skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That benchmark “seems to be a huge exaggeration,” as Dr. Muge Cevik, a virologist at the University of St. Andrews, said. In truth, the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1 percent and may be below 0.1 percent, multiple epidemiologists told me. The rare outdoor transmission that has happened almost all seems to have involved crowded places or close conversation."

I'm extremely grateful that the NYT is calling this out. However, they are far too late, and frankly, played a role in misinforming the public on the pandemic.

The audience on HN is pretty strongly aware of the extreme misinformation on COVID pushed out by right-wing news organizations, but doesn't SEEM to be aware of the extreme misinformation that was pushed out by the left-wing news outlets, which successfully skewed the US public's perception of COVID risk.

The partisan divide on THIS specific topic shows that American's on both sides of the political divide grossly overestimate the likelihood of hospitalization from COVID, but that those who consume left-wing media are an order of magnitude more incorrect.

Here's a good breakdown, containing links to the source polling data on the topic.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-misinformation-is-dis...

I wasn't quite aware of how misinformed highly educated colleagues were until I contracted COVID in mid-February. My wife and I couldn't understand why people were acting like I was in so much danger, until we realized that people were grossly overestimating, by massive factors, the danger I was in. I'm a physically fit, active male in my late 30's. But people on my team acted very surprised that I didn't miss any work, and only had a loss of sense of smell as a symptom. They were acting as if I was somewhat of an outlier, instead of being the absolute norm for my age group/health status.

The implications of this fear-mongering results in me being treated like a leper for not wearing a mask on hiking trails in wide open, wind-blown, and sunny open spaces.

It's been a big reminder to me, that no, people on the left aren't actually less prone to misinformation, despite my preconceived notions and biases. Quantitative illiteracy in the majority of the American public has had horrific effects in this pandemic.
I don't know if this falls in your vision or not, probably not, but I'll say I would pay top-dollar for an Android TV that was veritably privacy focused.

I purchased a Sony TV that runs Android and adore it. I initially purchased it because it was a no-nonsense take on Android with high-rated privacy support. Sadly, over the past year they have begun introducing ads, promotions, and privacy policy readjustments that I don't agree with.

An unlocked Android store would be great value. I can currently sideload Android apps on my TV. I can SSH into it if I want to, run my own server, etc. It has a high powered processor and good RAM so I can even multitask apps in it. I love everything about the TV except the privacy changes.

Anyway, best of luck - I love the idea of dumb/privacy focused TVs :-)
> We're seeing businesses say there's a "labor shortage" (there isn't, they are just unwilling to pay a wage labor wants to work for.)

And that may well change rapidly as both the active job search condition for unemployment returns and the temporary federal boost is withdrawn by states or expires.

Sure, there may be a cluster of elite workers taking a pause resulting in some short-term disruption, but most will probably return to work in fairly short order, some after trying entrepreneurial endeavours or other alternatives to traditional work.
I worked at a company that was attempting to sell software to consumer electronics manufacturers as per the divx model - some of us remember when you couldn't buy a dvd player without that logo. But when streaming began to replace physical media, I was told that services such as Amazon and Netflix began paying to have their software in the devices. I'm curious whether that's still a revenue source for manufacturers.
It could be useful for naming all kinds of things.

On the other hand, the rest of the stuff on that page is all fairly random and not particularly tied to Google's core products. It might just be a random side project.
> Seems like no one there has read the manual:

You can say that again!

> 1. Be First: Crises are time-sensitive. Communicating information quickly is almost always important. For members of the public, the first source of information often becomes the preferred source.

Fauci saying masks don’t work before he said the opposite.

> 2. Be Right: Accuracy establishes credibility. Information can include what is known, what is not known, and what is being done to fill in the gaps.

Instead of saying they didn’t have enough information about outdoor transmission, they threw out the 10% number as a random CYA. See above about the first number being sticky.

> 3. Be Credible: Honesty and truthfulness should not be compromised during crises.

Fauci saying masks don’t work, and also the 10% number being thrown out there without caveating that it’s a wild ass guess.

> 4. Express Empathy: Crises create harm, and the suffering should be acknowledged in words. Addressing what people are feeling, and the challenges they face, builds trust and rapport.

Fauci berating people for being upset that their lives are being shut down by government orders.

> 6. Show Respect: Respectful communication is particularly important when people feel vulnerable. Respectful communication promotes cooperation and rapport.

Instead of respect, we got demonization of half the country.
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>What a terrible way to die.

This is the 1800s we're talking about, a time when people routinely died from infections and sepsis. Organ failure over a couple days is a walk in the park by comparison.

