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> Does anyone else have similar stories?

I'm seeing it, too, and it's annoying. I'm American, but a while back I stopped consuming anything but local news in English for the sake of my sanity. Doesn't work anymore. I keep wondering if maybe I just need to learn a new language? Maybe the mind virus hasn't yet spread to the Swahili coast. . .
I don’t see how this is much different to how the CFTC steps in and raises margin requirements on silver futures contracts when the price starts to run. I would tend to guess that coinbase really did have the CFTC bring the hammer down and force them to make this change just as the pricing of crypto started to rocket.
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We can disagree without sworn enemies.
Happy to see this announcement. I do a lot of reporting in the Noto repo's and it has been a mess with so many scripts fighting for attention, this new structure will surely help surface bugs and fixes in smaller scripts.

Google has not always given the Noto team enough resources the last few years but they have been working hard to keep up with things and hopefully this investment in the structure of the project will give it more chance of staying alive for years to come!
I watched the video, he doesn't talk of the lives saved by our actions either.
Actually, I was just able to connect right now – must have been a local network issue.
Epic has been trying to move on for years, or so a recruiter told me half a decade ago. Their job posting now describes “Using leading-edge technologies and languages like JS, TS, and C#”, though I wouldn’t put a bait and switch past them.
All you need to do is hit the Lagrange point.
Sesame may finally get official recognition as one of our most common allergens
DHH tweet quoted in the article: You don't sit around thinking "oh, browsing the web is slow on my decked-out iMac", but then you browse with the M1, and you're like, DAMN, I can actually feel that +50%.

I wish I could feel excited about this, but my first thought is that web developers probably have a huge wish list of things they're ready to unleash to eat up that 50%. I was expecting to get a nice 5-7 year lifetime from my early 2020 Macbook Pro. Maybe I should revise my expectations, especially if more and more desktop apps are going to be built on web technology.
It exists mostly because of massive propaganda financed by very wealthy people for whom it is essential to indoctrinate masses to be even more wealthy and powerful.
How are lies just 'other opinions'?
I'm at risk of sounding like I'm nitpicking, but I'm not following the popular narrative that it's a problem with America that spilled over into the rest of the world that's at the center of your story.

Many people seem to agree that the rise of social media and its correlated loneliness have pushed people down their rabbithole/echo chamber/whatever people want to call it nowadays. Opposed to the popular narrative, the apparent view from people into the social sciences seem to believe it's a problem with social technologies, rather than it being the inferior North American cultures bleeding out and corrupting our pure untouched global cultures.

I have to agree with the other view that all of us on this planet we are barely evolved hairless tribal monkeys using technology that makes us more anxious instead of secure - and all of these problems are actually pretty predictable from this perspective. It's not Americanification, we just naturally start acting like this when we start using things that make us anxious for clicks.
I am surprised that holding regular virtual town halls is one way Ovo increased how they hear from staff. I have found town hall meetings were more interactive before the pandemic. On video-only town halls since March, the exchange is much more one-way. Maybe the term means something different than what I've experienced?

It would be cool to hear examples of how Ovo gets employees to participate on such large, online calls.
Just like the sibling poster replied, it is not the issue of "no Internet".

You have three cases here:
1. Working internet connection
2. Slow internet connection
3. No internet connection

Everything works fine in 1 and 3, but breaks the OS when in 2 (and it is very common, just walk further from your router and you'll notice it - e.g. when waking up the mac from sleep).

What is strange to me is that I had an old Macbook Air with latest pre-BigSur macos, bought a new Macbook Air (early 2020) with the same OS and I saw the problem only on it - at first I thought it was broken.
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> I'm not against imperialism

> you two have yourselves to blame

That's not how imperialism works.
He shows that areas in the world that didn't follow our mandates are now doing just as well as we are. So how many lives did we actually save, and how many did we just unjustifiably take credit for saving? And more importantly how many of those saved lives could also have been saved by less draconian and more targeted measures?
> I think the high price of a workstation is not something specific to Apple.

A professional workstation, with support, services, guaranteed replacement components, guaranteed service-life, maintenance contracts and so on is very different from an enthusiast-built machine.

It's like comparing a BMW M3 to a tricked out VW Golf. You can fit a bigger, badder engine under the VW's hood, stiffen the suspension, replace the gearbox and so on but, in the end, you can get one straight from the dealer and not everyone is inclined to assemble a car from parts.

Did that once. It's fun, educational and not very practical.
> How are lies just 'other opinions'?

When you want to whitewash them.
>leaned heavily towards socialism and economic justice...

