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> It did nothing more than PR works

What's with the hyperbole? To disprove your point, I just have to point to one thing that the government did that was not PR?

- What narrative, specifically?

- At the time, I too was in support of supplying vaccines to countries who were in desperate need of it. I still don't mind waiting a few months if the vaccines that should have come to me go to a healthcare worker in some other country instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26346021

- There is no reason to take anything Shiv Sena says at face value. This is the single worst party in India. If law and order had worked in India, these people would have been declared terrorists long before most of us were born. They continue to mistreat doctors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vUUQEpJEG4) and threaten hospitals (https://twitter.com/amitsurg/status/1299352826636722176) across the state. Also, while all other states had the pandemic somewhat under control at one time or another, MH consistently stayed at #1 or #2 among the worst affected states.
COVID never actually went away. Just that the people and the government ignored it until it mutated to a deadly version.
Ok, so why do we accept that companies are run like autocracies, but we expect that societies are run like democracies?

If we say that employees should be smart enough to autonomously do their jobs well, wouldn't their collective intelligence be better at running the business in its entirety? Why isn't it smarter and more financially sound to run a business like a democracy?
FWIW I hire (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) and I believe it.
I understand why you don't want to use credit cards too often, but you wrote "we've moved too far [...]". Why do you care whether other people use credit cards?
This is a far more accurate take, I'd say. People are analyzing this incident using old political/social categories when in fact identity politics doesn't fit cleanly into these classifications.
Same here. I've always had terrible personal memory since I was young, despite dramatic lifestyle and diet changes over time. Distinctive characters in fiction stick with me, but not order of events: I couldn't tell you anything useful about the plot details of my favorite films and books despite revisiting them many times.

It applies to short-term memory, too. I give myself very specific places to put things, because if I didn't I would lose track of my keys and wallet literally every day.

Weirdly enough, these issues don't seem to apply to logical or spatial memory at all, which is probably the only reason that I'm an effective programmer.
I agree but let's continue with that story. Let's remember that the beginning of the story was the labor shortage. So not enough people to serve in all restaurants at a competitive price.

Let's suppose some restaurants decide to raise prices. Customers decide to go to a place that's cheaper but... it is packed. Shortage, remember? Free market dictates that higher demand than supply makes the prices go up.

If client CAN go to a cheaper venue then we are not in a position of shortage.

In the end, look at places like Scandinavian countries: salaries are high and going to the restaurant is very expensive. When you think about it, being served by humans is actually a luxury and as global wealth progresses, this should become less and less common.

I really hope that the future of restaurants is either fully automated fast foods or high end luxury restaurants that people work out of passion, and that you can afford maybe oncee every months.
If they release m1 in blade format ... as m1 MACmini is already with mdm ... that might be enough for some mac clouds services.
Probably because that would be a massive violation of privacy, much larger than the original list in the first place.
The mythical land where it is easy to safeguard crypto keys than physical properties while people still haven't learned to safeguard their passwords.

If the govt knows about your properties than they would also know about your digital activities as well.

Bitcoin is only freedom for the oppressors in this scenario since only they are allowed to move unchecked and will use it to get out when they realize their days in their country is numbered.
From what I have read online, I would say that very few people in news media are blaming the farmers' protests (at least in international coverage), even though those protests are longer-lasting and larger gatherings than most of the others. What I am mostly seeing is Western liberals blaming the conservative government of a developing nation by pointing at election rallies (which only took place in a few states and were held by all parties), religious events (because liberals are often anti-religion or Hinduphobic), or the government (who actually has been highly competent in managing the pandemic overall).

I don't think there is enough evidence (yet?) to call any one factor a "key contributor". We simply don't know. People in India were increasingly mobile as their pandemic conditions improved into a low steady state (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/changes-visitors-covid?co...). I am guessing that some combination of the things you listed, plus general increase in mobility, plus some new variant of the virus that spreads more easily, is what led to this situation. India went from normal conditions to hitting the previous peaks within a month, and that feels like something more than just a few isolated events.

> This situation is really a reflection of the selfishness of the people.

That might be fair to say in a developed nation that is wealthier. But in many other nations, people simply need to work or go to places where they are around other people. They don't have the infrastructure, wealth, and luxury of remote work or delivery services to just avoid society altogether or reduce society-wide mobility. They also don't have the same amount of home entertainment choices like streaming services or expensive video game consoles or whatever else. I imagine shutting down cities is a much more significant challenge in places that are denser than, for example, American cities, but without the same economies, standards of living, disposable income, and so on.
Probably due to opening of schools and colleges across country. That's why it's hitting young people harder.
> a new job hunt takes 3, even for talented, in-demand people.