Yeah they both look like crap from a comfy 21st century office chair in an air conditioned building but so does practically every other reality of 19th century life.
Just buy catastrophic. It's cheap and covers you for the big things (auto accident, heart attack, etc). Lots of doctors that only charge $30 for a regular visit (no insurance).
We give volunteers review materials to help them brush up, and to be honest... even the best tutors have to Google things occasionally to refresh their memories during a live tutoring session. :) But yeah, it does take some investment on the part of the volunteer if they haven't looked at a specific subject in 5+ years.
Fair point. I did not intend to be as blanketing as I was. I assume there are a number of people who would not mind going back into the office. I think my point still stands, as long as employees do not have an option, some will leave.
How is a tracker 100$? I got one for 35?
This should be standard operating procedure for any device with software on it.
But Audi will sell you the parts in your example.

The display went out in my wife's 2018 Toyota, I went online and bought the part through a dealer and installed it myself.

That's not very possible to do with Tesla, and I think that's the point here.
Thank you for this very honest post. Could you share what made you aware of this personal trend ("addiction") and its negative impacts? It might be helpful to others.
PulseAudio Bluetooth drama n+1: pali changes libopenaptx's license to GPL3
tl;dr of the backstory (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...): Two years ago some guy implemented support for modern bluetooth codecs into pulseaudio. These changes could then would not be merged for years because of "the master branch is frozen because we have release blockers" and "could you please put your stuff into gstreamer instead so we can use gstreamer instead of your library directly" and general lack of review capacity. The author eventually retracted the pull request and was really upset.

A few months later some of the functionality of that patch set has been reimplemented and merged into pulseaudio. However, up to this day there is no way to use bluetooth headsets with pulseaudio without dying from ear cancer (which was possible with the original series).

The author of that original series is the author of libopenaptx. Now he changed the license to prevent pulseaudio and gstreamer from using it. The gstreamer guys claim in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/m... that the license change is illegal because libopenaptx is based on ffmpeg (LGPL2+) and deny some other claims of pali.

edit: fixed typo
Yeah they're talking about the control loop itself which means 50 times a second the computer/program looks at it's inputs (sensors) and changes it's outputs (commands to actuators). The actual computers processing that program run much faster.
As long as it disrupts the oil industry, since it would increase prices, so it would still be a victory for those activists.
Right. MS had somewhere around 97% of the desktop market for a chunk of the 90s, when the anti-trust stuff was really taking off. As an example:

They used that position to force OEMs to sell Windows only. BeOS was going to be on <vendor> desktops [0], but MS went to them and said, in short, "If you do this, you will have to pay retail price for our OS. And if you have to pay retail price, you will have to raise your hardware prices when selling Windows desktops. And if you have to do that, in this cutthroat low-margin industry, you won't be able to compete with the other OEMs."

The anti-trust case is really interesting reading (to me at least), and worth checking out. Most people only know the headlines of what was covered by it ("it's about browsers") but aren't aware of the deeper and over decade long issues that were covered by it.

Embrace, extend, extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

It wasn't just the browser's hooks into the OS (or the OS dependency on IE). It was the deliberate non-conformant manner that MS developed it in. It literally did things in the opposite way the standard described at times. See also their effort at implementing Java as part of their developer suite, where they were later forced to drop the J++ line because they were making an incompatible, non-standard Java.

[0] Compaq? It's in the suit, I may track it down before the edit window is closed.
You need more quotes. Though with a $200 month bill the payoff should be quick. It takes a lot of amps for that equipment and not a lot of “off the shelf” inverters will support those types of batteries.

If all you want is to keep your freezers running during an extended outage (Texas situation) consider the Sunny Boy inverters by SMA. Each one has a 2 kWh outlet that can be used without a battery or the grid. Your freezers will run during the day while there’s solar, at night leave them closed.
#1 could be just opening up the communication channels and sharing where you are at with the rest.
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Back of the napkin to me: say $25.5k pre-tax retirement / college savings for child, 30% federal, 15% state, $3200/mn to rent an apartment in a mid sized city in the US, $400 month for car and gas, $1k for food, $1k for healthcare, $160 for utilities, leaves them with $288/mn. Not enough to ever own a home, build wealth, travel; better hope they have a spouse that is employed & has employer subsidized healthcare.
just spitballing here, but if someone put a random device on my person, I would be pretty likely to find it sooner or later. But the AirTag in my laptop bag could be replaced with another and I might not notice for months or longer.
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Ubuntu actually made a "Ubuntu TV" almost a decade ago that was based on Unity. It never had a TV actually go for sale with it (as far as I know) and the project was abandoned.
StackOverflow has its share of problems, including overzealous moderation. I do civic duty by often voting for reopen and moderating the reopen queue.