Not to be too on the nose, but another equally valid phrase here is “leaned heavily towards being a christian minister”, which he was. The religious motivations of the civil rights movement are ones we seem blind to, and the only reason i can think of for it is that when i, an american, hear “christian”, i have been taught think “republican suburban or rural white man probably interested in being horrible to gay people” instead of “democratic urban jew or black lady who is super damn interested in workers rights and housing access”. At a certain point one begins to wonder if that isn’t very carefully intentional.

Tangentially: at some point, someone in the media is going to diff AOC’s speeches against the last 150 years of papal encyclicals and realize a few things about where her rhetoric originates. If you s/bipoc/the least of these, it’s slightly easier to see. If you know who Oscar Romero was, it's blindingly obvious.
Don't bother, you'll just get downvoted/flagged.
AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
>Though, you could argue whether laws are limited to humans or whether they apply to every species. AFter all we don't apply the same laws to animals and humans, there are usually differnt sets for each.

Please enlighten me on which laws are written for my cat.
Can you expand upon this? I didn't see that mentioned in the article and am curious what you mean by this.
why would a prod build ship 446kB of devtools?

we're clearly discussing radically non-optimized (ie, misconfigured) build, making criticisms of nextjs per se entirely moot.
Of you can put your heavy workloads on the cloud and pass it as opex.
The act of breaching privacy is technically difficult to prohibit in a way many of us would find palatable.

What should be targeted is the product of said breaches. Something like the blood diamond approach.

If your company has PII, then you by law must be able to produce a consented attestation chain all the way back to the source.

If you do not, then you're charged a fine for every piece of unattested PII on every individual.
was making sense until the bs "both sides" conclusion: "We have two donor-fattened parties that across decades of incompetence have each run out of convincing pitches for how to improve the lives of ordinary people."

I find the ideas of fixing healthcare, reinvesting in our economy and infrastructure, and shoring up our social programs highly convincing. And I'm pretty sure the polls show those ideas resonate across the political spectrum. And I only hear those ideas coming from one party.
Not sure why you're downvoted, because that sort of populism is exactly what Trump said and ran on. Like most things he said, it's also still 2 weeks away.
Who is this propaganda benefiting, and what is the purpose?

Is your view that because the misinformation is right-wing, that this is propaganda for the left?
Jisti is a great product. But of course, Zoom's early momentum (and having > zero ads) was undoubtedly a factor.

I use jitsi in production, but I actually did not realize at the beginning of this year that their hosted version was intended to be anything more than a demo. Their .org page (earlier in the year), linked their GitHub and highlighted the project as a self-hosted tool. They have since updated the page to be written for a general audience.
In my country, with an admittedly quite simple tax code, the authorities used to publish each year official COBOL code that computed income tax.

They switched to Java in 2018-ish - and to Github instead of a random FTP server.

Doing your taxes has also been a no-op for many people the past decade or so. You don't do anything except read the tax report, unless you spot some mistakes or items missing in the report that was autofilled by the government, then you can go into the web form and submit the amendments necessary.
Yea, but the point is it’s not color A versus color B. It’s “I pick my political allegiance based on the party that will most likely help those at the bottom of the totem pole” versus “not doing that”.

All of my fellow republican business owners were bristling at the idea of Obama’s executive order increasing the minimum salary for exempt workers. This is because they would have had to pay their immigrant workers $44k per year for 60+ hour work weeks who they designated as “managers”, rather than $30k per year under current rules.

Again, I’m not saying Democrats are perfect, and they are far from it. But at least some Democrat states, and politicians are making an effort, whereas I can’t say the same about Repubs. Hence, it’s not just color A vs color B.
It's just my way of overturning insufferable arguments, there's not much depth to it.
Try Notable, its basically a collection of markdown files that you can tag, search and organize. I really like it.
> Missing or too-high timeout should be fixed, but I don't think that'd be enough to to satisfy critics in this thread? Would it you?

A fix in /etc/hosts is all I needed, but if there was a timeout of 2 seconds I wouldn't even notice the problem -> so I wouldn't block notarization.
We seem to hear the argument about the "end of physics" every so often, on multiple time scales. This argument usually arises in the context of high energy/particle physics. Unfortunately for those saying things like this particle/high energy physics is not equivalent to "physics". Its not the entirety, nor the majority of physics.

Yet we keep seeing this discussed as if it is. This isn't an HN issue. This is an contextual issue in the broader physics community.

I've raised this point here, and other places, before. It is important to understand that people claiming an end to physics, are usually being hyperbolic about one specific subfield that seems to have run into a set of dead ends for the moment. Not the entirety of physics.

As I've noted, this is a recurring theme throughout physics. Max Planck was apparently told that there was "nothing new to be discovered in physics"[1]. There are other examples of this throughout history. Some of these theories had the weight of government or religious institutions behind them (earth-centric view of the universe, etc.). To question them was to be labeled a heretic, a blasphemer, or worse.

