of numerous influences.

Part of change is about what people expect to be the new normal. If all your friends are ok with homosexual marriages, you'll likely change your point of view soon enough anyway. If many of your friends at least mention that they are concerned about factory farm abuses of animals, you might one day decide to eat one less hamburger.

Change is much easier when younger; I changed during college years. I'm now 35 and I'm sure to have nudged at least some of my friends to eat less meat in the last decade. Much of it probably was just my consistency. If your friend tries a fad diet, you can ignore it. If their diet lasts 5 years, you'll at least want to learn more about why and how.

It's an important issue to change others' opinions on. A great book about this subject is "Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change" by Nick Cooney
I have mixed feelings about this ... the yearly fee is $100 - i feel that is very much out of balance with what you get back in terms of cloud services, distribution, marketing, reach, etc.

The danger of saying 'the developer membership should account for that' is that they will actually run the numbers and come back with MUCH higher yearly fees that simply push many small devs out.
Not officially supported... and no ROCm/HIP at all on Windows.
I appreciate you taking the time to share your perspective. I think where we disagree is in characterizing making inclusive language changes as "political" and keeping the status quo as "non-political", when the status quo is demonstrably not working for a lot of people. Changing "master" to "main" is admittedly likely near the end of the list of what the tech industry needs to do to in that regard, but if we can't even get low-effort token gestures like that to happen without a lot of outcry I'm not optimistic about any kind of substantive change.

The idea of places like HN being meritocratic tech utopias where race and gender are irrelevant and everyone's just a username with some neat ideas is really compelling. I can only offer that in my experience it's common knowledge among woman developers that if you want to have a good day, it's best not to read the comments here. It seems I've forgotten that myself!
The batteries weren't free, just $29 instead of $79.
>Nationalist competition

What do you mean by nationalist competition? Nations competing against each other?

>What if we had international cooperation instead of a death match?

Cooperation for what? Different people value different things. Different cultures even more so. You cannot have cooperation unless everyone is on the same side of every issue in the same degree.

If we had that level of agreement, we would not survive, not for long anyway. Let me explain:

Almost all of politics (or religious sects for that matter) is about how we use the resources we have. If there are multiple ways of using the resources, there have to be people who disagree and want different ways of using the resource. That slows us down, which helps us understand the cost/benefits of different ways of doing things. That also keeps options open... so if we find problems with the prevalent way, we won't have to start over. Other groups will already have understood the alternative ways and made some progress that others can join... once they sacrifice the leader who led them the "wrong way", of course.

Nations are just another level of doing this thing on a global scale. Nations should do things differently, so that the world as a whole is more robust.

>I guess certain business people would not make as much money.

Ironically, it's certain business interests which have tried to make the world homogenous. That helps them scale their business in the most efficient way. They value efficiency more than robustness. George Soros, founder of the Open Society Foundations, is an example of a person who religiously believes in removing all inefficiencies due to nation states... and has been using his billions of dollars for that cause. I think that is dangerous. It's not different from finding "superior people", inbreeding them and killing everyone else for being inferior. That wouldn't make them superior. That would make them fragile. It's the same for nations.
Not yet, but the fact this post exists, that Apple have worked to accelerate TensorFlow, that the Apple Silicon specifically has hardware for these workloads, and they're specifically highlighting the performance on the Mac Pro leads me to think people might be soon.

Let's wait and see what Apple Silicon has in store for the iMac Pro and Mac Pro.
I use it to make simple models for apps, because that is what I have.
Why won't you provide an example?
How about the online discourse manipulation (arguable another form of censoring ideas)? It's a cat & mouse game that can't be won.
When there's a rich kid in town, everyone will turn him upside down to see what change falls out of his pockets. Apple is where Apple is because it doesn't put all of its features "out in the open." I don't want 500 config settings for my phone and a lot of other's don't either. If you want to run a webserver on your phone that's cool, there are products for you, but some people want the idiotproof solution.
There’s a plunger emoji, but no bi flag emoji – what gives?
Not disagreeing with most of what you're saying here, just wondering if you mean manufactured consent, like the Herman and Chomsky book, not consensus.
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Google already has too much info from email, location tracking, and search history.

Getting into bank accounts is too much. It would let them know exactly how effective advertising is since they would see how money is spent and they already know what advertisements they show you.

