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> People who are immuno-compromised, of course will want to wear masks

> People who are currently ill with some respiratory illness and don't want to share it.

These are both new to western society. I do think it was always a bit weird we weren't wearing masks when sick before last year, but maybe it was a good thing? Idk.

The immuno-compromised thing is bizarre. Like where were masks before 2020 for those individuals? There are varying degrees of this, and I'm sure a tiny amount of people who were at high enough risk were wearing one, but the vast, vast majority weren't.

> And finally I was reading an article about a few people with various negative facial features that they wished to cover (a mole, a neurological condition that caused unwanted lip movements, a facial scar, etc.) have really appreciated the cover of wearing a mask.

Yea I can see that, though I would suggest it's likely to be an bad idea psychologically. The "reveal" aspect of the deformity or unpleasantness will be extremely traumatic for the revealer versus normalizing and acceptance.
I agree. It only improves work-life balance if you've made work and your life one and the same. For the rest of us, the "balance" tips heavily towards work and away from life when in-office is required.
That little kid that was shot due to road rage recently. That’s how bad commutes are. People who insist we go back to the office have blood on their hands.
It works for me for maybe 2 out of 3 videos, then about half of those that don't work will work with their backup method (which I guess is maybe a download to their servers and then served from there).
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True, the whole dip into RAMBUS kinda saw them shift things and when they came back to less niched out RAM, they split things business and consumer.

however, been some odd glimmer of hope for the cheaper end for ECC suport from Intel - https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/surprise-surprise-...

What really needs to happen is all these AMD Ryzen users to buy into ECC, help get the price down and more so, push Intel in another tickbox catchup in that market.
I use Google Photos exclusively to have my photos backed up immediately and effortlessly to the cloud. Once in a while I back them up manually to my PC and then to a separate external drive. Now that even compressed versions count against your account storage, I don't know what to do for my automatic backup.
Should you sell all of your smart home gear to get ready for Matter?
There is an excellent lecture on this topic:

"Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b3Ob4CK4Xs
(a little over an hour)

The lecture includes multiple studies and actual science. Basically scientifically illustrating what many people feel intuitively - that somehow society has become obtusely frail.
Sorry I have the opposite perspectives as you:

I don’t want to visit independent creators’ websites to find their content - all with different UIs, etc. YouTube gives me a clean, centralized way to access content where I know I will be able to stream 4K and view content offline. This feels massively more convenient to me than having to maintain a catalog of offline videos…

While I think we all agree that centralization of control isn’t great, the consumer gets tremendous value from centralization and this value doesn’t get talked about enough.

Finally your assertion of “this content should belong to everyone” is idealistic. Who is going to pay to store and stream this content? What about the copyright of the actual content creators?
I'm in Livermore, so not as far out as Tracy, but depending on traffic, the one-way commute can be 1 hour 45 minutes (best case) up to 4 hours (worst-case Friday 4:00PM before a holiday weekend). Usual case is a little over 2 hours each way. The real soul killer is the unpredictability of it all. Every morning there's at least one jackass on each interstate highway leg that manages to crash their car into something, slowing everything down in a random, unpredictable way.
It does. As you said they are small and maybe you don't notice, but for some of us, it may mess up our muscle memory. I believe parent poster's honesty because in every update, trying to change back new UI elements is really annoying. Worse, some of them cannot be reverted. You have to adjust yourself to a libre software's changes.
Looking at the comments and their ranking on here enforces my belief that hackernews community is quite Conservative.
I learned from this that I really like Björnsted equador dark 70%. Lindt is pretty good too, but I knew that.
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What viable solution would you have proposed? Keeping in mind any political constraints you would be facing in implementing it.
There are many large cities that are blocking or restricting credit checks of renters now...so in some cases landlords will be helpless.

https://portlandrentalhomes.com/portlands-rental-screening-c...
I also checked on the journal that published this analysis; it turns out that the principle author of the article is also the editor-in-chief of the journal... also the publisher of the journal (MDPI) has been on-and-off the lists of predatory journal publishers for some years.
Mentoring is also possible when doing remote work, Why do you need to be in front of the person to do mentoring?

In our company all new joinees (during covid) were paired with existing employees and we were able to onnboard and get them contributing in a short amount of time. The new joinees included both recent graduates and experience people.
And on Big Sur, the old Firefox menus were still using edge-to-edge rectangular selection but the system ones now use rounded-rectangles that appear to detach from the edges.
What!? This makes it unusable for me.
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> and all pervading among the upper and middle class.

Do you have any numbers/stats or links to backup this claim? What does “all pervading” mean here according to you?