Physics isn't over. Not by a long shot. If someone wants to argue semantics over "fundamental" vs "non-fundamental", they are welcome to, though their argument will only contribute to hastening the heat death of the universe[2]. That is, energy will be expended for no useful work.

There are existing deep, profound questions, which are ultimately fundamental in nature, that we have not answered yet. And our asking of these questions, has exposed other concerns over our understanding of "fundamental" ... really ... foundational ... physics.

Some of these questions are opening profound links between seemingly disparate fields. That is, physics is getting broader and more intricate. Just because one small (yes, really) subfield nears its end (really due to economic and time constraints, you can't spend infinite amounts of money to build the next generations of colliders), doesn't mean the rest of the subfields are.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bpplan.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
https://theconversation.com/csiro-wants-our-laws-turned-into... claims law-as-code is a bad idea because its "dynamic"/"always changing" and "discretionary"/"requires or open to interpretation".

The first argument is nonsensical (computers are great at changing data: in fact way faster and more accurate than humans, having the capacity for things like single source of truth, change logs, peer consensus, and dynamic versioning while preserving historic versions automatically... and also better at publishing it, analyzing it, and documenting it).

The second argument is an outright straw man fallacy. Who cares if some laws require interpretation. Just write MAY instead of WILL (like RFC language) to make it clear the judge can decide, then provide statistical information regarding past case law. Nobody is saying "fire all the judges", they're just saying make the law clear. Right now it's not clear, and it's a big problem.

Refugee? Read up to date law in your language, automatically. Business? Determine what is required by law in order to execute a transaction. Human? Determine what you are and are not allowed to do in some field (like architecture, driving, sailing, pet walking or rock collecting) without being fined.
Linux still doesn't have smooth scrolling. There is little visual consistency or shared UX patterns across apps. I had to hunt down a good font because the one that came installed with Pop and Ubuntu was terrible. Spent a day getting drivers for a wifi card to work. Had graphical flickers due to a bug in picom/nvidia that I had to go in and fix. Don't even get me started on the app ecosystem - Mac/win has stuff like omnifocus, 1password, Alfred, photoshop etc etc. Linux mostly you hope there's a web app.

There is strong opposition to the idea of paid app stores on Linux but almost all the best software I use is paid, because it takes teams of people working hard to build it. This is actually the most critical issue imo.

Linux has come a long way but I think they are understandably reluctant to hear bad news that it's still not good enough compared to the alternatives, even if it's much much better than it was.
I bring my own Mac, no dice on powershell :)
This looks like GPT-3 generated content hosted on a content farm.
Nothing's ever enough for vegans.

> Would be more interested in seeing more means of producing tasty food without using animals and at reduced costs to the environment.

There is increasingly more of that all the time.

> On the other hand it just seems like another step into the direction of turning the chickens into optimized food machines.

Another step? They aren't getting any more optimized, if anything new available options are scaling that back in favor of more land-use, open space, slower growth.

> Sorry, I'm a dreamer I guess, continuously disappointed by a world that doesn't seem to be able to set any significant goals nor pursue them at large scale unless it's for profit and likely at the cost of the rest of the world.

You're free to consume whatever you want.

EDIT: my opening sentence is not fair. But it invited a lot of response. That can walk a thin line but in this case I figure it worked out. If my post were purely inflammatory, then it would be counter-productive but I don't see it that way.
is there a website where I can preview these fonts? (sorry if dumb q)
What part of this piece of journalism is misleading?
Had an old teammate who would talk about his "family's farm" back in Kentucky. Got the impression he meant some 500 acre plot of land they were just getting by on.

Oh no, it's 8,000 acres or so and they have a staff of workers to maintain it.
No doubt the cleaning lady I see in my building working 12 hour days trying to house and feed her two kids is prioritizing getting her political thoughts out on Twitter.
> I still don't connect to anything in the cloud, and I block call-home functionality in my firewall such as that of the Philips Hue

If you're blocking your Philips Hue Bridge from connecting to the cloud, and you're a Home Assistant user, why not install the ZHA module and connect your lamps directly to HA instead of the Hue Bridge? I've been wanting to do this myself, but the prospect of losing access to both the native Hue app and the Hue Disco app is making it a hard sell in my household :)
Honestly, the example with the incrementing total, while not useful for estimating remaining time, conveys a lot of information. I'd be happy with that for processes that have an unknown number of steps.
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HN has the ability to hate on literally everything. This forum is by far the most negative social platform I’m a member of. There’s rarely a positive word spoken about any article, and if the article isn’t worth negative comments we’ll find something else to hate, like the presentation of the website or the fonts or colors used.
Many mainstream outlets now run propaganda and sensational reporting. It’s biased, misleading, retractive, opinionated and incomplete. Far from the days of just informing and listing main arguments from both sides of the aisle. Stop referencing crap like that here.
"be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi

"If not you, then who?" - Hillel, first- century Jewish scholar

"would you like some cheese with that whine?" - my mom
Not to pick on this person, really, but I saw the picture and noted he said "20 years experience" and I thought, hrm, he looks kind of young. CV then says he has been programming since he was 13.