Sorry, but no. Hard pass from me.
And that's why there is a full branch of government dedicated to that work, a branch that at least in theory is at the service of the nation. Totally opposite to the XXI century digital Rockefellers.
You know throwaway accounts can get banned and their comments "dead" too, right?

Try the founder of Vice, let's say you want to listen to his Podcast by just searching for his name, good luck doing that on Google, on Yandex it's the 5th result down.
Steam lacking competition doesn't imply that it was omnipresent. I remember a long period where Steam existed but the overwhelmingly most common method of distribution was a box with CD(s) in it (or, since I was a poor student at the time, illicit download).
How about the wave of 'I won't change, I won't work on myself, so I'll change / sensor you under the pretense of virtue" that's taken hold in SV echochambers?
> As part of Wednesday's settlement, $113 million will be distributed among the states, including California, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. The funds will cover attorneys' fees and will be used to fund future consumer protection investigators.

You will get nothing by the looks of it.
to clarify my own thinking

If it was just to clarify your own thinking, then why did you submit it to HN?
The US has fallen a great way from the spirit of the first amendment when laws, judges and juries are not just a necessary component of a well ordered society, but are the "final arbiters of truth" on political questions.
My choice in the awk family is mawk, because it is still the fastest one of them all.
hopefully whoever got this done to them dies. I hope the world burns.
I never said anything about compensating Apple for framework development costs; my point is about aligning incentives.
I own an iPhone because I got sick of these kinds of issues I was having with my Pixel phones. (would last ~1yr of perfect bliss. Then the honeymoon ends and the phone would just behave like crap). I decided to give another brand a shot.

I'll tell you what will really tick me off in another year or so... If my device is, without warning, notification, ability to change, etc, purposefully nerfing itself for ANY REASON. That will make me really upset. Especially since I can't just pop the back off and toss a new battery in there.

Good faith or not. It's an anti-consumer move. If my battery even pretended to be removable, you might convince me otherwise. But gluing the battery in under a glued in screen and then throttling my device based on the battery's age... Just really bothers me.
Your downvoting my remark only shows that HN is still an incredibly unsafe space for people who menstruate and marginalized communities more generally. This is not suprising since HN is white and male.
You sure you don't want to give them a fallible sandbox they could reason their way out of?
Lack of MMS is a shortcoming that really affects only North America. MMS is not widely used elsewhere. Really, getting Whatsapp to work through an Android emulation layer like Anbox is the higher priority for much of the world now.
I imagine that a locked down laptop running just the moderation UI provides reasonable security. If not, the camera can ensure that the moderator doesn’t use the “analog hole” to copy video or image content. Forced use of headphones instead of speakers finally almost closes the gap for audio.
Direct link to the study: https://censoredplanet.org/assets/censoredplanet.pdf
not everything is supply and demand. we have a "mostly" 40 hour work week, not because that is what is needed for demand, but it is enforced by labor laws.

I see no reason why there can't be a mandate to provide mental health benefits to these workers. It is absolutely a safety hazard.
Ah missed that, thanks
There have been measurable improvements over years to things like app review times etc, significantly so in some cases.

Whether _any_ review process in a store the size of Apple's can justify taking 30% is not obvious to me. As size goes up, costs usually go down in a healthy market. The App Store is barely recognizable in scale vs launch day, but financial terms for developers have barely moved.
2020 Election: Could Trump’s claims have merit?
Is it poasible to soft-wrap lines and execute functions on mobile? Its cool haha
I could see it. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, investing in your own metal/ops is definitely a long term play, and some combination of "focus on your actual differentiators" and "why bother when one of those cloud providers will acquire us eventually and we'll just have to migrate to them at that point anyway" could be a compelling case.
I mean software-wise?
Woa -- do you have a link to the regulation (chapter, but looking at Medicare fully now) to things that are designed to "systematically to enhance bill-ability"?

So you're saying if you use a templating tool to be more efficient and save time, it's explicitly not allowed AND you're opening up either yourself or the technology tool to malpractice litigation?!

Goodness!
Yeah about that MMS, I just got the strangest phone call from the 90s... Guess what?!
A contract can be declared unenforceable in court if it is against public policy: https://www.upcounsel.com/what-contracts-are-considered-to-b...