That said, removing moderation is not the solution. If you look at the unmoderated new questions, lots of questions are literally incomprehensible. A significant portion are homework or exam questions directly copy-pasted, but without enough context to answer - e.g. referring to table or figures or code examples which is not included in the question. Such is the sad reality of a widely known site in todays eternal september.
"Amazon Surveillance"
Interesting, I wonder if this tool could serve as a way to formalize the work relationship between brands and influencers - it seems to me that social media native resume is perfect for this type of work. What could follow next is even more brands using TikTok and its job service, and hopefully a more diverse work environment for Gen Z.
Dave, UPchieve CTO here. A really cool thing that's happened over the last year is we've gotten lots of volunteer sign ups from retired people, who were really trapped at home from fear of COVID, who have lots of time to brush up on physics/calculus/etc. I don't think that's something we could have predicted about the marketplace of students/volunteers but has helped a lot. Even now that things are opening up, they're staying with us and continuing to pick up lots of sessions. They enjoy the mentorship aspect and brushing up on the academics is a fun thing for them to do.
It’s as though a year of high pitched media alarms going off about the impending wave of death and devastation, 24-7 news flooding the zone created with the intention to incite fear, gloom and doom in the American people, astonishingly enough with the paternalistic conviction it’s for “our” own good — it’s as though all that might somehow desensitize people. I call it a reorientation to risk. We went paste the fear saturation point. Consequences will never be the same.
If the President of the United States had just vowed to "disrupt and prosecute" my extortion ring, I would be pretty contrite too.
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I have really been enjoying the SSH experience with ShellFish. In particular the SCP/file integration.

https://secureshellfish.app/
> stupidity is always more likely than malice.

It's interesting how the supposedly smartest companies of the world are so regularly so stupid in such consistent ways.

They're never stupid in a "oh no we deleted all your personal information from our system and now can't track you anymore" way, weirdly.
One of the best things for my mental health at work was learning to say (and believe) "I recommend we do X. If the VP decides to do Y instead, that will make the delivery date later, but that's his decision and ultimately his problem, not mine."
Sure. I think it would be best to keep the solution platform agnostic by utilizing an embedded PC and developing a browser based portal (which could work offline as well) for managing playback of various services. With WebRTC in play these days, I'm sure some very interesting solution could be developed.
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Most of them presumably since there hasn’t been a lot of ways to go out and spend money for the last year and a half.
Yeah, I've been struggling this spring, too. I also don't have kids, and the hours I've been working are reasonable, but living through a year+ of pandemic has resulted in a weird kind of exhausted burnout. I'm actually hoping returning part-time to the office will help.
This is something I’m considering myself. I’ve been working in the industry for a while and have always thought about taking a few months off from working but just never had the guts to leave the comfortable routine. Now I’m considering it seriously when it seems the pandemic has died down enough. Being cooped up working at home has made me realize time is precious and I should broaden my horizons a bit.
Ya, a perfect recommender for the "best" candidate on some qualitative set of metrics would not be discriminatory (unless the underlying metrics were).

It definitely wouldn't be useful. Hiring isn't a popularity problem as much as a matching problem.
The point was being able to buy things without a warranty or even owning the appropriate car. Whether third parties sell them is less important.

Audi instrument clusters, for 2021 models [1] — Audi appear to be willing to sell these to me, even though I don't own a car.

[2] seems to be a third party retailer.

[1] https://parts.audiusa.com/productSearch.aspx?&ukey_make=5792...

[2] https://www.audionlineparts.com/
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I think companies will need to decide and split. Hybrid is going to be hard on those who really like that in person interaction.
Remind me not to ride in any elevators with you...
The CDC is supposed to give the public evidence based guidance, not dictates. If you don’t show your work and simply demand people to confirm, you won’t get compliance. That’s true in myriad real life contexts, from the workplace to pandemics.
Because you want to appeal to all audiences and investors.

I doubt discord would have got influencers and musicians creating communities on it if it looked like xfire
Interesting!

moving further tangentially related, I wonder what the condition I have is called? I read the Assessment section of that aphantasia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia#Assessment [1] and recalled that my brain has another condition, the inability to self-assess on a numeric scale. There are lots of interesting tests online, personality assessment, etc. and I can't complete them. I get 1/4 of the way in and suddenly the scales seem completely arbitrary and I have no way of deciding where I fall.