I see this A LOT as of late. People are counting high school side projects as real world experience... but that is not exactly the same as on the job experience. I am NOT knocking the awesome work you did in high school, hell, as an EE person, I could say I designed circuits when I was 12, but I would never add 10 years to my CV or my blog by counting it.

Honest question: is this the new norm?
I was sitting here scrolling and my immediate thought was, "Did these people even read the article?" then it dawned on me how late stage this is. People can read an article that speaks clearly about the overarching problem and how it is fueled, but they miss everything that would make a connection to things they value or believe in.
No doubt people make this mistake. But do you see other common spelling errors? I don't. Further, google n-grams show that "fare thee well" is orders of magnitude more common. So I'm skeptical this was machine generated.
What's so "dreamy" about making animal based nutrition something reserved for the privileged few?
No-Logo by Naomi Klein outlined how brands work.

One factor in the irrational defence could be a kind of psychological protection of investment. Apple isnt just another company, its an entire lifestyle ecosystem. Those invested in Apple have the watch, tv, laptop, itunes etc. And together they really do "just work" - the user experience is great!

So to admit that Apple is flawed, that their investment was a bad idea is to admit they were wrong and that their time and money was wasted. No-one wants to be a sucker. Far better therefore to protect your investment. Apple really are genius to pull this off. Apple is part of people's identity.
I'm curious if there have been any tech advances in tracking valuable objects in like rare books, sketches, paintings, etc. that are currently actually used by institutions or considered a best practice.

Whether it's RFID chips, Bluetooth tags, security cameras that do "book recognition", or something else.

Heck, even something as simple as a barcode per object, shelf, cart and holding area, and you've got to scan them in and out every time it's picked up and put down (tied to your ID), and the whole system beeps with loud errors if it isn't scanned in somewhere within 30 seconds of being scanned out.

The idea that a multimillion dollar object could be "misplaced" or lost in a large collection feels appropriate to the year 1980, but by 2020 it feels positively anachronistic. (I realize this happened in 2000, so I'm wondering what prevents it today.)
Does not follow. I'm not talking about subsistence farming. Nothing stops you from buying food from small farms further away that didn't experience crop failure.
> You've implied multiple times that there's something spooky going on without evidence

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. HuffPo is no saints and in the world of global info warfare, I wouldn't be so quick to give them a clean chit. See how Al Jazeera etc operate with a state backed agenda for an example.

> A xenophobic movement with a...

This is such an incoherent rant riddled with falsehoods without any evidence. RSS is no xenophobic movement even if the biased wikipedia page paints it that way. If you have grassroots Indian experience, you'll know that they want to revive Hindu right, while preserving Dharmic values. I don't agree with all their attempts, but it's laughable how brown sepoys quickly jump to it's criticism without substantial data.

You seem to have a fixed agenda and reiterating the same unsubstantiated claims against imaginary bogeymen. The economist links you've mentioned can be easily summarized as an opinion piece and I can provide several more similar links from SwarajyaMag that say otherwise.
Give me some links to mainstream news stories which go beyond exaggeration, then.
Many computers don't share IP addresses too. And there are times when there is only one macOS under an IP. This is not something to just wave away.
This isn't a good argument. If there is blame to be assigned it is not unthinkable that some groups are not to blame and another is.
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If you can run your business on a Zen box with an Nvidia 3090 in it, good for you!
MEDITECH, maybe others, had a proprietary operating system too. (We had a special deal to sell them hardware without an OS at a time when they were normally bundled.) Eventually they moved on to NT.
That’s great, but unfortunately, it’s an exception. Again, my comment wasn’t to imply that one party is perfect, but to show that the policies they push make a real difference in people’s lives, especially lower income earners.
Because of the hilarious implication that the installer believe intelligent life had not yet been seeded in the Utah area.
That's a class thing, not a culture war thing, and I bet you'll find many the stereotypical redneck that would also be in support of better working laws, because the stereotypical redneck is also poor and working shit jobs. The thing is they also have strong opinions on guns or abortion or whatever else social issues and this all-or-nothing attitude in politics means they have to align themselves with whatever group they perceive will abuse them less