The goal should be to make Apple's app store model against public policy.
I do agree with that to some degree. In fact I do find some of the pan rattling about how social networks "must combat disinformation" about the potential Covid vaccines troubling.

However, maybe I'm just unlucky, but I have a number of family members who are predisposed to believing anything they see on the internet. I can see the need for social distancing when it comes to viral content too.
Using the Mutating Admission Controller with Kubernetes at Airbnb
When prototyping or developing new model code, yes. If you’re building production ML systems, there’s plenty code to write and test before deploying to prod infrastructure.

To be clear, you would work with a very small data sample or synthetic data as your objective isn’t to train a model for production use.

Edit: clarity and grammar
I really admire Google, but they have become notorious for their “fast fail” mentality and product sun setting.

No matter how good this may be I don’t trust google to not close this down or make major modifications that could cause issues in 1,3,5+ years from now.

So it’s a reluctant “no thanks” from me, as I really wish they would plan their product portfolio more long term than history so far demonstrates.
Coming to a Google Graveyard near you in 202X.
I think that the right has moved the Overton Window so much to the right that they see things that most of the world would see as mainstream (Black Lives Matter, Abortion, Medicare for All, Defund the Police, Anti-Fascism etc) as extreme.
Did you or the responders read the article? This reads like an assumption that the article is about tech companies in the United States and their effects to combat election misinformation. It's not.

The part about the United States says this:

> While the United States saw a small uptick in blocking, mostly driven by individual companies or internet service providers filtering content, the study did not uncover widespread censorship.

And you say:

> Now that anybody can reach anyone with any information, bad actors use these techniques to control people to their advantage. Governments' are now in an awkward position - ramp up education in these areas and forever give up a tool that worked for ages, or censor the information in hope that bad actors will not influence the public.

The first major heading in the article is this:

> Poland blocked human rights sites; India same-sex dating sites

Not exactly the same thing as individual companies trying to combat misinformation. Even if those things could be twisted as good faith efforts, how would this help make politics more honest?

Having a conversation about the United States is fine, I suppose, but I'd much rather understand how actual governments are censoring things around the world. It's at least what the article is mostly about. If nothing else, it'd be nice for discussions here to actually have some relation to the article rather than being something people quickly upvote and jump in to espouse whatever preconceived opinion they had.
Not GP, but if enough people were conditioned to install their apps from sources outside of the appstore, Apple may end up seeing their AppStore margins shrink and do a pivot to selling user data.
Have you forgotten about Windows 10 S?
I'd like just a .jsonl or .csv of the list.
They say your transaction history with Google Pay won't be used in other Google services. How much you trust that is up to you.
I think this is the crux of the issue. Apple had to make a call for their customers: ensure the low battery is as long-lasting and predictable as possible around 1-5%, or keep high performance as the phone battery degrades quicker and shuts off. I think many people thoroughly understand how crucial it can be to have that last 1-2% and going into a situation where you think you have 5%, but then the phone dies, is a pretty bad experience for the "premium experience" that Apple sells. So for most customers they made the right call to preserve the battery.

This is an engineering trade-off and not something that typically gets publically broadcast to customers. I'm sure there's lots of other niche feature tweaks like this to the iPhone that we're unaware of. They definitely could've and should've been more transparent about this, but I understand why it didn't occur to them.
I'm pretty sure it never happened. This would have been big news here. The technology press went ape when thepriatebay.org was added to a DNS blocklist. I have searched around and can not find any references to hrw or match being blocked by accident or not.

Either the article writer is confusing Norway with another country or this is just "Journalistic flair" i.e. a lie.
> It's not like they were told not to wear masks, they just weren't told to.

Why do you think that? The study says "A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to the recommendation to wear face masks, and 2994 were assigned not to wear face masks".
Here is a little exercise: imagine yourself being a drug dealer, and read your own comment out loud. It rings perfectly, and it is no coincidence, proportions aside.

You cannot absolve yourself from responsibility just because your target audience 'had a choice'.
When I was a kid the compulsion to put plastic zoo animals in little enclosures, and build all 151 pokemon out of lego was remarkably similar to the compulsion for drugs. I don't think there's anything inherently bad about this.
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