Also, please don’t be so quick to dismiss or trivialize other people’s issues. Even if to you, from the outside, those issues seem petty or superficial, they could be incredibly bad and debilitating for the people suffering from them.
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Housing is a huge issue in Europe as well, yeah we have shorter commutes, but that comes at the cost of higher population densities which often means living in high/medium-rise flats.

These flats would be considered tiny by American standards and you have a lot less privacy/independence from your neighbours.
You can be compassionate and kind-hearted while also acknowledging that not every problem should be validated. Sometimes navel-gazing can trick yourself into thinking your molehill of a problem is actually a mountain.
Company culture - the hierarchical structure, languages, values, and histories that allow a company to control and organize hundreds or thousands of people. Without culture, people will think and act as independent agents or contractors.
Broadly speaking I think the future for tech at least will be junior people work in person, going to a tech hub and going into the office to learn the ropes/best practices. Basically offices will become somewhat like graduate schools for these employees, and they can bear the brunt of cost of living issues in some of the more expensive regions living like grad students. Managers will also be in office to facilitate coordination.

Once the engineers become senior and start families they will go remote.
Whoa, Firefox is suddenly good now!

I give it a try every now and then, but somehow it never sticks. Random perf hangups, keyboard shortcuts not working like I'm used to, but this time I didn't run into anything obvious yet. Hm, now that I write this, Ctrl-A/Ctrl-E are wrong: They're supposed to jump to start of logical line, not visual line on macOS, and Firefox gets this wrong. But it took a lot longer until I ran into an inconsistency like this.

The UI looks a lot less clunky than I remember.

Nice job, Mozilla! Keep working on OS integration :)
> I'm still sceptical if there even exists a successful welfare state that does not rely on natural resources, or the aftermath of some war.

I was referring to this. Both Denmark and Finland were to a large extent involved in WW2, and neither have natural resources of the same kind as Norway.

Or is your opinion that they are not successful welfare states?
Here in Finland the three big grocery chains are all competing for charging use.

One has been doing it for a few years now and has multiple 22kW and 1-4 50kW chargers at most larger stores.

One has installed at least one 50kW on most stores, with the goal of having one at every store by 2024

And the last one is doing a huge push with 150kW superchargers and multiple 22kW ones to all stores. They previously had a 3rd party doing the chargers, but it was a complete shitshow of broken chargers and backordered spare parts.

Only one of those is giving away electricity for free, the rest require an RFID tag or app - with discounts if you've got the store membership card.

I do see that in the future all malls and larger stores will have a charging grid in the parking lot. Either for free (just to get people in the store) or at a competitive price. It really doesn't require that much more electricity than the parking lot lights do - the total power usage of a Type 2 charging grid is less than most big stores spend on air conditioning :)
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Howdy 4ur :) Nice article, I'm pretty sure I got dinged once for making this point in a job interview, so good to see you spreading the word.
The point is that these decisions -- whether it is acceptable to allow drug addicts to sleep on the lawn or to pain the shutters pink -- have to be made by someone. Either those decisions get made by the owner of the property, or they get made by someone else. It doesn't matter whether that "someone else" is "the government" or "the HOA board", and it doesn't matter whether infringing on the decision made by someone else is "illegal" or merely "against HOA policy". These are just labels. What matters is that the decisions about what you can and can't do with your house (and, for that matter, in every aspect of your life) are either yours to make, or they are someone else's, and it is not a slam-dunk which one leads to better outcomes.
Some of these landlords also have mortgage on rental property, one of my friend had a rental property, i think he was netting $100 a month. The rest went for mortgage, property tax, maintenance and property management person. He sold it in 2014.

I don't think he could have absorbed 12 month + of non rent payment and pay all those expenses out of his pocket.
Can you still catch a bus in Montreal at 26:30h? :) Used to be able to see bus schedules online for busses STM well-passed the 24h mark. Something about the technology not being ready for late-night busses on the 'next day' being attached to 'today'? Or something.
CA EDD is so hard to reach that the unemployed pay go-betweens to do it for them
> Tabs have been redesigned to look like buttons

Exactly! The tabs are no longer "attached" to the page, my brain sees them as two different things now -.-
As you have described it, why would you call him "co-founder"? I would call him "early employee".
On Android there's Newpipe that's really good. But now they're gonna face the same problems as youtube-dl with age-gated videos.

The only real solution is to move out of the walled garden alltogether. Peertube, anyone?
I agree with what you wrote.

> there's no point to distinguish them

I think the distinction should be clearly made when someone wants to sell me something like Rust. They come up with the daily link about 70% of the bugs are memory issues plus something in the lines of "memory vulnerabilities! think about the hackers! exploits!", when it's clear that these arguments don't click in (many areas of) embedded. Safety and security have another meaning. The steal of a password is the least of my fears, if I think a bad implementation of mine can chop-off the hand of an operator.
Probably a lot, I'd guess half could've paid one way or another, highly depends on the area though
"people self diagnose and then wallow in it looking for sympathy while not making sincere efforts to overcome what they have to deal with"

The thing about depression is that it makes making an effort hard.