That sounds really long. It never took me more than 2 months from an initial contact to an offer (whether accepted or not) and sometimes less. I've seen people hired in less than a month - in fact, I've seen many times people hired before they left the previous job. Of course, it's just my personal anecdata but 3 months sounds really long. Any hard data to back it up?
I think you're trying to suggest that an NGO couldn't run without a low minimum wage because it couldn't afford it, but there are ways to structure an organization that society is willing to volunteer labour for without jacking up the rest of the community. I say that as someone with a partner in a very similar position to yours.

No one is working at McDonalds out of the kindness of their heart. For my partner's work, they simply have a delineation between volunteer participation and worked hours, and it makes it very clear which hours you're paid for and which you aren't. They have "working bees" and "volunteer weekends" and so on, and people are happy to sign up for them.

Similarly, theatres (as in performance art not cinema) are often for-profit but still quite heavily volunteer reliant, because people want to support the arts and the theatres wouldn't run without them they can make it work. If a petrol station tried to do that, no one would sign up for the volunteer program, and "the market" has happily chosen which businesses can run with volunteered labour or not.
I would suggest as well that the components of athletics, e.g. running, is something that we're evolutionarily used to - being a better runner would mean you would be less likely to be eaten/more likely to eat. Arbitrary tasks have no evolutionary advantage to them, so there's no a) biological systems for getting good at them or b) positive emotional feedback to incentivise getting good at them. If we'd had the same factory work for millions of years, we might have some mechanisms to enjoy or get good at it.
You're combining like three different narratives together.
As someone else with similar issues, I'm pretty deeply aphantasic. The best mental visualization I can manage of even simple imagery (think "a red triangle on a black background") is roughly comparable to a half-transparent blurry watercolor, and I can't clearly picture faces at all (though I don't have any particular trouble with recognizing people when I see them).
So I can track every person that doesn't have an iPhone?

> an AirTag separated from its owner for an extended period of time will play a sound when moved to draw attention to it.

How long is "extended"? It probably won't take more then 60-90 minutes to track someone.

This also sounds really annoying. Anytime I leave a tag somewhere I have to somehow be able to tell it "don't buzz" and if I forget it annoys all the people near where I left it. Leaving things at my parent's when going out while visiting, leaving things in a hotel room, leaving things in the gym locker, etc...

> If a user detects an unknown AirTag, they can tap it with their iPhone or NFC-capable device and instructions will guide them to disable the unknown AirTag.

So if don't own an NFC capable device? How many people would even know to "NFC" the tag or how?
Maybe if someone can't remember to renew a license that asserts their competency in operating lethally dangerous machinery then they should also not be trusted with financial transactions until they resolve that situation.
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Really cool, but :
- For the love of God, why a web app ?!?
- We pretty much already have what I'm asking for in the form of MHTML, I just need Firefox support !
it’s wild how far we’ll try to go to reassure people we’re not having emotional problems.

even though emotions are physical, and he mentions developing ptsd.

his body (brain being a part of that) must having been telling him for ages that shit was going wrong but he’s so disconnected from his physical emotional experience that he just ignored it.
It seems very much like confirmation bias. The state of the art of research on FND might be ahead of wikipedia, but it states under 'causes' only this:

> A systematic review found that stressful life events and childhood neglect were significantly more common in patients with FND than the general population, although many patients (around 70%) report no stressors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_neurologic_disorder...

The OP doesn't state what diagnostic data or opinion led him to the glucose/dopamine depletion conclusion: https://twitter.com/TinkerSec/status/1388114584209350658
You just compared the US to developing nations.

It's an apt comparison.
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> They have a list of funny names, got called out on it, and didn't like that.

On the contrary, as far as I can tell (i.e., based on information released by founders and employees), they didn't object at all to being called out on it. Everybody at Basecamp, the founders included, thought the list was wrong and inappropriate.

What they did object to was the discussion being escalated to genocide and that there appear to have been employees who refused to climb down from that.

It does become impossible to have a constructive discussion, particularly about sensitive or controversial matters, when some people involved want to escalate to the most extreme position imaginable. It tends to mute other viewpoints.

This used to be well understood on the internet, and is the reason Godwin's Law is explicitly stated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law#:~:text=Godwin'....).
I would ask such changes to be split into multiple independent PRs
As long as "typical usage" fits reality and is not blatant lie like "serving size" on many cookies.