[1] just a meta footnote to say, aren't HN footnotes dumb, and isn't pasting the link right into the prose a less fussy way to make references?
I wonder how much they offered shotwell to jump ship?
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Just to add insult to injury, read what sebastian says here:
https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392019586833387522

Relevant:
> I'm just going to be explicit. In 2020, Henry created 12 issues, commented 25 times, and created 29 pull requests. This is across all Babel orgs.
This describes me perfectly. And the struggle to be better at execution is huge. But with a lot of dedication and habit building I've been able to (partially) overcome it.
Exactly. IF there is operating system used (it's not always needed), programmers implement separate OS tasks. For simpler systems (like just reading some sensors) real time os is not needed, then such loops are implemented as a template (with much more error checking and restarting). Typically that "wait for tick" function just waits until hardware timer sets overflow flag (not even full interrupt), and this is done to have simple, easy to reason about system.
Oh certainly. I can see a lot of companies basically splitting in half on what their engineering teams want.
They're not. It just takes practice.
It’s also wild to compare:

– how far Voyager 1 has already traveled ~150 AU or ~0.002 ly [1]

– how much farther it could go in 40,000 years ~1,000,000 AU or ~17 ly [2] [3]

– the visible diameter of our Milky Way ~6,000,000,000 AU or ~100,000 ly [4]

[1]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/

[2]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_445

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
Americans eating animal feed corn in the cities? I must be missing something here. I don't think I've ever seen animal feed corn in my life.
I wish consumers would understand this better.

Developers aren't consumers, they are producers. And producers understand that durability and longevity are more important than enabling the rent-for-life, own nothing, subservient economy.
Seems like someone watching a thousand videos in 16 hours would burn out pretty quickly. I imagine after the first hundred or so all the videos would start to look the same.
Seems like a common issue :)

Airbus A350s had a similar type of bug where the fix was to reboot them at least every 149 hours: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/07/25/1932229/airbus-a350-s...
Having a policy is not the same as a core value.

You are right that Amazon has far more data, including purchasing history and intent (inclusive of grocery for some customers)

Most of the concern shown in this thread is this retroactive ToS change for something that to Amazon Echo.

It is reasonable to have greater concern about a ToS governing this data because it can be combined with other data Amazon collects in its other businesses and is inherently more sensitive.

I do not recall Jeff Bezos going to conferences or sitting for interviews where he puts focus on customer privacy. Whereas practically every major interview Tim Cook gives he speaks to the importance of privacy.

Cook was doing this long before the current dispute with Facebook entered public awareness.

Company culture starts at the top.

I am interested in any debate around how any other consumer products company including Amazon might have led Apple in any of the following areas:

- Identifying privacy concerns

- Creating simple interfaces for making choices about sensitive data

- Offering a platform that consistently enforces the use of newly introduced privacy controls by 3rd party applications
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It is disappointing to see that the comments here are dominated by tone policing and semantics. We ought to be able to look at the substance of the criticism and not get distracted by some of the word choices. The post makes several concrete claims in clear language that are worthy of discussion.

I use discord, I have a mild color anomaly in my vision, and have had problems reading low-contrast elements in the UI. Discord's update gives us a useful example of a major release that violates some dark mode design best practices.
"Griep" is still the Dutch word for influenza.
And you genuinely think you could do the same with a 2022 BMW i4 or Honda Clarity?

More to the point: could you have build those same projects in the 70's/90's when those were new vehicles? I rather doubt it, too. Parts markets are real, but they take time to mature.

I mean... where do you think the parts would even come from? Tesla's factories are at capacity building new vehicles (in the case of the model S and X, they're actually almost a year behind orders!). Who's going to make the stuff you'd expect to buy anyway?
Intel is so fucked..
Open source is eating Europe
The last time I brought this up there was a surprising amount of people trying to defend this behavior from TikTok. Glad to see you bring this up—awful company.
I have the Dot (https://www.thermoworks.com/DOT) and it worked great for many months and during that time I cooked lots of perfect pieces of meat in the BBQ and in the oven. Then it started failing and now it works about half the time, which is really frustrating especially when you’re expecting to hear the alarm and it just never rings. No, it’s not the battery.
Maybe your not following through enough? I feel like if your one to always iterate on ideas and follow through and do a good job, you'll be more of a bad ass, I doubt there would be any stigma
your assumption is that threatening mandatory compliance is better than voluntary compliance. Humans are irrational and sometimes resist doing the right thing when force them to. Surely you have had the experience that being forced to read a book for school has ruined it, or resisted doing something you wanted to do just because your parent made you do it. If instead you work harder to get assent and consent, your vaccination rate might be higher than if you threaten to hammer it in. Especially in a society where voluntary compliance and resistance to authority is in its social DNA, like the united states.
Man how many places still offer benefits at 50%?
Wait, don't foils handle fine as long as the chop is within reason? And if the waves are higher than the foil clearance, it's not like regular boats would do that well either.

Worst case, couldn't you go slower and just act like a regular boat?