You can feel hopless, have no energy (even to get out of bed, shower, brush your teeth, or feed yourself), and be full of slef-recrimination and self-loathing on top of that. The more they don't do the worse they feel, leading to a worsening spiral.

It's easy to say that the sufferer should just make the effort to get out of this state, but it is the nature of depression to prevent that. The lucky ones can do it, but many others can't.

Saying to a depressed person that they should make the effort is like telling a gambling addict not to gamble, an alcoholic not to drink, or a person with an eating disorder to just eat less.

It's a lot easier said than done, and what keeps them from doing so often runs a lot deeper than people who make offhand dismissals realize.
Google is the new IBM. There are certainly amazing things being done but 90% of the employees are just doing boring CRUD and have never done anything special.
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> You can't just stop evictions while not compensating landlords

Plenty of businesses were forced to close.
> Illegal activity in crypto isn't as prevalent as you may think, and it's actually on the decline:

Do you have the source study? I don't want to give my personal data to a blockchain company, and they rejected both mailinator and gmail for registration.
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I think it would be good to sum all the commute free week

- time saved

- gas saved

- car wear saved ..
They also end up with a house at the end of that mortgage.
The only thing that nags me about homeoffice is that I was mostly working with people that I met in the office before. I do not know yet how interactions will work with people I only know remotely (pun intended).
They literally forbade the landlord from collecting the rent for over a year!

But the big mortgage companies were allowed to continue to collect mortgages!

And the governments are still allowed to collect property taxes!

I don't make any money from my rental unit it just helps cover property tax insurance and my mortgage.

But I've been shouldering all of that and my tenant has been living for free for over eight months.

How is that remotely fair?
macOS isn't any better in that regard. Some software takes 30+ seconds of Apple "verifying" before the application is even launched.
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Even in the more landlord friendly states eviction is such a long process that most landlords start it the moment a tenant is late on their rent.
Wow, it's funny reading the comments (and the article). Everyone is saying "The world is like X now", with a different value of X.
That's just the risk of investing in real estate directly instead of through a financial instrument.
I dont see the argument posed here. If a user sends a new message to 2nd user, and 2nd user forwards the message to a government agent, and agent asks for the origin of the message, there is a way to both encrypt the message and trace it. It's called convergent encryption. And I thought this was how whatsapp was tracking messages that were forwarded multiple times. By checking their base hash.
I suspect that a large percentage of Firefox's remaining user base are power users - people who tend to value function over fluff. It seems odd to me that they'd alienate their current users like this. I've used Firefox for over 10 years, but I think I'll start using chromium until the next Firefox UI overhaul. The tab design is just unacceptably awful.
Not soon enough. Rents are up 20% in California. People moving into the state need those apartments and are very willing to pay.
No this is a consequence of horrendous fear mongering in the tech community.

Privacy scripts are a very common attack vector due to their popularity these days.

Not to mention that the benefits of these “tweaks” is negligible at best.
>Service personnel are apparently ungrateful for the opportunity to get paid not enough to live on by employers who have demonstrated they don’t care whether their workers live or die. More and more people have noticed that some of the basic American axioms—that hard work is a virtue, productivity is an end in itself—are horseshit. I’m remembering those science-fiction stories in which someone accidentally sees behind the façade of their blissful false reality to the grim dystopia they actually inhabit.

All of this is spot on. The issue with government unemployment and minimum wage programs was never that they didn't work; the problem is that they do work. How are you going to get millions of people to work shit jobs for long hours with a smile once you've lifted them out of poverty? How would you keep people in jobs (or marriages) they hate if they got free health care? And how do you get all those poor people to sign up for the military if they got a free college education?
Sorry for the awkward editorializing -- the article title exceeded the HN cap. If anyone's able to manually adjust it I'd appreciate it.
This is an interesting point but I do think the causality goes both ways. Yeah Americans are probably more inclined to want to socialize at work, but American companies also are way too obsessed with butts in seats. If you're being forced to stick around for 8 hours but you only need 6 hours to do your job, of course you are going to fill the time with something.
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> I think the eviction moratorium wasn't thought out very well. You can't just stop evictions while not compensating landlords

Sounds like something that's impossible to administer. How would you prevent widespread fraud - landlord's claiming their tenants aren't paying rent when in fact they are?

The US really doesn't have the bureaucratic infrastructure to handle such matters - or at least couldn't spin one up on short notice.