(lets say that there is package of snack that everyone eats at once - package label claims that it is expected to be not eaten at once, what allows them to make less horrifying nutrition label)
That is what burnout is.
Doesn't have to flow back, but it does have to flow in to begin with, and banks are the choke point in either direction.
Did you have a previous experience at a job where that was an issue?
> A stalker, not stupid and well-aware about the protection, visits iFixit for a picture of internals, takes a drill, and physically obliterates the buzzer, right through the case. Epoxy or superglue for protection from the elements.

You eliminate 95% of the potential stalkers. It is hard to remember that for most consumers the idea of drilling into a thing made of Apple black magic is a foreign idea.
I think they were marked as new, but I don't quite remember.
I'm not entirely sure how to feel about the Flatpak-centric application ecosystem. Reminder: https://flatkill.org
amazon! probably
Yeah, god forbids that a company may actually want to genuinely address an ethical problem, amirirte?
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It might sound like a "lazy excuse" for someone who hasn't been in their shoes. As lazy as commenting one's gut reaction even. It might be worthwhile to actually give this one some thought, maybe read up on it, talk to people. The non-lazy response basically.
I was in India ~10 years ago, upon entering the airport i was shocked to see smoke everywhere and assumed there had been some kind of fire. Nope, i was seeing the air, i could see the normal air inside the airport terminal. Pollution is a huge problem in Delhi which surely contributes to bad covid outcomes.
Are people as addicted to BTC as they are to drugs?
Producing drive also takes energy and resources.

With BTC at least in theory it could be mostly powered by fully renewable resources, here it is resource heavy.

I suspect that overall it is not better than BTC, and will just cause btc-mania to inflict more misery in a new field.
It’s a cancer metastasizing in all components of value and scarcity. Why this type of operation is not banned globally, but coexist with climate change worry, is a perfect indicator of mass delusion.
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I am using 2 keyboards heavily: Kinesis Advantage 2 and Keyboardio Model 01.

KA2:
+ Keywells and ergonomics
+ Pads and palm rests are very comfortable
+ Ortolinear
+ Thumb cluster is very good
- The general feeling and sound of a plastic bucket
- Only available with Cherry-Switches
- The firmware is bad and very limited

Model01:
+ Wood finish and ergonomics
+ Sculptured keycaps
+ Split and ortholinear
+ Thumb cluster and palm button(!)
+ Firmware is very easy to use (Kaleidoscope)
+ Switches are very comfortable (Matias QuetClick)
- Switches will fill sooner than later since they have reliability issues.

What I hate about both of them is the price tag.
> Stop politicizing tech.

If you're in the business of "changing the world" or "changing peoples' lives" then your business is political. Politics reflect how people feel about things.

You're using tech as a shorthand for "technology company" -- companies are also organizations of people with feelings. People function best when they are treated with respect and given psychological safety. People need to have room to discuss how they feel about things, so you can build better policies that make people happy and motivated to succeed at the mission. Sometimes those things are lumped into what a company might consider "political" and it's not an easy line to draw.

For example, gender imbalance is one of the most important "political" things that I think every healthy company needs to look long and hard at; how do you do that if you clamp down on that as "political discussion?" Similarly if racial injustice is impacting a segment of your workforce more than others, don't you think it's worthwhile for management to do things like make statements of support, check in on their employees, and basically be a bit human and accommodating? Or wait is that political discussion?

Folks like you who say employees should just "focus on the work" dismiss the idea that people shouldn't just be viewed as cogs in these money-making machines. Tech, where company profit margins are fat and where actual productivity is not measured in SLOC but in the ability to generate ideas and focus on how those ideas affect users, is actually one of the only market segments we can actually point at and say "you have the means to do better." It's really sad when founders like Fried and DHH give their employees the impression that they are no more than pieces of a money making machine after clearly fooling a lot of them into thinking there was some semblance of a social contract there. So no it's definitely not a better place to work now than a week ago.

By the way, people aren't stupid for thinking that there's a social contract, especially at small companies. There's always a loose contract -- and one of the powerful things about equity and its presence in SV companies is how it aligns the incentives for management and labor. But trust is also a component of that alignment force; trust is one of the things that has always made silicon valley magical. So it's really disappointing when that trust is violated.
The inaction of the government has much more impact. The government got complacent once the first wave receded, and didn't give heed to any expert opinions. There were reports that the Covid expert committee meeting itself didn't happen in past few months . In addition there was no concerted focus on vaccination, either to increase its capacity to cover majority of the population, or steps to dispel vaccine scepticism. In last few months except for the caller tune message one gets in mobile when you call someone, I didn't see any efforts to publicise the vaccination drive. These publicity efforts have stepped up now, and given the rampage now most of the people are willing to take vaccines but alas there is a shortage.
Many who left have been there for 4+ years upwards of 15, an unheard of tenure in tech
How are these states getting all the home death numbers or deaths without covid tests?
And I think this will get worse now thanks to the pandemic and price increases.
Getting a TI-57 in 1978.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-57
Because drugs were not a digital abstraction that required buyers & sellers to go through traditional financial institutions to convert their fiat cash into physical drugs.

Banning bitcoins as I described would mean the vast majority of all banks in the world would not be able to act as on/off ramps to crypto so it could never hit mainstream as a medium of exchange. It would also be worthless as a store of value because you wouldn't be able to get that value anywhere useful. It might live on as some part of the existing shadow banking networks, but it would never deliver on the promise of currency available to the masses & disconnected from arbitrary nation-state monetary policy.

I'd like to be clear in my viewpoint though: I am not anti-crypto. I think there are many improvements it can bring to the existing global financial infrastructure. I just don't have any faith that it can deliver on promises of freedom from government regulations & control. If it exists, it will always exist because of government forbearance in killing it, not despite government antipathy.
I think is hypocritical to think you can never "be political" at work. Work is where politics are the most prevalent and important in your life, work agreements, rules, benefits, compensation, processes. All political. It seems they're not banning external politics, they're banning internal dissidence.
> Squeezing millions of HN readers into the top 30 posts?

That's a vivid way of putting it (good writing on your part!) but - yes, that's pretty much how HN works. I usually describe it as "non-siloed": https://hn.algolia.com/?query=silo%20by%3Adang&dateRange=all.... The DNA of the site is that everyone sees the same things—it doesn't get sharded. Other sites have social graphs and follow lists and whatnot, but this one doesn't. More on that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098.
I’m not necessarily like flatpak, but these childish websites with badly written arguments are the things that should be killed..
These are toxic and doesn’t help anyone at all
I think trying to reverse engineer something that was protected multiple techniques to prevent it from getting reverse engineered can potentially drive anyone to getting a neural disorder.
flatkill is FUD [0]

[0]: https://theevilskeleton.frama.io/2021/02/11/response-to-flat...

Also anecdotally I quite like flatpaks as a user. For example having Lutris as a flatpak (it's in flathub beta) is quite nice because it doesn't pollute my system with all those Wine dependencies.

Pro Tip: Use Flatseal to manage Flatpak permissions, e.g. give some apps access to specific folders you use that they don't have by default.
Ask HN: Can we make money from speech to text?
We recently got into a deal with AWS and Google Cloud on storage/compute and AI.

As part of a larger deal, we can also help AWS and Google Cloud customers save 40% on their speech to text volumes(kinda reseller). Ofcourse, it can be more depending on volume. This is an expensive API and I believe organizations would love this.

however, this isnt core to our business. we are a BPO and consequently, we do not know how to run this business.

should we get into this business? if yes, how?
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Wait, that's exactly what has been happening to me for the past few weeks. Each night I woke up after 2 hours of sleep with heart racing. Then I woke up another 2 times, due to tingling in my arm. My heart was calmer at that point.
I was wondering what could be the cause..
Have you read DHH's blog? It sounds like they did exactly that, and the instigating employees were unwilling to let things go and insisted on continuing to escalate things.
My burnouts all went with long-term persistent consequences.
Sure. Not as many ... but that can change.
Water purification tablets are either chlorine (most common) or iodine based. So essentially this is the equivalent of a chlorine based tablet plus some flocculent to cause sediment to settle out of the water.
It's really hard to explain to the people why you do not remember something, they will just assume that you do not remember because you don't care.

The typical mind fallacy should be taught a lot earlier in school.
Vertical integration for our Mgt guru generation could not last. In fact the problem of intel not farming out its fab business (and recognise its asset is x86 etc) is the problem.
What apple smart at is cut the line to fab.

Still ibm then have no consumer whilst apple now has no business and cloud business domination ... still lots of space to play.

But if windows moved to arm with the same result I cannot say intel can survive though.
Hopefully it will fall on its face rather than spreading BTC-misery to SSD and HDD prices.

I really hope that BTC and all similar will finally find some real use or collapse (beyond gambling and scams), current situation is ridiculous.
Because drugs is a commodity people want. There are numerous examples throughout history where different forms of currencies get shut down by the ruling body. There is of course an argument to be made about Bitcoin being a commodity. But I think we can easily agree that the consumer demand for Bitcoin isn’t going to rival that of drugs.

I think the real joker is the black market. Modern drug organisations are Apple sized businesses that also have their own enforcement of violence and justice systems, and so on, making them effective non-geographic states.

I live in Denmark, we’re a rather small country, we frankly have less authority behind the Danish Krone than some drug organisations would have behind whatever crypto currency they fancy.